The left stand for nothing other than slavery. The only supposed freedom supported by the left is sexual license. Every other freedom – speech, assembly, religion or whatever – they are absolutely opposed to in every way they can show their opposition. Lindsay Shepherd is both an example of the threats posed by the left and an articulate defender of our freedoms, that have seldom been in such need for defence.
An organisation made up of third world tyrannies wishes to teach the rest of us how to run our economies. A couple of examples.
From Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism’s Imminent Demise
Capitalism as we know it is over. So suggests a new report commissioned by a group of scientists appointed by the UN Secretary-General. The main reason? We’re transitioning rapidly to a radically different global economy, due to our increasingly unsustainable exploitation of the planet’s environmental resources.
Climate change and species extinctions are accelerating even as societies are experiencing rising inequality, unemployment, slow economic growth, rising debt levels, and impotent governments. Contrary to the way policymakers usually think about these problems, the new report says that these are not really separate crises at all.
Rather, these crises are part of the same fundamental transition to a new era characterized by inefficient fossil fuel production and the escalating costs of climate change. Conventional capitalist economic thinking can no longer explain, predict, or solve the workings of the global economy in this new age, the paper says.
And then this from David Archibald: Stop The Climate Stupidity wherein we find:
You should read David’s article right through to savour just how mad you would have to be to follow the UN’s lead. And how could we leave this out from just today?
CHICAGO’S DEEPEST FREEZE
COLDEST IN LIFETIME!
MIDWEST FEELS LIKE -75°
CHILL MAP
You don’t often see this: an Australian foreign minister in overseas news.
“Australia recognizes and supports the President of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, in assuming the position of interim president, in accordance with the Venezuelan constitution and until elections are held,” Australia Foreign Minister Marise Payne said in a statement.
Late in the game and timid. Sticking to constitutional proprieties. Would prefer something along the lines of a full-throttle disquisition on the evils of socialism, kind of trying to warn us about the potential consequences of a Labor government here in Oz. You gotta hope they will eventually get it.
Then
And now:
Three posts drawn down from Lucianne with the last one from Instapundit. Feb 15 is coming, the one just after Valentine’s Day.
| No, President Trump Didn’t Cave On The Border Wall… |
| DC Whispers, by Staff Original Article |
| Republicans in Congress were reportedly feeling the heat from the 24/7 “I’m a federal worker and I’m losing my house” media stories and subsequently begging President Trump to give them a window of opportunity to strike a longer term deal with Democrats. The president wasn’t immune to the pain being felt by federal workers either. (Snip)Democrats were getting desperate. Some were openly breaking with the leadership and demanding President Trump be given his $5 billion for the wall. So, here comes President Trump, rising above all of the petty finger-pointing, to declare a three-week period of
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| Why Trump went for a 21-day suspension of the partial shutdown, and what happens next |
| American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson Original Article |
| President Trump’s Rose Garden declaration of an end to the partial shutdown was a tactical retreat, a rejection of a Little Big Horn strategy. He found himself in a no-win situation, and rather than bear unacceptable costs, has redefined the contest on better terms: sending the issue to a House and Senate conference committee charged with coming up with a deal that prevents a resumption of the shutdown, and provides border security, something that Democrats say they believe is important. It is important that Nancy Pelosi declined to rule out funding for a physical barrier.
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| Gee, I Guess Now I’m Going To Have To Be Happy With Only 90% Of The Stuff I Wanted Trump To Do |
| Townhall, by Kurt Schlichter Original Article |
| Chill. Just chill. The wailing and gnashing of teeth on the hardcore conservative side over Trump’s delaying action – really, a hudna – in the battle for the wall is way over the top and typically overdramatic. Trump’s caved-in! We’re doomed! Pelosi annihilated him with her master stratagems and it’s all over for conservatism! Oh please. Lighten up, Francises – and many of you are my pals. But you need this bucket of cold water. What happened Friday doesn’t matter. Not at all. Well, that’s not quite accurate. It could matter, |
LAURENCE JARVIK AS KENNY ROGERS: President Trump Knew When To Fold The Shutdown.
Q: What proportion of the Ku Klux Klan were Democrats?
A: 100%
If you don’t know that you cannot even begin to understand the racial divide in the United States. Which brings me to this, from Instapundit.
WELL, SURE. ANTISEMITES ARE A CORE CONSTITUENCY FOR THEM NOW. Democrats Ducking Vote on Rejecting Anti-Semitism.
Democratic leaders are remaining quiet about a new congressional measure that rejects anti-Semitism and chides a new class of Democratic congressional members for the open embrace of notorious anti-Semites and anti-Israel causes, according to the leading Republican author of that new measure.
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R., N.Y.), one of just two Jewish Republicans in Congress, has introduced a new congressional resolution in the House that categorically rejects anti-Semitism in all its forms and calls out some newly elected Democratic members who have ridden a popular wave into Congress on the backs of anti-Semitic leaders and causes, Zeldin told the Washington Free Beacon in a wide-ranging interview.
While a similar House resolution condemning white supremacy sailed to a nearly unanimous vote several weeks ago, Zeldin’s amendment, focused directly on anti-Semitism, has put Democratic leaders in a precarious position as they are forced to reject the views of popular new freshman colleagues.
“It’s up to the Democrats to decide whether or not they are actually going to confront this head on,” Zeldin told the Free Beacon. “I’m wiling to work with any Democratic colleague on any idea he or she has to crush anti-Semitism in any form. But I can’t do that for them.” . . .
While Democratic leaders like Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and House Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) have been vocal in the past about their opposition to BDS and similar anti-Semitic movements, they are now dealing with a new cast of young Democrats such as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), and Ilhan Omar (Minn.), all of whom have embraced at one point or another anti-Semitic leaders and their causes.
Weirdly like what happened to Labour in Britain after it made immigration a core component of its strategy.
The left knows it’s wrong to be anti-semitic which is why they pretend they aren’t. But they are. A dark and foreboding future beckons.
That’s MMT, Modern Monetary Theory. I am just following behind a thread at Instapundit: NASSIM TALEB IS NOT PUTTING UP WITH YOUR BULLSHIT: which began with this:
It’s this Stephanie Kelton who is the focus here, another economic tragedy in the making. Never heard of her, but the comments thread quickly brought out everything you need to know.
Stephanie Kelton is the proponent of Modern Monetary Theory (TL; DR: we can just print more money and tax it all back if inflation gets to high.) Even Paul Krugman thinks it’s off the wall, leftist, la la land thinking that could completely screw us all.
She’s a Professor. People actually pay her
She’s a fancy professor at Stonybrook. LOLOL. That’s like young adult day care – not a college.
Not just a professor, but a professor of economics. And economic advisor to Congressional Dimocrats.
She’s Bernie Sanders Chief Economics adviser. Of course. He’s the dumbest man in America
This is even more enjoyable when you click through to find out who he is pwning. Kelton is someone who ought to know better but makes a living pretending she does not: Prf. of Economics & Public Policy @stonybrooku.
Was Chief Economist for the Dems on U.S. Senate Budget Committee.I have an old video clip of her making the case that the government can never go broke because it is the source of money and thus can print all it needs. The Weimar Republic could not be reached for comment.
She said “you take it from your workers.” The exact opposite is true.
Somehow she missed the lesson on mutually beneficial exchange. And yet she is ‘Chief economist for the Dems.’ Go figure.
She is actually probably slightly above average in intelligence. That’s the kind of person who becomes a lefty. People significantly less intelligent than average are suspicious of clever ideas, because they think (quite rightly, as it turns out) that nobody would propose them if they weren’t more advantage to the proposer than the proposee. They’ve been snookered plenty by bright people and clever schemes, so they have a basic enhanced animal wariness. People significantly more intelligent than average are deeply skeptical of any social enterprise, because they expect it to be executed incompetently (by their own standards) and degenerate into parasitism and failure. The people who love social schemes are just smart enough to dream them up, smart enough to be dissatisfied with the status quo, but not smart enough to be wary of the unknown unknowns, the unanticipated side-effects, the limits of the ability of plain smarts to accurately predict the future.
Being educated doesn’t mean you’re not stupid. It means you’re not ignorant in the things you were told to repeat to get passing marks in class.
Well, our cultural values are kind of screwed up that way. We value raw intelligence far more than we should, and value character far less than we should. The world doesn’t need that many Einsteins, and having a surplus of them won’t do anyone much good. But it has an endless need for men and women of good character.
There’s no creationists running biology departments.
There’s no flat earthers running geography departments
So why are there marxists running economics departments?I thank her for writing the most succinct summary of the socialist fallacy that I’ve ever seen.
That last one is from “Aussie Pundit” (not me).
This is the start to an article titled, Critical Theory Quotes:
Critical theory is an ideology that divides the world into oppressed groups and oppressor groups and seeks to liberate the oppressed. It is currently the reigning theoretical paradigm in academic disciplines like gender studies, critical pedagogy, critical race theory, anthropology, and queer theory, and forms the ideological foundation for large segments of the secular social justice movement. In my speaking and writing, I’ve characterized critical theory according to several basic premises held by proponents of critical theory. Listed below are quotes which illustrates each of these basic premises.
Premise #1: Individual identity is inseparable from group identity as ‘oppressed’ or ‘oppressor’
Premise #2: Oppressor groups subjugate oppressed groups through the exercise of hegemonic power
Premise #3: Our fundamental moral duty is freeing groups from oppression
Premise #4: ‘Lived experience’ is more important than objective evidence in understanding oppression
Premise #5: Oppressor groups hide their oppression under the guise of objectivity
Just click on each link and you will get to the list of associated quotes. Here is the first quote from the first premise:
Premise #1: Individual identity is inseparable from group identity as ‘oppressed’ or ‘oppressor’
“My schooling gave me no training in seeing myself as an oppressor… I was taught [wrongly] to see myself as an individual whose moral state depended on her individual moral will” – Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege and Male Privilege,” in Andersen and Collins, Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology, p. 72
By the time you are through, you will see yourself as an oppressor of everyone else because you thoughtlessly just went ahead and lived your life without noticing all the harm you had caused to others. But they noticed, even though almost all their disadvantage might well have arisen because of who they were and not what you did.
Yesterday I asked What is the Democrat response to the Venezuelan counter-revolution?. Today we have the answer: That weird silence from Democrats over Venezuela’s massive rejection of socialism . “Weird” is not the word I would use, more something along the lines of “repulsive” and “terrifying”. These people are not disgusted with the outcome in Venezuela nor to they see any reason to support those who are trying to get rid of its vile socialist regime.
What we can conclude from this is three things: That the collapse of socialism is an embarrassing topic for Democrats who are trying to sell it here. That supporting Maduro, as is this inclination, automatically puts them in the same camp as Vladimir Putin, the man they claim President Trump is in bed with. And three, it suggests that they’ll do anything to oppose and undermine President Trump, even if that means throwing Venezuelans under the bus. No wonder they’re too petrified to say anything. Here they could be scarfing up Venezuelan and Latino good will by siding with President Trump against the clown dictatorship in Caracas, and they just can’t bring themselves to do it, not even for the Latino vote.
And what about Miss Ocasio-Cortez as we also asked yesterday:
Now let’s turn to openly socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is she ignoring it, too? Where is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on this massive popular rejection of socialism in Venezuela? The gabby congresswoman is opining a lot about … herself on her Twitter feed and the government shutdown. But then there just this one little tweet that just came out: Amazingly, she signaled support for Putin’s stance, saying Maduro is the legitimate leader of Venezuela and Trump shouldn’t be supporting the crowds calling for change or the leader who was just sworn in under the rules of Venezuela’s Chavista constitution. She used the fig leaf of the Vatican’s and Mexico’s outlier support for Maduro to encourage Maduro to stay in power under the guise of ‘dialogue.’ … Her past claims on 60 Minutes to not envisioning anything like Venezuela in her socialist scheme of things now rings hollow. She’s effectively endorsed Putin and Maduro even as the regime collapses.
This is the kind of thing that should tell you everything you need to know about the modern left.
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