Category: Capitalism v Socialism
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Sometimes Paranoia Is Just Perfect Awareness
I’m not sure that the Biden administration, like the Obama administration before it, is undertaking multigenerational effort to destroy this nations “red” heartland. But if they were, I wonder what they would be doing differently?
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Decisions
A friend of the blog emails: Neil Young’s Unknown Legend, one of my all time favorite songs, came up on my playlist. It’s been, geez, two or three weeks now. I’m not sure if I’m not supposed to listen to Neil or not. (Name Redacted) One of the greatest aphorisms about music Dash art, really…
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Stuck On Stupid
With Denmark and Sweden tripling down on the free market and abandoning draconian Covid regulations, the longing eyes of the world’s “Social Democrat” noodlers have turned to New Zealand’s. Jacinda Ardern. She ran a very hawkish “Lockdown” regime in 2020, drawing the admiration of a lot of Mascists – as if they could replicate the…
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This Is What “Building Back Better” Looks Like
Black unemployment, after hitting historic lows under “the most racist president ever”, is bouncing back up under Corn Pop’s pal: Of course, the last jobs report produced about 1/3 the jobs expected. l But at least things are going swimmingly along the Mexico border and in Afghanistan…
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Hope I Die Before I Get…Young
Roger Daltrey, lead singer of The Who for the past 57 years or so, tees off on the “Woke” generation: “The woke generation — it’s terrifying, the miserable world they’re going to create for themselves,” the rocker said in a recent interview with DJ Zane Lowe on Apple Music. “I mean, anyone who’s lived a…
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Planet Of The Humans, Part 0
I spent a lot of time thinking about this scene last week: I first started paying serious attention to politics in about 1980. Like a lot of high school kids, then and now, I was somewhere out on what would be called “the left”; I wrote a platform for North Dakota Boys State (a statewide…
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“Julia”
Anyone remember “Julia”? The Obama campaign’s infantiolization of the American voter? This video from Kamala Harris makes “Julia” look like John Galt: This is what Joe Biden is a delivery system for.
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Orwell Was A Pollyanna, Part MCLXII
Freedom is slavery. Truth is lies. And, to Los Angeles Democrats – in this case, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti – homelessness is prosperity: Babylon Bee can’t keep up anymore.
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Labor Day
It’s Labor Day – a transfer of wealth in the form of about .004% of most companies’ payroll to workers, given as a sop to organized unions at the height of their powers – a transfer I happily accept, like most of you, every year. I’ll pay homage to the date with my own sojourn…
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As We Wait, And Wait, And Wait, For The “Inevitable Tsunami Or Right-Wing Violence”, Part MCMLXI
Modern Democrats, told “dial back some of the Gulag-y, Stalin-y, Black Maria-y talk”, respond… …like leftists always have: After the New Hampshire Democratic debate on Friday night, MSNBC host Chris Matthews uttered high heresy against the Bernie Sanders movement by remembering the Cold War and the threat of socialist and communist executions. He warned that…
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Ilhan Omar – Libertarian Heroine
Rep. Omar on Twitter yesterday: There’s hope here! If your healthcare, tuition and housing are “Free” (ergo, paid by me, the taxpayer who gets none of those benefits), I am your slave, and being a slaveholder is a moral burden on you as well. I’m pretty sure Rep. Omar didn’t intend it that way, of…
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Validated
The New York Times reports that hermit crabs have wealth inequity. It’s settled science. Which proves that wealth inequity is part of the natural order of things, and not the result of capitalism or white supremacy. Therefore, I no longer need to feel bad about it. Good to know. Joe Doakes Watch for hermit crabs to get “canceled.
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And They Say Progs Are Illiterate About Economics…
Portland voters impose a 1% “clean energy” tax on large and big-box businesses. And are then outraged that those businesses pass the costs on to customers. Emphasis added: Terry Wiesner stared down at his Safeway grocery store receipt in confusion in mid-September after he noticed being charged an extra 3 cents for buying a package…
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For Your Millennial Relatives
“But real socialism has never been tried!” Just in time for the holidays, a quick – but not too quick – primer on socialism in three democratic countries where it was tried, failed, and democratically rejected. For my money, they could have added Sweden and Denmark.
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Clap For Service
Told my wife we should get The Clapper so she doesn’t have to get out of bed to shut off the lights when I’m done reading. She scoffed – do they even make those anymore?Yes. Amazon. $17. Order by 6:00 on Friday, guaranteed delivery on Sunday. Seriously? How is that possible? Yes, I understand they…
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Making Housing Affordable By Making It Unattainable
Minneapolis passed a “renter protection” ordinance last week that’ll hamstring landlords trying to do even the most basic due diligence about potential tenants: The renter’s protection ordinance prevents landlords from using old criminal or housing records to deny applicants. Specifically, an applicant cannot be denied if they have a misdemeanor conviction older than three years,…
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Gerbils For Freedom
My granddaughter is on vacation this week in Wisconsin Dells, so Grandma and I are gerbil-sitting. I remember gerbils from the olden days, they were just rats that lived in a big cage and made noise all night. Nowadays, they have a space-age plastic entertainment complex, with a menu of carefully selected natural foods and…
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Misdiagnosed
Interesting article in the WaPo on San Francisco; its title suggests its current situation “breaks America’s heart”, which is a fine play on Tony Bennett, but doesn’t really reflect the contempt most Americans outside the tech industry and politics have for the place. The city is in the midst of collapsing, not so much from…
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Venezuela Libre
Rep. Dan Crenshaw gives a better speech in Spanish than most Congresscritters give in English
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Your Lying Ledger
A “Shoprite” store in Philadelphia is closing due to Philadelphia’s pop tax. Or so says the owners – someone with years of experience in the field, for what that’s worth: Store owner Jeff Brown says this location has lost approximately 25 percent of its business over the last two years because of the tax on…
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Marginal Knowledge
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The New Hotness wants higher income tax rates. The Left says it’s sensible and there’s historical precedent.The trouble with historical precedent is picking the right precedent. College students who drink until they vomit could point to Rome, the pinnacle of civilization at the time, where vomitoria were provided in public entertainment…
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Surely There Must Be Some Mistake
Remember the old joke about the New York Times? “Tsunami wipes out Manhattan. Women and Minorities Hardest Hit?” The Arby’s that’s been cranking out the rubbery beef, the crunchy chicken and the gloriously addictive potato cakes (that I can’t touch anymore) in downtown Minneapolis for a solid quarter century picked up and vanished like a…
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Try Before You’re Forced To Buy
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Think about the increasing number of young Americans demanding socialism, even as the horrific collapse of Venezuela is in the news. Why do they want that to happen here? It occurs to me that “hot” is a word which has no meaning to a child, until the child touches…
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A For Facts, C+ For Premise
Kevin Williamson on – ahem – “Why Alexandria Ocasio Cortez drives Republicans Crazy”, and I’m gonna stop right there. She doesn’t “drive anyone crazy”. She’s a walking, talking testimony to the media’s left-wing bias; Ocasio Cortez actually is as vapid and ignorant as the media would have had you believe Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann were, and…
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Coarsely Eloquent
Writer Tim Willard with a brilliant Twitter thread on why he hates communism so completely. It starts here – but I urge you to read the whole thing: I get asked why I loathe Communism so fervently. It’s damn near a religion with me. How about a little background. I’m from the wrong side of…