“Old man, have you ever stopped to think about the impact—the paralytic fear you’ve inflicted—on hard-working American parents of all creeds and colors who wonder if their kids are going to be cajoled into gender reassignment without any parental consent while at school? Or the anger that immigrants of all races feel when illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds are allowed unfettered access to the American dream that they toiled to become through legal channels?”
Joe, don’t you agree that culture is and always has been upstream of politics wherever you are on the planet?
Blindness to the fact that, for many Americans, immigration and multiculturalism has little to do with race and everything to do with cultural degradation is hard to understand.
Flying the race flag as a political argument is equally objectionable and intellectually shallow on both sides of the political spectrum.
First, as Joe knows, despite the simple fact that in terms of the welfare of the country, it’s hard to comprehend not voting’for’Harris, my own view is that Trump will win. And god knows what then happens. And second, isn’t it time to cut her some slack? I am not at my core likely to be a Harris enthusiast. I suspect I will hate some of her policies in the unlikely event that she gets the chance. But let’s recognize that 3 months ago or so she wasn’t going to be a candidate, she did not have a phalanx of long term senior advisors’ she had not thought through a campaign or a presidents agenda. She has had to do averything on the fly. I think she’s done better than anyone could have expected. But the media - all of it - really does grade her and Trump on completely different scales. She has to have a detailed economic agenda, Trump gets to skate. (Has anyone in the entire f**k**g media ever pointed out that American companies not foreign countries pay the tariffs?) Even Joe does this - even in the middle of a really good essay. So Harris is not allowed just to walk the talk on identity - and, by the way, she has done it superbly - she has to, for the benefit’ of our media, also talk the talk. For christs sake, why? I think the country is far’better’off’having a candidate not talk incessantly about identity but rather acting in an adult way. Every once in a while I have an optimistic moment and think we might actually be seeing a candidate evolve into something very’special in front of our eyes.
The time has come - to dispense with the terms Black, brown and People of Color. They are, first of all, inaccurate: except for some of my more alarming Irish relatives, everyone has color. More importantly, the terms create binary distinctions and dichotomies that are almost entirely negative. There is one distinction that is truly value neutral: geographic. So let people be African , as necessary, and Asian, European, Native American as required, but leave color -and its noxious connotations- out of it. If defining people as octoroons back in the day was insidious -and it was- then all definitions of “race” should be dispensed with. I think my mixed race nieces -representative of the future- would agree.
Thanks for this excellent essay. Harris has the right instinct to broaden here appeal on a non-identity basis, which is the only way to build an enduring, if narrow, governing majority.
It is always entertaining to watch the idiots on the political left twist themselves into pretzels with their identity politics. The MAGA movement is colorblind; it is only the political left that obsesses on race and ethnicity. It was hilarious to watch the blank stare on the ABC moderator’s faces during the Trump/Harris debate when they asked Trump if he would admit that Harris is black and he responded that he didn’t care what she said she was. It has always been the democrats who have fixated on skin color from their slave holding past, to their Jim Crow and KKK days, to the racist LBJ implementing his Great Society that “will have the n***ers voting democrat for 200 years” to today’s mentally retarded woke/DEI agenda.
The United States has been the greatest melting pot of diverse ethnenticities who came here to become Americans. Today’s left promote cultural diversity because they don’t seem to like American culture. But there is no advantage of multiple cultures in any country; if immigrants don’t want to assimilate into American culture, which has been what has made America great, then they shouldn’t be here. Go to wherever practices the culture of your choice.
This election is certainly about whether we’ll have a democratic or authoritarian future but it is the political left who projects their authoritarianism onto President Trump and the MAGA movement, even though they can’t explain how Trump is authoritarian and they dismiss that he has already served a term as President without any hint of tyranny. And go screw yourself if your only argument of authoritarianism is questioning the widespread election fraud in 2020 for which the “big lie” is that it didn’t exist. It is the democrats in conjunction with DC deep state who are authoritarian from the Jan. 6 false flag operation to make it seem like it was a riot, to persecuting goofballs and grandmas who were let into the Capitol and wandered around taking selfies, to sicking the FBI on pre-dawn raids for parents who challenge school board over curriculum and people who pray outside abortion clinics to the totally fabricated lawfare against their political opponent and his advisors. When you add in that the democrats lie and cheat and do whatever it takes to maintain power and their grift then it is evident that they are the scum of the earth. And it was slick Bill Clinton who was Epstein’s buddy, not Trump.
And anyone comparing President Trump to Hitler is a moron. Catherine Rampell of the Worthless ComPost consistently demonstrates that she is one of the dumbest people on the planet. She is too stupid to recognize that Hitler was a radical political charlatan his entire adult life where Trump was a fabulously successful businessman who recognized how much the political class has screwed up the country. They hate him because he is an “existential” challenge to their power and grift. It is the authoritarian democrats who have opened the border because they know that the majority of voters reject their Marxist agenda. This massive surge of illegal immigration promoted under the failed Biden/Harris administration isn’t an issue of race or culture. The failed Biden/Harris administration’s open border strategy is intentional. By leaving in millions of illegal aliens enticed by taxpayer subsidized free stuff that even US citizens can’t get is all a part of the democrats’ strategy to import uneducated, unskilled, non-English speaking immigrants from backward third world countries who will not easily assimilate to go on public assistance and become permanent big nanny government democrat party voters. As President Trump has correctly said these third world countries are emptying out their prisons and insane asylums but the lying media ignores and denies the murders, rapes, violent crime, gang violence, drug imports and other crimes committed by some of these illegal immigrants. But the political whores in the media set their heads on fire when President Trump and Senator Vance accurately reports that local residents in Springfield OH state that illegal immigrant Hattians are eating pets and park geese and ducks. Today’s corporate media are total failures to their duty to hold the ruling class accountable. Instead they are whores to the ruling class and are obsessed with orange man bad and their TDS. What a bunch of losers.
In terms of race and ethnicity, blacks and Hispanics are converting in mass to the American populist movement i.e. MAGA and it is entertaining to watch how this petrifies the feckless democrats and RINO republicans.
The lady in Springfield whose cat disappeared, starting the whole ruckus, found it in the basement last week. The hundred plus assertions of electoral fraud brought by the MAGA movement have been repudiated the courts, time and time again. It is well documented that immigrants, for obvious reasons, work hard to avoid getting into trouble and a significantly more law abiding than natural born Americans. I don’t know whether you believe the misinformation you are constantly peddling (I suspect you know it’s perfect crap), but as someone who tosses God into the mix when it suits you, you might want to review the commandment about beating false witness.
Curtis, you are back to entertain me with your ignorance and gullibility. How do you know that a single cat lady in Springfield started a pet eating narrative? What about the other witnesses to the abductions of geese and ducks from public parks? Have any of the media whores actually investigated any of these claims? Of course not. And there were 65 court cases of election fraud in 2020 and none of them reviewed the evidence, they were all dismissed on standing not merit. So what investigative reporting did the whores in the media perform on the widely reported election fraud? That’s right, none. Just like they don’t investigate or report the murders, rapes, violent crime, gang violence, drug imports and other crimes committed by some of these illegal immigrants all because they know that they can gaslight really stupid people. And Curtis you are a posterchild of their audience. I’m sorry that this is all too complicate for you to understand but thanks again for the entertainment.
Thank you for vindicating the Haitians from all the fol de rol.
I think we are mostly over race, at this point. Gender and sex still have a way to go. The great divide is now education, those who graduated college and those who did not.
Those individuals who did not, are losing jobs to AI, technology, and now immigrants. They pay more attention to their paycheck, because it is usually, considerably smaller than those who are college educated. Inflation, even for a good cause, in some people’s views, such as the Green New Deal, is harder on them. The old adage is people vote their pocketbooks, and if that happens, enough will vote for Trump, like it or not.
The left confuses education with intelligence and knowledge. The democrats like to brag that they are the party of the college educated but they fail to recognize that two thirds of college degrees and a greater percentage of advanced degrees are in liberal arts and are not well versed in STEM. When I was in engineering school we were told that we should take some liberal arts courses to round out our education. What a laugher; the most significant thing that I learned is that liberal arts professors are some of the dumbest people I’ve ever encountered. I’ve never met a liberal arts Professor who is intelligent and hardworking enough to be a farmer.
It is the worthless college educated administrators and bureaucrats and mostly the computer programmers who will be replaced by AI. Skilled tradespeople who can make and fix things will be hard to replace. But of course those liberal arts majors think too much of their worthless educations to recognize what they don’t know about the muscular class. And the green new deal is a scam based upon pure speculation passed on as science in order to extort the middle class for massive transfers to companies promoting unworkable technologies and the kickbacks to those promoting the scam. Again, liberal arts majors who are absent any STEM expertise are so gullible when it comes to science.
People will reelect President Trump again because he is competent and can’t be bought.
For the record, it was engineers primarily who developed the theorythat climate change was serious concern -and economists as a rule who dismissed the issue. On this day, a bunch of Floridians and Georgians and North Carolinians might take issue with your disnmissal of climate change as a concern.
No, it was environmentalists who developed the theory of global warming from greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental science majors who become climate researchers don't even have the math prerequisites to understand the global climate models the IPCC uses to predict global warming. They all start on the presumption that the models are correct and go onto their climate alarmism without which they wouldn't be able to make paydirt with their otherwise worthless degrees. The climate alarmists uses extreme weather events to fool really stupid people. The reality is there were more hurricanes in the early 20th century than there are today.
Will agree with you that there is a difference between wisdom and intelligence or knowledge.Maybe because my study was in history and political science, they go well together, my experience was different. Then again, we had much the same experience or thought on those who were bureaucrats. Took some zoology and geology, the earth interests me, so can appreciate both sides.
“Old man, have you ever stopped to think about the impact—the paralytic fear you’ve inflicted—on hard-working American parents of all creeds and colors who wonder if their kids are going to be cajoled into gender reassignment without any parental consent while at school? Or the anger that immigrants of all races feel when illegal immigrants with criminal backgrounds are allowed unfettered access to the American dream that they toiled to become through legal channels?”
Joe, don’t you agree that culture is and always has been upstream of politics wherever you are on the planet?
Blindness to the fact that, for many Americans, immigration and multiculturalism has little to do with race and everything to do with cultural degradation is hard to understand.
Flying the race flag as a political argument is equally objectionable and intellectually shallow on both sides of the political spectrum.
First, as Joe knows, despite the simple fact that in terms of the welfare of the country, it’s hard to comprehend not voting’for’Harris, my own view is that Trump will win. And god knows what then happens. And second, isn’t it time to cut her some slack? I am not at my core likely to be a Harris enthusiast. I suspect I will hate some of her policies in the unlikely event that she gets the chance. But let’s recognize that 3 months ago or so she wasn’t going to be a candidate, she did not have a phalanx of long term senior advisors’ she had not thought through a campaign or a presidents agenda. She has had to do averything on the fly. I think she’s done better than anyone could have expected. But the media - all of it - really does grade her and Trump on completely different scales. She has to have a detailed economic agenda, Trump gets to skate. (Has anyone in the entire f**k**g media ever pointed out that American companies not foreign countries pay the tariffs?) Even Joe does this - even in the middle of a really good essay. So Harris is not allowed just to walk the talk on identity - and, by the way, she has done it superbly - she has to, for the benefit’ of our media, also talk the talk. For christs sake, why? I think the country is far’better’off’having a candidate not talk incessantly about identity but rather acting in an adult way. Every once in a while I have an optimistic moment and think we might actually be seeing a candidate evolve into something very’special in front of our eyes.
I found it interesting that a Haitian nonprofit in Springfield Ohio filed criminal charges against Trump and Vance I was glad to see this.
The time has come - to dispense with the terms Black, brown and People of Color. They are, first of all, inaccurate: except for some of my more alarming Irish relatives, everyone has color. More importantly, the terms create binary distinctions and dichotomies that are almost entirely negative. There is one distinction that is truly value neutral: geographic. So let people be African , as necessary, and Asian, European, Native American as required, but leave color -and its noxious connotations- out of it. If defining people as octoroons back in the day was insidious -and it was- then all definitions of “race” should be dispensed with. I think my mixed race nieces -representative of the future- would agree.
Thanks for this excellent essay. Harris has the right instinct to broaden here appeal on a non-identity basis, which is the only way to build an enduring, if narrow, governing majority.
It took Kamala Harris for Democrats to get someone who could thread the identity needle, which she has done quite well.
It is always entertaining to watch the idiots on the political left twist themselves into pretzels with their identity politics. The MAGA movement is colorblind; it is only the political left that obsesses on race and ethnicity. It was hilarious to watch the blank stare on the ABC moderator’s faces during the Trump/Harris debate when they asked Trump if he would admit that Harris is black and he responded that he didn’t care what she said she was. It has always been the democrats who have fixated on skin color from their slave holding past, to their Jim Crow and KKK days, to the racist LBJ implementing his Great Society that “will have the n***ers voting democrat for 200 years” to today’s mentally retarded woke/DEI agenda.
The United States has been the greatest melting pot of diverse ethnenticities who came here to become Americans. Today’s left promote cultural diversity because they don’t seem to like American culture. But there is no advantage of multiple cultures in any country; if immigrants don’t want to assimilate into American culture, which has been what has made America great, then they shouldn’t be here. Go to wherever practices the culture of your choice.
This election is certainly about whether we’ll have a democratic or authoritarian future but it is the political left who projects their authoritarianism onto President Trump and the MAGA movement, even though they can’t explain how Trump is authoritarian and they dismiss that he has already served a term as President without any hint of tyranny. And go screw yourself if your only argument of authoritarianism is questioning the widespread election fraud in 2020 for which the “big lie” is that it didn’t exist. It is the democrats in conjunction with DC deep state who are authoritarian from the Jan. 6 false flag operation to make it seem like it was a riot, to persecuting goofballs and grandmas who were let into the Capitol and wandered around taking selfies, to sicking the FBI on pre-dawn raids for parents who challenge school board over curriculum and people who pray outside abortion clinics to the totally fabricated lawfare against their political opponent and his advisors. When you add in that the democrats lie and cheat and do whatever it takes to maintain power and their grift then it is evident that they are the scum of the earth. And it was slick Bill Clinton who was Epstein’s buddy, not Trump.
And anyone comparing President Trump to Hitler is a moron. Catherine Rampell of the Worthless ComPost consistently demonstrates that she is one of the dumbest people on the planet. She is too stupid to recognize that Hitler was a radical political charlatan his entire adult life where Trump was a fabulously successful businessman who recognized how much the political class has screwed up the country. They hate him because he is an “existential” challenge to their power and grift. It is the authoritarian democrats who have opened the border because they know that the majority of voters reject their Marxist agenda. This massive surge of illegal immigration promoted under the failed Biden/Harris administration isn’t an issue of race or culture. The failed Biden/Harris administration’s open border strategy is intentional. By leaving in millions of illegal aliens enticed by taxpayer subsidized free stuff that even US citizens can’t get is all a part of the democrats’ strategy to import uneducated, unskilled, non-English speaking immigrants from backward third world countries who will not easily assimilate to go on public assistance and become permanent big nanny government democrat party voters. As President Trump has correctly said these third world countries are emptying out their prisons and insane asylums but the lying media ignores and denies the murders, rapes, violent crime, gang violence, drug imports and other crimes committed by some of these illegal immigrants. But the political whores in the media set their heads on fire when President Trump and Senator Vance accurately reports that local residents in Springfield OH state that illegal immigrant Hattians are eating pets and park geese and ducks. Today’s corporate media are total failures to their duty to hold the ruling class accountable. Instead they are whores to the ruling class and are obsessed with orange man bad and their TDS. What a bunch of losers.
In terms of race and ethnicity, blacks and Hispanics are converting in mass to the American populist movement i.e. MAGA and it is entertaining to watch how this petrifies the feckless democrats and RINO republicans.
Get ready for MAGA 2.0!
The lady in Springfield whose cat disappeared, starting the whole ruckus, found it in the basement last week. The hundred plus assertions of electoral fraud brought by the MAGA movement have been repudiated the courts, time and time again. It is well documented that immigrants, for obvious reasons, work hard to avoid getting into trouble and a significantly more law abiding than natural born Americans. I don’t know whether you believe the misinformation you are constantly peddling (I suspect you know it’s perfect crap), but as someone who tosses God into the mix when it suits you, you might want to review the commandment about beating false witness.
Curtis, you are back to entertain me with your ignorance and gullibility. How do you know that a single cat lady in Springfield started a pet eating narrative? What about the other witnesses to the abductions of geese and ducks from public parks? Have any of the media whores actually investigated any of these claims? Of course not. And there were 65 court cases of election fraud in 2020 and none of them reviewed the evidence, they were all dismissed on standing not merit. So what investigative reporting did the whores in the media perform on the widely reported election fraud? That’s right, none. Just like they don’t investigate or report the murders, rapes, violent crime, gang violence, drug imports and other crimes committed by some of these illegal immigrants all because they know that they can gaslight really stupid people. And Curtis you are a posterchild of their audience. I’m sorry that this is all too complicate for you to understand but thanks again for the entertainment.
Thank you for vindicating the Haitians from all the fol de rol.
I think we are mostly over race, at this point. Gender and sex still have a way to go. The great divide is now education, those who graduated college and those who did not.
Those individuals who did not, are losing jobs to AI, technology, and now immigrants. They pay more attention to their paycheck, because it is usually, considerably smaller than those who are college educated. Inflation, even for a good cause, in some people’s views, such as the Green New Deal, is harder on them. The old adage is people vote their pocketbooks, and if that happens, enough will vote for Trump, like it or not.
The left confuses education with intelligence and knowledge. The democrats like to brag that they are the party of the college educated but they fail to recognize that two thirds of college degrees and a greater percentage of advanced degrees are in liberal arts and are not well versed in STEM. When I was in engineering school we were told that we should take some liberal arts courses to round out our education. What a laugher; the most significant thing that I learned is that liberal arts professors are some of the dumbest people I’ve ever encountered. I’ve never met a liberal arts Professor who is intelligent and hardworking enough to be a farmer.
It is the worthless college educated administrators and bureaucrats and mostly the computer programmers who will be replaced by AI. Skilled tradespeople who can make and fix things will be hard to replace. But of course those liberal arts majors think too much of their worthless educations to recognize what they don’t know about the muscular class. And the green new deal is a scam based upon pure speculation passed on as science in order to extort the middle class for massive transfers to companies promoting unworkable technologies and the kickbacks to those promoting the scam. Again, liberal arts majors who are absent any STEM expertise are so gullible when it comes to science.
People will reelect President Trump again because he is competent and can’t be bought.
For the record, it was engineers primarily who developed the theorythat climate change was serious concern -and economists as a rule who dismissed the issue. On this day, a bunch of Floridians and Georgians and North Carolinians might take issue with your disnmissal of climate change as a concern.
No, it was environmentalists who developed the theory of global warming from greenhouse gas emissions and the environmental science majors who become climate researchers don't even have the math prerequisites to understand the global climate models the IPCC uses to predict global warming. They all start on the presumption that the models are correct and go onto their climate alarmism without which they wouldn't be able to make paydirt with their otherwise worthless degrees. The climate alarmists uses extreme weather events to fool really stupid people. The reality is there were more hurricanes in the early 20th century than there are today.
Will agree with you that there is a difference between wisdom and intelligence or knowledge.Maybe because my study was in history and political science, they go well together, my experience was different. Then again, we had much the same experience or thought on those who were bureaucrats. Took some zoology and geology, the earth interests me, so can appreciate both sides.