Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Political Dissimulation

  • Trump Admin to Cut Off HEAD START for Illegals

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will restrict immigrants in the country illegally from enrolling in Head Start, a federally funded preschool program, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday. The move is part of a broad effort to limit access to federal benefits for immigrants who lack legal status. Translation: Illegal aliens will…

  • Michael Anton on “Celebration Parallax”

    Here: More tellingly, this charge is an example of something I call the “celebration parallax,” which is explained here. In brief, the celebration parallax holds that the same fact pattern is either true and glorious or false and scurrilous depending on who states it and, crucially, the perceived intent of the speaker. So if someone says…

  • Kamala as Zelig

    Do you remember Zelig? If Zelig was the human chameleon, Kamala Harris is the political chameleon. Official Trailer #1 Mia Farrow as Kamala Who is Kamala Harris?  The Language Nazi cannot resist pointing our that the author of the linked piece confuses 'errant' with 'arrant' about five paragraphs down.

  • Past-Directed Gaslighting

    An egregious example of present-directed gaslighting of the American people by the regime and the regime media is their dismissal of the numerous videos depicting Joe Biden's physical decrepitude as 'cheap/deep fakes.'  What then are we to call the lie being currently spread by the regime and its shills that Kamala Harris was never the…

  • The Charlottesville Lie

    The only sure way to stop a leftist from lying would be by stopping him from talking. The Biden administration is one of the most, or the most, mendacious in our history. Copycat that he is, Biden saw the Clintons and Obama get away with it and resolved to go them one better. A brazen…

  • Is Trump a Threat to Democracy?

    He most certainly is if 'democracy,' as per the woke Orwellian switcheroo — to give it a name — refers to plutocracy, rule by the wealthy. The plutocratic elites of the present time, unlike those of yesteryear,  are woke open-borders globalists with no commitment to their countries of origin. John Kerry and Hillary Clinton are…

  • 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…

  • DIE: ‘Equity’ Can Get You Killed

    Here: America’s top medical schools, worried [that] they have too few minority students, are doing something about it. They are lowering academic standards for admission and trying to hide the evidence. Columbia, Harvard, the University of Chicago, Stanford, Mount Sinai, and the University of Pennsylvania have already done so. The list already tops forty, and more…

  • Tucker Carlson Exposes the Malevolent Lies of the Biden Admin re: Jan 6th ‘Insurrection’

    Neither  deadly nor an insurrection. Trump's take. Diana West's commentary. Tucker Carlson Tonight – Wednesday, 08 March 2023 Surveillance Video Dismantles January 6th Narrative Narratives and the Left Leftists love narratives because a narrative needn't be true to be a narrative. Their assessment criteria are identity-tribal rather than logical.  A good narrative is a coherent …

  • Tulsi Gabbard Exposes George Santos

    Would that Tulsi would and could lay  bare the brazen bullshit of every single swamp critter in the District of Columbia from the life-long liar Joey B. on down and not leaving out Alejandro Mayorkas, 'Director of Homeland Security' — how is that for an Orwellian title! — and Elizabeth 'Fauxcahontas' Warren, and do it…

  • The Orwellian Abuse of Approbatives: ‘Democracy’

    An approbative word or phrase is one the conventional use of which indicates an approving or appreciative attitude on the part of the speaker or writer.  The opposite is a pejorative.  'Democracy' and 'racism' as currently used  in the USA and elsewhere in the Anglosphere are examples of the former and the latter respectively. If…

  • Are We the Government?

    "We the people are the government." (Joe Biden) Barack Obama used to spout that same falsehood. "The government is us."   It is a nice question whether they were lying or bullshitting.  The liar cares enough about the truth to want to hide it from us. The bullshitter doesn't care about the truth and will…

  • Asking Questions about Ukraine Makes You Pro-Putin? Why Do They Lie?

    Here: If you say out loud that you think there is something strange about a campaign involving Democrats and Republicans, the media, Big Tech, corporate giants, and US intelligence services to promote one side in a foreign war that doesn’t obviously touch on the daily concerns of most Americans, you’re pro-Putin. That accusation has haunted the…

  • Polylogism and Leftist Racism

    Anthony Flood sends us to Charles Burris, Polylogism — The Root of America's Divisiveness, Decline and Destruction. History is repeating itself before our eyes. The widespread controversy surrounding President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as a “black woman” recalls the editorial in The Washington Times, “A Judge Too Far,” concerning President Obama’s earlier…

  • Real and Merely Apparent Incoherence on the Left: Four Examples

    1) Leftists, supposedly 'for women,' champion the right of biological males to compete in female sporting events. The incoherence here is real and rooted in the conflict between opposing leftist commitments. On the one hand, leftists champion the downtrodden, the oppressed, and the marginalized, even when the latter  bear the lion's share of the responsibility…