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Congratulations, you just insulted me…

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DuncecapI’ve often noticed two of the main ingredients needed for being a Leftist are cluelessness and narcissism. And of course, a decent amount of arrogance coupled with immaturity doesn’t hurt.

There’s a guy I’ve been close friends with since 1999. We met in Graduate School while I was still living in New York City and dreaming of the day I’d gladly don the title of, “Ex-Manhattanite.” I had long since grown tired of life there and could not wait to move away for good. I saw Grad School as a significant part of my plan to leave New York behind. Thinking once I had my Master’s Degree, dozens of companies on the West Coast would be eager to offer me a job and pay all my moving expenses. Then it would be adios Big Apple!

My friend’s name is Zach. For a New Yorker, he’s what you’d consider a pretty nice guy. Affable and gregarious, a typical east coast pseudo-intellectual phony with an unwarrantedly high opinion of himself. Always walking around with a copy of ‘The New York Times’ under one arm, ready to regurgitate at the drop of a dime whatever mental garbage the editors had opined that morning. Zach never came right out and said it, but he clearly thought he was smarter than everyone else. And of course, way more well-read than his counterparts which accounted for the smirk on his face every time someone had the audacity to voice their point of view in his presence.

Like most New Yorkers he openly commended judging entire groups of people by the actions of a few stereotypes while comfortably looking down his nose at the blue-collar peasants who live between NYC and Los Angeles. For him, “Fly Over Country” was a creed, not a label, seeing no conflict at all with holding these openly prejudicial opinions.

In fact, he was FILLED with contempt for the lowly masses who inhibited the other four boroughs of the city. For those who don’t know, New York is made up of five parts; Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island. With those living in Manhattan seeing themselves as the superior overlords of the others. The “Outer Boroughs” as they are called, are filled with the people who make the city work. The sanitation workers, police, fire-fighters, sewer system employees, grocery store workers, cab drivers, dock workers, truck drivers, you name it. It’s where the Working Class types live and commute into Manhattan every day to maintain its infrastructure while being looked down upon like serfs in a medieval, feudal estate.

Manhattanites subconsciously see themselves as the Lannisters of Westeros. Living in a castle with its outer walls surrounded by their servants and commoners. The great unwashed. All of whom are unfit to set foot on their royal island. These peons are only tolerated long enough for the privilege of cleaning up their shit. Then they had better make a hasty retreat back to, “The Boroughs” to commiserate with the other troglodytes. Most of them are such elitists they don’t know the other boroughs are part of New York City. Notice I said “they don’t know” and not “they don’t consider.” They are so severely secluded in their ivy towers basic knowledge of the place they live is long forgotten.

But I digress.

When you live in NYC long enough, everything I just described becomes kind of background noise you learn to live with. Otherwise, you’d go insane and have absolutely no friends. So hopefully this explains why I was friends with Zach. I had learned long ago to swallow my distaste for their lack of character and make friends with those I actually could be friends with, sort of like being an inmate in a maximum security prison. You make the friends you can. (Wow, am I negative!)

Zach was, of course, a Liberal who voted Democrat exclusively because, according to him, he identified with, “the little guy and the working class” because that’s who the Dems represented. The very same people he CLEARLY despised and yet “identified” with. (On a side note: It became amazing to me how often New Yorkers used the term, “the workers” in a sentence. “I’m with the workers,” was a common phrase you’d hear white collar snobs use at cocktail parties, in some shallow attempt at sounding egalitarian.)

He was surprisingly well-read when it came to history. Particularly concerning the first and second World Wars. But like all his kind there was zero application of that knowledge. As with most New Yorkers, he read tons of books but somehow gained no wisdom from them at all. A phenomenon I never could understand in all the time I spent living there.

I knew him well enough to know his wettest dream undoubtedly involved being part of a Harvard Think Tank, sitting around all day eating [something pretentious] discussing the merits of Socialism while putting down people who enjoy Nascar and the Rodeo. In the same breath condemning Republicans for being out of touch with the common working man. Out of touch with, “the workers.”

Yes, I know you are scratching your head right now. I said he was a nice guy for a New Yorker, and I meant it; this is what a nice guy is there. No joke. See why I wanted to leave so badly? Besides, he had a good sense of humor and went to the movies. Of course, he didn’t enjoy the movies; he WENT to the movies. Usually making an inane comment critiquing the film during the end credits that made me never want to go to the movies with him again.

You see it’s against the Manhattanite rulebook to admit you enjoy, “Domestic Cinema.” To remain part of the club, one must always put down films like, ‘Jurassic Park’ as being mind-numbing tripe produced for and consumed by the uneducated “Masses.” If you wanted to fit in you’d go on about the virtues of obscure French films —usually ones three hours long dealing with a Jazz musician slowly drinking himself to death with a subplot condemning Capitalism. Now THAT’S their idea of a great Friday night!

Back to the point of this piece; in 2010 he lost his job and had been out of work for six months when I called to see how he was doing. I honestly felt terrible he was in a tight spot. I’ve been out of work before and know how awful it can be. Zach was on the fence contemplating a decision he had to make. He was offered an excellent job in Sweden of all places and was wondering if he should accept it.

“TAKE IT!!!” I said!

What an exciting opportunity! The chance to live in another country! To meet all sorts of new people and experience different things! How many of us get a chance like this in a lifetime? I just thought it was fantastic and enthusiastically encouraged him to accept!

“Besides,” I said, “do it for two years. If you don’t like it, you can always land something back in the states, and it will look GREAT on your resume! And trust me, two years will FLY by before you know it.”

So he took the job on my recommendation. I doubt I’m the only one who told him to do so, but I know my opinion held a particular value in his book. And so he packed up and headed for Stockholm.

After he moved to Sweden, I emailed him to see how he was doing. It must have been such a thrill to transplant to a city like Stockholm for the first time and walk around, soaking everything in! What an adventure!

I wrote: “Hey Dude! How’s it going over there? Are you getting settled in OK?”

Him: “I’m really impressed with how civil everyone is to each other here. America could learn a lot from Sweden. Fucking Republicans, what are they so afraid of?”

Congratulations, you just insulted me.

Was I insulted? Yes, very much so. But that’s not what really got me. It was the fact we were friends for over a decade and yet he knew nothing about me. Mainly because he never really asked. Did he know who he was talking to? Did he care? Now I know how women feel when they say their husbands don’t know anything about them. Without any consideration, he just hauled off and insulted me, my country and my countrymen. I happen to love the latter two. A fact I know makes me, “unsophisticated” in Zach’s eyes. A detail that further boiled my blood. (In Manhattan people who love America and the Flag are considered unsophisticated dopes with little or no education)

In New York, you tend to ignore guys like this to have friends and a social life. It’s just a fact of living there. The isolation of living in New York is brutal. It’s a VERY lonely city. But I was tired of guys like him. I was genuinely concerned for my friend. I was rooting for him! And what did I get for all my concern? He spit right in my face.

You know what else? He doesn’t even know it. He’s oblivious to the fact. You see Zach; I am one of those unsophisticated morons you love to talk about and put down. I’m a rube, a hick, a redneck (raised in NYC my entire life, go figure). But I’m also someone you ENJOYED talking to for hours because my knowledge of world history matched your own. My grasp of the Second World War exceeded your expectations. You enjoyed talking to me because for once you thought you’d found an intellectual equal. That’s why you keep trying to contact me now. You miss my company!

What a joke life played on you, you admire one of the very people you spit on.

I had had it. Not just with him but everyone like him. I left New York to get away from their kind. The overly arrogant east coast narcissistic snobs. Staying friends with him was a mental anchor to the past. His insulting comment did me the favor of making it painfully obvious. So the next day I removed him from all my Social Media accounts. Deleted him from contacts and removed him from people I know on Skype. I wonder how long it took him even to notice my disappearance from his accounts.

Five years later he found me on LinkedIn and sent me a private message. It was a nicely written email about how “it’s been ages since we’ve talked. Let’s change that. How are you? Are you still alive? Please call me.” It was an honest plea from a friend to reconnect with a friend. He obviously thinks about me. It genuinely makes me feel bad. I don’t have so many friends I can just toss one aside without regret. But I can’t get over being discounted by a friend. Given no consideration at all when I sincerely wanted to help.

Last year he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. A city I could now easily drive to if I wanted. But I don’t. The Left believes we should avoid offending people at all costs but is it wrong for me to want friends who make a sincere effort not to offend me? Or do I not matter in that regard?

So go bathe in your ‘New York Times’ and your bloody boring ‘NPR’ you arrogant fool! I’d rather be down a friend than be friends with someone who doesn’t even know me or who I am. And what if you did? You’d undoubtedly stop talking to me anyway because I’m a cursed, ‘Trump Supporter!’ A devote Reaganite! The lowest of the low in your eyes.

It looks like I did you a favor blowing you off.

You may be a man in your late 30’s or early 40’s, but you’re still very much a boy. A little boy. That comment you made is something a pathetic college freshman would utter in some vapid attempt to sound worldly and relevant. Looks like you struck out on both. Hey, Mr. New York Intellectual, guess what? I showed your IM to a bunch of people I know to get their reaction. Every one of them said the same thing, “What annoying idiot said that?” Congratulations, strangers think you’re an idiot.

If it were not for Republicans, we could be a bigger Sweden. This is how a child’s mind sees the world. Wow, how profound you are. There are certain things stupid people say to sound intelligent. “America Stinks” is on the top of that list.

You know what else I’m tired of? Hearing, ‘America Stinks!’

AMERICA DOES NOT STINK! As anyone with any grasp of world history should know this is an indisputable fact of life. Western Civilization is the single greatest achievement in all of Human History. Not for all the inventions it’s created, but for the simple fact it values the individual and guarantees each’s rights under a system of laws. More so than any civilization that preceded it. And the shining pinnacle of Western Civilization is the United States of America. A country I know you hate.

Well, guess what my ex-friend. You’ll miss that country when it’s gone. Miss it big time.

Liberal vs. Leftist: What’s the Difference?

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You’ve probably noticed I use the term ‘Leftist’ more than I do ‘Liberal’ in my posts. There’s a deliberate reason why. Most Conservatives cannot communicate their ideas clearly, so it probably seems like these are identical philosophies. What’s the difference you ask? Aren’t those the same thing?

The answer is ‘No,’ absolutely not.

Here’s the clearest example I can give as to why these are two different ideologies. Let’s use what I call, “The Firefighter Example.”

A few decades ago the city of Boston decided their Fire Department needed more diversity and inclusion. At the time it wasn’t called that. It was called desegregation and affirmative action. Blacks had been unfairly excluded from applying for Firefighter positions due to discriminatory hiring practices based on Race. Something Liberals opposed. And rightly so. But there was also an outcry at the lack of women on the force. In the ’60s and ’70s, most major American cities had exactly zero women working as professional Firefighters. The Feminists of the day labeled this clear-cut sexist discrimination.

To become a Firefighter, an individual had to pass a strict and arduous Physical Exam. It was extremely demanding. This involved taking part in a simulated 10-hour work day. Teams of four recruits were required to lower 260-pound ladders while others hauled 85-pound bundles of firehose. Each had to take turns climbing a ladder with heavy equipment strapped to their backs including an oxygen tank, a chainsaw, and a 35-pound box fan. They were also required to hoist a 55-pound ladder as well as take the dreaded, “Stairs Test” in which a recruit had to climb up several flights of stairs wearing a 75-pound weighted vest while a proctor timed him. According to Government data, it had a 99% to 100% failure rate for all female recruits involved. So it was deemed discriminatory.

But here’s the problem with this criticism, the Firefighter’s Physical Exam was not designed to exclude Women from becoming firefighters. It was designed to EXCLUDE MEN who were physically unable to do the job from entering the force.

Keep in mind; this test sounds like a brutal workout, one that would be exhausting at any gym. I am 6’3, and 225 pounds and I’m not ashamed to admit I could not pass this. But a trained Firefighter has to do all this within a burning building! The interior heat of which would be unbearable. Making a physically exhausting job all the more grueling. These men train for real life and death situations. Fighting fires is a serious business with absolutely no room for error. Make a mistake while fighting a fire and you are dead. Simple as that. There is also a high probability you’ll cause the death or deaths of your comrades.

It’s a relatively simple concept to grasp. That is unless you’re a Leftist. For them, reality is a nuisance, and the safety of other human beings takes a back seat to ideology. They are zealots for whom political dogma trumps reality and real-world concerns. Politics supersedes EVERYTHING. Leftists see life as a box of crayons, containing an equal number of each color. NO MATTER what the situation is.

The Liberal Position is this;

If a Black woman passes the Physical Exam with an ‘A,’ then she should be hired as a firefighter because she proved she’s qualified to do the job. Plain and simple. What’s fair is fair. There should be no special treatment.

The Leftist Position is this;

If a Black woman takes the Physical Exam and fails, it doesn’t matter. And the magnitude of failure is irrelevant as well. Failing with a mediocre grade like C+ or a catastrophic F- is meaningless. There are no justifiable criteria for failure. You hire the Black woman to be a firefighter just because you do not have a Black woman on the force. The fact she might be 5’1 and weigh 92lbs is irrelevant. If a Gay, Hispanic man takes the test and fails as well, it’s irrelevant. You hire him to fill the quota. The same goes for an Asian man who can’t do twenty push-ups without being severely winded. It’s the Box of Crayons Principle.

Leftists see this as forward-thinking and compassionate thought. It is anything but. Anyone who points out the obvious flaws is immediately labeled an “Idiot.” A firefighter who is 5’1 and underweight will in all likelihood die while on the job. With a high probability of losing the life of someone they were trying to rescue in the process, leading people to ask the inevitable question, “Why was this person even on the force? It makes no sense!” Probably while attending their funeral.

Liberals wanted someone who could do the job and prove it to have a fair chance. An excellent example of this is the Tuskegee Airmen. During the Second World War, Black pilots wanted an opportunity to prove themselves in combat without any special treatment. They underwent rigorous training, and only the best were accepted. Back then there was something called, “Standards.” A nausea-inducing word for Leftist. You had to pass a strict regime or wash out of the Air Core. The Black pilots who passed were accepted into the Force and eventually allowed to fly combat missions. They ended up highly decorated for their bravery and heroism.

While citing the Tuskegee Airmen as a shining example of what “Diversity” can do, today’s Leftist would NEVER TOLERATE the standards and training required of these men. They would fight for the “rights” of the near-sighted and those suffering from vertigo to join the Air Force. Mediocrity being the name of their game. The highly trained pilots of that era had a very short lifespan once they got into actual combat. Anyone who didn’t make the cut and was let in under lower standards would be killed almost immediately. Another shining example of “Progressive Thinking.”

Leftists are severely cut off from reality (just in case you’re wondering why Communism never works). To them, real-world circumstances are details you never take into account. In fact, you ignore them altogether. They are a nuisance, nothing more.

Here’s the best part.

Morale at Fire Stations tends to drop after all this crap takes effect. Fire-related deaths begin to skyrocket in any city they control, provoking Leftist administrations to “form a committee” to study why this is happening. The committee has a budget of $20 million to begin its investigation (why that would cost $20 million is beyond me). That budget quickly balloons to $45 million. Not once are lower standards ever blamed. Or the low morale of seasoned fighters, or the number leaving the force. Or the lack of suitable recruits applying because the job has become far too dangerous because of ignored safety standards.

Being a Firefighter isn’t like being a Car Salesman or a Preschool Teacher or an Accountant. In those jobs making a mistake doesn’t result in injury or loss of life. Having Affirmative Action in those professions is one thing. Having it for any emergency first responder is lunacy.

Or an airline pilot. You don’t hire an airline pilot because he or she is black. You hire one because they have over a thousand hours of flight time and critical experience.

To a Leftist, everything I just said is, “Completely Idiotic!”

Not because I didn’t make sense but because I went against their ideology or “The Faith” as I call it. Faith in The Holy Church of Mediocracy and Banality. A crime for which there is NO forgiveness.

For the Leftist, political ideology supersedes reality. Even at the cost of Human Life.

The Start of the Second American Civil War: Scenario #1

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The Start of the Second Civil WarBy now I’m sure everyone’s heard about what happened to Tucker Carlson and his family.

While he was at work the night of Wednesday, November 7th, a mob of 20 “protestors” from an organization named, ‘Smash Racism D.C.’ went to his home and began screaming and yelling while pounding on his front door. Carlson’s wife was home alone in their kitchen when the commotion started.

According to Carlson;

I called my wife,” Carlson told The Washington Post in a phone interview. “She had been in the kitchen alone getting ready to go to dinner, and she heard pounding on the front door and screaming. … Someone started throwing himself against the front door and actually cracked the front door.”

His wife, thinking it was a home invasion, locked herself in the pantry and called 911, Carlson said. The couple has four children, but none were home at the time.

Someone in the mob was chanting on a bullhorn, “Tucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night!”

Now let’s review the facts.

The Carlson’s have four children. His wife was alone at the time, but the children could easily have been there. I’ve heard Tucker say on many occasions that he owns SEVERAL firearms and uses them recreationally quite often. So I’m assuming he likes to target practice.

In order for his front door to be kicked in and cracked these protestors obviously trespassed onto his property, crossed his front lawn and made their way onto his front porch. Then began pounding on the door.

Try this scenario on for size;

Carlson’s wife was not home alone, but instead, her four young children were there. When an angry, bullhorn-wielding mob showed up at her front door and began kicking it in she panics thinking it is, in fact, a home invasion. Her terror is dwarfed by the panic her children feel. They are undoubtedly frightened out of their wits. Mainly because they’re CHILDREN which means they scare easily.

What do we have here? A clear-cut moment of sheer panic and terror. A woman alone with her now terrified offspring, crying and hysterical as the front door begins to crack from the blows inflicted on it by a mob of screaming lunatics.

Remember, in real life; she hid in their pantry. She had only herself to look out for, but with children present, circumstances change dramatically. Maternal instinct kicks in as she rushes her kids upstairs while simultaneously heading for the gun cabinet. All of this easily taking place in less than a minute. Not enough time to think, only react out of a sense of self-preservation.

She believed it was a home invasion and had no clue there was any political motivation involved. So in her mind, a group of hardened felons was breaking into her home. Meaning any number of horrible events could therefore ensue should the perpetrators successfully enter. Fear and panic can do wonders to an already inflamed imagination.

So she enters the hallway leading to her front door with a rifle locked and loaded, raised in her arms, aimed straight at the besieged door when it finally gives way and collapses open. What exactly is this terrified mother of four to think? What is she to do? Her heart pumping with adrenaline filling her blood, she squeezes the trigger and fires a single, lethal shot into the first person coming through her front door.

Now the Left has what it wants; a Martyr.

A victim with a name attached. Someone to scream the battle cry, “Remember John Doe!” for while overturning police cars and setting fire to the local offices of the FBI. They’ll have their Crispus Attucks. Their precious icon for the Revolution!

The t-shirts will be printed en masse. The hand-made banners unfurled as cheaply made posters adorn telephone poles throughout the land. Websites and Social Media pages memorializing this poor lost soul will spring forth like dandelions on an unmaintained lawn in Detroit as the religious protest marches erupt from coast to coast in every single city in America. (Don’t be shocked when Canada and Europe join in)

By the way, it would help if this “innocent victim” turns out to be black. It’s not necessary, but it would be a nice added touch. They’ll be able to milk this for at least another year if that’s the case. Then this person will remain a cultural icon for the next century, undoubtedly having public schools named in his or her honor while bronze statues are erected in effigy. This person’s name will be spoken in the same breath with Emmett Till and Dr. King from now until the sun burns out. If you think I am joking you are SADLY mistaken.

You see the Media, the Fifth Column propaganda arm of the Democrat Party will mobilize immediately. Within twelve hours of the actual event, the mental software filters employed by the Left-Wing mainframe will go into effect, rewriting facts to fit the Left’s narrative, painting the shooter as the villain. The moment immediately after the lie is spoken it will be the undisputed truth! Beyond reproach or any logical analysis.

Vladimir Lenin once said, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” Unless you’re a modern, American Leftist, then you tell a lie ONCE, and it instantly becomes the truth!

And the actual truth won’t matter. Why should it? They’ll have what they need. A justifiable (in their minds) excuse for violence to begin. This won’t be the straw that broke the camel’s back, more like a piece of lint. But they’ll turn that lint into a hand grenade any way they can as white people who question details of the case are labeled “Racist,” and Black people who do the same “Traitors.”

Late night talk show hosts and so-called comedians will lampoon the entire Carlson family with ridicule unfit for a Junior High Schools locker room as they pat themselves on the back for “brilliant satirical writing.” SNL will undoubtedly depict Tucker, his wife and kids in KKK outfits because, quite frankly, with their anemic level of originality that’s all they’ll be able to think of.

The story will be altered as every member of the “protest mob” claims they were all across the street from Tucker’s house. Innocently chanting peacefully at the time, never setting foot on the Carlson’s lawn when Mrs. Carlson fired at them with a high-powered assault rifle from the second floor of her home. The fact she actually used an old, single shot M-1 rifle will be obliterated from the record as a weapon resembling something Tony Montana wielded at the end of ‘Scarface’ will appear as a graphic over the shoulder of every News anchor in the country. Hysteria will be the rule.

The Left’s story will change daily as Mrs. Carlson’s remains the same. And this to will not matter. No college professor will see the simple truth when the inaccuracies of this fabrication are made public. No academic will point out what is evident to all.

Members of ‘The View’ will ask, “Why did she act this way when all these people were standing safely on the other side of the street? Why did she feel the need to kill an innocent human being? Why didn’t she take the time to find out what the protestors wanted? She should have questioned them!”

Neighbors who saw the whole thing will be laughed at and maligned. The police report with photographs of the damaged door and bloodstains in the foyer will be condemned as “planted evidence” by a corrupt police force. A force made up almost entirely black officers with an African American police chief appointed by a Democrat Mayor. But this won’t matter either as accusations of “White Supremacy” are hurled at the D.C. Metro Police Department.

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If the martyr has a criminal record, it will be quietly ignored. Google and Facebook will yank any and all videos proving Mrs. Carlson’s story, citing policy guidelines regarding, “hate speech.” All the “experts” on CNN and MSNBC will pontificate endlessly on how this “white woman saw a black face and her first instinct was to fire out of a fear instilled in her by the patriarchy” and her own sense of ‘white privilege.’ The Press will interview adults who attended Junior High with her decades ago to see if she ever laughed at any racial jokes, thereby proving her supremacist tendencies. Mrs. Carlson’s entire point of view will be mocked, ridiculed and dismissed as completely absurd. Likened to Ralph Fiennes character from the movie, ‘Schindler’s List.’ As a racist sitting out on her porch one night with a loaded sniper rifle. Casually looking for minorities to pick off, one by one.

The idea that a woman felt legitimately threatened, afraid for her life and the lives of her children, enough to react in a moment of blind panic and instinct as an angry mob broke down her door in justifiable self-defense will be derided as the purest science fiction imaginable. An absolute joke. Media pundits will label it the most absurd tale they ever heard. Every common sense aspect of this event will be turned upside down. Demands for her arrest and immediate conviction on first-degree homicide charges will fill the airwaves as the phrase, “Believe all Women” mysteriously disappears from the lips of those who coined it. Replaced by shouts of, “Kill the Fascists!” and “Down with America!”

The battle cry will be sounded.

As with the first Civil War, friends will stop talking to friends over this incident as the inevitable poisoning by the media begins before the body goes cold. Families will divide and become estranged from each other. Neighbor will no longer speak to neighbor. The final lines will be drawn before the shooting starts. One side will see itself as completely righteous and beyond the need for moral restraints. Unwilling to listen to reason. Blinded by their hatred for their own country, the time has finally come to strike.

I don’t want what I just wrote to be true, but I firmly believe it is. All the machinery is in place to make everything I just spelled out happen. The Left has been pushing for something like this. They want a martyr. A sacrificial lamb. A human match to lite the powder keg. Then boom! Our cities will burn. Some ANTIFA members are so fanatical giving their lives to this cause is not out of the question, most of them don’t have lives anyway, dying this way would make one of them a folk hero and historical figure. Not a bad gig for a homeless teen with zero prospects in this life.

It’s entirely possible that’s what this incident at Tucker Carlson’s house was. An attempt to get the “other side” to kill one of their own. Was it a miscalculation? How was the mob to know the children weren’t home?

I strongly suggest all Republicans and Right-Wingers invest in a decent set of cameras for their homes and property, but it really won’t matter. Clear, high definition video footage of who is actually to blame won’t mean a thing to the Left. They’ll dismiss it as “doctored footage.” You cannot fight the deluded, mental ink cloud of the Leftist hive once it’s been ignited by righteous indignation. Once they have their mantra, reality be damned.

And I take entirely NO JOY in saying this, but the time has come to start seriously thinking about protecting your family. In fact, it’s long past time. What this involves is up to you. I for one am joining a local gun club and purchasing my first firearm.

Oh boy… Hitler again!

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“I literally don’t hear enough comparisons made to Hitler on a daily basis!” said no one ever.

A friend of mine asked me when the endless Hitler comparisons made by people on the Left about ANYONE on the Right began. He was shocked when I told him an ex-girlfriend of mine used to make them all the time back in 1996. But for me, it started long before that. In the year 1984, when I was sure it would burn itself out due to excessive overuse.

Boy, was I WRONG!

What began as a personal, minor annoyance has blossomed into full-fledged national mass psychosis, reaching a scale I never dreamed possible and unfortunately threatening the civil discourse we have grown accustomed to since the end of the Civil War.

Simplistic, childish and arrogant. Comparing anything and everything to the Third Reich and Nazism has become the battle cry of the shallow mind. The signature phrase for dollar-store historians and a sorry act of pretentious stupidity. Made vainly with the hopes of being taken seriously by would-be pseudo-scholars. It is the mark of an uneducated mind desperate for validation from others in the heard.

In other words; it’s just plain dumb!

Here is just a sample of my personal experience with this particular strain of idiocy;

1984

The year I became a college freshman. My first encounter with what I call, “Concern Speak.” The low, quiet tone a person’s voice takes when discussing something of grave distress. Born from a growing inner fear that keeps them up at night, terrified of what the future holds. It is the same tone of voice a Doctor takes when delivering the devastating News to a terminally ill patient in the solitude of his office. It also helps to appear constipated when engaged in this type of conversion in order to emphasize ones mental anguish.

When discussing politics my classmates and professors all spoke in the hushed deadly seriousness of “Concern Speak” to emphasize their deep tribulations on how President Reagan’s administration reminded them of one thing;

Berlin, Germany, 1938…. Adolf Hitler.

They saw parallels in everything he said and did. I had friends and neighbors tell me as quietly as possible (so the Secret Police would not hear), of how they were afraid of being sent to a concentration camp one day soon. Of course, this would be after they were built, which never happened. A fact that went oddly unnoticed by the very same frightened masses.

1988

When George H.W. Bush was running for President, my friends and coworkers told me in uneasy, nervous voices how he reminded them of one thing. Namely;

Hitler, Fascism, Nazi Germany.

In fact, his campaign manager, Lee Atwater, was compared to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister, after President Bush won the White House. Atwater had committed the capital offense of focusing on the record of Bush’s opponent, Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts. He chose to make his lousy history dealing with violent crime an issue. The Democrats didn’t see the fact Governor Dukakis was beyond soft on violent offenders as a legitimate campaign concern. No, it was the fact the Bush campaign brought it to the public’s attention that completely enraged them. Even to this day, they call it a giant lie. A “lie” which succeeded in revolting most voters, enough to secure a victory.

Dukakis’s atrocious job in office was seen as an irrelevant matter. Every recorded truth about his poor performance was merely labeled a “lie” or “half-truth” even though it has all been cataloged and documented. Dukakis made terrible decisions during his tenure as Governor. And so the Joseph Goebbels’ label was slapped onto Mr. Atwater. Which only makes sense. If George Bush is a Nazi, then anyone who works for him is a Nazi as well.

At one campaign rally, when it was clear he was going to lose the election, Governor Dukakis was heard screaming to the crowd, “You fools! This is what Hitler did!” Thereby implying he was one of the only ones who could see the “bigger picture” while the nation was duped into voting for a madman who would oversee the loss of liberty and the construction of labor camps.

Labor camps that never came to be while our liberty and the Bill of Rights remained intact. Strange, no one ever pointed that out to the doomsayers.

1989

When Rudolph Giuliani ran for Mayor of New York City, my friends, neighbors, and coworkers all told me he reminded them of one thing….

I think by now you’ve guessed it.

One local News station even had an interview with an elderly Holocaust survivor who, once again, spoke in the timid, nervous speak of the terminally concerned. Holding his forehead with one hand while slumped over in a chair he spoke of how Rudy Giuliani disturbingly reminded him of his childhood in Berlin. How he couldn’t shake the feeling that, “it was happening again……” Clearly implying that if Giuliani were to win, box cars would soon pull into Penn Station to be filled with undesirable human beings. Those deemed unfit to live by the local Manhattan Reich. Disappearing forever. Probably sent to Death Camps in Weehawken and Paramus.

I am NOT kidding. I actually watched this interview on TV with my mouth agape! What the Hell were they all talking about?! This was a local city election!

In those days, New York City was awash in crime and decay. Businesses were leaving in droves, taking all their jobs with them. Boarded up storefronts were becoming common because no one was willing to rent out retail space while people were fleeing Manhattan for the suburbs. There were entire floors vacant in office towers fueling a real concern that some skyscrapers might stand empty and abandoned one day, becoming huge eyesores to the community. Something had to change, and Giuliani got that. He understood what the local problems were facing the city.

And how did his political opposition respond to all his ideas on improving the quality of life in the five Boroughs?

Talk about the Nazi Holocaust and World War 2.

Huh?!

That and maintain our current course because things, “weren’t all that bad.” These people all went to the ‘Marie Antoinette School of Political Science.’ No ideas. No solutions.

I was told by people who should have known better that Adolf Hitler launched his political career with the same promise to fight crime Giuliani did. A statement that is factually and historically false. This wasn’t the first time I had seen people completely make up facts about history to fit their myopic views of reality. I learned this lesson a long time ago; people who compare everything to Hitler, the Third Reich and the Holocaust have NEVER read a book on any of these topics! They never saw a documentary, never went to see a survivor speak, never spoke to a Jew who lived through the horrors of Nazism and never so much as read the biography of anyone who lived it first-hand.

And NO, seeing ‘Schindler’s List’ does not come anywhere near advancing one’s knowledge of the Holocaust! Far from it! Movies like this are a SANITIZED version of the truth. If you want to learn about the Holocaust, and I mean really learn then have the guts to watch the epic nine and a half hour long documentary, ‘Shoah’ by director Claude Lanzmann. But make sure you have something to vomit in while watching it because it WON’T be easy!

Then maybe you’ll shed your childish, infantile views on a topic you clearly know nothing about. And hopefully be one step closer to being an adult. Something we are in short supply of these days.

What’s the basic lesson here? If you run for office and you’re not on the Democrat ticket, then you are invariably a Nazi. No one has to listen to your ideas or anything you have to say because you undoubtedly don’t believe the Holocaust happened and it’s all part of a Jewish conspiracy. Making you a horrible human being no one would want to vote for. All because you don’t have a ‘D’ before your name!

This is literally the simple-minded logic of HIGHLY educated human beings.

1996

In 1996 I had a girlfriend who was a hardcore Democrat. When we first started dating, she asked me about my political beliefs. At the time I was part of the Libertarian Party, something she had never heard of so I gladly explained to her the basic premise for Libertarian ideas. Small government. More Liberty and freedom. Her response;

“Oh my God, are you a Nazi? That sounds exactly like something Hitler would believe in!”

HUH?!!!

Translation: if you are NOT a Democrat then you ARE by default a Nazi. There is no gray area or middle ground. No subtle nuance of ideas. No intellectual discourse. Say this in your best caveman voice; “Democrat GOOD! Non-democrat BAAAAADDDDDD!”

2000

Needless to say, when George W. Bush won the White House in 2000 I was treated to the same sad, worn out, constant comparisons to Hitler I’d suffered through for almost twenty years. I guess you could say since my political awakening occurred, at age 18, I’ve endured these comparisons from the uninformed and uneducated. What amazes me is how these people can consistently be wrong and never notice it! Or learn from their mistakes! They said Reagan and Bush were going to get rid of the Constitution and create a Nazi Police State with death camps galore as freedom vanished from the American landscape forever (which is why we all HAD to vote Democrat). Do the people who believed this ever say, “Hey, it never happened. We are all fine. Reagan peacefully left office when his term was up. George Bush left when Clinton defeated him. None of these dark predictions ever came to be. Maybe I was wrong?”

I guess I should keep dreaming.

2009

In 2009 the Tea Party was in full bloom due to a new and unprecedented level of government overreach. The average voter felt stepped on and lied to by the Obama administration. So a grassroots movement of the proletariat formed to voice their opposition to what they saw as ‘too much government intrusion’ in our lives. This was not what the American idea is based on.

And so, for openly voicing their disapproval to an obscene level of government expansion these working-class peons were compared continuously to (you guessed it) the Nazi Party by all major media outlets. News anchors and political consultants on CNN were “disturbed by all the stunning similarities to Nazism” they saw coming from the Tea Party. There were also many, many predictions of violence in the streets that was sure to erupt. None of which came true.

Allegations were made of racial slurs being hurled at Black Americans just trying to walk through a ‘Tea Party’ rally. Anonymous sources claimed Tea Party crowds were openly hostile to anyone with dark skin. An interesting fact when you consider half the speakers at Tea Party events were Black (I know, I went to their rallies and saw this with my own eyes). But of course, the mainstream media couldn’t be bothered to report these facts. The Tea Party was label racist even though a millionaire offered a $100,000 prize to anyone who could provide video footage of Black Americans being harassed at a Tea Party event. A reward that to this day goes unclaimed.

That year I was taking a web development class at a local college. During a break one of my classmates was watching a promotional video the Tea Party put together with the intention of gaining supporters. In was pretty standard, run of the mill political ad fluff. Blue skies, flags waving, grandkids hugging Grandma in slow motion. Nothing earth-shattering or original from my point of view. While watching it, another classmate walked by and saw the Tea Party video on the screen and remarked with an arrogant smirk, “It reminds me of ‘Triumph of the Will.’ The infamous 1935 Nazi Propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl.

I was enraged! I almost turned to this slack-jawed moron and grunted in a caveman impression, “Ug! Me smart! Me know ‘Triumph of Will.’ Uh! Me know little piece of history! Me smart like smart people smart! UG!” This just disgusted me! How can we have any political discourse in this country when one side of the aisle compares their opposition to horrific mass murders? I’m sure this fool thought of himself as quite intelligent, but he is far from it.

Celebrities with a triple black belt in stupidity like Rob Reiner openly criticized the Tea Party. During an interview with Bill Maher, Reiner spoke in a slow, solemn voice of his growing concern about the Tea Party. Wearing the obligatory constipated stare on his face, he spelled out how they were nothing more than an angry, directionless mob he was terrified would one day find a “Leader.” And that leader would, of course, be the next Hitler. This goes without saying.

Then according to Reiner, LOOK OUT! The New Reich will rise!

What a complete and total idiot. Once again, none of this ever happened.

What’s my point with all this?

Currently, we are bombarded with Hitler and Nazi comparisons regarding President Trump. All of which elicits a huge yawn from me. They are meaningless because they are the product of meaningless minds. Void of depth or wisdom. Quite frankly, I’m bored by them.

The late Christopher Hitchens used to say, “There are certain things stupid people say when they want to sound intelligent.” Boy was he right. If someone starts making analogies to Hitler and the Holocaust at the drop of a dime you can instantly be assured you are talking to an uneducated fool. This person is a pretentious moron with the burning need to feel important. So what do they do? Bring up Hitler every chance they get to promote a type of intellectual illusion. The problem is they come across as stupid. Quite stupid. Mainly because they are.

I’ll make a prediction right here and now. Actually, it’s not a prediction at all. More like a systematic observation. In the year 2036, there will be a Presidential Election. The Republican Candidate will be ________    ___________. After every speech, this candidate gives the ill-informed masses of the terminally concerned will equate everything this person says to something Adolf Hitler said. No matter what it is, and always in that same tone of hushed, super serious concern.

“Oh my God! Did you hear what he said? He wants to lower taxes on working-class families who earn under 40K a year. That’s exactly what Hitler said!”

The college professors of that day, the media pundits, the so-called “experts” will all say the same thing.

“This person reminds me of one thing………… Adolf Hitler!”

All highly educated people, the product of elite schools and elite educations, all who should know better. But as the great Rabbi Dennis Prager says, there’s a big difference between having knowledge and having wisdom.

I make the same prediction for the Presidential Election of 2024.

And 2028.

And 2032.

And 2036.

And 2040.

You get the picture.

If a Black Jewish Lesbian was the Republican Candidate for President, she would be compared to Hitler and called a Nazi. You know why? These people have nothing else to say because they have no ideas. They are members of a dead religion, unable to come up with real-world solutions to our problems. Why do you think the school system is a disaster? Because they run it exclusively!

At some point, this lame, repetitive stupidity has got to run out of steam. Anyone who talks this way might as well hold a sign over their heads saying, “I have absolutely NO IDEAS!” They deserve to be ignored, save your anger for something worthwhile.

Overboard

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Last night I was listening to an interview with an author who wrote a book on serial killer Ted Bundy. The worst of the worst in the serial killer hall of fame. He had audio from an interview he did with a woman who survived one of Bundy’s attacks.

She was a hitchhiker who foolishly got in Bundy’s car when he offered her a ride home. She got nervous when he took the wrong street and then parked in a secluded area. At which point he turned to her and said, “I’m going to kill you now.” What happened next was absolutely horrific.

I listened to this woman tell her personal story of what had to be the most traumatic event of her entire life. An encounter with evil that undoubtedly left deep psychological scars. Scars needing years to deal with. I noticed she was calm, unemotional and very matter-of-fact about what happened. She did not speak in a quivering, little girl voice. She did not act damaged and fragile. She talked like someone who had something horrible happen to her and moved on with her life. She sounded courageous and believable.

Unlike Christine Blasey Ford.

It then occurred to me I use to watch a television show entitled, “I Survived.” Every episode interviewed someone who survived an excruciatingly horrible event that almost killed them. It was literally a miracle each one lived at all. Many of the subjects interviewed were women who survived being brutally sexually assaulted by violent criminals. Many were stabbed dozens of times and left for dead in a forest, miles from help. These women somehow crawled out of the woods and were rescued. All of them had accepted death because it was clear they would not live to see their families again.

I don’t remember one of these women speaking in this fragile, “I’m a china doll about to break” voice or acting like they were some pathetic basket case who needed to be treated with kid gloves. The majority of had survived a crime from ten to fifteen years earlier. Not thirty-six. They indeed became emotional during their interview but only when reliving the most nightmarish parts of what happened to them. Each woman was CLEARLY in pain but maintained a certain level of dignity while recounting her tale of horror.

Once again, unlike Christine Blasey Ford. I would have found her much more credible had she dropped the entire “wounded bird” act and just spoken like the educated adult she is supposed to be.