To Think They Say Progressives Are Economic Illiterates

SCENE: Mitch BERG is at Fleet Farm, looking for new liners for his old chopper mittens. Engrossed in his search, he doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE walking around the corner, a quizzical look on hi…er, he…er, Avery’s face. LIBRELLE notices BERG.

LIBRELLE: Merg!

BERG: Uh, hi, Avery. What brings you out to Fleet Farm?

LIBRELLE: Picketing against the Navy and farmers!

BERG: Of course…

LIBRELLE: It’s time to tax the billionaires for all the excess profits they’ve been earning because of the deadly Trump pandemic.

BERG: So let me make sure I get this straight…

LIBRELLE: Uh, heteronormative…

BERG: Huh? Oh, for f…ranklin Delano Roosevelt’s sake. OK. Let me make sure I get this correct: you want to raise taxes on the e-commerce billionaires who are prospering mightily…

LIBRELLE: Yes.

BERG: …because the small businesses that were competing with them were destroyed by the government’s ham-fisted handling of the pandemic, which was imposed by the government that you now want to make the ultimate beneficiary of the government’s own dork-fingered, utterly catastrophic mis-handling of the response?

(But LIBRELLE has already wandered off, looking for wherever the ships are).

(And SCENE)

102 thoughts on “To Think They Say Progressives Are Economic Illiterates

  1. Let me be clear, the violence that we saw yesterday is the responsibility of the president directly. If we never hear from Trump again…I’d be okay with that.

    “For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.” ~ The Book of Virtues

  2. You hold Trump responsible for every bad thing, Emery.
    You stopped being a person with a POV worth considering a long, long time ago.
    The joker who fell hook, line, and sinker for the Russian collusion hoax — and still believes in it — has a lot of nerve talking about “adult morality.”
    Dial back the ridiculousness, please.

  3. I really hope these smug mid wits keep it up. The BS the reprobate propaganda media are spewing is really pissing people off. If they think the right will be cowed, they are in for a big surprise; especially when Pedo Joe and his troupe of degenerates start playing out their insanity.

    As I said earlier, it never occurred to us to enter the Capital building yesterday; we could plainly see it was a bad idea that wasn’t going to end well. Smart money was on “it’s time to leave”, and we always go with the smart money, as did the vast majority of the others there.

    If they had IQ’s above room temperature, the reprobates would look at the inane piling on coming from their media with the same sense of foreboding…but they don’t, so here we go.

  4. Swiftee, you didn’t go into the capital, but you approve that it happened right…

  5. Common sense fellow: “You do realize that 47% of the country says you cheated, right? They’re pretty pissed off, and your news media is making it worse. Might be a good time to cool it.”

    Reprobate left: “47%? That’s all? Hold my beer.”

  6. Kraphammer, I don’t know who you think you’re commenting to. The name’s Strunk. Dr. Pete Strunk; respect the title asshole.

    Dr. Pete Strunk is a student of history. He knows what happens when people believe the government has been tainted by corrupt politicians, their ability to vote fairly has been stolen and the courts offer no relief. It’s called “nothing left to lose” syndrome. It’s what motivated a group of English colonists to pledge their treasure and lives to revolt against the King of England. Pete recognized it in DC yesterday, right away.

    I like to think we’re not quite at that point yet, but the leftist reprobates could persuade me to conclude I’m wrong in the next few years.

    So no, I don’t approve of it, but I completely understand it and lay the blame where it belongs; at the feet of the assholes that have been destroying the country since the “New Deal”. I blame reprobate leftists, Q.E.D.

  7. The revolt in DC was certainly the largest, but it wasn’t the only act of defiance. In fact, there were demonstrations in every state. Patriots busted through the gates of the Governor’s Mansion in Olympia, WA to get up in his grill. Even in the 3rd world shit hole formerly known as California, Patriots showed up to the capital in Sacramento to let the reprobates inside know they were not taking any more crap…the reprobates ran away.

    The entire country is a tinderbox, from coast to coast. All we need is a senile pedophile in the White House and a reprobate congress to set it off. 2021 is shaping up to be a real shit show.

  8. Watching you rationalize your irrational thoughts regarding election fraud — perhaps a family intervention is in order.

  9. Swiftee, did you believe yesterday would mark “The Storm” — the day QAnon supporters hoped Trump would arrest and execute his political opponents?

    Asking for a friend….

  10. Portland Chief of Police: “Sir, Antifa is using explosives and power tools to break into the federal building downtown. They’ve set the building on fire.”

    Portland mayor: “Oh. Well do they need anything? Maybe we should send some lights down there for them; it’s pretty dark”

    Seattle Chief of Police: “Ma’am, Antifa has trashed downtown and is claiming a six block area as an autonomous zone. They’ve barricaded the streets and have armed sentries at the entry points. People are being assaulted by groups of armed thugs inside.”

    Seattle mayor: “Oh. Well that sounds like a country fair. Are they selling crafts?”

  11. Why the sympathy towards someone who died violently attacking the Capitol expressly in support of an ideology that calls for mass executions and prison camps based on fanatical devotion to a dictator?

    Would be we waxing sympathetic for a Nazi?

  12. Why the sympathy towards someone who died violently attacking the Capitol expressly in support of an ideology that calls for mass executions and prison camps based on fanatical devotion to a dictator?
    She was an unarmed woman who broke a window.
    Let me ask you something, Mr. “Moral Adult”? Should she receive more or less sympathy than George Floyd?

  13. Washington DC in flames seven months ago after “mostly peaceful protest.”
    Silence.
    Today: “Hang ’em high!”
    Lol.

  14. For my part, those who invaded the Capitol and broke down gates should be punished.

    As should the “anti”-fa protesters that made a huge mess in Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, and elsewhere. There. Wasn’t that easy? Now get to work, Democrats. You want to say you’re against violence, man up.

  15. Max, Ashli Babbit was a mother, and a 14 year veteran of the Air Force who did 3 tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Walking into the US Capital (trespassing) was the first crime she had ever committed.

    George Floyd was a drug addict, convicted of a violent home invasion where a woman was pistol whipped. He left 6 children and 2 baby mamma’s in Texas to shack up with another woman in Minneapolis. He died of a drug overdose while in the commission of a federal crime (counterfeiting).

    Which one will the reprobates deify?

  16. “For my part, those who invaded the Capitol and broke down gates should be punished.

    As should the “anti”-fa protesters that made a huge mess in Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, and elsewhere.”

    Well there’s the problem, right there Bubba.

    The mayors of cities burned and looted by Antifa and BLM ordered their LEO’s to back off, and release the ones they had arrested. The AG’s declined to prosecute them.

    Yesterday’s actions were as much a response to the breakdown of law and justice as anything else. We cannot continue to share a country with reprobates intent on destroying it.

  17. The reason that it’s so important to show the images of looting and destruction and terror in the Capitol yesterday is because the campaign to lie about what happened and rewrite history has already begun.

  18. “Ashli Babbit, play stupid games, win stupid prizes, as the copsuckers say”

    I understand that thinking, and not gonna lie, I share it where the 2 leftist slobs (1 a convicted pedophile, naturally) that Kyle Rittenhouse waxed in Kenosha are concerned. And every time one that survived waves his gimp arm around I giggle, tbh.

    Difference is, no one is going to loot liquor stores or burn post offices to revenge Ashli, but when Kyle is found guilty of illegal possession of a firearm (a misdemeanor), and nothing else you can bet the filthy reprobates will torch Kenosha.

  19. Also looking forward to filthy, drug addicted reprobates and “black activists” (tee hee) finishing the job in the Twin Cities after the cops are exonerated in the ridiculous prosecution over a violent thug that died of an opioid overdose, while they subdued him using textbook techniques the department taught them to use. And when they loot and burn down that recently re-built Target, I will be rotflmao, you can bet on that.

  20. So we’re clear: This woman was radicalized by a fascist fanfic that convinced her to help overthrow the government, and you are ‘both-sides’-ing a violent attempted coup.

    I’m not sympathetic toward her, but I do believe that the people who sold her the lies she believed bear far more responsibility for yesterday than she did.

  21. “Dr. Pete Strunk is a student of history. He knows what happens when people believe the government has been tainted by corrupt politicians, their ability to vote fairly has been stolen and the courts offer no relief. It’s called “nothing left to lose” syndrome. It’s what motivated a group of English colonists to pledge their treasure and lives to revolt against the King of England. Pete recognized it in DC yesterday, right away. ”

    Ya, whatever … Swiftee.  But this delusion is the essence of your misanthropy.

    I’ve been reading this blog 12 or 13 years.  Because of reading tenure, I am passingly familiar with the characters who inhabit the NARN ecosystem, it’s not like I or anyone else has to stalk.  You, “Pete”… You’re 50ish, have advanced in life to being a 6 figure systems analyst, have rental property, a long marriage, solid kids, a comfortable middle class + life.

    You ain’t got ‘nothing to lose’, and won’t relinquish what you do have over principle.  This is a bunch of cosplay such that you have no reason in life to bitch and no reason to nurse a grudge against the darkies.

  22. “and you are ‘both-sides’-ing a violent attempted coup.”
    An unarmed woman broke a window, and was shot and killed.
    We all know the names of the cops who involved in detaining George Floyd, but not the name of the cop who shot an unarmed woman who had broken a window.
    You can’t possibly consider yourself a rational human being at this point. Your hatred has driven you mad, Emery.

  23. Pedo Joe 12/5/19
    “Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden on Thursday calls a man in Iowa a “damn liar” and “fat” and “too old to vote for me” after the man accuses Biden of getting his son Hunter a job with a Ukrainian gas company.”

    Pedo Joe 1/25/20
    “Biden not only told the man to go vote for someone else on some pipeline disagreement — but poked the guy, palmed the man’s chest, and put both mitts to grip the man’s jacket openings, something the man remarked would have drawn security if he himself had done that to Biden.”

    Pedo Joe 2/8/20
    “No you haven’t. You’re a lying, dog faced pony soldier”

    Pedo Joe 1/6/21
    “Just plain, simple decency. The renewal of a politics that’s about solving problems, looking out for one another, not stoking the flames of hate and chaos.”

    Steal an election for a clown, expect a circus
    lmao

  24. Max, I listened to an interview of the kid from New Jersey who caught the woman after she’d been shot (he still had her blood on his hands). She didn’t break a window, she was just in front of a group when capital cops rushed them.

    Kid said “We just wanted to talk to congress people, to tell them this theft can’t be left to stand. The cops were shouting ‘get down, get down’ and they just shot her in the neck. It could have been me, she was just in front”.

  25. It seems a bit odd that spend north of $700 billion annually on “defense” and the center of American government fell in two hours to the duck dynasty. The amazing thing about “it might have been antifa” is that Trump literally summoned these people to DC, spoke at their event, offered to walk them over to the Capitol and then praised them afterward.

  26. Kameltoe 4/13/19
    “At a campaign event in Nevada in April 2019, Harris discussed the allegations of sexual abuse against Biden, declaring of the accusers: “I believe them, and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it.”

    Kameltoe 8/19/20
    “We must elect a president who will bring something different, something better, and do the important work. A president who will bring all of us together—Black, White, Latino, Asian, Indigenous — to achieve the future we collectively want.
    We must elect Joe Biden. ”

    lol

  27. Imagine trying to push this narrative after a riot that came after Trump’s Stop the steal rally where Rudy, Trump and the Trump son spoke.

    There’s CCTV all over Capitol Hill, but I really appreciate them making it easier for investigators and live-streaming their insurrection.

    “Please, don’t be like #FakeNewsMedia, don’t rush to judgment on assault on Capitol. Wait for investigation. All may not be (and likely is not) what appears. Evidence growing that fascist ANTIFA orchestrated Capitol attack with clever mob control tactics.” ~ Mo Brooks

  28. So we’re clear: This woman was radicalized by a fascist fanfic that convinced her to help overthrow the government, and you are ‘both-sides’-ing a violent attempted coup.

    I’m not sympathetic toward her, but I do believe that the people who sold her the lies she believed bear far more responsibility for yesterday than she did.

    First of all, Happy New Year to everybody.

    At the risk of perpetuating this multi-party threadjack (though it does show economics isn’t the only thing leftists are illiterate on), where are you getting this information, Emery? Has it been vetted? Were you there?

    One unarmed person died as a result of the riot yesterday, but sadly, I don’t think it will stop there. The unrest has been building for years. An entire generation of “statists” (left-wing and right-wing), as Mark Levin calls them, have been born and grown up since the violence of the 90s, and with the state of education in our country, are oblivious of the lessons we should have learned from that time: Don’t poke the bear. Tragedies such as Ruby Ridge and Waco, particularly federal agencies’ failure to take responsibility for the “mistakes” made during the stand-offs and in the aftermath, provided a pretext for extremists such as Timothy McVeigh, Eric Rudolph, and their ilk to engage in terror not just against the government, but the citizenry– they believed the government had exceeded its constitutional authority and/or abrogated its constitutional responsibilities– in short, they did not recognize the legitimacy of said government.

    With the events of yesterday, not all the facts are yet known, but thanks to social media, the narrative has been established. But why were so many people there? Why take time off work, assuming they were among the lucky to remain employed while politicians enacted lockdowns that deprived so many of their livelihoods? What are their actual political leanings? Do they have grievances with Democrats, Republicans, or the whole shebang? Do they feel their vote didn’t count? Were some, despite being portrayed as low-IQ losers, reasonably well-educated and rationally skeptical of the voting integrity and leery of some courts’ reluctance to even look into irregularities around the country? As I said, not all the facts are known, and we risk repeating history if we dismiss the mob or generalize their motives.

    Show of hands: Who wants to go through this every 4-8 years? Or do we address the underlying issues across the board and restore faith in our form of government?

  29. “play stupid games, win stupid prizes”

    Correct. And I sincerely hope reprobates remember that in the coming weeks, months and years. I’ll be sure to remind them.

    US STOCKS-Nasdaq futures tumble as investors brace for possible Blue Wave
    Jan 6, 2021 Reuters

    Buy silver, and stockpile food and fuel. Stupid prizes incoming from stupid people.

  30. nasdaq is up 300 today

    You’re not really a bright enough man for this Swiftee. if you want to buy silver, go ahead…. it won’t serve you poorly. But you’ll never use it for what you think you’re going to use it for.

  31. “Global markets tumble to Democratic leadership in Georgia

    Major indices from around the world have fallen in line with US futures amid a very close race for the Senate in Georgia. Democrat Raphael Warnock defeated Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler in a tight duel. The runoff between Republican David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff is also hotly contested, and Democrats need to win it to take control of the Senate.”

  32. I see some of our less intelligent commentators are confused about how the stock market works…not a surprise, really

    “NASDAQ futures are financial futures that allow an investor to hedge with or speculate on the future value of various components of the NASDAQ market index.”

    NASDAQ futures =/= NASDAQ index

  33. OK, let’s commit to a conversation here in which we establish that you, Swiftee, actually have (or do not have, which is what I’d bet…) the knowledge to make an observation about ambient market volatility over the course of one calendar day.
    Post market movement yesterday and also post today’s movement.  We’re talking about the indexes.

  34. Swiftee, why are the markets up today such that the Dem Georgia victories have been confirmed and Biden’s victory has been certified?

    You can go ahead and pull the first paragraph of any daily market recap you wish.  We’ll use it as a basis for discussion.

  35. “Show of hands: Who wants to go through this every 4-8 years?”

    I’ve been asking this for some time, Ian. We live in a country where 1/2 is outraged while the other 1/2 dances for joy and everyone lives in mortal fear every 4 years. It’s not logical; it’s not sustainable. People are becoming more manic every year.

    You’re more optimistic than I. I think it’s tool late to address the underlying issues across the board and restore faith in our form of government, because we want completely different things from the government and couldn’t agree on issues on a bet.

    Hell, we have a significant population that is firmly convinced a man becomes a woman when he grows his hair out and puts on a sundress. They sincerely do not believe a gestating child is a human being, and that a woman should have the right to end it’s life up to and for some, after birth. Where do we go with that?

    No, I think it’s time to start a sober discussion on how to equitably and peacefully divide the US into at least 2 separate sovereign nations where people can happily co-exist with their peers. We’re not a melting pot; we’re an oil and vinegar carafe.

  36. Happy New Years Ian
    You wrote: “One unarmed person died as a result of the riot yesterday,”

    In fact: 4 dead, 52 arrested after chaos on Capitol Hill ~ The Hill

    Might be interesting to see Trump testify under oath in front of Congress for 11 straight hours on live television to explain how 4 people ended up dead at the US Capitol.

  37. Regarding the deaths yesterday, yes, Trump’s incendiary rhetoric does bear a portion of blame. On the flip side, those who were involved in the demonstrations and riot(s) also have been carefully noting that city police chiefs have been assiduously refusing to arrest rioters after the death of George Floyd and the like–they had an expectation that police would stand down then, too, and hence big city police chiefs who refused to make arrests of rioters last year bear a portion of blame, too. So do big city mayors who interfered with their cities’ police.

    By the way, murders are up in Chicago, Portland, Seattle, and many other cities where the police stood down for rioters. So a lot of other people are suffering for the sins of the left. Do we care?

    Regarding Mrs. Babbitt’s death, I’ll let the prosecutor look at the video and decide whether the use of force was warranted. I don’t have a big desire to watch it, though I’ve found links to the video.

  38. No room for spin or false equivalencies here. Yesterday, Donald J. Trump, and no one else, incited a mob to storm the US Capitol, and it happened, resulting in shameful scenes we never expected to see in our lifetime, at least until Trump was elected.

    Four people have died as a result of this insurrection. Two active pipe bombs were found and destroyed. Multiple people, including police officers, were injured.

    None of this would have happened if Trump hadn’t lied to his followers and incited them to go to the Capitol to “Save America”.

  39. So the pattern of police standing down for riots didn’t have anything to do with how rioters behaved? Seriously, Emery? People don’t respond to how those around them tend to behave?

    Horsefeathers. Yes, the mob was driven in great part by what I consider some horse manure claims by Trump and those supporting him in court, but at the same time, the mob would have taken note if police forces around the country would have responded to looting and rioting in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death (etc..) with consistent arrests and the like.

  40. I don’t think that’s a real thing, that police departments are refusing to arrest rioters such that they have the ability to interdict them in the first place on these various evenings where demonstrators might outnumber cops 10 to 1.

    They arrest rioters such they have the manpower.  A lot of times they don’t have the manpower.  There is yes this catch and release thing going on because of COVID.

    On an ongoing basis these crowds do learn the thin blue border to anarchy indeed pretty thin.

  41. John, perhaps phrasing things a little differently would be good; the few rioters that do get arrested are generally quickly released without charges. The rioters figure that out quickly and act accordingly. It’s been going on since Occupy 15-20 years back.

    Plus, in a lot of the footage I’ve seen, it would be very straightforward to make arrests. You just have to have a police chief and mayor that will back up the thin blue line. Don’t have enough people there to make arrests? Folks, the National Guard and loaners from suburban forces are there for a reason.

  42. “Earlier this week, Justice Department officials including Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen privately discussed how to handle the planned protest, and concluded they saw little role for themselves in crowd control.”

    Actions by Police Before Trump Supporters Attacked Capitol Backfired Spectacularly
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/actions-by-police-before-trump-supporters-attacked-capitol-backfired-spectacularly-11610064600

    That’s because there was no place to have a presidential photo op with a bible….

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