Finally Watched the Whole SOTU

I hate listening to someone read without comprehension (him without it, not me...though me without it is bad, too...). So as the thing wore on and Trump seemed to tire out a bit, I disliked it even more.

   Listen, I'm ok with 'Merka boosterism. I was way into the parade of heroes, and even kinda sorta ok with the Democrat-bashing...  I mean...I don't think it's right and don't think it should be a part of the SOTU...but, well, they do kinda deserve it...

   But...uh...IT'S WRONG and he shouldn't have done it.

   Let's just get that straight...

   Bad...Bad...

   The Dems really stepped in it when they refused to stand for the proposition that the USA's first obligation is to its citizens, not illegal aliens. That's gonna show up in a lot of red-team propaganda.

   But as Van Jones pointed out, it's not surprising that one party refuses to stand on demand about a contentious proposition.

   Agreed.

   OTOH, I think you have to admit that Dems do have some genuine general tendency to disagree with the relevant proposition. There's a tendency among them to think of themselves as "citizens of the world"... I mean, that's kinda sorta how I felt when I was a Dem...

   But not standing for Iryna Zarutska..that was some evil shit, man...

   Anyway.

   I don't like such rhetorical displays. I did enjoy parts of it...parts that better men probably derided. Overall I just found it tedious.

   Also, Trump's way less funny when you have to hear weak attempts at humor one right after the other until one finally semi-lands...

   As I've said before: Trump's a doer, not a talker.

Ben Cline: Spanberger and Dems Lie About Redistricting Scheme

My Congressman...unless/until the Dems' Gerrymandering plan goes through.

AJW: Philip DeFranco Lies for AOC

Also, he's an idiot.

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Make DC Square Again

DOO EET

Bomb Iran...Again?

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is apparently concerned that it would leave our stores of munitions depleted--a perfectly reasonable concern.

   Yahoo news then says:

Trump, though, told followers on Truth Social that Caine believes a war with Iran could be “easily won.”

But the 'though' doesn't really fit there, as there's nothing inconsistent about those two claims. Both seem plausibly true to me--but what do I know?

   War is bad, and best avoided.

    But if Iran continues to slaughter its people, gotta say:

 

Carolina 77 - Louisville 74

Nice comeback by Louisville at the end, just not quite enough.

Trimble with 30 points.

Still no Caleb, of course. Dunno whether he'll even be back for the tournament.

Is Russia Down to T-62s???

(In storage, that is.)

Holy crap.

I keep also hearing rumors that they're pulling T-34s out of museums and refurbishing them...

Miranda Divine: Dems Will Roll Out Their Perfect Agent of Subterfuge in Response to SOTU: The Spamburgler

It's easy to talk yourself into thinking that the party you oppose is radical and terrible...but the contemporary Dems really do look that way--to me, even...and I was a Dem up to the point at which they capitulated to the moonbat left.

Oh and: I predicted they'd never so capitulate...because, apparently, I'm an idiot...

One of the weirdest things about all this is that the Republicans are now closer to the old Democrat party than the new Democrat party is...yet there seems to have been rather limited party-switching. Some, indeed. Lots of actual liberals, including a lot of public intellectuals like Colin Wright and Coleman Hughes made the switch. I did, too. But the great mass of Democrats didn't...despite, once upon a time, at least, having considered themselves liberals...and despite the fact that the Democrats are now, by far, the most illiberal party.

Anyway. Though I know it's easy to believe such stuff of the opposition even when it's wrong...I think Divine is right...

(And, just incidentally, we should have seen this coming from a mile away--that Spanberger would give the response.)

Kids are the New Foot Soldiers of the Left

Not really new...they've been doing this since the '60s...though maybe these are a bit younger. Like drug gangs or African criminal armies, the left has discovered that young teens are perfect foot soldiers--stupid as hell and, in some cases, immune from serious prosecution. You can hear one idiot in the crowd shriek "How can you arrest kids?"

   Well, little Dakota, first, you start with a really stupid fucking kid who thinks that the USA, of all countries, is uniquely evil, and is not allowed to have borders...

   Moonbattery has power over weak minds...

State Dept.'s FREEDOM.GOV Gives Euros Access to Banned Content

Do we have to do everything around here?

Lindsey's even wronger than usual on this one. And there's a better answer to L's bad hypothetical: Anti-ICE Reavers already have the right to protest. They're even being given more leeway than they should be given--about ten times as many should be arrested, seems to me. The euroweenies can make whatever information they want available about all this--and whatever it would be, it's already available here. Does she mean: what if they sent police over here to...what? Physically prevent ICE from arresting even the very few rioters they arrest? Terrible thought-experiment.

   Anyway: better answer: we're right and they're wrong.

   We're right about free speech. They're wrong. We're already letting the anti-ICE theater kids get away with more than we should let them get away with. And that's really the bottom line.

   Lindsey's representing her side in the dispute well, though: the American left prefers Europe to America, and less speech to more speech. They've spent the last decade trying to censor and otherwise suppress speech of which they disapprove--don't think they've changed their ways just because they've pulled back a bit.

Trump Freaks Out About SCOTUS Tariff Decision; Court "Under Foreign Influence"

facepalm

He's a goddamned idiot.

He's just a goddamned idiot.

VA Dems contra the Second Amendment

Sons of bitches.

Scotus Strikes Down Tariffs

No big surprise.

I have and deserve no opinion on it.

Alicia Nieves: Why the Democratic Party Can't Moderate

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I've predicted for about a decade that the Dems would soon move back toward the center...so I've been wrong for about a decade.

   I don't know whether Nieves is right about why it doesn't/can't...but unless it does, I continue to think we're screwed. The more radical the Dems are, the worse candidates the Republicans can run--and people like me will just have to suck it up and vote for them. The bad Pubs, that is. Or, worse, the Dems will actually win...as recently in VA...and then that state...or the entire country...is really screwed...

   I mean, honestly, I don't see any signs of moderation on the horizon. I've just generally thought that there'd at least be some kind of regression to the mean.

Ruy Teixeira: The Democrats' Fraud Problem

I think this is right on the money.

   Before the Democrats went insane, I almost always voted for them. Locked in the echo chamber of the MSM, I dismissed concerns like these--fraud, bad governance, etc. I was concerned about them--unlike some leftier types, I didn't secretly think those things weren't so bad... I still remember talking to a Ukrainian acquaintance once--she was a real go-getter and ran a couple of small businesses. She spoke three or four languages, and so hired immigrants (who I now realize were probably largely illegal) who couldn't speak English. She mentioned welfare fraud, and I emitted some standard Democrat talking-point, approximately: Well, actually, welfare fraud is extremely rare. She shook her head slowly and ruefully. She basically lived in that world--and she proceeded to inform me that it was very common, and to give me example after example of things she'd seen. Fortunately, I was merely ignorant, and I took the information to heart--I didn't reject it for conflicting with the misinformation lodged in my brain...

   Though, for the record, I was very much in favor of Clinton's welfare reforms (which happened long before my conversation with the Ukrainian...) That put me at odds with some of my more lefty friends, as you might expect...

   I don't know whether the fraud issue will really hurt the Dems, because so much of their base and quasi-base either refuse to believe it's real, or refuse to even consider it because BRAIN SHUTS DOWN RACISM! RACISM! RACISM! BRAIN SHUTS DOWN... But it should hurt them.

   And there seems to be plenty such fraud in rural/red America, too...I've read pieces that suggest that it's kind of become a way of life in some quarters, especially where good jobs are hard to find. If so, Republicans should go after that, too.