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Oddly but unsurprisingly, the Left always sympathizes with and identifies itself as the hivemind maneating disgusting space bugs, and not the handsome and pretty human beings.

This is yet another reminder that, for the Left, hypocrisy is not a thing they find shameful. It is not an accident, not an unintended side effect of their political philosophy or program. Hypocrisy IS the Leftist political philosophy. Hypocrisy IS their program, the whole program. It is all there is for them. Doublethink. Rules for thee; none for me. The freethinkers of the Left want to be free of the rules of logic, of common sense, of justice, of precedent and rule of law. They do not have any other program. There is no principle to which they adhere which they do not routinely break. If your family has lived here for 400 years, you are an invader, but if Somalian moved in yesterday, she's an American. They rejoice at Supreme Court Justice who's only qualification for the job is that she's a woman, but who cannot define the word woman. They are against patriarchy, but favor Islam. They are against rape culture, but favor Islam. They are against slavery, but favor Islam. They expect whites to pay reparations for evils done 500 years ago, but do not expect looters to serve full sentences for evils done yesterday. They call it treason to question the security of our national elections, but then say Russia hacked our national elections. They really wish you to abide by the rules of political correctness, and never to notice that the rules contradict themselves from season to season, or even from day to day.

No. However, learning geometry from reading Euclid and Apollonius, Descartes and Loebechevsky; or astronomy and physics from Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Pascal, Newton and Einstein, was enough to cure me forever from the temptation to glamorize, glorify, and worship science. This is a temptation far too many far too parochial modern midwits fall into, and all atheists. Nothing displays the slovenly nature of modern thinking more clearly than the contrast with the clarity, rigor, and precision of the ancients. And yet the moderns boast without ceasing that their modest accomplishments are the sum of all truth, while disparaging their forefathers, to whom they have added a modest legacy, as being false and superstitious. It is like seeing Nero inherit the purple of Caesar, and expect the ovation due Caesar.

"Why in the world would women rather go to work than hang out with their frikking babies all day?!" Feminists are Marxist. They are the enemies of God and man. Even as the serpent in Eden went after the woman first, women are naturally gentler then men, more cooperative, more willing to listen to the opinion of the consensus. Even as certain birds learn to mimic the bird calls of other species, Communists have made a deliberate, scientific, thorough study of the psychological warfare art of manufacturing and artificial appearance of consensus, when there is no consensus. Women folk will naturally be far more easily swayed than men folk by the appearance of consensus, and their natural maternal instincts can be appropriated and affixed to inappropriate objects, such as political movements rather than babies. This is particularly true of young unmarried women. And, once convinced, the dire penalty for going against the consensus is to be seen as weird, uncooperative, a troublemaker, an outsider, an enemy. Men have this weakness too, but it manifests less often, less strongly, and they can break out of it more easily. So to destroy the family, all the Communists need to do is convince women that true freedom consists of avoiding virginity, marriage, motherhood, love of community. Feminists convinced women that true freedom consists of harlotry and infanticide. Feminists are not your friend.

Apparently, this is real.

Wait until they are six and you can do funny voices while reading ONE FISH TWO FISH RED FISH BLUE FISH. The kids will give you an Oscar and an Emmy.

Leftist hate women too. They tell women that harlotry, infanticide, misandry will make them happy, and that chivalry, romance, love, marriage, babies will not. Women need to be protected from such serpents. But both Mohammed and Marx, pedopolygamist and fornicator, hated women.

Freethinkers and liberals promise Utopia, but never seem to realize that UTOPIA was satire. Thomas More was mocking the pretensions of the freethinkers and liberals who thought a non-Catholic non-monarchist egalitarian society could be based on Puritan principles or the dark conceits of Plato's Republic. More told his tale a century and a quarter before Oliver Cromwell attempted just that, and only managed to erect Christendom's first military theocratic dictatorship. Like NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR by Geo Orwell, it was a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual.

It occurs to me that Commies are more evil than Nazis, not less evil. Nazis are National Socialists -- it is in the name -- and so at least depend in misleading the folk through nationalism, patriotism, resistance to communism. Commies are international socialists, who mislead folk through hatred of civilization. In addition to abolishing the Church, abolishing all monarchies and republics, all traditions in art and architecture and literature, looting all the landowners and tradesmen, robbing all the farmers of their lands, abolishing the calendar to eliminate AD and BC and making it now YEAR ONE, the Commies wish to eliminate the Jews, the White Race, and Women. The Nazis at least appealed to some sort of normal human emotions. The Commies are just deranged. At one time, perhaps, Commies promised utopia where all wealth was equal and all goods and services were free. But no more. Now they just hate the rich, but they only pretend to. They do not hate Soros. Benie is a million, and so is Obama. Commies defend corporate culture, gay Disney, the establishment news, MS DNC, and the plutocrats. When I was young, the Commies favored the founding of Israel, and did not demand the extermination of the Jews. The racism of Nazism was the one clearest demarcation of what made Nazis evil. That was how one could tell the mass murders of the Commies from the mass murders of the Nazis. The Nazis killed Jews. The Commies killed everyone equally. But now that the Commies are singling out Jews for harassment, hatred, torture and death, what distinguishing them from the Nazis? Even in the death toll, the Commies are worse. The Nazis did not mass murder even a tenth of the innocent folk done in by Mao and Stalin &c. Compare the One Hundred Million mass murder mark for Commies to the Six Million mass murder mark for Nazis. Six percent.

Reading this legitimately brought a tear of nostalgia vto my eye.

No grounds exist to object to CNN, MS DNC, or Politico having White House press passes revoked. It should have been done long ago. Speak not about freedom of the press Nothing requires the USA to aid and abet an enemy campaign to defame, damage, and destroy her.

Sir, I think you're giving them too much credit. I have a theory. Please hear me out: I noticed long ago that the Left will pass by a real problem, such as real racial homicides or abuses of police power, to wax indignant over an imaginary problem, such a career criminal in custody dying of drug overdose. Even when the race of all parties involved fir the Leftist "narrative," as when racist White officers abuse and kill a Black suspect, if the crime actually happened, and the accused person is actually guilty, the Left will ignore it, preferring to accuse the innocent. They only protest crimes that never happened, and wax indignant over problems that don't exist. Moreover, when selecting and imaginary crime to protest, or an innocent man to accuse, they never select a likely crime or believable accusation. Instead they will propound pure absurdities as when NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace alleged that an ordinary garage door pull was a racist noose, prompting 15 special agents of the FBI to investigate. Obviously, no race car driver who has lived around cars professionally is unaware of what a garage door looks like, or what the various means to open and shut garage doors might be. The accusation was obviously stupid and obviously unbelievable from the beginning. So it is with most such Leftist accusations and causes. No one actually believes a man in wig and dress is a woman. No one actually believes a baby in the womb is not alive. My theory? These things are stupid and absurd on purpose. They are as unbelievable as possible on purpose. As when a criminal gang insists a new member commit a heinous crime in order to prevent the new member from repudiating his loyalty, so here. A gullible chump fooled by a believable lie might well change his mind once the truth is known. But a freak who sees the lie is unbelievable, but loves the Left far more than he loves the truth far more than he loves any sense of honor or decency, will never change his mind. Truth be damned. The freak is more useful to the left than the chump. Once a man has publicly supported a blatant lie, and cruelly and sadistically accused and slandered the perfectly innocent, he cannot back down. He cannot change his mind. What he said is unforgivable. Acosta will never find work in any right-wing news source, or even among any decent people, because the lies he tells are too obvious to be believed. We know he knows that we know he is lying. So he can never stop. His loyalty is certain. So it is with all true believers of the left. They're all Jim Acosta.

An honest man of my acquaintance was recently accusing Trump, of all people, of corruption. Not the Democrats, not the establishment GOP, but Trump. I did not have the heart to attempt to dissuade him of this absurd idea. When a man is demoralized he is unable to distinguish friend from foe, threat from aid. And this particular honest man honestly could not tell an honest man from a crook. Even a skeptic should see why they're a good reasons to assume that Trump is not corrupt. The establishment would have given him a zillion dollars not to run a second time. Or, once in office, all he had to do was play along with the establishment, with the money laundering scheme of the Ukraine war, and he too could have dipped into the slush fund of the USAID. No honest man really thinks Trump, one of the caniest businessmen in history, could not make as much money through graft as Nancy Pelosi with her insider trading or Ilhan Omar with her fraud and kickbacks. Even Joe Biden in his senility, and he was never that bright to begin with, was able to net millions of dollars from China and Ukraine merely by pedaling influence. The Clintons did so through their comically fake and transparent charity fund. And Hunter Biden did so through his even more comically fake and even more obviously transparent sale of modern art. If this is what idiots who never worked a day in their life can do to open the floodgates of speculation, a cunning real estate speculator could most obviously do much more and much more subtly. No man takes a bullet rather than a bribe if he is crooked, much less stands up and urges the crowd to courage and to fight onward. Trump is the only politician in history who took a pay cut to serve in the White House. And, finally, if he had been corrupt in any slightest way over any smallest thing the Democrat a party and the Press would not have gone to the trouble of inventing completely fictitious and patently ridiculous crimes to accuse him of, such as meddling with business records, or overvaluing the estimated cost of a building put up as collateral, or attempted to illegalize appointing alternate electors, or attempted to impeach him over carrying out at treaty obligation he had with Ukraine to investigate international corruption. And they certainly would not have had to resort to bring him up on RICO charges without charging him with an underlying crime. That doesn't make any sense in law or logic You can't conspire to commit a crime without a crime you are conspiring to commit. If Trump had done something wrong, or something impeachable, they wouldn't have needed to fake up January 6th, and investigate him for the so-called crime of telling people to peaceably disperse. No one shoots blanks when they have ammo. No one takes a bullet when he could have taken a bribe.

The ghosts of the myriad aborted children have asked the Angel of the Passover, who slew the firstborn in Egypt, to grant them vengeance.

I had forgotten that Trump destroyed ISIS in a month (which other politicians said would never be destroyed) and moved the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem (which all presidents promised to do, and did not do). I remembered Obama saying overseas factory jobs could never be returned, and that Trump would need a magic wand to bring them back. I remember Obama making his apology tour of the Middle East. I also remember how proud I was in my youth that America was winning the space race with the USSR. When Elon Musk put a car into orbit, some of that old pride returned. I also remember Roe v Wade. I remember who appointed the justices that overturned this demonic abomination of the law. I remember the Democrats telling me that the China virus was racist. That Trump stopping flights from China was racist. I also remember the Democrats using the China virus as an excuse to shut down churches in America, but leaving taverns, bars, and strip clubs open. Vote in the midterms as if your life depends on it. We outnumber the enemy. If we vote, we win. If we don't vote, we don't win.

"....because I don't understand them in terms of anything else that you are more familiar with." He is pointing out that all explanations operate by precedent, just as law cases do. The unexplained is explained in terms of what one already knows. Likewise, novel legal cases are decided in terms of cases already decided. In both physical explanations and legal explanations continuity between the cases is assumed. The difference is that the continuity of nature is an unspoken metaphysical principle assumed for the sake of doing physics. The continuity of the law is an unspoken ethical principle assumed for the sake of doing justice.

Our Kzinti overlords are much less ferocious than Larry Niven had led me to believe. Teela Brown told Earth just to rub their bellies rather than fight. That was lucky.