Not Quite Comprehending The Meaning Of Words

Doesn’t she read the Babylon Bee?
‘WASHINGTON, D.C.—The dangerous, evil, all-powerful, fascist, Nazi dictator Donald Trump has been voted out of office and censored, as is tradition for evil dictators.
“I never thought I’d live to see the day where America is ruled by a dictator!” said concerned American Kelly Lampler. “But at least now he’s a dictator that has been effortlessly silenced online!”
“We are living through scary times indeed under the rule of this fascistic tyrant,” said worried CNN reporter Zeeke Chambers at a time when zero journalists or dissenters have been silenced, jailed, or executed by this administration.’
https://babylonbee.com/news/dangerous-fascist-dictator-censored-and-voted-out-of-office

She is stunning and brave! She says so herself!
Alas, this afternoon she was admitted to a hospital emergency ward with a dislocated shoulder. Patting yourself on the back can be hazardous.

Strange typo in the tweet. Her finger slipped from the ‘I’ key, and hit ‘w’ and ‘e’ instead.

Well then, Amy, that makes two evil hatey dictators from the “right” peacefully voted out of office, then. How many from the Left?

the first rule of modern leftism is to flatter oneself, preferably in gratuitously dramatic terms
It appears to be all about the pretending amongst themselves, and forcing you to pretend along with them.

“Can’t be said enough”
LOL

“Related.”
We’re going to build your next house based on race/trans/gender equity.
Instead of like, you know, maths.
’cause that’s rayciss.

…because a sort of neo-feudal oppressive state, crushing and bloated, is necessary for an ideological purification of the population…. Mustn’t Pepe over Tovarich Bernie, famed for his smashing of the system.

I blame the promotion of the flabby, bullying solipsism of self-esteem.

the first rule of modern leftism is to flatter oneself, preferably in gratuitously dramatic terms
Also circle jerks of flattery, as when “scholars” of any of the grievance “studies” cite each other in an endless circle of idiocy and fraud.

Also circle jerks of flattery, as when “scholars” of any of the grievance “studies” cite each other in an endless circle of idiocy and fraud.
Like the Irish policemen in an old Bugs Bunny cartoon, except conceited and not funny.
“Aye, that it was, wasn’t it O’Hara”
“Aye, that indeed, wasn’t it Clancy”
“Aye, that it was, wasn’t it Bugs”*
*cue Bugs adopting an Irish policeman’s expression and continuing the gag

Certainly dodged a bullet, in any case

Four more years of a president who pushed absurd conspiracy theories about a “stolen election” and incited a violent attack against his own legislature, for starters. I’m sure another term would have just gone swimmingly…

Rafer, Trump did not incite violence. This is in stark contrast to numerous “respectable” politicians on the left (to say nothing of journalists, academics, entertainers, etc) who explicitly incited violence.

Rafer, you mean like these statements?
“I just don’t know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country. Maybe there will be.”
“Protesters should not let up.”
“There needs to be unrest in the streets.”
And for the Biden Administration: “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
That what you mean?

1. Donald Trump is greatly defective, but for the last four years the U.S. has enjoyed non-warfare and economic prosperity (with even some spring-back after the lockdowns). And he hasn’t tried to censor me (or get his partisans to shut me down or get me fired) for my speaking of my own deviant, roughly Objectivist, political inclinations.
Most of the practical political chaos during the last four years arises from efforts, often underhanded, to be rid of him. Even if all that is amplified by his habit of handing himself into the clutches of his enemies.
2. As for a stolen U.S. election… well, there were enough evident examples of fraud and misbehavior in big municipalities for us to know that there were numerous *attempts* to steal the election. There always are some, and surely more this last year than usual. What’s unclear (and what the Trump camp cannot quickly prove) is that is was of the quantity needed to steal the election. At present, we don’t have strong protections against election fraud in the U.S.; they are far weaker than those in Western Europe. We must only *presume* that the last election was not stolen.
3. If we do want to have some basic political peacefulness in the U.S., it’s going to require some restraint by many people who aren’t accustomed to it. It makes no sense to slander Donald Trump (or Joe Biden) as a literal fascist, and then treat his lack of probity as some sort of limbo bar to slip under. This Amy Siskind’s delusions are the same as the BLM and antifa rioters, and their self-excuse.
The Capitol Hill mob surely felt themselves justified to disorder on account of the 2020 riots. I think the Capitol Hill mob will be a one-off… for now. But a partisan double standard for political violence *cannot* hold forever.

Is there a word for this level of stupidity, ignorance, and cluelessness?
Yes, “academic”, or “journalistic” both come to mind. If you want to go a level higher than mere “academic”, you can use “Ivy League”.

Darn those right wing authoritarians and their dictators.

We must only *presume* that the last election was not stolen.
We can also presume through their actions. Democratic governors have repeatedly resisted any attempts at checking voter rolls, and any attempt to do so is considered voter suppression and racism.

“We must only *presume* that the last election was not stolen.”
Nothing to see here.

Nothing to see here
Despite all that it was still necessary to simultaneously stop counting in 4 (or was it 5) key states to allow the 4 a.m. vote dumps to “right the ship”.

Speaking of lefty self-delusion, is it just me or was the poem read yesterday at Biden’s inauguration, particularly banal and inept?
I mean how about this:
…there is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.
That’s real facebook poetry right there.
Yet, already all my lefty friends are cooing over it and quite beside themselves with adoration for its writer. And no doubt it will now be on all school reading lists along with similar doggerel by Maya Angelou.
And if you don’t like it, then you’re clearly a bad person.

Perceptions of wrong-doing are strong and can last lifetimes. The feeling that the establishment and particularly the media have been part of it are especially strong. Continuing to rub it in your face is counter-productive in the extreme unless they are really convinced that 1984 worked and that Twitter reflects the nations mood. I don’t see how this Dear Leader schtick can end well.

Strangely, Portland police appear to have rediscovered their gonads and responded with a crackdown including CS gas.
What could cause such a reversal of policy, I wonder?

” Speaking of lefty self-delusion, is it just me or was the poem read yesterday at Biden’s inauguration, particularly banal and inept?”
There’s always something ridiculous about poetry written for modern political occasions. Essentially poetry celebrating dull bureaucratic occasions.
Sure, there was court poetry in previous centuries. But the court poets were largely left to their own devices.
Gorman really did her best with the formal requirements of the occasion: it called for inoffensive traditional-sounding platitudes.

Antifa smash Democrat windows in Portland?
Yes, peacefully.

tongue bath

This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

Then why bother with the order?

To me, the important fact is not that the vote was jiggered, or that officials and journalists had no interest in investigating or explaining. The important fact was that the election was validated, first passively by the Supreme Court, and then formally by Congress.

Speaking of lefty self-delusion, is it just me or was the poem read yesterday at Biden’s inauguration, particularly banal and inept?
Sophomoric poetry to go with sophomoric opinions.

Tongue bath? What tongue bath?
That reminds me: When Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black mayor, died suddenly, posters appeared on the South Side depicting him rising bodily into Heaven accompanied by Jesus & etc.

Whatever you are smoking, it’s pretty powerful stuff.
Agree. Burn Loot Murder in the name of Saint George Floyd – media stands in front of it saying “mostly peaceful protest”. Heck – we’ve had protests on capitol hill before – during Kavanaugh’s hearings, and even before that, what was that pussy group that used to like to break in on hearings…not Pussy Riot, Code Pink! No one called them feral rioters.
Ferals in the streets taking over public and private property and calling it Autonomous Zones, and that’s perfectly fine – just peacefully protesting. Hauling people from their cars and beating them, smashing the cars – that’s perfectly legal. Burning down private buildings – no not arson, nothing illegal – just more peaceful protesting. Same bunch tries to burn down a federal building with federal employees inside, so the National Guard is called in: HOW DARE YOU! Lowly citizen defending yourself against people who are actively trying to damage you and your property: HOW DARE YOU!
Despite all that it was still necessary to simultaneously stop counting in 4 (or was it 5) key states to allow the 4 a.m. vote dumps to “right the ship”.
Flash drives containing 10-15 thousand votes all for Biden, just enough to put him on top – nothing to see here, move along. Oh and you will be banned from Twitter if you mention any of that because LIES! I need to find the link to the Pennsylvania governor who said that about “lies” not being allowed speech. Things he considers lies. Cause I know for a fact you can make stuff up about Trump and broadcast it day and night and that’s fine. You could do the same thing about GW Bush, too – I know, I used to do it for fun. You’d be amazed what craziness people would believe if it was negative about Bush.
And yet a bunch of non-Code Pink, non-Lefty protesters raise hell on Capitol Hill and THAT is what has done appalling damage to US democracy? Seriously? I can’t imagine that people actually believe this stuff. It’s copy/paste from some boilerplate of Approved Thought.
The fact that only certain protests are Allowed and that unlawful activities are allowed with impunity if they are done in association with those Allowed protests – that’s what does the damage. When we are no longer a nation of laws, when the law is applied depending on the whims of the ruling class, that’s when the damage is done.

When we are no longer a nation of laws, when the law is applied depending on the whims of the ruling class, that’s when the damage is done.
Oh we’re a nation of laws alright. Many, many laws too numerous to count nor account for. Hence we are at the whims of the ruling class, lawyers and judges. Legislated into anarchy partly because the of repeated expression “there otta be a law” was never refuted. Because more jobs for the lawyers our colleges and universities were spewing out like the Devil’s Coffee.

..please show me one instance of Biden, Obama, either Clinton, either Bush, or any presidential candidate for that matter, giving a wink and a nod to violent mobs of their own supporters storming a sitting legislature…
Perhaps you could point to said nods and winks in Trump’s address. As for Democrats calling for uprisings, are direct quotes from the Speaker of the House and a sitting Congressman some how disqualified? While Pelosi isn’t technically a presidential candidate, she is second on the presidential succession list.

>an election didn’t turn out the way they wanted
>”a wink and a nod”
>”storming a sitting legislature”
Tendentious, bloody-minded, and juvenile.
Your whole reading is premised from a position that “no reasonable person could object to the election” and then follows through to “Trump and his supporters cannot possibly object in good faith” and attempts to share time with “Trump is unreasonable”. You accuse him of guilt which hinges on premeditated bad action – which is only premeditated bad action if he shares your grounding that the election was legitimate.
His statements closest to your supposed “wink and a nod” were of the “I can’t condone it, but I can understand it” nature – *prefaced with a statement that violence must end*. That is completely different in category to a shrugging/smirking statement of condonement as offered by the examples above. Again, you impute bad faith of the “none could possibly believe that the election was fraudulent” nature. Purely self-serving of you.
Which of Obama, Clinton W/H, or Bush was forced to leave the White House while (in solidarity with supporters) offering statement that an election had been compromised? You unnecessarily (quite deliberately, I might add) confine the actor to a president or candidate and the dispute to an election – were you in the least bit honest you would recognize that mobs of democrats with the support of legislators and others have repeatedly held violent protest against anything under the sun – appointment of supreme court justices, signing of executive orders… the list goes on.
Trump’s own inauguration was marred by violent protest… but it was not a presidential candidate giving the “necessary” wink and nod – it was a large part of the whole apparatus of government.
No such mob *against* Trump required an endorsement of specific figures to occur. For a large protest gathering to form on behalf of Trump did rely on Trump’s support, that is true, but only because Trump himself was the prominent figure in agreement with them.
So Trump is to be unpersoned immediately, and the unconstitutional abuses of power set about by the Dems are purely inevitable, because Trump held a protest speech on the Mall, and condoned *protest* in support of those protesting the Electoral College vote, because a handful of people up at the Capitol broke glass? Before he had said anything that could possibly be construed as “ride in and give ’em hell, boys”? The same “violent mob” that in majority wandered around the building on an unguided tour between the velvet ropes and on finding the chamber were told “sorry, you can’t enter”. “oh”. Others of which were let in by the police.
There is something of a farce in a “mob” of the generally law-abiding-but-easily-led.
By all means, protest those who committed vandalism. But if you protest the Capitol Crowd as a whole, be sure to also condemn in the strongest possible terms those whose mob in Boston precipitated the Boston Massacre. Unless of course you think that only those you agree with can have protests, and that the legitimacy of motives is what determines a “Peaceful Protest” apart from looting, arson, and murder.

Well stated, Sporkatus.

They really are desperate to have all us sane folks just shut up and stop noticing, aren’t they?
The curse of the NeverTrump: such vehement abject rejection of Trump the man on aesthetics (self-reinforcing in confirmation bias) that a slanted lens sets in the eye to interpret everything the man does in more histrionic terms than the left… because he’s brought such a coarseness to the Superiority Complex right that the stain just won’t wash away.
I personally described Trump’s acts regarding the Obama Birth Certificate affair as distasteful, and referred to him as a clown, but at the beginning of the 2016 primaries realized that all other candidates had eliminated from themselves the ability to speak plainly and without prevaricating. I didn’t expect that he’d win, only that he’d drag things into the light that needed dragging and possibly promote some *spine*. It was not to be. In the strangest of ways, he alone was left standing at the end, in possession of his own unique integrity.
Well, alright then.
His governance since, in such matters as the border wall (attempting again and again to secure funding and arrange it, to a point succeeding) and support of the pro-life movement has convinced me that he views politics as transactional with his voters, and that he has a genuine love for the America which was, somewhat is, and always should be.
My ego is not so wrapped up in the Buckley vision of a Republican elite beating the left at their own “class and integrity” game that I can abandon him for coarseness.

She has missed having a daddy for four years.

This blog has been mercifully political troll-free for as long as I can remember (Hal was a bit different). Best not to encourage our new friend, there are more than enough other sites for that.

(Hal was a bit different)
However, in comparison a voice of reason and sanity, which is a sad state of things.

What you are ignorant of is that the “riled crowd”, easy walking distance or no, is not a reconcilable fact with what took place. “Trump delivered a speech, a crowd full of piss and vinegar from his speech (in which he told them to be violent), headed over to the Capitol and broke in (as he wanted them to)” is a compelling narrative which is – nonetheless – utterly false. Nonsensical.
I do not think you claim to know what was happening in Trump’s mind. However, there can only be malice in claiming the election was stolen if you do not believe the election was stolen. All other things described by you extend from this First Malice, which cannot be reconciled with your framework, and which you allow to color everything else.
Gladiator
Cheeky, but idiotic. I’m not allowed to observe that trial by combat is a reference to pop cultural images of last resort, as it is clearly such a founding principle of American jurisprudence.
Since you’re making requests of others for citations, please indicate to me where “trial by combat” could in any possible way equate to a Storming of the Bastille or a resort to main force. Your two options are “Rudy was blathering, which in some way equated to violence in the most indirect and illogical possible way” or “Rudy intended to paint a picture of a final moment of bravery”. Among these options is not “Rudy has vast unexamined psychic powers and communicates by code phrase”.

Sporkatus,
For people like “Rafer” who are so convinced, utterly and completely, that OrangeManBad lost the Most.Fraud.Free.Fair.Transparent.Election.EVAH, they sure do want to sprout like mushrooms in forums of WrongThink to pound their puny chests in anger. Their brethren demanding re-education or gulags or destruction of 74 million voters who dissented from their received wisdom.
They all sound a tad defensive over their anointed, CCP purchased, Faker-In-Chief-of-the-United-States.

This blog has been mercifully political troll-free for as long as I can remember (Hal was a bit different). Best not to encourage our new friend, there are more than enough other sites for that.
You mean you forgot about Tiny Minnow already. Our host David can regale you with troll stories.

They all sound a tad defensive over their anointed, CCP purchased, Faker-In-Chief-of-the-United-States.
They also sound down-right offensive as well. Witness New York Times opinion columnist Will Wilkinson tweeting:

“If Biden really wanted unity, he’d lynch Mike Pence.”

I’d provide a link, but he’s taken his tweets private. Here’s a link to SDA where Kate has screen capped the tweet.
For our friend Rafer that’s what an actual call to violence looks like. Specific. To-the-point. In context. No way to be taken metaphorically.

By Rafer’s standards, Obama should have been impeached (and imprisoned) for saying “get in your neighbors faces” and “punch back twice as hard” and “if they bring a knife we bring a gun”. (And those weren’t the only things that the corporatist “light bringer” said.)
Furthermore, as I said, various Democrat politicians protected Antifa thugs so that they could continue to riot, burn, and beat up people. Biden denied that Antifa was a real thing. Pelosi and Harris praised the BLM and Antifa rioters.
And we should not forget the fraudulent investigations of Trump (no Russia collusion, merely fabricated by Russia’s actual friends in America) and Obama’s use of the IRS against the astonishingly peaceful Tea Party people.

The Age newspaper [Victoria, Australia] this morning regales readers about the new décor in the Oval Office:
“Among many changes in the Oval Office, former president Donald Trump’s light gold drapes have been replaced with a set that hung during Bill Clinton’s presidency.”
I couldn’t help but wonder if they had randy Bill’s drapes cleaned in case there were stains on them. The Democrats are certainly tasteless, thick and out of touch with the morality of at least half the Nation’s population.

Reefer Jenkins sounds suspiciously similar to the SDA troll UnMe.

D-Day was a doddle compared to this last election. Wading through the surf trying desperately to reach cover as German machine guns cut down your platoon like so much ripe wheat? Paahhh! Try standing in line at Starbucks, desperate for your $6 cafe au lait, while having to listen to same MAGA-hatted white-supremacist red neck espouse the “genius” of Donald Trump.

[ Resumes playing Hades’ Star. ]

Go ahead, Antifa.com. Link SFW.

Somebody cue up Fred Rogers’ “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood “.