{"id":4459,"date":"2018-06-29T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/06\/29\/the-left-in-2018-utterly-unhinged\/"},"modified":"2018-06-29T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T17:00:22","slug":"the-left-in-2018-utterly-unhinged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/06\/29\/the-left-in-2018-utterly-unhinged\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left in 2018: Utterly Unhinged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">&quot;The GOP has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eFRHX6glTSM#action=share\">an effective campaign ad<\/a> using Democrats&#39; own words and actions against them.&quot;&#0160; A bit longer than a minute.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">My hope is that the Dems, now a full-tilt hard-Left party, will get clobbered in the mid-terms.&#0160; If they don&#39;t, then we are on the way to civil war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Never underestimate the value of civil order. We take it for granted, but it is very fragile, and the skills necessary for survival in a war zone are not quickly acquired.&#0160; The prospect of a &#39;new normal&#39; in which every couple of weeks there is an assassination or bombing is not a cheerful one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">He who sows the wind may reap the whirlwind. (Hosea 8:7) Somebody ought to get that message to Maxine Waters, the black woman in the video.&#0160; Conservative patience with leftist tantrums can be expected eventually to run out. The backlash will not be pretty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Among Hillary&#39;s &#39;deplorables&#39; are a lot of &#39;hard boys,&#39; bikers, ex-military and ex- law enforcement who are prepared to break heads should push come to shove, and shove come to shoot.&#0160; They may prove hard to control if all hell breaks loose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">So be careful, &#39;liberals.&#39; You may trigger the very fascism that you falsely accuse conservatives of espousing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">For when civil order collapses the people will demand its replacement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The wise hope for the best but prepare for the worst.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">UPDATE: I just listened to the ad again. Was that &quot;feckless cunts&quot; I heard at .38? Being black or female won&#39;t save you from the wrath of the Left if you stray from the politically correct reservation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">UPDATE (2 July). Chris Cathcart writes,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Maybe you were unplugged at the time so you&#39;re now just hearing about this one.&#0160; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/samantha-bee-tears-into-feckless-cunt-ivanka-trump\">Here<\/a>&#39;s the fuller quote from Samantha Bee; somehow the furor was only over the c-word and not also what she said after that:<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;\">\u201cIvanka Trump, who works at the White House, chose to post the second most oblivious tweet we\u2019ve seen this week,\u201d Bee said. \u201cYou know, Ivanka, that\u2019s a beautiful photo of you and your child, but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad\u2019s immigration practices you feckless cunt!\u201d&#0160;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;\">&#0160;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: georgia, palatino;\">\u201cHe listens to you,\u201d she continued. \u201cPut on something tight and low-cut and tell your father to fucking stop it. Tell him it was an Obama thing and see how it goes, OK?\u201d&#0160; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;The GOP has an effective campaign ad using Democrats&#39; own words and actions against them.&quot;&#0160; A bit longer than a minute.&#0160;&#0160; My hope is that the Dems, now a full-tilt hard-Left party, will get clobbered in the mid-terms.&#0160; If they don&#39;t, then we are on the way to civil war. Never underestimate the value of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/06\/29\/the-left-in-2018-utterly-unhinged\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Left in 2018: Utterly Unhinged&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}