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George Rebane

In a democracy it's never the minority, but always the lightly read majority that votes in the tyrant.

“… scientific evidence supporting facemasks’ efficacy is lacking, adverse physiological, psychological and health effects are established.”  So reports our NIH here.  And it’s federal law that you have to wear a face mask during your entire flight when traveling.  Another righthand/lefthand confusion by government that no liberal in the land notices as they back more and more things an ever larger government will do to us.  The rest of us see it for what it is – perennially expanding state power and control.

Rebane’s “far right ideology” continues to be a characteristic of my political demeanor that is oft cited, yet unsubstantiated, by local liberals.  Now don’t get me wrong, I may have no problem being characterized with that label if I or my detractors knew the tenets of a far right ideology, tenets which I share as demonstrated by my published credo and extensive oeuvre of socio-political commentaries.  I am truly interested in getting some liberal of sufficient intellect to offer up a cogent list (it doesn’t have to be long) of evidence that places me in their concept of the far right of our political spectrum.

[1may21 update]  Not one of our leftwing worthies would/could? step up to the plate and give even one substantive example of my ‘far right’ attributes.  This, of course, speaks to the larger problem shared by our semantically simplistic Left.  They have no idea what are the definitions of the everyday words they use, like  ‘racist’, ‘white supremacist’, ‘white nationalist’, ‘misogynist’, ‘rightwinger’, …, and now ‘far right’.  To them it is all part of the approved narrative passed to them from their thought leaders – it’s completely acceptable in their circles to simply parrot, as long as you parrot the proper words.  And speaking of semantically simplistic, to them such terms as ‘socialist’ and ‘socialism’ have binary meanings.  If a person or country does not explicitly subscribe to ALL the attributes that define a socialist, then neither he nor the jurisdiction is socialist.  The same goes for socialism; it’s all or none – nothing is seen to progress toward socialism until its final attribute is in place and verified.

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173 responses to “Scattershots – 21apr21 (updated 1may21)”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Leftist snobs in white towers with tenure and their wokenista lemmings will hand over congress shortly –
    We might pay special attention to some of Carville’s word-choices: “people in faculty lounges in fancy colleges.” There’s a stereotype that leading Democrats hang out in the Ivy League and other posh colleges—and Carville agrees with it.
    Indeed, he went on to attack “jargon-y language that’s unrecognizable to most people—including most Black people.” Picking up on his theme of a snobby dimension to leftist thinking, Carville added, “This ‘too cool for school’ [bleep] doesn’t work, and we have to stop it.”
    Here we can pause to quote conservative Scott Alexander, who wrote earlier this year, “Wokeness is a made-up mystery religion that college-educated people invented so they could feel superior to you.” Continuing, Alexander added, “The whole point is that the only way not to be racist is to master an inscrutable and constantly-changing collection of fashionable shibboleths and opinions which are secretly class norms.”
    So we can see: Alexander is agreeing with Carville; the whole essence of wokeness is that it’s a status symbol. Just as some people choose to raise themselves—at least in their own estimation—by gaining an affected accent, others seek to gain status by becoming fluent in woke. Politically correct lingo thus further distinguishes Berkeley, CA, from, say, Beckley, WV.
    Then Carville, a native of rural Louisiana, known as the “Ragin’ Cajun,” roared some more, saying of Democratic vulnerability, “I think it’s because large parts of the country view us as an urban, coastal, arrogant party.”
    We can also add: “rich.” Of the ten richest states (including the District of Columbia), as measured by per capita income, Joe Biden carried eight last year; of the ten poorest states, Donald Trump carried nine. Drilling down a bit, we can also see that Democrats represent 41 of the 50 most affluent districts in the U.S. House.
    Yet it’s not just that Democrats are woke and wealthy. In addition, some of their best-known policy ideas are way-y-y out of touch with ordinary people. But don’t take my world for it—here’s Carville: “Maybe tweeting that we should abolish the police isn’t the smartest thing to do because almost [bleeping] no one wants to do that.”
    And the woken website Jezebel jabbed, “Carville seems to have one job of late: Popping up to offer his list of grievances about the left’s influence on the Democratic Party.” The writer then addd a racialist snipe at “People—often white, often men—with large and influential platforms who redefine co-opted terms like ‘woke’ and dictate its supposed harm.”
    Yet interestingly, on April 30, Jaime Harrison, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, seemed to agree with Carville. As Harrison said of Carville, “there’s some truth to what he says,” and then he added:
    Ultimately, working people just want somebody, and their leaders, to speak plain English, to speak to them in the way that they operate, in the space that they operate in.
    We might recall that Harrison was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina last year, in which he challenged Sen. Lindsey Graham—and that in September 2020, he was running dead even with Graham. But then Graham started running TV spots lambasting Harrison and Democrats for wanting to defund the police. Graham’s spots did the job. In November, Harrison lost by 10 points, despite spending $130 million, vastly more than Graham.
    Summing up the election afterward, Harrison’s former boss and longtime mentor, Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), recalled, “Jaime Harrison started to plateau when ‘Defund the Police’ showed up with a caption on TV right across his head.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/02/pinkerton-wokery-is-snobbery-how-the-populist-right-can-win-the-new-class-war/
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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The socialist dems weaponizing the FBI, DOJ and CIA is out of control and it looks like stalin is in charge –
    [I]’m very upset about what’s going on with Rudy Giuliani,” Dershowitz said to open his appearance with John Catsimatidis. “In banana republics, in Castro‘s Cuba, in many parts of the world when a candidate loses for president, they go after the candidate, they go after his lawyers, they go after his friends. That didn’t happen in America, and that’s happening in America now. They’re going after Rudy Giuliani … Who knows who’s going to be next? And they’re going after him in inappropriate ways. A search warrant on a lawyer or a doctor or a priest? You don’t use search warrants when people have privileged information on their cell phones and in their computers. You use a subpoena. The difference between a subpoena and a search warrant is like night and day.”
    “It’s just not constitutional,” he continued. “And that’s why when Rudy called me yesterday, I said sure I’ll help out. I’m in favor of the Constitution.”
    “Look, I think the government made a serious mistake when they went by search warrant. They gave Rudy Giuliani lots of legal arguments … that I think he can prevail on. … Apparently, they went after the cloud and went after other material and information without telling him. That’s just not the way the government is supposed to treat its citizens.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/05/02/dershowitz-very-upset-about-giuliani-fbi-raid-its-not-constitutional/
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  3. George Rebane Avatar

    DonB 1056pm – The raw evil of the Dems is becoming more apparent every day – Marxist hell, they’re now becoming Stalinists.

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    As Jefferson put it in 1798: “It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights; that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism—free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.”
    TIME FOR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE?
    News item: Biden Administration is prohibiting a July 4 fireworks celebration at Mount Rushmore. Previous July 4 fireworks celebrations at Mount Rushmore had proceeded as a joint venture between the state of South Dakota and the National Park Service. Gov. Kristi Noem has filed suit against the Biden Administration.
    News item: Pentagon refuses to issue a parking permit for the annual Memorial Day “Rolling Thunder” motorcycle rally. COVID risk is the stated reason, but I’m guessing the real reason is the likelihood of too many Trump flags being displayed by the riders. The annual rally has perviously used the Pentagon’s massive parking lot as a staging area for the rally.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/05/time-for-civil-disobedience.php

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  5. Walt Avatar

    Don’t be a damned bit surprised if the 4TH of July is next.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/brian-mast-biden-rolling-to-remember-memorial-day
    “Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., blasted the Biden administration for rescinding a permit for a 30-plus years Memorial Day tradition for veterans that has always been staged in the Pentagon parking lot.
    “Memorial Day traditions like Rolling to Remember have been granted permits by every administration, Democrat and Republican, for the past 30 years. The Biden Administration’s decision to end this Memorial Day tradition flies in the face of the freedoms that so many have died to protect,” Rep. Mast said in a statement to Fox News.”

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  6. Walt Avatar

    So “crack” Hunter was on the board of AMTRAK.. That explains plenty.. They couldn’t even get the booze car to break even, let alone turn a profit.

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Liz Wheeler
    @Liz_Wheeler
    Critical Race Theory is racism packaged as social & institutional discrimination falsely labeled as “justice” so the radical left can weaponize it against anybody who dares disagree with their far-left ideology. That’s how to explain it to friends.

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    My, my. Reason published a Matt Welch piece. Hits all the points…with reason.
    ‘The Equity Mess’
    Despite their professed goals, Democrats’ pandemic policies have widened disparities between races, classes, and genders.
    https://reason.com/2021/05/02/the-equity-mess/

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Funny creepy grampa joe just visited the peanut farmer, must have wanted to make sure he can beat carters inflation rate –
    https://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/get-ready-for-the-most-painful-inflation-since-the-jimmy-carter-years-of-the-1970s
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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The wokenistas are loving the swamp but the CIA really??!? –
    Fox News contributor Rachel Campos Duffy noted that the unnamed agent appears to list “all her identities (intersectional, cis gender, millennial woman of color with anxiety disorder) EXCEPT American. God help us,” she wrote.
    Political commentator Liz Wheeler tweeted, “Watch this insane CIA recruitment video & tell me the CIA isn’t a woke swamp creature… capable & willing to weaponize their power to target their political opponents: conservatives.”
    Director and producer Robby Starbuck also weighed in.
    “This is a real video released by the CIA,” he wrote alongside the clip. “Every institution is being destroyed by the woke left. If we don’t stop this, [the U.S.] will fall. I bet instead of waterboarding, they’ll unleash real torture on terrorists: Listening to ‘progressives’ talk for hours about every social issue.”
    Glenn Greenwald, who, among others, was awarded a Pulitzer for his reporting about government surveillance programs, tweeted: ‘Lots of people who pay no attention to the CIA and the security state seem to think this CIA video is the first time they’ve promoted, endorsed and embraced woke ideology…They’ve been doing it for years. I wrote about back in 2015.”
    “Biden is turning every U.S. institution into an embarrassing freak show,” Daily Wire reporter Ryan Saavedra wrote. “The world is laughing at us.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/social-media-explodes-over-woke-cia-recruitment-video-we-are-such-an-embarrassing-country-under-biden
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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ya lets have a talk with those ‘anonymous’ sources about that lie –
    Mainstream outlets face deluge of criticism for retracted Giuliani story, use of anonymous sources
    Growing calls for outlets to ‘burn’ their anonymous sources
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/mainstream-outlets-criticism-retracted-giuliani-story-anonymous-sources-rudy-giuliani-russian-disinformation
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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another significant appellate issue –
    A juror in the Derek Chauvin trial may have jeopardized the guilty verdict by attending a rally last year and wearing a “Get Your Knee Off Our Necks/BLM” T-shirt, raising questions about whether he told the truth during jury selection.
    Brandon Mitchell, known as Juror #52, told Minneapolis news outlets Monday that he attended the Aug. 28 march in Washington, D.C., featuring speeches by George Floyd’s siblings, while a photo circulating online shows him with two cousins wearing the T-shirt as well as a “Black Lives Matter” hat.
    What may come back to haunt the prosecution is that Mr. Mitchell, 31, answered “no” when asked during jury selection if he had attended any protests for George Floyd.
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/may/3/brandon-mitchell-derek-chauvin-juror-who-attended-/
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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well the prolific shake down tawana brawly huckster should know –
    At Andrew Brown Jr. funeral, Al Sharpton accuses officials of ‘con game’ in delaying video release
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/andrew-brown-funeral-al-sharpton-eulogy-video-release-190107491.html
    😉

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    This guy makes me proud of The Proud Black Male from the proud black race.
    https://fb.watch/5gwjstPbXT/

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  15. Scott O Avatar

    Don 8:48 – “What may come back to haunt the prosecution…”
    Nope.
    Nothing ‘haunts’ people with no scruples.
    Mitchell was hardly an impartial jurist.
    https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/28/us/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-trial-juror/index.html
    Mitchell: “I didn’t see any remorse.”
    That was before the verdict. Why should an innocent person show remorse?
    Ah – because Mitchell had him judged as guilty all along.
    Read the whole CNN article. Mitchell should have never been on that jury.

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘By Democrats’ Standards, Their School Closures Are Systemic Racism’
    While the Biden administration still refuses to say whether schools should be fully open this fall, new data shows systemic racial disparities in the availability of in-person education.
    “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris called it “systemic racism“ when a white cop knelt on a black man for almost 10 minutes. But teachers unions largely led by white people have knelt on the futures of black American kids for 13 months, and Democrats are taking millions to look away”
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/03/by-democrats-standards-their-school-closures-are-systemic-racism/

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Diversity Over Discovery’
    Biden’s war on merit puts America’s scientific edge at risk.
    Heather Mac Donald
    https://www.city-journal.org/bidens-war-on-merit-puts-americas-scientific-edge-at-risk

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Critical Race Theory Illuminates Democrats’ Master Plan To End Honest Elections In America’
    Those defending the traditional American view of elections—free, open, and by secret ballot—don’t recognize the nature of the opposition
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/06/critical-race-theory-illuminates-democrats-master-plan-to-end-honest-elections-in-america/

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