You mean to say that Alexandria Occasional-Cortex…er, Ocasio Cortez, was making a cheap “Affordable Housing” sympathy ploy with her “I can’t afford an apartment in DC” schtick last week?
Well, shut my mouth.
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Category Archives: Stupid
Illiterates Lead
A couple of gun-grabber groups scheduled a protest over the weekend.
The plan was to picket the Minnesota “NRA Office”. 
On the one hand, I say “protest away”. Especially the groups involved in Saturdays plans – the David Hogg-affiliated student group, and “Survivors Lead”, a new-ish gun grabber group made up of people who found “Protect” MN too sober and rational.
But whatever side of the issue you’re on, whatever your sympathies, there was one…er, flaw with the protest plan:
Oh, not to say that one of the event’s “organizers” didn’t try to defend the plan:
And let’s be honest – when you’re in the echo chamber, all that echoing sounds pretty cool:
Thing is, what the “students” and their adult advisors wranglers had done was go out to the NRA website, and apparently find “Locations”.
And saw that Suite 200 at Spruce Tree Square was listed.
Without bothering to read the link that the office was actually the Minnesota Peace Officers Standards and Training office – specifically, an office that administers a federal program allowing retired law enforcement officers – the ones that most of your gun grabbers think should be the only ones with guns – to get carry permits. The instructors for the permits are certified by…well, the NRA.
So – is it a wonder they can’t research the law, history, statistics or current events, when they can’t even click a link to find out what’s in an office?
I’m Not Saying…
…that gun control activists are stupid.
I am saying they sure hope you’re stupid, and are trying to make you more so
“Protect” MN posted this:
Now, I get that you can’t judge a book by its cover…
…but do you see this guy standing m line at Cabelas filling out his paperwork while waiting for his NICS to come back?
While I strive to remain civil, I’m at a loss to remember a less…cognitively adept public figure than Nancy Nord Bence.
An App I’m Working On
The City Pages gave me an idea:
Do you worry about getting carpal tunnel from continually typing your thoughts and prayers?
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was an easier way to show your artificial concern? One that didn’t require work? Or any caring at all?
Introducing Thoughts & Prayers, the new app that allows you to conspicuously care with no effort whatsoever!
Brilliant!
And with that in mind, don’t forget the latest app from the creator of “Thoughts And Prayers”……”Howling Incoherent Rage!”
Cast an invincible torrent of uninformed blame and inchoate anger without all that pesky listening, learning and understanding! Just swipe left!
Signal your smug virtue and assert your unearned moral superiority without having to bother with learning the issue or the other sides of a debate with a simple tap tap tap.
Make your *feelings* known without any pesky context!
Because why express sympathy when you can tell the world how important your spittle-flecked rage is to YOU!
Available for iPhone (because Droids are for anal-retentive dweebs) and Android (because IOS is just so twee).
The CIA’s Fiendish Plan To Kill Off Hipsters…
…with a wave of self-induced cholera and dysentery is underway.
Why Is Chicago Doomed?
Perhaps the mind-numbing stupidity of its’ leaders?
For People Too Miserable For Twitter To Contain
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Apparently, there is an internet site called Tumblr. Word of the Day: Tumblrina.
From “The Other McCain blog”:
The user base of Tumblr is disproportionately female, by a 2-to-1 ratio, and Tumblr users also tend to be young, badly educated and devoted to progressive ideals of “social justice.” This gave rise to the slang term Tumblrina, defined variously by Urban Dictionary as:
An often unattractive, butthurt, and obnoxious female user of the popular site Tumblr.
Someone who complains all day on Tumblr about how oppressed they are by men, when 99% of ranting cases were provoked would be meaningless or of utmost minute significance to the average person.Tumblr addicted female who is defined by her sensitivities and adherence to popular tumblr feminist opinions and/or trends resulting in undue drama and walls of text.
A dramatic, self-righteous tumblr-er who exaggerates prejudice and injustice . . . and tries to make other people feel shitty about existing. Also known as a social justice warrior or sjw, the tumblrina may list ridiculous “triggers” and claim that anyone unlike them has “privilege” and should apologize for being born.
Wow, I think I know some of those people!
Joe Doakes
Noooooooooooo comment.
Ugh
I had friends in Kansas City asking me if that foul rotting odor they detected was the smell of Betsy Hodges’ campaign, wafting all the way down to the Kansas/Missouri border.
It was not. It wasn’t funny at all, either; a Kansas man sat, dead and unnoticed, at the Kansas City airport, apparently for eight months.
Government at work.
That, and a few thousand oblivious travelers.
Paging Alanis Morissette
Woman who destoryed a confederate statue in (where else?) Durham NC…
…is a Marxist North-Koreaphile.
Fighting a legacy of slavery with a present of slavery!
If The Left Forgets History, Are We Condemned To Repeat It With Them?
The “far” left has revived the tradition of blackshirts (literally) beating up their opponents.
Could this have been far behind?
The designs, created by KA Designs and sold on the site, all display large swastikas in the front.
One shows the Nazi-associated symbol in rainbow colors with the word “Peace”, another one with the word “Zen”, one reading “Love” and a third design, in black, shows a spiral of swastikas. They range in price from $20 to $35.
I fully expect to see Oberlin graduates building camps where they will teach people to concentrate on social justice.
In Case You Don’t Already Loathe Lena Dunham Enough…
…I provide this as a public service.
What’s Fourscore And Seven Years?
Via social media, from my friend “Midway Murph”:
MITCH: Institutional Social Media people can’t possibly get any dumber.
INSTITUTIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA PEOPLE: Hold my beer.
Because Katy Perry Doesn’t Do That Much Politics, Really
I try to be civil. I truly do.
But John Fugelsang is the one person on this entire planet that saves Samantha Bee from the title of “Most Vapid Pundit On Planet Earth”.
Seriously – Fugelsang, whose qualifications as a public intellectual seem to begin and end at “hairdo”, has already earned himself a Berg’s Law, and just keeps getting worse.
To which one responds “Only in America can you be pro-gun-control, pro-“campaign finance reform”, turn a blind eye to intellectual censorship and oppression on campus (and, increasingly, elsewhere), pretend “Antifa” is no big deal, oppose school vouchers and homeschooling, propose or support “Climate Nuremberg Tribunals” for scientific skeptics, and still call your self “pro-choice” with one cerebral lobe tied behind one’s back to make it fair.
The Religion Of Environmentalism And Health Insurance (UPDATE: Ooops)
The fact that Ben Carson got mocked in the media, while Maxine Waters isn’t considered a national laughinstock, will be prime evidence when we finally have Nuremberg-style tribunals about media bias:
And yet she’s taken seriously.
UPDATE: Ooops. Parody account.
I plead “long day at Grand Old Day”.
To be fair, the measure of great satire is that it could be the real thing…
It’s Only A Matter Of Time
Sweden’s analogue to the WaPo is calling for cars to be banned to prevent terror attacks.
Cars and other vehicles “have turned into deadly weapons”, and should be banished from cities to stop attacks like the one in Stockholm from happening in future, according to Aftonbladet editorialist Eva Franchell.
Crackdowns on immigration or extremist ideology are not the way forward when it comes to terror prevention, according to the veteran journalist, writing after Friday’s terror attack in Stockholm left four people dead.Instead, it is cars — which she calls “effective murder machines” — that Franchell says “must simply be removed from city centres and places where people gather, if people are to be protected in future”.
Vehicles are “easy to steal, and so nothing has been able to stop their advance”, writes Ms. Franchell.
Precisely. If you get rid of the cars, then they’ll have no weapons.
Just like banning selective fire AK-series assault rifles prevented the massacres at Bataclan, Brussels, and Charlie Hebdo.
But it‘s just the Swedes, right?
Well, yeah. But the way American leftists genuflect to our idiot Scandinavian cousins, it’s only a matter of time before some Bernie Brah suggests the same thing.
I Need To Ask Amy Klobuchar…
…whether roads in America actually collapse.
PS: It’s Tim Pawlenty’s fault!
While I Didn’t Vote For Trump…
….every so often I read something that shows me exactly why so many people did.
Prediction
This will actually happen about the same time Rosie O’Donnell moves to Canada.
Stuck On Stupid
Sally “I Went To Harvard” Kohn believes “most recently-defeated presidential candidate” is on the presidential order of succession.
Actually, the headline is misleading – Kohn believes that a successful impeachment leads to a special election.
Which is, if anything, even dumber.
Which is as good a nickname for Kohn as any.
Unforeseen Consequences, Foreseen
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
How can anyone not foresee the obvious consequences of this policy:
Migrants will stay in Germany if they can prove neo-Nazi violence
Berlin’s interior minister Andrea Geisel ([pictured) said Berlin is looking into the legal possibilities of the exemption after nearby Brandenburg opted for the scheme which offers protection to witnesses.
First, there will be a tenfold increase in the number of asylum seekers falsely claiming to have been beaten up by Neo-Nazis in order to claim permanent residence; and
Second, Neo-Nazis now know that beatings aren’t sufficient to make asylum seekers leave, so they’ll escalate to killing.
How stupid are these bureaucrats?
Joe Doakes
“How stupid are these bureaucrats?”
Knowing Joe, I know it’s a rhetorical question.
While I Oppose Capital Punishment On Principle…
…I do support the death penalty for “Swatters” – people who sic Swat teams on innocent third parties.
Some do it to take a shot at their political or social enemies – and for them, the Eighth Amendment should be repealed. .
For others? It’s apparently a prank:
Audio of the emergency call has been made public. A man can be heard telling authorities that he had shot his father in the head, and claimed to have taken his mother and siblings hostage.
The caller also said he had a handgun and had poured fuel over the house and wanted to set the property on fire.
Police say they surrounded the address the caller had given, and were preparing to make contact with the suspect reportedly inside when Mr Finch came to the door…
Tyler Barriss, 25, was arrested by police in Los Angeles on Friday in relation to the investigation.
Local reports say Mr Barris had previously been charged with making bomb threats to a local television station in 2015.
Note to Mr. Barris’ defense attorney; you don’t want me on the jury.
American Civilization Is Doomed, Part MCCCLVI
The good news: the World Series drew, by modern standards, an avalanche of viewers. While more people watched the last really really great Game 7 that I saw (1991, Twins vs. Braves), more people watched TV back then. It was an irresistable draw; two “cursed” teams meeting, and having one of the more enjoyable World Series I can remember.
And no Yankees.
Downside: in a culture where short-attention-span games are replacing sports in the public consciousness, it goes without saying that a lot of people who really don’t get baseball were really watching it for the first time.
Which leads to…culture shock.
This photo caused a tempest in the teapot of vacuity that is Twitter:
The sign says “K K K” – which you know, if you grew up keeping baseball scorecards, means three strikeouts.
Right?
Bring on the tempest:
Among many others.
And people wonder why we have a choice between a racketeer and a blowhard for President this year.
Terms Of The Left’s Intellectual Bankruptcy
The Second Amendment shouldn’t cover self-defense, says a typical “progressive”, because it violates the accused’s right to a trial.
The main problem with the notion of self-defense is it imposes on justice, for everyone has the right for a fair trial. Therefore, using a firearm to defend oneself is not legal because if the attacker is killed, he or she is devoid of his or her rights.
Which I’m sure will be important, after you are DEAD.
The American left – where the right to a trial is more important than the right to live (presuming you’ve been born at all).
Democrats: I Implore You…
…to introduce this as a bill in the legislature. Any legislature.
If you’re in the Minnesota legislature, I’ll donate to your campaign.
I truly, truly implore you.
Vide The Intellectual Giants Of The American Media
I caught some of Morning Joe from my hotel room before I left for the airport. The caption for one discussion was “Were They Radicalized?” I keep seeing stories asking this question as if it’s some great mystery we may never get to the bottom of. The media and the Democratic party are working very, very, hard to pound the wet clay of San Bernardino into a story about runaway gun violence in America.
Just curious: What discrete piece of info are we waiting for to get a definitive answer to that question? Because I thought it might be the thousands of rounds of ammo, the remote-control-car-bombs, the decision to abandon their six-month-old daughter, the contacts with terror suspects and, oh yeah, the murder of 14 people. But hey, that’s just me.
I used to think PJ O’Rourke was being hyperbolic when he said J-school students were the ones too dumb to get into Education.
Muggeridge’s Law is in full effect, obviously.
Still, amid the japing about our dimbulb journalistic “elite”, there’s a serious issue. The people are being actively disinformed:
Right now the media and the Democratic party are working very, very, hard to pound the wet clay of San Bernardino into a story about runaway gun violence in America. Bogus stats about there being a mass shooting on average once a day streak across the media firmament like so much St. Elmo’s Fire. The fact that gun violence has been in a decades-long decline doesn’t count for much. Poor Charlie Cooke is running around like the last artillery officer on a 19th-century British warship, trying to return fire from each cannon station.
Cook is doing his usual great job. But he’s far from alone on the, er, gun deck.