Savage has written a new book. In it, he apparently claims that from the moment of his election, Obama set out to cause an American Civil War by letting in a "flood of Central American illegal aliens and the entry of the Ebola virus to the U.S." Savage sees this as the "worldwide left... attempting nothing less than a socialist takeover of the world economy and global politics." He even claims that Biden admitted this when he stated the other day that the "post-World War II order is literally fraying at the seams." He then pounces:
“What was he trying to say?” Savage asked. “Was he playing like he’s suddenly discovered what he’s done to the country? And now he’s triangulating his opposition to make believe he’s the savior? It’s not just a joke,” he told WND. “We’re at the end of the road here.”Hence, we must impeach Obama now!
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Ok, let me point out first and foremost that if you believe anything Savage says, then you are probably a paranoid moron. Sorry, but it's true. Now let's take down this particular idiocy.
(1) When Obama took office, he had no idea that there would be a flood of Central America kids shipped north. So how likely is it that this was all part of some nefarious plan to cause a civil war? Oh, that's right, facts don't matter to the paranoid. Further, there were only about 30,000 of these immigrants. Compared to the two million immigrants the US adds each year, that's not even noticeable. Moreover, they're kids. Are we to believe that an "army" of 30,000 Hispanic children will undo the US? If that can happen, then we've got bigger problems than Obama.
(2) Biden is a big enough fool that anyone who looks for meaning in his words is an idiot. And to take something Biden said that's actually sort of right and to then spin it into an admission of some secret plot Biden is aware of is just downright moronic. No one... no one will ever make Biden part of their conspiracy. So if this is the best Savage has to support his claim, then he clearly pulled his claim out of his butt.
(3) Savage hasn't noticed, because I guess his bunker doesn't have much access to the real world, but the worldwide left no longer exists. It has devolved into a series of small whiner groups who each want separate things and don't really have a plan to get any of it. He also seems to have missed the fact that every leftist cause is imploding the world over. China, the last communist regime, declared that to get rich is glorious. Go capitalism! Whoops. The big socialist Eurozone has imploded in mess of budget cuts. Venezuela went socialist and they don't even have toilet paper anymore. Leftist politicians are on the run in Brazil and Argentina. Environmentalism collapsed in Copenhagen, thanks to Obama's indifference. Feminists pushed hard for laws requiring equal pay and that didn't happen... anywhere. The third world has rejected almost all of Western leftism as "cultural imperialism." The left was pushed out of the Middle East entirely as it was replaced with Islamic-based governments. And so on.
(4) If Savage really is worried about all of this, why is he trying to stop the civil war? Shouldn't he be hoping for the civil war, since the civil war will give him a chance to defeat Obama and restore America to its Ebola-free glory? Oh wait... Savage doesn't actually want that. He just wants to sell you his book. As an aside, Savage goes out of his way to claim that he didn't write this book to make money because, by gosh, he doesn't need the money. snicker snicker Yeah, sure.
This is what we should be focusing on with Obama, not some fantasy plan to cause a civil war in the US, not some paranoid idea that he wants to give us all Ebola by bringing a handful of patients here for treatment, not nebulous paranoid claims about Obama being a secret Muslim or imposing black power or some other bit of racist paranoia.
When you have someone as inept and disastrous as Obama, you don't need to invent paranoid fantasies to rally the public against him. And if you want proof of this, consider the fact that his approval ratings crash when Obama is in the news, and they rise when fringe-Republicans are in the news attacking him. This isn't hard folks... it just doesn't make Michael Savage any money.
BTW, if there's going to be a civil war, then I vote that we wear mascot costumes rather than uniforms to liven everything up.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Bidenism will always be, "Buy a shotgun." Which goes as follows:
ReplyDelete“I said, ‘Jill, if there’s ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony here, put that double-barreled shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house,’” he said, and urged viewers, in closing, “Buy a shotgun, buy a shotgun!”
The reason Jill needs to fire two blasts in the air is because Joe thinks she's being strafed by Messerschmitts.
Andrew - Like all good conspiracy theories, well, they defy logic and human nature. Most people including Savage just cannot accept the simple truth. And that is that Obama and by extension his appointees, cronies and hangers on, are just too incompetent to have developed a giant conspiracy of world domination or the overthrow of the US government.
ReplyDeleteThe simple explanation is usually the correct one. And in this case Obama et al are just a group of seriously incompetent idiots with no real world experience, but can run a hell of a campaign. They are all the product of modern media and not evil geniuses with nefarious intentions. They just are too incompetent.
"Savage hasn't noticed, because I guess his bunker doesn't have much access to the real world, but the worldwide left no longer exists."
ReplyDeleteThe collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 more or less resulted in the collapse of socialism around the world as the Soviet Union had spent the past 40 years subsidizing socialist economies of many third world countries. This meant that many of those countries had to, however reluctantly, accept free market and privatization. Hence, the rise of the "global economy" and "globalism".
The only clingers to the "old ways" of full government ownership are countries like Cuba and North Korea. The former has completely disappeared from public thought while the latter has been using the "We're crazy enough to do something really stupid" line of negotiation.
In fact, if you want evidence of the collapse of the "worldwide left" go to the UK. Throughout its history the Labour Party has advocated government subsidy, if not outright ownership, of major industries. In 1997, they dropped this from their platform. Now, the only parties that push that are fringe ones like Galloway's RESPECT and the BNP.
This also caused a huge problem for American conservatism as it had built itself around the idea of opposition to communism. It saw itself in a worldwide struggle against communism. With communism going the way of the dodo it suffered a massive identity crisis of "What the hell do we do now?"
For survivalists and John Birchers, who believed that any minute Reagan would reveal himself for the leftist stooge he was and announce the communist takeover of America, this meant obsessing about the New World Order and black helicopters.
For mainstream conservatism this meant that some in the 1990s, like Pat Buchanan, began talking about a culture war, which has largely succeeded in making every decision of everyday life a political act, while others, after 9/11, began talking about a "Clash of Civilizations" with Islam. The problem with that, however, is that, for one thing, there is no "Islamic Soviet Union" and it is far from monolithic, with a multitude of ethnic and theological divisions resulting in a bunch of people who hate each other. Let's be honest, while the idea of a Soviet invasion of the USA was pretty far out there, it was far more plausible than the idea of an Islamic invasion of the US
Their reaction to Obama shows the right has still not fully recovered from its post-Soviet identity crisis.
Michael Savage's rants are, in a way, a product of this crisis of identity. "WE NEED AN ENEMY!"
KRS, Biden has been ON FIRE for about a month. He's been issuing apology after apology for insulting people, religions and countries. I don't think we've had a day without him saying something truly stupid.
ReplyDeleteBev, That's exactly right. When I look at Obama, I see a lazy man without any real ideology that he cares about, a man without any great love of anyone but himself, a man without leadership or organizational skills, a man unused to taking responsibility and therefor unable to shape events, and a man without the experience to fix his own mistakes. Strangely, his administration seems to mimic his flaws. There's no evil intent here, there's just narcissism, a vague notion that HE can do better than everyone who came before him, and raging incompetence.
ReplyDeleteBTW, that Ebola patient died.
ReplyDeleteKit, I agree completely. Nicely diagnosed.
ReplyDeleteBritain is a fantastic example of what has happened to the left. Their Labor party has embraced capitalism, privatization, and smaller benefits. Few of them talk of nationalization. None of them talk about exporting their views. What has happened instead is that small interest groups have arisen within Labor: feminists, environmentalists, race-hustlers, peaceniks, and unions, and they don't really care about anything but their own issues.
In Germany too, the SDP has lurched into capitalism and labor market reforms that could have come from Reagan's platform. Their greens are on the verge of surrendering on nuclear power. Their feminists are nonexistent. And their peaceniks have lost the battle as Germany is slowly taking on more of a normal defense posture.
In France, they tried a big jump in taxes and a cut in labor hours and it blew up in their faces. Now they are backing off at full speed.
The examples go on everywhere.
I agree with you about conservatism too. When Buckley, Uncle Milton and Gov. Reagan were its leaders, it was a very active ideology with a broad-based set of views. Somewhere in the 1980s, it redefined itself as being opposed to communism. That resulted in the 1990s in conservatism looking for new things to oppose rather than returning to advocating ideas. The result has been a slow steady loss of support.
And you're right, try as you might, its just not possible to see Islam as the kind of threat the Soviets were.
Andrew - Speaking of the Ebola victim, Thomas Duncan, did you see the pics of the clean up crew power washing Duncan's vomit off the side walk?
ReplyDeleteThese are vegetative, not sporating, cells so maybe the blast from the washer killed them rather than aerosolizing them.
However, like Bev suggests, never assume as malice what stupidity can explain. Trouble is, stupidity can still kill.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/10/workers-spray-ebola-patients-vomit-sidewalk-pressure-washer-protective-clothing-photo.html
Andrew,
ReplyDeleteP.J. O'Rourke summed up the issue with trying to make Islamic extremism into your main enemy like the Right has been trying to do for the past 13 years:
"Fighting Islamic extremists is like battling self-destructive, insane, violent homeless people. It’s all well and good to snap them with drones, crackle them with airstrikes, and pop them into Gitmo. But it’s a little disheartening to know that, if we leave them alone, they’ll all eventually kill each other anyway. The last lunatic standing will light off his suicide vest to canoodle with 72 virgins in paradise."
Link: "Up To a Point: Binge Watching Putin's Propaganda Network"
I think American conservatism's 'problem' isn't so much the collapse of the USSR, it is legislative and judicial gains. Republicans winning Congress in 1994 after the Democrats held it for 40 years changed the very nature of the party because it dramatically expanded what was possible.
ReplyDeletePresidents can do a lot on their own (more and more every year) but there are limits.
Having a Supreme court which is much friendly to conservatism also helps quite a bit since the SC can create or abolish rights.
The more power parties have the more stuff they want to change. I don't think that tendency is going to go away.
KRS - There was a report on the news tonight that one of the EMS who picked Duncan up has now been admitted for potential Ebola...they were unaware that they were walking into an potential Ebola situation and dropped him off and continued to picked up other people...yipes.
ReplyDeleteBev - yep, it's not encouraging. Also, when you dig into details like the nurse in Spain, you find that time and again, medical establishments are not taking self-reporting seriously. I work in the Homeland Security field and this failure on self reporting is a big, big deal because much of our planning depends on it.
ReplyDeleteEveryone says America does not face the same risks as other countries on this epidemic, thanks to our health care system. I'm not buying it. There are uncountable millions of potential failure points and we are apparently not on our game yet. Further, the U.S. Southern Command is anticipating a massive refugee wave, should Ebola hit South America. In addition to people fleeing the disease, we would have sick people seeking care, scattered among the refugees. Imagine our healthcare capacity overwhelmed before Ebola hits the American population.