Monthly Archives: January 2021

America’s Reichstag Fire

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I saw that as a comment on some post somewhere referring to the “riot” at the Capitol in Washington, but it is exactly right. Alas, with ignorance so pervasive, hardly anyone will understand what is meant. Here is the Wikepedia entry to help you out: Reichstag Fire. There is no end of how much capital the American media and the far left (I know, the same thing) will make of it, but they will do their best. It really is amazing how politically stupid people are.

We are rushing into a Fascist America which will most assuredly be implemented during the next twelve months in the same way that the Reichstag fire allowed Hitler to consolidate power in the 1930s. In place of concentration camps or gulags will be the pervasive application of cancel culture, which is much better since it will cost much less to put in place.

And as interesting was this in The Age today: Beijing draws comparison between Capitol riots and Hong Kong protests. I could not have put it better myself. This is actually quite zany in its own way.

The Chinese government has joined the chorus of countries accusing the US of double standards, by comparing the storming of the US Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump and last year’s often-violent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, but noting that no one had died when demonstrators took over the legislature of the China-ruled city.

Clips of the chaotic scenes from Washington have aired repeatedly on Chinese state television.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told a daily briefing that while events in Hong Kong in 2019, when the city’s legislature was stormed, were more “severe” than those in Washington, “not one demonstrator died”.

It’s the comparison in itself I find so appealing. The blending of the Democrats and the Communist Party of China is so clever that it has to have taken a genius to see it. Moreover, the point blank murder of a protestor did not occur in Hong Kong so draw your own comparisons is the point of the story from the Chinese perspective, filtered through Reuters which might as well have been Xinhua news.

Being nice doesn’t cut it with totalitarians

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Nice article about how naive the people on the conservative side of politics are, by Sarah Hoyt: ATTENTION PLEASE! And you really should pay attention because she puts her finger right on the issue.

Recently, a lot of you who told me I was insane when I said that Winnie the flu was all theater and though it existed and was a flu and would probably take “severe flu, no vaccine numbers” it was and is stupid to lock the sick and the healthy in, destroy the economy and make everyone wear a mask, have come back and ask how I knew. And apologized.

Well, attention in the isles, my friends on the right: you are falling for the same king of bullshit diversion. You are being spun like a top. And you’re falling for it and falling in line.

I blame you and I don’t. You didn’t grow up with the constant-pretend-reality of communist psi-ops, and you haven’t learned to smell it.

Over and over again, you condemn Trump and the “rioters.”

NO ONE RIOTED. Not compared to this summer. THERE WERE NO RIOTS. And the protesters were treated with an iron fist and live ammo, btw.

There are videos. I don’t know which ones are still live. They keep removing them. There was no riot. There was a protest. You know, those things that are vital for public health?

Did they go into the Capitol? Yes they did. You know what? It’s a public building. WE PAY FOR THE F*CKING CAPITOL’S UPKEEP.

But, but but…. the congress critters ran. They were scared!

Were they now? WHY? No, seriously, why were they scared, if the people they work for want to watch the deliberations. They’re in our presence all the time. You know the worst thing we do — or used to do — we called them traitors. That was it.

But they vandalized Nancy Pelosi’s office! Oh, my stars and garters? Evil people. Was that before or after she vandalized our constitution and sank a knife in the heart of the republic? Is the evil bitch dangling from a lamppost this morning? No? They were civilized beyond all hope.

But Sarah, you’ll say, this will give them the excuse to avenge themselves on us.

Dear idiots, you’re like the wife with her arm in a sling and both eyes blackened telling her husband “Please don’t say anything to Joe. He’ll be mad.”

In other words, are you out of your ever loving little minds? These people STOLE two elections — it’s now absolutely obvious the nominal right is fine with this. They hope for crumbs from their masters’ tables. The left is more likely to kill them, but never mind — in a row, in full view, and refused to let us have our day in court to show the evidence. Because the American people are now peons with NO STANDING and can be disenfranchised with no punishment. But you’re afraid that largely (truly) peaceful protesters “made them mad?”

Withdrawing the objection to the fraudulent votes due to the riot? That only makes sense in the mind of an abuser. “I stole your thing, and I was going to maybe give it back, but you cried, so now you don’t get it back.” Are you all actually out of your ever loving minds to blame the protesters and Trump for this?

These people are saying “You peasants dared to show up in our presence. We’re now going to take away even the illusion of franchise.” And…. you’re cool with this? It’s the protesters fault?

Get up off the floor. Wipe the blood from your lip. KNOW WHO YOUR ABUSER IS.

And BTW it’s not Trump. Trump thought maybe if congress saw how ad people were, they would play straight. I said before that’s all the protest was about, and that’s all it was. He told people to go home when it was obvious it had failed.

And I hope to G-d someone with access to him reads this and tells him it’s time. Take the family NOW and go to an undisclosed location. As much as it hurts me to say this, because I want him to continue harassing the left, he has to realize this is no longer the sweet land of liberty. This is now a tyrannical third world shithole. Or will be within months from the way our occupiers are behaving. They will find a way to kill him and his whole family, or kill him and turn his family against him. Go Mr. President. G-d bless. You’ve done all that you could. If the so called right in this country will pearl clutch and blame even people who engage in a very mild protest, they deserve what’s to come.

He now promises an orderly transition. I will tell all of you that DEAD is the most orderly of all states. And right now the Republic is effectively dead. There might be a hope for CPR, but I’m not sure there’s the will to apply it. Pence has joined the rats fleeing to the lefty rotten ship. because he hopes that will save his life. Spoiler, it won’t. The left will kill all the right who turns their coat. Because they can’t trust them. Good. They deserve it. I shall eat popcorn.

Do we ever get the republic back? I don’t know. I think the most likely thing is that we fall apart into separate states while around us the world falls into chaos, famine and misery. We’ve been feeding the world for a century. The world had better look to itself now.

What do those of us who’ve sworn an oath to the constitution do? I don’t know. Most are still busily doing a Peter in Pontius Pilates Yard “I was never with him.”

Oh, and there’s talks of rounding up Trump supporters. Of denying them flights and hotels and the ability to engage in commerce.

I suppose that’s the “protesters” fault too? Except that that, like the paper to withdraw objections because of the “protest” were already written. They would have found an excuse.

I don’t want war. But I liked having a homeland. To everyone who, like me, came here as the last place of refuge: I’m sorry. I don’t even know what to tell you. We need to fight this, but even if we do, unless the natural-born citizens see what they’re losing, it’s unlikely we’ll ever get our country back.

This morning, in DC, the police are beating down what remains of protesters. A young woman was murdered in cold blood yesterday.

And our side is pearl clutching and tut tuting, and hoping the abuser won’t get mad. Oh, and talking about 2022, because seeing two elections frauded RIGHT BEFORE THEIR EYES and courts refusing to let anyone see evidence of it is not enough. They need to be stomped on some more before they believe they’ve lost the franchise.

Me? I’ve seen what happens when your votes don’t matter. Elections will continue as a form, possibly for fifty years, if we let this bullshit go on that long. Your next president after Commie laWhorish is Michelle Obama, because the ignorant bitch hasn’t shit on us enough. She felt stupid and inferior at Harvard, and by gum, she’s going to make you grovel to pay for your sins.

But your real masters are now Winnie the Pooh and his merry band of fascists. And we know what they do and how.

I can’t get the order, but we’re about to see: social credit; the banning of conservatives from the internet; branding us as terrorists, just as they’re doing to innocent protesters; show trials; people disappearing; our money confiscated; our houses confiscated; more lock downs, to prevent revolt; more masks to promote alienation; more lies.

When people die in the famine to come, it will be Covid-19 and Trump’s fault and you’ll be required to repeat it publicly.

It wont’ last. These commies are industrial-level STUPID. It won’t last. I give them ten years, maybe, before most of the country is starving, and they have no clue what to do about it. And then it all falls apart, because unlike Venezuelans, we have no one to help and no place to run to.

Or, you know, we can stop pearl clutching and say “Hell no.” and “Molon labe” and stop repeating the lies the left wants written into history.

To lefty idiots: yes, the election was stolen. Because if it had NOT been, the left would have joined the right in demanding the courts take the case, and that it be shown to all as an honest election. Also, to lefty idiots, what the protesters — and all of us at home — want? ANOTHER ELECTION with minimum accountability. I mean, we can’t even clean the roles. There wouldn’t be enough time. We just wanted to make sure each person voted only once, and the votes were counted with full supervision.

Instead, you’re handing off the country to China, via their bought and paid for man, Biden. Yes, I know you heard good things about China. You’ll find out, along with the craven right that the leftist press makes Pravda seem honest. Enjoy the ride.

As for you and me, my friends. We’re going to eat the bread that the devil baked. Save what you can from the ruin. It won’t be much. And don’t let them into your head. NEVER let them into your head. They’re invaders. They’re oppressors. They’re thieves. Treat them as what they are. Do not comply unless you have to, and then engage in malicious compliance.

Keep the republic in your heart. Maybe there are enough of us left that it will rise again. But in the meantime, this is going to hurt and hurt badly. And the longer the restoration of law takes, the higher the butcher’s bill.

Most of you have no idea how bad it will get. Imagine your worst nightmares. Then double them. Prepare for that as best you can. You won’t be able to do much. If you’re lucky they’ll leave you your conscience.

Your country was invaded (even if the invaders were born here, their masters aren’t) and is about to be raped. The least you can do is not cooperate.

Political tactics and the non-riot in Washington

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Was the non-riot on the Capitol staged by Antifa? Sounds plausible. We on the right are some of the stupidest political tacticians found anywhere. Will start with a post from Instapundit with the ones to follow picked up at Lucianne.com.

HMM: Worrisome Signs the Capitol Breach was Planned to Discredit Trump Supporters: An Eyewitness Account. Related: Actions by Police Before Trump Supporters Attacked Capitol Backfired Spectacularly: Federal and local law enforcement say they underestimated threat posed to Congress, despite evidence of plans online. “Policing tactics in the U.S. have changed in the seven months since George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, sparking nationwide protests last year. In Portland, Ore., months of nightly demonstrations escalated after President Trump sent in federal agents to protect a federal courthouse. In a letter to federal officials on Monday, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser urged federal law enforcement to maintain a light footprint for Wednesday’s protests, seeking to avoid the type of show of force that had inflamed tense situations in the city last year.” To be fair to law enforcement here, Trump protests have traditionally been very orderly and well-behaved.

January 6, 2020, a Day that Will Live in Political Infamy American Thinker, by Steve McCann – Original Article – I attended the “Million MAGA March” on January 6, along with the Mainstreet Patriots chapter of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. (Snip) As we were able to position ourselves within 75 yards of the entrance [to the Capitol], we noticed that among a large cadre of what appeared to be young Trump supporters there were many frankly stereotypical Antifa-looking militants waving Trump flags on the steps attempting to get to the doors as the useless barriers of portable and plastic fencing had been easily breached. These militants were at the entrance area before Trump’s speech at the Ellipse (two miles away) was finished.

Left’s Hypocrisy On Full Display After D.C. ‘Insurrection’Issues & Insights, by The Editorial Board Original Article The angry election fraud protest that led to the temporary takeover of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday perfectly illuminates the hypocrisy of the Democratic far left when it comes to political violence. Republican officials and rank-and-file GOP conservatives immediately and forcefully condemned the pro-Trump rioters. Nothing unusual about that: During this riot-torn year, Republicans have consistently, loudly and frequently denounced violence, no matter who did it. What about the Democrats and their extreme-left supporters? Tragically, for them, violence is always acceptable when it’s in service to their cause. That’s especially true since the riots and mass protests began in late May

Here Comes the Crackdown Red State, by Nick Arama Original Article After the Capitol protest/riot occurred, I said to my colleagues the folks on the left will use it to go after President Donald Trump, Republicans and Trump supporters in general. They will use it to justify a crack down on social media and other arenas. That’s already coming to pass and it only happened yesterday. They’re calling to ban anyone who went into the building from plane travel. From Washington Examiner: “Given the heinous domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol yesterday, I am urging the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to use their authorities to add the names

Trump Supporters Take Stock of Jan. 6, Feel Mischaracterized by Media Epoch Times, by Charlotte Cuthbertson Original Article WASHINGTON—Empty streets and a subdued atmosphere characterized Washington on Jan. 7 as Trump supporters processed the events of the previous day and the certification of the Electoral College votes by Congress overnight. (Snip) Marine veteran Tony Good traveled from Florida and walked to the Ellipse to hear President Donald Trump speak in the morning. He said Trump didn’t incite violence in his speech.“No, absolutely not. There’s a line between inciting to riot and standing on convictions,” Good told The Epoch Times. “He wasn’t telling anybody to riot, he was just telling them it’s our right to protest. That’s a right we have in America.”


Michelle Obama chastises ‘infantile and unpatriotic’ Trump over Capitol riots NBC News, by Randi Richardson Original Article Michelle Obama chastised President Donald Trump over Wednesday’s riots at the Capitol, calling him “infantile and unpatriotic” before delivering an emotional critique of how police responded to the mob as compared to this summer’s Black Lives Matter protests. In a statement posted to social media on Thursday, the former first lady said the riots were a “fulfillment of the wishes of an infantile and unpatriotic president who can’t handle the truth of his own failures.” Trump supporters descended on the Capitol on Wednesday after the president delivered a speech at a rally against the election results, falsely claiming

We Ain’t Going To Submit and We Won’t Forget Gateway Pundit, by Larry Johnson Original Article After four years of a sustained coup attempt to destroy the Presidency of Donald Trump, the Washington establishment now wants us, the deplorables, to sit down, shut up and accept a steal. Here’s a news flash. We will not. This is no longer about ensuring that Donald Trump, who won the election, remains as President. The issue is more profound. It is the preservation of our Republic and a demand for genuine accountability and fairness.As I listen to the howls of faux outrage by a plethora of Democrat, Republican, media and Silicon Valley tech giants condemning any Trump supporter who dares speak out to challenge the election fraud

ABC News: ‘Getting Rid of Trump Easy Part’; ‘Cleansing’ America of ‘Movement He
Commands’ Something Else Red State, by Mike Miller Original Article In the aftermath of the pro-Trump siege of the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday, ABC News Political Director Rick Klein is calling for a “cleansing” of the Trump “movement,” across America. Getting rid of Trump “is the easy part,” Klien tweeted; getting rid of the movement Trump “commands” is another. “Trump will be an ex-president in 13 days. The fact is that getting rid of Trump is the easy part. Cleansing the movement he commands is going to be something else.” “Cleansing the movement”? Just me, or does that sound a tad too close to “cleansing” Adolf Hitler and the Nazis from post-WWII Germany? The following tweet became “unavailable”

‘Mr. Bean’ Star Rowan Atkinson Compares Cancel Culture to a ‘Medieval Mob Looking for Someone to Burn’ Breitbart, by Hannah Bleau Original Article British actor Rowan Atkinson veered from the leftist views embraced by the bulk of those in the entertainment industry and ripped into cancel culture, describing it as the “digital equivalent of the medieval mob roaming the streets looking for someone to burn.” “The problem we have online is that an algorithm decides what we want to see, which ends up creating a simplistic, binary view of society,” the Mr. Bean actor said in an interview with the U.K.’s Radio Times. “It becomes a case of either you’re with us or against us. And if you’re against us, you deserve to be ‘canceled.’”

VD Day

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Victory over Donald Day, that is. And how LIQ does glory in his Beta-male soy-boy triumph: Biggest Loser he calls the President. I have combed through his post, and the comments of all those who take the same side, and have yet to find an argument. It is true that Donald Trump will not be President at the end of this month and Joe Biden will be. Why that is a good thing has yet to be explained, and so far as I can tell, cannot be explained unless;

  • the aim is for America to sign the Paris Accords
  • the aim is for Iran to have nuclear weapons
  • the aim is to make wearing masks a permanent feature across the United States
  • the aim is to wreck small business
  • the aim is to create a permanent underclass of unemployed welfare recipients.

I’m sure there are other reasons I am missing, but these will do for now.

The one certainty I have is that the President did not wish to see anyone invading Capitol Hill. And there is mounting evidence that it was Antifa that led that particular charge, as  in this: Former FBI Agent on the Ground at US Capitol Says at Least One Bus Load of Antifa Thugs Infiltrated Trump Demonstration. I can imagine that this was something that the media-Democrat alliance would have been happy to see, which is why it is actually reported in the press and on the news.

If it is really true that an Antifa leader really did take the photo of the one fatality in the protest inside the Capitol – Why Was Founder Of Far-Left BLM Group Filming Inside Capitol As Police Shot Protester? – then the issue is settled. But to be honest, it doesn’t matter at all if it was entirely a pro-Trump  crowd inside the building. They were not sent there by the President.

So now we have VD Day, where these toxic fools can revel in their triumph over good policy, personal freedom and the American Constitution. They really are toxic imbeciles with not an argument available other than the wish to have power in their hands so that the Hunter Bidens and Hillary Clintons of the world can profit at our expense. As for policy, these people have not a thing to add to the debate.

You cannot trust the media on any political story

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I was going to leave this alone for a while but waking to The Oz and its front page banner story – Paul Kelly was never fit to be a journalist – has reminded me where so many of our problems lie. Let me therefore remind you that this was not the Storming of the Bastille, but a protest that ended up inside the Capitol. Stealing an election can get a lot of people hot under the collar. So let’s see if we can find a little balance. Start here.

Democrats And Media Want Us To Forget They Encouraged Rioting For Months. We Shouldn’t..

It is being demanded that we view yesterday’s events in DC as if they occurred without precedent, in a vacuum, nothing of relevance preceding them. Right-wing Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building, vandalized, fought with police, wreaked havoc, and there was no catalyst for any of it, no underlying reason, other than Donald Trump and his incitement. That is how we are meant to see it. But if we see it that way, whatever lessons we take from this week will be the wrong ones. We do not need to widen our lens very much to see that the rioting and violence on Capitol Hill this week happened after many months of violent left-wing riots, all of which were defended, even romanticized, by prominent voices in the media and government. It is not “whataboutism” to point this out. It is not “whataboutism” to observe that this latest bit of chaos did not erupt in a void, mysteriously disconnected from all events that came before it. The simple fact is that left-wing mobs spent the entire summer and much of the fall reigning chaos upon our cities and leaving burned buildings, looted stores, and dead bodies in their wake. They did this in DC as well — multiple times, in fact, over the summer — and the aerial shots of the city after their “protests” looked like something out of Baghdad in 2003.

Then there is this: Evidence Emerges Of Antifa Infiltrating Capitol Hill Protests where you find this. Go to the link if you would like to see the evidence.

And here’s an interesting question along the same lines: Why Was Founder Of Far-Left BLM Group Filming Inside Capitol As Police Shot Protester? That is, he was filming the fatal shooting of a woman inside the Capitol.

Filming the incident from behind Babbit, however, was Utah resident John Sullivan – founder of the far-left organization “Insurgence USA” who made headlines in July after he was arrested for intimidating drivers in Provo. Sullivan was interviewed by the Daily Mail and CNN following Wednesday’s shooting – both of which failed to provide a satisfactory answer as to why he was there in the first place.

Then for a bit of history, recent history: House Dems Unanimously Block Resolution Condemning Violence and Rioting. This is from June 25, 2020.

House Democrats unanimously blocked a resolution condemning acts of violence and rioting—including the “deliberate targeting of law enforcement officers”—in the wake of George Floyd’s death. The resolution, which was introduced by Rep. Greg Steube (R., Fla.) late Thursday morning, condemned Floyd’s killing at the hands of police, calling it “inconsistent with the values and conduct expected of law enforcement officers.” The resolution also supported peaceful protesters, but it noted that protests have been “exploited by violent extremists” carrying out “acts of violence, looting, destruction of business and personal property, and additional loss of life.”

As for freedom of speech and fostering debate, this is more than typical: Facebook and Big Tech Ban President Donald Trump, Classic Alinsky Methods Deployed. Such vile scum in charge of the flow of information. Go to the link to see what was said in this case by Facebook.

The Saul Alinsky playbook “Rules for Radicals”, the roadmap to target political opposition, has been the primary strategic tool in the arsenal of Obama-era operatives for the past several decades.  One of the key strategies outlined is “freezing your opposition” and contains three elements: Isolate, Ridicule, Marginalize. In the modern era these same strategies were applied over social media through the control mechanisms of Big Tech platforms. Today, that crew made their biggest move to date.  Facebook Announcement.

Meanwhile, Hypocrisy thy name is media.

Wednesday was proof that how corporate media and Democrat politicians report and comment on acts of civil unrest depends upon who is engaged in the rioting. Six months ago The New York Times, which has been described as the national “newspaper of record,” made excuses for rioters who attempted to take over the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon. It reported that “the nightly assault on the federal courthouse has been part of a much wider peaceful resistance … that began assembling nearly two months ago in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of the Minneapolis police.” The Times continued, “the aim, as it has been in other cities, was to assemble for sweeping police reform and racial justice.” Reporting on Wednesday’s protest in Washington, D.C., The Times’ “peaceful resistance” suddenly became a “mob.” Instead of “assembling,” the protesters engaged in “rampage” and “chaos,” incited by President Trump, which became a “part of his legacy.”

And etc. Meanwhile, the President-elect got into his typical call for unity, found at Joe Biden Reminds Everyone He’s a Political Coward in Disgusting Speech

The media are liars and hysterics. Not a word they utter on politics can be trusted. It is like reading Pravda in the old days of the Soviet Union. You read what they say and want you to believe to work out what really happened instead and where the truth actually lies.

How did PDT achieve so much surrounded as he was by so many enemies?

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Of course, the supreme good was he prevented Hilary from being president for the past four years. And he revealed how vile the Deep State is, although much good knowing it now will do us. And he ought to have shown us that the media are completely untrustworthy, but instead taught us how stupid most people are about the source of their freedoms and prosperity given how willing they were to be led down garden paths. But he still has friends, aside from me, who will remember Donald Trump as the greatest, bravest President of our lifetime. You are guaranteed never to see his like again no matter how young you are or how long you live. You have witnessed the fall of the American Republic and its replacement with a fascist state. Here is a sample among those who have stayed the course.

Sarah Hoyt

AGAIN, THE QUESTION IS, WHAT ELSE COULD AMERICANS DO? WHAT OTHER AVENUE DID THEY LEAVE US?  The crowd in the Capitol. For years I’ve told the left that when they used fraud to win, they’d broken the feedback mechanism.  It didn’t mean their ideas were winning, that people agreed with them, or that they were safe. It was the equivalent of breaking the fire alarm and thinking they were safe from fires. What I never expected was to hear the right condemn the people trying to break out of the burning building, because they don’t hear any fire alarms.

Ace of Spades

Good morning, kids. Wednesday and as we had all dreaded – although it’s not official – the two senate seats in Georgia are about to be stolen. Yet again, as I have no doubt that had the presidential election not been stolen from us nine weeks ago, those two seats would have been clearly won that night as well. And just like nine weeks ago, the vote counting has been stopped for the night in Chatham County, which I believe includes the city of Savannah, where our friend Jane D’Oh lives. No doubt she is either in a drunken stupor or tearing her hair out while no doubt, pallets of clean crisp ballots are being trucked in all neatly checked off next to the names of Ossoff and Warnock. Who is to blame for this, along with what happened on Election Day? Or put another way, which is worse; the Enemy who with malice aforethought rigged the election with the direct or indirect help of the Communist Chinese via a biological/psychological weapon in the form of a virus as a pretext to allow mass ballot dumping, or the Republican Party that did nothing to stop them before, during and after the fact, and then screamed bloody murder at anyone who complained? Whatever happens with this fiasco, and then another potential fiasco in Congress starting today with at least some decent souls standing up and objecting to the Electoral College results, America as we knew it and loved it, or at least perceived it is gone.

PDT SPEAKING TODAY

I’ve looked and they are a bunch of socialist thugs

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Don’t look like your typical conservatives to me.

Plus this.

As for what PDT thinks, the American “free press” has stopped his twitter account and will not report what the actual President of the United States is saying.

Plus a few comments picked up from elsewhere.

These so called pundits, bloggers, writers. elites, media, and congress idiots don’t care what happens to anyone but themselves. I didn’t used to believe it but 50 years after my first vote was cast I have come to believe it. Sure they espouse the correct beliefs and write or speak about them at length. But they are as removed from the majority of people as the Far Left is. The people who have lost their jobs, their businesses, their contact with family and friends, their right to disagree with so called PC/SJW, their ability to travel and shop, their right to worship as they want, and now their vote. What did they expect people to do? They still have their jobs, etc. so it’s easy to sit back and shake their finger and make inane suggestions. I say inane because at this point it is too late. The die is cast and you can’t stop the roll. So McManus, Powerline. Hot Air, etc. and all those so-called Conservative politicians, we just don’t care what you think.

The truth is that neither the Democratic or Republican Party denounces violence by the left. And both the Democratic and Republican parties denounce “violence” by the right … even when the only “violence” which has occurred is an unarmed conservative woman getting gunned down by police while petitioning for redress of grievances.

We have been denied the soap box. Big Tech is deplatforming us. We have been denied the jury box. The courts refuse to hear our cases. We have been denied the ballot box. The voting process is broken, fraud is rampant. We only have one more way to counter this crap. There is only one more box.

The realist in me says that I’ve never seen more scared Democrats than since Biden “won” the election. I think the reality of what happened with the vote is messy, but I do know that it sure looks like the left is losing on every single front.

– People are fleeing blue states
– Blue cities burning to the ground
– Gun rights more popular than they have been in a very long time
– Democrats super unpopular with small business owners
– People moving in with families
– Big Tech being assailed for their cronyism and abuses
– Teacher’s unions less popular than ever
– People wanting private schools because the public schools are closed
– Lockdowns have even people in LA disliking their government

Why today? Political violence has been a tool in this country for the last year, used with precision to take down Donald Trump. But today, the waves shifted. And suddenly we all have to condemn political violence because the people who own the megaphone demand it? Because the left demands it?


Women and the history of economics

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Here is an invitation to contribute to a symposium that absolutely mirrors everything about the academic world of today.

Women, Economics and History: Diversity within Europe

The literature on the history of economics that focuses on the presence of
women in economics has recently grown exponentially. Suffice it to think of
the volumes edited by Dimand, Dimand and Forget (1995 and 2000), the huge
bibliographic work by Madden, Pujol and Seiz (2004), the handbook by Madden
and Dimand (2019), as well as the very recent book by Becchio (2020).
Moreover, numerous studies on women’s participation in economic debates or on
the role of women in economic institutions in the historical perspective are
currently in progress.

Some of these works cover a very wide area. For example, The Routledge
Handbook of the History of Women’s Economic Thought includes studies on the
USA, India, Latin America, Japan, China, Africa, the Arab world and Europe
(Italy, Austria, the UK, Russia and the Soviet Union). While recognizing the
urgent need for an inclusive global perspective, this call for papers narrows
its focus to the diversity within Europe for two main reasons. First, there
are no historical works on women in economics specifically devoted to this
geographical area. Second, a broader coverage would make it more difficult to
analyse the complexity of the different European contexts, especially the less
studied ones, which is the main aim of this special issue of Œconomia.

This call for papers seeks to stimulate the reconstruction of the divergent
historical paths of the many European realities that are likely to have
produced a differentiated substratum of thinking about women in economics and
their place within the economy. We intend to attract papers that discuss the
deep diversities within Europe with the aim of linking the analysis of women
in the history of economic thought to the focus on their intellectual
traditions, properly contextualizing it within women’s different countries,
regions and periods. The special issue aims at covering a wide time span,
taking as a starting point the Enlightenment, the period when associations by
women activists were created. We welcome and encourage contributions on any
later period, including recent and contemporary history, considering
specificities linked to the two World Wars, the Cold War, revolutionary
movements, the creation of the European Union, and other major historical and
political events and processes that have marked the history of Europe.

Examples of different perspectives that can be adopted to tackle the
heterogeneity of European histories include:

.  Women as economic researchers. We know that women were not absent, even in
the early developments of the discipline, but they were erased from its
official history. The greatest effort made by historians of economic thought
to date has been to bring the names of women out of the darkness, to give them
visibility, and it is worth continuing to do so. Thus, biographies of European
women interested in economic topics across different time periods and analysis
of their writings are welcome.

.    Cultural history and intellectual history. Women did not write and publish
like men, and very often we cannot find their economic thought in published
books or articles. They often worked in economic institutions, seldom in
universities, and they often did not sign their writings. Here intellectual
history intertwines with cultural history, and hence attention has to be paid
to private and personal sources in order to reconstruct women’s economic
thought.

.    Impact, influences and traditions. The history of economic thought deals
with ideas, their impact and their reception. The historical reconstruction of
the impact of women’s ideas on reality, their influence on subsequent
interpreters, and their links with traditions of thought is a very difficult
task in women’s studies (Fuster and Birulés 2021). Here the relevant
categories are those of network (within a generation) and transmission (among
generations), in order to trace the circulation and the survival of their
ideas.

.    History of women’s emancipation. We welcome contributions that study
women’s commitment to emancipation (when it involves economic reflections)
from a historical perspective. The analyses might also examine the history of
economic institutions for the promotion of gender equality in various European
countries.

.   History of gender economics. Investigations of the roots, the origins and
the development of the economics of gender in European countries are
encouraged. Influenced by home economics and household economics, the new home
economics adopted a standard microeconomic approach to study household
economic decisions, labour and demographic issues. The same neoclassical
analytical framework was then extended by the new discipline of gender
economics in order to study gender differences and their economic
implications, especially in the labour market and in marriage.

. History of feminist economics. It is equally important to look at the
roots, the origin and the development of feminist economics in European
countries, uncovering gender-aware conceptions of economics long before the
institutionalization of feminist approaches. All analyses that use history in
order to adopt a feminist perspective and to propose a reformulation of
economic theory based on the idea that economic agents are not gender neutral
are welcome. Here a broad definition of economics should be adopted in order
to avoid the distinction between the formal and informal sector, to consider
the hidden contribution of women to the growth of wealth, to look at the
labour market from a feminist perspective, to take into account the labour of
caring, to elaborate on alternative indicators of human development, and to
propose new economic explanations of gender discrimination (see Jacobsen
2020).

. Historiography. We invite contributions on how and why women have been
represented, misrepresented or absent not only from most economic studies, but
also from the history of economics. Contributions could investigate how
historical studies approached, or ignored, the topic, and how feminist
perspectives could inform, or change the way in which women are addressed in
the history of economics and the history of economic thought.

. Orthodoxy/heterodoxy. The economics of gender stands in the realm of
neoclassical economics, while feminist economics is considered to be a
heterodox approach. The latter shares its dissent regarding the neoclassical
tradition with other heterodoxies, but it shows elements of misalignment with
them as well. In order to deepen and articulate their possible interrelations,
contributions from a range of perspectives (Socialist, Marxist, Institutional,
Evolutionary, Austrian, Post-Keynesian, and other) are encouraged.

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The Americans have decided that freedom and democracy doesn’t work for them so they’re going to try something else. From What comes after Georgia?:

As I write this, it appears that Raphael Warnock, an anti-American, pro-Marxist, anti-Semitic, anti-white Democrat who has credible accusations of spousal and child abuse against him, won. Meanwhile, with Perdue and Ossoff tied, counting has stopped in Chatham County. We know what that means. They’re finding votes for Ossoff, a leftist nonentity. As matters now stand, despite Trump’s overwhelming coattails on down-ballot votes across America, Biden is poised to take the White House, the Democrats will control the Senate, and Nancy Pelosi and her squad are the Queen and princesses of the House. We are facing a hard-left, one-party federal government.

Land of the free and the home of the brave. /s

Let me also add this which has added to my despondent mood. In reply to my Christmas/New Year note, I received a reply from one of my favourite cousins, second cousin actually, since his mother and my mother were first cousins. We were born weeks apart and went to University together and he is the absolute nicest chap. And he wrote among other things:

The City of Toronto devised an advertising campaign, aimed at the 18-35 age group, trying to convince them to wear a mask, distance, etc. We found one, attempting humour, to be particularly egregious: a buff young man with a tee-shirt that reads “The new normal sucks–let’s get back to the old normal.” Do we really want the “old normal” of gross and growing income inequality, homelessness and hunger crises, unpaid internships (if lucky) and job insecurity, social and racial injustice, etc. etc? Rather, we should be working for a “better normal for everyone”. Interestingly, none of the politicians or newspapers I wrote to deigned to respond…. I don’t do very much at all in the academic vein, although I keep an eye on water and climate change issues. In fact, we were overseas for 3 weeks just this time last year, because I was invited to participate in a climate change workshop and give a couple of seminars.

Everyone wants to be Mr (and Ms) Niceperson. They will eat you alive, I’m afraid, but only our children will live to see it fully unfold.