Perhaps you heard – conservatives won big in EU elections last weekend.
You might have missed it, because the news only referred to “the far right” – as if Francisco Franco were back from the dead.
Indeed, it’s yet another term that today’s left have rendered meaningless:
The term “far right” has become so loosely applied that it’s effectively useless in sniffing out genuine cases of extremism and more often used to slander reasonable people. pic.twitter.com/sfcIkp2Zdr
Let not pretend this is accidental. Big Left has been working for decades to gain control of the language and its perception. The systematic turning of all “right wing’ thought into some neo-fascist aberration shifted into high gear in 2009, when Obama’s Homeland Security czaritsa Janet Napolitano told the nation’s law enforcement “don’t mind all those leftist terrorists, watch out for all that right wing terror which is going to come out of nowhere someday, pinky swear!”.
Just watch – in a month, NPR and the NYTimes will furrow their brows and wonder why society has had a “Big Sort”…
The good news: these sorts of results usually bode well for elections in America, at least for the upcoming cycle.
Among Big Left’s great crimes against history is the complete devaluation they have achieved against the term “Fascist”. To much of the parts of society that routinely use the word, it now means “anyone not on board with today’s left’s narrative”.
No, really:
And Big Left knows what it’s doing, since the other options have also been hijacked. Call someone a Nazi, and you’re overwrought. Call someone a Communist, and people start jabbering about the Red Scare.
“Authoritarian” works, but it doesn’t have quite the same emotional impact – and Big Left has been diluting that one by associating it with Trump – a demonstrably less authoritarian president than Obama or The Potato.
So given the options, what does one call a political figure or party that:
Their ends justify their means – including the use of government force to secure compliance
Tries to co-opt the institutions of society to further their political ends, starting with government and schools and ending with the family itself?
Aggressively “sorts” society into “good guys” and, especially, “others” to use as scapegoats and deflections from one’s own actions – up to and including creating an official version of “reality” that may or may not have much in common with the real thing.
Let’s take a thoroughly educational look at a politician who seems to check off all the boxes for…well, the “A” word. And maybe some definitions of the “F” word.
The Real Authority
Maye Quade is a fully-fledged creation of leftist institutions – and pays obeisance to them:
SW is being required to attend a training by a literal, designated hate group for firing an employee who was harassing her co-worker. Apparently, harassing a co-worker is now protected religious liberty? I can't even https://t.co/Zf6mV68eTk
Maye Quade pays obeisance to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which was once a legitimate civil rights group but has been nothing but leftist shills for the past three decades.
But she certainly has no love lost for society’s actual institutions.
Like parenthood.
🚨 WOW: Minnesota Senator Erin Maye Quade just said she wants parents to stop teaching their kids about abstinence.
Maye Quade may not actually have the executive power to sicc government and its monopoly in the use of force on her political (and finanncial?) enemies.
“I would love to eminent domain all 98 of these crisis pregnancy centers and turn them into affordable housing for people who do have children,” said Sen. Maye Quade. “I would love to turn them into food banks and diaper banks and formula banks. Like, these are things that actually support people having children when they decide they would like to have children, and everything that crisis pregnancy centers are doing is not that. None of it is that.”
Aggressively Sorting
Maye Quade has a staffer who’s got a bit of a “virulent anti-Semite” vibe.
The fact that @ErinMayeQuade employs, at taxpayer expense, a virulent anti-Semite is not particularly noteworthy, as that is the mainstream DFL position now.
But the fact that the staffer remained employed after publicly attacking a fellow Senator is noteworthy. pic.twitter.com/xOcFiaSn5y
It should go without saying Senator Maye Quade, like all leftists, is more aggressively yet casually racist about “othering” apostates – in this case, Senator Tim Scott, a Republican and African-American:
Hard to miss the fact that the “consequences” in her “culture” are entirely one-sided. But that’s the nature of the abusive gaslighter. But then, I did mention creating an alternate, “official” reality, didn’t I?
No, really – an actual alternate reality…
Trans girls are girls and trans boys are boys. When trans girls compete in girl’s sports, there are no boys competing. https://t.co/O5nAnbMPHA
I mean, a Republican with a similiar record of shilling for naked authority, advocating the co-option of instutions and relentlessly cutting out “others” to use as enemies would be called an “authoritarian” at the very least.
And yet it’s Senator Maye Quade that walks the walk
Senator Erin Maye Quade continues to confirm my thesis that DFL politicians count on their voters being – let’s be diplomatic – smug, but uninformed and uncritical.
SW is being required to attend a training by a literal, designated hate group for firing an employee who was harassing her co-worker. Apparently, harassing a co-worker is now protected religious liberty? I can't even https://t.co/Zf6mV68eTk
The Alliance Defending Freedom is “literally” “designated” as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is – and I know 95% of your readers know this – paid to defame conservative groups, leaders and thought.
It’s high time this behavior be commemorated in a Berg’s Law.
Sure, it’s entirely plausible that an entire “white supremacist” group without a single inbred-looking morbidly overweight guy among ’em might march through DC without a mob of “counterprotesters” howling for their blood. It’s a crazy world, anything can happen.
Normies: Except in athletic competition, where their innate masculine physical traits are a huge advantage, not to mention in prison where they tend to rape bio-women…
Well, yeah. After giving free reign to leftists, including all but inviting “Anti”-Fa to attack Trump rallygoers, of course all those right-wing MAGA hat-clad goons are going to threaten a puling left mayor…
It may perhaps be a sign of a shift in the perceptions of the GOP’s likely behavior in 2024 – but Big Media is already calling Ron DeSantis not only “Hitler”, but even worse than Trump:
I noted on the show a few weeks ago that Democrats referring to Republicans as “literally Hitler” goes back to Harry Truman; he was literally the first candidate who could refer to a Republlican (John Dewey, in this case). I remember it picking up with Reagan – but it was already old hat by then.
Now, the best response to this sort of thing is mockery and laughter.
How best to do this? That’s my project for this month.
I listen – as rarely as I can – to NPR’s “On the Media”. The show is basically an unthinking cheerleader for America’s “elite” media.
And their latest theme is participating in the war on “Nostalgia” – particularly, against the notion of looking to the past for lessons that might help with the present and the future.
The first segment was keynoted by a fellow – some sort of historian – who declaimed in an adenoidal ,mid-Atlantic voice no different than a thousand others on NPR “What does nostalgia for the fifties get you? It gets you dead, sooner! The life expectancy was 66 years! Now it’s 78!”
That’s right – if you think society could gain by returning to some of the social and moral stanards of the past, you also have to roll back science! And bring the Klan back too!
Baaaaaaaaaaahb: For starters: Does anyone really care how you dress? And by “anyone”, I don’t mean “Baaaaaaahb from FRIDley” – although we’ll come back to him, and to there. You’re a public figure. You’re going to get, uh, “Feedback”.
But you are one of the four most powerful people in MInnesota; you are arguably the most powerful Lieutenant Governor in recent Minnesota history, since the Governor only serves at the pleasure of the extreme “progressive” caucus you lead. Beyond that, yoiu’re a member of the political class, from a social echo chamber in you can do pretty much anything you want, without any consequences whatsoever (and, indeed, have done just that). You (and your family) have a lifetime sinecure, on the taxpayer’s dime. You could wear aluminum foil pants and a 2LiveCrew t-shirt, or pretty much anything but a MAGA cap, with complete impunity.
(Indeed – given that you’ve never, not once in your life, worked in the private sector, you are in the very rare position of never having had to obey any sort of conventional dress code, outside whatever rules the MN House of Representatives imposes – and if you had any problems about any rules you had to follow on that steppingstone to power, the record is silent).
So even if some (fictional?) “Baaaaaaaaaahb from FRIDley” dunks on your attire – so what?
Does it affect you, your life, your living, your power, in any way?
Because if not, it isn’t unreasonable to think you’re doing it to drum up some phony grievance, a bloody shirt of phony victimization for one of the most powerful, entitled people in Minnesota to wave about. .
Beyond that?
FRIDley?: I was struck by the contempt you clearly felt for Baaaaaaaaahb from Fridley. I was more struck by the laugn your audience shared with you about the reference.
You seem to feel a palpable contempt for people who aren’t like you and your neighbors in the leftist echo chamber, and to feed off the contempt you, plural, feel for them.
Senator Ron Latz went to Harvard. Did you know that?
Anyway – here he is, talking about the new “public safety” / gun grab bill.
Well, sort of:
SHOCKING VIDEO: Senator Ron Latz says that those who oppose gun control are "EXACTLY THE ONES" that government needs to worry about. pic.twitter.com/zsocQKmrvE
— MN Gun Owners Caucus (@mnguncaucus) June 7, 2022
Dear Democrats: it’s your duty to run on this, this fall. Every candidate, every race.
Seriously: Republicans, statewide: somebody needs to put this on signs, buttons and t-shirts. The good guys and gals need to hammer every Democrat with this, every appearance, every race, between now and November.
2020: His reelection bid coming up short in the face of democrat turnout and allegations of fraud, Donald Trump claims Dominion voting machines are rigged.
The establishment tut-tuts, call Trump a sore loser. Social media censor thousands of people who repeat and extend Trump’s claim about the voting machines
To: Representative Dean Phillips From: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant Re: Show Us The Information
Rep. Phillips,
After wrapping Beto O’Rourke in unearned merit earlier this week, you’ve now gone full Napolitano: you “know” there’s a virtual army of spree killers just waiting to…
…well, let’s let you explain it:
We all know there are 1,000s of aggrieved young men in possession of legally obtained AR-style rifles, ammunition, and body armor – and ready to snap. We know the next massacre is probably just days or weeks away. So let’s put our heads together and at least try to save lives.
— Rep. Dean Phillips 🇺🇸 (@RepDeanPhillips) May 26, 2022
That’s a pretty big accusation, Representative. Any chance you could share any testable substantiation of thousands of angry young men with guns?
Because that’s a pretty big accusation.
I think you’re full of crap. Feel free to show the world any information I’m wrong.
You won’t, and I suspect you cant, but here’s the challenge.
More on the Ilhan Omar response tweet – itself just a big fascination – later.
Now – let’s take a look at this tweet, from someone justifying the hacking of crowd-funding data for people supporting the Trucker Convoy, included this photo and blurb:
this is the movement she donated to..doesn't matter if it was $1 or $1million pic.twitter.com/CW9Z4TBXxh
…at a libertarian, anti-masker rally of mostly rural, western, and libertarian-sympathetic Canadians, themselves likely to be not especially mask-y, especially if they take that whole Gadsden Flag “Don’t Tread On Me” thing seirouslly…
…all masked up as tightly as the most constipated Karen?
Representative Todd LIppert is leaving the House so he can tour rural Minnesota teaching rural Minnesotans about January 6:
I've decided not to run for re-election in 2022. Since the insurrection a year ago, I’ve felt a sense of urgency about helping Dems connect in rural areas. Our democracy depends on it. I plan to give my time to this work.