Perhaps someday the lion will lie down with the lamb. Should that day come, I would still prefer to be the lion. (To repackage a remark I heard Tom Cotton make last night.)
Story here:
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) slammed The New York Times Saturday over a story about a suspect who allegedly raped a corpse on a New York City subway, saying the reporters failed to mention the man was in the U.S. illegally.
The defense will no doubt argue that the man cannot be guilty as charged inasmuch it is impossible to rape a corpse. Have the journos over at the NYT degenerated so far that they have never heard of necrophilia?
Or maybe the defense will argue that since illegal entry is no crime because no one is illegal, the same should hold for illegal entry into a living human's body, and for illegal entry into the corpse of a human. There cannot be illegal entry in any sense since everyone has the right to go wherever he wants. The corpse should have "welcomed the stranger."
Karma's a bitch. And so's Tish. And the irony's delish.
I know, it's tough. You Dems got your collective (jack)ass handed to you on a platter. But you are not learning the lessons. You think you had a problem with 'messaging,' and you did: you didn't have a message and you didn't have a messenger. Mindless opposition to Trump got you nowhere. The race and Hitler cards are played out. Strike another match, go start anew, or it's all over now, baby BLUE. What you have to understand is that when your gravitas fails, negativity won't pull you through, to cop and slightly alter a Dylan line from Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues. Do you want to end up on Rue Morgue Avenue? They got some hungry hombres there and they'll really make a mess out of you.
The people don't like negativity and the nattering nabobs who spew it. They don't much cotton to brazen liars either. Try telling the truth for a change. You've gone as far as you can with gaslighting and race-baiting. Are you stupid? Do you have a death wish? You need to work with us. After all, didn't some of your own ilk such as Slick Willy want to counter federal waste, fraud, and abuse? They did indeed. Bubba is looking pretty good these days compared to Kamala and the rest of you clowns. So get with the program, set aside the smears and scumbaggery, be reasonable, and give it another shot in 2028. We need an opposition party! One that doesn't merely oppose reflexively but complements and corrects reflectively.
Wilbert Harrison, Let's Work Together. Canned Heat cover. The original beats all covers.
Youngbloods, Get Together
Jackie De Shannon, Put a Little Love in Your Heart This one goes out to Maxine Waters. You reap what you sow, Maxine. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
Jackie De Shannon, What the World Needs Now is Love. Love trumps hate, Nancy Pelosi.
And while we've got this cutie (Jackie, not Nancy!) cued up: When you Walk in the Room.
Kim Carnes' 1981 version was a drastically re-arranged cover.
Trump demands an investigation. 'Conehead' is my coinage. It has two meanings. They are for me to know and you to guess.
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 ever there was one. Dems demonstrate their stupidity by their inability to see through poseurs like him.
The Democrats. Knee-jerk oppositionalism and blind obstructionism are all they have these days, as witness the In-Lieu-of-SOTU spectacle.
John Fetterman. When a guy such as this piece of atavism is the wise man of the Dems, and, horribile dictu, a Senator to boot, you know that the Dems have become a pack of fools, and that any ship of state with them in control is headed for troubled waters. That being said, my estimation of Fetterman has gone up a notch since he 'beat' Dr. Oz. The well-fed Futter/Fetterman actually possesses a soupçon of sense, and a grain of gravitas, with which he surpasses Kamala the Clown and the overgrown adolescent, AOC.
Sartorial slack-off and the demise of decorum. That charismatic and stylish trend-setter, JFK, rid men of their Fedoras. Now we have baseball caps and Senator Fetterman in cargo shorts. Decorum on the decline. "Weird Al" Green, who is black, and sports a pony (horse?) tail, was rightly censured for his recent outburst by the Speaker of the House. He complained about being made to "sit in the back of the bus." It will always be the 'fifties for these people. And they say we want to 'turn back the clock'?
Let's not leave out Adam Schiff, a leaky vessel if ever there was one, issuing his "Screw you and the horse you rode in on" to Trump & Co. Not to mention the 'shit' mantra dutifully repeated by the Dem lemmings. My friendly advice to them: You'd better get your shit together or you'll never lift your sorry asses out of the dreck. As for the 'Ragin Cajun,' he seems to have reversed himself on his 'Play possum" advice. Back to the bayou with you, pal.
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 it across. Did you see the unedited Sixty Minutes video? Kamala the Joyous could not explain why she wanted to be president. She is perhaps fit to be a kindergarten teacher, but not POTUS. Is that not blindingly evident? And are you not an emotion-driven fool if you let your TDS impel you to embrace the Joyous One? I'll leave Tampon Tim and his page-turner of a wife out of this rant.
Part of what make the Dems dumb is their inability to learn from experience, as witness their continuing to play the race and Hitler cards. Do they have a death wish? And what does it say about the nearly half of the voters who cast their ballots for that intersectional dumbass?
Collateral observation. The voters are not the electorate. Two reasons. First, the voters include those who vote illegally; the electorate, used normatively, as I am using the term, does not. Second, the electorate include those who do not vote in a given election. The electorate comprise those who are legally entitled to vote. You are legally so entitled only if you are a citizen who has not disqualified himself by, say, committing a felony. Bernie Sanders thinks that felons should have the right to vote. I make an invective-free case against this foolish and indeed asinine view at Substack, sine ira et studio.
By the way, it appears that magnetic north has shifted position.
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. And he is, like all sane people, very happy with the outcome of the November election. His heart goes out to all who brought the Orange Man to a second term. And so he jumps around and cuts loose with idiosyncratic arm-hand gestures. He puts his hand on his heart and then extends his arm. A neutral observer might call it a 'heart-felt thank-you' salute. See here for a video of his antics.
But of course the Musk gesture is a Nazi salute to our political enemies. Out comes the 'Hitler card'! Typical.
And then they amalgamate this piece of scurrilous stupidity with a display of their penchant for double standards. (An old saying has it that if you strip a leftist of his double standards he will be left with no standards at all.) After all, "Tampon Tim" (Tim Walz) and "Fauxcahontas" (Elizabeth Warren) have been known to engage in similar arm extensions. Are they too Nazis?
What these fools don't understand is that they will continue to lose as long as they continue to slander we us the people.
Should people this stupid be let anywhere near the levers of power?
That is a rhetorical question, as is the one that preceded it.
Addendum (1/26)
A commenter points out that Elon's gesture was the Bellamy salute.
Flip, flop, flounder, flail, fake. And yet, despite all the gyrations and page-turnings of her and "Tampon Tim" and Mrs. Tim, the fatuous fool failed.
But how on earth could she be beaten in an electoral college landslide by a freaking fascist? Explanation here, with a tip of the hat to a blogger buddy from way, way back, Kevin Kim. Happy Thanksgiving, Kevin. Blog on!
Stack topper. On the Hillarious Trump = Hitler Identity Theory.
How now, sad cow? Your cud is bitter, your pasture lonely, and your days short. You are neither stupid, nor ignorant. So why the cheap smears and asinine comparisons? Are you bent on destroying what little of your legacy remains?
. . . this old tune by the Beach Boys captures the sum and 'substance' of her campaign. Come Tuesday night, the surly scowls of the racist Trump will have no chance against Kamalita's vibrations and excitations.
And Kamala Baby would never, ever, bomb Iran.
Down with a bad case of TDS? Check with your doctor to see if Independence is right for you.
Check with your doctor to see if Independence is right for you.
Seriously, though, is TDS really a psychiatric condition, a form of topical insanity? Or is it rather a form of willful self-enstupidation? If the latter, then it is a grave moral defect, a form of vincible ignorance, and morally censurable as such.
To put it crudely, TDS-ers are either sick in the head or else moral scum. Pick one.
Related: Michael Savage on liberalism as a mental disorder. I prefer the phrase, 'progressive disease.'
Do you remember Zelig? If Zelig was the human chameleon, Kamala Harris is the political chameleon.
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.
Some political wit in the Alinskyite style is the Stack topper of the day.