Be heard today folks, take a like minded fellow with you and head to the polling station. Remember the battle cry of the opposition (vote early, vote often) can be silenced by overwhelming conservative turnout.
Why I Live in Rural Tennessee
The Enemy of the People
Zero Hedge carries a good article on the ‘Enemy of the People” that I largely agree with. It begins with:
When Trump calls the establishment media the enemies of the people, that’s because they – together with their passive NPC drones and active Antifa enforcers – are enemies, if by “the people” we mean the historic American nation. Trump’s sin is that he calls them out for what they are.
Trump didn’t cause today’s polarization, he only exacerbates it because he punches back. Good, may he continue to do so. Pining for a more well-mannered time in a country that belongs to another, long-gone era is futile.
American politics is no longer about a narrow range of governing styles or competing economic interests. It is tribal. Today’s “tribes” are defined in terms of affinity for or hostility to the founding American ethnos characterized by European, overwhelming British origin (a/k/a, “white”); Christian, mainly Protestant; and English-speaking, as augmented by members of other groups who have totally or partially assimilated to that ethnos or who at least identify with it.
Lizzy Clears it All Up
There is No Downside
Democrats recognize the day is fast approaching when they cannot win elections without the numbers that migrating populations bring. These new neo-citizens will displace Americas existing minorities in jobs, benefits, and political power. There is only one hazardous point along the path; they must pacify the brothers and sisters until their new constituent base is in place. To get past this ‘choke point’ their strategy has two components: enrage the black population and expedite the accumulation of Hispanic citizens. The Democrats have America’s black population eating (literally) out of their hand; they know exactly what buttons to push to keep them both subservient and loyal. The rapid accumulation of new citizenry can be seen occurring before our eyes. In short, the Democrats can piss all over their constituents because there is no downside. The brothers and sisters are safely within the confines of the plantation and have no interest in wandering away.
Quote of the Day
“Kanye West is living proof that when you’re worth a quarter-billion dollars, you can walk off the plantation whenever you wish.”
Unknown
Oh Dear God, No
“If you care about what’s happening in the world, you have to care about running for and holding elected office. I hope it’s a question that we ask ourselves,” Clinton said.
Her Own Dog-Whistle
Waters primer on how the opposition party should respond to losing an election: “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd,” she said. “And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
Those unhinged remarks got plenty of airtime, and earned Waters the rebuke of Democratic congressional leaders. But it wasn’t the most inane thing she said. Apparently urging mobs to gather outside Republicans’ homes at night, she added, “We’re saying, ‘No peace, no sleep! No peace, no sleep!’” If it occurred to any listener that forced sleep deprivation is a war crime, Waters wasn’t worried: “God is on our side,” she assured the crowd.
Full commentary at Real Clear Politics
Looking Back
A long dark period in the nations history ended a little less than two years ago. I’m still embarrassed when I look back at that period and at the idiot that held himself out as the symbol of strength and freedom. Can you imagine what the world would think of us now if we had elected that stumbling drunk Hillary? When/if you pray, thank God that we dodged that train wreck. This November is just as important as that one two years ago. Vote !
Our Moral Compass
After apologizing for her own white/Jewish/female privilege last week, the joke that is Chelsea Handler now attacks the GOP for their “white Christian male spite”. I guess that she has self nominated herself as the moral compass of the nation. Her critique rails against all things I, in my obviously misguided state, have cheered. She’s obviously fighting her own demons. I wish her well, but not success. She says:
“Our nation is a republic, supposedly democratic in nature, but the 2018 reality resembles a wholly undemocratic farce, replete with our Professional-Wrestler-In-Chief, his crooked Russian-Republican Duma, his rigged Republican Frat Boy Supreme Court, and a nationwide network of vote suppressors and vote riggers and oligarchic donors and bribers doing their seditious best to once again subvert democracy in the name of right-wing tyranny.”
The full story and much more blather from this loon at Breitbart along with a tremendous number of great comments/critiques.
Why We Stand
Facing the Facts
I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying
Discovering the Tooth Fairy is Fake
The Week has an excellent article on the probable outcome and impact of the Mueller investigation. It begins with: “Perhaps the best argument I have seen in favor of repealing President Trump’s pointless tax cuts is the superabundance of disposable income American liberals apparently spend on things like Robert Mueller bobble-head dolls, “Mueller is Coming” and “It’s Mueller time” T-shirts, Mueller “prayer” candles, and even children’s books featuring a super-buff bare-chested but tie-wearing Mueller lookalike hero. Turning the affectless head of a special counsel investigation into some kind of badass comic-book character who is going to rescue America from the nefarious clutches of — I wish I were making this up — “President Ronald Plump” could not be more childish. Goodness knows how many adults really believe all this stuff.”
Matthew Walther continues with “I feel bad for them, in the way that I feel bad for kids who are about to discover that the Tooth Fairy is fake.”
Data Point: New York Slimes
The talk of a blue wave has been in our face for almost a year now. It may be instructional to pause for a moment and look at the track record of those that would have us believe that ‘resistance if futile’. Take heart brothers and sisters. Vote this November and take a friend with you.
An Inconvenient Truth
Adam Schiff lit into Congressman Tom MacArthur over some words he had for his Korean-American opponent. Schiff fired one of those ‘thou art racist’ cheep shots at MacArthur. Only one small problem; MacArthur is the adoptive father of two South Korean girls.
MacArthur’s response: “Adam Schiff thinks he’ll get power by stoking fear, division and anger in this country,” MacArthur told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “His absurd and false tweet that I made a racist comment about my Korean-American opponent overlooks one sort of obvious and for him, rather inconvenient, truth. I’m the father of two children whom Debbie and I adopted from South Korea as babies. I am now the proud ‘Papa’ of my first Korean-American granddaughter.”
Hitler vs Trump
Keep it up, you just look stupider and stupider.
Bubble Gum Card
Power
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end.
GeorgeOrwell, “1984”
Buying Votes Ahead of 2020
American families making less than $100,000 a year could be eligible for a monthly tax credit of up to $500, or $6,000 a year, under new legislation announced Thursday by Democratic U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California.
Individuals making less than $50,000 would be eligible for up to $250 a month, $3,000 a year.
“Americans are working harder than ever but stagnant wages mean they can’t keep up with cost of living increases,” Harris, a likely presidential candidate in 2020, said in a statement.
Harris’ office cited a 2017 survey from the website Bankrate.com that found more than half of Americans cannot afford a $500 unexpected expense, such as a rent increase, medical bill or child care.
Rut Roh, That Didn’t Work Out Well
Claire should have just let this pass, now it has blown up in her face
Trumpaganda
The University of Illinois-Champaign supplies us with an especially revealing illustration of the politicization of education. Beginning on October 22, the school will roll out its new journalism course:
The course description purports to explore “the Trump administration’s disinformation campaign” and “its ‘running war’ with the mainstream news media,” as well as “their implications for American democracy and a free press.”
Not to be undone, San Diego State University now offers a one-credit course which focuses on removing Trump from office.
Ole Miss Professor is Woke
A professor at the University of Mississippi has called on people to desecrate the meals of Republicans by “sticking” their hands in their food and stealing the rest of it because they don’t deserve “civility.”
“Don’t just interrupt a senator’s meal, y’all. Put your whole damn fingers in their salads. Take their apps and distribute them to the other diners. Bring boxes and take their food home with you on the way out. They don’t deserve your civility,” James Thomas, an Assistant Professor at Ole Miss, tweeted Oct. 6, the day Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court.
Shocked
Snatched from the DB Daily Update.
The Texas Democrat Party has allegedly been sending out voter registration cards to illegal immigrants with the citizenship box already checked “yes”, according to multiple complaints filed with the Texas Secretary of State’s office.
Even better, according to the report in the Washington Times, “The applications were pre-addressed to elections officials, which is likely what left many voters to believe they were receiving an official communication from the state. But the return address was from the State Democratic Executive Committee, and listed an address in Austin that matches the state Democratic Party’s headquarters.”
Anyone who thinks this is anything unusual in Texas has never lived in Texas. Were it not for this kind of Democrat-organized voter fraud effort, Lyndon Johnson would have never been anything more than a teacher at some backwater school in the Texas Hill Country.
Jimmy Carter Says
Former President Jimmy Carter didn’t mince words while discussing Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during a visit to Emory University on Thursday.
The 39th president called Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the highest court in the land “a very serious mistake” while speaking to a civil rights class, The Emory Wheel reported.
Joseph L. sets him straight
Revolution’s Logic
Snipped from The American Mind. Another ‘buckle up’ warning. Full article here
‘Regardless of these elections’ outcome, however, this “resistance” has strengthened and accelerated the existing revolutionary spiral. We begin with a primer on such spirals, on the logic of mutual hate that drives them, and on their consequences; move to a general description of our evolution’s driving logic, describe the 2016 elections as the revolutionary spiral’s first turn and the “resistance” thereto as the second. Then we examine how the “resistance” affects the other side, and how this logic might drive our revolution’s subsequent turns.’
Third in Line to the Presidency
There is more at stake in the mid-terms than just control of the House. Can you imagine this airhead ascendng to the Presidency?
Foam Flecked Lips
A great read found at American Greatness, snippet below:
Since November 2016, when Donald Trump was elected president, the American Left has been engaged in one long crackup—a juvenile tantrum of epic proportions marked by hideous screams, rolling eyes, copious tears, foam-flecked lips, and flailing fists and feet that finally allows us to see them for what they really are: a giant 2-year-old in the midst of a frustrated, impotent meltdown.
Indeed, the entire leftist freak show has been on display throughout this remarkable period of American history. Physically, many of the tattooed, body-pierced, bewhiskered, rainbow-haired multitudes resemble something out of a Ray Bradbury novel: The Illustrated Man, perhaps, or Something Wicked This Way Comes. Others recall in aspect the pod people of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” or the mindless robots of “The Stepford Wives”; still others, well into midlife, ape the style and substance of aging Valley Girls, or the nonjudgmental stoop-shouldered, hollow-chested hipsters currently identifying as non-toxically masculine. Prizing witticism over wit, credentials over education, and facile point-scoring over genuine argument, they bring to mind, intellectually, the dissipated poets of the late Roman Empire, fiddling with strophes and meter while the barbarians crash through the gates and burn the place to the ground.
Gingrich’s Two Things
I think two words are going to define the night of the 2018 election in the next three weeks. One is ‘Kavanaugh’ and the other is ‘caravan’.
And the combination of anger over how the left smeared, engaged in character assassination, lied, used bullying tactics with Judge Kavanaugh is going to be one part of this; and the degree to which the left is eager to have 3,000 people in a caravan cross the American border, break American law, recognizing that if that happens, the next caravan will be bigger; and the next caravan after that will be even bigger.
And I think the American people are going to reject both the way they treated Kavanaugh and the way they are dealing with the border. And I think those will end up being the reasons the Republicans keep the House and dramatically increase the number of senators they have.
5 Dimensional Chess
The southern border (or lack thereof) is leading on all of the conservative channels. The Donald wants this issue in front of the electorate for the mid terms, and so, in order to push the blame stream media to cover the issue he threatens to call out the military. Exploding heads in 3….2…..1
Believe
Lizzy’s Continuing Train Wreck
Is That You Plugs?
Former VP ‘Plugs’ Biden holds a wide lead over the other communist candidates to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020. Honest broker CNN did the polling.
About a third of respondents named Biden as their choice to carry the banner in the next presidential election (33 percent), while Vermont Sen. Barnacles Sanders came in second with 13 percent of the respondents.
The Statists and The Donald
This may be one of the reasons that Democrats are literally loosing their minds with The Donald, he’s tearing down their many years of effort to force more and more government upon us and thus diminish the freedoms we are guaranteed. It’s as if the phrase ‘enumerated powers’ has no meaning to these people.
NY Slime Polls TN Senate Race
Forgive me for not posting a link to their rag. Just couldn’t bring myself to.
The Outrage of Nigel
The link to this was provided by a reader (Phssthpok) who commented on an earlier article. It’s just to good to leave buried in ‘comments’.
The righteous outrage of Nigel Farage, when he says ‘Just who the hell do you think you are.” is the type of backbone I wish conservatives possessed. With that said, Lindsey is showing promise.
It’s Getting Entertaining
A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday threw out adult-film actress Stormy Daniel’s defamation lawsuit against President Trump on free-speech grounds.
“The court agrees with Mr. Trump’s argument because the tweet in question constitutes ‘rhetorical hyperbole’ normally associated with politics and public discourse in the U.S.,”
Importantly, the President is entitled to an award of his attorneys’ fees the amount will be determined at a later date.
As the Worm Turns
Dem Who Said, ‘I Stand for the Flag, I Kneel at the Cross’ Forced to Resign as Local Party Exec
Mark Salvas has, reportedly been forced to resign his position as Democratic Party Executive Director in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania because of social media posts sympathetic to God, country, and an accused police officer.
A former Marine and Gulf War veteran, Salvas was just hired in September as executive director of the county party, long after he posted a picture of his wife and him on Facebook with the words, “I stand for the flag, I kneel at the cross.”
Sagan: Should We Listen to the Left?
“The fact that someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true. Doesn’t mean they’re lying, but it doesn’t mean it’s true.
All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based – or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven’t thought of, or demonstrates that we’ve swept key underlying assumptions under the rug – it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.
In his celebrated book, ‘On Liberty’, the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is “a peculiar evil.” If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the “opportunity of exchanging error for truth”; and if it’s wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in its “collision with error.” If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that: it becomes stale, soon learned by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.”
– Carl Sagan
In My Neck of the Woods
From Breitbart
Campaign staffers for Tennessee Democrat Senate nominee Phil Bredesen say he lied on Friday when he released a statement saying he would have voted “yes” to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, according to a new undercover video released by Project Veritas Action on Wednesday night.
Bredesen campaign field organizer Maria Amalla was captured on video by a female journalist sent undercover into one of the Bredesen campaign’s Nashville offices describing Bredesen’s statement on Friday as “a political move” that was necessary because “he’s trying to make up points.”
Pressure
This photo taken in the period after the vote to cut off debate (cloture) and the vote to confirm Kavanaugh.
Hope in Tennessee
As of October 8th