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| Silverfiddle Rant! |
CNN's Chris Cillizza splains...
Why Democrats blinked in the Senate impeachment trial
Poor Dems in government and the press are like the guy in the gay cowboy movie, still clinging to President Trump and declaring, "I just can't quit you!"
What say you? Please sound off on the election, the aftermath, and this shabby impeachment. Its an open thread.
It's over! Finally.
ReplyDeleteI mean it is over, right?
They're not going to go for criminal charges now, right?
Right?
"Over Macho Grande? I'll never be over Macho Grande"
DeleteTime to plan the reprisals... ;)
DeletePinochet in 2024!
Delete:P
DeleteFJ,
DeleteOff topic....I got your shoutout from the previous thread: "Kittyman Sea Shanty." Cute!
Cats rule.
Yes they do!
DeleteFarmer, you send me down the most intriguing rabbitholes!
DeleteThat snake, Pinochet thing really has lefties wound up!
It's from an old meme war...from 2016 times... an argument between Anarcho-capitalist libertarians and Anarcho-syndicalist Marxists...and was the "response" to the rioting by the latter from the former based upon the more militant Libertarian teachings of Murray Rothbard and Hoppes.
Delete...and I probably should give a hat-tip to Gert for sending me into the Hoppean Snake rabbit warren last week.
DeleteFarmer,
DeleteYou are the only person I know who could come upon "an argument between Anarcho-capitalist libertarians and Anarcho-syndicalist Marxists." And not only that, but comprehend it.
And I say that as a compliment!
We are in this weird place where rival factions (people on the right are best at it) create memes to troll the opposition.
DeleteThe left is now so intellectually stunted and unhumorous, they actually take offense at the most facile, superficial layer of these memes and have no appreciation how they are actually wrapped in various layers of seriousness and humor, which reflects the subtleties of reality. I really don't think they realizes how sharply the meme makers are mocking the indoctrinated vapidity of the left.
The left is full of flat-footed plonkers who just want Uncle Walter to tell them what to think and make everyone who disagrees shut up.
That's the problem, by taking themselves so seriously they become "FUNDAMENTALISTS" exhibiting little to no "ironic distance". They become the "Major Burns" of the world, instead of the Hawkeye Pierce/ Trapper John's. They become Full Metal Jacket's Private Pyle instead of "Private Joker's:.
Delete...and THAT's why they can't meme.
DeleteMore signs of the over-seriousness of Leftist thought.
Delete...and all that cancel culture B.S.
DeleteBurn the blasphemers!
DeleteMy only quibble with your comments: Calling it "Leftist thought" gives them way too much credit. There is no thought there. It is an emotive, masturbatory religion.
DeleteI agree that the New Left is pretty much a religion. But there is some serious Leftist (and Rightist) thought coming out of former communist nations. Let's just say I agree with some of them on the societal maladies analyzed, just not their "prescriptions".
DeleteAfter seeing Trump's hand-picked legal defenders since even before the election......I can't rightly make fun of ambulance chasers as I once did. There's another class of counsel below even them.
ReplyDeleteBut at least one more act of theater is over.
You just hate a reasoned, as opposed to emotional, defense.
DeleteNo...I hate embarrassing clown-shows. But the slack-jawed, mouth-breathing crowd seems to like them.
DeleteIt appears lawyering is a lot like marriage and playing guitar:
DeleteIt looks easy until you try it.
Thanks to McConnell's closing remarks on the Senate floor encouraging civil and/or criminal charges can follow after his voting not guilty insures the fracturing the GOP. Thus the Democrats succeeded beyond their dreams. Finis.
ReplyDeleteBunkerville,
DeleteI wonder how the electorate of Kentucky will react to McConnell's closing remarks.
Attorneys general in several states have been winding up cases against President Trump for years. Comments on the Senate floor affect none of that.
DeleteThis will be used in campaign ads 2022 and cause further riffs among the GOP as opposed to actual litigation IMO.
DeleteSo he gets away with his call for a beer hall putsch.
ReplyDeleteThere was beer?
DeleteNope. He just paved the way for his future replacement.
Delete:P
DeleteDucky,
DeleteHope you're doing well. Heart surgery and then covid... Maybe you're bulletproof?
What doesn't kill the duck just makes him quackier...
DeleteSo lets just rub it in...
How in the hell do you find that stuff?
DeleteI can't tell if its a spoof of if it is real. Álvaro Corvalán Castilla does have something of an artistic streak, from what I have read.
I do know from my own experience that Latin American nations (other than leftwing regimes) do allow free expression, including tributes to Pinochet in Chile.
Anyone else remember when we had that kind of freedom in the US?
I guess the Censors at YouBoob's Ministry of Truth either don't speak Spanish, or are ignorant of Latin American history.
Serendipity, and an ear for B.S.
DeleteI visited Chile in '76. I bought some great Chilean wine there. They absolutely LOVED Americans, and were crazy for American produced products.
Of course, I also lived in Spain under Franco from '59-62. Maybe THAT is where I developed my taste for blood sports. ;)
DeleteImpeachment more or less equates to indictment. One has to have an indictment before proceeding to trial ... which in the case of impeachment by the House, falls upon the Senate. On what charges was Trump indicted? Incitement of violence. This would be a good time to observe that even a lawyer graduated from the nation’s worst ever law school is able to observe that it is possible (in a normal legal proceeding) to indict a ham sandwich. There is, apparently an even lesser standard in the House of Representatives — they can even indict the condiments.
ReplyDeleteDid, in fact, Donald J. trump incite insurrection through “false claims” of election fraud? The wording of the charge assumes that there was no election fraud. If true, then why are there numerous investigations underway – not to determine if there was fraud, but rather to determine its extent? So, the wording “false claims” is also false. The indictment also claims that Trump “willfully made statements that, in context, encouraged—and foreseeably resulted in—lawless action at the capital, such as the words, ‘if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.’”
Right. Incitement. Insurrection. Not exactly like Maxine Waters’ call to “take Trump out” — nor even close, but there you go. Good grief.
Let’s recap: The House indicted a man who was no longer serving in an impeachable position. A man who was no longer serving in an impeachable position because the voters already decided to replace him with yet another idiot. What other lucid action could the Senate take but to acquit? The people of this country and all their elected officials are far beyond their depth. Clowns.
When the prosecution tampers with "evidence they've automatically ceded the field in any normal court.
DeleteChanging dates, adding blue checks...
I realize everyone is upset, but pointing out what one politician or another said, or getting involved in their histrionic posturing is futile and a sure descent into nuthouse absurdity.
ReplyDeleteIt is all cynical theater, and I respond with my own cynicism.
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” ― George Orwell
“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics. ' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” -- George Orwell
I had never heard of Eric Metax is, but this is a good interview with an adversarial interviewer:
ReplyDeleteEric Metaxas Believes America Is Creeping Toward Nazi Germany
I agree with Metaxas. The Left is becoming ever more intolerant, and is failing the Popperian Paradox of Tolerance. They can't let there be silence to "racism" (and other "woke-isms) it must be confronted at EVERY turn, and driven out. The KKK is no longer to be given ANY platform to speak. They must be SILENCED! Intolerance of tolerance is the new crusade. The heretics MUST be burned. And so even Libertarians are turning to Hoppe and agreeing with him.
DeleteHoppe's treatise on democracy was written in response to Karl Popper's "Paradox of Tolerance"... so "Free Helicopter Rides" came to represent the "Libertarian" solution.
Delete:)
DeletePopper described perfectly today's intolerant left, only "fists and pistols" have been replaced with mobs, digital pogroms and canceling people.
Delete"for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols."
I'm sure that the Myanmar Junta repress the Rohinga Moslems for precisely that reason.... perhaps to the point of free helicopter rides.
DeleteWhy do you think the left so thoroughly enjoys creating and fomenting culture clashes?
DeleteWhy else? It's good to be the king. And let's face facts, you or I would never put them in charge.
DeleteBesides, Diversity is only a virtue in the context of capitalist marketplaces, not national governance. The more diverse the population of the nation, the greater the need for Autocracy/fascism to control the minority sects. And most Leftists are very comfortable living in a corporate globalist welfare state... none really want a Revolution. So they push "diversity" beyond the national interest and appeal to demographically growing cultural communities while feigning "shock" and "surprise" at the growing "fascism/ autocracy that said "diversity" increasingly demands in order to prevent anarchy/chaos from the cultural clashes.
DeleteIn a democracy, the University Discourse (of intellectuals/experts) supplant the Master's (autocrats) Discourse. But recently, the "Capitalist Discourse" (of market diversity) has entered and totally supplanted the "Nationalist Discourse" as the dominant University Discourse. The current American Uniparty D-R establishment alliance best represents the Post WWII global capitalist alliance... and resents the Trump "nationalism" that briefly interfered in their dominance.
DeleteWith ever increasing cultural diversity, the United States becomes destined for a China-communist/capitalist autocratic governance. Democracy is a luxury that only culturally monolithic nations can afford.
DeleteAh, to be Japanese...
DeleteWith the Capitalist Discourse, economic success increasingly depends upon maximizing the aggregate efficiency. Democracy is NOT amenable to this process.
DeleteThank you for that succinct explanation.
DeleteI regularly listen to Metaxas.
DeleteCheck his bio.
Ed: He nailed it, and he knows how to communicate. I like how he identified the trap she laid for him and then refused to fall into it. Sounds like a very smart man.
DeleteI try to do my show like he does.
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