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Look out, here comes the Master Race! Warning: language, because AUTHENTIC PEOPLE who have THE RAGE always swear.
This fellow went on quite a tear about the Wisconsin case. While you can wave away most of the effervescent fulminations on Twitter, it’s always fun to see what the Verified Voices are saying.
So: second wave. I think he means a global Second Wave, which is lapping at the shores of every nation. Note that that ol’ goose stepper Youngkin is a standard-bearer for the new nightmare.
What seemed to be the big issue towards the end of the VA election? Education, and the rights of the parents vs. the ideology of the state. But since the statists were the good people – they just wanted to teach about history and racism and marginalized sexual identities! – the parents were fascists who wanted sanitized panegyrics to whiteness.
Progs: whiteness is a systemic evil!
Ordinary Americans, perplexed: that seems like a rather racist worldview.
Progs: oh look who’s imagining he’s being persecuted
Same dude:
Perhaps the “American Right” was focused on the self-defense issue, but sure: there were people who did not mourn “Jojo,” as actor Mark Ruffalo called the child rapist, and regarded the violent rioters as, well, violent rioters. This is the peculiar moral inversion of the era: it is meet and right to burn and destroy, but the people who object to the destruction are the shock-troops of fascism. It is noble to deface a building with a painted slogan; the very act of spraying graffiti is sanctified by the rightness of your cause. The only possible explanation for someone preventing you from defacing the building, or washing it off later, is because they disagree with you, and if they do, then voila: they are fascists. It’s really that simple.
A reminder: if Rittenhouse had been killed that night, no one would remember his name. The trial of his killer would not have been national news. (Like Gosnell, a “local story.”) Killing him would have been necessary, Because Fascism.
Why, perhaps it still is.
Another verified genius weighs in, with a reminder.
Should this happen, it will not be a sign that street violence is a terrible thing to countenance, and leads to hideous ends; it’s a sign that the horrible system under which we labor produces injustices that produce lamentable, but understandable, reactions. I mean, if you don’t want judges shot down in the streets, elect better judges, y’know?
Oh by the way he didn’t mean it like that you idiots.
We continue:
One might say that the summer of 2020, with its impotent reactions to criminal destruction of American cities, might, in some tortured sense, be defined as “anarchy.” The left’s defense of destruction For Great Justice, and waving away of the plight of the “victims” might also be construed as a “validation” of “mayhem.”
I mean, it’s not an unreasonable idea, is it?
It is? Sorry. I guess that’s the sort of blinkered foolishness you’d expect from someone who is not making plans to flee:
The left is completely powerless to prevent this, it seems. They have no power. The government, the educational establishment, the media: all weak as Parvo-stricken puppies, unable to muster anything more than a feeble bleat of disapproval. Soon the streets will fill with angry men who want to break store windows and set cars on fire.
No no not those guys, they’re good! We mean the bad ones.
There will be mobs who attack Jews. No no not those guys, they’re angry about colonialism or acting out whiteness doctrines of otherizing, please keep up.
There will be throngs of white men in positions of authority demanding that Asians be suppressed in academic admissions –
What? No, no, that’s different. Please, you’re not conversant in the prismatic subtleties of the intersectional matrix, so maybe sit this one out? Once you’ve done the work, then perhaps you will be alert to the neo-Fascist elements who will restructure society to otherize those who do not have pure blood –
What? No, no, that’s different. That’s a matter of public health. Of course, you should have to show your papers. Point is, America is a lost cause. Soon, very soon, a group of people will try to burn down a city because they saw some tweets about a thing, and there will be a horrifying moment when the authorities prevent it. The nascent subterranean Fascist instinct ignites in the citizens, and they will join the police to prevent the people from smashing the store windows and burning down the legislature building.
When the morning rises and the streets are not twinkling with broken glass – Kristall-not! – and the legislature is not a smoldering heap – well, then you’ll know. The Second Wave of Fascism has crashed on the shores of America, and engulfed us all.
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He’s not wrong about that; he’s only wrong about what constitutes this second wave of fascism: wokeism. It seems likely that America, as we knew it, will not survive wokeism, which is a species of fascism.
There’s truth to that, but I think a significant portion of that constituency isn’t actually crazy. Mostly they’ve been propagandized and lied to for years. They’re being led astray. If all those mythical centrist moderates were out there actively countering the lies about white supremacy, transphobia, etc, etc then this army of crazies might actually be an army of stability and common sense.
So much soy from that boy I swear I’m on the verge of breast feeding my hamster.
Ja, das wäre ein entsprechendes Wortspiel auf Deutsch.
It probably should have been, but it wasn’t.
Yeah, that gave me a good chuckle.
screen-capped, thank you.
It was my best recollection of a meme I saw.
Yeah, part of me wants to make him a Democratic poster boy and the other part wants to just call for the guys in the butterfly nets.
I really do try to understand how these peoples’ minds work but it’s an impossible task.
That’s a good part of you. Joe Biden, should be asked if he repudiates his rhetoric. Others should be asked, too.
For what it’s worth, there is nothing in any of those tweets that is more intellectually dishonest than the 20 seconds of a video clip from a Sunday show (Meet the Press?) that I overheard while passing through the living room on my way out the door to head to the range this morning.
[SIDE NOTE: It seems to me that a little study to cross-reference the commenters and “level of hysteria” here with those on that famous Jan 6 post might be interesting. Just sayin’…]
Yeah, a “hysteria meter” would be a good idea; there are any number of people on Fox who would do it…
Sure. But every hysteria meter measuring the MSM would stay pegged out all the time.
Yes. This.
In May of 2020 I drove up Broadway in Oakland, CA after the first night of St. George of Fentanyl “protests” and was sickened by the graffiti and destruction. Really sickened. We had already weathered Occupy and other temper tantrums thrown by increasingly infantile Oaklanders.
Five months later – after 25+ years there – escrow closed and we ended the urban chapter of our lives and headed to the mountains. We made a point of timing our exit to precede the election. We feared that if the President were re-elected, the city would REALLY burn this time.
So the election happens and the President is not re-elected. My wife leaves the hill to do stuff back in Oakland and is there in our old neighborhood when the election is called. There is dancing in the streets. I’m not being metaphorical. My wife saw it herself and called me.
Emotionally stunted, violent infants.
And made by a Jewish man who fought the Nazis.
So last night was “Nordstrom Night” in Walnut Creek, California, a usually quiet almost all white suburb of San Francisco. 25 cars blocked streets so 80 thugs could loot the Nordstrom store and take stuff. Lots of broken glass. Only 3 caught. Must have been a reaction to the Kenosha verdict. Good times.
One thing I can tell you as a matter of fact – @umairh (Umair Haque) is an anti-Semite, by personal experience:
In a very different context, and probably 15 years ago at least, I interacted with him online under my real name. My actual last name is spelled the same as a name now fairly well known in Israel, as it is the Hebrew version of a fairly common Yiddish/German Jewish name. The result of a disagreement about a non-political matter was for said Umair Haque to Jew bait me. Rather ironic since I haven’t a drop of such blood to my name (as attested by 23andme!). At which I cut off all communication.
Looks like he’s traveling in similar company to this day.
Can’t decide if Umair Haque is for real or just doing it for the clicks. He seems to work in advertising which makes me wonder if it’s not just a personal branding exercise.
For his sake, I hope it’s all a put on; it would make someone truly miserable to actually convince yourself of this nonsense.
The crows that cower in fear of you, Scare-Crow, have a different prism within twixt the narrative might be something shiny that they want to line their nests with.
He seems nice.
While Bill Maher and a few others try to caution the left, i.e., “Don’t call people fascists and white supremacists and expect them to vote for you.”, they appear to be incapable of heeding the warning. I hope this continues.
So they’re either insane or they’re planning on stealing the next election. What other explanations are there? The Chinese?
Actually Maher has been pushing people in that direction himself, for many years. And now he’s “shocked” (as often seems to happen to Peter Robinson, but for other reasons) at the result. It’s like when George Carlin was part of “tune in, turn on, drop out, right on!” and then seems surprised when lots of people turn into dumb stoners.
I had no idea. Thank you for pointing this out.
Bitterness. Simply by existing we create in them a little buzz at the back of their mind that sows doubt, guilt, shame. It is their Democratic Party betters that create the feelings of moral rectitude, intellectual superiority, and a smug conscience.
So, yeah, insanity. In (obsessed) sports fan terms, it is always the last minute of the game for them, and we just pulled ahead by two scores.
I’ve thought about that. Traditionally, overextension means stretching one’s logistic train and leaving it unprotected.
They depend on the tech base. That’s what we have to address.