Category: Politics

  • To vote or not to vote: quoquo suffragia nulla melior est

    by Ex-PH2

    It’s that time we face every four years. Decide what you’re going to do. Are you going to vote this way, or that way, or at all?

    As some of you may recall, earlier this year I said you should go and vote.

    I think I said that last year, too, but a couple of people got all toffee-nosed about my saying ‘you have a duty to vote’, and whined. Well, you do have that duty.

    We have a secret ballot in this country, guaranteed by the USConstitution. It’s secret for a very good reason: it’s no one’s business but yours how you cast your ballot. I hate those surveyors who ask ‘how did you vote’ at the exits to polling places. I want to cream pie them all. They’ve been desperate in the past to try to influence the elections in favor of their favorite candidate. I used to run into them in Chicago in the precincts and I would always offer to shove their faces into a snowbank or find a cop and they could explain themselves to the cops.

    We’re lucky: we don’t live in a dictatorship. We’ve never had dynastic succession or dictators in this country. We got rid of that in 1776, remember? And it was for a good reason: the European and Russian royal families were all married to each other. They were so inbred they were almost insane. It was for that reason that a laundrywoman became Catherine the Great and Louis XIV and his silly wife lost their heads to the guillotine. WE are rednecks, independent, self-sustaining, self-sufficient badasses, and we don’t like being told what to do, think, eat, read or believe. If that isn’t true, then account for the loud, noisy idjits on the left side of the political fence, the twitterpaters who find fault with everything and hysterically report it ad nauseum, and the desperate need to embed themselves in constant social contact.

    In the USSR, before Gorbachev said publicly ‘we are bankrupt’, not voting would result in the loss of everything from your housing and place in line at the food shops (not groceries) to maybe your job. That was why the Soviets had a 95% turnout at every election – well, that and the single party/candidate, that all figured into the turnout. But it was ‘do as I say or starve’. Ask Nicki about it some day. She was there before she came here.

    So in my efforts to convince you ungrateful little twirps that you should get off your blubbery butts and spend a few minutes at the polling place of your choice, I ran across this video, which you should watch in its entirety.

    This young lady, MissMisanthropist, has several good points and makes them plain with this statement of hers: I don’t know who I’ll vote for, or even if I will vote, but damaging something that belongs to other people over it is wrong.

    MissMisanthropist is miles ahead of the fools stealing campaign signs out of people’s yards and laughing about it.

    The destructive behavior of the thieves is not simply the kind of spoiled brat behavior you expect from 7-year-olds who’ve never learned good manners and fairness. It’s their fear of losing that makes them unwilling to compete in a very, very competitive world and howl loudly, screaming ‘Unfair! Unfair!’ and throwing malodorous objects around. If you asked them what they’re howling about, they’d probably give you blank looks. I don’t think they really know, unless it’s done only to get attention. They are desperate for that.

    I got the candidates sample ballot list in the mail the other day, looked it over, and realized that not once had either of the other two parties (Libertarian, Green) gotten even a faint nod from the media. No surprise: the marones in the media all want shrillary, even if she drops dead in her tracks. So help me, they’d have her stuffed and propped up in the Oval Office, just to avoid the disappointment of losing. Their level of patience is lower than that of a six-year-old who believes that Santa Claus actually does drive flying reindeer instead of a Humvee. They’ll probably hold rallies if NOT-shrillary wins, and burn their voter registration cards in protest.

    I’m sure the overgrown children in the media will be sad, too, but perhaps their day has finally come and gone and nobody noticed. Their angst will resonate from the pyre of their hurt feelings and the poo flinging will turn them into public nuisances.

    So I will repeat myself: you have a duty to vote, especially in this particular election. Whether you like the candidates or not is immaterial. Not voting at all, staying home and pouting, is the same childish nonsense that the overgrown Libretard children engage in. It puts you exactly at their level. Is that what you want? Not voting is not a protest: it is the same thing as handing the election and the office of President of the U.S. to someone who is far more harmful than anyone we’ve ever seen before.

    If you don’t value your freedom of choice enough to get off your dead ass and go vote, do not come crying to me, complaining loudly about the Bad People winning.

    You welshed on the deal.

    You failed your own country.

  • Hillary’s server no security threat but Russians are altering emails?

    Let’s see if this old seasoned citizen can get his brain wrapped around this latest bit of liberal lying: Earlier this year the Clinton campaign leaders were on every available news forum in the country assuring us that even if Hillary had used her Chappaqua bathroom server to conduct the business of the nation, there was no harm because there was no evidence that anyone had hacked that totally vulnerable repository of State secrets. All the way back to the Whitewater scandal we have been hearing that first line of defense from the Clinton’s: “There is no evidence”. That has sometimes proved true because the Clinton’s long ago surrounded themselves with a picket of legal gunsels who have proved quite adept at burying incriminating documentation and some would even say witnesses.

    So we were pounded with the Democrat talking points that no emails had been hacked and no harm had been done so just move along here. I seem to recall security experts at the time opining that there was no way an unsecured server in Bill’s bathroom could NOT have NOT been hacked by even minimally competent foreign security services, reports that were roundly ridiculed by Democrat sock puppets. Remember the Dems insisting that it was laughable that the Russians could be in possession of all those emails residing in the Clinton crapper?
    But now that we know that WikiLeaks possibly has access to everything that was on that illegal server and is releasing it to the public in their digital version of death by a thousand cuts, what a difference has occurred in the Democrat position. Suddenly we are being told by all those same Democrat sock puppets who denied so vehemently that the Russians could conceivably be in possession of Hillary’s emails, that we can’t possibly believe the content of those emails being released by WikiLeaks because they have had their contents altered by the Russians to reflect badly on Clinton because Vladimir Putin is Donald Trump’s BFF and is interfering in the American election process on his behalf.

    And some of you want to put these disgustingly inconsistent, incompetent and insidious political thugs in charge of our country? There’s a term for folks like you, too.

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • Brazile merely the tipster…Clinton the true cheater in debate

    Donna Brazile is all over the news right now and the villain of the day on most conservative websites for her role in obtaining presidential debate questions in advance and then providing them to the Clinton campaign ahead of the actual televised event. There is much outrage over her clearly dishonest and unethical behavior, with her laughable denial captured on FOX News, looking full face into the camera and lying as only a Democrat pol can do when confronted with the hard evidence. Even the leftist media is seeking a bit of separation from this obvious cheater, as CNN has fired her as an on-air contributor.

    But all this outrage is misdirected; Brazile merely provided the heads-up, very detailed for sure, as she not only gave the Clinton campaign the word-for-word question about a very emotional public issue, contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan, but she also provided a physical description of the female questioner so there could be no mistaking when and where the stolen response needed to be used. Brazile even noted that the questioner had a rash from her public water contamination. As you could expect, armed with all that forbidden information, Clinton managed to be right on top of this emotional public issue during the debate, demonstrating how she’s a thoroughly prepared leader for America, right?

    Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! What this now exposed situation makes abundantly clear is that this contemptible woman, her loathsome campaign staff and the despicable Democrat party leadership, when offered the chance to cheat, even with tens of millions of Americans watching, had no reluctance to do so. Hillary Clinton went out there on that debate stage forearmed with at least one answer that we know of (and who knows how many others) looked straight into those cameras just like dishonest Donna Brazile and cheated before the entire world. And this is the person the Democrat party offers to America to be entrusted with our futures and our nation with all our national wealth?

    Crooked Hillary, indeed…and she infects all those around her.

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • Senate Poll for TAH readers

    About a week out, so let’s do a poll and see who can peg it perfectly. Who will win:

     

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  • Michael McNaught, Canadian fraud

    Michael McNaught, Canadian fraud

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    One of our Canadian friends send us their work on this fellow, Michael McNaught, who should have stuck to breeding Labradoodles than stick his toe into stolen valor waters.

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    He claims that he served in the Canadian Army, the US Army and the French Foreign Legion. He introduced himself to the group “Courageous Companions” on Facebook which has since scrubbed their pages of his image after posting this introduction;

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    I guess his undoing was the fact that he claimed the fourth award of the Combat Infantry Badge – there is no such thing – it exists but no one has ever been awarded that particular appurtenance.

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    He doesn’t exist in US military records, nor does he exist in the Canadian Governor General’s on-line list of recipients of the Medal of Bravery;

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  • Politico; Clinton to nominate Biden for Secretary of State

    Politico; Clinton to nominate Biden for Secretary of State

    Biden gets fresh

    One of the big reasons to pray for January 20th to get here was that we would finally be rid of Joe Biden, but Politico says that he’s at the top of the list for Clinton’s cabinet as the Secretary of State;

    Neither Clinton, nor her aides have yet told Biden. According to the source, they’re strategizing about how to make the approach to the vice president, who almost ran against her in the Democratic primaries but has since been campaigning for her at a breakneck pace all over the country in these final months.

    “He’d be great, and they are spending a lot of time figuring out the best way to try to persuade him to do it if she wins,” said the source familiar with the transition planning.

    Aside from the fact that Joe Biden has been wrong on every foreign policy issue for the last forty years, he’s been an embarrassment to the country every time he opens his mouth. If you still haven’t found a reason to vote against Clinton, this should fill the bill for you.

  • Jury acquits Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupiers

    AW1Ed sends us a link to the Seattle Times which reports that the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge militia members have been acquitted by a jury in Oregon for their antics earlier this year;

    The jury found brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five others not guilty of conspiring to impede federal workers from doing their jobs during the 41-day armed takeover that ended Feb. 11 at the refuge, some 300 miles southeast of Portland.

    “This is off-the-charts unbelievable,” said Matthew Schindler, an attorney for defendant Kenneth Medenbach. “I had been telling my client you can count on being convicted. You don’t walk into a federal court and win a case like this. It just doesn’t happen.”

    I’m not that surprised, actually. It was a jury trial after all, and the Land Management Bureau doesn’t have many supporters in the West.

    The 12 jurors, many drawn from outside Portland, found Ammon Bundy, Shawna Cox, David Lee Fry, Jeff Wayne Banta, Kenneth Medenbach and Neil Wampler not guilty on all counts. They found Ryan Bundy not guilty of conspiracy and possession of firearms but could not reach a verdict on a theft charge.

    For the U.S. Justice Department, this was a major prosecution in the aftermath of an occupation that sent shock waves reverberating across the West.

    I haven’t been paying attention to the trial, but folks who have tell me that it was a stolen valor bonanza. That doesn’t surprise me either. Any event that encourages the wearing of camouflage has that effect on people.

  • Liberal In-sign-ity

    Washington Post just posted the confessional account of an über lib, vaginalized voter who used the very favorable platform of that Trump-detesting cage-liner to fess up to her criminal behavior in stealing Trump yard signs in her very tony, upper middle class, home town of Falmouth, coastal Maine. As she tells it, she and her liberal Democrat fem-pals just couldn’t stand to see all those Trump signs on display so they hopped in her hatchback and went about their mission of ripping them up and hauling them away. Until, that is, they got stopped by one of Falmouth’s finest who correctly informed them that they were engaged in criminal activities, a not unusual occurrence for Democrats during election season. After relieving the political plunderers of their burning burden of “about 40” Trump signs, the officer apparently wrote out a ticket, because the confessor and her cohorts received a court summons next day.

    Of course she’s now sorry for her lapse into liberal lawlessness, but like most lefties where nothing is really ever their fault, she sings a familiar refrain: Bush made her do it—Billy Bush that is, he of the infamous “Pussy” tape. Yep, it was that horrible tape that re-energized her mental anguish over some wealthy board member who had hit on her years before and now demanded her vengeance via vaginal vigilantism. Would that admission that her motivation was sexually inspired grant me the license to say it was her bush’s fault? In any event, the lady says she’s now contrite but as some cynical commenter noted she’s a writer and is probably trying to use the Donald’s candidacy as her springboard to national recognition. Amazing isn’t it how many of these women attacking Trump are in the process of opening businesses or expanding their careers? Guy’s not even elected yet and he’s already creating jobs at a faster clip than Obama after eight years of Democrat policies.

    What is perhaps the funniest revelation of this mea culpa is one which I’m sure neither the author nor the Washington Post intended but included nonetheless:

    The escapade was not premeditated: We simply jumped into my Jetta wagon, drove down to the strip and got to work. In all, it took less than 20 minutes. We grabbed about 40 signs and threw them in the hatchback. I hadn’t really thought about what I would do with the signs; I just wanted them gone. At the time, we believed we were doing the right thing. There were so many Trump signs up and down our main drag — it was destroying all sense of equilibrium in our community. (emphasis mine)

    And therein, folks, lies the tale.

    Crossposted at American Thinker