Before Barack Obama was elected president, he served about three years in the US Senate, during which time his voting record was further left than any other Senator. Then, during her campaign, Hillary Clinton was asked (twice) what was the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist, and she couldn’t answer. All this, after decades of passionate denials from Democrats that their politics were similar to socialists and communists. And then, in the two most recent presidential elections, the Democrat party very nearly nominated Bernie Sanders, a self-described lifelong socialist. Republicans have been decrying the recent trans-gender trend as more evidence of moving our culture further and further toward the extreme left, although many Democrats claim that is simply a straw man argument. Until President Biden nominated a transgender person to serve in his administration.

Meanwhile, Democrats claim that extremist Republicans are white nationalists, and they present a clear and present danger to American society. If this sounds absurd, try to understand the Democrats’ problem: finding an extremist Republican is not so easy. At the very least, the supply of Republican extremists seems to consistently fall short of the demand from the media and other Democrat propagandists. We’re pretty boring, overall, and in general we’re happy to live and let live. Those who don’t seek to control the lives of others are generally hard to describe as extremists. But the Democrats need Republican extremists, so they came up with white nationalists. Which I’m sure exist, although I’ve never encountered one. So they must be exceedingly rare.

But regardless of how rare they may be, the real difference is that Republicans do not elect such extremists to be President, they don’t appoint them to Presidential administrations, and they don’t present them as symbolic of the Republican party as a whole. If there are right-wing extremists, the Republican party ignores them. But there are clearly lots of left-wing extremists. And the Democrat party elects them. Consistently. That’s a big difference.

A recent National Review article asked, “Could We Really Be Vaccinating First-Graders by Autumn?” Let’s put aside the politics for a moment. This is a bad idea, a tremendously bad idea.

First, Covid is a seasonal virus that, having found its place in the population, can be expected to remain only at low levels now that herd immunity is near. Vaccination is not needed.

Both political parties have managed to dodge the bullet. Government deficit spending, borrowing, and money creation by the Fed have gone relentlessly up with no repercussions in either inflation or interest rates. In fact, those skyrocketing deficits and money creation have been rewarded with little inflation and historically low-interest rates. Lefties have even concocted Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), a formalized economic theory that says that the US can create all the money it wants with impunity. Feel free to spend away!

But interest rates have recently increased (dragging down the stock market) and I’m afraid that’s just the beginning. This article from AIER makes a convincing argument that the chickens have finally come home to roost.

Speaking only for myself, I nominate my Fein Multimaster. (I’m not sure if the one in the link is exactly what I have; it may be a newer model. But it looks the same):

I’m starting to get the hang of this Live Stream business, but obviously there’s a long way to go. This is a tad rough around the edges, at it was all done live, without a net, as it were. Nevertheless, I do hope you will enjoy it and I look forward to your observations, comments, and suggestions below:

…or pour it away like Coke?

My cousin texted me about Coca-Cola’s “Be Less White” training the other day. (Ammo Grrrl on Powerline has a great take on that today.) In my exchange with him, I envisioned a possible Pepsi response to take competitive advantage of Coke’s incredible foolishness by starting a “Be Less Coke” campaign:

Cancel culture is real. Huge, powerful social media sites like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are censoring peoples’ posts and comments. They call it ‘fact-checking’ and will remove posts they don’t like. In some cases, they suspend the author from their platform or even cancel their membership completely. How many people will they have to cancel? Probably not many. Just the open threat of such draconian tactics will likely be enough to shut down dissenting voices. People will just start to go along. It’s easier.

Democrats used to call us Republicans. Then, they called us ‘Trump supporters.’ Then, they started accusing President Trump of being a racist vicious white supremacist, every day, every day, every day – for four years. Then, they started calling anyone who doesn’t publicly denounce Trump a ‘white supremacist.’ If you support someone that we call a white supremacist, then you are a white supremacist. So we went from being called Republicans to being called white supremacists in just a few years. Eh, sticks and stones, right? Well, no:

President Biden recently appointed Lloyd Austin to be Secretary of Defense, who says his first course of action will be to purge the military of white supremacists: “The job of the Department of Defense is to keep America safe from our enemies. But we can’t do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks.” So how many people will be kicked out of the military for being Republicans (or, as we are now referred to, white supremacists)? Probably not many. Just the open threat of such draconian tactics will likely be enough to shut down dissenting voices. People will just start to go along. It’s easier. And then, the Democrat party control of the military will be complete, for all intents and purposes.

On the latest episode of the Land of Confusion Show, I fly solo while I talk to Titus Techera and Gary McVey about everything wrong with culture today. Titus (Teetus), is a long-known member of the site, once known for getting in lots of arguments with people on the boards. We start the show by expressing our mutual for his homeland’s greatest program, “Comrade Detective.”

We then get into a deep dive into internet culture, social media, and even how Ricochet has changed over the years. That we all feel good that we met and interacted in the early days when people were not so angry. We also spent a great deal of time talking about conservative culture, in both film and in business, and how it’s our tendency to complain, instead of do.