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Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Stoned thought re a kid with a smirk and an old guy banging a drum in his face
With my perhaps impressive command of content, I was able to bring this post up within about 5 seconds. (How about you?) (If you're at that link, you might as well have a look at the rest of the content produced in this blog in just one month, over on the right there - 39 mostly scintillating posts in January alone. [Incidentally, that whole problem that leading '20 Demorat candidates have with fair epistemic and judicial process when it comes to their treatment of (claims made against) Brett Kavanaugh, still lingers and is still glaring to anyone with a clue. Any seasoned investigator would be able to deduce that no such event is remotely likely to have taken place as some party attended by both Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford. The way that Sens. Warren, Biden, Sanders, and Harris in particular treated these claims is epistemically criminal and the attorneys among them know better. Blasey Ford's account simply cannot be believed as true to fact, whatever she told a therapist some years ago. Anyway, just how perverse does one's episteme and value-structure have to get, in order to treat Blasey Ford's accusation as remotely credible once all the sworn testimony has come in (not the least of which is Leland Keyser's, you Dem fuckheads)? Such epistemic criminality, perversity and bankruptcy just doesn't happen all of a sudden; it has to be cultivated over a matter of years. I blame the intellectually atrophied culture of leftism generally, with its always crying racism, its cancel culture, its context-erasing vilifications, etc. being typical results. See this blog's "leftist losers" tag for all the exhaustive details.])
So, what it all really was, in the end, was a kid smirking and a buy banging a drum and chanting up in his face. The MAGA hat really was entirely incidental, and the Native American ancestry completely irrelevant to the kid's reaction to what this man was doing in front of his face. Basically, what the kid did according to today's insane "politically correct" leftists is commit a facecrime, from which they could interpret, rorschach-blotch-test-like, anything they damn well pleased (and they know, deep down, is exactly the dishonorable thing they are doing). They do this all the time with Trump's pronouncements; on Day 1 of his political career, he said something something Mexico not sending its best and that it sends crime and drugs (e.g. opioids) and perhaps even some great people, and the Left immediately assumed the worst and has kept it up from then onward, really pathetic. Speaker Peloser said repeatedly that his border wall idea is categorically an immorality because it's about Making American White Again, when plain reading and ordinary common sense says it's about keeping criminals out, since the only people the wall would keep out would be those trying to enter illegally/unvetted, and the Demorats are rightly perceived as soft on illegal immigration (and their political motivations are rightly called into question, especially when it involves a level of dishonesty and demagoguery like Peloser's about the border wall).
The incident between the smirking kid and the banging drum guy had nothing to do with America's racial and ethnic tensions (like one big happy semi-dysfunctional American family or something, more or less, right?), but with a kid reacting as any kid might normally react in such an increasingly bizarre situation that it was. To make it in any way about race or ethnicity (on its face or otherwise) is to be an absolute fucking idiot with no business being near a viral or mass media outlet. This goes for the relevant scumbags over at CNN, among other supposedly "center-"-left race-, sex-, gender-, ethnicity-. class-, etc.-baiting scum (more or less in lockstep with the likes of AOC+3) who've inundated the Demorat Party with their anti-intellectual, anti-philosophy, anti-wisdom, anti-Western-civ . . . does "nonsense" even dignify it? Too much of it is already entirely false to fact (e.g., notions that capitalism is a fundamentally unfair or harmful economic system; see this blog's "capitalism" tag for all the juicy essentials).
Anyway, I'm sure that unlike the typical leftist slobs at D.C. events, the MAGA boys didn't leave trash behind. Not so sure about that guy chanting and banging his drum in a kid's face.
Addendum: so how long before this shit is legalized everywhere? FFS, already.