One of the things I've run into in life, which I find most annoying, is how over the top people get when they are wrong. That's what the media is doing with Biden right now.
To set this up by example, I used to visit a number of sports blogs until I realized they were just awash in toxic people. I was there to talk about sports, others were there because they had a lot of anger and intense inferiority complexes. These people, not coincidentally, tended to be morons. What's relevant to my point today is something that would happen whenever I made some comment that required a bit of insight. For example, reading the tea leaves, it would become clear that the team intended to trade a particular player, but they hadn't said that yet. Instead, they said the opposite. I would mention the trade was coming and these morons would descend and scream what for a moron I was. "The cooch sed he got big plans for him, they ain't traden him you dumbsh*t!" Presumably, that made them feel good. //shrugs
Now to be clear, this isn't personal, in case you're wondering. My skin is much too think to care what people like that say and I wasn't the only one attacked by these morons. In fact, it has to be to be a lawyer, because bad lawyers do the same thing -- you should see them gloat as they fall right into your trap. They will positively gloat as they put the figurative gun to their head and pull the trigger over and over with a huge smile on their face thinking they've got you, and your job is to let them think they're right... until it's time to spring the trap.
Back to my point, once these morons thought they were right about something and I was wrong, they were relentless for the next couple months gloating about how smart they was and how dumb I be. And you couldn't prove you were right because what you predicted hadn't happened yet, so you couldn't stop them. In fact, even as it became more and more clear I was right, they still didn't stop. If anything, they got nastier. And the more the rumors started to hit that a trade really was coming, the bigger the gloating got... right up to the point the trade happened. Then they switched gears and complained that the coach was an idiot and lied and blah blah blah. Whatever.
The same is happening now.
Biden is finished. He's the worst president ever. People view him as a joke. The left wants him gone before he destroys them. People see the economy as the worst in their lives. And nothing the Democrats just did changes any of it. Their bills are far too little, far too late, and aimed at the wrong people. Not a thing they've done will resonate positively with anyone outside of a few big companies and some leftist technocrats. Good for Big Pharma, bad for big Public. Good for GM, irrelevant for drivers.
Yet, the media is in gloat mode. Every morning, I am greeted now with increasingly euphoric articles and headlines. It began with cautious talk of momentum. It moved on to them being on a roll. It shifted to "have they turned the tide" and "why wouldn't they win in November with these 'accomplishments'?!" Today some gloater claimed "Biden is on a streak any president would envy." Really? Dual disaster pandemics, worst economy ever, possible war with China, a Supreme Court unraveling 60 years of his policies, hyperinflation, rumored housing collapse, an out of control crime problem, out of control homelessness, a surge of illegal migrants, race hate as high as the 1960s, a stripped down budget that eliminated all the key things Democrats wanted from healthcare to drug costs to taxes, an environmental bill the enviro-left derisively calls a "love affair with the car" (and which no electric car marker actually qualifies for) or a gun bill the left whines "doesn't ban a single gun" and which really only pays to add cops to schools. That's an enviable streak? God good, what are your standards? Yet, the articles get more and more euphoric. The cheerleader left has even turned Biden in a comic book superhero.
These are the annoying moments. The cause has occurred but the effect has not yet arrived. In the meantime, those who don't understand cause and effect celebrate the cause and rub it in everyone's face. They will sing a different tune (most likely betrayal and conspiracy) once effect arrives, but for now they are obnoxious f*cks and there's not a thing you can say to make them see the effect coming down the tracks. Hang in there folks. Reality always arrives.
Thoughts?
As an aside, I once named five wide receivers I figured would be available for trade if Tampa wanted them. My comment was mocked by the moron-atti because "everyone knows" those guys were too good for their teams to trade them. Wat ar you stupid?! All five were traded within two months of my comment. Surprise. I didn't even bother saying "I told you so"... what would have been the point?
To set this up by example, I used to visit a number of sports blogs until I realized they were just awash in toxic people. I was there to talk about sports, others were there because they had a lot of anger and intense inferiority complexes. These people, not coincidentally, tended to be morons. What's relevant to my point today is something that would happen whenever I made some comment that required a bit of insight. For example, reading the tea leaves, it would become clear that the team intended to trade a particular player, but they hadn't said that yet. Instead, they said the opposite. I would mention the trade was coming and these morons would descend and scream what for a moron I was. "The cooch sed he got big plans for him, they ain't traden him you dumbsh*t!" Presumably, that made them feel good. //shrugs
Now to be clear, this isn't personal, in case you're wondering. My skin is much too think to care what people like that say and I wasn't the only one attacked by these morons. In fact, it has to be to be a lawyer, because bad lawyers do the same thing -- you should see them gloat as they fall right into your trap. They will positively gloat as they put the figurative gun to their head and pull the trigger over and over with a huge smile on their face thinking they've got you, and your job is to let them think they're right... until it's time to spring the trap.
Back to my point, once these morons thought they were right about something and I was wrong, they were relentless for the next couple months gloating about how smart they was and how dumb I be. And you couldn't prove you were right because what you predicted hadn't happened yet, so you couldn't stop them. In fact, even as it became more and more clear I was right, they still didn't stop. If anything, they got nastier. And the more the rumors started to hit that a trade really was coming, the bigger the gloating got... right up to the point the trade happened. Then they switched gears and complained that the coach was an idiot and lied and blah blah blah. Whatever.
The same is happening now.
Biden is finished. He's the worst president ever. People view him as a joke. The left wants him gone before he destroys them. People see the economy as the worst in their lives. And nothing the Democrats just did changes any of it. Their bills are far too little, far too late, and aimed at the wrong people. Not a thing they've done will resonate positively with anyone outside of a few big companies and some leftist technocrats. Good for Big Pharma, bad for big Public. Good for GM, irrelevant for drivers.
Yet, the media is in gloat mode. Every morning, I am greeted now with increasingly euphoric articles and headlines. It began with cautious talk of momentum. It moved on to them being on a roll. It shifted to "have they turned the tide" and "why wouldn't they win in November with these 'accomplishments'?!" Today some gloater claimed "Biden is on a streak any president would envy." Really? Dual disaster pandemics, worst economy ever, possible war with China, a Supreme Court unraveling 60 years of his policies, hyperinflation, rumored housing collapse, an out of control crime problem, out of control homelessness, a surge of illegal migrants, race hate as high as the 1960s, a stripped down budget that eliminated all the key things Democrats wanted from healthcare to drug costs to taxes, an environmental bill the enviro-left derisively calls a "love affair with the car" (and which no electric car marker actually qualifies for) or a gun bill the left whines "doesn't ban a single gun" and which really only pays to add cops to schools. That's an enviable streak? God good, what are your standards? Yet, the articles get more and more euphoric. The cheerleader left has even turned Biden in a comic book superhero.
These are the annoying moments. The cause has occurred but the effect has not yet arrived. In the meantime, those who don't understand cause and effect celebrate the cause and rub it in everyone's face. They will sing a different tune (most likely betrayal and conspiracy) once effect arrives, but for now they are obnoxious f*cks and there's not a thing you can say to make them see the effect coming down the tracks. Hang in there folks. Reality always arrives.
Thoughts?
As an aside, I once named five wide receivers I figured would be available for trade if Tampa wanted them. My comment was mocked by the moron-atti because "everyone knows" those guys were too good for their teams to trade them. Wat ar you stupid?! All five were traded within two months of my comment. Surprise. I didn't even bother saying "I told you so"... what would have been the point?
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Andrew, I see what your saying. Reality is going to clock the Dems right upside the head fairly soon.
It's impossible to ignore the awful Biden admins terrible 2 years of nothing but failures. Mind you I do think the leftoids will continue to do mental gymnastics no matter what. However the regular Liberals & moderates/independents are not going to be on board with the Dems awful policies… even with Republicans screwing up with abortion and kicking the can down the road on other issues.
The Dems failures just completely overshadow the Republicans failures.
Too many normal people have been hit hard by Biden’s and the Dems failures.
Also Bush era Repubs are getting kicked out of office, making Republicans more palatable to the public. I'm hoping over the next month that Liz Cheney losses her job… IMO I believe her being ousted will be a net positive.
Time will tell Andrew, I really hope Republicans don't go stupid and start pushing Bush era moralist crap again. I also hope the Democrats lose in a landslide in November. If the Dems do lose, it may cause them to do some soul searching… maybe they will go back to a more moderate party and not be awful.
-Kyle
Kyle, That GOP can certainly lose this. They are fully stocked with crazy obsessives of all stripes (especially Trump) and their activists really have little understanding of the American public.
That said, the left is just rolling in its fake glory right now and it's super annoying. They have failed. Nothing they have done in the past few weeks even begins to reverse that. And yet, I have to see these stupid articles day after day getting increasingly obnoxious as they try to one-up each other lavishing glory on their "achievements." The celebrities should be on-boarding right now too and start offering praise now that they know what the safe opinion is to express...
Annoying.
Your right Andrew, the GOP can screw the pooch with the moralist crap. To clarify, my comment above was in relation to the November midterms… Even with the abortion ban idiocy, among other poor policies from the R’s… I believe the Republicans will take back ground in the midterms. With that said, the moralist crap will destroy their 2024 chances if they stay the course.
I just don't know what to do about it. I’ve tried explaining why the abortion ban is poor policy, specifically I voiced my opinion over on Brietbart & Politico. While many commenters seemed to agree with me, The Religious Right just doesn't seem to understand.
Its hard to have a conversation with people that think your evil. Hopefully the R’s will not continue to push the abortion ban, but they don't give me much optimism.
It seems like we are in a tight spot politically. Both sides of the isles are screwing the American public in one way or another. The economy being crap should have given the R’s a landslide win, but they instead are just hanging them self's with the abortion ban... and we will end up losing along with them.
-Kyle
Jed here. Of course the S.C.O.T.U.S ruling on abortion was good judicial work. It is not there function to do politics. That said, by leaving it up to states to make their own laws, banning abortion is not particularly good politics and hurts the R.’s. And Politicians play to the lowest common denominator. I think the Dems are more anxious to get Biden out of there than Republicans.the question to me is, dare they wait until 2024. Do they trust Kamala enough to not prove herself not up to the job, or pray, as you once suggested, that gets lucky and events fall in her lap.
Though slightly off the subject I am incensed with this Mar-A-Lago crap. Would I prefer a guy like DeSantis as the candidate? Sure, but Trump is still the guy a lot of voters rally around. And if he were to be beaten in primaries by DeSantis, I could see some Trump people not backing Ron. In a weird sense, it could actually help R’s if Trump were taken off the field by Garland and his goons.
Now I am not a huge fan of Trump. I appreciate some of what he did. But knowing that Dems would not be doing this if they did not fear he would win, it makes sense they would let Garland plant evidence. What was done last night was unprecedented, and the differences in how the FBI treated Hillary and Trump are stark.
Internal GOP polls show that Republicans may win districts Biden carried by as much as 15% in places like Oregon, Colorado and California. Add that to Biden's list of achievements.
Kyle, I should do an article outlining why we're at 50/50 actually. It's a function of the GOP being full of idiots and the Democrats making a bet on demographics without realizing their numbers were wrong. As for the American public, neither party really cares about them. Both parties are vehicles for Big Business.
On abortion, the first time I ran into genuine (hardcore) Religious Right people was in law school. I actually thought they were joking when I first heard them talking but then I realized they weren't. They meant all the crazy that was coming out of their mouths. They truly believed Jesus wants them to use the political system to force "his" views on the public. Only their take on his views turns a lot of "thou shall not" into "thou must", avoids a lot of the things Jesus said were your obligations to God ("Jesus wants you to have an SUV"), and is full of hate. At the time, this particular group I ran into was plotting how to ban pornography shops, gay books at libraries, and feminism. This was right before Focus on the Family started the gay wars which ironically made gay rights the law of the land and turned Colorado from red to blue. This group I met would eventually destroy the rising tide of Republicanism in Virginia and turn a red Virginia blue. The state GOP convention felt like Jonestown.
Unfortunately, you can't reach those people because (1) they misunderstand the public because they exist outside the culture -- they really don't get how derisively they are viewed and have no clue how to approach anyone not in the cult, (2) they delude themselves with the idea that the vast majority of the public is ready to rally to them if only someone had the courage to finally stand for that... because the GOP never tried that and got bitch-slapped by the public, and (3) they have a huge martyr complex which actually makes them happy to lose because they think losing and suffering will prove their worth to God unlike winning something less than 100%. Apparently, God doesn't like partial wins. It's the same sh*t socialists think. Making it worse, they've defined themselves as victims and shield their failures with conspiratorial thinking which lets them never see the truth no matter how hard it smacks them upside the head... just like blacks and feminists and gays, and now Trumpers.
There is literally nothing you can say to them.
I actually recall one discussion where some of them said two completely contradictory things and I pointed this out and asked them to explain how they can believe two polar opposite things. That seems like kind of a 'huh?' moment, doesn't it? They stared at me blankly like robots whose programming hung up and then concluded I was dangerous to talk to.
Jed, I don't think it's great judicial work, honestly. As a general rule, courts should not unsettle a whole chunk of law, even if the original decision they are overturning was wrong. That's something they should let the legislature correct. By just throwing this aside, they've really unsettled a lot of things people don't even understand yet, and they did so with no guidance. Even something as nation-changing as Brown v. Board of Education didn't just say, "it's over, have at it." The ideas behind Row and Griswold underpin most of what we think of as our privacy rights today. How much of that just got tossed out? Nobody knows.
I don't know what to say about Mar-a-Lago. The FBI has shown itself to be heavily biased far too often, and always in one direction. Moreover, I don't even know what they are actually looking for. This reeks of banana Republic crap... a Democratic specialty actually.
The problem is, it will probably save Trump with GOP voters, which dooms us in 2024. So maybe Biden is running a winning streak. Who knows.
Two asides: First, I just saw an amazing amount of mental gymnastics in an article which explained that restaurant prices were up because of the Ukrainian war... not Biden or the demand for $15 minimum wage. No siree, all Ukraine, every last bit. Propaganda.
Secondly, I seriously hope this guy who killed the four Muslims is a jilted gay Muslim. Biden has been trying to set this up as a "white Republican hate crimes against Muslims" thing. How funny would it be to watch him need to spin his way out of that?
Also, as an aside, isn't it funny Biden doesn't comment on things like all the people killed in New York or California but reaches out for this? Think he cares or only cares to inflame?
FWIW, the single personality who turned me off of sports commentary in general is Jim Rome.
As for the Dobbs decision, Congress had half a century to do anything about it. There was no foreseeable end to the can-kicking. Meanwhile, more and more case law was getting stacked on top of a shifting foundation. Perhaps it was not great judicial work, but it has in all likelihood saved some future generation from worse judicial word.
Moreover, the ostensible defenders of Roe and Casey had, with their rhetoric, given over to hammering away at the foundations of privacy law in the form of those ruling. How does "Shout Your Abortion" comport with a right to privacy in any way? It doesn't. And while the idea may or may not have any bearing inside a courtroom, it goes to illustrate just how ridiculous privacy arguments had become.
The right to privacy, such that it exists naturally, amounts to the fact that anyone can get away with anything so long as they don't get caught. Not only does the Court have no need to reiterate this plain fact, as it it essentially did via Roe, it is actually unseemly that ever it did.
tryanmax, I hate Jim Rome. Actually, I don't like any of them. These guys invented the "hot take" industry to let them spout obnoxious claims and then pretend they didn't mean it to get ratings.
This instance I am talking about though was a blog for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The guy who created it was actually quite insightful and I enjoyed chatting with him, but then these other people would come and try to prove how smart they were by shouting down anyone they could. He eventually stopped blogging because he got sick of dealing with these people.
tryanmax, Legally, they've created a serious mess - politically too. What they should have done is simply declare the fetus alive and state that it has a right to life. That would have been far less messy, it would have worked as a ban without killing the right of privacy, and it would have forced the Democrats to wage a war to overturn a constitutional right to life... which looks terrible and would never happen.
Instead, the GOP will be falling all over themselves to turn people off. And in the end, abortion will be a right defined by California law applicable to all states -- or you violate the right to travel. So they will settle the issue, but not at all the way they think.
Sorry, that was me. My internet is being fuzzy.
Tryanmax - on Roe v. Wade my cousin, John Jeffries was at one time Dean of Virginia Law. He graduated first in his class at Va. School of Law after graduating Summa Cum Laude at Yale as an undergraduate. He clerked for Justice Lewis F. Powell who took part in the majority on Roe. His biography of Powell is a great read, and had an interesting chapter on abortion. I would recommend it if interested. I tend to agree with his statement that as constitutional law, the decision was an astonishing act of judicial innovation.” That said, as long as Roe stood, I am not sure how much congressional hammering it out could have been done. That seems to be what the court did in Griswold. But, Andrew makes a valid point as well regarding removing 50 years of law. I do think the states that had trigger laws or put in total bans without exception is not well thought out. And there are some potential political ramification
So, it's looking like our "hate crime" was Muslim on Muslim violence. It sounds like the issue was the guy's daughter marrying into the wrong sect of Islam, not anything Biden implied.
I wonder what Biden will say now? Maybe he should not have tried to sell this as a "hate crime" until he knew it actually was one. Somehow I suspect that would have been his counsel if it had been four dead Christians. Yet, our baiter in chief could not resist stoking up the hate.
The floor is yours Mr. Biden...
Now Biden's approval is "the highest it's been in months." Yup, 40% approval, 55% disapprove. Raging success there...
Andrew, I’m interested in reading your thoughts on the November midterms. I personally think the R’s have a strong chance of taking back the house. The R’s taking back the Senate is another story though.
On abortion, I wish the Republicans would stop trying to cater to the Religious Right.
Its obvious that the abortion ban is going to lead them to failure.
Its just like you said, the religious right *want* to lose to be seen as martyrs. How the hell is that going to help the American public? I mean why would the Republicans cater to that? Ugh!
As an aside, from what I’ve observed, most Trumpers are not on board with the abortion ban. The Religious Right seems to just latch on to any Republican movement. Wether it be the Tea Party of yesteryear or MAGA today… I guess I just dont see them as a Trump camp only movement. More to the point I’ve seen many Pro-Trump commenters condemn the abortion ban.
The real problem with the Trump camp IMO is the over the top hyperbolic rhetoric. They have a nack for turning off the public with their big mouth conspiratorial crap. However, most of their policies seem more level headed, at least in comparison to the oppositions very radical policies.
Jed, the Mar-A-Lago raid is a disgusting over reach. I have a strong feeling nothing will come out of it to go against Trump.
As Andrew said, this will probably galvanize Trumps support for 2024. I’m not sure how I feel about that; I personally wish Ron Paul would run. DeSantis & Trump come in as a tie for me personally (as far as who I would prefer). They both have pros & cons.
-Kyle
I meant Rand Paul in my last post, not Ron Paul lol.
Kyle, The Trump camp is increasingly a world of nutjobs without an actual ideology except chaos. As for Trump, he never cared about abortion or religion, so I don't think the Religious Right is sees him as anything more than a tool at this point.
On the election, I think the House is likely but the Senate has become increasingly unlikely. Too cloudy to tell at the moment... too many balls in the air suddenly.
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