If you’re going to lie, at least try and make it believable…
One undeniably universal trait among Leftists is their supreme belief in the smuggest of delusions. The fallacy that they are smarter than everyone else.
Particularly their enemies, The Republicans. But coupled with this is their odd detachment from reality. Something I’ve probably pointed out countless times in previous posts. If I’m redundant then let me apologize, it’s just this all too common trait fascinates me to no end. I don’t get it. I can’t explain it. It’s mystifying, baffling and amusing all at the same time.
Why are they all the same? All identical? If I believed the ‘Matrix’ was real, I’d be forced to conclude some kind of computer virus is spreading through the system. Corrupting other programs with something I’ve named, ‘Chaos 5.0.’ Think I’m joking? Ever try talking to a Leftist? They all seem to exhibit “symptoms” of the same ailment — identical symptoms.
One is complete cluelessness. Or, as I stated earlier, a detachment from the real world.
Example: they will openly express contempt for White Working Class Americans and then scratch their heads when this group doesn’t vote for them. “What happened?” they’ll ask. Then instinctively form committees to, “Study the root causes of the problem” who inevitably come to some conclusion so convoluted, only sheltered academics with zero work experience can comprehend it. Or at least, pretend they do.
Ever hear the term, “Academic Word Salad” before?
Here is a perfect, head-scratching example. An acquaintance of mine, with Left-leaning opinions, posted this on his Facebook page.
If you are going to use a handful of crimes by undocumented immigrants as a reason for why we need an idiotic wall, then you better as hell use the 325+ mass shootings in America last year as a reason why we need gun control. One is an actual problem; the other is manufactured.
What strikes me as odd about this comment is that it didn’t strike him as odd. The figure of 325+ mass shootings in 2018 immediately comes across as fraudulent upon hearing it.
There were 325 mass shootings in the United States in 2018?! Any thinking person’s immediate reaction is, “Then why didn’t I hear about them?” I’m well informed and keep up with the National News on a daily basis, and yet this staggering level of carnage escaped my attention? How is that?
Knowing the Bozo who posted this as I do, I can guarantee his response to such a logical question would be to blame a conspiracy by the media to cover up the facts. A plot he’d concoct on the spot when challenged with such common sense.
This gets back to my observation on their detachment from reality. Most Leftists I know believe the entire Media is run by ‘Right-Wing Corporations’ who deliberately skew all News to project their Pro-American, Nationalists agenda on us in an act of deliberate and subliminal political indoctrination.
Yes, I can almost hear you laughing out loud right now.
325 mass shootings comes to one massacre a day for eleven months straight. And yet the nightly News contained no information about them at all. When I think of mass shootings from 2018, the Parkland Florida one instantly comes to mind. Beyond that, I’d have difficulty naming another, let alone 324!
I can understand the Leftist point of view on this topic and see why they call for more “gun control” in the wake of such horror. How can any human being look at the carnage from one of these “Mass Shootings” and not feel an intense level of disgust? These tragedies are simply revolting, not to mention nightmarish beyond belief. The fact children are often the focus of them is entirely vile.
But the Leftist reaction to such things is always two-fold. First; an UNREALISTIC call for more laws and regulations to, “make sure it NEVER happens again!” A statement fueled by pure emotion and zero logic. Second; always blame your political opponents as the inspiration for such tragedies. I’ve heard Democrats say, “If the NRA didn’t exist none of these mass shootings would have ever happened.”
A statement that literally can’t be backed up by fact. But who cares? Say it anyway!
[ Fact: as of this date not a single mass shooter in American History has ever been a member of the NRA. ]
Rahm Emanuel, the Democrat Mayor of Chicago once said, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste… Crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not before.” – Wall Street Journal, November 19, 2008.
Like, blame your political enemies for the slaughter of children they had absolutely nothing to do with, literally less than an hour after these mass murders happen! Because hey, why let their blood dry before you can bash Republicans for their deaths? Let’s get our priorities straight. What’s more important? Dead kids or scoring political points?
Anyway, what baffles me about my acquaintances Facebook post is this; if you’re going to make an argument against gun violence then why not make an intelligent one? And if your case isn’t intelligent then why aren’t you smart enough to notice it?
In other words, he looked at this 325+ figure and just instantly believed it. Nothing about it struck him as odd. He didn’t see one Red Flag at all. How could an intelligent, educated human being swallow such nonsense without any analysis and still consider himself smart?
I went and looked up the data this came from; it took an excruciating level of effort and research. I went to Google and typed, “Mass Shootings 2018” and this is the first entry that popped up in all of 9 milliseconds!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2018
Exhausted after my search I needed to rest so the next day I read this “list” to clear up my confusion.
To say its criteria for what is and isn’t a “Mass Shooting” is fast and loose is an understatement! It states, “Any incident in which 4+ victims are shot and injured.” Notice it says “injured.” So if a perpetrator were to shoot six people in the right leg, it would count here as a Mass Shooting even though no one died. But so what? It adds plus one to the list and inflates the BS statistics!
Just take a look at some of the entries.
November 25, 2018, Houston, Texas – “A thirteen-year-old boy was killed, and six other people were injured in a shooting at a block party. At least two shooters were involved, and police believe it may have been gang-related.”
November 25, 2018, Oakland, California – “Four people were wounded in a drive-by shooting while attending a vigil for a resident of their area who had died of natural causes.”
July 28, 2018, Los Angeles, California – “Two people were killed, and six were injured in a drive-by shooting by a liquor store.”
July 4, 2018, Atlanta, Georgia – “After a bar fight spilled into a parking lot, shots were fired, killing one person and wounding three others.”
THIS IS COMPLETELY PREPOSTEROUS!!!
A gang-related drive-by shooting on a rival gang’s house party is labeled a “Mass Shooting” because four or more people were hit. That’s NOT a mass shooting; it’s called VIOLENT CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR!
Street Gangs are made up of career felons who shoot each other all day long over turf wars with ILLEGAL GUNS! (That’s right! Unlicensed guns they acquired illegally!) What a difficult concept to understand. Especially if you’re a Harvard Educated Ph.D., then everything seems to go right over your head.
Side note: See Pat Condell’s brilliant editorial on, “Educated Stupid People.”
Oh, and for the record, there are already a TON OF LAWS against drive-by shootings as well as possession of illegal, unregistered firearms, not to mention narcotics. Hard to believe they still happen every weekend in Chicago and East LA. You would naturally assume career criminals would just obey the law, right?
Let me be clear here, what I believe most Americans consider a “Mass Shooting” is an event in which one individual suffers a psychotic breakdown of some kind, filling him with the homicidal urge to take as many human lives as possible in one catastrophic, suicidal act of violence. The purpose of these crimes is not to gain any material wealth or even to get away. It is only to kill as many people as possible within a limited amount of time. These individuals are RARELY taken alive.
There is no other purpose than to kill and then be killed by the police when they arrive. It is clearly some mental breakdown. That’s not an excuse; it’s just the cause.
To conflate this with everyday violent crime is deliberately lying to the public! And it’s incredulous the Left is too stupid to see how transparent the attempt is! You’d have to be an idiot to think this would work!
That’s really what astounds me. How can you be so dumb as to think other people are that dumb? And the flaws in their arguments never occur to them!
If they claimed there were 100 Mass Shootings in 2018, red flags would go off in my head. Even that number is too high. High enough to spark suspicion and skepticism. If you said there were 50, I’d scratch my head and demand proof. But to go with 325 when everyone knows there are only 365 days in a year is beyond stupidity!
I’ve read the average man can bench press 135 pounds. So if I were going to lie to you about how much weight I can bench, I’d at least make it believable by saying 165 pounds. Not a huge exaggeration but an untruth none the less. But when concocting this lie what if I decided to tell you, “I can bench press 699 pounds?” I’ve so overshot what is possible the statement is instantly seen as false. But why didn’t it occur to me to construct a better lie? I know, because I’m a Leftist and nothing obvious ever occurs to me!
And look at his claim illegal aliens only commit a “handful of crimes.” I remember reading back in the early ’90s that 25% of the U.S. Federal Prison population was made up of illegal aliens. That shocking fact stuck with me for a long time. So I went and did another search. Guess what I found?
According to a 2018 report by the Department of Justice; 26% of inmates incarcerated in the Federal Prison system are aliens! 66% of that number are in the United States unlawfully!
Does that sound like a “handful” of criminals to you?
Just look at these figures on a State level. This is from a 2018 report by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
“Over 250,000 criminal aliens were booked in Texas local jails between June 2011 and April 2018. These individuals were charged with more than 663,000 offenses, including:
- 1,351 homicide charges
- 79,049 assault charges
- 18,685 burglary charges
- 79,900 drug charges
- 815 kidnapping charges
- 44,882 theft charges
- 50,777 obstructing police charges
- 4,292 robbery charges
- 7,156 sexual assault charges
- 9,938 weapons charges.”
THIS IS A “HANDFUL OF CRIMES?!!!” 663,000 in just one state!
And this is what my acquaintance refers to as a “manufactured problem.” This is manufactured? A made-up issue? Is he kidding?
What is this costing our country regarding taxpayer dollars lost? Not to mention the toll of human suffering the victims and their families go through on a daily basis. The loss of life and dignity. Does any of this matter to the Left?
They don’t want a
Besides, if you broke the law sneaking into our country in the first place wouldn’t it stand to reason you’d try and keep your head down by staying out of trouble with the Law? Do we really want anyone that reckless walking around within our borders?
How ironic that posts last line is, “One is an actual problem, the other is manufactured.”
He backed up his “actual problem” with MANUFACTURED data while labeling a real-world, nationwide criminal crisis as nothing more than a myth. It’s as if his Left-Wing mind inverted reality. Like the facts were run through some kind of filter and flipped into a photo negative of the truth.
Maybe this is what happens when a person’s mind is infected with Chaos 5.0? Some kind of inverted, logic filter is installed on the organic hard drive we call “the human brain.” Along with a Reality Firewall.
It’s mystifying to me; this Himbo isn’t a rich man. He doesn’t hold political office or have any power. He’s just an average guy. So what does he get out of saying things like this? He has nothing to gain from it.
Does he want more illegal immigration? The answer is clearly, ‘Yes.’ But why? After they cross our border, these people are exploited, mistreated and used by the most unscrupulous segments of our society. They aren’t paid minimum wage; they don’t receive health insurance, they are paid $2 an hour and treated poorly. And this is the honest ones who, “just want to work.”
Why keep promoting this tragedy?
But most of all, why lie about it? He lied about gun violence. He lied about undocumented immigrants crime statistics. Why? What does he get out of it?
And if you’re going to lie then at least try and make it believable. His post was like a five-year-old child trying to lie to an adult with an utterly see-through tale. The kid thinks he is smarter than the adult but shocked when that proves not to be the case.
But that’s a good analogy for Leftist thought. For the most part, it is childlike and always immature.
Please read my companion piece to this entitled, “Don’t just be a Robot.”