The McCain Matrix, TP Good Old Days

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-mccain-funeral-dc-20180901-story.html#

"Eras" in the BOistan technoworld seem to last minutes ... remembering "all the way back to 2008" is like eternity, but supposedly that is the time for which "The Party" (TP-D), and it's adjunct the MSM want to paint a misty portrait of with the now "great man", John McCain looming in the background. My, my, how times change ... here is a quote from WaPo in April of 2008.

It was early 1992, and the occasion was an informal gathering of a select committee investigating lingering issues about Vietnam War prisoners and those missing in action, most notably whether any American servicemen were still being held by the Vietnamese. It is unclear precisely what issue set off McCain that day. But at some point, he mocked Grassley to his face and used a profanity to describe him. Grassley stood and, according to two participants at the meeting, told McCain, "I don't have to take this. I think you should apologize." 

McCain refused and stood to face Grassley. "There was some shouting and shoving between them, but no punches," recalls a spectator, who said that Nebraska Democrat Bob Kerrey helped break up the altercation.

McCain is Trump with a worse temper and a lot less money. His ONE advantage over Trump is his service -- something TP gives ZERO respect to when he failed to do their bidding.

He has ALWAYS been an angry prima donna, demanding to be at center stage and unwilling or unable to deal with those who fail to bow and worship at the altar of McCain ... or "McNasty", his old nickname.  I love this one from the article -- talk about "karma" relative to the Trump digs at McCain ...

Smith, whose service in the Navy included a tour on the waters in and around Vietnam, said he stood stunned one day when McCain declared around several of their colleagues that Smith wasn't a real Vietnam War veteran. "I was in the combat zone, off the Mekong River, for 10 months," Smith said. "He went on to insult me several times. I wasn't on the land; I guess that was his reasoning. . . . He suggested I was masquerading about my Vietnam service. It was very hurtful. He's gotten to a lot of people [that way]."

Trump and McNasty ... peas in a pod. Vain, narcissistic, hot tempered, profane, womanziers, etc ... no wonder they didn't get along. McCain ESPECIALLY liked to **WIN**, and no doubt that is the BIGGEST single thing he and TP hate about Trump. "Winning" is of course the ONLY thing that matters to the underdog in BOistan ... and it also matters that you support someone who can win even a tiny bit against the TP behemoth.

 I liked this meme for those whose memory has been dulled enough to think the MSM always thought McCain was "great'.

Think it's just a foolish meme? Here is a link to at least one such article ... isn't interesting how Republican candidates always suffer from Alzheimers or some other mental illness? From TP's POV, opposing TP is either a sign of low intelligence or insanity, so it is a small wonder they see the world this way.

I don’t take the subject of Alzheimer’s lightly. My grandfather died of complications from the disease, and I watched his mind waste away over a period of several painful years. But it’s a question that must be asked in view of John McCain’s age. If elected, he would be the nation’s oldest president in history.

If you read this blog you are aware that you live in a TP/MSM (but I repeat myself) created imaginary narrative that bears very very little resemblance to "reality" -- to the extent that exists in this TP, Davos, Deep / Administrative State, made to mislead the sheeple so they believe it is in their advantage to cede more and more of their power and critical thinking to the elites. So was "America" ever great? According to McCain's daughter, yes ...

When she fiercely declared that "the America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great," the generals, senators, former presidents and other world leaders who filled the pews burst into applause.

Really? BO now thinks that "America" was "always great"? Here he is in New Hampshire in 2008

We are ready to take this country in a fundamentally new direction. 

That's what's happening in America right now; change is what's happening in America.

You, all of you who are here tonight, all who put so much heart and soul and work into this campaign, you can be the new majority who can lead this nation out of a long political darkness.

"Fundamental new direction"  ... "out of a long political darkness" ... doesn't really sound like something a "great nation" would require. Michelle Obama was never proud of America until BO was elected -- but there she was, getting candies from W at a TP staged funeral where the elected president of the people who oppose TP was not invited!

The real honest TP answer to "Make America Great Again" is that "America was never great!" ... slavery, discrimination, not enough equality in income, not kind enough to the environment, too warlike, took the country from natives, etc  ... "The Party" (TP-D) since at least FDR has ALWAYS been about LOTS of "change" ... always in the direction of more government, more regulation, higher taxes, being more like Europe, restricting speech, less individual rights, less Christianity, etc.

Cuomo is taking some heat for stating the obvious TP position for some reason this week. Must be "America was always great" week for TP. 

Thinking people certainly understand the reality here. At the time of Nixon, the Deep / Administrative State plus the combined power of TP and the MSM became powerful enough to take down opposition that did not behave in a manner they found acceptable. **ALL** elected officials served at the pleasure of TP! Nixon was proof, that is why his impeachmet is maybe the greatest TP rememberance next to Roe! 

Reagan was an anomoly -- such a great man and such a great communicator, he was well into his 2nd term before TP was able to suitibly damage him. Even then, he destroyed one of TP's most powerful allies, the USSR, a crime for which they will always hate him. 

HW was a complete TP cutout -- heart of a RINO, former CIA director -- 4th branch Deep / Adminstrative State swamp creature from way back.  

Under Slick Willie, Newt Gingerich gained power by appealing to the Reagan / eventual Trump "real American" constituency -- people that thought that the 4th branch could be controlled and reduced, and people that believed that presidents of BOTH parties were under the law. TP proved again that it could protect it's own as it had with Teddy Kennedy  ... as it would do again and continues to do with Hillary Clinton. If you are a TP person with power, you are above the law, and if you are in opposition to TP, there are no lengths they will fail to go to in order to destroy you, your family and your friends! 

We now officially know that W, like his daddy and the whole Bush family was nothing but TP lite. 

BO was to be "The One", the culmination. He DID succeed in making it very clear that TP was in control. The Constitution was abandoned, the separation of powers was ignored, and the new rule of became "a pen and a phone". 

From the POV of TP and no doubt Meghan McCain, 1986-2016 were when "America" was "great", because it was really BOistan ... at least "in waiting". As Trump has made clear, from the start of 1986 when Iran Contra put Reagan in a box, up to 2017, TP has called the tune. RINOs faked being a "nice opposition" so that TP would not destroy them, and people that cared about tired old things like God, morality, Constitutions, limited government, laws that applied to all, etc were faked into thinking they still had some voice. 

McCain was the perfect RINO -- he loved to venemously attack semi-real Republicans in order to be honored by TP and it's spokesman the MSM. The years of "greatness" were the effective BOistan years from '86 - '16. Reagan had been kind enough to fix the economy so there was a lot of money for most of it, and then BO stole enough from the few remaining workers in BOistan and the future to at least make it seem "stable". Hey, "2%" of cooked numbers "growth" became what BOistanis accepted as "sustainable, realistic, environment friendly, psuedo growth". 

According to Politico in 2016, growth like 4% isn't even POSSIBLE any more, and back then, economic performance was apparently a lot of what they saw "greatness" to be. 

Yet that hasn’t stopped a bidding war of unrealistic promises, beginning with Jeb Bush’s claim that his economic proposals could raise U.S. annual GDP growth from 2.5 percent in 2015 and 2.4 percent in 2014 to 4 percent—a rate much higher than the rate under Obama (2.1 percent), George W. Bush (1.6 percent), Bill Clinton (3.7 percent), George H. W. Bush (2.0 percent), and Ronald Reagan (3.4 percent).

See, "2 something" (after juicing the number by 2-3% in 2015) is all the real experts say is possible. Get used to it you stupid sheeple! Pay no attention to that 4.2% 2Q 2018 ... hell, we may have even just had an ACTUAL 1-2% GDP growth since TP last took over the full reins in '06! 

TP's idea of "greatness" is no, or fake opposition. McCain and his band of fake RINOs were PERFECT! When BO was in power, TP was well down the road to jailing Christians for their religious beliefs and stamping out the speech of everyone who failed to bow to whatever TP declared to be "moral" -- all while McCain and his merry RINOs cheered them on! 1986 to 2016 were their "good old days", and they get especially misty eyed for '06-'16! 

If only Hildebeast was in the WH, Slick would be doing more than just enjoying a "look" at one of Ariana Grande's many good sides ... 

Note, while the media finds it very sad that Slick is appreciating her, I would not want to be subjected to such constant filming -- as I often say, I may be old, but I'm not dead ... there is actually nothing much more natural than a male noticing a pretty woman, especially when she has not wasted a lot of material in providing length to her skirt. I know, I know ... "women can wear WHATEVER they want, or very close to nothing, and in the modern world it is SICK for men to notice. OTOH, any male that doesn't CELEBRATE a gay kiss is ALSO "sick" ... it is just the world that we are told we live in.

It takes a good deal of effort to retain your memory and observe how we are all being fed a narrative with an agenda that is TOTALLY not your agenda if you are remotely Christian or conservative. This past week was a major climax in the TP story line  -- a new dead hero was created out of smoke and mirrors with  basically no connection to the actual man, nor the real times that he and we lived through. That is BOistan -- it is one big made for propaganda funhouse.

Will the "Reality TV" background of Trump allow him to survive and even thrive in this left leaning matrix? 

Perhaps, if more people take the Red Pill!

BOistan, Opposition Presumed Guilty

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/trump-russia-probe-robert-mueller-time-for-truth/

The linked article is an excellent SHORT summary by the almost always excellent (but not always short) Victor Davis Hanson. If you read this blog, you know that the entire Mueller probe is a travisty, but one of the underlying issues is the unraveling of a basic human value -- the presumption of innocence. 

Instead of presuming Trump innocent unless he finds evidence of Russian collusion, Mueller started with the assumption that the reckless raconteur Trump surely must be guilty of some lawbreaking. Thus, it is Mueller’s job to hunt for past crimes to prove it.

Getting Americans to buy fully into the idea that members of TP ("The Party"-D) are inherently innocent, or if not innocent, "absolved" (see Slick Willie, Hildebeast, BO, the Kennedys, etc). To be in "opposition" to TP is itself a crime in BOistan, so the task is reduced to "finding the specifics". They already know you are guilty of not being a member of TP, the unforgiveable sin, the only question now is; "What ELSE are you guilty of?".

BOistan is charting new waters here -- it is proving it is a "crime" simply to win an election and not be TP (or a suitably TP-like RINO). 

No president has ever faced impeachment for supposed wrongdoing alleged to have taken place before he took office — not Andrew Johnson, not Richard Nixon, and not even Bill Clinton, who lied about his liaisons with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office. With the effort to go back years, if not decades, into Trump’s business and personal life, we are now in unchartered territory.

There are LOTS of new waters in BOistan ... if you want to run in California and have a 501C, all it takes is someone to ACCUSE you of "coordination", and the burden of proof is on YOU to "prove yourself innocent" rather than on the state to prove you guilty! Welcome to the gulag combrade!

Victor would like to see some of the FBI agents and even Hillary investigated for a few of the crimes already uncovered and KNOWN relatrive to coordination on the Steele Dossier, wiretapping and spying on the Trump campaign. That would be an excellent idea -- if we ever again live in a state not ruled by TP!

No Elites For Mollie

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/08/who-controls-the-executive-branch.php5e

This fine column points out that FICA and the IRS refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Nationalization Services -- thus folks like Mollie Tibbett's killer roam free to predate on prey like Mollie. Deep / Administrative State agencies could care less -- "Undocumented Democrats" are just as good a members of "The Party" (TP-D) as the documnented sorts, so a little "collateral damage" is fine wiht TP.

We live in a completely tribal nation where any sense of proportion or reason has been completely lost. Observe "common sense gun control", "build the wall", and "reproductive freedom".

In the case of the last "right", the Constitution is invoked as "sacred" -- the "constitution" with a "prenumbra" that contained some fairy dust recognizeable by liberals providing a "right" heretofore totally unknown! By the logic of Roe, there is no need for a 19th Amendment (nor any other amendment). The SOCTUS can conjure any right out of some mysterious reading of the Constitution.

Moving to the right to bear arms, we have the inverse. An acutal enumerated right considered by the Founders to be 2nd in priority only to freedom of speech and religion. And correctly so -- for without the 2nd, none of the other rights are worth the paper they are written on. What does the left think of THAT right? it doesn't exist! "Common sense" is that the government decides who may have a "gun" of whatever kind they decree -- much of their "common sense" would indicate a muzzle loading musket would be the only kind appropriate.

Like everything in the liberal mind, the Constitution is "sacred" relative to killing the unborn, even though there is no such right actually found in the Constitution. Guns OTOH, although a clearly enumerated right, are a right that is unrecognizeable to the liberal mind.

"Build the Wall" means "control the borders". Having a nation at all requires having control of your borders. BO may be a "citixzen oif the world" in his own mind, but a check of reality will show there are NO "citizens of the world" ... like many things BO believes, it is a peer fantasy, nothing but words.

Will building a wall stop all illegals? Certainly not ... will forcing people to pay for seat belts, air bags, beeping gongs, flashing warnings, etc prevent all auto deaths? If only! The usual standard for liberal "safety" is "if one child's life can be saved". Naturally, they murder babies by the 10's of millions for convienience, and care nothing of the actual cost of illegal immigration because they love the Undocumented Democrats. If they were consistent, they would not be "liberals".

Just as the name Kathryn Steinle, the woman killed by an illegal in SF in 2017 has been forgotten, Mollie Tibbets is already being erased. TP finds her to be expendable in the name of adding more Undocumented Democrats to the no-ID voting roles. Kathryn and Mollie are just a tiny tip of the iceberg of illegal immigrant crime the TP controlled media can't hide. One needs to go foreign to get any sort of numbers ... Sweden is a good case in point. I love how they quote that "violence is actually going down BUT ..." ... in the US, after the last mass shooting, they just fail to report that gun violence is actually going done ... which is true here as well -- it all depends on what way the media is trying to influence how you think. They just aren't much for "we report, you decide": these days.

It's the little people out in "fly over country" that care about deaths like Mollie and Kathryn, merely because those deaths are especially painful because they are SO avoidable!  The elites always have a "higher purpose" for their "caring", and when you look closely the answer is that what they really do honestly care about is that their wealth and power continues to increase.

Democratic Socialism, A Cuban American Explains

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2018/08/28/democrat-family-escaped-socialism-ocasio-cortez-worries-me-column/1106307002/

This column by the son of Cuban immigrants is worth the time. I think this paragraph gives us a look at the only "benefit" of "Democratic Socialism" ...

Like those of yesteryear, today’s socialists believe the government should nationalize major industries, propose eliminating private ownership of companies, and reject profits. In other words, democratic socialism is a lot like the system my family fled, except its proponents promise to be nicer when seizing your business.

What I disagree with the columnist on is that what "Democratic Socialism" really is would be "Democratic Fascism" ... Hitler with a smiley face. This is well covered in Jonah Goldberg's book "Liberal Fascism". 

Today's millenials are ripe for fascism ... certainly not students of history, very easily taken in by the slick pitch about "greatest good for the greatest number", no theological of philosophical grounding.  Lambs to the slaughter.

#FakePartisan, Enemy Of The Deep State

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-non-grata-trump-often-unwelcome-and-unwilling-to-perform-basic-rituals-of-the-office/2018/08/28/302b60ee-aa16-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html?utm_term=.d8d61dac61b6&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

Understanding "politics" in BOistan 2018 is very simple:

1. There is ONE party, "The Party" (TP-D) that you must be a member of if you want to be "elite". It owns the Deep / Administrative State, the MSM, all of the legal system except for the SCOTUS, education, and corporate BOistan except for a few energy companies.
2. There is a #FakeParty that uses an elephant as a symbol -- see below to understand this party IS NOT "the opposition" to TP ... it is the adjunct cutout.
3. TP and it's stooges in the #FakeParty are completely beholden to the Deep / Administrative State as well as the international Davos crowd. Follow the money ... in BOistan it is in DC and government workers. 

What is the proof of this for this week? Read on ...

In addition to being pointedly not invited to McCain’s funeral and memorial service later this week — while former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush will both eulogize the Arizona Republican — Trump was quietly asked to stay away from former first lady Barbara Bush’s funeral earlier this year.

If our "politicians" where truly "partisan", rules like Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment  ("Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican") would be in effect. While supposedly "in power", W was never accepted as a legitimate president by TP. He was "appointed by the SCOTUS", he was too stupid to read, he was castigated because it was claimed he wasn't a very good fighter pilot in the TX National Guard (nevermind that Slick Willie and BO never put on any sort of uniform for even a day).

Now however? The Bushes are fully alingned with TP to discredit and remove Trump! "Partisanship" stops at TRUMP ... because Trump threatens the Deep / Adminstrative / Davos TP State! It's been 30 years since Reagan left the White House, and since that time we have had nothing but TP controlled "presidents" up to Trump!

HW was a former director of the CIA -- you don't get much more Deep State than that. Slick Willie was a nothing from Arkansas, but he had spent time at Oxford including taking part in anti-Vietnam war protests off shore, and a week long foray into the USSR. Slick was somewhat a "citizen of the world" as well (hick of the world?).

W was and is clearly part of the TP controlled state apparatus. Sure, he "played a role" as being something different during the early '00's, but unsurprisingly, he and BO were on the same page relative to the massive government bailouts of Wall Street and the banks in '08. I'm sure they will enjoy getting together and comparing notes on the joys of being an ex-president member of TP in good standing!

Isn't it convienient that John McCain was the cutout for the coronation of BO? Then Mittens Romney with his "binders of women" and his arcane thinking that Russia, RUSSIA! Was an enemy! This was 2012 folks ... BO proudly put poor Mitt in his place with "The 1980's called, they wanted their foreign policy back!". Hey, "the Cold War is OVER" ... those Russians are GOOD GUYS, they even take our astronauts to space!

The TP controlled media has told you the Russians are our friends, up to enforcing BO's "Red Line" (pink line?) in Syria in 2013 AND our sworn enemies over a period of less than 6 years. Are you a marionette or a thinking person?

As we watch the TP controlled State cannonize one of the true RINO weasels of all time this week, watch and LEARN. **ONLY** when we ALL bow and scrape to TP can we be "one nation of BOistan, under Satan". There is zero room for diversity of thought in BOistan. Learn to be comfortable in the "way of the weasel" if you want to be a "Republican" ... run on one thing, then do the opposite! THEN, be cannonized by TP as a "great man".

If you want to stand up and be what used to be called "American", Trump is the only current leader around with those credentials. Imperfect as hell, YEsssss! One can dream of a time with better leaders that stand for something other than fealty to TP, but that time is not yet! If we don't support this one, be ready to stand in socialist lines and do without!

No Virtue To Signal

Virtue & Democracy -- The People We Deserve | National Review:

I've been blogging for 13 years now and thinking critically (meaning reading history, philosophy and theology) rather than buying into the "flavor of the day" from ANY news source ... left or right for 40years. I have no need to virtue signal -- I have no virtue, I am the most filthy of sinners, completely unworthy of the mercy that I pray and believe that Jesus Christ bestows on me without the least shred of merit.

In the "80's", I believed that our society had been heavily damaged by the "sick sixties", and if we merely saw the error of our ways since then, we would return to a virtuous society. Now I know it is MUCH deeper than that ... William of Occam, the Reformation, the "Enlightenment", the advance of technology (ease, mass communication, birth control, etc) and a few other things ALLOWED (not "caused") the decline of not only America, but "Western civilization" in it's entirety.

To talk of "school shootings" or "gun control" is like a 95 year old terminal cancer patient seeking treatment for acne compared to what the fact of mass shootings, massive addiction, massive death by overdose/suicide, and the utter hopelessness that most of the population of our broken excuse for a "cutlure / civilization" are experiencing . It is COMPLETELY meaningless given our plight. I covered the idiocy of concern for shootings after Vegas. Just look at FB -- lots of virtue signalling from many ... signifying exactly nothing except "this is my tribe, please agree with me, lots of people in my tribe agreeing with me gives my life the illusion of meaning".

As I posted on one friends FB lament, in 1974 when I graduated HS, we took our guns to school to go hunting after school or to work on them in shop. The idea of a "school shooting" was just as far from our minds as the idea of "texting" ... it simply didn't exist. M-16's however DID exist -- guys used the full auto versions in "Nam" and some of them started hunting with the semi-auto versions of them because they were light and accurate, and since the body mass of a deer is pretty much exactly like a person, they were of course great deer guns.

"Made for one purpose only" is one of the zanier lines out there relative to guns. It is true that guns are single purpose items ... they are built to send projectiles downrange as accurately as possible. The VAST bulk of projectiles hit PAPER or some similar sort of target, because that is what they are used for. The best comparison for me is golf -- correct, nobody NEEDS to have multi-thousand dollar clubs to put a white ball in a hole on a field, but humans OFTEN do MANY things that nobody "needs" to do. Here is Robin Williams on the sense of golf (many f-bomb warning)

Oh, "but golf balls don't kill people" ... but certainly they do, and no doubt clubs are used as weapons, carts crash, etc, etc. If it were not so sad it would be extremely ironic that it was William of Occam that declared that objects have no inherent purpose / meaning as in being "sacred", but are rather mere objects with any meaning only assigned by man -- "nominalism".

The fetishization of guns is a pretty good proof that something in the nature of man wants to imbdue objects with purpose and meaning.

So our lives are FILLED with all sorts of things that we "don't need", many of which are even explicitly harmful (like cigarettes).  However, we DO need to feel virtuous as part of our human nature, so thousands of people signalling their virtue on FB by declaring that "nobody NEEDS an "assault rifle"", when probably 1% of them could tell you what the difference between an "AR" and some other gun was. The answer is of course "nothing but style". I have a nasty looking "black gun", a .223 Bushmaster, and a nice wooden stock Remington 742 Woodsmaster 30-06. I can put a 30 round magazine in either one of them and shoot those rounds as fast as I can pull the trigger, because they are semi-auto.

I'm not much in the shop, but given a not too huge amount of time, if I need to convert 5 or 10 round mags into 30, 60 or whatever, I can ... however the time would likely be better spent working on mag change dexterity which with even a klutzy guy like me a medium level of skill can pretty much make magazine size moot -- "wait till he changes mags then rush him" is wishful thinking if the shooter is even moderately skilled at a mag change.

Short of ceasing to honor the 2nd amendment (which just makes it REALLY clear that there are no "laws" in BOistan), or actually repealing it -- legal, but unlikely, all the virtue signalling about "Assault Weapons" is just virtue signalling. Preventing car companies from putting "SS" (Super Sport) on ttheir cars ... or wide tires, or dual exhausts, etc because "it makes them seem like Race Cars" is of similar use.

"This highlights the problem with capitalism. As Irving Kristol observed in one of his greatest works, “When Virtue Loses All Her Loveliness,” there is a difference between a “free society” and a “just” or “bourgeois” society. The Founders worked on the assumption that the people themselves would be the guardians of virtue, probity, norms, and even public safety in their own communities. And, as Kristol notes, for the first century or two of capitalism’s existence, it was largely synonymous with a just/bourgeois society."

In the 20th century, we did away with "just" step by step until we ended up with a mass of individuals with no idea of right or wrong ... and even less of the eternal consequences of "wrong".

Trade, DOW, No News

https://www.actionforex.com/live-comments/125175-dow-breaks-26000-as-nafta-announce-is-almost-certain/

I knew the market was on a tear yesterday, I did a google of "market breaks 26K", and the articles were sparse ... the linked was the only one on the first page of hits (rest were first 26k break in 2017). Dow news was totally absent CNN, and on my Google News, the first semi-related story was from Bloomberg ... "Trump's Mexico Trade Deal Looks Like a Lemon". Wow, is it yellow?

So the president proimises a new trade deal during the campaign, DELIVERS, and the MARKETS surge as business finds it to be very good news, but virtually the entire US media finds the economy to be a non-story! I DID actually go over and look at Fox on the web, which I rarely do -- OMG, what a total tabloid! Fox is no longer "news" at all, fake, or otherwise ... when this is your "below the fold" on the web, you don't deserve to be clicked by sentient humans ...

"Mysterious Appearance"! And yes, ESPN and CNN are out on a Tiger hatefest because he refused to go make disparaging remarks about the President! I suppose at least 50% of BOistanis find this to be ""news", but this is really NOT "a country", let alone "my country" at this point!