Thanks to Democrats for making us aware of our victimhood

How can we visualize the American nation ever rising to the level of greatness as when we stood (at last!) alongside Great Britain and Churchill in WW2, or when we loved the American Union enough to pour out our nation's blood to preserve it?

MSNBC’s Katy Tur shamelessly tries to bait mother of Charlottesville victim into hating on Trump   And succeeds.

Of course, nobody can forget the First Victim who proudly proclaims her victimization at every podium:   

Michelle Obama’s Tales of Racialized Victimhood   . . . "To show how she’s down with The Struggle of post-Ferguson agitators, Mrs. Obama cited a supposedly horrifying incident at a Target store where she was treated, in her paranoid mind, as a subservient. “Even as the first lady,” she bemoaned, “not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf.” 

"A lowly peon asked her for an innocent favor? It’s Jim Crow all over again! ABC News reports that Mrs. Obama said such “incidents are ‘the regular course of life’ for African-Americans and a ‘challenge’ for the country to overcome.” 

"News flash: Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe that it is part of the “regular course of life” of tall people of all colors (Mrs. Obama is 5-foot-11) to be prevailed upon to reach high on behalf of those of us who are vertically challenged. These are not odious “incidents” of racism between slaves and masters. They’re matters of common courtesy between equals." . . .

The party of victims  . . . "Here's what [Romney] should have said: "The Democratic Party has become the party of victims. It is the party of those who stoke the embers of their own victimhood. It is a party that needs victims, even creating new ones when the old ones are no longer victims, and making victims of those who clearly are not."

"That's just an opinion, but an opinion is only as strong as the facts that back it up. And here are 10 examples that back it up:" . . .

Nazis and the left wing

William L. Shirer in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich claimed that Hitler did not take the label "socialist" too seriously. All that aside:

Tom Trinko  "The normal political spectrum used by liberals and the MSM runs from Nazis on the right to communists on the left.

"That is, it runs from a Jewish-hating totalitarian socialist philosophy on the right to a Jewish-hating totalitarian socialist philosophy on the left.

"Clearly, that's insane, since the extremes are identical.  But it serves the purposes of liberals because it disguises the fascist nature of liberal positions.  It also allows liberals to hang the shame of Nazism over conservatives, who all oppose the big-government philosophy of Nazism as well as Nazis' hatred of Jews.

"A more rational way to describe governmental concepts would be a spectrum that runs from no government to total government or from complete freedom to complete servitude.

"Interestingly, both of those metrics produce the same extremes.

"Anarchy would be the far right providing complete freedom: you can kill and rape to your heart's content, with a complete lack of government.  It is anarchy, after all.

"Libertarianism would be the moderate right, since libertarians have some government and do oppose murder and rape.

"In the center would be representative republics, as described in the U.S. Constitution, where people's rights don't come from the government but where the government has authority over areas of common interest such as trade, human rights, and foreign policy.

"To the left would be liberals' view for America, where the government is still elected, but real power resides in judges and the unelected bureaucrats, and rights come from the ruling class and can be changed depending on what they think.

"White nationalists would be on the moderate left, since they want a powerful central government to punish all non-whites.  Their government would also be left-wing because it would have the power to prevent non-racists from freely associating with the people the white nationalists hate.

"Communism and Nazism would be at the far left, providing no freedom.  You do what the party says or else, and the government controls every aspect of life.

"In this more rational political spectrum, it's clear that liberals are the ones who need to apologize for white nationalists and Nazis, not conservatives."

You can read more of Tom's rants at his blog, Conversations about the obvious, and feel free to follow him on Twitter.

Gettysburg Park Officials: Confederate Monuments Here To Stay

Weasel Zippers

"Thankfully, at least Gettysburg and the National Park Service has sense and understands the importance of history.

HANOVER, Pa. — Despite national discourse on the appropriateness of Confederate monuments, the ones in Gettysburg are not going anywhere, according to park officials.

The movement to take down monuments honoring figures from the Confederacy came to a boil on Saturday when three people died in Charlottesville, Va., during a white supremacist rally to protest plans to remove a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee.

A man plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters with his car, killing a woman and injuring 19 other people. Two state troopers died when their helicopter crashed as they were monitoring events.

Debates like the one in Charlottesville are not expected to come to the Gettysburg battlefield.

Keep reading…

Gettysburg Photo Album Panoramas; Pickett's Charge

Do not expect Obama to defend American History

Virginia Confederate Monuments at Gettysburg

About deleting history

If we remove hateful symbols, we become historical revisionists like Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, China during its Cultural Revolution, and the Islamic State.  We become destined to repeat the sins of the past, because we deprived ourselves of the ability to remember them.  Steve Postal*

A Story About Deleting History  "My guess is that most of the people bringing down monuments are caught up in a rage and have not thought through just exactly what they are doing.   

"After all, why would anyone bring down a statue that honors the Confederate soldier as just happened in Durham, North Carolina?   

"We can disagree about the war, but can't we honor the men who were drafted or volunteered to fight?  Isn't that what The Vietnam Memorial is about?     

"Speaking of deleting history, Cubans have a lot of experience on the topic. The entire story of Castro's Cuba has been one chapter after another about the elimination of names, photos, or even monuments.     

"Let me tell you the story of Carlos Franqui, who passed away in 2010:

. . . 

"Franqui could not take it anymore. He eventually parted ways when Fidel Castro was forced to support the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia to maintain his annual subsidy. So Franqui managed to get out and spent the rest of his life as an enemy of the regime.

"And then Franqui was deleted from Cuban history and photos. His image was erased in various photos with Castro, as we can see in this example. First, there is Franqui in the back and then there is no Franqui in the photo.

"His role in the "revolution" was deleted and there was no more Carlos Franqui as far as the regime was concerned.  

"And that's what happens when you delete history. You deny future generations the whole story."Silvio Canto, Jr.

*Those who try to erase history  . . . "In August 2015, ISIS destroyed the Temple of Baalshamin (Ba’al, for short) in Palmyra, Syria.  From ISIS’ perspective, the Temple was a pagan symbol of hate and an affront to Islam.  The Temple dates back over 2,000 years, dedicated to the Canaanite god Ba’al.

"If anything, it would have been more fitting if the Jews, not ISIS, decided the Temple of Ba’al’s fate.  Well before the advent of Islam, Canaanites were archenemies of the Hebrews.  But if the Temple of Ba’al still stood today, the Jews would likely have favored its preservation, much like they painstakingly excavate Canaanite artifacts and structures across Israel (see here here here andhere for some examples).  The Temple of Ba’al was a priceless and unique window into the past, a glimpse into the early influences on Western civilization.  Now the world can’t see it.  ISIS took that possibility away from us." . . .

Something rotten in Charlottesville

Cartoons from The Daily Gouge:

Democrats renew calls for Trump impeachment after his Charlottesville response   "Clueless dems should look up how impeachment works."; Lucianne.

Something stinks about Charlottesville   "Evidence is turning up from, of all places, the Southern Poverty Law Center, as well as Breitbart and others, that this character, Jason Kessler, who organized the suspicious and supposed Alt-Right demonstration in Charlottesville, Va. that blew up in everyone's face, is a cunning lefty holdover from the Occupy Wall Street movement and a former Barack Obama supporter.  I smell Soros money, sabotage, and Democrat dirty tricks here." . . . Russ Vaughn

When Liberals Club People, It's With Love in Their Hearts

Thank God Donald J. Trump is our president, and not Mitt Romney, not Marco Rubio and not that nasty woman. 

Ann Coulter  . . . "With any luck, we'll unravel Fields' motives faster than it took the Obama administration to discern the motives of a Muslim shouting "Allahu Akbar!" while gunning down soldiers at Fort Hood. (Six years.) 

"But so far, all we know is that Fields said he was "upset about black people" and wanted to kill as many as possible. On his Facebook page, he displayed a "White Power" poster and "liked" three organizations deemed "white separatist hate groups" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. A subsequent search of his home turned up bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition and a personal journal of combat tactics. 

"Actually, none of that is true. The paragraph above describes, down to the letter, what was known about Micah Xavier Johnson, the black man who murdered five Dallas cops a year ago during a Black Lives Matter demonstration. My sole alteration to the facts is reversing the words "black" and "white.' " 

"President Obama held a news conference the next day to say it's "very hard to untangle the motives." The New York Times editorialized agnostically that many "possible motives will be ticked off for the killer." (One motive kind of sticks out like a sore thumb to me.) 

"In certain cases, the media are quite willing to jump to conclusions. In others, they seem to need an inordinate amount of time to detect motives. 

"The media think they already know all there is to know about James Fields, but they also thought they knew all about the Duke lacrosse players, "gentle giant" Michael Brown and those alleged gang-rapists at the University of Virginia. 

"Waiting for facts is now the "Nazi" position. 

"Liberals have Republicans over a barrel because they used the word "racist." The word is kryptonite, capable of turning the entire GOP and 99 percent of the "conservative media" into a panicky mass of cowardice. " . . .

Trump gets it

As President Lincoln once said of the much-vilified General Grant, "I can't spare this man; he fights!".

"Mark Jarrett  "The violence in Charlottesville, and the tearing down of Robert E. Lee's statue there and in Durham, has made me angry and unhappy.  I, like many Americans and Southerners of my generation, have seen the tremendous progress in racial harmony.  I remember the bad old days and do not want to return there, but I also do not like attacks on my ancestors.  Then I listened to President Trump's remarks yesterday from Trump Tower.  Brilliant.

"Trump jumped to the chase.  He gets the progressive mind.  He asked, "Will you tear down George Washington's statue next?  Do you like Jefferson?  He was a slave owner.  Will you tear down his statue, too?  You are changing the history and changing the culture."  Finally, we have a leader who fights back against the tyranny of the culture-changing socialists.

"Trump understands that these actions are warm-ups.  The progressives are tearing down Confederate statues, and they arekicking and spitting on the memorials to the dead because they cannot yet kick and spit on President Trump and his voters.  If they could imprison Trump and deport his voters, they would do that and not worry about statues.  They are lashing out where they can.

"Progressives want a socialist society cleansed of traditional values.  To get power, we, as a country, must reject our heritage of freedom and embrace Marxist values of state control.  That is why they fight so hard to control the teaching of history and why they denigrate the ideals and values of the Founders and the pioneers.

BLM Founder – White Speech Is Hate Speech, No First Amendment Rights

Rick Wells

"The agitator for criminal rights obsessed with racism who started the Black Lives Matter hate group was kicked out of her home when she was 16 by her parents. Her Wikipedia page says it was because she’s a lesbian, something her parents objected to, but it likely had more to do with the huge chip on her shoulder and the matching mouth.

"The name of this skin color obsessed individual is, as unbelievable or fitting as it might be, Patrisse Cullors. She’s a fulltime agitator so she’s right at home on CNN complaining about people who produce, work for a living and don’t believe in communism as an acceptable alternative to the Constitution and individual liberty.

 . . . "In her special edition of the Constitution, the First Amendment text is a little longer. It contains an exclusion for hate speech.

"In her Hoodrat Translation it reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof – unless it’s whitey hate speech.” Whitey hate speech is a concept that wasn’t defined by or likely even known to the founding fathers at the time the Constitution was written, another testament to their genius and ability to anticipate future situations." . . .

MSM, Democrats, And Police Continue To Award Antifa Thugs A 'Rioters Veto'

John Nolte

"The only horror we should have witnessed Saturday was bigots holding Tiki torches circling a statue."

"My opinion is not the popular one but what I saw in Charlottesville Saturday is what President Trump saw — hate, violence and bigotry from "many sides." And when you are the President of the United States attempting to do the most important thing, which is to restore law and order, what you cannot do is be seen as taking sides, even if doing so will appease the MSM and those in the GOP who foolishly seek to appease the MSM.

"Trump singling out or in any way calling special attention to the white supremacists would only embolden the left-wing supremacists in the Antifa movement, the group that might have been responsible for the outbreak of violence Saturday.

"No, what I saw Saturday was the equivalent of the Bolsheviks vs. the Mensheviks, the National Socialists (Nazis) vs. the Communists, naked evil vs. naked evil. A pox on both.

"What a lot of other people also saw on Saturday, though, and this includes members of the national media, is police officers standing idly by as violence within their line of sight went unchallenged. From Pro Publica:" . . .

Lost in this mess is the disturbing fact that Antifa successfully repeated this tactic less than 24 hours later in Seattle — but not against neo-Nazis, against everyday Americans expressing their support of Trump!

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Leftist Activists Demand New York Museum Take Down Statue of ‘Racist’ Theodore Roosevelt

The Daily Wire

"Social justice warriors are never satisfied. If you give them an inch, they’ll take a mile. After demanding that southern states take down statues of Confederate figures, the activist Left is now targeting an iconic American president featured on Mount Rushmore.

"On Monday, more than 200 SJW zealots held a protest inside the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to take down the supposedly “racist” statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt. The protest’s organizers, NYC Stands with Standing Rock and Decolonize This Place, also called for Columbus Day to be renamed Indigenous People’s Day.

“ 'A stark embodiment of the white supremacy that Roosevelt himself espoused and promoted,” pontificated the group of protesters in a statement. “The statue is seen as an affront to all who pass it on entering the museum, but especially to African and Native Americans.' ”

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The John Duarte Trial Is Starting And You Should Pay Attention

Hot Air

. . . "In addition to distorting the meaning of “Waters of the United States” beyond any reasonable definition, this case is also challenging the use of the phrase, “normal farming practices.” Stop and think about that for a moment. The act of plowing a field is not, in the eyes of some in our government, considered a normal farming practice.

"Duarte’s lawyer is trying to get the fine dropped to one dollar rather than a figure in the millions since Duarte was already found guilty. But that won’t matter anyway because he’s going to appeal as soon as this is over. It’s more of a matter of principle than the actual money (though I’m sure the farmer could use that also) and a question of whether or not there is any sanity or common sense left in the federal government or the judicial system. Sadly, unless there’s a way somebody in the Trump administration can derail this, his appeal would be going to the Ninth Circuit, which means he’s pretty much already lost because, well… the Ninth Circuit." . . .

EPA and Army Corps seek to rescind clean water rule 

The good EPA; not the Democrat EPA that seeks to rule every corner of our lives.
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers released a proposal on Tuesday to repeal the 2015 Clean Water Rule, the latest move by the Trump administration to unwind environmental regulations put in place under former President Barack Obama." . . .

Not So Private Property?: Clean Water Restoration Act Raises Fears of Land Grab

" 'Right now, the law says that the Environmental Protection Agency is in charge of all navigable water," said Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., chairman of the Senate Western Caucus and an opponent of the bill. 

" 'Well, this bill removes the word 'navigable,' so for ranchers and farmers who have mud puddles, prairie potholes -- anything from snow melting on their land -- all of that water will now come under the regulation of the Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency," he said. 

"Barrasso said the federal government's one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work in the west where the Rocky Mountain states have gone even further than Washington to protect land, water and the environment.

" 'The government wants control of all water -- that also means that they want control over all of our land including the private property rights of people from the Rocky Mountain west, the western caucus and the entire United States," he said." . . .

 

CNN: Hell No, We Won’t Run Trump’s New Ad

Hot Air

. . . "Exit question: Trump’s campaign deliberately baits the media in its ads hoping that it’ll get CNN or MSNBC or one of the broadcast networks to reject them, right? Controversy draws an audience; this ad has nearly a million views on YouTube already, thanks in part to CNN rendering it taboo. No one understands how this works better than a media manipulator as practiced as the president."