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You Did It! Thank You!

Posted on | November 21, 2016 | 1 Comment

Daughter Reagan working on the thank-you card list.

Late Friday, I put up an appeal for $900 to enable our family to travel to our oldest daughter’s home for Thanksgiving. By Saturday afternoon, I could report to the family that we would meet that goal. Our youngest daughter, 13-year-old Reagan, has been assigned to send thank-you cards to folks who hit the tip jar during this weekend campaign.

“You should be thankful for this opportunity,” I told her. “This is a hands-on lesson in online fundraising. Capitalism works.”

One of my daughter’s friends is a huge Trump fan, and I explained to my daughter that I first met Donald Trump’s chief of staff Steve Bannon when I interviewed him in June 2011 about his Sarah Palin documentary.

“Steve’s a friend of mine,” I told my daughter. “When we go to the inauguration, maybe you can meet him.”

Last year, for her seventh-grade history project at school, my daughter did her presentation as — who else? — President Ronald Reagan.

 

My daughter has studied the history of Reagan’s career and presidency, including his famous 1981 inauguration speech in which he declared:

“It is time for us to realize that we’re too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We’re not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.”

That optimism — a refusal “to limit ourselves to small dreams” — is what has inspired me to believe that I could step out into thin air, as it were, and make blogging a career. Reader contributions to the Shoe Leather Fund have enabled me to keep going despite all obstacles and opposition. Who knows what adventures may await in the future? Thank you for your support, thank you for your prayers, and may God bless you.



 

 

Category: Shoe Leather Fund

Step One: FAIL

Posted on | November 21, 2016 | 2 Comments

This feminist bumper sticker — “Hillary 2016, Michelle 2014, Chelsea 2032, Sasha 2040, Malia 2048” — was designed by Karin Hildebrand Lau. It was posted to Tumblr in July by a “non-binary queer intersectional feminist” who said “Reblog this to make Conservatives angry.” Oops.

Believing themselves to be On The Right Side of History, progressives have been losing a lot of elections lately. The hubris that has led them to these disasters originates in the Left’s certainty of their own moral and intellectual superiority. The Left is essentially totalitarian, and does not believe that it should have to prove its claims in open debate. The bias of the media, and the progressive consensus that dominates academia, means that the college-educated young liberal has likely never encountered a conservative antagonist whom he was required to take seriously. The Right has no prestige, no influence, no power on the 21st-century university campus, and so the young liberal is never confronted by an intelligent and articulate adversary during his collegiate career.

“But all the smart people agree with me!” the progressive young person says to himself, when he encounters opposition in the real world. The liberal doesn’t see that this apparent consensus of Smart People™ is a manufactured product, the result of epistemic closure in academia. As early as 1951, with the publication of William F. Buckley’s God and Man at Yale, it became evident that there were deep problems in American higher education, if Yale — then widely considered a conservative “establishment” institution — was promoting socialism in its economics curriculum. The Left’s takeover of academia since the 1960s (see Roger Kimball’s Tenured Radicals) has resulted in an unofficial policy of discrimination that prevents Republicans from being employed in the faculty of humanities and social sciences at most universities.

This bias in our education system has replicated itself in the fields of journalism and entertainment, where “progressive” politics now results in, e.g., Broadway actors presuming themselves qualified to lecture the next Vice President of the United States. The cast of Hamilton cannot admit the possibility that intelligent people could look at politics and reject their progressive philosophy. The Left never considers that their own ignorance is the basic problem. One doubts that Lin-Manuel Miranda has ever read Buckley, or Richard Weaver, or Friedrich Hayek, or Thomas Sowell, ad infinitum. In fact, Lin-Manuel Miranda is a partisan hack:

On July 12, Hamilton creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda stood up at his show and welcomed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to his show.
“This November, the difference could not be more stark, who do you think is going to get closer to those ideals?” he asked, referring to the Constitution and the founding fathers. “Are you going to vote for the guy who wants to build a wall, or for someone who’s building bridges?”
Miranda introduced Clinton as “the forty-fifth president of the United States” as she took the stage to address the crowd.
Why? Because it was a private fundraiser. Miranda hosted a special performance of the show exclusively for donors to Clinton’s presidential campaign. Tickets ranged from $2,700 to a whopping $100,000.
“I have now seen it three times, first at the Public and twice here, and I cry every time,” Clinton said.
Miranda tweeted a photo of himself with both Bill and Hillary Clinton urging America to “include women in the sequel” of the American story.

Well, so much for that plan, eh?

What liberals cannot understand is that their politics is a form of prejudice, a set of unexamined assumptions about how the world works, and unrealistic ideas about how the world could or should work.

So the feminists who thought they could “make Conservatives angry” — elect Hillary, and taunt Republicans with the result — were guilty of the same kind of smug self-righteousness that led Lin-Manuel Miranda to think he was promoting “the forty-fifth president of the United States” in July, and to think he was qualified to lecture Mike Pence last week.

Meanwhile, young “alt-right” leader Richard Spencer says Trump’s election makes him and his colleagues the new establishment:

“The Alt-Right has been declared the winner [of this presidential election],” Spencer said on the night Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. “The Alt-Right is more deeply connected to Trumpian populism than the ‘conservative movement.’”
“We’re the establishment now,” he concluded.

The Left has failed. Maybe they should think about why they failed.

UPDATE: Typical “humor” from Feminist Tumblr:

http://beavesaintmarie.tumblr.com/post/153070911355/procyonvulpecula-shittyidea-reverse-robin

 

Gosh, I wonder why people hate feminists so much?

 

Category: Election, Sex Trouble

Rule 5 Sunday: Getting Ready for Thanksgiving

Posted on | November 21, 2016 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

So, the National Feast of Gluttony is coming around again on Thursday (insert “stuffing the bird” jokes here) and it seemed only appropriate to select one of America’s more popular TV cooks for this week’s appetizer. Good luck to all of you with your birds of choice (or ham, or lamb, an it please ye) this week. I’m still debating whether to go out and get a disgustingly cheap bird to roast at home or just head off to a local casino for the buffet. As usual, many if not all of the following links are to pics of women with few or no clothes, and since these are generally considered NSFW, the management encourages using discretion in your clicking.

Rachael Ray, from an FHM photoshoot some years ago

Rachael Ray, from an FHM photoshoot some years ago

Ninety Miles from Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls with Guns, followed by Goodstuff and Poppy Montgomery with some stuff to help us escape from all the political insanity, Animal Magnetism with Rule Five Walking Dead Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, and The Last Tradition with Christina Milian and Marilyn Monroe.

EBL’s herd of heifers this week includes football, Olivia Culpo, Shu Jie Lam, Virginia Heffernan, All About The Base, Vintage Pinup Thanksgiving, and Vintage Hollywood Thanksgiving.

A View from the Beach offers Blood Moon Rising, Moon Bloodgood, The Right Way, the Wrong Way, and the Feminist Way, PSA: How to Boil Crawfish, “Call Off Your Dogs”, Should We Talk About the Weather?, “Steamroller”, A Chesapeake Sanctuary for Sturgeon?, Althouse Reads Stacy Who is Reading Feminist Cant So You Don’t Have To, Hillary Imagines the Trump White House, Can the Redskins Savage the Vikings? and A Real Gold Digger

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Ilana Becker, his Vintage Babe is Rita Moreno, Sex in Advertising is covered this week by Budweiser, and this week there’s a non-obligatory 49ers cheerleader. At Dustbury, it’s Lisa Bonet and Amanda Bynes – “and that’s just the B’s.”

Thanks to everyone for the linkagery, especially the FMJRA linkagery that consistently makes these Rule 5 posts the most-linked posts here at The Other McCain. If you know other Rule 5 enthusiasts who might like to contribute, by all means encourage them to do so!


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Gay Marxists Hate Donald Trump

Posted on | November 20, 2016 | 4 Comments

 

 

 

Who hates Donald Trump? Communist homosexuals, that’s who!

Two separate Marxist groups — the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) and the Workers World Party (WWP, a/k/a ANSWER Coalition) — have been prominent in anti-Trump protests since the election.

“Don’t collaborate” with the president-elect, RCP tells Americans.

The RCP is a Maoist cult led by Bob Avakian, while the WWP was founded by a disgruntled Trotskyist named Sam Marcy in 1959. I first became familiar with these groups when I covered anti-globalization rallies in Washington, D.C., in 1999, and they were also prominently involved in anti-Iraq War protests circa 2003-2006. The use of “front groups” and phony “coalitions” to conceal their anti-American origins is a tactic Communists have used since the 1930s, and this has continued in the post-Cold War era. Ten or 15 years ago, many anti-war protests were led by a group calling itself Refuse and Resist which was, in fact, a front led by RCP member Clark Kissinger:

Kissinger, who supported Mao Zedong’s Communist regime in China, continues to enjoy strong support from the Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM), which, in its own words, “upholds the revolutionary communist ideology of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism” and views the Chinese Cultural Revolution as “the farthest advance of communism in human history.” MIM seeks to achieve its ends “by building public opinion to seize power through armed struggle” and full-fledged “revolution [in] North America.”
A devoted backer of Iran’s Islamic revolution, Kissinger in 1979 traveled to Iran when Ayatollah Khomeni seized power.

So the RCP, which supported totalitarians in China and Iran, dares to condemn the United States as a “fascist” government. And when the RCP protests against Donald Trump, they are supported by gay people. Never mind the Iranian regime’s monstrous brutality against homosexuals:

The tragic hanging of two “sodomites” in Iran [in August 2014] may seem, in theory, like an obvious cause for U.S. concern and U.S. action. (Sign a petition! Demand human rights!) Yet in practice, those most attentive to LGBT concerns may be the least eager to pick this fight.
As Nina Strochlic reported . . . the two men, Abdullah Ghavami Chahzanjiru and Salman Ghanbari Chahzanjiri, were hanged in southern Iran on August 6, possibly for consensual sodomy. Their deaths are part of a wave of executions in Iran, with more than 400 in the first half of 2014 alone, according to the NGO Iran Human Rights. . . .
Despite Iran’s state anti-Semitism, the recent arrest of U.S. journalists, and the continued oppression of women, the Obama administration has been attempting a rapprochement with the Iranian regime.

Why are left-wing groups pro-Iran? Because they are anti-American.

The basic organizing principle of the Left is their support for America’s enemies, a principle which produces such bizarre contradictions as gay people turning out for anti-Trump protests led by Marxists who endorse one of the most notorious anti-gay regimes in the world. Marxists are always looking for some way to divide and conquer America:

On Saturday, November 19, at least 200 more protesters gathered on Chicago’s Federal Plaza to begin a march down the city’s famed Magnificent Mile shopping district, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Most of the protesters focused their wrath on President-elect Trump, but some also aimed at Democrats whom they say have ignored them.
“The Black Lives Matter protests rose up largely against Democratic mayors, and then you have an open racist running on the other side against a woman who played a key role in the mass incarceration boom — what sort of choice is that,” activist Andy Thayer said during an address to the small crowd.
“My point is we don’t just have to take this crap,” Thayer warned as he urged people to continue protests and activism.
Protests outside Chicago’s Trump Tower began immediately upon the conclusion of the 2016 election and have continued with protesters blocking traffic, harassing bystanders, and engaging in property destruction.

Who is “activist Andy Thayer”? A middle-aged anti-American socialist, who founded a group called Gay Liberation Network in the 1990s. Thayer’s support for anti-American causes led to him being raided by the FBI in 2010 under suspicion of giving “material support of terrorism.” Search warrants reportedly mentioned Hezbollah and the Colombian revolutionary group FARC, both of which are designated as terrorist groups by the U.S. government. No arrests were made in the case, but certainly Thayer’s past activities — including his involvement with the 2011 “Occupy” protests— indicate his profound hostility to America, and especially his opposition to capitalism.

Let me cut to the chase here: Capitalism is good for gay people.

Why? Because capitalism is good for all people.

Just yesterday, while explaining to my 15-year-old son Emerson the history of Cold War politics in Latin America, I gave him about a five-minute lecture on why private property rights and the rule of law are necessary to economic prosperity. “You can’t have capitalism without capital,” I explained, “because investors won’t invest in places where their investments are not protected by the rule of law.”

The point I was making had to do with Mexico’s ill-advised nationalization of the petroleum industry — basically stealing the investments of American, British and Dutch companies — in the 1920s, but this principle is true everywhere at all times. Without the rule of law, if property rights are not guaranteed, there is no economic freedom, and if you don’t have economic freedom, you have no freedom, period.

Before human beings can do anything else in life, we must first provide for our basic material needs — food, clothing, shelter, etc. — and so the ability to get a job and earn wages, to acquire property and goods, is absolutely essential to our survival. When governments restrict activity, or interfere in the market economy in such a way as to thwart the ability of private companies to make profits for their investors, the results are always harmful. Both in terms of people’s ability to feed their families, and in terms of basic political rights, socialism is antithetical to freedom and human happiness.

If you’ve read the great Austrian economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, you understand this and guess what? Lots of gay people do understand Austrian economics, and therefore many gay people (14% of 2016 voters, according to exit polls) do vote Republican. Prominent among the supporters of Donald Trump were gay businessman Peter Thiel and the flamboyant Milo Yiannopoulos. Every individual has different reasons for their political commitments, and I cannot speak for Mr. Thiel or Mr. Yiannopoulos, but I believe both of them understand the vital importance of economic liberty and the rule of law in terms of their own rights, as well as everyone else’s rights.

Being a heterosexual conservative Christian, certainly I understand how important economic freedom is to those of us with families to support, and also how a government-controlled economy is anti-Christian. Go read Revelation 13 and tell me what it says about the power of the Beast.

“And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
— Revelation 13:17 (KJV)

What is described here is system of political, religious and economic totalitarianism imposing an anti-Christian regime on the entire world. By controlling the economy — deciding who “might buy or sell” anything — the Beast enforces its satanic power on everyone. Different people have interpreted Revelation 13 in different ways, but you do not need a Ph.D. in theology to see that government control of economic activity is the key to the Beast’s power. Therefore, everyone who is fighting to preserve a free economy is in some sense serving in the Lord’s army.

“But Stacy,” the reader says, “I don’t believe in all that apocalyptic Bible stuff.” OK, but what if it’s true? Do you think it was just a coincidence that, nearly 2000 years ago, the imprisoned Apostle John had this vision of an evil world super-power? You don’t have to be paranoid about “The End Times” to recognize when prophecies are coming true in your own lifetime, and you don’t have to be a Bible-thumper to pause and think, “Hmmm. Maybe there is something to this Christianity business.”

My friend Bob Belvedere calls his blog The Camp of the Saints, a reference to Revelation 20, describing the climactic battle of human history, when those who serve the Lord will be besieged by the armies of evil. God shall destroy His enemies, and “the devil that deceived them” will be “cast into the lake of fire and brimstone.” Selah.

Scoff all you want, dear reader, but I do not believe in coincidences.

Peter Thiel is the co-founder of PayPal, you know.



 

Capitalism is a beautiful thing, and God hates Commies.

The future U.S. ambassador to Vanuatu knows what he’s talking about.

 

Category: Donald Trump, Economics, Election, Gays

FMJRA 2.0: The Stars And Stripes Forever

Posted on | November 19, 2016 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Monday: Happy Fun Victory Week
Animal Magnetism
Regular Right Guy
BlurBrain
Ninety Miles from Tyranny
A View From The Beach
Proof Positive

No, SJWs, There Wasn’t A “Social Activist” Bone In Jesus’ Body
EBL@RedState

Hillary Finds Her Scapegoat
The Political Hat
Regular Right Guy
EBL@RedState

Couple O’ Shots O’ Joe
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach
EBL@RedState

FMJRA 2.0: Happy Fun Victory Week
The Pirate’s Cove
Regular Right Guy
A View From The Beach

Democrats Surrender to ‘Fear Itself’
Inconceivable!
The Pirate’s Cove
Regular Right Guy
EBL@RedState

Feminist Roxane Gay Declares: ‘We Have to Get White Women in Order’
National-Satanist Worldview
The Daley Gator
Regular Right Guy
EBL@RedState

However, If It’s True . . .
Regular Right Guy
EBL@RedState

Vox Day Channels Sam Francis’s Ghost
Regular Right Guy
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: 11.14.16
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach
EBL@RedState
Proof Positive

Feminists Hate Donald Trump: The Joys of Happy Fun Victory Week #MAGA
Regular Right Guy
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: 11.15.16
A View from the Beach
EBL@RedState
Proof Positive

Yes, @kmo75947, Feminists Do Hate Men
InversionSuicide
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach
EBL@RedState

Political Analysis From Feminist Tumblr
Regular Right Guy
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: 11.16.16
Regular Right Guy
EBL@RedState
Proof Positive

There Are Still 5 A’s in RAAAAACIST!
Regular Right Guy
EBL@RedState

Police Took Professor @KevinAllred to Psychiatric Ward After Twitter Rant
BattleSwarm Blog
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: 11.17.16
EBL@RedState
Proof Positive

‘The Rocky Horror Democrat Party’: Making History, Losing Elections
BattleSwarm Blog
EBL@RedState

‘No One Left to Lie To’
A View from the Beach
EBL@RedState

In The Mailbox: 11.18.16
EBL@RedState
Proof Positive

Fear and Loathing: Three Days, $900, and It’s Morning in Vanuatu Again
EBL@RedState

Top linkers this week:

  1.  EBL@RedState (20)
  2.  Regular Right Guy (15)
  3.  A View from the Beach (7)
  4.  Proof Positive (6)

This seems a good time to remind people that the FMJRA week runs from Saturday through Friday, which is to say that for this week, any links to posts earlier than November 12 were ignored. Thanks to everyone for all the linkagery!


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Category: FMJRA Award

Fear and Loathing: Three Days, $900, and It’s Morning in Vanuatu Again

Posted on | November 18, 2016 | 2 Comments

“How long, O Lord, how long? Where will it end?
“All I ever wanted out of this campaign was enough money to get out of the country and live for a year or two in peaceful squalor in a house with a big screen porch looking down on an empty white beach, with a good rich coral reef a few hundred yards out in the surf and no neighbors. . . .
“What worries me now . . . is the strong possibility that my involvement in politics has become so deep and twisted that I can no longer think rationally about that big screen porch above the beach except in terms of an appointment as Governor of American Samoa.”
– Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72

Somewhere in the South Pacific, there is an island nation in need of an American ambassador, and who knows what might be possible? But that’s borrowing tomorrow’s trouble, and right now, I’ve got a more immediate need: $900 for a road trip to an undisclosed location.

Is there an explanation? Sure, and I’ll be glad to provide it, but first let me share a conversation that took place in the comments of Monday night’s post. Daniel Freeman offered this gloomy assessment:

Diversity + Proximity = War. The details vary throughout history; in our case, it turns out that all non-whites are tribal, so we can’t afford not to be.
Even when they aren’t violently racist, mere tribalistic nepotism is a powerful competitive advantage, to the point where our choices are to copy them, die out or kick them out.

War? Is America doomed to be destroyed by ethnic violence? Or is there still hope for our nation? This was my reply to Mr. Freeman:

It is still possible, I hope, for the American people to step back from the brink of the abyss toward which the past eight years have led us.
“It is history that teaches us to hope,” a great man once said.
“Never take counsel of your fears,” another great man said.
Strange as it seems, our new president may be the man who can heal the wounds our nation has recently suffered. The opportunity is there, and I dare to hope Mr. Trump will make the most of it.

Readers are free to Google those quotes and find the names of the great men who said them. Did I mention I’m trying to rattle the tip jar to raise $900 for a road trip? My wife and I will be heading south, the first time our three youngest children have gone on a long road trip with us, and I hope there will be time during this trip to visit the cemeteries in Randolph County, Alabama, where my family’s ancestors are buried. One of those ancestors, Winston Wood Bolt, was an illiterate farmboy who served in the 13th Alabama Infantry until he was captured in the first day’s fighting at Gettysburg when Archer’s Brigade was outflanked by the Iron Brigade.

 

Well, no need to dwell on the past, I suppose, when in the near future — by Monday, at the latest — Mrs. McCain expects me to have that $900 so we can visit our oldest daughter’s home for Thanksgiving. Our daughter and her husband live 1,100 miles away, near a Gulf Coast beach in a state that Donald Trump carried by a margin of 120,00 votes. Read more

Category: Election, Family, Fear. Loathing., History, Shoe Leather Fund, Vanuatu

In The Mailbox: 11.18.16

Posted on | November 18, 2016 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Hey GOPe, Don’t Screw This Up
Twitchy: Video Of Polar Bear Petting Dog Goes Viral, And What Happened Next Is Exactly What You Thought Would Happen
Louder With Crowder: Is It 2017 Yet? Obama Defends Violent Anti-Trump Protesters – “Do Not Be Silent…”
Monster Hunter Nation: A Handy Guide For Liberals Who Are Suddenly Interested In Gun Ownership


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: In Marriage We Trust
American Power: Trump Selects Senator Jeff Sessions For Attorney General
American Thinker: Democrats Done In By The Politics Of Hate
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Rule 5 Walking Dead Friday
BLACKFIVE:
Da Tech Guy: Fausta – Must Read Andrew Klavan’s The Great Good Thing
Don Surber: NYT Caught Lying About Trump
Dustbury: The Final Few Steps
Jammie Wearing Fools: Idiot Liberal Facing Five Years For Threatening To Shoot Trump
Joe For America: Kanye West Lets It Slip Big Time, Loses Liberal Love
JustOneMinute: Another Day, Another Transition Appointment
Pamela Geller: Michigan Electors Say Hillary Supporters Sending Death Threats, Vicious E-Mails
Power Line: Love Trumps Hate!
Shark Tank: Rep. Yoho Looks To Prevent Any US President From Handing Over Gitmo
Shot In The Dark: To Dream
STUMP: Kentucky Update – Republicans Take Legislature, Pensions Still Suck, Hedge Funds To Exit
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Don’t Get Raped In Dubai
The Lonely Conservative: 1917, 1932, And 2016
The Political Hat: Socialism + Healthcare = Collapse
This Ain’t Hell: Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas AG – Hillary’s Worst Nightmare?, also, Here’s At Least One Democrat Who “Gets It”
Weasel Zippers: Head Of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division May Be Violating Federal Law And Her Actions May Be Void, also, Obama Apology Tour Still Going Strong
Mark Steyn: It’s All In The Game


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Category: Linkagery

‘No One Left to Lie To’

Posted on | November 18, 2016 | 3 Comments

 

Memory is a strange thing, and perhaps my memory is particularly strange, due to my adolescent adventures in freelance pharmaceuticals. People sometimes talk about teenagers “experimenting” with drugs. If so, I was the Enrico Fermi of drug experimentation. My college dorm room was to dope what the Manhattan Project was to nuclear physics, and I was Robert Oppenheimer. The findings of my research could be expressed in a simple formula:

Psilocybin + Cocaine = Insanity

Trust me on this one, kids. Anyone foolish enough to attempt to replicate that particular experiment will never completely recover. Once you’ve had the Total Hallucinogenic Freakout, you’re never really the same again, because once you’ve seen The Other Side, you can’t un-see it.

Anyway, the neural pathways of my memory function in an unusual way, so that sometimes I’ll be writing and a phrase or image will pop into my mind and — CAZART! — it’s like I’m re-living a past experience, complete with the exact emotional reaction I felt at that time. Today, while composing a brief response to something somebody wrote on Medium.com, I had a flashback to the title of Christopher Hitchen’s 1999 book No One Left to Lie To. He died a few years ago, but not before I had a chance to hang out with him in D.C., when Marty Beckerman and I spent a good hour (and probably $25) buying Hitch rounds of Johnny Walker Black, just so he would keep telling jokes. God rest his atheist soul, but Hitch could tell a joke better than anyone I ever met. It was not so much the content of his jokes, as it was the form — Hitch had a brilliant delivery and, having heard him do a stand-up performance at the “PlameGate Two” benefit, I insisted that he tell his best jokes for Marty. But I digress . . .

No One Left to Lie To flashed into my mind while I was explaining my own deep resentment of how Bill Clinton screwed me over:

By the way, I used to be a Democrat — a hard-core “yellow dog” who voted for Walter Mondale in 1984, and who proudly put a Clinton-Gore bumper sticker on my car in 1992. What happened? Well, Bill Clinton happened. No sooner had he finished taking the oath of office than he began to enact policies that were anathema to the core values of millions of people who voted for him. Behind his façade of down-home “moderation,” Bill Clinton was a proponent of the 1960s anti-American atheist radicalism of the New Left, and his wife was even more deeply committed to this agenda of the left-wing cultural elite.
Well, I was a Democrat, but I was never a complete fool. Being bamboozled — played for a chump in a political three-card monte hustle — pi–ed me off.
You’re never going to f–k me over twice, and after I take your knife out of my back, I’m gonna remember who put it there. . . .

You can read the whole thing at Medium.com. Oh, how I hated that swindling liar! The fact that he bamboozled me — someone who prides himself on his street-smart cynicism — was simply unforgivable. Say what you will about the GOP, but when the Republicans screw you over, at least they don’t insult you by calling it “social justice.”



 

Category: Bill Clinton, Democrats, Election
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