Democrats: Take Us To Your Leader That's Handing Out The Marching Orders

"Trump Is ‘Weird,’ Vance Is ‘Creepy.’ Finally, the Democrats Start Name-Calling." 

 - Jessica Bennett, The New York Times, July 2024 

 The Democrats don't get it: if Donald Trump calls someone a name, that's just roasting them. He's one guy. But - when all the Democrats start saying the same thing at the same time - that makes living in America like finding yourself at a really bad party, that all of a sudden starts turning into a sinister and dangerous cult, just because you wanted to check the headlines. 

You don't hear every NPC conservative screaming 'fake news' just because Trump says it. 

 In order to be trustworthy, the Democrat's cultists have to show they can think for themselves.

 

Dr. Oz, Please, Keep Me Out Of The Workplace (I'm Just Not Religious Enough)

When people are weird at work, but can't see they're being weird, how do you reason with them? I've been dealing with this question, offline and on, for years:

What’s noteworthy here isn’t that everything said in the meeting is negative...but that, from the top down, the entire company takes it for granted its employees are in mourning over the results of the election. The subtext of all of this is clearly that the wrong person won and everyone is right to be anxious and upset. Google turns out to be exactly the narrow, progressive club that former engineer James Damore said they were last year.

It’s a bit difficult to see how a company which is such a partisan monoculture could possibly take care not to abuse its power to step on the people (about half of the country) who it thinks are wrong and possibly even dangerous. The tone of this meeting is that of mourning but the underlying stance is adversarial. Is it really possible this doesn’t have any real-world outcomes in Google’s work?

You can't get any peace. You're more likely to find Pat Robertson and a Christian prophetess are both making demands of the same hurricane, in a single week, than that. Which is a pretty remarkable occurrence for a pretty remarkable power. 

But not as remarkable as celebrities thinking they get credibility back by talking to disgraced physicians. I don't know how that supposedly works. It doesn't add up. None of this stuff adds up now, except for the part where you look down and think:

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Glenn H. Reynolds/L. Ron Hubbard: Finding Followers

Gullibility isn't partisan - or a problem

In 2011, I said "Instapundit and Dr. Helen Can't Spot Quackery," and - when it comes to flim-flam - that's still as true as ever. Listen to him:

"The Fitbit Flex, a motion-sensing wristband that syncs with a smartphone app to track diet, activity, etc. My sister-in-law,...lost 24 pounds in a couple of months using one,..."

Cult leaders take you - using anything - so you'll take others

His sister-in-law, eh? Not according to Alan Levinovitz, a religion professor at James Madison University and author of "The Gluten Lie":

"What we’re doing with these trackers and these obsessive diets is giving ourselves an increasingly quantifiable way of saying that we are better than the other people. These things don’t work. They’re a marketing gimmick. They aren’t going to help you lose weight. It’s another ritual,...this takes us back to religion."

His political leadership's never looked so good, huh? Spread the word!

Oooh, so close! Oh well, at least Glenn-Boy's never stopped trying to act superior to others (while helping the Right lose two-going-on-three presidential elections) which takes me back to my original criticism of good ol' Instapundit, from waaay back when we first met online:

He's running his racist operation like a crazy Tennessee cult leader,...

Ta-Nehisi Coates And TMR Are Now On The Same Page

"Hope is not feel-goodism built on the belief in unicorns.”

My Right-Wing & Your Right-Wing (Do Not Fly Together)

Let's see - TMR has been right about Mitt Romney, right about supplements, right about racism, right about Dr. Oz, and so much more - and now, it looks like meditation can be added to the list:

"There are parts of me that just want meditation to be all good,...but then I get another phone call and meet someone who's in distress, and I see the devastation in their eyes, and I can't deny that this is happening. As much as I want to investigate and promote contemplative practices and contribute to the well-being of humanity through that, I feel a deeper commitment to what's actually true."

So TMR's right and that feels great, but it takes a while so - despite being right about everything - people are still idiots:

And TMR's right about that, too,…

 

The Beast Says TMR's The Only Rational Non-Hypocrite

I just checked, and I've done 47 posts on Whole Foods. 

I'm pretty sure every one of them has someone labeling me a whacko, of one kind or another, but I've insisted on standing my ground - and there's a reason why. 

I've been willing to endure the public humiliation, and some pretty tense moments with friends, because - in spite of the grocery chain's popularity - I knew I've been right. I was just waiting for someone else to say it with me, and The Daily Beast now has:

   Whole Foods: America’s Temple of Pseudoscience

Americans get riled up about creationists and climate change deniers, but lap up the quasi-religious snake oil at Whole Foods. It’s all pseudoscience—so why are some kinds of pseudoscience more equal than others?

I'll let you read it for yourself, but I would like to point out three other little things here:

1) The author, Michael Shulson, spends quite a bit of time on the paleo-diet as pseudoscientific.

2) Glenn Reynolds has spent quite a bit of time pushing the pseudoscientific paleo-diet.

3) I warned you, back in 2011, that Glenn Reynolds can't spot quackery.

And, as I keep winning these come-from-behind victories based on surveying nothing but the ethical landscape, I submit to you:

Instapundit's political instincts are severely over-rated as well,…

 

Tie Your Mother Down (Or You Ain't No Friend Of Mine)

Screwdrivers for breakfast.

Such nasty habits in this country:

  Charlotte pastor Steven Furtick and his Elevation Church are making waves this week as more is revealed about Elevation’s odd fixation on their “Lead Pastor” as well as some of the questionable practices of the church, including “spontaneous baptism.” Indeed, many people are sounding the alarm and calling Pastor Furtick a “cult-leader in the making,”….

A cult leader in the making?

Word to your mother, getting drunk in the morning:

You can't "make" a cult leader without somebody following,….

 

Blacks Can't Read Whites Without Ever Thinking WTF?

I think its racist to write sentences, like this, when it's obvious these "researchers", in the most cult-laden country on the planet, missed how blacks behave in their studies:

"Research suggests that saying 'no' can be more difficult than we believe — and that we have more power over others’ decisions than we think.

Social psychologists have spent decades demonstrating how difficult it can be to say 'no' to other people’s propositions,...

Countless studies have subsequently shown that we find it similarly difficult to resist social pressure from peers, friends and colleagues."

They must be speaking for that "self" whites have been trying to find.

Because ignoring y'all's ideas is easy,…

 

Education Of The Good Nazis (Too Cool For Schooling)

"When we believe that our happiness is a matter of thinking the right kinds of (positive) thoughts, we become blind to the ways in which some of our unhappiness might be generated by collective forces, such as racism or sexism. Worst of all, we become callous to the lot of others,…"

Cultism: When Everybody Loves Debate Until They Don't

The behavior most people exhibit, when challenged, is very limited - they want to destroy you:

"I pissed a lot of people off over a long period of time and they found a way to upset me, hoping that upset would bring a change in my behaviour. Like a distancing … But I'm done, I'm done. People wanted me to be not fine. A lot of it was bullshit."

Has she felt that for a long time that people are trying to get her, that they're angry with her?

"Yeah, definitely."

Why are they angry?

"Because I should just shut up."

And, if you're black, they will destroy you - one way or another -precisely because you shouldn't,...

Lem's Comment Home Uses A Martin Luther King Quote For Defending Positions The Black Leader Was Against

It's bizarre when you can, clearly, see a clique's collective mind at work. The MLK quote Lem's is using advises blacks not to bend under the weight Lem's regular readers put on blacks. 

We've seen that "concern" before: 

 

Never let it be said they want anybody to suffer,...

I'll Stay Ahead Of My Time (And Completely Overlooked)

"Spirituality is a big story in politics. Maybe as big a story as religion." 

 So this is probably how it's going to go - I'ma spend the rest of my life, forced to listen to moronic liars and idiots, claiming NewAge is "misunderstood" (or feminism is brilliance, or living with white's racism will always be the normal state of things for blacks) while everyone investigating it all (and finding them wanting) are ignored because that makes whites NewAge's insecure and stupid followers feel better about themselves and the moronic shit they say. 

O.K., alright, whatever.

I'M GETTING USED TO IT.

P.S.

They're not racist - they just, still, can't tolerate being challenged and, as always, still possess the means to enforce it.

AND THEY WILL,...

 

Killing Your Kids To Be Healthy (The Bestest News Ever)

I think the rest of you guys played waaay too much "Follow The Leader" as children,...

Dunham: "If You're Not Into Me, That's Your Problem."

Really?

The only way that can be true is because - when the reporter spoke to Dunham - he wasn't A) drunk, B) in a bar, and C) looking at the last "Girl" standing.

And then there's the producer's comments, that bug-eyed alien-looking feminist loser, Ugly Apatow. 

"Do you have a girlfriend? Does she like you? This guy looks in the mirror and feels bad about what he sees."

Talk about cultish thinking - along with enough personal insecurity to power the planet.

It's scary, how famous and powerful NewAgers actually get away with bullying others - over nothing - this way,…

TMR's Year In Review: White Welfare - Instapundit Once Again Shows The Poor Black Folks How It's Really Done

Online cults? Cliques? Groupthink? I've been against them from the start. Never forgetting how Ann Althouse got so popular (it's all on the strength of her profound "writing," right?) I howled with laughter when I saw this:

"IF NATIONAL REVIEW DOESN’T PROPERLY APPRECIATE MARK STEYN, I imagine we could find a place for him at PJ Media."

And, Boy - considering Steyn's a syndicated columnist with a regular gig on The Rush Limbaugh Show - he certainly does need Glenn's help!

There were others but, this year, my favorites were Instapundit's many handouts to Utah's former Tea Party candidate for governor, David Kirkham. He, who admitted - in private, under TMR's careful questioning, last New Year - that he was only running because he'd sold his sports car business, and was "bored". (Which, I think, is Instapundit's sole reason for existing, too. That and, of course, your money,...)

As fate would have it, Kirkham eventually went on to have a heart attack, and so, would have to amuse himself with something other than fanatically toying with his fellow citizen's lives. 

It's a pity, really:

Because that has to mean there's no "Heaven On Earth" after all,…