Stay with me on this one.
If I were many years younger, and if I were not married, and if I lived in Colorado; and if this woman wasn’t already married, and if I happened to meet her, and if she wasn’t utterly repulsed by me to the point of shooting my fat ass — if all that, then I’d give her a big kiss on the cheek.
Which woman? This one.
And I bet I’m not the only man who thinks this.
Is it just me, or is every Socialist / Democrat 2020 candidates’ debate just turning into a competition to see who can go “fullest” Communist?
“We need to register all assault rifles and their owners!”
“No, we’re going to restrict sales of AR-15 assault rifles!”
“No, we’ll make them all illegal!”
“No,we’ll go from door to door and forcibly confiscate them!”
“No,we’ll summarily execute anyone who even owns one!”
(That last one hasn’t actually been said yet, but there are still several more debates to come.)
“We’re going to limit the salaries of corporate executives!”
“No, we’re going to tax corporations at 95%!”
“No, we’re going to confiscate the retirement funds of the wealthy!”
“No, we’re going to tax net wealth as well as income!”
“No, we’re going to abolish capitalism altogether!”
Or there’s the usual climate bullshit:
“We need to close all coal-burning power stations!”
“We need to convert the nation to electric cars and public transport!”
“We need to abolish private transportation altogether!”
“We need to use solar- and wind-power exclusively to generate electricity!”
Incarceration:
“There are too many people in our jails!”
“We need to release all non-violent felons!”
“We need to release a whole bunch of Black felons so that the prison population can better resemble the racial profile of the nation!”
(No doubt, the empty jail cells would soon be filled with former owners of AR-15s and AK-47s, which would suit these assholes just fine.)
As for medical (“health”) care:
“We need to reinstate ObamaCare!”
“No, we need to make health care free to everybody who can’t afford it, includingillegal immigrantsundocumented visitors!”
“No, we need to abolish private medical insurance altogether!”
“No, we need to copy Britain’s National Health Service and offer free medical care to anyone who comes here!”“We should open our borders to anyone who feels in the slightest bit oppressed in their home country!”
“We should open our borders to anyone who is poor in their home country!”
“Everyone in the world has a right to come to the United States!”
I could go on, but I think you get my drift. No policy is too stupid, or costly, or oppressive, or unworkable that it hasn’t been enthusiastically accepted, supported and made still more stupid, costly and oppressive by the inhabitants of the Clown Car.
An intelligent person has to be appalled at the thought of any of these ineffectual dilettantes becoming POTUS and sitting down to negotiate with the feral Communists of China, the fanatical Muslims of the Middle East or even the “soft” socialists of Europe. Like has-been POTUS Urkel, they will probably espouse the failed diplomatic policy of America as the problem, not the solution; and none of them will be interested in getting tough with our overseas competitors and enemies.
From their stated positions, however, it is clear that they are quite prepared to get tough with Americans.
From the Golden Shower State comes this latest foolishness:
Despite the fact that natural gas is the cleanest of the fossil fuels hands down (and now the cheapest), liberals continue to oppose it. The “keep it in the ground” folks scored another victory this week when the city of San Jose California voted to ban natural gas lines and appliances in all new construction projects going forward. This is allegedly part of the state-mandated goal of going 100% “carbon-free” by 2045. Of course, as with all things, the devil is in the details.
Here’s the math which these fools are ignoring;
So now, all of the appliances, including furnaces, stoves, water heaters and all the rest, will be electric. And the buildings will have electric outlets where people charge their vehicles. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that a considerable increase in the load on the electrical grid is coming. And where does California get their electricity? More than half of it comes from… wait for it… natural gas-fired plants.
To get rid of the natural gas plants when you’ve already banned coal plants, you’ve only got a few choices. Hydro is good, but California isn’t exactly brimming with water. (They get about 12% of their energy from hydro and they’re nearly maxed out.) Nuclear would be perfect, but they’re phasing that out too. (That’s another 9% they’re getting ready to lose.) That pretty much leaves them with solar and wind, which accounts for roughly 24% of their current power generation. Do you really think you can go from there to 100% in a decade or two?
And for the life of me, I could not come up with a better conclusion than the article’s:
It’s so brilliant on paper and yet so stupid at the bottom line.
Leftism in a nutshell, if you ask me. And as a wise man said:
FFS, are these clowns serious?
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said the United States may have to eliminate private car ownership to combat climate change during MSNBC’s climate forum at Georgetown University Thursday morning.
He told MSNBC host Ali Velshi that “we might not own our own cars” by 2050 to wean the United States economy off of fossil fuels, describing private car ownership as “really inefficient and bad for the environment.” Privately owned cars would be replaced by a “constant roving fleet of electric cars.”
Ah yes, it’s all about “efficiency” (a recurring motif for totalitarians) and the environment. And who will be the actual owner of this “constant roving fleet of electric cars”? You bet it will be the State, either local government or similar. (And just try to catch one of these electric Noddy cars to go to a gun show… “Forbidden destination; please choose another.”)
You have to give it to them: they’re going Full Lenin on this one. No private ownership of cars, and — duh — no private ownership of guns. And by the time they’ve implemented inflicted their third Five Year Plan on our economy, nobody* will be able to afford their own house, so we’ll all be living in State-owned apartments.
And Yang is supposed to be one of the moderate clowns?
This isn’t serious public policy; this is middle-school daydreaming — right up until one of these socialist assholes gets his/her/xeir hands on the levers of power, when blue-sky unicorn-fart dreaming will become the law of the land.
And then the joke will be on the rest of us.
*nobody except the nomenklatura, of course — they’ll still own houses, cars (and probably guns too).
As the late Denis Farina said so memorably in the movie Snatch, “You Brits invented English; why don’t you fucking speak it?”
“I am stood watching as a man uses a metal lever to break into a wooden door.”
I am stood? Really? As opposed to “I’m standing watching as a man…” (and standing is also superfluous unless it’s relevant to the story — “I’m watching as a man…” would have worked just as well, if not better).
Don’t even get me started on “I was sat looking at the painting…”
In grammatical terms, it’s incorrectly using the past perfect tense (stood, as in “He stood on the roof”) instead of a participle (e.g. he was standing on the roof).
I suppose it’s all part of the general societal slide down to illiteracy, but that doesn’t mean I can’t get angry about it.
From American Greatness:
The Left with its endemic moral relativism makes today’s Democratic Party incapable of recognizing that we have a civilization and that it has enemies.
And the article is correct when it points out that gun control is what’s left when you can’t bring yourself to address the problem of crime seriously.
An even bigger point: the Socialist candidates — all of them — are supporting the release of a large number of criminals just because the prison population is disproportionately Black (tokenism at its finest).
I leave it to your imagination as to what would happen if these rancid fools came to power and simultaneously took guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens while releasing a large number of felons from prison, not to mention throwing open our borders to anyone who wants to come into the country — all while depending on a police force weakened and demoralized by incessant charges of racism and prejudice to somehow keep order.
Where have we seen this before? Oh yes… that would be Britishland, where the government and police force have pretty much given up on property crime, and watch helplessly as police cars are torched.