Bill Maher Has Always Been A Portrait In Political Cowardice

 

If you saw this happen in the 1990s,...

...2023 comes as no surprise.

Anybody Can See The Right Defeating Itself By The Day

With this crew, I don't even have to work at this anymore, it's so obvious

"I do not love Dana Loesch. She and Hot Air's Mary Katherine Ham are what I think is wrong with the Right right now."

- The Crack Emcee, February 4, 2014

The craziest ones are easy to spot

"As you notice, The Blaze admits that the [Memories Pizza GoFundMe] page was set up by Lawrence Jones, a contributor to their TV program anchored by Dana Loesch,... 

...This isn’t an organic campaign to help out a business that decided to become a political martyr; it’s a publicity stunt by The Blaze,...The GoFundMe page also begs of supporters, 'After you donate please go “like” and combat the leftist hatred expressed on Dana’s page.'"

- Manny Schewitz, April 3, 2015

Michael Brown Game Changer: "Irrelevant" (John Oliver)

Sometimes it takes an outsider to see what we can't

Just as TMR said yesterday, Last Week Tonight's John Oliver weighed in, also declaring the Ferguson Police Dept.'s "game changer" of a convenience store video, showing Michael Brown stealing cigars, an attempt to "distract everyone" from the issues THEY face. They're delusional. A fact that was obvious to anyone not trying to maintain white supremacy. White Americans were desperately grasping at straws, and calling it a win, hoping the power of their advocacy - alone - could still work the old magic. It is not to be.

White supremacy's dying.

White Americans - unlike blacks and the English - have limited memory and short attention spans.

But, what's great to TMR, is Oliver's pointing out "there is no practical reason" for some of the horrible and deadly ideas, and behaviors, that have become common practice for white Americans - in places where blacks can even hardly be found. White conservatives loudly complain of waste while supporting blowing billions, here at home, that serves no purpose but to terrorize us. 

They're also violently against reparations to blacks for having done so. 

How TMR sees Mary Katharine Ham

And then they ask for our support.

How TMR sees Megyn "Jesus Was White" Kelly

That's INSANE. 

Making us compete with dogs and pigs, was one way whites fed blacks, during slavery

Oh, and Oliver also shows the CNN footage (that TMR also linked to) of a white Ferguson police officer trying to instigate a fight, by calling blacks "animals."

TMR could've put a Nazi photo here, but didn't, so "compassionate conservatism."

That's after Oliver says the footage shows the root of America's problem.

White Supremacy fights on

And THAT, as the English say, was about as spot-the-fuck-on as he could get,....

I Could Be Correct 100% Of The Time And The Right Will Still Never See Me (As More Than Another Crazy Nigger)

 Ann Althouse posted this clip, of Darrell Issa's outrageous behavior a couple of days ago, to which I said:

  "Ignoring those all-important 'optics' - he did nothing wrong - except come off looking like a dick,…How many of those do you think the Right's got to lose before they wise up - or can they?"

To his credit, after a bit of noise from the Left, Issa did "wise up", recognized what I did, and apologized:

  “Mr. Cummings is a member of Congress who works very hard for his constituents,…As chairman, I should have been much more sensitive to the mood of what was going on, and I take responsibility."

But, in the meantime - while Issa, himself, was on FOX News publicly dissing Cummings behind his back - here's the kind of wild-eyed ravings I got, from Issa's supporters, in defense of his idiotic behavior:

  “Crack Emcee:



Your race card is maxed out. Your racism charges have been declined. You'll have to pay cash like everyone else."

"Be my Token Black Friend, Crack!



Please. Pretty please. Pretty please. I'll do anything if you let me kiss your butt crack.



What a hilarious act.



The guy is probably white and a graduate student in some inane 'studies' course."

I was right about Romney, I was right about Ted Cruz's crusade, etc.:

Now - faced with those types of attitudes from the top to the bottom - is it any wonder how (no matter what efforts I make to drag this party into the 21st Century) I'm an outcast, the likes of Glenn Reynolds and Mary Katherine Ham are heroes, and the Right is not only losing every major battle it's engaged in but even the skirmishes?

 

Bringing Republicans To Total Defeat (A Career Booster)

I sincerely don't think the Right understands how politics work:

At this point, I certainly don't.

I thought winning elections was the point,...

Conservatism's A Slave (Whipped With A Dana Loesch)

I may love the Evil Blogger Lady (both of 'em) and EBL may love Dana Loesch, but I do not love Dana Loesch. She and Hot Air's Mary Katherine Ham are what I think is wrong with the Right right now.

Loesch is one of those white affirmative-action conservatives, popular only for her looks and political orientation, not for ever uttering an original thought or attaining actual political accomplishments. 

Listen to her answer, above, when The View asked her why she went from liberal to conservative. She became a mother. Great, that makes total sense. So what about being a mother caused you to switch?

"Blah, blah, blah, Big Government". 

 Really?

As a conservative, I just put my head in my hands, because I know that we can do better.

What happened to something like "I switched because I realized that was MY child - not the village's - and it was up to responsible adults, to create a really good village, for all children to live freely in"?

It may not be the best answer, but it's off the top of my head like her's was, and probably would've gotten an applause line if directed at Whoopie or Wah-Wah right.

Instead, we get conservative boilerplate - in a context that makes no sense to blacks - and which anyone can see through.

The cow thought it was masterful and said "This is going to make some heads explode... (and that is a good thing)"

Well, there you go, Madam:

Ker-plooey!

 

They'll Be Important Whenever They Start Acting Like It

I had a funny moment with a friend a few days ago, when he was trying to describe CPAC and I pretended not to know what he was mentally grasping for. I kind of feel like doing it again, now, after reading Allahpundit's musings on CPAC and the last election:

Obama won in 2008 because the public was exhausted with Bush and he represented something wholly fresh and new. He synthesized a particular political and cultural moment uniquely in my memory of presidential campaigns. (I don’t remember Reagan ’80.) A more conservative, or merely more capable, candidate than McCain might have won a few more electoral votes but there’s no reason realistically to think he would have been granted a four-year extension of Republican rule given Dubya’s rock-bottom approval ratings.  

...The better question here is why Republican primary voters keep nominating candidates like McCain and Romney who are so disdained by the base. Forget whether general election voters would vote for a conservative Republican over Obama if they had the chance. GOP primary voters do have a chance every four years to vote for a conservative. They haven’t done it for two election cycles now. Why not? I’m asking earnestly. I have no answer.

 I'm not going to go into a long thing here, except to say: 

1) As much as I admire anyone willing to admit their ignorance, if Allahpundit doesn't understand the last election - by now - why does he have a job as an analyst? With his fellow editor at Hot Air, Mary Katharine Ham, being a prime example, I see a big part of the Right's problem as having waaay too many people, who know too little, in too many positions of conservative influence. Do they ever look in the mirror (the accurately-named "Ham" comes to mind again) for anything other than to admire themselves? (My one visit to a popular conservative Twitter feed says "no" emphatically,...) 

The truth is, they're self-selected conservative gatekeepers when America needs new blood - and from people who don't look or act like they aspire the country to, or just stepped off the set of, Leave It To Beaver.

 

 2) The reluctance to admit stupidity - to being foolishly "out of touch" - on the part of, both, GOP primary voters and those who feed them (people like Allahpundit and, of course, Instapundit and PJMedia contributor Glenn Reynolds) is especially galling. As I remind Ann Althouse about her political coverage, they've all become experts at following nonsensical minutiae - participating in a media circus as contrived as Ringling Bros. - thinking a person like me will A) either be amused by how clever they imagine themselves to be, munching on red meat, or B) simply can't recognize them as bullshit artists when it comes to any desire to discuss what's important. And they not only destroy their own credibility but that of the entire process by doing so. (I'll remind you, during the last election, I stopped participating on Ann's blog AND was forced to back away from voting for the first time in my life.) It's not supposed to happen that way.

We should never be led politically astray, or support anyone who will do that to us, merely because we're supposedly on the same side and/or it amuses them (or you) to have someone do so.
Fuck that:

They know nothing and they've shown it.

   

I know why we lost - and they deserve no reward for it.

A Little Advice From The Worst Republican In The World

I'm telling you, it's really become a thing now - look at this quote:

"That might be cynical and reckless, but it’s reality."

Yes indeed, it is reality. It's back. Existence, parsed with Occum's Razor, until nothing but bone.

Meanwhile, leading with the words "Look, I don’t even know anymore," Hot Air's Mary Katharine Ham reports the "Nation that re-elected Obama wants more spending cuts than tax hikes, still hates Obamacare."

 To which I reply, Boy, they must've really hated Romney, huh?

Of course, Ham doesn't come to that conclusion (the sub-head to her column is "Schizo-nation" - as though it is we who "don’t even know anymore") and leaves her piece trying to scrape together some dignity with this:

Another redemptive data point for those who say nominating the one guy who couldn’t effectively argue against ObamaCare was a mistake. For the record, I agreed with that assessment, but also was unconvinced others didn’t have equal liabilities. 

As the conventional wisdom has it, we are a nation divided— perhaps into multiple personalities.

Well, considering she clearly doesn't know (or want to know) what she doesn't know, I'd say "multiple personalities" might explain Ham, anyway - especially when coupled with conventional wisdom.

Oh, and about those "others" with "equal liabilities," our poor Sarah Palin has blown it - passed on her moment - and is now also losing her footing as the sands shift beneath her feet. My advice:

Kick back, Sarah.

You backed Romney. 

It won't undue goodwill, but it's enough to put you (temporarily?) on the other side of the ledger.

The Good Ol' Boys had nothing for you - let them go down, without you, too,…

 

I Dreamed I Was In A Hollywood Movie - And I Was The Star Of The Movie (An Old School TMR Post - Finally!)

Man, have I missed being here! I've been real busy lately, but let's get going:

So I was watching One Million Years B.C. (atheists can get desperate searching for non-religious entertainment, though 1MBC is sympathetic to the religious outlook, since it puts people and dinosaurs together) anyway, I'm watching this crap and it dawns on me what life today is missing:

It's own Ray Harryhausen!

See, that whole discovering the God Particle/probe at the end of the solar system/niggas are the center of everything/we understand so much scientific discovery-stuff just doesn't do it for the We're here/We're there/We're EVERYWHERE Stamp-Around-And-Declare-Life-Is-So-BO-RING types.

They need that animating force!

Sit down and think about this:

What is Scientology without Tom Cruise? What are Christians without Jesus' miracles? What is Mitt Romney without Joseph Smith's magic plates? What is NewAge without miraculous "healers"?

Come on.

You know what happens:

And that's the end of the movie, right?

It's all over.

Consider what the exposure of homeopathy-as-water is doing to the NewAge movement's leaders:

And that SUCKS!

Conservative atheists are even worse.

Yes, conservative atheists are even worse - because we even bust balls on conservatives.

Hell, you don't even have to be a conservative atheist.

Being a simple realist can cause all sorts of havoc.

You did see what John Boehner got, recently, by speaking the truth about Mitt Romney, didn't you?

Here's Hot Air's reaction:

Even if that’s what you really believe, (and it’s not like I’m calling you crazy here) surely by this time you’ve learned enough that you could put a teeny weeny smidgen of spin on it, eh? And the fact is that people always want to vote for someone or something whenever possible. 

Oh, and there’s nothing sure to rally the base like saying that nobody would really be interested in voting for Mitt unless they were his personal friends or family. And… Mormons? Did you really have to toss that in there?

Translation:

 JOHN - FUCK THE TRUTH - LIE TO EVERYBODY!

PLEASE, LIE LIKE WE'RE LIBERALS, BUT LIE!

YOU KNOW HOW IT'S DONE!

THIS IS POLITICS, JOHN - "SURELY BY THIS TIME YOU'VE LEARNED ENOUGH THAT YOU" LIE WITH EVERY BREATH - YOU MUST HAVE LOST YOUR MIND OR SOMETHING!

WE COULD LOSE THIS THING - SO "EVEN IF THAT'S WHAT YOU REALLY BELIEVE" - LIE!

YOU KNOW - LIKE THIS:

Dear, TMR readers, 

I'm voting for Obama, and praying to my lord, Jesus Christ - who lives on the planet Kolab with the mother and father God - and I'm doing it all by using magic crystals I got from my new yoga teacher, who is a man, and we're having outrageously terrific sex which I thought you'd also like to know.

I'd be Ray Harryhausen - and THAT's the ticket to political acceptance in 2012, people!

BTW - Congrats to Hot Air on the hiring of the Ham! (I'm sure the negotiations were grueling!) Michelle's hiring of The Ham as an editor should raise the bar of your reporting or, at least, give you someone (in-house) who will LIE to you with A BIG OL' SMILE on a day-by-day basis, riiiight?

Whatev - getting back on track - what I'm saying is, by merely existing, realists are like that bomb that destroys everything but the buildings.

Except we leave the people and rip apart their dreams and hopes and wishes.

Mind you, not ALL of their dreams and hopes and wishes, but just the silly ones the goofballs keep trying to force into the rest of our lives, instead of leaving them where they belong:

In the minds of those whose brains are maintained by a permanent state of sleep.

Don't be shy - you know who you are,….