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| Three Glorious Days of Democrat Agony |
| 2020-02-06 |
| Kurt Schlichter at Town Hall So, February 3, 4, and 5, 2020 were pretty much the most miserable three days in the history of the Democratic Party. I’m not laughing, really I’m not! You know how sometimes you have a bad day when nothing goes right? Well, these super-achievers managed to triple that streak. They are achievers in the same sense Hoover Snort Biden is an achiever. Let’s start with Monday, February 3rd and the Iowa Caucuses. In their defense, it wasn’t like they had four years to get prepared to handle...counting. Oh wait, they did have four years to handle...counting. Okay, well, then in their defense they went to unionized failing government schools, so counting is hard. But not for the Republicans, who managed to count their votes just fine. As of when you read this, they might still not have actual numbers. Audie Murphy Buttigieg, Crusty Commie Curmudgeon and Chief Sitting Bolshevik may well all still be claiming victory, while Gropey J’s handlers are likely still complaining about the process and Not Senile Joe himself is chasing an uppity squirrel around a Nashua park. ...Fresh from the hellish nightmare that was Monday came Tuesday with its own infernal events. The Iowa situation remained fluid, that fluid being similar to the hobo juice freely sprayed around Scat Francisco’s sidewalks. On Tuesday, rumors spread that Pete Rambo Buttigieg was linked to the mysterious app maker designated the fall guy for the caucus circus. Maybe it was true, maybe it wasn’t, but these are Democrats so it really doesn’t matter. And then President Trump gave the best State of the Union speech pretty much ever, spending much of it listing real achievements that help real Americans while Nancy Pelosi fumed behind him, offering a running commentary to her invisible friend. Trump played the Dems like Pete Townsend plays the guitar. Among the things Trump got them not to applaud for were: Record low unemployment Record high stocks Fair trade Minority children not being stuck in failing government schools People fighting cancer Law enforcement Our military Killing terrorists Not killing babies America God These may have been good looks on college campuses and in communist bookstores, but not so much in the United States. The speech was masterful, and when Pelosi tore it up, she highlighted just how owned she was for the whole world to see. ...Then February 5th came along and their impeachment collapsed into rubble. We all knew it was coming, but then ... poof. Gone. You tried to take out the king, and you failed. How lame. Yeah, history will record that you managed to impeach Donald Trump. History will also record that Donald Trump beat you donkeys like rented mules. ...So, three bad days...okay, but the coming days will be brighter and better, right? I mean, you have a great candidate for...oh. Well, you’ll get a big boost with the economy...oh. At least you can still count on minorities to back you even though you never, ever perform on your promises...oh. Come to think of it, you Democrats might look back wistfully at the last three days because it’s only getting worse for you from here. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #24 #19 Teachers in a classroom can see how students are reacting to the material and tailor the flow. Haven't heard of a VR system that can do that yet. What Alan said. Don't know why - be it because these apps are designed by emotionally-clueless techies or for some other reason -- but our collaboration apps fail to replicate the intense exchange of information that results from two humans sitting across from each other, reading each other's eye movements, body language, posture etc in the same physical space. Until that UX problem is solved,distance learning will lag -- and educational tech will not "scale." |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-06 23:05 |
| #23 "Retreaded" or "retarded"... or both? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-06 22:53 |
| #22 The amusing thing is that the 'app development' that helped set up the chaos was apparently a grift to funnel money to a bunch of retreaded Zero and Clintonia 'expert' staffers, who turned out to be - who'd guess it - incompetent. Metaphor and poetic justice all in one. |
| Posted by: Nero 2020-02-06 20:19 |
| #21 Ha ha, JHH. Thou hast made my day! Careful - don't get European Conservative and me started on Tricky Richard III ("plots have I laid, inductions dangerous...") |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-06 16:29 |
| #20 massive discontents between its rhetoric and its reality * massive disconnects (For Lex from Richard III, spoken by Pelosi) Now is the winter of our disconnect Made glorious summer by this son of New York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our House In the deep bosom of the Senate buried. Now are our brows bound with crowns of thorns; Our bruised arms hung up for merriments; Our stern alarums scorned at merry meetings, Our dreadful marches reduced to pitiful whimpers. Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now, in additiion to mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a First Lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. |
| Posted by: JHH 2020-02-06 15:35 |
| #19 1. Teachers in a classroom can see how students are reacting to the material and tailor the flow. Haven't heard of a VR system that can do that yet. (yes that does assume good teachers) 2. the political realm is totally off the leash and who knows what's gonna happen. 3. The epidemic Wuflu may be 100 times worse than reported bu the Commie Chinese so what that could/would/will do to all these equations only the Lord knows.....and I hope he's in a good mood. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2020-02-06 14:16 |
| #18 * massive disconnects |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-06 13:48 |
| #17 You might say, "OK but how can this schizophrenic divide - between the election results and the cultural landscape - continue? House divided against itself," etc. But it can and does happen, again and again, that a society functions well enough with massive discontents between its rhetoric and its reality, or between the stories it tells about itself and the way power is actually acquired and applied in daily life. We have such a disconnect now, and have had one for half a century. Our elites handle it through the age-old universal solvent: hypocrisy. Lies, BS, The Shitshow. They can continue to do so because they completely, totally control the Means of (Cultural) Production. Every single top research university, all of our public schools and nearly all of the religious schools as well, every Hollywood or streaming film production studio, every broadcast network and every major news or publishing house: ALL of them are dominated by executive leaders, publishers, editors, producers, creative talent, teachers, professors, administrators who hate our traditional culture, our great men and our traditional values. It will take many decades for this vast left-wing/identitarian mandarinate to be displaced. If ever. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-06 13:48 |
| #16 Just to be clear: in the POLITICAL realm, everything is going against the Global Grifter Uniparty. Against China-grifting, against one-worldism, against mass immigration from Mexico or Africa & "sanctuary cities," against 3 Cups o' Tea and nation-building & Afghan Girls Can Code etc etc Which means in the POLITICAL realm of parties and elections, There will almost certainly be a major political realignment during this decade. In the CULTURAL realm, the story is reversed. Those of us who stand for our civilization, our history and our western cultural values are on the back foot. The identitarians & media/hollywood SS clowns are riding high. They utterly dominate the media, the schools, the entertainment industry, even the LANGUAGE we use in our day-to-day discourse. So if we are to take back control of our discourse and language, of our schools and universities, of our culture, it will take at least a generation. Maybe two. Maybe never. Does that make sense? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-06 13:40 |
| #15 . . . and don't forget Nancy's 49ers lost the big game! Icing on the cake. |
| Posted by: warthogswife 2020-02-06 13:31 |
| #14 May the Dems follow the Chinese curse and "have more "interesting times." |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-02-06 12:02 |
| #13 I hope the Republicans don't get cocky over this. I've seen the pubs snatch (remember when that was still a verb?) defeat from the jaws of victory too many times. We should always operate as if we're 5 points behind and stay frosty. |
| Posted by: Warthog 2020-02-06 11:13 |
| #12 I am waiting for technology to become cheaper and the teachers' unions to simply price themselves into extinction. Why pay for a teacher when you can rent VR goggles and get a better product online? At that point the main purpose of going to school is babysitting and that doesn't need fancy credentials. |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-02-06 10:20 |
| #11 Same here Alan. Wen I read their obits, I'll celebrate. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-02-06 10:12 |
| #10 I've lived too long and seen too much premature political celebrating to get too excited yet. Lex, from your keyboard to God's ears, but, to requote the Blog father..."Don't get cocky!" re-taking the culture will require much longer than a generation. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2020-02-06 08:40 |
| #9 "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the media" |
| Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 2020-02-06 07:18 |
| #8 Seriously,reclaiming the schools and the culture will take a generation. Actually, either civil war or a major economic collapse [can you say 22 Trillion dollar debt Mssr Louis XIV], would result in radical readjustment of limited funding possibilities and priorities. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-02-06 06:48 |
| #7 If the incompetent school teachers taught a bit of chemistry maybe they can go breaking bad and BECOME undocumented pharmacists? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-02-06 03:40 |
| #6 Seriously, reclaiming the schools and the culture will take a generation. Long march. Patience, perseverance. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-06 03:15 |
| #5 Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. I shall repay! |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-06 03:10 |
| #4 I repeat, what about millions of incompetent school teachers, college professors, bureaucrats of the sprawling welfare state? You think they just give up and hunt for a job now done by a "undocumented immigrant" (they're incompetent to do anything else)? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-02-06 03:01 |
| #3 Da'uzh, moi droog. I still think that Cruella DeBotox's performance was more akin to a death rattle, the last rantings of a dying hag, than anything remotely rational. These are like Portents of the End Times. Surreal: Bloomberg, spending half a BILLION DOLLARS to win the right to lead the supposedly anti-billionaire party. Surging candidate in IA: a gay millennial with no experience whose name begins with "Butt." Other leading candidate: Bloomberg's mortal enemy, a Lenin impersonator (though Ilyich at least could stand up straight, unlike the Hunchback of Burlingt- er Brooklyn). This is a procession of freaks. A vision of Death and the Apocalypse. Are we seeing the death rattle of the Global Grifter Democrats? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-06 02:55 |
| #2 You ain't seen nothing yet, Lex. The "elites" won't give up their privileges without a fight - you do realize that there are millions not trained for anything productive - who hold high paying white-collar jobs due to being good party persons? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-02-06 02:47 |
| #1 Too many jewels here to quote, but -- no offense to the Schlichter -- most of these wrote themselves. We have seen the absolute (for now, anyway) nadir of The Shitshow. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-06 02:38 |