The Real State of the Union

Okay, this here is just out-and-out theft. But I can't figure out a better way to get these particularly pithy and important contributions to the conversation in front of you.

Just pointing at the page is too general, these can get lost in the shuffle

...so I hope they forgive me...

This conversation begins talking about watching YDBT (YouDidn'tBuildThat) giving the SOTU address the other night.

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Grzmlyk

I watched it for as long as I could stand that piece of fecal matter, which was about five minutes.

What blows me away isn't what a callow, bigoted, ignorant, angry, self-absorbed, delusional, mean-spirited, character-free, pathological, lying narcissist he is.

It is that anybody - ANYBODY ON THIS PLANET over the age of 11 - cannot see through this malevolent non-entity.

Any adult (or even teenager) who does not see what Obama is really shouldn't be allowed to dress themselves in the morning, much less go out into the world.

I realize that people hitch their wagon to his "star" because they share his juvenile view of the world, or because they believe his being black trumps all else, or because they, too, are vandals who want to destroy this country, or because they are crooks who in one way or another make their living off of the rape of the Americans who make this country work.
But these are NOT the people who should be citizens of this country. Perhaps we should deport the 51% of MORONS who voted for a piece of sewage for president to their own desert island so they can destroy each other and let us continue to execute the blueprint the founding fathers so wisely laid out.

Anthony

I'm afraid it's going to come to that Grzmlyk, civil war, winners takes all, losers get booted the hell out of America.

KennesawJack

Nope. Fracturing is what's going to happen. There will be the Old America (us) and the New Amerika (them). There will be a mass migration of the takers to Amerika and a mass migration of the producers to America - assuming Amerika lets them leave.

Grzmlyk

But they know deep down that without "makers," the "takers" aren't long for this earth. That's the dirty little truth of socialism. Or, to paraphrase Margaret Thatcher's, eventually, you run out of other people's money.

Socialism is slavery - a parasitic economic system; once it kills the host, it dies shortly thereafter, and these liars know this.

KennesawJack

Grz, except for the fact of the abject stupidity of our particularly American brand of takers, you would be correct. Our takers will believe anything their messiah tells them. They will gladly go waltzing off to the gulags.

  Grzmlyk

Seems to me these bastards on the left would jump at the chance to go off and create their little pristine, hug-filled Utopia in which equality for EVERYBODY (everybody except each and every one of THEM, of course) reigns supreme, a world of unselfish perfection unsullied by the selfish greed of free marketers, a world in which childish dreams are unpunctured by the pin-prick of an adult world view.

But what fun would that be? The real joy of being a leftist isn't the promise of multiculturalism or social/economic/racial justice or everybody paying their "fair share" or even the apotheosis of professional victims.

If you're a leftist, The real joy of being a leftist is grinding other people under their boo theel. Subjugating other people to their will. Coercion. Bullying. Hurting. That's what gets your average, run-of-the-mill leftist up in the morning. Just look at the history of troll comments here. Without exception, they reveal hatred, grotesque fetishizing of power and an unbridled sense that, as long as they say the right things, they have a Gaia-given right to bust a few heads.

It's too bad so many Americans enjoy lying supine before a lash wielded by sadists intoxicated by the smell of blood.

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 This last by Grzmlyk is a variation on my belief that all Progressives are incipient Mass Murderers. and D.C. Clothesline's iteration of the argument.

And that part in RED is exactly what I think of the Left. They enjoy hurting others. They are actually EVIL. Spawn of Satan if you believe in that sort of thing. And like all other undisciplined, appetite-driven men, they will indulge their pleasures and vices with a single-mindedness that otherwise might be admirable. They. Will. Never. Stop.

They are like rapists and pedophiles. Their happiness REQUIRES the pain and suffering of others. And they are as insensitive to it as both.

They are like addicts of the most addictive drugs. They can never get enough. But worse than drug addicts who usually understand that what they are doing is destructive and evil, Progressives have convinced themselves that their sick, destructive appetites are actually good for those they consume, assault, destroy, impoverish, enslave.

No simple criminal will ever do as much harm to individual men, or to mankind as this plague of Progressive locusts.

/Gun

They WILL Kill You

May I reiterate a point I made a bit ago?

Maybe it's the drone white paper. Killing Americans willy-nilly because some "highly informed" political official deems them dangerous, or it's too "burdensome" for government to get, you know, judicial or Congressional review...

Progressives will always end up mass murdering their fellow citizens.

Let me say that again.

PROGRESSIVES ALWAYS END UP MASS MURDERING THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS.

The only exceptions are those that are blessedly removed from office before they are able to gather enough power to execute such orders.

Progressives are collectivists are socialists are communists are tyrants & dictators.

PROGRESSIVES ALWAYS END UP MASS MURDERING THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS.

When I say the names Stalin, Hitler, Mao, today's Progressive apologists say something like, "Oh, they were monsters, OUR progressives-collectivists-socialists-communists aren't doing that!"

Well, Stalin didn't do it either. Until he could. Then he did.
Lenin didn't do it. Until he could. Then he did.
Hitler didn't do it. Until he could. Then he did.
Pol Pot didn't do it. Until he could. Then he did.
Castro didn't do it. Until he could. Then he did.
Che Guevera didn't do it. Until he could. Then he did.
Mao didn't do it. Until he could. Then he did.
Ho Chi Min didn't do it. Until he could. Then he did.
Kim Jong Il didn't do it. Until he could. Then he did.

Woodrow Wilson didn't do it, because there was that pesky Constitution, that back then, people actually believed in. (Trust me. It's the only reason he didn't.) He DID put people in prison for speaking out against the war or his government. Because he could.

Franklin Roosevelt didn't do it. But he did put thousands of Americans into concentration camps. Because he could.

Barack Øbama's just starting slow. He's picking off individual fellow-citizens in other countries. (And, of course, anyone else who happens to get caught in the line of fire.) Because he can.

Can he? Are we really going to allow that? Are we really going to permit this?

PROGRESSIVES ALWAYS END UP MASS MURDERING THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS.

It's a law of nature.
It's the logical conclusion of their way of thinking.

In the beginning a progressive will lie, cheat, steal, destroy, smear, ruin, in order to force his vision of "utopia" down the throats of people who don't want it. Because he believes he knows better than they.

A progressive will continue to use the same tactics throughout his life. What others want or prefer means nothing to him. He has decided what's best for others and will move the world to make sure it is imposed upon them.

As his power increases, his tactics become more overt, aggressive and violent.

And of course, any threat to his power is a threat to the "good of the collective" and the Utopian dream. And it must be mercilessly snuffed out for the good of all.

In order to impose his will on everyone else, it is necessary to rule them all with a iron fist. And ultimately the only way to do that is to use extreme violence.

And there will always be some troublesome people who are just ruining it for everybody else. Who just won't go along. Who are dissenters and disrupters. Enemies of the peace. Enemies of the people. Enemies of the collective and their dreams of Utopia.

And for the dream to survive and come to fruition, such people must be eliminated.

It's the law of the nature of Progressives.

It's evident in their ready impulse to silence voices that disagree with them. An example is their enthusiasm for a Talk-Radio "Fairness Doctrine". The fact that there is one place in the culture that actually has the audacity to speak full-throated Conservatism/Libertarianism is utterly unacceptable to them.

That Academia, the entire Media, all of Entertainment, and the Music industry (with the exception of some country singers) are in lockstep with their Progressive propaganda is not good enough. No one must be allowed to dissent. There must be NO voices questioning their message. All other voices must be silenced. All enemies must be neutralized.

It's evident in their PC charges of "racism" "homophobia", designed for no other reason than to shut opposition down. To shut you up.

That's all Political Correctness is: Progressives' attempt to silence voices and ban ideas they don't like  and don't want anybody to hear.

And those behaviors, friends, are the first steps of the eventual Stalinian mass-murderer.

Yes. That's extreme. But it's also true.

Every progressive is an incipient mass murderer. Most just don't have the opportunity to mature into their full potential.

Progressives use whatever nasty bits of power and corruption they can accumulate. If it's a little, they smear you. If it's a lot, they kill you.

DO. NOT. DOUBT. ME.

The Gunslinger

Who They Really Are

Reposted from D.C.Clothesline.

Progressives are incipient mass murderers.
Do not doubt me.

Best Quote: "Their minds are not simply made up.  They’ve been given away. "

The Gunslinger

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Stop Arguing; Start Arming
Posted on January 13, 2013 by seanmcconeghy
(at D.C. Clothesline)


Shortly after the election, former Ron Paul staffer Eric Dondero wrote a piece in which he declared Obama supporters his sworn enemies, “enemies of liberty” as he called them.  He cut off all contact with friends, neighbors, and relatives who backed the President’s reelection campaign, calling them “enemies of freedom”, and took his boycott to all areas of his life.  Like most others in the conservative/libertarian coalition, I didn’t think much of it, and dismissed his reaction as childish.  It wasn’t so much that I disagreed with his assessment of them, but after all, personal relationships transcend politics.  I was half wrong.

What I failed sufficiently to consider was the infinite gulf between how individualists and collectivists view the world.  Although many, including me, have generally thought of this primarily in terms of politics, the issues about which the talking heads shout on the news networks every night are merely a reflection of the real difference, not the difference itself.   The real difference is much more fundamental.

Consider for a moment just how many conservative/libertarian friends have cut off contact with you for political reasons.  There may be people with whom you speak less because of politics, but it is unlikely that you’ll find a person who solely for political reasons uttered the words, “I’m never speaking to you again.”  Now ask yourself the same question about leftists.  Chances are that number is considerably higher.  Understanding why that is the case is critically important moving forward.

Here is the inherent difference that we have not fully considered: conservatives and libertarians believe in the inherent rights and value of the individual.  To be sure, the two groups disagree on a whole host of issues, but those disagreements are simply different branches of the same tree.  For example, many conservatives oppose legal gambling because they believe it to be in conflict with the inherent dignity of the individual while libertarians generally support it based on the notion that such dignity requires that each person be able to make that choice for himself.

By contrast, leftists have no such respect for individual rights or dignity.  In their view, the world must operate according to what makes them feel good, or what seems “fair” to them.  That is why they view the Constitution not as a living document but as a moot one.  In their ideology, written rules and individual rights are passé.  The “enlightened” individual must submit himself to the collective, and those unwilling to do so must be ignored, mocked, defeated, or, if necessary, destroyed.

That difference is why you will generally find that leftists will cut off relationships with you for political purposes, but conservatives and libertarians generally will not.   Regardless of political differences, the latter treat people as individuals with inherent dignity.  A person is not simply a liberal, Democrat, or even Communist.  It’s Bob, and he has a job, a family, hobbies, goals, quirks, etc.  Leftists, however, viewing people as members of the collective, treat those who do not reinforce their views as evil.  There is no inherent human dignity.  Their friend or relative is not Bob but some archaic barbarian rube who is nothing more than an obstacle to “progress”.

Why is this important?

Over the last six or so years since now-President Obama began his campaign, his cult of personality has overtaken the left in a way that no previous President has done with a group of this size in US history.  Unlike Dondero, I will say that this doesn’t apply to all of the President’s voters, but certainly a critical mass of them.  With demoralization having long been completed and destabilization well under way, tens of millions of minds that have been turned to mush by an education system that makes them incapable of critical thinking have ceded their thought process wholesale to their messiah. You don’t find the anti-war protesters marching over Libya or Yemen.  The gun grabbers ignore Fast and Furious.

Many in the middle class praise the President for raising their taxes even after exalting him when he vowed not to do so.  Those who decried the Bush Administration’s Wall Street connections didn’t even blink when Obama put the same people in power.  Crickets all around as the President walks on water.

To be sure, it is critically important that we not make the same mistake the leftists have made.  We must be extremely careful to continue to respect the rights and dignity of individuals even if they themselves fail to do the same.  Doing otherwise would make us no better than them: we would defeat ourselves.

That said, beware.  Do not expect the same of them: their world view does not allow it.  Do not waste your time arguing with them: such attempts will be no more fruitful than arguing with those who say that fossils are Satan’s tricks.  Their minds are not simply made up.  They’ve been given away.  Finally, while our world view demands that we continue to respect them as individuals with dignity and rights, it would be foolhardy to think that these people would not turn on you in a heartbeat if their deity demanded it.  Be prepared for that moment.

Killing Christ

You think I'm....

Never mind. You get the idea:

"When the attacks on freedom of speech and religious liberty are coupled with the dangerously imprecise National Defense Authorization Law, the nation is faced with a poisonous mix that could well prove fatal to liberty.

If American Christians and others of faith, including those in the military, don't rise up against the tyrannous conduct of this administration, they shouldn't be surprised when their local priests, pastors, or chaplains are hauled away to prison for teaching what the Church believes."

Read the whole thing.

This foulness isn't defeated in November, we are totally screwed. And unless we get a real conservative to immediately start rolling back the worst of the asshole's offenses and outrages, we're screwed anyway.

The Left WILL NOT STOP. But we have not been vigilant.

And this is what happens.

Evil does not rest....so neither can righteousness.

The Gunslinger

Occupy Thugs Exposed, Sort of

There's a site called OWS Exposed, dedicated to exposing the mostly criminal behavior of the "Occupy________" crowd.

In what can only be considered the surprise of the century, the site has been under constant "denial of service" attacks since it came on line. That, of course, is a crime...so it's not really surprising that the OWS thugs are doing it.

It's up, but it's still not working right. Lots of "internal errors".

By the way, did you hear the OWS fucktards howling about "free speech"?

Wait...what??

Yeah. For me, not thee. Remind you of anyØne?

The Gunslinger, E.O.T.I.S.*

*Enemy of the Imperial State
(pronunciation guide: eee-yoh'-tiss)

Flea-Baggers Hangover

Heard a report this a.m. from one of a team of morning talk guys who went down to the hub of "Occupy San Francisco" yesterday.

He said there were about 40 - 50 people wandering around, looking bored, dirty and hungry. Nothing was happening; even their "activity" dry eraser board didn't have anything slated. He said it rather reminded him a people who showed up at a party, expecting it to be a lot more fun than it turned out to be.

I don't think this "movement" has a long life. Sort of like some of our Republican candidates...short, if brilliant burn...straight to burn-out.

As soon as the weather gets colder and wetter, the Flea-Baggers will retreat to the relative warmth of the sewers from whence they came.

[...she predicts hopefully..]

The Gunslinger

What Jesus said...

...from a commenter at American Spectator:

Riff Raff 10.13.11 @ 11:18AM
“In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers, to keep away from every brother who is idle and does not live according to the teaching you received from us. For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example. We were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. On the contrary, we worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. We did this, not because we do not have a right to such help, but in order to make ourselves a model for you to follow. For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: 'If a man will not work, he shall not eat.'" (2 Thessalonians, 3:6-10)

The Bible commands that we gve alms to the poor, not subsidize the laziness of sloths.

This to Leftist trolls masquerading as Christians demanding greedy Conservatives give all their money away, according to the Bible!

Funny and apt, particularly in the face of the Øccupy Zømbies demanding that "the greedy" pay for everything they want - just because they want it.

Can somebody call the irony police, please?

I don't think they're quite clear on the concepts of "covetousness" and "greed".

Of course, it's clear they don't understand much of anything. That would entail intelligence and a modicum of actual information, which is obviously lacking in those I observed so far.

The Gunslinger

Seems Kind of Obvious

Obama is not a flim-flam man. He told us exactly who he was and what he would do before the election. If some folks didn't listen to his words and their meaning that shows their laziness. He said he would "spread the wealth," he said he would "bankrupt the coal industry," he said that he hated the military, hated white people, hated the middle class, and hated Jews. He sat in Jerimiah Wright's church for 20 years, started his campaign in a terrorist's living room, and was a disciple of Saul Alinsky. What else did you want?   --Katherine Collins  

Sociopaths All

American Thinker on Obey-Me. Great piece about the psychology of the Left

"Malignant narcissism and self-glorification is the mass neurosis of the radical Left."

Occupy Logical Reality!

     "Is there anything as hilarious as anarchists demanding more total government control, which is in essence what 'Occupy Wall Street' boils down to?" - Mark Steyn

A Little Optimism

Ryan Scott Welch at American Thinker has a nice piece today called The Self-Deception of the Left, in which he explains that all the lies the Left and their mouthpieces, the MSM, tell are to our advantage.

I like it. Instead of regularly getting furious, I'm going to try to adopt his outlook.

Check it out.

The Gunslinger

The Undeclared Civil War

The Left is already going crazy...nuts, bonkers, insane....generating hate and lies and fomenting violence against the Tea Party.

Expect it to get worse.

The Gunslinger

Øbama. Thuggish & Ineffective

Michael Barone has a great piece in the Washington Examiner online...

Obama's Thuggery is useless in Fighting Spill

Thuggery indeed. This Øbama person is a Pox on our house!

I am fond of the metaphor: "The country is burning down"

Maybe cleansing by fire is the only way to contain the plague of Progressive Thuggery.

The Gunslinger

Personal Enemy

I realize it's obvious to most of us....but this is said so well, it should be in distribution...

American Thinker...Obama and Oil; Greasing America's Decline

And then there's the legal problem with Obama's view. By what right does Obama presume to tell Americans how to live and drive? Where in the Constitution is the authority for this breathtaking assumption of power?

We should expect that the same radical agenda lurks behind Obama's self-righteous and sanctimonious platitudes regarding bans on future drilling. The BP disaster is likely just what Obama was looking for, the crisis on which to hang America's economic decline. To listen to Obama rant, the uninformed would think that large oil spills are a common occurrence, and that no technology exists to prevent them. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Spills involving sea-based rigs account for only 2 percent of all oil spills, making the BP disaster indeed rare. And oil spills have dramatically reduced over the last two decades.

Surely President Obama is aware of this information. Therefore, his actions must be seen as those of an opportunist. But what opportunity is he pursuing, if the result is the destruction of American wealth and badly needed jobs? The answer: dependency. Just as the lack of refinery capacity was felt at the pump and all over the economy, a cessation in drilling will shift supply almost completely to foreign sources in order to meet demand, increasing gas prices to punitive levels and again affecting all areas of the economy. Obama knows this, and yet he proceeds at breakneck speed. Oil and gas well-drilling companies employ over 60,000 Americans, jobs that would surely be threatened if Obama's moratorium on drilling goes forward. High prices combined with the ripple of unemployment that will be the consequence of any ban on drilling will make yet more Americans utterly dependent on President Obama for their very sustenance.

If past behavior is any indicator, what is good for Obama is not good for America. Energy is wealth, and oil is America's primary source of energy. Eliminating drilling eliminates potential American wealth. Speak out in support of business and freedom. Reject Obama's thinly disguised attack on American prosperity.

Those who wish to, may say that King Øbie loves America, but you will never convince me of that. He's been her enemy since he was born...wherever...

ØBAMA IS TRYING TO RUIN MY PROSPERITY, AND MAKE ME DEPENDENT ON GOVERNMENT FOR MY SURVIVAL.

ØBAMA IS TRYING TO MAKE ME A SLAVE, A SERF, AND TAKE AWAY MY FREEDOM AND MY HERITAGE.

AND I TAKE IT FUCKING PERSONALLY, JUST LIKE YOSSARIAN (ref: Catch 22).

The Gunslinger

Some Answers

Hot Air's  Doctor Zero....On the Table

Pretty much sums up what we have to do. And the first thing is stampede all the Progressives to the ash heap of history.

The Gunslinger

American Thinker:

The (Not so) Great Pretender
Which details the failure of the ZerØ to live up to his pretense of smart and competent.

The Rise of the Thug Left
Which chronicles the increase in Leftist violence against regular Americans, and predicts that it will contribute to the demise of the Leftist Movement.

I think there is a connection. As their herØ proves he has feet of clay and the IQ about the same as his shoe size, and without a clue*...plus the awakening and rising up of the American Patriots...the Left is getting desperate...and they naturally jerk and stumble into violence. It's their default.

They always do it. No one should be surprised.

Remember the 60's?

The Gunslinger
(remembering all too well)


*Even if Øbama is purposefully escalating the demise of America, he really doesn't have the wherewithal to appear as if he isn't doing it. Which, it seems to me, is sort of a requirement for the successful accomplishment of the mission.


The man IS a bad actor...in both senses of the word.

The Simple Difference

Dennis Prager says it simply. And it's the fundamental truth we all need to recognize. Especially regular, everyday Democrats who, so far, refuse to believe it.

"They would be wrong not because the Democratic party and the president are economic illiterates or bad individuals, but because the Democratic party and the president are leftists, and most Americans, including most Democrats, do not understand the Left. They may understand liberalism, but President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and most Democratic representatives and senators are not liberals; they are leftists. Few Americans understand the difference...


"...Therefore, unprecedented and unsustainable debt that will negatively affect most Americans’ quality of life, render the dollar increasingly undesirable, and undermine America’s prestige and power in the world — these developments do not particularly disturb the Left. They may trouble the president, the Democratic party, and their allies on some political level, but that pales in comparison to the Left’s zeal for what it really wants: a huge government overseeing a giant welfare state and a country with far fewer rich Americans."

And there you pretty much have it. What you, me, and Glenn Beck have been trying to get everyone to understand for years.

The Left is not we. They are not Americans...in that America is an IDEA. They are anti-American, in that they repudiate the most fundamental components of the Idea that is America: Limited Government, Individual Liberty, Fiscal Responsibility, a Free Market.

How much clearer can we be, people??

Aaarrrggggghhhh.

Sometimes, it's all I can do to keep my head from exploding.

The Gunslinger
Wrapping, wrapping, wrapping the duct tape...

Coming to a Business Near You

SEIU thug tactics on display in Sacramento.

If I may mimic the Resident....I don't have all the facts and evidence, but I believe without a doubt that these charges are true.

Character determines actions. And we already know what kind of "character" the SEIU, its leaders and thugs have.

This kind of behavior is their stock in trade.

Of course we should conduct an impartial investigation, try them.....then hang 'em.

The Gunslinger, EOTIS
Para Bellum

You Think It Won't Happen Here?

The nephew of Roberto Micheletti, the interim President of Honduras, has been found murdered, "execution style"

"Police say his hands were tied behind his back and his body was riddled with bullets."

The BBC reports that:

"There is no indication that his death is connected to the coup that brought his uncle to power at the end of June."

The BBC.

Yes, I know I believe that it's just a wild coincidence that the nephew of the man who is resisting the Honduran wannabe tyrant, against the Leftist Latin-American machine, socialist Europe and Marxist American Resident Øbama and henchmen....

...just happens to be killed exactly in the style of a political "hit".

Nothing to see here folks....move along.

The Gunglinger, E.O.T.I.S.
Para Bellum

DOJ Bullies North Carolina Town

A small NC town found itself in the sights of the DOJ when its citizens voted to end the use of party affiliations on ballots in local elections.

The Imperial State has decreed that the town cannot do that, despite the fact that an overwhelming number of town voters passed it.

You see, the Øbama State has determined, according to the Washington Times, "equal rights for black voters cannot be achieved without the Democratic Party", and without voters knowing who the Democrats are on the ballot, people might accidentally vote for a Republican (and presumably an Independent)—which self-evidently will prevent the advance of "equal right for black voters."

So, the Department of Justice of Øbama's Federal Government is forcing a town, against their will, to identify candidates by party, because black people need to vote for their "candidates of choice"...which apparently the DOJ has determined are Democrats who are Black.

Is there anything about this that is NOT Plantation Master behavior? Is there anything about this that is acceptable in a "free" country?

What the goddamn fuck.

The Gunslinger
PARA BELLUM