Category: Invective
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Slop Talk
'Due process' is a term of legal shop talk. Those of us who know something about the law — I know a little — know how to use it correctly. And those of us who think that words ought to be used responsibly in serious discussions should take offense at the 'slop talk' use of…
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Random Political-Polemical Observations
Hanoi Jane. Jane Fonda recently opined that being 'woke' means that you care about people. Now how stupid is that? But I'll give her this much: she looks damned good after all these years (to an old man, leastways.) All style and no substance, just like pretty-boy Gavin Newsom of California, an unctuous opportunist if…
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Could Kamala Explain the Difference between True and Magnetic North?
I doubt it. She thinks 'the cloud' in cyberspeak refers to a physical object in the sky. Remember that howler? Why are the Dems so dumb? They lack both a message and messenger. The think they failed to 'get their message across.' But they had no message to get across, and no one to get…
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Dumb Dems and the Hitler Card
Having been dealt a stinging rebuke on 5 November 2024, you might think the Democrats would learn something, for example, that playing the 'Hitler card,' like playing the 'race card,' will henceforth give them a losing hand. But no! The knuckleheads double down! Elon Musk is an exuberant fellow at the top of his game.…
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Political Perception, Advocacy, and Reality
Hans Meyerson: There are, I think, three chief obstacles that stand between Biden and re-election: the public’s perception of the economy, the public’s perception of immigration, and Biden’s own weaknesses as an advocate for his policies and his presidency. [Emphases added.] This is the sort of garbage one expects from a delusional leftist who thinks…
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The Meaning of ‘Asshole’
A Substack quickie. 'Woke' squeamishness exposed.
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The Leftist as Denier of Distinctions
The denial of distinctions is the subversion of thought. A Substack quickie. One distinction the wokeassed cannot process is that between hate and dissent. To dissent from what you say is not to hate you. Failure to grasp this simple distinction is predicated on a further failure, that of failing to grasp the distinction between…
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DEI and Crash Dummies
DIVERSITY demands that crash dummies be of all sizes, shapes, races, ethnicities, animal species including trans-species hybrids such as the Cat Man, and also 'genders' including trans-dummies, and let's not exclude living humans who 'identify' as crash dummies the better to facilitate their exit from life's freeway. EQUITY will then be served: an equal outcome…
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Tucker Carlson on the Tulsi Gabbard Show
Long, but good. Tony Flood comments: Their occasional descent into verbal coarseness was as disappointing as it was unexpected. It seems that even for some people I most admire, the effort to resist that cultural pull downward is no longer worth the bother. Our society-wide descent into verbal and other forms of coarseness and crudity outside of…
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The Meaning of ‘Asshole’
The author offers a cognitivist as opposed to expressivist analysis of 'asshole' and other foul words. But the guy is a 'liberal,' as witness the following bit of squeamishness: (2) pejorative terms, which assume false normative or moral claims about certain independently identifiable groups of people (e.g., "honkey”, "wop”, "kike”, “limey”, "chink”, "n—-r"); He refuses to write out…
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Hurricane Names
What's with 'Dorian' and the like? Why not these names: Hillary, Nancy, Chuck, Alexandria, Rashida . . . ? Disasters ought to be named after disasters.
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Dennis Miller on Obama, and the Art of the Verbal Counterpunch
(This is a repost, slightly redacted, from 9 October 2014.) Last night on The O'Reilly Factor, the sharpest comedian out there uncorked the following: He makes Narcissus look like he invented self-effacement. In battling the Left, it is not enough to have facts, logic, and moral decency on one's side; one must turn the Left's…
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‘Wankerati’ and Other Terms of Abuse
I picked up a new piece of invective from Mark Steyn. I believe he intends 'wankerati' to be coextensive with 'left-wing commentariat.' Read his The Turning Point and see if you don't agree. The brilliant polemicist offers up other choice phrases such as "malign carbuncles on the body politic." That's a reference to Di Fi…
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Trump Delivers
We conservatives who voted for Trump in November 2016 have been vindicated in spades. His accomplishments are manifold and multiplying. A list is in order. I'll essay one later on. For now I draw your attention to the indelible conservative stamp President Trump is placing on the judiciary which includes but is not restricted to…