None of this is new to my five or six faithful readers. They know about the scourge of the Fake. The progs revel in it; in fact, the Fake is essential to the whole prog weltanschauung. As the Beatles would say, "Nothing is real." Well, a couple are, and we'll mention them at the end.
First, let's do a casual walk through the Fake fields of progressivism and examine some of its most prominent fruits.
So hard to pick just a few, there are so many.
In no particular order:
Hate crimes: Almost non-existent in the real America, but not in the Hollywood version that runs through the heads of the typical progs. Nooses on black profs office doors? "N-word" written on dorm doors? Hijabs ripped off innocent girls by nasty white men? Racist notes left black wait staff by nasty white men? So many more of this variety of fake fruit . . . don't get too full on just this one, we got lots more;
Climate change: A biggie this one. So much to gorge on. Weather is not climate, except when it is! It's man-made permanent winter; it's man-made permanent summer; it's man-made drought; it's man-made flooding; it's man-made dearth of hurricanes; no, no it's more hurricanes than ever! No snow! More snow! Fewer sharks! More sharks! Pant. Pant. Please, please go on without me . . .
We now run into fake fruits one after another, too fast to categorize.
Putin-Trump collusion!
Army purging immigrants!
Migrant children ripped away from their "parents"!
Universities are rape farms! Must suspend due process!
The progs love fake NATO! The progs love fake health insurance! Fake borders! "Undocumented" migrants need a pathway to citizenship so they can vote! Citizenship should not be required to vote! Progs love fake African-Americans and fake Native Americans! The progs decree that "hispanics" are a race, except when they do something progs don't like then they are "white hispanics"! Let's have fake women! Let's have fake science say there are no genders! No, no let's have fake science say that there are millions of genders and that we can each choose one! Let's have fake trade deals that wipe out whole chunks of the American working and middle class, all in the name of Gaia and the poor!
Above all, let's have outrage 24/7/365!
A couple of things are not fake, however. The progs love power. All of these fake "crises" and "issues" require intervention by the state to resolve. Guess who controls most of the levers of state power? One guess. As I have written before about progressives and their "targets,"
The idea is to create turmoil, chaos; keep society and its institutions reeling from one punch to the next. The only solution to this turmoil? Why, naturally, more progressive government and regulation.The other thing that is not fake is the hatred for Donald Trump. He's not fake. In fact, he relishes identifying the progs fakeness. He knows that as they now stand NATO, NAFTA, the EU, the Paris Climate Change Treaty, and the Iran Deal are all fake institutions and agreements meant to cover up the prog drive for power, the drive to disrupt the real world. Trump has the guts to say so. Unforgivable in prog world!
Ironically, the left's treasured former president famously stated, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Modern leftism is completely about fear. Every one of these items are charged up by fear mongering.
ReplyDeleteThat is ironic, considering that fear emanates from this site like muscle juice from a freshly cut steak.
DeleteOn this site it's not fear, it is disgust.
Deletewhitewall, I can only tell you how the words come across, not what you are feeling inside. It comes across as fearful.
DeleteDwan, how kind of you to tell me what I wish. It's all the more impressive because I do not recall ever suggesting that the people on this site do not associate. I am curious how you divined that was my wish. Also, could you explain how can know a person of "good will" under the limited information available that occurs "when they see one"? Whatever could those visible indicators be?
One Brow is utilizing Rules of Disinformation #17: Emotionalize, antagonize, goad.
DeletePrometheus,
DeleteIt's unfortunate that you mark my observations as emotionalizations, disagreements as antagonisms, and statements as goads. You are free to assign any motives to choose to my behaviors, but that does make the assignment accurate, polite, nor productive.
Dwan Seicheine,
Actually, I avoided saying what you are or what you felt; I only spoke of how your words, and the words on this site generally, appear to those who do not share your view.
So, would you now be so kind as to explain how you can know a person of "good will" under the limited information available that occurs "when they see one"? Whatever could those visible indicators be?
Whatever. Probably fake. js
Delete-BREAKING FROM CNN-
ReplyDeleteTrump falsely proclaims that water is wet! Acclaimed Reporter Nocosta has copy of telegram and shows all at 11!
(As transcribed by Green Bear)
Too true...
ReplyDeletePerhaps only a President as personally odious as Trump would be capable of blurting out all the uncomfortable truths to which he subjects the world. It's pretty invigorating. Of course some of his truths are pretty approximate - accuracy is not one of his virtues. But it's better to be roughly right than exactly wrong.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, where's the ruddy wall he promised? And why isn't Hillary in prison?
i think it is more accurate to say that precision is not one of his virtues. Over time, and on average, he is pretty close to hitting the bullseye.
DeleteIf Trump were actually the thoughtless wrecking-ball that the FakeNews describes, he would've done just as you suggest: he'd have fired everyone in virtually every department of goverment, and had Hillary locked up in prison where she belongs. Of course he'd have immediately been impeached and removed from office, but Trump's far too idiotic to think of such things, right?
DeleteLuckily for us, he's not that person. He carefully plans his moves, and he doesn't declare war until that war is already won; he's a student of Sun Tzu.
Wasn't it instructive to see Agent Strzok testifying in public? Isn't that man the very model of the perfect FBI agent? Why, he's so high above us mere mortals, he can harbor absolute hatred and loathing in his heart, but in his actions he's perfectly unbiased! We all could see just how unbiased he is, and how much humility he has. Those that said they saw demon's horns on him are obviously lying; why, he's a perfect angel. Just ask him, he'll tell you!
First President Trump is exposing the rot; after everyone knows how bad it is, then he'll present the design for a new structure, better than that before; finally comes the wrecking-ball and the exterminators, to remove the old diseased structure and the rats that infest it, so that building may commence on a solid foundation.
I too am impatient, but I also realize that Rome wasn't built in a day, and that decades of abuse aren't instantly overcome. The river has to be diverted to clean these Augean stables, and that takes a while!
Eskyman, I believe you are right on track. May God grant divine wisdom to Trump, and help Trump to incorporate that divine wisdom that the light of truth may continue to expose the dark deeds of evil
DeleteOh, and fake disrespect to the Queen of England!
ReplyDeleteCelia she is actually the Queen of the United Kingdom, not just England, and sixteen other Commonwealth countries
DeleteMost of us usually just say, "Queen of England", as a kind of shorthand of her title.
DeleteMFA
Trump's 19,346 lies since taking office ...
ReplyDeleteI'd be interested in your list. Start with the first 100.
DeleteMy tongue was firmly in my cheek ...
DeleteThis post 's theme was FAKE ...
DeleteWiw! A Waldorf word salad ...
DeleteDonald Trump plans to give the U.S. to Russia during their summit.
ReplyDeleteThere, it's finally been outright said. MSM has been hyperventilating about this summit. CNN's Brian Selzer says Trump can't be trusted alone with Putin. NBC's Andrea Mitchell says this is the first time a Soviet spymaster is meeting a president who spent the weekend playing golf. Hillary wants to know which team Trump will be playing for in his meeting. And dozens of pundits have sniffed that he played golf instead of preparing, he doesn't know the issues, the history, he isn't ready, (will never be ready).
So let's write the post-summit headline and give them their story, plus help out poor Robert Mueller, who is having a terrible time producing anything newsworthy:
TRUMP GIVES U.S. TO RUSSIA
This may seem far-fetched but it is exactly what the French, Dutch and British governments did to themselves with respect to the EU. Besides, we know the commentariat is ready to believe this story and it's what MSM wants to go with. Well, they've seen it here, so now they have a source and they can run with it!
He can't, Hillary! has already sold it.
DeleteDwan Seicheine
DeleteI understand the moral/philosophical point of article. Who wouldn't? BUT did anyone actually do lifetime surveys of people during the time of the Black Plague? The claim is intuitively true: we are very spoiled. But the claim of 30-year surveys of individuals during the time of the Black Plague is cleary bogus. I wonder why authors put that in an otherwise interesting article.
Anonymous
DeleteYou are confused. Bill sold the port of Los Angeles to the Chinese for "contributions to his library." Hillary sold 20% of our uranium capacity to Russia plus an unknown number of secrets to an unknown number of countries. But neither Clinton quite handed over a deed to the whole country. I mean think about it. If they had done that, what would Trump have had to collude about and why would the CIA and FBI had to spy on him and investigate him and then why would there have had to be a special counsel who apparently needs forever to investigate? Is that clear?
The Babylon Bee, what a delight! They match my sense of humor.
DeleteDid you know the Sahara used to be rainforest? It was, until I told a joke there once. It was immediately parched! I had to stagger away, dry as a bone.
(Dry humor: doyagetit? That's why I like the Bee.)
Oops. In my post to Dwan Seicheine above I didn't notice article with survey from Black Plague years was from BabylonBe. My bad.
DeleteDwan Seicheine
DeleteI will spend some time with the BabylonBee.
Did you remove your first comment after it was published? How did you do that? Can you edit after a comment is published? I would like to be able to do that as I always notice my typos after I "publish."
Hate crimes: Almost non-existent in the real America, ...
ReplyDeleteSo, how many times a year does that translate to, in your mind?
Climate change: A biggie this one. So much to gorge on.
There's a lot of climate, and a lot of misinformation on climate put our by both sides. Doesn't change the fact that it is changing, and in ways we have not seen since the rise of human civilization.
So much climate change? So much that they are growing grapes again in Scotland? Or perhaps it's become so cold that the River Thames freezes over, so deep that men roast an ox on that ice, and it never melts through? We have seen those changes, in the past thousand years, and that is well after the beginning of civilization, unless one insists that Scottish wine is uncivilized, perhaps?
DeleteMFA
Anyone who has studied Integral Calculus and Limit Theory recognizes that efforts to take the temperature of our whole life Earth are so crude as to be meaningless. Therefore, we cannot know, over so short a time span if, it i's really getting warmer or colder ... let alone with the precision of tenths of a degree!
DeleteMFA,
DeleteYes, they are growing grapes again in Scotland. Since the Thames never froze over two years in a row, and the last time was a few years before the start of the Industrial Revolution, I'm confused how you think that is an argument against climate change.
However, I'm not at all confused how you think weather changes on a smallish island are supposed to be the same thing as global climate change.
Geroge W. Potts,
Please go on about how Integral Calculus and Limit Theory show that any efforts to measure historical temperatures are meaningless.
To accurately find the area under a curve, you need to find the area of infinitely small slices and add them up. To find the temperature of the Earth, you need to integrate an infinite number of temperatures. For example, when the weather person gives you the local temp it is usually at the airport ... even though temps may vary by 5 or more degrees locally. Now, expand that thought to the entire world for an entire year. See?
DeleteDwan Seicheine,
DeleteI eat meat every day, like the good primate I am. Of all the animals, I value humans the most (though you could argue that means I hate them the least).
George W. Potts,
I understand how integrals work. I also understand how averages and smoothing functions work, how statistical error bars work, etc. If you made an argument about error bar size and the historical temperature record, that would be something relevant to the discussion, and we could honestly disagree on the relevance of the error bars. Integral Calculus and Limits are not relevant tot he discussion.
With respect, I disagree with your contention that hate crimes are "almost nonexistent" in these United States. There are plenty of racially-motivated crimes, only they are not identified as such, because the victims are whites, and the perpetrators sacred Persons of Color.
ReplyDeleteMike_C,
DeleteA site like this would not be complete without someone moaning about how white people are picked on.
Dwan Seicheine,
How very 1984 of you. Education keeps people dumb, the dole promotes economic insecurity, the notion that quotas exist in the US (they were ruled unconstitutional, you know), the the responses forced upon us by hatred are actually the source of hatred.
It makes me wonder if your notion of "good will" is not a similarly perverted idea of the basic defintion.
One Brow. You devastate me with the logic of your reasoned, logical, and backed-with-solid-data refutation.
DeleteMike_C,
DeleteIf you want to trot out reason, logic, and data-backed arguments, I can likely keep up on the first two and out do you 2-for-1 on the third. However, this has never seemed a forum for such discussions before. My mere presence seems to bother people already; I try to avoid making the waves too high.
Still, if you insist, I'll grant you the opening round. Please provide your evidence that whites are more often the victim of racially motivated crimes.
Sadly there is a great deal of astroturf "news." This one small piece of it is only the tip of the iceberg.
ReplyDeleteIt's why I no longer pay any attention to "news." Too many stories in the news have no foundation in fact, and all too often they are strictly a narrative, designed to push an agenda.
Here's a humorous example:
https://youtu.be/ksb3KD6DfSI
Maybe it is apocryphal, but apparently during World War II, the Germans listened very closely to BBC broadcasts, because they came close to reporting reality. Journalists behaved ethically, and people took them seriously. Changed days!
ReplyDeleteFake News does not matter, because almost no-one is listening. Try this experiment the next time you are waiting aimlessly in an airport for your delayed flight. Observe the locations of all the monitors blasting CNN to their captive audience. And then count the number of people who appear to be paying any attention to the CNN monitors. And then reflect on the thought that, based on the last election, approximately 1/3 of the people in the airport voted Democrat in the last election. Even Democrat voters have mostly given up on the news. And that is good!
A weak and confused people are tossed about by every wind and whimsy. The snake-oil salesmen may have disappeared from the old west, but they got higher paying jobs in the city, printing their yellow journalism.
ReplyDeleteAnd not to forget the love and adulation of the DEM POTUS with fake papers! To question those condemned anyone as a racist. Just surround him with fake Greek columns.
ReplyDeleteTues morning
ReplyDeleteI predicted headlines from Helsinki -TRUMP GIVES U.S.TO RUSSIA - incorrectly. That was only a secondary news theme from the summit. Actual headline, imo, turned out to be: TRUMP TREASON APPARENT AS HE PLEDGES HIS LOVE TO PUTIN.
The treason part was that he refused to accuse Putin of lying about meddling in our elections as Putin was standing next to him at the press conference. (He had raised issue in their meeting.) Press was insistent on making things awkward for Trump. A reporter cited our intel agencies and their conclusion that the Russians have meddled and asked Trump whether he believed Putin over our intel agencies, Trump refused to directly accuse Putin. Now, we can all recall the ten million times various critics have said Trump cannot be diplomatic. So, here is Trump trying to be diplomatic and it's treason!
Why love? Well, during the campaign Trump said Putin was a great leader because he made himself a world leader. Told by the reporter Putin had said something complimentary about him, Trump said, "That's nice ," without trashing Putin. Trump campaigned on better relations with Russia. Last week Putin publicly admitted he hoped Trump would win election because of his platform of better relations with Russia. There, clearly a bromance between the two.
The NYT speaks for the whole press with an homoerotic animation. nyti.ms/2uqaTRC England's Daily Mirror's front page has a huge headline: "Putin's Poodle" and a smaller one: "Trump branded a traitor"
Personally I thought I heard two world leaders trying to make sure their countries weren't blundering into war and finding areas where they had common interests and could cooperate, and making some agreements on areas where their interests conflict/collide, again, so no one blunders into war. A terrific first meeting, imo - but what do I know?
Evil forces must command the MSM nowadays. The US media is looking for blood and war. What could possibly be wrong with two leaders having a dialogue, looking for common interests and peaceful cooperation ? Trump is a very brave man, taking big risks, I hope his supporters will come out and be heard too. Pat Buchanan commented on the crazy CIA-Brennans accusation of treason like this : " Well, as Patrick Henry said long ago, if this is treason make the most of it".
ReplyDeleteI worry about Trumps safety, I hope he has a great Praetorian guard. It would be horrible, horrible if anything happened to this leader.He is the hope to many of us.
Swedishlady
https://sputniknews.com/us/201807171066416360-dem-cohen-trump-military-coup/
ReplyDeleteSeems like Steve Cohen called for a military coup against Trump. I hope there will be consequences for Cohen now.Are they losing their minds ?
Swedish lady
"Evil forces must command the MSM nowadays. The US media is looking for blood and war...crazy CIA-Brennans accusation of treason ...Steve Cohen called for a military coup against Trump...Are they losing their minds ?
ReplyDeleteSwedish lady"
"Minds" This crop of homegrown anti-American Progressive-Jihadis don't use those! They probably melted their circuits in on-campus drug binges a long time ago. Hence, SNAFU is their standard operational mode, which we see in the NEWS daily, mostly the Fake kind... turn the page~~~
On Watch~~~
"Let's Roll"