Safed

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

My Facebook page is full of complaints by Liberal friends. They’re hurting now because ignorant racist misogynist Trump voters rejected Hillary.  They demand that Trump voters be respectful of their feelings.  Don’t gloat over winning: reach out, be inclusive, help heal America.  They’re unfriending family members who crow about Trump winning because if they did that, they really can’t have been very good friends to begin with.

In other words, Liberals demand a ‘safe space’ on Facebook. Everyone is entitled to an opinion as long as it agrees with theirs; dissent is hatred.  Winning requires surrender.

Yeah, well, I remember the attitude they showed to us when Obama won.

Man, am I sick of Liberals.

Joe Doakes

My sense of sportsmanship pretty much foreswears all but tongue-in-cheek gloating.  I may have been the last generation raised with the idea of “sportsmanship” – and that’s not a good thing.  We’d be a better place.

But yeah, Joe, I totally hear you.

11 thoughts on “Safed

  1. Speaking of intolerant libidiots, has anyone done a wellness check on our resident troll?
    Most likely, she’s down at one of the protests, but if not, she may be on suicide watch.

  2. George Bernard Shaw quipped that one should never wrestle a pig. You get dirty and besides, the pig likes it. I grew up on a farm; there comes a time where you cannot avoid but must wrestle the pig.

    Elections in my time have become a panoply of political tricks, open propaganda dispersed by a cooperative legacy media under the guise of news, vainglorius posturing and virtue signalling. Even now, the Clinton machine has doxxed the electors in a desperate attempt to subvert the election. This election was a case where someone had to wrestle the pig and necessitated someone like Donald Trump to break this cycle.

  3. Boss:

    Gee, “resident troll.” “Libidiot.” No one comes to mind. What am I missing?

  4. This isn’t hard.

    I have a complicated life that demands a level of caution be maintained. Among my acquaintances are some who fate has thrown my way, that do not meet my criteria for real friendship because experience informs me that sooner, or later, the choices they make are going to bring them to grief and I don’t care to be around to share the consequences. They have big hearts, and can usually be counted on for support of the group when things go south, but they just live their lives by different rules.

    There are certain functions which we all must attend, but I don’t go out of my way to hang around with them. In this way, there are no uncomfortable scenes that might lead to, um, heated arguments lets say.

    Others of their ilk, well, there is simply no need to have them anywhere near the perimeters of my life at all.
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    Don’t get me wrong, I mean, I love my sisters, but they are irredeemable. Holiday gatherings and family functions are best when kept brief and conversation is kept shallow.

  5. At work, someone was yelling that it was time to end the Electoral College. I asked if she’d feel the same if Trump had won the popular vote and Clinton won the EC. She said no. She continued that she gets that rural voters should have a voice, but there are just more urban voters. I pointed to that as being a reason for the EC. It provides this equity that many people who voted for Clinton profess to believe in.

    Of course, it is also designed to prevent someone from manipulating popular opinion so much that a “tyrant” could win. Some think Trump will be a tyrant. Others think Hillary would be a tyrant. Honestly, if history tells us anything, it mostly tells us that a pop culture celebrity is difficult to beat. I believe if Howard Stern ran as a Democrat against a Republican Jen Bush, Stern would have won. That’s the closest analogy that I can come up with to soothe the fragile Clinton supporters that it wasn’t about sexism, racism, or whatever bigotry they imagine.

  6. You might remind your avaricious co-worker, mjb, that without the EC, the Constitution never would have been ratified. Further, the same exact reasons the EC was made a condition of ratification are still every bit as pertinent now as they were in 1788.

    The truth is, she acknowledges the fact in her argument, but as with most reprobate leftists, she is too busy navel gazing to recognize the irony.

    Hillary Clinton got a tiny percentage more votes because of California. But the same people out there that voted for her believe, and will argue, that putting a dress on makes a man a woman, in fact and convention.

    In any case, I’ve advised leftists squirting tears over the EC to take their tear stained, pissy little complaint to their state legislature and demand a Constitutional convention be called….and good luck with that.

  7. I haven’t seen numbers yet, but have to believe that conservatives in CA may not have turned out in as great of numbers when there were no conservatives on their local ballots. Without the ability to write in.

  8. Loren, I scolded many of my fellow Real Americans who suggested they might not vote because Trump had South Carolina tied up in a bow, and we were sure to send a conservative delegation to DC. I explained to them that their votes count in the national total, and all would be needed.

    The suffering Americans in California need to learn that lesson too, under diametrically opposed circumstances. Every vote counts.

  9. if I were a better person I’d hesitate to mention this,

    “Honestly, if history tells us anything, it mostly tells us that a pop culture celebrity is difficult to beat.

    Now that Trump has paved the way for Reality TV stars to the highest office in the land perhaps our First Woman President will be Kim Kardashian.

  10. Big;

    I know. It’s been nice having her illogical and fact challenged rants held in check by Mitch lately, but it might be fun to see Doggie have another meltdown, now that her heroine has been relegated to the status of “also ran”. That is, if she hasn’t had herself committed.

  11. At some point it’s all arbitrary, isn’t it? The definition of “The People” is abstract. In some states felons can vote, in other states they cannot vote. People are considered adult enough to vote at age 18, but not to drink, or buy a hand gun. In my state, you can’t buy cigarettes until you are 21. Setting a mark, like a victory in the electoral college, that demonstrates a high level of public support works as well as a plurality of votes. About 6500 people die each day in the US, and a similar number reaches voting age each day, so the electorate changes significantly over a period as short as a month.
    Accountability of political leaders to the people is more important than getting one more vote, out of 120 million votes cast, than your opponents.

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