Government Shutdown

Open Thread

Mark Noonan18 Comments

I guess we’re all supposed to be upset that some youngsters were crude in a group chat. I guess a lot of people haven’t met young people lately – they are freely profane and deliberately use provocative words because their elders told them they can’t. I know this will cause shock among geezers and calls for the smelling salts, but there it is…young people are, well, young. I mean, not you and me: we were never young and if we were then we were completely what our parents told us to be no questions asked and we never used The Bad Words.

Additionally, its the people who cheered when Kirk was shot who are telling us to mind our manners. So, yeah, I don’t care what some kids said in a group chat. I care what people do in the real world…and I especially care about the “ready, aim, fire” folks on the Left. At least, a heck of a lot more than some 20 year old using the N word in a group chat.

Reminder: the government is shut down! Be sure to panic!

The reality here is that the government being shut down is only a problem if the government makes it one…like Obama did back in his day when he maliciously inflicted maximum pain on the people because he wanted Congress to fund his pathetic little pet projects. Trump is not inflicting pain on us. And unless you are the deputy assistant director of diversity affairs at the Department of Wheel Spinning, the shut downs doesn’t mean a lot. Trump even figured out how to use appropriated money to pay the troops. Sure, this can’t go on forever…eventually, a budget does have to be passed…but nobody on our side has any incentive to cave on Democrat demands.

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on the Voting Rights Act – specifically the bit where we have to draw minority-majority districts to ensure a certain skin color gets elected to the House (note they don’t insist upon making majority-minority States so we can have a more diverse Senate). This requirement is, of course, evil and anti-American. It is wrong to draw districts with a mind to making sure a black person can’t win…but it is just as wrong to draw them to ensure nobody but a black person can win. Our Constitution has always been colorblind – and this bit of the Voting Right Act has to go. Democrats are in a panic about it, of course – because they garner 19 House seats based upon these racial gerrymanders.

Open Thread

Mark Noonan5 Comments

What if they gave a government shutdown and nobody showed up?

And just how seriously stupid are the Democrats? AOC was out saying she’s ready to negotiate with the GOP at any time…did she forget she’s in the House that already passed the budget bill and thus has no further say in the matter? Its an even money chance that she doesn’t know how our government works…I mean the legislative process. After all, she’s only there to exercise power and grab money…you think she spent any time reading Robert’s Rules of Order? Heck, I wonder what her reading level is? She was born in 1989 which means she attended school from approximately 1994 to 2006…and New York education levels have been substandard (even by today’s dumbed-down standards) for a while. There’s a real chance that if you read to her:

11. A Main or Principal Motion is a motion made to bring before the assembly, for its consideration, any particular subject. It takes precedence of nothing — that is, it cannot be made when any other question is before the assembly; and it yields to all Privileged, Incidental, and Subsidiary Motions — that is, any of these motions can be made while a main motion is pending. Main motions are debatable, and subject to amendment, and can have any subsidiary motions applied to them.

She’d just stare blankly at you for a minute, call Trump a fascist and then demand Medicare for All. We’re dealing with very stupid people who haven’t the foggiest notion of how the world works but are at the same time dead certain they are right about everything and their opponents (us) are pure evil. Its a toxic stew.

We’d pity Chuck Schumer if he hadn’t spent his entire career being a vile liar enriching his cronies while America fell apart…he’s looking over his shoulder at a possible AOC primary challenge and realizes that he hasn’t got a chance against her. He’s vastly better educated and far more intelligent but in order to advance his interests, he allowed people like AOC to take control of the Democrat base…and if he doesn’t drive off AOC’s cliff, he’s doomed.

Team Trump – apparently with the cooperation of the Congressional GOP – is preparing a series of moves which will gut the Deep State…huge numbers of terminations and reorganizations to get rid of the last of the people sabotaging MAGA from within. And there’s nothing the Democrats can do about it – in fact, they are quite out of their depth right now as they learn we simply don’t care what they say. Call us racists and fascists and meanies and what have you…we know we’re not and we’re not interested in surrendering just to get you to stop calling us Nazis for 24 hours. The Democrats had their chance to come to the table and get something prior to the shutdown…now they get to twist in the wind as polling shows the people blaming them for it and their demands for a budget bill are horrifically unpopular.

Investigations in Minnesota are revealing massive immigration fraud – like half the people looked at committed at least some form of fraud to get and/or stay here. This is the sort of thing we need to do…especially to break up these concentrations of foreigners who are taking over segments of the USA and turning them into foreign enclaves…abodes of hostile people seeking our destruction and, worst of all, doing it with stolen taxpayer money. I’ve been saying that everyone who has come in over the past few decades needs to be looked at, and this is why. You don’t get millions of people illegally into the country by accident…to move that many takes a massive logistical support system and the people who provide logistic support for human trafficking aren’t altruists…they’re gangsters who want to get paid, and keep getting paid. My bet is the price for a ticket to the USA was (and remains) quite high and the people sent in have to pay – not only a cut out of any legitimate income they earn, but as much welfare as they can siphon off. I’ve noticed here in Vegas that the beggars seem quite organized…it usually isn’t some drug addled bum with his “will work for food” sign trying to cage the price of meth or booze…it is now more and more an obvious foreigner working shifts on particular street corners gathering whatever is tossed from a car window…I don’t give to such people. In the past, I’d drop a buck or even a fiver on the bum even though I knew it was for drink…these new people are probably kicking back to the cartels to pay for the price of passage.