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RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)

You know, I REALLY like this idea, given that Hillary Clinton is a YUGE Saul Alinsky disciple – right up there with Obama and the SEIU.  She called half the nation “deplorables and irredeemables”.  This idea will be a big poke in Hillary’s eye (and tangentially, Obama as well) (emphasis mine):

Petition at White House website to name next major U.S. Navy ship ‘USS Deplorables’

…So what was the new petition? It was a two-fer. It is a demand that the next major U.S. Navy Ship be named “USS The Deplorables.” It is meant to be in-your-face both to the outgoing president and to the Democratic candidate who coined the phrase “basket of deplorables” — a move that may have contributed to her loss in November.

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Emphasis mine:

The tedious everything-is-racism plank has passed its sell-by date as well. Throw it out.

The civil rights movement eliminated all legal impediments to success decades ago. Untold billions have been spent to fight “poverty.” And what has changed in the inner cities? That’s because none of these BandAids can cover the wound of fatherlessness. Or make up for one terrible life decision after another.

So what the grievance peddlers are left with is a wholesale attack on “whiteness” itself. This might work with a few intimidated college students and guilty liberals, but it is not going to be a winning strategy for the vast majority of white people who will say:

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As many have already said, this will be the subject of many panels, articles, and books going forward over the next few years.  Here’s one of the Democrat elites – a former First Lady, US Senator, Secretary of State.  Fully loaded with a $1.2 Billion war chest, she lost to someone who spent half that amount.  Here is one take on why – an inability to either read the electorate and what motivated them to vote for Trump, or giving off an air of “I’m taking you for granted OVER other groups” – or both. Diane Hessan believes she knows why; I took it to be that Democrats browbeat a large swath of the electorate in believing that they HAD to continue to support Democrat identity groups financially even over their own families and when THEIR times get hard (after all, it’s for the COMMON good and not necessarily your’s – WHAT, are you a RACIST / HOMOPHOBE / MISOGYNIST / XENOPHOBE???  Silence, or we’ll [figuratively] kill you!).  Emphasis from Newsbusters:

Over the summer, I found and interviewed over 300 undecided voters, and 250 of them agreed to stay in touch, to send me weekly diary entries about their emotions, what they were thinking about both Clinton and Trump, and how they were leaning when it came to their vote. I had no responsibility to change their views; instead, I synthesized the data that I was collecting, and reported in to the campaign. I also added the insights that I had and made regular suggestions about how the campaign might better articulate its positions and modify its strategies.

… George’s story was one I ultimately heard over and over: He had lived in that part of Pennsylvania (Wilkes-Barre) his entire life, had worked hard, raised a family, paid his debts, sacrificed to get his kids through Wilkes University, and tried to do the right thing for others. “The government never helped me, but I was OK with that,” he said. “I made mistakes, had some scary moments, and my wife worked also at the local library to help out. I paid my bills, including my doctor bills.

“Now I see my tax dollars going to handouts for others who don’t want to work as hard as I did, and I can’t afford my health care.  Everyone is being taken care of but me. I feel left out, and it makes me feel that I want my country back.”

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As I noted (again), the Left sees all of us not with them as deplorable and irredeemable – and are upset that we won’t give our votes to them, the “rightful governors”.  While those were Hillary’s approved words (probably focused grouped a few times and completely vetted by several layers of her campaign staff because that’s how it is done).

Jonathan Chait is an uber-Leftist blogger.  That’s fine but once again, we see the new sense of openness of how they really view us.  They are telling us EXACTLY what they think of us:

The right, wrote Chait, was wrong to argue that the Tea Party was all about “timeless principles of conservative movement thought” such as “advocacy of balanced budgets [and] adherence to a strict constructionist version of the Constitution,” while the left understood that the movement was “an expression of ethno-nationalist rage centered around a black president and the belief that his coalition stood for redistribution from older, white America to its younger, more diverse supporters.”

It is BECAUSE they lack the empathy they tell us we should have, BECAUSE they lack the tolerance that they tell us we should have, BECAUSE they lack the willingness to listen that they tell us we should have, BECAUSE they implement the Otherness that they accuse us of…

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Bastiat is rolling in his grave.

About to be former NH State Senator Jeanie Forrester (but “selected” to be NH GOP Chair, according to NH GOP Committeeman Steve “Bikini Man On A Plane” Duprey, NH Senate President Chuck Morse and Gov-to-be Chris Sununu) decided that she just had to write an Op-Ed praising Social Security (full piece after the jump).  Curiously (or not, depending on your point of view and leaving aside the debate of whether it is Constitutional and if it should remain a Government pension or privately held) she decided to concentrate on saving it by emphasising how those recipients spend that money:

This outcome will have significant negative ripple effects. The income derived by Social Security benefits kicks off a cascade of events felt throughout the entire economy. That money is spent on goods and services, which supports businesses and creates jobs. But when an older American takes a cut in their already limited budget, he or she will make rational economic choices such as deciding against buying a new car or choosing not to eat out. These choices are felt throughout the economy.

According to a new analysis by AARP, Social Security fuels $1.6 trillion in economic activity in the United States. The cost of doing nothing is estimated to be upwards of $400 billion in lost economic output. Here in New Hampshire we’d see a $2 billion annual loss of economic output, which in turn could cost us around 11,100 jobs.

First off, anyone quoting AARP for anything forgets that AARP was a major 

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OK, a bit over the top on that title, but just by a little. After all, they both support Planned Parenthhood, right?  And giving donations to the PP Action Fund, he helped Buckles defeat Kelly Ayotte (all of his verbal protestations aside we all only have to look at his actions). And there’s one other thing that ties the two together ideologically as well but let me do a quick set up.

So J-Ho has decided that she wasn’t going for threepeat for the NH GOP Chair – good move.  And so like nature who abhors a vacuum, we’re seeing a bunch of folks flooding in to fill said vacuum.  Thus far:

• Matt Mayberry (current Vice-Chair, NHGOP)
• Wayne MacDonald (former long term Vice-Chair and NH GOP Chair)
• Jeannie Forrester (former State Senator, ran for NH GOP Gov nomination)
• JP Marzullo (former Vice-Chair)

And this is where the NEXT tie-in with Ray Buckley comes in (and no, it doesn’t involve fake bikinis – that I know of):

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I saw the news when this “avante – garde” (e.g., true socialism in action) small biz opened and decided to throw out all of the regular rules of capitalism (and, not to be too obvious, capitalism) and run it strictly according to socialist thought.  Apparently, they thought that they were “the Right People” socialists have been looking for to implement it.  Ah, the sad (but knowable) end (reformatted, emphasis mine):

The end has come for a popular Grand Rapids restaurant known as much for its creative vegan dishes as its progressive business model.

…Not only was the menu unconventional, so was the business model. Bartertown was a collective, which meant there were no bosses, according to Cappelletti. The inspiration for the worker-owned restaurant was based on Cappelletti’s own restaurant experience.  “Because of our economy, people are working 12- to-15-hour shifts, servers take home $200 to $300 a night in tips, the cooks are making $10 an hour and the owner takes whatever he takes, ” Cappelletti told MLive in 2011. “We’re going to have equal pay and equal say across the board. Everyone working together.”

And of course, they had to burnish their collectivist bona fides – all of them with no exceptions – make sure that ALL of their patrons knew their politics:

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