Afterburner (In The Mirror)

 

The economic collapse that Bill Whittle predicted back in 2013 has not arrived. But, using harsh rhetoric for him, he also specifically mentioned Obama's "criminals in Washington" with their "mysterious bank accounts," suggesting today's headlines with the Bidens, a decade later. 

If he had hinted Obama was gay, too, I'd be really impressed,...

 

According to the NYT "Many G.O.P. Governors Avoid Stating That Biden Won"

That IS what they said. I can't imagine what they're talking about. 

Bill Whittle Tries The Okie Doke Again (Claiming To Tell Real History While Not Explaining Racists On His Side)

If Bill Whittle will lie - as he says he's telling the truth - then what does that say about the party he's fronting for? In order for this hackneyed tale he's spinning to make sense, he's got to at least explain Lee Atwater, and why Cliven Bundy and Dylan Roof and whatnot are drawn to the Republicans - and why the party says so many things most blacks find repulsive. He's got to explain today's latest Jim Crow scheme to keep the Confederate flag, why even black Republicans (like David Clarke, Wisconsin's famous Sheriff, or now, Bill Cosby after the "pound cake" speech conservatives loved so much) sound like evil lunatics to the rest of us, and why they only constitute about 5% of the black population, when blacks already know them as family and not just political opponents. 

No, this kind of sorry-assed con job requires a lot more planning - and much better execution - than Ol' Bill is showing here, and that's a pity:

As I've often said - even I could make a case for the Right - but unfortunately, just like the Confederacy itself, the racists just haven't ever seemed too interested in saving themselves, politically or otherwise,...

How Conservatives Try Dodging The Ideology's Racism

To know, know, know them, is to hate, hate, hate them - and I do

They hide behind political partisanship, as though we don't know it was conservatives all along:

"Frankly, it makes no sense to me why Republicans should be defending a symbol of Democrat Party racism, hatred and treason."

Of course this loser hangs on Althouse (going by the handle "Real American") and so, like many over there, is a fine example of someone trying to sound honest and sane, who can only be revealed to be anything but. Check out Bill Whittle trying the same gambit - which once worked on me:

 I will never forgive him - or the rest of the Right - for the deception,...

When Truths Collide (Now We're Getting Somewhere)

 I keep telling you, all I have to do is wait - watch the video, and then check out this Mia Farrow quote:

"A lot of ugliness is going to be aimed at me. But this is not about me, it's about her truth." 

BINGO!!!!

"Her truth" is, both, an identifier (to outsiders) and a plea for help from other "spiritual but not religious" cult types. A spiritual dog whistle, if you will. The rest of us aren't supposed to be able to hear it, because we're not supposed to know there's a cult. 

 Or that Woody Allen's starting to look, a lot, like another man who's been stung by the New-know-what,…

 

Never Forget Why We Don't Like Communists: They Lie

“It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.”

- Vladimir Putin

Uh, yeah, right. 

Boy howdy,...

That Whole Macho Thing Is So Over-Rated Now-A-Days

Also, the Lone Wolf thing, just nonsense,...

Is It Too Late To Suggest Cons Get Sober On Politics?

 

What's wrong with this discussion? Something's missing. Something - to his credit - I don't see Obama forgetting:

   

It's interesting that, because Obama is a domestic failure, he's also seen as a klutz in Middle East policy. The truth is, that's been one area where he's brilliantly following the U.S.' long-term strategy, to-the-letter. I don't know what Bush told him, or the Pentagon, or the C.I.A., but - whatever it was - he listened. 

It's a reason liberals distrust him - and their distrust is a reason conservatives smell political opportunity where they shouldn't. Even with all our bickering, we shouldn't have to wait until something goes wrong, to rally together around a good idea. There should be times when the gamesmanship stops.

Risking our nation's interests, toying with a man, gains us nothing,...

 

I'm Eagle Eye'd

 

I rented this movie last night, above, thinking it was a fiction. But, instead, it was a "documentary" - and a brochure for Democracy Now! Once I knew I'd been tricked - and was not going to get my night of thought-provoking entertainment - I was stuck on-guard for two hours, absorbing a sad but too-manipulative bit of agitprop for two young "activists" who, to my eyes, discovered the perils of oikaphobia in wartime.

   

They almost had me there for a little while (Hey, I'm a sensitive guy) but the ending made it clear I needn't worry because - right after you see one of these losers get out of prison for his former protest activities - there he is, right back on the picket line, allowing himself to be used again for leftist propaganda purposes. Including this movie's leftist propaganda purpose. 

I turned off the TV, shook my head, and thought of only one word:

 

"Chowderheads,..."

 

The Right: Yeah, We Need Blacks, But Not Just Anybody

O.K., check this out: 

After I watched that Bill Whittle piece with a liberal white Hip-Hop-loving friend, and noticed my friend showing real interest in how he'd been had, I punched up a video by Zo (of Pajamas Media) commenting on Lil Wayne, because I know my friend and A) he'd be interested in a conservative critique of Lil Wayne by a black guy other than me, and B) he's the type who can take only so much from Bill Whittle. 

It's a bonding moment, for my friend and I, over Zo's clip:

   

Zo does his number on Lil Wayne stomping the flag and my friend's getting a little excited. He's starting to get it, kind of. And now Zo says he's got a band called 20 Lb. Sledge? You know we've gotta check that out!

   

But stop - that's not 20 Lb. Sledge above, it's Test Dept.. See, here's the thing: 

Bill Whittle has already shown he doesn't understand Rap Music by describing it as "sexual aggression typical of America today" (and Led Zeppelin wasn't? The Beatles weren't?) and Zo's not just saying he's got a band, but a "Right-Wing Christian" outfit that, specifically, doesn't exemplify women.

My friend's making me nervous. He's a liberal but, when it comes to our culture, he's not stupid.

O.K., here's Zo's group, 20 Lb. Sledge:

   

So what does this video open with? Checking out a white woman's bikini'd butt as she swims in a pool. That's not exemplifying women? And, even worse, the music is kill yourself awful. No, it's beyond awful - it's atrocious - because a let-down of this magnitude clearly deserves more letters.

Zo's now a talentless hypocrite and my friend is laughing at his Christian ass. And at me, a little bit:

It's Mitt Romney all over again - "Do you really want to stand with that guy?" he asks.

I pull up more 20 Lb. Sledge (as my friend's now calling them "20 Lb. Sludge") just to be sure:

   

Oh Boy, we're sure,...

Bill Whittle Sees The Same Trayvon Martin Case I Did

If Ever There Was A Time To Ask "Who Watches The Watchmen?" I Think That Moment Has Finally Arrived

 

 And we can hear you:

Leave it to good ol' Pajamas Media to ask the important question Can a Conservative Be An Atheist? and not ask a conservative atheist, but a religious guy who thinks conservatism is "spiritual". 

 Two points this atheist conservative will make: 

 1) If conservatism is "spiritual", then please stop trying to impress me with the difference between it and liberalism because there is none - you're both a bunch of loonies I can't vote for. 

 2) This explains Mitt Romney's weirdo candidacy - and loss - better than anything I've heard so far. 

 And have you noticed how answers to important questions have to be gleaned from what the idiots say - on other topics? They were never this straight-forward when the burning post-election issue was "Why did Mitt Romney become our candidate?" 

Nobody ever said "Because there's essentially a 'spiritual' component to conservatism that makes us drift to scumbags selling homeopathy who think they'll rule other planets after death." 

This has to come out in a dialogue - supposedly about atheism - by two people who aren't atheists. (They didn't even have the integrity to invite a conservative atheist to join them, so how reliable are their opinions?) 

Whatev. It's all O.K., I guess, being PJ Media: 

 I figured out they were crazy, on my own, a long time ago,...

 

There's A Reason No Black Guys Ever Joined Fight Club

Wow - losing an election appears to have destroyed Bill Whittle. Six months in and he doesn't just look older, he's worn out, his voice is gone, and those stinging bon mots he's famous for delivering don't seem to "pop" like they used to, sounding as tired as Ol' Bill now looks. What a toll: 

He's Barack Obama's white twin. 

I don't know what killed Andrew Breitbart, but it wasn't this. 

And do you know why it's happening? 

I do - and I'll tell you: 

   

 Because - unlike Andrew's direct aim, outlook, and approach - every word Bill Whittle & Co. says is still pointed in the wrong direction. 

 

Here's Glenn Reynolds doing it - gloriously. 

He just doesn't see himself. How truthfully ugly and wrong he is. 

And no one can tell him anything. 

   

 If there's a huge difference with Obama there (or Woody Allen saying, "Yeah, I'm a hypocrite - but for the Left!") someone will have to explain. 

   

 I don't think (even as smart as he is) Bill Whittle grasps it, but - as long as we ignore the Right's role in what's transpired - he's only beating himself up. 

He never touches the president - because he never even touches me. 

Every punch that Bill Whittle throws ends up landing on his own chin, having first glanced off the delusion he's still the right man to throw them. Like the Right's shown there's some huge difference between it and Obama, when they - and their respective parties - have really only proven themselves only to be masters at ignoring the obvious in equal measure. 

   

 Like the fact we new others are looking at them. 

Hi, guys. "Captain Obvious" here, still not buying your bullshit. 

And if you don't engage you'll never know why.

   

 The fact that none of them acknowledge that after a devastating loss - any more than the mainstream media wants to admit they exist - is their downfall. 

The Right talked me out of voting - not Obama - remember?

That's THE RIGHT'S loss. 

   

 I ain't got nothing to lose anymore, thanks to various obsessions they share with the other side. (I'm the Titanic's bandleader now, tapping my baton on the music stand, preparing a Requiem For Romney to be played as we follow him down - carry on.) Now that I think about it, maybe Bill can ask Mitt and Ann Romney about some homeopathic treatments or something, to help the party's health along. 

I hear they're deep into that.

   

 And decline is a choice. Seriously, at this point, I have absolutely no idea why Obama doesn't give Whittle a call to lend a hand, since Bill's proven himself so good at holding himself down - and the Right - using this form of self-restraint and/or immolation. However you describe it, it's Self-Help of the worst kind, and it's eating poor Bill alive: 

   

 But - as I always say - that's how the NewAge "works".....

 

Somebody Sing "Danny Boy" (So Tears Are Warranted)

I worry about Bill Whittle sometimes, especially since the last election. He seems to be graying faster, and becoming slightly unhinged, which ain't good for one of the best communicators the Right has. (All these guys seem lamer than usual, now that Brietbart's gone,...) 

This "Virtual President" gig - while a joke on Obama to most - strikes me, instead, as a wake for the Right's own failure in November. No, Bill ain't being as clever as he thinks, but it's just enough for the rubes. Listen to them roar. Laughter and back-slapping everywhere. Whatever: 

They can hoist their drinks to cheers all night, but there's still a dead body sitting in the middle of the room - and it's an elephant they killed. 

 BTW - "Everybody is an immigrant"? Including me? Where did I immigrate from? Los Angeles? 

 If so, please - tell me what country I'm in now - because I don't seem to recognize it,...

 

They're All In A Yoga Pose Wondering What Went Wrong

'Bobby Jindal wanted very, very much to be Vice President. He appeared publicly with Governor Romney after the 47 per cent comments, which the governor himself said were totally wrong. 

Newt Gingrich made it clear to us he wanted to be part of a Romney administration. 

Both these guys - and others - were the governor's best friend when it seemed he was on the brink of becoming our 45th President. Now they're calling him a bum. Real profiles in courage.' -- An anonymous adviser to Mitt Romney, on the ethical underpinnings of the Republican establishment, but now naming names. 

This is a righteous beef, and the Romney camp has every right to say it - though the folks who tried to bamboozle us, crying their candidate is being used, is still kinda weak:

 Mitt Romney's duplicitous campaign resulted in duplicity - duh - good work, Igor. 

I almost want to add "Does it hurt?" but that's not what this is about - just as it's not about Bobby Jindal or Newt Gingrich. I am a Republican, and this is about the real world vs. the one many wanted to see.

You simply can't win in one without acknowledging the other.

To me, this has always been about considering what may be a "transcendental" bit o' understanding - of how beliefs clutter the landscape - to lead us not just astray, but into disarray. I expect few will listen.

So - mapping out their current trajectory of accomplishments - on the next episode of Political Wilderness - A Cavalcade Of Conventional Thinkers:

Our leadership's stuck on the outskirts of nowhere, and getting no closer to civilization, while considering massage therapy to undo all their much-too-tightly-wound knots,...

My Dear Mr. Trumble,...

My Dear Mr. Trumble,

First, thanks for the praise. It means a lot at a time like this.

 

Second, don't make me go Bluto - those trying to do so right now just look foolish.

Bill Whittle may be defeated. While not as guilty as others, he, too, was battling the fear of "vaginas being outsourced to China." A total waste of time if you ask me, because - no matter which side you were on - reality never dictated or indicated it was a fight that matters.

It was all noise. Maybe made manifest, but still noise.

Much of what conservatives are instructed to consider, framed as our betters want us to see/hear it, is of no consequence.. Liberals do it, too. Save the planet.

What's important isn't Bill Whittle's or any other right-winger's anger, as a consequence of their own misplaced judgement, but The Republican Party changing. The same holds for newspapers - they must alter their editorial positions or die. But they don't HAVE to die.

 

 So it's not "game, set, match." Our country's only 300 years old - rounded off. But, once again, it's (still) time to do that one thing modern Americans hate doing so much, and grow up. (David Petraeus, and assorted sluts, are you listening?) I'd suggest addressing the idiotic herd mentality the West has acquired, and it's various hysterias, and doing so directly. That would be a refreshing escape from the norm. Lot's of "bad stuff" would topple from it, carrying lots more with it - and it sure beats lying to each other, and ourselves, while expecting anyone else to go along with pretending Mitt Romney's normal.

Afterburner would be a great place to start.

But no, instead Bill Whittle - the man who did a piece on liberal KPFA and joked about their segments on astrology and numerology - he's defeated because I couldn't vote for a Mormon? Forget my principles - I didn't get the manual - but, assuming this conversation is conservative Republican to conservative Republican, exactly how much cognitive dissonance am I being asked to grapple with for membership? I mean - if it's going to stay like this - then, yeah:

I can get that from the other guys.

And what does it tell you, that I'm a Republican, but even I don't buy what "my guys" are selling? (I think the idea of Romney - a supplement peddler - being partially taken down by fraud is poetic,…) I just watched "my side" whore themselves out to the highest bidder - openly stating they were doing it specifically because he had money in this harsh economy - and thinking saying they had a good reason would be enough to, both, end all judgements and follow their example.

Not a chance.

It's time for the bullshit to stop, starting with pretending the narratives being advanced are the only ones available. Andrew Breitbart wouldn't stand for it and proved, every day of his life, it simply wasn't true. Just because Glenn Reynolds, Hot Air, or whoever else trades on his name, says something is news doesn't make it so. Nor is the situation as they say, now, merely because they see it that way.

They can't even figure out - much less accept - why they lost, which speaks volumes,…