Scott Morales

Something about this whole thing with toppling statues is bothering me. Actually, many things.

First, let it be known that I hold no quarter for any Confederate soldier, militia member, officer or general. They took the wrong side, fought for something dishonorable, and were deeply misguided. And they lost. That’s it. With that said, I do believe that there are some good people who disagree with me on this. And that’s fine.

But I got to say, bending to the will of an angry mob in appeasement, even if it is against white nationalism or racism or whatever, is just, well, stupid and counter productive, but before we get to that, should we remove Confederate statues from public spaces?

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You’ve heard the characterization of those serving in the National Guard as weekend warriors or Harley Riders as weekend warriors.  Now, the Washington Post gives you: Anarchists as weekend warriors!

I’m not kidding. I’ll start with a tweet by satirist @iowahawkblog:

Punchline: if actually anarchy broke out, they wouldn't survive 30 minuteshttps://t.co/pvo0MGp4k7

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 11, 2017

I just read the Wapo article. The funny thing is the tone of the peace is so tender and gentle, as if they were stroking a cute wittle kitten. Even though they’re talking about, you know rioting, setting stuff on fire, brawls. But it’s all in the name of anti-Trump that it’s, like, cool.

But outside their 9-to-5 jobs, they call themselves anarchists — bucking the system, shunning the government and sometimes even rioting and smashing windows to make a point.

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Sleep was just another opportunity to feel like a Bolshevik. But that is what they want, the believers, the steely ones, that is what they live for: the politicization of sleep. They want politics to be going on everywhere all the time, politics permanent and circumambient. They want the ubiquitization of politics; they want the politicization of sleep. — Amis, Martin,  Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million

“They want politics to be going on everywhere all the time”, what does that remind you of? Safe spaces? Trigger words? Firing an employee for views not held by a company? Shouting down and silencing people whose view are not your own? Thought crimes?

This totally stinks of today. Where we’re demanded to accept that she is a he and he is a she and the use of the general neutral singular pronoun “he/his” is a slight. Where people wear black, assault people with views different from their own, damage and set ablaze other people’s property and then call themselves… anti-fascists? 2+2=5.

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Today is May Day or what should be Remember the Victims of Communism Day.

From The Washington Post:

May Day began as a holiday for socialists and labor union activists, not just communists. But over time, the date was taken over by the Soviet Union and other communist regimes and used as a propaganda tool to prop up their [authority]. I suggest that we instead use it as a day to commemorate those regimes’ millions of victims. The authoritative Black Book of Communism estimates the total at 80 to 100 million dead, greater than that caused by all other twentieth century tyrannies combined. We appropriately have a Holocaust Memorial Day. It is equally appropriate to commemorate the victims of the twentieth century’s other great totalitarian tyranny. And May Day is the most fitting day to do so….

The number above according to Death by Government is a little low. That statistical reference puts the number at 106 million with Stalin and Mao leading the list of contributors that also include Lenin, Pol Pot, and Tito–Communists all. You can hear people defending Communism today–which is an alarming display of ignorance.  They say stuff like, “Hey, man, how about the 8 hour work day, dude?” knowing not a whit about forced starvation, forced organ harvesting, liquidating the Kulaks, or the 106 million other crimes. It’s a shame.

But I’m here to help. Today, I found

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A masked anti-Trump protester gets what he has coming after he allegedly doused a female pro-Trump, patriotic organizer with pepper spray.  Here he is taking a beating and turtling, then scurrying away…

(WARNING: graphic language)

Violence erupts Trump rally when pro and anti Trump protestors collide. #MAGAMARCH in HBhttps://t.co/4OXrkdVwyO pic.twitter.com/AkYkCrpx6Z

— Cindy Carcamo (@theCindyCarcamo) March 25, 2017

Here he is still running away…

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Watch spoiled, cosseted American liberals praise the joys of socialisms in the safe environs of the United States cities.  Continue to watch the people of Venezuela’s view of socialism and what it has wrought on their country from the hellish, brutish barrios.  Oh, and keep in mind that Venezuela adopted the so-called “Democratic Socialism”– the Bernie Sanders flavor of that wretched ideology (as if there’s really any difference).

Compare one exchange with Spoiled American liberal woman:

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As the GOP-ers are bandying on about the new health care plan which looks remarkably like the old health care plan which was decried by the same people pushing the new health care plan, I thought I’d toss this out for some to chew on.

Below is a nice instructive graphic from a few years ago illustrating the cost to Americans on various sectors over a period of time, 2005-2014, I believe.  (I saw it on Twitter, but chased down a nice analysis  here.)  Some sectors, in green, have costs shooting off the top of the graphic like the one for safe-space, tolerance free-zones where you can get credentialed in group think snowflake studies or be booted off  campus.  Other sectors, in red, have some prices plummeting like Hillary’s chances on election night after Pennsylvania blushed red.  Guess what one of the main the differences is between the green items and the red items.  (Hint: one contains something that rhymes with bubsidized).

As Cato’s Daniel Mitchell points out, the chart is  “an excellent opportunity to show that sectors of our economy that are subsidized (mostly by third-party payer) are the ones plagued by rising prices.”

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Who’s surprised?  Not me. This is what the left does.  Ironically, this came after “The Intercept, a left-wing publication that headlined just two days ago, ‘Trump Can’t Accept That His Allies Are Targeting Jews – So He Blames His Opponents.'”, reports the Daily Wire. And the Leftist scumbag, Juan Thompson, who allegedly made the bomb threats used to work for… yes you guessed it, The Intercept!  I’m not kidding.

From the Daily Wire:

Here’s what we know about Thompson: he’s a left-wing reporter who made up material while working at The Intercept. He was fired in February 2016 for fabricating quotes in his stories and creating “fake email accounts that he used to impersonate people,” one of which was a Gmail account in the name of the editor-in-chief of that publication. He says he “voted for Bernie Sanders.” Thompson, who is black, tweeted just weeks ago that Trump was attempting to “remove black ppl from the southside of Chicago.”

Bernie voter. Figures.

The same article talks about Juan being

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