FrankJ on Trump

Random thoughts for Aug.12 (very slightly edited):

“So do you want some sort of coherent politically philosophy, or are you happy with just angry yelling?”

Apparently a large number of people can’t tell the difference between being tough and being thin-skinned and pissy.

Are there people who really didn’t get that Trump is a joke candidate until the Megyn Kelly line?

Was there anything so awful Ted Kennedy could do that he’d lose support? Such is Trump’s base.

I can still be surprised by how silly Trump gets, but I don’t take him seriously enough to get outraged.

*dog repeatedly runs into glass door*
“He never backs down! He just like hero Donald Tromp!”

I’m glad we’re finally cracking down on the number one threat to black people: Bernie Sanders.

Difference between Democrats and Republicans:
Republicans are working really hard to stop the horrible person who is their frontrunner.

You don’t need to be politically correct, but it helps to be correct about something.

Also, go watch The Kronies!

If the 80s had internet mashups, part one

no sympathy for the devil

Tomi Lahren:

“Do I care that [gunman Mohammad Abdulazeez] seemed like an 'All-American' young man? Do I care that he was good at mixed martial arts or a smart, quiet guy? Do I care that his high school friends wouldn’t classify him as overly religious? No, I don’t give a flying you-know-what about any of that ****. I care that this **** killed four of our United States Marines, and I care that our commander-in-chief is more concerned with Muslim sensitivity than the honor and sacrifice made by these Marines.”

Gun Free Zone

Iowahawk observes:

Luckily, the gunman spared the "Gun Free Zone" sticker https://t.co/rvA39Mn79G

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 16, 2015

Their Queen

ur head asplode

I wonder which side the Ds will root for when Islamists bomb a gay pride parade...

i just can't identify with that

seraphic press via imao:

Obama's Legacy

In
Three
Pictures

The Plague Spreads

Monica Crowley wrote an excellent piece about the Baltimore riots, but a ridiculous amount of popups at the Washington Times website needlessly hinder the message. I intend no infringement, and only hope to remove the frustration caused by their ad-bloated site.

(Emphases mine)

“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“[Expletive] the police!” — rioters in Baltimore.

“We also gave those who wish to destroy space to do that as well.” — Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

During the past 40 years, the nonviolent movement for racial justice has morphed into a violent movement for social justice.

The upheaval in Baltimore in the aftermath of the mysterious death of Freddie Gray, who died in police custody, is just the latest in a long line of racial violence, from Watts to Detroit, from Crown Heights to Ferguson.

The Rev. Martin Luther King’s legacy has been destroyed by leftists who depend on racial division. The struggle for civil rights lost its moral power when the demands switched from equal rights under the law to equal results. That changeover, from a movement based on legal justice to one of social justice, corrupted the mission and created a charlatan leadership. The result has been a cult of black victimhood and dependency, leading to endless cycles of crime, poverty, drug abuse and related violence and the general breakdown of the family.

What we have witnessed in Baltimore (and Ferguson last year) is the natural result of allowing leftist-articulated “grievances” to usurp the rule of law and the maintenance of civil order.

Ms. Rawlings-Blake tried to walk back her statement that she gave rioters a “space to destroy” after her comment encouraged more violence. This should not have been a surprise. During the Crown Heights riots of 1991, New York Mayor David Dinkins kept the police back in order to let protesters “blow off a little steam.” The violence, of course, escalated. The Obama administration has also repeatedly called for police “restraint.”

They intend to send a signal of racial sensitivity and social justice, but the result is black communities being burned to the ground.

When there is a lack of strong leadership, sinister characters fill the void. Thugs pour into the streets; few are there out of deep rage about their collective treatment by the police but rather because looting and torching businesses are fun ways to pass the time. Particularly when they know the television cameras are trained on them. After all, who wouldn’t want Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame (or infamy)?

The professional race hustlers then alight on the scene to profiteer and further enflame. The race industry claims to be the black community’s savior, when all it does is keep itself fat and rich.

There are legitimate questions surrounding the death of Gray, and I understand the anger and frustration among many in Baltimore. The investigation, like the ones into the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York, must be allowed to proceed.

But as Winston Churchill is attributed to saying, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” And that was before instantaneous social media.

In America today, ideology — political, racial, religious — drives everything, and the truth takes a back seat, only emerging after a lot of damage has been done.

Some Baltimore rioters have been quoted as saying that they’re lashing out at the “system” they consider “unjust.” OK, but the “system” against which they are lashing is predominantly black. The Baltimore City Council is majority black, the mayor, police commissioner and 63.3 percent of the population are black, and the majority of the Baltimore Police Department is non-white. The problem, it seems, is not white racism, but a “system” they have installed themselves over many decades.

The Baltimore riots also show the limits of elections based on symbolism. Ferguson, Baltimore and general increased racial tension have occurred with a black president, two black attorneys general, a black Homeland Security secretary, and other top black officials. Campaigning in 2008, Mr. Obama told us that he’d be able to unify all races and creeds through his transcendence as a biracial president.

Instead, we’ve seen escalating racial animus, thanks largely to the signals he’s sent: from claiming that the Cambridge police “acted stupidly” in their exchange with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates to calling for police restraint in Ferguson to inviting ignominious agitator, the Rev. Al Sharpton, to be his top adviser on race issues to his muted response when two New York City police officers were assassinated while sitting in their patrol car.

The left, of course, needs chaos and division in order to thrive. Therefore, it stokes them whenever possible.

Perhaps this is why Mr. Obama has failed to do the one thing a black president could do that a white one could not: speak directly to the black community about personal responsibility, the need for fathers to raise their children, the strength to be derived from strong families and faith, the need to be productive and decent human beings.

He could have served as their ultimate role model, but instead he put his ideological desire to “fundamentally transform the nation” above all else.

I wish he — and the nation — would focus less on the words of Rev. Sharpton and more on the words of Rev. King: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

It's funny because it's true

"Given a choice between the two of you, I’d take the seasick crocodile!"

How to defeat the Offendotrons

Step 1: Tweak their noses
Step 2: ???
Step 3: PROFIT!!!

Happy Earth Day!

From Iowahawk!

Cloud god angry! Sea god angry! Big power chief fly great iron bird to swamp village, make science dance for great Earth Mother!

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 22, 2015

From Lileks, an article more than 140 characters!

PWEI

Progressivism Will Eat Itself

the hollow world

A couple of today's comments at Lileks got me thinking:

Coolness is a hollow facsimile of maturity.
The effect of drugs is a hollow facsimile of joy.
Prostitution is a hollow facsimile of marital bliss.
The star/celebrity system is a hollow facsimile of true friendship.
Political correctness is a hollow facsimile of morality.

Can you think of others?

Common Core Coercion Program

As we should all know by now, heavy-handed central planning does not work.

kids these days with their mashups, pt.3

also found in lileks' comments:

kids these days with their mashups, pt.2

found in lileks' comments:

homestarrunnercomeback?

there was something new last halloween and april fools...

as if anybody was surprised

in a highly-predictable move, the left once again proves it is intolerant of religious freedom.

Iowahawk

King of Twitter:

Don't let a nuclear-armed Iran distract us from America's #1 threat - Indiana bakeries

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 29, 2015

US peace partners Egypt & Saudi Arabia ready to invade US peace partner Yemen to fight US peace partner Iran http://t.co/Xv5XP3238U

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 27, 2015

"OMG ISRAEL SPIED ON US" - government currently spying on you

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 24, 2015

Voting should be mandatory, says guy who missed over 300 roll call votes in his 4 years in the Senate http://t.co/QEeXymYbjK

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 19, 2015

Obama tried harder to influence the Israeli election of 2015 than to support the Iranian uprising of 2009.

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 18, 2015

#AskHamas How much did you pay the Ku Klux Klan for wardrobe advice? pic.twitter.com/qrEfUoF6pP

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 13, 2015

The Hillary story is starting to resemble a mashup of House of Cards, Fatal Attraction, Caine Mutiny, Election, Carrie, and Cocoon

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 12, 2015