Blue Monsters

 

“One day your mother and I are going to retire here,” my Dad used to say. He was referring to Doral Country Club (founded by Alfred Kaskel, he combined his wife’s first name DORis, with his, AL, for the name), home of the famed Blue Monster. I had to admire him, my Dad, he knew what he wanted and nothing would stop him.

Around 2005 (or so) he finally got his wish and bought a townhouse located on the Doral property, along with a permanent membership to the club. While earning my MA in Film Theory and History at University of Miami, I lived there. It’s a cool place, if a little garishly decorated these days.

As it happens, our current President bought the course and its attendant land in 2012. My parents have met The Donald on more than one occasion and he has always treated them respectfully (except when he put up trees to block the townhouse’s view of the course, which was understandable yet frustrating). My mother actually has a casual relationship with Ivanka, due to her work on the property. I myself met President Trump once, briefly, though it was an unremarkable moment as I don’t care much for celebrities.

At 1:30 a.m. on May 18, a nut job named Jonathan Oddi (42 years old, and supposedly a porn actor of some kind) snuck onto the property and opened fire in the main lobby. My mother was asleep at home but my Dad was literally right down the hall picking up a late-night paper. Insomnia is a dangerous thing.

No one was hurt, though the idiot apparently wanted a shoot-out with cops. They neutralized the loon quickly. Thank God for the police.

So, ten guesses what this idiot’s “grievance” was.

It’s all just too damn close for comfort on my end. This is where the rubber meets the road for me. In the moments after it happened, though I knew right away that my family was fine (texts and whatnot), it finally hit home how unhinged these vile, violent leftists really are. I am sick to death of this garbage, their immature projections, and utter nonsense that spews from them daily. Saturday Night Live wants to tag Ivanka as “complicit”? Well how about we throw some of those dishonest propagandists shade that call themselves “comedians” like Stephen Colbert and John Oliver?

I can’t take this crap anymore. They’re liars, scumbags, and villains. And my father was almost killed because they aren’t getting their way? I’m through. Really through. No more respect from me, no more building bridges. I just want them out. I personally need to get away from this garbage. I’m thinking of applying for a job in a red state (I live in Connecticut amongst hipster losers that don’t believe in work). I’m not interested in bridging with their “culture” anymore.

I’m just done.

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  1. Arahant Member
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    Good luck. Even a purple state is a better place to be.

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  2. Patrick McClure Coolidge
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    Amen.

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  3. Dr. Bastiat Member
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    Leftists are violent.  You can’t take people’s stuff and give it to other people (like congressmen, for example) without at least the threat of force.  So leftists must be violent.  

    The whole point of conservatism is to allow others “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”  You don’t have to force people into that at the point of a gun.

    This is why I describe myself as a “bleeding heart conservative.”  I’m not violent enough to be a leftist.

    How leftists manage to cling to their public image as all-loving hippie peaceniks is absolutely beyond me. 

    All political violence is committed by leftists.  Can anyone think of an exception?

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  4. Dr. Bastiat Member
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    I’m glad your Dad is ok, by the way.  Thank God. 

    Sorry I forgot to mention that in my previous comment.

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  5. Aaron Miller Inactive
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    Both politicians and media figures of the Left regularly promote not just anger or ridicule but hatred. We need the Right’s public voices to call attention to the hatemongering and to condemn it.  

    Hundreds of millions of Americans ingest this spiteful culture, even if not all perpetuate it. Nothing could more surely lead to oppression and war. 

    Projection is common, so Democrat voters think us the hatemongers. They must at least be exposed to the counterargument if there is any hope of realization. We can accuse while remaining calm and conciliatory. Rage is easily confused with hatred. When we are at peace, the malice of our opponents is easier to highlight for any who would see.

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  6. Ralphie Inactive
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    Dr. Bastiat (View Comment):
    How leftists manage to cling to their public image as all-loving hippie peaceniks is absolutely beyond me. 

    I think it is similar to the wife that belittles her husband in public. He becomes meek and withdrawn and proves her point that he is a lowly man, and eventually, she holds him in contempt, all the while imagining herself  a person of refined taste and exemplary morals.  He, and no one else corrects her, or defends the husband.     Many probably have seen those couples and wonder why they are together. 

    Conservatives have generally been the meek entity in the relationship, and the left holds us in contempt. They  believe we are not respectable. Conservatives generally do not behave with bullying tactics.

    If there is nothing else Trump has done, it is to show conservatives that we need to defend our beliefs forcefully.  We need to stop allowing the left to bully.

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  7. BeatFeet Member
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    Can you say “concealed carry”?

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  8. sadiesmom Inactive
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    I get it. I was born and raised in Calif. Just minutes from the beach (Newport Beach) and a quick 90 minutes to San Bernadino mountains to ski in the winter. California was heaven on earth at that time. Fast forward to Democratic control of the state. Taxes through the roof. New regulations passed on what seemed a weekly basis. I gave up! I left 14 years ago and settled in a small suburb outside of Savannah, Ga. This has been my new heaven. I only miss the quick trips to the slopes. Nothing else is missing here though. #RedStateHappy

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  9. Unsk Member
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    I wish more people would like you just see the bitter truth.

     Too many legal citizens of America have been brainwashed to succumb to the deranged hatred  of the Progressive Left  and are now   in   the words of the legendary Subotai Bahadur from The Belmont Club  simply “TWANLOC” – those who are no longer our countrymen.  

    The chasm between the unhinged Progressive Left and the sane rest of us is too far to be bridged now.  Their insane hatred is too great.  The minds of these insane Leftists is locked shut to the truth. All “truth” is relative to them now, meaning any idea that does not fit into their hallowed Nihilist Progressive narrative is outside of what they believe to be rational thought.  So there is no point in arguing or politely discussing any issue with them, because your sense of “facts” and the ‘truth” are only relative manipulated constructs to them that no longer have any validity and are to be dismissed outright  immediately just because you said them.   

    But what is truly depressing are those in the muddled middle who seek somehow to defend nearly at every turn the evil acts and ideas of the Left. One can see that in too many of the “moderate” comments here at Ricochet.  These people are really the “cover” for the Left. These “reality based moderates” are the  ones who give legitimacy to the disgusting actions of the Left and somehow incessantly find excuses for the Left’s horrendous behavior no matter how depraved that behavior  is. 

    One can see this muddled middle at work trying to defend the actions of Brennan, Rosenstien and Mueller et al. There was absolutely no legally  justifiable predicate for either the  counterintelligence investigation started by Brennan or the Special Counsel appointed by Rosenstein. None whatsoever. The excuses made to justify these grossly illegal investigations were outlandishly absurd. But beyond that, the web of crimes committed in addition in the course of those investigations were simply historically beyond the pale and a direct threat to continued Constitutional rule of Law.   We simply cannot have our government use Police State tactics to get it’s way.  Our Republic cannot survive that criminality for very long. Yet we see the same usual  suspects try and trot out excuses for this inexcusably criminal  and dangerous behavior.  It is simply appalling.

    However, that said, if there is anyone out there to try to persuade  and/or criticize it is those of the muddled middle who tirelessly defend and time and again try to give  legitimacy to the ridiculously bad actions of the Left.

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  10. Dorrk Inactive
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    A guy who walks into a lobby and opens fire most likely isn’t motivated by politics. He’s mentally ill and has either seized on politics or celebrity as a mode of negotiating his illness as something meaningful to him.

    You can’t use this loon to assign blame to all leftists any more than you can use Timothy McVeigh to assign blame to everyone on the right.

    Antifa and the Neo-nazis surely deserve each other, and there does seem to be more tolerance for Antifa on the left, but I think that coems out of a shared culture of protest and an uncertainty over where to draw the line. That seems to be dwindling (after all, when Antifa tears up Portland, they are destroying the properties and social spaces of 90% Democrats), though.

    Only a fringe on either side wishes for violence, and an even smaller fringe is interested in perpetrating it, and it’s not a rational violence to satisfy a political goal, but an expression of rage that doesn’t recognize societal structures as valid. I suppose it’s merely a matter of environment that determines the target of their rage, and not something truly ideological.

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  11. Dr. Bastiat Member
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    Dorrk (View Comment):

    A guy who walks into a lobby and opens fire most likely isn’t motivated by politics. He’s mentally ill and has either seized on politics or celebrity as a mode of negotiating his illness as something meaningful to him.

    You can’t use this loon to assign blame to all leftists any more than you can use Timothy McVeigh to assign blame to everyone on the right.

    Antifa and the Neo-nazis surely deserve each other, and there does seem to be more tolerance for Antifa on the left, but I think that coems out of a shared culture of protest and an uncertainty over where to draw the line. That seems to be dwindling (after all, when Antifa tears up Portland, they are destroying the properties and social spaces of 90% Democrats), though.

    Only a fringe on either side wishes for violence, and an even smaller fringe is interested in perpetrating it, and it’s not a rational violence to satisfy a political goal, but an expression of rage that doesn’t recognize societal structures as valid. I suppose it’s merely a matter of environment that determines the target of their rage, and not something truly ideological.

    Great comment.

    Although I think I strongly disagree.  And I think you’re trying too hard to keep an open mind, by emphasizing subtle points that obscure the broader point.  And I think that Antifa is a more prominent social force than Neo-Nazis, in that Antifa exists and Neo-Nazis, for all intents and purposes, don’t.  And I think it’s hard to argue that the only violence on the left comes from an extreme fringe.

    But despite my criticisms, I really do appreciate your point of view.  I just  respectfully disagree.

    By doing so, of course, I make the same mistake – of trying so hard to respect my opposition that I don’t try at all to acknowledge reality.  Us right wingers struggle with that.

    Surely you understand.

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  12. Chris Campion Coolidge
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    Dorrk (View Comment):

    A guy who walks into a lobby and opens fire most likely isn’t motivated by politics. He’s mentally ill and has either seized on politics or celebrity as a mode of negotiating his illness as something meaningful to him.

    You can’t use this loon to assign blame to all leftists any more than you can use Timothy McVeigh to assign blame to everyone on the right.

    Antifa and the Neo-nazis surely deserve each other, and there does seem to be more tolerance for Antifa on the left, but I think that coems out of a shared culture of protest and an uncertainty over where to draw the line. That seems to be dwindling (after all, when Antifa tears up Portland, they are destroying the properties and social spaces of 90% Democrats), though.

    Only a fringe on either side wishes for violence, and an even smaller fringe is interested in perpetrating it, and it’s not a rational violence to satisfy a political goal, but an expression of rage that doesn’t recognize societal structures as valid. I suppose it’s merely a matter of environment that determines the target of their rage, and not something truly ideological.

    The fact that there’s so much negativity present in media and the culture, though, about Trump (cue Kathy Griffin) must, in some way, make an insane person’s ability to latch onto this idea much easier than it would be for a George HW Bush, maybe.  Trump as a target becomes much easier, in other words.

    But there’s no good explanation for crazy.  

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  13. Suspira Member
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    sadiesmom (View Comment):
    I left 14 years ago and settled in a small suburb outside of Savannah, Ga. This has been my new heaven. I only miss the quick trips to the slopes. Nothing else is missing here though. #RedStateHappy

    My sister lives on Wilmington Island. A great place to be, except late summer when the heat/humidity tracks those California tax rates.

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  14. TomCo9 Inactive
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    Dorrk (View Comment):

    A guy who walks into a lobby and opens fire most likely isn’t motivated by politics. He’s mentally ill and has either seized on politics or celebrity as a mode of negotiating his illness as something meaningful to him.

    You can’t use this loon to assign blame to all leftists any more than you can use Timothy McVeigh to assign blame to everyone on the right.

    Antifa and the Neo-nazis surely deserve each other, and there does seem to be more tolerance for Antifa on the left, but I think that coems out of a shared culture of protest and an uncertainty over where to draw the line. That seems to be dwindling (after all, when Antifa tears up Portland, they are destroying the properties and social spaces of 90% Democrats), though.

    Only a fringe on either side wishes for violence, and an even smaller fringe is interested in perpetrating it, and it’s not a rational violence to satisfy a political goal, but an expression of rage that doesn’t recognize societal structures as valid. I suppose it’s merely a matter of environment that determines the target of their rage, and not something truly ideological.

    I see your points but can someone please tell me where the guys screaming about Obama shooting politicians at a baseball game is? Or claiming Clinton’s sex affairs make him bomb a church? Reagan was shot on behalf of Jodie Foster, someone threw a shoe at Bush. I am genuinely asking, what are the examples of people on the right being violent on behalf of their politics??

    The only thing I can think of are people that shoot up abortion clinics though that would probably be more indicative of warring with murderers through interpretation of religious dogma than Republican-pushed.

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  15. aardo vozz Member
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    sadiesmom (View Comment):

    I get it. I was born and raised in Calif. Just minutes from the beach (Newport Beach) and a quick 90 minutes to San Bernadino mountains to ski in the winter. California was heaven on earth at that time. Fast forward to Democratic control of the state. Taxes through the roof. New regulations passed on what seemed a weekly basis. I gave up! I left 14 years ago and settled in a small suburb outside of Savannah, Ga. This has been my new heaven. I only miss the quick trips to the slopes. Nothing else is missing here though. #RedStateHappy

    And you can always fly to Utah to ski, thus remaining #RedStateHappy🙂

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  16. Dorrk Inactive
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    TomCo9 (View Comment):

    Dorrk (View Comment):

    A guy who walks into a lobby and opens fire most likely isn’t motivated by politics. He’s mentally ill and has either seized on politics or celebrity as a mode of negotiating his illness as something meaningful to him.

    You can’t use this loon to assign blame to all leftists any more than you can use Timothy McVeigh to assign blame to everyone on the right.

    Antifa and the Neo-nazis surely deserve each other, and there does seem to be more tolerance for Antifa on the left, but I think that coems out of a shared culture of protest and an uncertainty over where to draw the line. That seems to be dwindling (after all, when Antifa tears up Portland, they are destroying the properties and social spaces of 90% Democrats), though.

    Only a fringe on either side wishes for violence, and an even smaller fringe is interested in perpetrating it, and it’s not a rational violence to satisfy a political goal, but an expression of rage that doesn’t recognize societal structures as valid. I suppose it’s merely a matter of environment that determines the target of their rage, and not something truly ideological.

    I see your points but can someone please tell me where the guys screaming about Obama shooting politicians at a baseball game is? Or claiming Clinton’s sex affairs make him bomb a church? Reagan was shot on behalf of Jodie Foster, someone threw a shoe at Bush. I am genuinely asking, what are the examples of people on the right being violent on behalf of their politics??

    The only thing I can think of are people that shoot up abortion clinics though that would probably be more indicative of warring with murderers through interpretation of religious dogma than Republican-pushed.

    Reagan was shot by a mentally disturbed man who was sort of imitating what he saw in a movie. Just like it was for the character in that movie, the politician was incidental.

    Right-wing violence was far more common 50 years ago, and now our nastier fringes — militias, white power groups — prefer to stay out in rural areas where they will be left alone. The Leftist fringe is certainly more activated and fashionable right now., but I wouldn’t assume that every random kook who fixates on violence against arguably the biggest celebrity in the world right now is acting politically.

    Most of the time random kooks aren’t acting according to any rational basis. They’re a different ballgame than masked antifa or occupy thugs who are actual terrorists with an agenda. (I also assume the antifa are mentally ill to some lesser degree.)

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