Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Political Ponerology

  • The ‘Paranoid’ Dems: Is Trump’s D. C. ‘Takeover’ a Prelude to Something Worse?

    You decide. If you want my opinion, Dementocrat 'paranoia' is but a manifestation of TDS. Never forget: our political enemies are ever at work bringing Trump's 'inner Hitler' to light. Related: No Entity without Identity Addendum (8/22):  Trump's One-Week D. C. Clean-Up.  Does it show that the Dems are destroying their cities by choice?  It…

  • Gavin Newsom’s a Disaster for California and Beyond

    "We will not open or operate retail stores in California." (Marcus Lemonis, Bed, Bath, and Beyond) Even Scarborough sees through the clown. Now if you really want to learn something, please pay close attention to this nine minute video by Victor Davis Hanson entitled Gavin Newsom's 250 Mil Redistricting Power Grab.

  • Just How Safe is Washington, D.C.?

    Opinions differ.   On a podcast last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D–NY, claimed, “I walk around all the time. I wake up early in the morning … And I feel perfectly safe.” He dismissed Republican concerns about safety as “full of it,” but, of course, Schumer doesn’t go anywhere without his security detail. In a similar vein,…

  • What do Democrats Mean by ‘Democracy’?

    The Dems are always going on about 'our democracy,' their noble defense of it, and the Republicans' nefarious assault upon it.  But they never tell us what they mean by 'democracy.' One is left to speculate.  Here is David Brooks commenting on the recent gerrymandering/redistricting contretemps: I understand the argument. But let's do a little…

  • Gerrymandering: the Latest Leftist Double Standard

    Would anything be left of the Left if the bums were divested of all their double standards?  The latest example is gerrymandering. It's OK for them but not for us. As Vice President J.D. Vance noted in a recent interview on Fox News, Democrats “have fought very dirty for a very long time” and “have tried to…

  • Why Do the Dems Hate Us?

    You can count on the inferior to hate the superior. It's human nature, and an eternal war. Dio Cassius 38.39.2 (speech of Caesar; tr. Earnest Cary): Against this prosperity many are plotting, since everything that lifts people above their fellows arouses both emulation and jealousy; and consequently an eternal warfare is waged by all inferiors…

  • Retribution and Psycho-Political Projection

    'Retribution' has two main senses in English, and they are importantly different. The word can refer to revenge or to a form of justice, retributive justice. Do I have to explain that justice is not revenge? Conflating the two, journalistic shills for deep-state malefactors try to dismiss as revenge what is a quest for justice…

  • 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…

  • The Dems, True to Form, are Lying

    About so much. About gutting the 'safety net' for example. WSJ rebukes the mendacious shites.  (Ought we be polite to such brazen liars?) As for multi-'colored' Kamala, she is like unto Traitor Joe not just in her moral obtuseness, but also in respect of her intellectual vacuity, as explained here. Here and here for two…

  • The Upside of Zohran Mamdani

    What I like about the winner of the New York City mayoral Democrat primary is that he is not a 'stealth ideologue' a phrase I have been using for years to characterize the likes of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris.  Mamdani, unlike the mendacious foursome just mentioned, comes clean about what…

  • Noisome Newsom, Legal Know-Nothing, Rebuked

    California's obstructionist crapweasel and narcissistic pretty boy was handed a massive loss, to the delight of the sane and reasonable and to the dismay of hate-America Dementocrats.  California Gov. Gavin Newsom just got a brutal lesson: the president of the United States is the commander-in-chief, not the governor of California. Second, he doesn’t need your…

  • Dems and Deportation

    Democrats upset over deportations ought to look in the mirror. Prior to Biden-Harris they did little to secure the nation's borders, and by supporting Biden-Harris they embraced the  destructive open-border policy of that administration. That nations need enforceable and enforced borders not merely to flourish, but to continue to exist, is well-nigh self-evident.  Those in…

  • Comey, Trump, and 8647

    Trump Derangement Syndrome continues to drive our political enemies to show their true colors. Of course, former FBI director James Comey knows what '86' means. Should Comey spend some time in the slammer? Tulsi Gabbard thinks so.  I'm with Tulsi.  The right to free speech does not extend to the inciting of violence. And you…

  • Political Crapulosity

    In the early 'eighties I subscribed to The New Republic. But in those days it hadn't yet become the politically crapulous rag it is now.  Try to wrap your head around this load of garbage: There is much to say about these 100 days. The odor of fascism is unmistakable—and entirely intentional. The bullying of…

  • The Psychology of the Pollyanna . . .

    . . . and the political ponerology of Leftism. A Substack article from exactly one year ago.