Comments on: Have you noticed that Biden and company are acting like rebellious kids doing the opposite of whatever Trump did…

By: Cappy

Cappy — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 13:13:39 +0000

It’s kind of similar to much of what’s left of Reform Judaism.

Grandpa was forced to go to Hebrew School. Wahhh. Three generations of teenage rebellion ensue.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:44:53 +0000

Good to hear!

By: jack

jack — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:41:23 +0000

@Zaphod

They just poked a whole, inserted scope and trimmed off bone spur. In and out in a couple hours. Sore for a couple days but fine now.

Thanks for asking. See we do have a community here at neos.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:36:45 +0000

@Jack:

Good you’re back. How’d it go?

By: jack

jack — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:13:29 +0000

This reminds me of a Seinfeld: The Opposite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y_6fZGSOQI

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 22:40:46 +0000

Tommy. Thanks. And when reality is presented to them….

By: TommyJay

TommyJay — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 21:03:33 +0000

Yeah, what Richard Aubrey said in his first paragraph. That’s what I meant. (Ha!)

No, that was good Richard. I was in fact referring to the masses or base of the left and not the leadership. And while I don’t doubt many of those in the base also think they are well connected to reality, they do so without any appreciation of the difficulty and effort required to pull it off. It’s particularly difficult with media outlets that are awash with propaganda.

Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act. — George Orwell

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 18:47:07 +0000

The left advertises itself s the reality based community. The leaders have their reality and they read it really well. Their goal is absolute power. They lie, they know they lie and they don’t care they’re found out if it’s too late. See how many apologies the MSM is doing about having gotten the ownership of Hunter’s laptop wrong.
Point is, however, their followers, who are the people we meet. These are the people immune to inconvenient facts, who choose positions which–they are told–make them morally superior and virtuous. And, once those positions are taken, challenging them with facts is not challenging an argument. It’s challenging their righteousness, their moral superiority. This triggers powerful resistance including insisting that we are…not very nice.

Early in the Korean War there was an attack on UN positions in which the North Korean army drove masses of civilians ahead of them. The civilians were slaughtered–it was at night which would have made things worse. I see the gullible, lefty followers sort of metaphorically in the position of the unfortunate civilians in the NKPA attack. Who suffers from unrestricted immigration? High energy prices? Who gets Section 8 housing stuck next door? Who is assaulted by catch&release felons? Miseducated? And in between the Left bosses and the masses are the gullible, superior types who are situated so as not to suffer the effects. Not yet. But who talk of a price we have to pay.

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By: Bauxite

Bauxite — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 17:26:25 +0000

TommyJay – Do you realize that the left has long considered itself to be the “reality-based” community? I can’t disagree that there are differences between right and left, but there’s clearly more going through on than our side seeing reality and theirs not.

Frederick – I’m not sure that we’re really that far apart. Sadly, I’m afraid the local/federal distinction that you raise is also breaking down. Look at the woke prosecutors being elected around the country. We had a woke slate of school board candidates last year in my district. We’ll see if there is a backlash against the woke prosecutors as crime goes up.

I would also offer a (very limited) defense of the DC establishment. I think that a lot of them have no idea that what they’re doing is wrong or selfish. If you’ve worked at a federal agency for 15+ years or gone straight from an elite law school to a white shoe law firm, your view of the world is probably a lot different than that of those of us in flyover country. If the mission of the agency is to regulate, tax, and spend to do good, how would such a person understand that regulating, taxing, and spending can do harm too?