Hiatus.

I'll be on the road until about February 10 with light blogging in between, if any.

In the meantime, do not miss this superb piece on Pres. Trump's foreign policy:

"Donald Trump Has a Coherent, Radical Foreign Policy Doctrine." By George Friedman, Real Clear World, 1/20/17.

Disconnect.

My lady friend observed that last Saturday's women's marches around the country had a distinct component of idiocy but she thought that still some of the women had a point about "objectification" and not wanting to be treated as sex objects.

She nonetheless found it ironic that the demonstrations took place with the strong backing of Hollywood, no town on earth ever having done more to objectify women and treat them as sex objects.

Sine qua non.

Q: Why will there never be a coup d’état in Washington?

A: Because there’s no American embassy there.

~ William Blum.

The leftist switcheroo: ditch labor, embrace the fringe, get rich.

Neoliberalism--the opening of markets and borders--enables capital to effortlessly crush labor. The social democrats, in embracing open borders, have institutionalized an open immigration that shreds the scarcity value of domestic labor in favor of lower cost immigrant labor that serves capital's desire for lower costs.

Globalization and neoliberal financial / immigration policies signify the collapse of the Left and the victory of capital. Now capital completely dominates the state and its cronyist structures--political parties, lobbying, campaign contributions, charitable foundations operating as pay-for-play cash vacuums, and all the other features of cartel-state capitalism.

To mask the collapse of the Left's economic defense of labor, the Left's apologists and PR machine have substituted social justice movements for economic opportunities to acquire economic security and capital. This has succeeded brilliantly, as tens of millions of self-described "progressives" completely bought the left's Great Con that "social justice" campaigns on behalf of marginalized social groups were the defining feature of Progressive Social Democratic movements.^[1]

The Democrat Party – guardian of pathology: worship of foreigners, embrace of the underclass, fawning over feminist and sexual freaks, hostility to free speech, slobbering over globalism, blindness regarding Islam, and blindness to violence and the breakdown of public order.

Guardian of working people (or anyone else)? Not so much.

Keith Preston has a similar take on this:

During the 1960s, the political Left in the Western world underwent a transformation from class-based proletarianism to an orientation towards cultural politics with an emphasis on race, gender, and counterculturalism. A variety of explanations have been offered for why this occurred but for the purposes of this discussion what matters is the effect of this transformation on American electoral politics. Beginning with the electoral strategy devised for the Democratic Party in the early 1970s by Fred Dutton, the mainstream of American liberalism and much of the far Left began to jettison a working class orientation, and instead embracing upper middle class liberals, students, minorities, the counterculture, and environmentalists.

Trump demeans women.
Photo: Matthew Vadum .

Consequently, the Democratic Party oriented reformist “left” began forming an alliance with corporate liberals against labor in exchange for being given what they wanted on social issues like civil rights, anti-racism, affirmative action, feminism, abortion, gay rights, and environmentalism as a recent article in The Atlantic, a liberal publication, has surprisingly admitted. As a result, the mainstream of American liberalism was transformed into a kind of left-wing capitalism that embraced neoliberal economics but continued to move towards the far left fringes on social and cultural issues.^[2]

So what we've seen is one of the great political parties of 20th-c. America turn itself into a zoo whose inmates couldn't recognize (a) Hillary Clinton's monstrous betrayal of our fighting men and diplomats in Benghazi and (b) the astonishing corruption involved in her pay-to-play Clinton Foundation and its Saudi donations. Grotesque speaking fees caused not even a raised eyebrow in the sycophantic house press.

Nothing remarkable there. Our Hilly.

Pointless, reckless, aggressive, unconstitutional war in Libya and Syria? Not an "anti-war" protestor within a thousand miles.

The stench was overpowering but she was the Democrats' star. Coal miners to the remainder bin. Tough.

Notes
^[1] "The Collapse Of The Left's Great Con." By Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds, 1/22/17. H/t: Zero Hedge.
^[2] "Donald Trump and the Return of Liberalism." By Keith Preston, Attack the System, c. 11/13/16.

Vulgar thought.

I'll be unembarrassedly old-fashioned here: It is profoundly depressing and vulgar to hear an American president proclaim "America First."

~ Bill Kristol.^[1]

America First. What a ridiculous idea.

A moment of surprising candor from a cuckservative. Just what we Tea Partiers and Trumpeteers gradually began to suspect.

The American elite, whether "right" or left care nothing for the interests of this nation and have been happy to have our economy trashed and culture destroyed in the name of a fatuous "globalism" and open borders. They were willing to lie and dissemble until Trump tossed his hat in the ring.

Now it's right out there for all to see.

Modernity and prosperity have been the spawning ground for profound stupidity in every aspect of public and private life.

Notes
^[1] Tweet reported at "On Entering the Trump Era." By Diana West, 1/21/17.

Paradigm shift.

Again, it was Trump who read the nation right, which is why he is taking the oath today.

The existential threat to the West no longer comes from the East, from a Russian army crashing through Poland and Germany and driving for the Elbe and Fulda Gap.

The existential threat to the West comes, instead, from the South.

The billion-plus peoples of the Maghreb, Middle East and sub-Sahara, whose numbers are exploding, are moving inexorably toward the Med, coming to occupy the empty places left by an aging and dying Europe, all of whose native-born populations steadily shrink.

American's bleeding border is what concerns Americans, not the borders of Estonia, South Korea, Kuwait or the South China Sea.^[1]

I know otherwise sensible people who think that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a deception operation and that Vladimir Putin has dreams of restoring communism to Russia and completing the communist conquest of Europe. These thinkers are the modern equivalent of the Japanese soldiers who stayed on for decades in the jungles of the Philippines after WWII whose commanding officers had to be sent back in to persuade them that the war was over and they could go home.

However, a large portion of the Treason Class is not just misguided but dishonest in their supposed fear of Russia. Also, the straight out lies this class has told about Libya and Syria and their complicity in the Saudis' financing of terror around the world make clear that honesty and the interests of Western people are not important to them.

So it's just as Mr. Buchanan says. The Russian threat is illusory and the threat from the overpopulated third-world is huge.

Maddeningly, the Treason Class has pursued:

1. selling a bogus Russian illegitimacy, revanchism, imperialism, and neo-communism and
2. importing aggressive, hostile, supremacist, and parasitic third-worlders.

I need not say what a pleasure it was to hear Pres. Trump talk about the stupidity of having American troops defending the borders of foreign nations but not those of the United States. With luck Trump's skepticism about anti-Russian hysteria and interest in simple defense of borders indicate there's been a tectonic shift back to simple common sense.

Notes
^[1] "New President, New World." By Patrick J. Buchanan, 1/20/17.

Pearls of expression.

One of the features of the escalating global confrontation was the increase in Russophobia, in the form of accusations leveled at Russia that it’s invading Ukraine, shooting down airliners, committing atrocities in Syria, hacking US elections, sponsoring alt-Right and Euroskeptic movements, and weaponizing giant squid.

"The Political Uses Of Russophobia." By J.Hawk, Daniel Deiss, and Edwin Watson, South Front, 1/19/17.

Canadian police chase.

Thanks to Wanda Sheratt, commenter at Liberty's Torch on another video of great Canadian humor.

Establishment Republican Manifesto.

Reformed Trombonist replies to no mo uro:

> Doesn't mean he shouldn't try, just because the task at hand is difficult.

I can see you never mastered the Establishment Republican Manifesto...

Never fight; you might lose.

"DisruptJ20 Dramatically Scales Back Plans to Sabotage Inauguration After Project Veritas Sting." By Debra Heine, PJ Media, 1/17/17.

Mistakes was made.

The [U.S. government report on its bombing on September 17, 2016] then is saying the bloody Deir ez-Zor bombing was not the result of one error, but the result of a very long string of unexplained errors piled on top of each other. At so many steps along the way the planned strike could be recognized as being destined to hit Syrian soldiers but every time a freak mistake interceded.^[1]

Mr. Hill makes no mention of what signals intelligence revealed about this Syrian Arab Army (SAA) position, occupied for some six months before the "Coalition" attack on it.

Let's focus on that.

It beggars the imagination that there was no SIGINT collection activity in Syria or that its requirements would not have included targeting all the areas in and around Deir ez-Zor.

On the contrary, SIGINT operations had to have been underway and, as the night follows day, they revealed that radio transmissions out of and into the site targeted were SAA comms. There would have been no reason for the SAA to have been under radio silence and whether or not their transmissions were encrypted they would have been on frequencies and using equipment known to be used by the SAA. It would have been child's play to identify whose radios those were at that site, particularly as the unit's traffic would have been answered by headquarters units located in Syrian government-controlled territory AND adjacent Syrian units in the immediate area.

By way of comparison, the Russians and Syrians maintained a SIGINT facility near al-Hara which "was responsible for recording and decrypting radio communications from every rebel group operating inside Syria."^[2] Note the use of the language "decrypting," "every," "rebel," and "inside Syria."

Are we to believe that the U.S. has no such capability in Syria and had no interest in radio traffic out of and into the site it struck? This willful ignorance, this supposed ignorance, of the U.S. forces is not believable. That targeted unit sat there for some six months and the U.S. gleaned no information as to its identity from radio traffic, let alone from (a) other photographic evidence and (b) the logical role that unit played in Syrian defenses rather than ISIS defenses? Really? It really struck analysts and commanders as being part of the ISIS dispositions?

In point of fact, the U.S. has a SIGINT capability that is astonishing. We used it in Iraq to devastating effect and anyone who says the exact communication network of ISIS around Deir ez-Zor wasn't also later known in detail to U.S. forces operating in Syria^[3] is a liar.

And this has implications respecting what we most assuredly know about ISIS and al-Qaida communications everywhere in Syria and, hence, about the dispositions and movements of those swine, and about the clearly pretend war that the U.S. has "waged" against its ISIS and al-Qaida allies in this dirty war. Read the Shane Harris article cited in the notes below and then tell me that ISIS and al-Qaida units cannot and could not be hounded to death by highly targeted "Coalition" military operations. Yet, inexplicably, mysteriously, ISIS lives on and on and on. It's just so hard to find them.

Alternative explanation: The U.S. is lying about not knowing the unit it struck on September 17, 2016 was a unit of the SAA. There was no mistake involved. The U.S. commander intended to attack a Syrian government position.

Notes
^[1] "Its Own Report Data Indicates Pentagon's Slaughter of 100 Syrian Troops in Deir ez-Zor Was Deliberate." By Adam Hill, Russia Insider, 12/8/16.
^[2] "Captured Russian spy facility reveals the extent of Russian aid to the Assad regime." By Oryxspioenkop, Oryx Blog, 10/6/14.
^[3] "How the NSA Became a Killing Machine." By Shane Harris, The Daily Beast, 11/9/14. Money quote: "This was the most sophisticated global tracking system ever devised, and it worked with lethal efficiency."

Bill Clinton on illegal immigration.

Clearly, a hater.

Cat watching horror movie.

H/t: Pundita.

Delicious wit.

Hilarious commentary by Jennifer Jones.

Pearls of expression.

When the Russian feminist punk rock group Pussy Riot was arrested and sentenced to prison in 2011 for protesting inside a cathedral, they became known as free speech heroes. Protests were held outside the Moscow embassy in Washington, the usual suspect celebrity airheads like Madonna weighed in, and members of the band even starred on House of Cards where they stood up to a character clearly based on Putin. The Russian government convicted the band on the grounds that their actions were offensive to religious believers, a justification that is similar to that used by Western governments when they go after “racists” or “homophobes.” In this case, however, because the tribe that the state was protecting was white Christians, Western elites suddenly became free speech absolutists.^[1]

Mr. Cooper's article is most insightful. Highly recommended.

Notes
^[1] "Which Are the Real “Illiberal Democracies”?" By Jeremy Cooper, The Unz Review, 12/24/16.

From Russia's perspective.

Denizens of America’s imperial city have trouble recognizing that the rest of the world does not view their motives as pure as those of the Vestal Virgins of antiquity. Alas, from a Russian standpoint, ignoring Moscow’s Balkan interests, dismantling Slavic friend Serbia, expanding NATO to Russia’s borders, absorbing old Warsaw Pact members and Soviet republics, inviting Georgia and Ukraine to seek NATO membership, backing “color” revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine against Moscow’s interests, encouraging a street revolution against an elected, Russia-friendly president in Ukraine, and seeking to overthrow the Assad regime, a long-time Soviet ally, are not friendly acts.

"Newsflash: Russia Is Not the Soviet Union." By Doug Bandow, The National Interest, 12/29/16.

Obama, Clinton and Panetta and the disgrace that was Benghazi.

The example referenced by commenter Retired_ABN_1SG is Obama's vindictive and petty hounding of the Little Sisters of the Poor on the issue of providing birth control:

The example you provide, Mr. Heck, is both notable of his petty smallness and most worthy of revulsion to all morally directed persons. Only the most shallow and truly lost souls could argue against your point. But, I contend that there are numerous examples of just how pathetic this small, petulant, self-absorbed wannabe man will be remembered, with each representative of the background of the persons he sought to marginalize or reduce.

Mine personally is the Benghazi tragedy.

Those brave Americans fought like true American Warriors, covering each other numerous times while also unhesitantly exposing themselves to immediate danger if needed to help one another survive just a little longer, because they knew deep down inside that help would come.

They did not question whether or not it was even possible help wasn't just over the horizon. They were Americans by God; they knew that other Americans, at that very moment, we're packed tight inside Blackhawks and the pilots had the engines firewalled heading into Benghazi....at any second, they would hear a voice on the radio who was the pilot of an AC-130 ready to rain hell down on those intent upon killing them....they knew, that they would make it, if they could just hold on, because Americans never, never, PHOUCKING NEVER leave Americans behind.

Never.

For that, more than anything else, to me, I will never forgive either him, or the beast wife of Bubba, or panetta, or any of the others involved. . . .

Comment by Retired_ABN_1SG on "The one act that defined President Barack Obama." By Peter Heck, American Thinker, 1/12/17 (minor formatting, spelling changed).

Whore at a Sunday school picnic.

Whore not pictured.

I hate to be a similarly out-of-place citizen in the polity now known as the nation that is indispensable, exceptional, and qualified as no other to lead and inspire lesser breeds around the world. I really do. But, I have just been wondering about this Obamacare thing.

But first, a detour through the spidery labyrinths of our much discussed Constitution whose original structure has for the last 80 years or so begun to resemble today's photos of modern Aleppo.

A mere majority of our Supreme Court justices has for a good long time taken to interpreting the Constitution as though it were a "living Constitution," something just there to provide a launching pad for fanciful ideas that have entered Their Enlightened Consciousnesses. That expansive and imaginative approach to what the Constitution says is, shall I say it, complete crap.

A better understanding can be acquired by internalizing this excellent passage in Chilton Williamson's review of Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First Century:

As Kent Masterson Brown (“Secession: A Constitutional Remedy That Protects Fundamental Liberties”) suggests, the meaning of the Constitution in respect of the relationship between the central government and the states is so extravagantly clear that neither intellectual density nor even incompetence can explain how the compact theory [Madison, Jefferson] was gradually overwhelmed and defeated by the nationalist one [Hamilton, Webster, Lincoln]. It was raw mental and political will that did the trick, abetted by intellectual dishonesty, demagoguery, and sheer mendacity.^[1]

This brilliantly frames the fundamental issue of our Republic, namely, Does the Constitution mean (a) what it says or (b) what five excellent, caring, leftist^[2] members of the Supreme Court say it means?

If the meaning of the Constitution is determined in accordance with the approach in (b) then we get what we see today – a made up, floundering country that is controlled by a massive federal government populated by officials and politicians egged on by a massive, sycophantic media monopoly who are simply unreachable by the ostensibly sovereign people, or, possibly reachable only with the investment of enormous sums of money, time, effort, and expertise. The lottery has better odds of a satisfactory outcome and what we're left with is a giant middle finger salute to representative government, courtesy of treasonous progressives, the most beautiful and deserving of our people.

The fact of Obamacare is but one of thousands of crushing, asinine initiatives undertaken by the federal government. Obamacare's complexity and expense are stunning as can be seen and inferred from this chart prepared to illustrate the whole tedious structure:

So, my question is, Where does it say in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution that the U.S. government has any power to legislate anything relating to health care (outside of health care for the armed forces)?

Answer: there is no such power in that Section and it is a tragedy to see Ryan and every violator of his or her oath to support and defend the Constitution pretend that there is any need for them to come up with a replacement for Obamacare. Mr. Trump is similarly set on an unconstitutional course.

So why are these fools acting like it's their sacred duty to "do something" about health care at the federal level? I and a few other citizens raise this issue but the ones with contempt for the Constitution swan about like princes living princely lives off of the public dime.

Who's out of place?

Notes
^[1] "The Long March Through the Constitution." By Chilton Williamson Jr., Chronicles Magazine, 5/1/14 (subscription required)(emphasis added).
^[2] "Like many other progressives of his day, [Louis] Brandeis was tired of outmoded 18th century conceptions of liberty." – Richard A. Epstein quote in Conservapedia. "Outmoded" as defined by Brandeis. Simple as pie. You agree, of course.

The innate destructiveness of the left.

The left acts as an impulsive and rebellious force that legitimizes itself through morality, then it takes advantage of the masses. This passion based morality enables them to question everything that exists outside of them and, because it is rebellious, it seeks to destroy; directly, through revolution, or indirectly, through social reform or societal change. This does not mean that change or reform cannot take place outside of the left and its claims.

This inherently becomes incompatible with millennia of western thought that makes [sic] the west “The West.”^[1]

Leftists illustrate one of my favorite Yiddish sayings:

Send a fool to close the window and he'll close them all over town.

As Vergilius Rex points out, leftism is a rebellious force. But, once it successfully achieves one goal, it takes that goal and creates another problem to be solved that is relating to the last problem. Or not.

There is no point at which the leftist says the present is a just and workable thing. No. The leftist, the impulsive and eternal rebel, continues until the result is grotesque. Every healthy plant planted by the ancestors must be ripped out by its roots and the most idiotic, the most unnatural replacement presented as though it were the equivalent of ambrosia and free beer.

Black slavery in America? Abolish it! Then elevate blacks to the point where we have BRA, or Black-Ruled America, as Paul Kersey puts it. Complete with legal discrimination against whites and exactions from whites to finance black pathology, a new slavery. Anathematize whites who object and fawn over every black "leader" and political excrudescence like Black Lives Matter.

Discrimination against women? Again, give women the vote. Then hand them extraordinary legal weapons so that men flee from involvement, marriage and fatherhood lest they experience financial ruin and debasement of their parental rights. Now, too, there must be bare-breasted street marches, simulated abortions in cathedrals, and the abomination that is third-wave feminism with its worship of abortion, its hatred of men, and its hatred of the central institution of society that makes life livable and satisfying.

Address social and legal censure of homosexuality? Terrific. Then ensure that absurd notions of "sexual identify" are made mandatory, young confused children are injected with hormones of the sex that they are not, and provide for male freaks with real or pretend delusions of femaleness to get to use restrooms used by normal females (and to pound female MMA fighters). What could go wrong?

Provide assistance to families in need? Great. Then establish a vast, hugely-expensive mechanism for encouraging and subsidizing male irresponsibility, bastardy, sloth, ignorance, crime, and a rock-solid leftist voting bloc. Just what we need. A permanent tilt in the direction of socialism, irresponsibility, and crime.

Address some of the problems of poverty and disease outside the country? Great! Then throw open the doors of the country and import hostile, parasitic foreigners by the millions to debase the concept of citizenship and sovereignty, lay waste to the culture, and take jobs from citizens.

In this one area alone, leftism ensures not sensible amelioration of problems within sensible limits but wholesale destruction of the nation and its people.

And this does not even address the works of leftists who are not fools on a mission but malevolent and destructive monsters, whose goal is terror and dictatorship of a kind witnessed by millions since 1917.

I'm not sure what the author of the quoted passage thinks must be done. The West is founded on reason, not emotion, he argues and patriots should avoid political debate that is on the left's terms, namely, debate about policy based on emotion and morality (relativism) not reason. What that means in more practical terms I don't know. Just a bit of vagueness there in an otherwise good article.

Nor is compromise with the left an acceptable tactic. The left must be rejected wholesale. It's destruction has been enormous. Something for nothing or theft through the mechanism of the popular vote are just contrary to nature. We are witnessing the death throes of that approach now and, probably, economic collapse will be more forceful and persuasive on the necessity of adhering to fundamentals. Reasonable efforts to debate leftists have been a waste of time. Leftists are not interested in any search for the truth.

Notes
^[1] "The Machiavellian Principle – The Key to the West." By Vergilius Rex, Black Pigeon Speaks, 10/22/16 (emphasis added except in last sentence).

Shell of a party.

The Democratic Party leadership cannot face, and certainly cannot publicly admit, that its callous betrayal of the working and middle class triggered a nationwide revolt that resulted in the election of Trump. It has been [com]pounded since President Barack Obama took office, losing 68 seats in the House, 12 seats in the Senate and 10 governorships. It lost more than 1,000 elected positions between 2008 and 2012 nationwide. Since 2010, Republicans have replaced 900 Democratic state legislators. If this was [were] a real party, the entire leadership would be sacked. But it is not a real party. It is the shell of a party propped up by corporate money and hyperventilating media.

"The Real Purpose of the U.S. Government’s Report on Alleged Hacking by Russia." By Chris Hedges, truthdig, 1/8/17.

All else is fluff.

Stated succinctly:

The reign of terror imposed on eastern Aleppo was the creation of Western states covertly sponsoring extremists to prosecute their criminal designs for regime change in Syria.^[1]

There may be 100 reasons why the Syrian regime may be a blight on the planet (with emphasis on the words "may be"). However, the only reason offered by Obama and his toads is "Assad must go." As persuasive reasons for deposing someone and killing hundreds of thousands of his countryman go, that lacks a certain something.

This disgraceful episode in our nation's history – our alliance with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, al Qaida, and ISIS in a pointless war – is instructive for what it teaches about

1. the debased morals of our disgusting Treason Class,
2. Republican cowardice in the face of unconstitutional and aggressive war, and
3. what a craven, lying, lickspittle legacy press we have in the U.S.

Notes
^[1] "West Spins Again to Sabotage Syria Ceasefire." By Finian Cunningham, Strategic Culture, 1/5/17.

One of US media’s most pernicious lies.

Even those [civlians in Syria] who expressed disapproval of Russia’s involvement in their country told me they hold the US and its regional allies—Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey—most responsible for the disintegration of their country.

These sentiments totally contradict one of US media’s most pernicious lies—that US inaction allowed the bloodshed in Syria to continue with impunity.

“Many thousands of people have been killed in Aleppo…but Washington shrugs,” lamented the New York Times (12/14/16). “The United States’ inaction in Syria has transformed our country into nothing other than a bystander to the greatest atrocity of our time,” complained Leon Wieseltier in the Washington Post (12/15/16).

But Washington has intervened (FAIR.org, 10/1/15)—and by doing so, it prolonged the bloodshed and empowered Al Qaeda.

Despite being warned about the extremist and violently sectarian ideology that dominated the opposition as early as November 2011, the Obama administration spent, according to the Washington Post (6/12/15), a colossal $1 billion-a-year training and funneling weapons to Al Qaeda–linked extremists in order to weaken the Syrian government.

In written testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in June 2016, Brett McGurk, the US special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter IS, warned that “Nusra is now Al Qaeda’s largest formal affiliate in history.” According to US intelligence officials, Nusra is starting to plot attacks against the US.

In other words, the US government outsourced its war against the Syrian government to Al Qaeda, and Americans have no idea, because corporate media continue to promote lies about Obama’s so-called inaction.^[1]

The United States supports al Qaida. We are sullied by this immoral alliance and our disgraceful war on Syria. As for the press . . . :

Since 9/11, US corporate media have portrayed Al Qaeda as a monstrous organization whose existence justifies a global war without end. Who could have predicted that by 2016, these same media outlets would become Al Qaeda’s most enthusiastic cheerleaders?^[2]

Notes
^[1] "In Syria, Western Media Cheer Al Qaeda." By Rania Khalek, FAIR, 1/4/17.
^[2] Id.

H/t: Russia Insider.

Patriots.

Wall Street paid out $18 billion in year-end bonuses last year [2008] to its New York City employees, after the government disbursed $243 billion in emergency assistance to the financial sector.

Mr. Johnson's article is now over seven years old but it is still instructive on the unhealthy power of the financial sector in the U.S.

"The Quiet Coup." By Simon Johnson, The Atlantic, 5/09.

Happy New Year.

Thanks to all the visitors who came by my site during the last year. I appreciate your interest in what I write.

I wish you all a happy and prosperous 2017 wherein you will have very, very few occasions to listen to the thoughts of the Golfer-in-Chief.

Just a flag.

If "white privilege" (i.e., what you gain in life from thrift, discipline, frugality, education, sacrifice, marriage, non-criminal behavior) ticks blacks off, well, this kind of black arrogance and ignorance (below) ticks me off.

If former Navy Petty Officer Ervin were air dropped (with parachute) into any of the black-ruled countries in this world, within a month she'd be begging to be allowed back into this land that she detests so much, that has wronged her with every breath that she takes.

The usual ignorant garbage relieved by a rare example of appropriate official action instead of the usual cowardice:

Petty Officer 2nd Class Janaye Ervin was promptly stripped of her security clearance, assigned to menial labor for a few days, then shown the exit hatch.

On Sept. 19, Ervin refused to stand for the anthem while on reserve duty at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii. She claimed she was trying to make a statement about the persecution of blacks in America, the International Business Times reported.

“I just didn’t want to stand at that moment,” Ervin said. “I can’t stand for this song knowing that the song isn’t for me, being black. The song doesn’t represent me at all. To be honest, I never really thought about the flag my entire life, I had no reason to. It’s just a flag.”^[1]

Here's one of her soul mates:

Notes
^[1] "Navy Sailor Forced to Do Manual Labor as Punishment for Refusing to Stand for National Anthem." By Shari Savage, Conservative Tribune, 12/30/16.

H/t: RightAlertsPolls.com..

Liberal stupidity.

Only liberal ideology calls for America and Europe to bring into their home countries endless numbers of migrants, without being overly concerned about who they are, whence they come or what they believe.

"Europeans Will Fight Back Against Invasion–No Matter What The NEW YORK TIMES Wants." By Pat Buchanan, VDARE.com, 12/22/16.