Wednesday, December 07, 2016

Presumptuous Blogging: Things You Should Read (12/07/2016)

Been a while since we've taken a look around the world of news.....

All of this "recount business"? Attempts to undermine faith in the system. For all of the "Trump is a fascist" talk (and he could be, we don't really know yet) the actions by some on the left attempting to undermine the electoral process is just as scary.


Yes, Virginia, the Carrier Bailout is bad. And so is the Texas Enterprise Fund, the Texas Emerging Technologies fund etc.  A fairer tax code with fewer exclusions, credit opportunities and lower base rates would be a rising tide that lifts all economic boats. Not just the ones with deep pockets and political access.


Suddenly, no-witness "racist" attacks are everywhere. Many of them are outright frauds, some are just simple crimes, and a few are actual racism. It'd be nice if we had an honest media to tell us that.


Jill Stein's money grab is an odd little thing. It's blatantly obvious what she's doing. Once again however the media is unwilling to do that dot-connecting thing they enjoy doing.  Funny how that works.


If everything is slavery then nothing is slavery. When clever people overreach the true atrocities become public works of fiction.


Koch's!!!!!!!  Drink.


Progressives get "religion". When it serves their cause and rallies their sycophants to push policy toward enriching progressive campaign donors of course.  That God thing is just window dressing.


Novel idea: It's not the job of Google, Twitter or Facebook to "curb" hate speech. In fact, it's societies job.  But in order to shut down the racists we do need them to have freedom of speech so we know exactly where they are, are going to be, and what in the heck they are doing.


No Sen. Schumer, there's nothing 'sacred' about overhead bin space. More progressive religion spouted by one of society's worst.


We just lost an election. Let's alienate EVERYONE!!!!!  Instead of, you know, admitting that you nominated the least-likable Presidential candidate in recent years?  That you've built a losing coalition based on anger and bile? That you really don't have a plan outside of telling pretty much anyone who will listen that you're better than them?   Nah. Let's just piss everyone off.


Every article like this is an in-kind donation to Trump 2020. There are reasons Trump won that go far beyond racism. How the leftist media is reporting on Trump is one of them.


"Republicans" should carry a trigger warning.  These folks can't help themselves.  Hopefully, they move past the anger stage and can at least get to the bargaining stage.  It's going to be a long four years if they don't.


The freak out over "fake news" is precious.  What Abe Greenwald said.


No Chris Tomlinson, the alt-right did NOT invent boycotts. Nor is pretending they did improving your standing as America's worst business columnist.  Good grief.


Rule Number one in Climate Change club is that you don't go against the "sky if falling" hysteria of climate change club. And this is a guy who believe climate change is real, that humans are causing it, and carbon should be taxed.  Think about that for a minute.


The leftist media discovers the "working class", hilarity ensues.  After spending the last eight years pretending either they didn't exist, or they were too stupid to pay any mind to.


And finally.....


Van Jones as liberal sooth-sayer is an odd concept. Even odder, this little nugget from the preamble of the article:

Trump’s actual or apparent embrace of racism, white nationalism, ethnocentrism, misogyny, bigotry and nativism has resulted in at least 900 hate crimes against people of color, Arabs, Muslims and other marginalized groups in the United States.

900?  Actual attacks?  I mean, not including the ones that have been discounted as frauds?  In a media obsessed by "fake news" it's a miracle that they don't understand they are the biggest purveyors of the type, and the most widely read.  This makes them the most dangerous.


Yikes.