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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Foul-mouthed people are also the most honest, study finds
Temperate language has traditionally been considered a social virtue, but new research suggests people who refrain from swearing are often the most devious and dishonest.
TW, we've gotta talk . . . .
Yes, gorb dear. About the documented distressingly high level of dishonesty in social science research, to begin with.
That was distressingly polite and refreshingly honest, snicker...
Those fond of effing and blinding, by contrast, are likely to be the most honest in any given group, according to academics at the University of Cambridge.
Therefore, given Raj's creative ability with indelicate words, I would guess he's probably one of the most honest among us.
I suspect Raj does not use his indelicate vocabulary when speaking with clients, and quite possibly also with his colleagues. This discrimination is a mark of intelligence as is as a varied vocabulary.
Published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, the study describes how a cohort of 276 participants were asked to list their favourite swear words in order to gauge how fond they were of turning the air blue.

They were then given a survey asking them to agree or disagree with statements such as "I never lie" and "all my habits are good" to assess their propensity for dishonesty.
All the dishonest ones admitted to it? How novel.
The researchers found that the most honest in the group were also the biggest swearers.
Probably because they have low tolerance for BS, because it pi$$es them off, and they react accordingly.
That would be those who self-report as most honest. Remember what I said about the problem with social science research?
Dr David Stillwell, one of the study's authors, said the correlation may stem from the constraints imposed by social convention.

"If you’re trying to follow the social norms rather than saying what you think, you are saying what people want to here," he said.
Hear. Layers of editors and fact checkers strike again.
"In that respect you are not being very honest.

"We did not look at extreme dishonesty such as fraud, so from that experiment it’s an open question as to whether there would be a link."

However, he said the findings corroborate research in the US which links states with a high level of swearing to low levels of honest-related crime.
Oboy. That one wants an entire essay of its own.
States such as New Jersey, where a lot of people use bad language, were found to rank highly on the State Integrity Index, whereas Utah and other places where bad language is a relative rarity saw higher levels of fraud similar offences.
I don't believe I've ever heard 0bean use an off-color word. Just sayin'.
Whereas Hillary! does.
"At least people who swear are telling you what they really think," said Dr Stillwell.

"Although if people said what they think all the time, would that really be a good thing?"
So TW must serve a function here. Perhaps as a diplomat? ;-)
Probably not, dear gorb.
The researchers also examined the Facebook postings of 75,000 people, where a similar correlation was observed.

People who regularly posted short, simple messages were the least likely to swear.
Huh? No room for swear words there.
Dr Sillwell said simple statements are already known to be associated with dishonesty, because liars find it hard to make up complicated sentences.
A$$hole!
However, more nuanced language, evidenced by words such as "but" and "however", as well as use of pronouns which associate the speaker with his or her statement, are commonly agreed to indicate honesty.
Heh heh! He said 'but'!
In the Facebook analysis, people who spoke in this style were also more likely to swear.
Like me?
Posted by: gorb || 01/19/2017 03:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "States such as New Jersey, where a lot of people use bad language, were found to rank highly on the State Integrity Index, whereas Utah and other places where bad language is a relative rarity saw higher levels of fraud similar offences."

New Jersey don't have no corruption???? WTF, we INVENTED corruption!!!!
Posted by: Dave D. || 01/19/2017 9:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Fraud in Utah is more common because Mormons tend to be more trusting and therefore more easily conned. Doesn't mean Utah residents are more dishonest or devious.
Posted by: Creling Pelosi3622 || 01/19/2017 11:30 Comments || Top||

#3  I just decided that I don't get paid enough to be the straight man around TW. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 01/19/2017 13:24 Comments || Top||

#4  I say exactly WTF I mean. Honest
Posted by: Frank G || 01/19/2017 15:19 Comments || Top||

#5  You know I adore you, gorb. But this is an area I know something about (scientific research in general, psych experiments more specifically) and you did address me by name. Names are magic -- everyone knows that.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/19/2017 15:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Only your real name (which you should keep secret) TW.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/19/2017 16:13 Comments || Top||

#7  :-). Which is the real one, g(r)omgoru: my English name (which carries the shadow of the grandmother I was named for; she had names in three languages, all different than the English one I was given -- we share a nickname), my Hebrew name, the name my Spanish teacher gave me, any of the various nicknames and endearments different people address me with, or my Rantburg nym?
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/19/2017 17:08 Comments || Top||

#8  I was only making fun, but - in cultures that believe in "name magic", children get a secret name distinct from their public one.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/19/2017 17:31 Comments || Top||

#9  =BringBackMyEyebrows
Posted by: gorb || 01/19/2017 18:58 Comments || Top||

#10  Of course, I kinda suspected a response along those lines, and I figured sacrificing my eyebrows would be worth whatever you would do with it. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 01/19/2017 19:01 Comments || Top||

#11  I find it difficult to make complicated sentences because I had a public school education, of which, my parents had choices, but, since they grew up in the mountains of Kentucky, felt, if it was good enough for them, it was good enough for me.
Posted by: jvalentour || 01/19/2017 20:14 Comments || Top||


Declassified files reveal CIA carried out secret psychic experiments on Uri Geller
[SUN] A newly released cache of CIA documents reveals UFO sightings and psychic experiments from the "Stargate programme", which has long been of interest to conspiracy theorists.

The project was the codename for a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA). It aimed to investigate the potential for psychic phenomena to be used by the military and intelligence services.

The Stargate programme inspired the 2009 film The Men Who Stare At Goats starring George Clooney and Ewan McGregor.

Some of the files surround the weird investigation and reveal how Geller was probed during a week-long series of tests.
Link to Uri Geller web site.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/19/2017 00:50 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I should think the CIA would have to do experiments and determine if psychics were real or not, just to be safe.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/19/2017 9:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Or they could just use psychics who swear a lot.
Posted by: gorb || 01/19/2017 14:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Of course it didn't work -- Uri Geller was proved a fake by that stage magician.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/19/2017 17:31 Comments || Top||


RT trumps WaPo on journalistic accuracy
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/19/2017 00:50 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
Alibaba founder Jack Ma has a brutal theory of how America went wrong over the past 30 years
DAVOS, Switzerland -- Alibaba founder Jack Ma thinks America went wrong over the past 30 years by focusing too much on war and Wall Street. Speaking at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, Ma was asked about globalisation and the reaction to it represented by the election of Donald Trump as US president.

He responded that back when Thomas Friedman published "The World Is Flat" in 2005, globalisation looked like "a perfect strategy" for the US: "We just want the technology, and the IP, and the brand, and we'll leave the other jobs" to other countries like Mexico and China, he said.

"American international companies made millions and millions of dollars from globalisation," Ma said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/19/2017 13:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Straight from Mr. Horse's mouth
马云 is his name in Mandarin, family name 马 means "horse" & character even looks like a horse to me.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/19/2017 19:37 Comments || Top||

#2  No the companies and the executives made millions but the ordinary Americans got left behind. Hence Trump's victory. Ma Also glides the massive welfare spending and the corruption of American learning with the false social justice positions.
Finally, won't mention that China has benefitted immensely from globalisation as well
Posted by: Injun Whailing6393 || 01/19/2017 20:05 Comments || Top||

#3  People's Exhibit #1
Posted by: Dino White9248 || 01/19/2017 20:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Earlier this year, Washington Post economics reporter Jim Tankersley wrote,"The 2000 vote effectively unleashed a flood of outsourcing to China, which in turn exported trillions of dollars of cheap goods back to the United States ... It was the strongest force in an overall manufacturing decline that cost 5 million jobs. Those workers were typically men whose education stopped after high school, a group that has seen its wages fall by 15 percent after adjusting for inflation."
Posted by: Dino White9248 || 01/19/2017 20:47 Comments || Top||


Why not just slap on tariffs?
The trouble with the import tax and export credit system now under consideration by House Republicans is simple: it redistributes rewards and penalties arbitrarily. There are industries that are naturally dependent on imports, for example, retailers and oil refiners. President-elect Trump criticized the House plan as "too complicated," and he's right.

The House is to encourage domestic production by refusing to allow corporations to treat imported items as an expense for tax purposes. But oil refiners import most of their raw material and add a limited amount of value by refining it. The cost of inputs is the majority of the final cost of refined products. If refiners can't expense their input costs, the results would be "devastating," according to a study by the Koch brothers.

...The Republican plan is something like chemotherapy: stress the whole body to kill a few cancer cells. It might help, or it might do more harm than good. But there's an economic equivalent of the new cancer therapies that isolate and attack the pathological cells without sickening the whole organism.

We need a corporate tax cut. And US industries need protection against predatory practices. To quote from the World Trade Organization's website: "A country can use the WTO’s dispute settlement procedure to seek the withdrawal of the subsidy or the removal of its adverse effects. Or the country can launch its own investigation and ultimately charge extra duty (known as "countervailing duty") on subsidized imports that are found to be hurting domestic producers."

China subsidizes industries outrageously--by offering cheap credit to state-owned companies from state-owned banks, and allowing state-owned companies to run at a loss while they crush the competition with low prices. That's how entire industries that began with American innovations turned into Chinese monopolies.

...How do you deal with a organized mercantilism on this scale? I doubt the House Republicans' plan will address it. The answer is to fight fire with fire. When China (or other exporters) subsidize exports to the US, impose tariffs preemptively. We have the right to do so under the World Trade Organization rules. There's no reason to go through long and weary diplomatic dances. Identify the problem, impose a tariff, and let the other side go howling to the World Trade Organization.

How do we know that Chinese companies are using subsidies to undercut US prices? Look at their books. Many if not most state-owned companies are unprofitable and are borrowing money to paper over losses. Most of their data is publicly available, because the state-owned companies went to the public market to obtain capital and have to publish income statements and balance sheets.

It would take a bit of work, but a lot less than one might think--it's the sort of exercise that equity analysts do every day. Targeted tariffs are much better than an across-the-board tariff (which President-elect Trump has suggested on occasion), and they are defensible under WTO rules.

Instead of a Procrustean bed that would penalize US industries that happen to depend on imports due to the nature of their business, the aggressive use of anti-subsidy and anti-dumping tariffs would correct problems before US industries withered and died--as the solar panel industry did in the late 2000s. Tax incentives aren't enough. The Chinese will keep dumping. An adjustment of the Chinese exchange rate with the dollar isn't enough (Chinese producers will just cut their prices in dollars). Better to go right after the offending products and impose a fair price with tariffs.

As Dr. Henry Kressel and I argued in a Nov. 21 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, there's a more extreme and efficacious measure that should be applied to the whole array of defense procurement: demand domestic content for any electronic component that is used in a weapons system or by the national security functions of the US government. That would cost a bit more, but it would be worth it on national security grounds. No computer is safe, as the president-elect said, except for a computer built in the US in a controlled facility. It would have the side benefit of forcing US producers to shift the whole production cycle and supply chain for many high-tech items back to the US.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/19/2017 06:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The trouble with the import tax and export credit system now under consideration by House Republicans is simple: it redistributes rewards and penalties arbitrarily.

Err! so what? As long as it's a level playing field within an industry, it doesn't matter. Any and all taxes arbitrarily penalize.

The House is to encourage domestic production by refusing to allow corporations to treat imported items as an expense for tax purposes.
This is a mistake, which I am sure will be rectified. The imported item cost+tariff should be an expense.

Effectively, a GST/VAT at the border, which strikes me as a good solution. And what happens in the EU's so called Single Market.
Posted by: phil_b || 01/19/2017 7:09 Comments || Top||

#2  For emphasis: demand domestic content for any electronic component that is used in a weapons system or by the national security functions of the US government.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/19/2017 9:47 Comments || Top||

#3  demand domestic content for any electronic component that is used in a weapons system or by the national security functions of the US government.

Sounds like a no brainer to me.

But I think these policies should also take into account that with China and some of these other countries we are pitting American workers against foreign workers whose basic human rights are routinely denied. China in particular has been given a pass in this regard. OTOH, American labor unions price their members out of the global labor market. Further, minimum wage laws prohibit workers at the bottom rungs of the ladder from competing against their overseas counterparts. We have people who are homeless and/or dependent on welfare because the value of their labor is less than the minimum wage. Wouldn't we all be better off if they had to settle for what they're worth?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/19/2017 12:03 Comments || Top||

#4  ...it would help if 'those in power' didn't flood the low skill market with unlimited labor (uncontrolled immigration), thus dropping the value of such labor.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/19/2017 13:39 Comments || Top||

#5  ...it would help if 'those in power' didn't flood the low skill market with unlimited labor (uncontrolled immigration), thus dropping the value of such labor.

What are you suggesting, smashing the democratic incubator ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/19/2017 13:43 Comments || Top||

#6  China in particular has been given a pass in this regard.

The Chinese have a special relationship with the US political system.
Posted by: Pappy || 01/19/2017 13:53 Comments || Top||

#7 
> good solution. And what happens in the EU's so called Single Market.

Would that not be a good hint that you are incorrect?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/19/2017 14:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Would that not be a good hint that you are incorrect?

No.

I was specifically referring to imports being taxed at the prevailing VAT rate at point of entry, such that they are on an equal tax basis to domestically produced items.
Posted by: phil_b || 01/19/2017 16:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Huffpoo: Obama's Approval Rating Reaches 160 60 Percent As He Leaves Office
[Huffpoo] Sixty percent of Americans approve of the job President Barack Obama is doing in his final days in office, according to new polls from CNN/ORC and The Washington Post/ABC News, his highest numbers in those polls since June 2009.

Those numbers are slightly higher than polls released earlier in the week. Gallup reported a 57 percent approval rating, and both Monmouth University and NBC News/Wall Street Journal reported 56 percent approval. Rasmussen gives Obama the highest approval rating of this week’s polls, showing the president at 62 percent approval. The lowest is a YouGov/Economist survey that puts him at 52 percent.

Obama’s approval rating has been increasing since early in 2016, but the climb picked up speed after the November election. According to the HuffPost Pollster aggregate, about 56 percent of Americans approve of his job performance, up from 50 percent in the summer of 2016 and about 53 percent on Election Day.
Well, if you can't believe pollsters from CNN/ORC and The Washington Post/ABC News, who can you believe.
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Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 01/19/2017 8:32 Comments || Top||

#2  [1] The numbers are most likely cooked. [2] It is easier to be kind towards the crappy relative knowing they are finally moving out.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/19/2017 9:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I posted an explanation.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/19/2017 9:33 Comments || Top||

#4  His approval rating amongst democrats, since they only poll democrats....
Posted by: 49 Pan || 01/19/2017 10:11 Comments || Top||

#5  I approve that he's leaving office - maybe that counts?
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/19/2017 11:19 Comments || Top||

#6  The Department of Truth is busy putting out "Facts" again.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/19/2017 13:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Do you approve of Obama leaving the whitehouse?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/19/2017 14:28 Comments || Top||

#8  I never 'approved' of his entry !
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/19/2017 14:30 Comments || Top||

#9  Hows it go; all guests make hosts happy - some when they arrive, and some when they leave.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/19/2017 14:58 Comments || Top||


Betsy DeVos to Bernie Sanders: ‘There's Nothing in Life That's Truly Free'
[Free Beacon] Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Education, Betsy DeVos, told Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) at her Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday that "there’s nothing in life that’s truly free" when the Vermont senator asked if she would support his efforts to make public college education free for all students.

Sanders first read a portion of DeVos’ prepared statement, which said: "Students should make informed choices about what kind of education they want to pursue post-high school, and have access to high-quality options."

"Some of us believe we should make public colleges and universities tuition-free, so that every young person in this country, regardless of income, does have that option. That’s not the case today," Sanders said. "Will you work with me and others to make public colleges and universities tuition-free, through federal and state efforts?"

"Senator, I think that’s a really interesting idea, and it’s really great to consider and think about," DeVos responded. "But I think we also have to consider the fact that there’s nothing in life that’s truly free."

DeVos, a billionaire conservative activist who supports funding charter schools to diversify education options, is a controversial choice to head the Education Department for liberal senators like Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Patty Murray (Wash.), and Sanders.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/19/2017 06:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ‘There's Nothing in Life That's Truly Free'

Someone who actually believes this should be put in charge of the education of our young people ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/19/2017 7:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Someone who actually believes this should be put in charge of the education of our young people ?

And, given how some of your (and ours) young people are, given a big stick.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/19/2017 8:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Tanstaafl - Robert Heinlein/Milton Friedman
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 01/19/2017 9:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Larry Niven
Posted by: Pappy || 01/19/2017 13:57 Comments || Top||

#5  You're thinking of TANJ (there are no justice), pater.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/19/2017 14:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Probably.
Posted by: Pappy || 01/19/2017 16:02 Comments || Top||

#7  “You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit
Posted by: SteveS || 01/19/2017 20:35 Comments || Top||


Liberals' Lament
[AMERICANTHINKER] The reaction of the Utopian Progressive Left is so extreme, excessive, intolerant, and often cruel because this election is not about the fall of the Democratic candidate for president. Rather, it is about the collapse of an ideology at least 50 years in the making.

Imagine coming of age in a world in which the prevailing institutions of culture and government speak a similar political and ideological language ("the narrative") that is singular, slanted, biased, rigid, self-deceiving, and pervasive. If the Utopian Progressive Left narrative is trumpeted in the media by fellow traveler "journalists" and in the halls of early education and the universities by teachers and professors; trotted out in film, music, and the general popular entertainment culture by most "artists"; and supported and espoused in the rhetoric of politicians at the highest levels and in the policies of the government (until now) itself, the imprint of this pervasive worldview becomes impossible to avoid. It became for many the default viewpoint and one not to be challenged. For decades, this has been extraordinarily effective with millions and millions of converts and true believers.

How could the response from the followers of this self-congratulatory and insular viewpoint to the destroyer of it be anything other than the disturbing reaction that we now see? For those who live in the world of Progressive Utopian globalism, a world of self-delusion, false narratives, and fantasies, these are the darkest of times, rife with existential angst.

One of the first seemingly introspective responses from the leadership of the Democratic Party after the election was that Democrats had failed to "own the narrative" and were unsuccessful in communicating their "vision." This suggests a failure of marketing rather than a flawed message. But the key point is missed: if the narrative is a message of a failed political ideology, the narrative and the ideology must fall. This is how our system is supposed to self-correct.

Ours is not a direct democracy. The president is not elected by a direct vote of the people. The Electoral College stands between the people and the president because most of the Founders feared the masses and wanted an institution in place as a balance against their numbers. Our "checks and balances" system includes this check against the people themselves. Essentially, it is the first and final check to protect us ‐ from ourselves.
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In 1990 they lost in Russia. Now comes their time in America.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/19/2017 4:51 Comments || Top||

#2  In 1990 the mask came off in Russia, it was an oligarchy then and it is an oligarchy now.
Posted by: magpie || 01/19/2017 9:09 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Gitmo awaits more?
[DAWN] DONALD Trump says he wants to be unpredictable. But with the inauguration nearly with us, there is one group that can be certain that having Mr Trump in the White House will make a big difference to their lives -- the remaining detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

A few weeks ago, Trump tweeted that there should be no further releases from Guantanamo. "These are extremely dangerous people and should not be allowed back onto the battlefield," he said. He has even vowed to "load up" the facility "with some bad dudes" once he is in the White House.

For his part, President B.O. has been trying to move some prisoners out before his term of office ends. Four Yemenis were released in the first week of January. There are now 55 inmates remaining.
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Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  I'm surprised Obama hasn't handed Gitmo back to the Cubans.
Posted by: phil_b || 01/19/2017 5:50 Comments || Top||

#2  phil_b, he still has more than 24 hours left so don't let your guard down.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/19/2017 8:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Gitmo of 'em in there.
Posted by: charger || 01/19/2017 19:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
What Trump must reverse, but won't
...At an increasing pace, politics in the West, especially in America, is the surest way to wealth, a 180-out from the West's history. As I explained almost two years ago in, "America is adopting the Middle East model, and it's not Islam," in the Middle East "wealth came from political power because there was no means to create wealth of significance apart of political power."

...Heretofore, the means to create wealth was dispersed. As the result, political power was dispersed along with it. Wealth gains political power, but political power was not needed just to create wealth.

How bad has political thievery become? James Bessen of Boston University Law School says it is so deep that political lobbying is now the second-largest influence on profits for America's large companies.

Government gets bigger and more powerful, which lures companies into viewing Washington as a profit center, which then leads to more policies that expand the size and power of the federal government, which leads to further opportunities for rent-seeking behavior. Lather, rinse, repeat.

...Bernie Sanders notwithstanding, the American Left is not socialist at all; it is fascist, which began in and never departed from Leftism. (Mussolini had been an active member of the Communist International before resigning to start the Fascisti party.) The Republicans are fascist, too, just not as much. But give them 15-20 years and they'll catch up.

This is what Trump must reverse. But he won't.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/19/2017 06:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Republicans are in the main conservatives who hate the descent to fascism that Mr. Sensing decries as much as he does.
That they have the strength and fortitude to defeat it is not at all clear, but they will try.
When the government is corrupt all players need to lobby and bribe, and only the big ones can succeed in doing so, independent of their party.
Similarly, when terrorists run the government everyone must pretend to support them in order to survive, no matter what their inclinations are.
Posted by: Grins Snese4215 || 01/19/2017 17:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Or, put another way, the public sector must be the servant of the private, or a society is evil and murderous, ultimately.
Posted by: no mo uro || 01/19/2017 18:43 Comments || Top||


Ben Stein: The Assassination of Donald Trump - Except it's not working
h/t Instapundit
The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. So the old saw goes, referring to the bravery and discipline of the aristocratic officers the British Army, learned while playing rugby against Harrow.

The Battle of Watergate was won in the network and newspaper editorial offices. There, "an effete corps of impudent snobs," as Bill Safire brilliantly put it, launched a media putsch that panicked a nation into the delusion that a microscopic dabble in an insanely pointless burglary required the execution of the most effective statesman in U.S. history, Richard Nixon.

A handful of contemptuous nabobs of negativism basically seized control of the leading organs of the press and launched an attack that led to genocide in Cambodia among other disasters.

This was, as the genius Edith Efron put it, "news from nowhere," a tale of sound and fury signifying the left’s capture of the media as The Bard might say.

Now they’re trying the same thing on Trump. To break him down by endless attacks on him as a racist and a bully and a dope.

In a way it’s pitiful. John Lewis, d. Ga. Still nursing a head wound from 1966 or ’67. Saying Trump is not a legitimate President because the Russians uncovered that the DNC sabotaged Bernie Sanders’ campaign. Crazy. So Trump fires back that Lewis is a loser. That’s schoolyard nothings except for the following.

The almighty New York Times calls Trump a racist for defending himself against a smear. A black reporter at the Times writes an angry article about Trump as racist... not one fact in it. But no one cares. That’s the news. That leads. No one cares.

The NYT does not call the tune any longer. Voters get their news from a jillion sources on the Internet. The Times is a voice and a big voice. But there are a billion other voices now. And about half of the nation just does not believe Big Media any longer. They don’t buy the vicious lie that white people are all racists. They know that the Black Caucus and Black Lives Matter are real racists. They know Joe Sixpack isn’t and anyway, they don’t care.

They’re sick of being pushed around. They elected a tough guy who won’t be pushed around. He’s a shtarker and he cannot be broken in spirit by the thugs and bullies of the media.

The left will beat and beat and huff and puff. But it’s a different world now. Again... The people who elected Trump don’t remotely believe he’s a racist and they’re sick of hearing it anyway.

This Trump guy. He’s not a sensitive soul like Nixon. He knows how pitifully jealous the media people are. He owes them nothing. He sneers at them. He’s moving them out of the White House. It’s brilliant. He’s making real the truth of now. The media are not good guys by and large. They’re jealous snobs. They are not running the show any longer. One tweet from Trump blows their 5,000 word stories to bits. This battle over Trump’s legitimacy is done. In Trump’s mind and in his legions’ minds, he’s legitimate and the media isn’t. He knows how the world works. It really is a reality TV show now. He’s some dope.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/19/2017 05:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  While taking my first PoliSci course, we were required to memorize the names of the world's leading newspapers,and know why they were important.

But that was a long time ago.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 01/19/2017 19:24 Comments || Top||


And Now The Left's War On Normal Americans Truly Begins
h/t Instapundit
President-elect Donald Trump replaces President Faily McWorsethancarter Friday, but we’re not going to be able to Netflix and chill in the fight for freedom. The left and its establishment allies are desperate to regain the power they see slipping away, and we need to understand that the only way to stop them is to beat them to a pulp and leave them whimpering in the fetal position, crying out for their genderfluid mommies.

The left’s strategy is simple ‐ deny normal Americans normalcy. After all, that’s what we really want, a return to normal.

...Then came 9/11 followed by 15-plus years of botched wars and economic decline, along with an unprecedented cultural offensive against normal Americans. Once the only place you heard that average Americans were racist sexist homophobic everythingist everythingphobic was on college campuses; now, with the active assistance of Obama and his collaborators, it’s everywhere ‐ in our entertainment, in the media, in our faces.

And we’re sick of it.

...Normalcy. It’s what we want, and liberals want to deny it to us in order to doom Donald Trump and reopen their path back into power.

So how will they do it? Constant resistance at every turn. They will ignore norms and rules ‐ remember, norms and rules are only supposed to constrain us. They will lie, cheat, and engage in any conduct that they believe will help their hateful cause.
No mercy! No tolerance! - treat them the way they treat us when they've the upper hand.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/19/2017 04:53 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Most exist courtesy of the public purse.

Cut off the money flow everywhere and at every opportunity. Then they will have to find real jobs. Which means dealing with real people.
Posted by: phil_b || 01/19/2017 5:41 Comments || Top||

#2  President Faily McWorsethancarter.

Snicker.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/19/2017 9:30 Comments || Top||

#3  And those people think they're qualified to lead us?

It's like leaving a butch of five year-olds in charge of the candy store.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 01/19/2017 10:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Now, do we want a president directing his people away from private companies that engage in policies he dislikes? In theory, no. But now that you libs have changed the rules, hell yes!

First off, the libs haven't changed the rules. The left has always promoted Croney socialism. That in no way lends credence to Croney capitalism. Second, his people...WTF? And lastly, if the author hasn't noticed the reactionary left's antics have, and continues to, decimate it's political party. Now's not the time to give them a foil.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 01/19/2017 11:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Spite those liberal twerps.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/19/2017 12:32 Comments || Top||


ACLU Official Mocks Elderly White People, Tells Them They Have ‘Five Years Left'
[Daily Caller] An official for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California mocked elderly white people at a city council meeting last week, telling them they had "five years left."

Rialto, California, held a regularly scheduled city council meeting last Tuesday after a city councilman apologized for planning an event to discuss the possibility of Rialto becoming a "sanctuary city."

Luis Nolasco, a community engagement and policy advocate for the ACLU of Southern California, stood up to speak at the city council meeting and attacked many of the white people present, saying they are not actual residents of Rialto.

Nolasco said, "This is my town."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/19/2017 00:25 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I will endeavor to use my remaining time wisely.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/19/2017 7:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Knowing you, let me make a wild guess?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/19/2017 7:59 Comments || Top||



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