The Biden campaign, planning for every contingency it seems, recently wargamed a situation where, in the event Trump won re-election, the entire West Coast would secede, and the public would wait to see what the military would do. Democratic insider John Podesta played the role of Biden in their scenario, and refused to concede, prompting the secession.
Secession is all the rage these days among the Left, which always seems to fester among the losing side in any election. (Which makes me wonder about all those polls showing Biden ahead.) Along these lines, just this past Thursday, NPR featured the author Richard Kreitner on its morning news shows, Morning Edition. Kreitner was pushing his new book, a history of American secessionism. Kreitner has previously written for the Nation and Slate and currently lives in Brooklyn, so I think it’s safe to call him a leftist.
Kreitner’s book purports to examine whether “it’s time to break up” the United States. Of course, Kreitner assured the listener, while he didn’t “want” states to secede, he also didn’t see why California should have the same number of senators as Wyoming. My way or the highway, essentially.
You hear this argument quite a bit among the Left, actually. The tyranny of the Senate. California has so many times the population as Wyoming, so why should they have the same number of senators? A cursory glance at some of Vox legal writer Ian Milhiser’s ravings will reveal similar sentiments.
Memo to the Left: California should have the same number of senators as Wyoming because California agreed to have the same numbers of senators as every other state when it applied to join the Union in 1850.
No surprise the Democrats put little weight in words. From Kamala Harris laughing off her earlier condemnations of Joe Biden’s sexual predations as merely the stuff of a “debate,” to Bill Clinton dancing around the definition of “is,” Democrats treat words as things to be twisted and manipulated, not to be backed up with conviction. Joe Matthews, a journalist for Zocalo Public Square, claimed on NPR that it was good that Kamala Harris had no conviction, because it allowed her to blow wherever “the wind blows.”
Words are supposed to mean something. To fewer and fewer Democrats, they don’t.
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Just Words
Posted: August 22, 2020 by datechguy in politics, UncategorizedTags: damagnificent seven
Five One Liners Under Other Bloggers Fedoras Instapundit, Right Wing Granny, Fisherville Mike, Adrinenne’s Corner and The Lid
Posted: August 22, 2020 by datechguy in blogs, culture, education, middle east, politics, SportsTags: blogs, covid panic, election 2020, fisherville mike, instapundit, middle east, race, right wing granny, sports, sudan, the lid
IF I WERE THE GOP, I’D JUST RUN CLIPS OF THE DNC DURING THE RNC:
Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit:
Nothing hurts the Democrats more than people seeing them as they are
Sudan (and the other Arab countries) have to make a choice–do they want to submit to Iran or make peace with Israel and remain as independent countries?
From Right Wing Granny:
The very idea that Sudan is even considering peace with Israel is completely surreal.
But instead of watching sports in June and July, TV viewers watched Fox News.
From Fisherville Mike
I can’t wait till the next round of negotiations for TV contracts for the four major sports takes place.
This is not how we’re supposed to live.
From Adrienne’s Corner
The more I’ve seen of Americans submitting to the mask lie the less I’ve been confused as to how people fell for Communism and Fascism in the 20th century.
It’s not racist to insist that everyone learn to use the same language, it is racist to say that one group doesn’t have the brains to learn the same language as everyone else.
From The Lid
I’m old enough to remember when it was only white supremacists who insisted Black Americans were incapable of achieving at the level of others.
(fyi He’s always be the Yid with Lid to me)
Datechguy off DaRadio Livestream 3 PM EST, Goodyear , NetFlix & Bannon oh My!
Posted: August 21, 2020 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, business, culture, economy, elections, entertainment, News/opinion, politicsTags: goodyear, livestream, netflix, podcast, steve bannon, weinstein democrats
This week’s DaTechGuy off DaRadio no frills livestream podcast comes via a new laptop (Thanks to all of you) and some new topics:
- Goodyear Goodbye & fighting back
- Netflix & the Weinstein / Epstein Culture
- Bannon and the big lie
We’ll be talking about these and more on DaTechGuy off DaRadio today at 3 PM EST. You can watch the live stream here (the embedded placeholder of last week’s show will be replaced 5 or ten min before we start)
Looking forward to our time together.
FYI remember this podcast exists to do two things.
- Boost the readership of the blog
- Bring in an extra $180 or so a month.
If you like what we do here please share the podcast or consider kicking into DaTipJar. Of course there is the problem of us getting big and effective enough for google, youtube and twitter to ban but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Why POTUS Goodyear Fight Matters
Posted: August 20, 2020 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, business, culture, economy, politicsTags: blm, culture wars, donald trump, goodyear
Harvey: You HIT me!
Captain Troop: Now you just sit there and think about it.
Captains Courageous: 1937
Batman: No Joker. You’re playing the wrong game. The old game. Tonight you’re taking no hostages. Tonight I’m taking no prisoners.
Batman the Dark Knight Returns #3 1986
There are a lot of people on the left (and in NeverTrump) who are salivating over the President taking on Goodyear Tire.
That’s because the left is reactive and not stratigic. They see a chance at a short term gain and are jumping at it.
They’ve missed the entire point of what the President did.
If the President had just tweeted and said nothing else then it might be a minor story.
But when the press secretary was asked about this yesterday, the White House, didn’t spin, didn’t back down, they Doubled down!
And when the president was asked about it later, he didn’t budge:
“I would be very much in favor if people don’t want to buy there,” Mr. Trump told reporters at a White House briefing Wednesday, adding, “I think it’s disgraceful that they did this.”
Asked whether he’d be willing to swap out the Goodyear tires on the presidential limousine, Mr. Trump responded, “Yeah, I would do that. I would, I would swap them out, based on what I heard. We’ll see what happens. Look. you’re going to have a lot of people not wanting to buy that product anymore. And they’ll buy from a competitor, made in the USA, okay?”
And the result. Goodyear stock was down 3% and it’s reported that Goodyear dealers aren’t happy about what the company did.
What does this mean? It mean that the next time a BLM group or a consulting firm or a HR department full of woke leftist decide to tell a company to pony up, give in or to retrain their workforce, instead of instantly giving in or paying off and they have in the past they now know that they do, they are just one tweet away from slicing their customer base by tens of millions.
This is why we conservatives can’t spare this man: HE FIGHTS!
The best part? Donald Trump will still retain that power after January of 2025
The old rules are gone the days of fighting back have begun!
