Colorado’s Supreme Court just kicked Trump off the 2024 ballot for that state. Jesus, these people are amateurish. What they should have done was simply repeat 2020: Let him on the ballot and commit enough electoral fraud to keep him out of the White House. Duh. That way they could say: “We still have democracy. There was an election and Trump lost.”
Now they can’t say that. There won’t be an election, not one in which Republican voters were allowed to have their preferred candidate on the ballot.
The word around the campfire is that Colorado’s Supreme Court is hoping the nation’s Supreme Court will overturn them. I hope not: since we don’t have democracy, it’s much better if that fact is a matter of common knowledge (even more than it already is).
As we move further past the event horizon of total leftist insanity, the degradation of the left’s intellectual capacity becomes more obvious. As recently as three years ago they had enough foresight, discipline, and self-control to implement their optimal plan. (I.e. just “win” through fraud.) Now the combination of ideological enstupidization and holiness spiraling is noticeably hurting their ability to act effectively.
Assuming this decision stands, they won’t even be able to argue that there was a democratic election. They will argue that regardless, but no one will take it seriously except people who were already on their side anyway.
I can just see the rapidly dwindling number of non-retarded leftists reacting to this decision: “You had one job! Just repeat the strategy that worked last time!” This is fascinating. It literally hadn’t even occurred to me as a possibility that they would be this stupid.
A lot of people in the world of musical performance seem to think, “The average person is tired of the same old renditions of Christmas carols. I’m going to give them the gift of something different.”
This badly misunderstands the purpose of religious music, and of holiday music, and especially of religious holiday music. The point of religious holiday music is not musical novelty, as with the current Top 40. The point of it is tradition and sheer beauty. In The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis coined the term “the law of undulation.” An older demon is explaining to a younger one how humans experience time. The basic idea is that humans are pinned to time and can’t get out of it… but God has given us a taste of eternity, in the cycles of life. Whether it is from day to day – sunrise and sunset, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, etc. – or from season to season – this spring, this summer, this Christmas – the repetition, the combination of difference and sameness, conveys in some small way a sense of eternity.
So, let me be blunt. No one wants to hear your stupid Country & Western version of his (or her!) favorite Christmas carol. What we want is the sheer beauty of these carols – and time has refined some of them to a point of almost painful beauty – and the sense of eternity of experiencing Christmas, once again.
The other motive for the mangling of Christmas music is sheer ego, and this is not an honest mistake but a sin. I really doubt, when you mangle a Christmas carol, that God is best pleased with you obtrusively inserting yourself into a song that is supposed to be about His Son.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a notable offender here, at least the performance I caught some of on TV recently. Stop “innovating”!
I wish I had a time machine and could go back to the pre-YouTube age and release an album called “Christmas Carols Sung Traditionally.” It would be exactly that, and I’d have walked away with millions of dollars.
On point: In Milton’s Paradise Regained, the Devil is trying to tempt Jesus:
Satan to Jesus: Thy great Father: he seeks glory, And for his glory all things made, all things Orders and governs, nor content in Heaven By all his Angels glorifi’d, requires Glory from men, from all men good or bad, Wise or unwise, no difference, no exemption; Above all Sacrifice, or hallow’d gift Glory he requires, and glory he receives…
To whom our Saviour fervently reply’d… what could he less expect Then glory and benediction, that is thanks, The slightest, easiest, readiest recompence From them who could return him nothing else.
Please understand, Mr. or Miss Innovation, Christmas music is supposed to be about God, not you.
Here are some performances of some carols that are rendered traditionally:
What Child Is This, sung by one Rachel Hardy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPxDn7W7UEg. As far as I’m concerned, it ends at 2:58, though she adds a coda after that. It’s not horrible, but it’s not necessary either. (Also, she’s a good-looking girl, but you should still minimize the window so you don’t have to watch her vamping for the camera.)
Honorable mentions. These can’t be considered traditional because they’re instrumentals and they involve too much improvisation. But they’re quite good, and they don’t mangle the melodies with bizarrely extended phrasing, surreal ululations that sound like aliens drowning in maple syrup, or harmonies that were apparently chosen by random number generators:
What Child Is This, a trio of acoustic guitars. This starts off too show-offy and “artsy,” but once they get rolling it’s gorgeous. Start listening at 1:53. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPRFk8sLIPw. While it’s 5:40 long, it effectively ends at 4:04; after that they’re just noodling.
The first few items are just me clearing some oh-so-very CURRENT YEAR stories out of my notes file. Then I move on to some signs of hope; green sprouts poking up through cracks in the sidewalk, if you will.
1) Man arrested in NYC for saying mean things to a Muslim CNN: “A former Obama-era National Security Council official [one Stuart Seldowitz] has been arrested after a series of videos shared widely on social media showed him using hate-laden, Islamophobic language against an employee working inside a New York City food cart, police said.”
Pleasantly, the man arrested and charged with “hate speech” is a former Obama official. Lefties being force-fed the shit sandwiches they make is a good thing. It is sweet poetic justice, and if leftists are capable of learning at all, this is the only way they can learn.
But it doesn’t change the fact that you can now be arrested in the United States for saying mean things to certain groups.
2) No surprise, but the Hallmark Channel has a gay episode coming up soon: The Holiday Sitter. This was only a matter of timing, of course. If anything, it’s a testament to the girls at Hallmark that their unprincipled exception to leftist sacraments held out this long.
The first sentence at the link: “The AAA and CASCA boards reached a decision to remove the session ‘Let’s Talk about Sex Baby: Why biological sex remains a necessary analytic category in anthropology’ from the AAA/CASCA 2023 conference program.”
So they’re now saying that biological sex is not a necessary analytic category in anthropology. Wow. Now you might shrug and say, “That’s not new; we’ve had the trans thing for years now.” But hold on. Until now the trans activist crazies haven’t really been denying the reality of biological sex, not this explicitly with the imprimatur of an academic conference’s official policy, in writing. (And when they did, if you called them out on it they’d instantly try to back off a bit by using the motte-and-bailey dodge.) They say things like “So-and-so is a biologically male trans woman” or whatever. Yes, it’s flourescently insane, but it does acknowledge that there is such a thing as biological sex. (Otherwise there’d be no difference between a “cis woman” and a “trans woman.”) This is a step beyond that.
I realize that folks who regard themselves as worldly-wise will respond, “Yawn, just the usual leftist insanity.” Please keep in mind, dear 35-year-old reader, that there are always 18-year-olds who are just starting to pay attention to politics. Sure, you already know that the left is cosmically insane, but the newbies don’t.
From the incredible second paragraph: “The session was rejected because it relied on assumptions that run contrary to the settled science in our discipline, framed in ways that do harm to vulnerable members of our community. It commits one of the cardinal sins of scholarship—it assumes the truth of the proposition that it sets out to prove, namely, that sex and gender are simplistically binary, and that this is a fact with meaningful implications for the discipline.”
“A drag queen straddled a girl during a racy performance at a North Carolina community college — prompting the school to potentially ‘revise’ its rules surrounding underage shows, according to officials… A viral video shows the drag queen busting a lap dance-like move on the apparent teenager at Forsyth Technical Community College’s Pride Fest, which students as young as 14 were invited to attend…”
So, summing up, the current ruling establishment says: A tranny straddling a high-school-age girl: OK. Saying there is such a thing as biological sex: Not OK.
If you are new to politics, here’s what those of us on the so-called “right” think: A tranny straddling a high school girl: NOT OK. Saying there is such a thing as biological sex: OK.
And now for signs of hope:
5) November 15, 2023: Supporters of Hamas in the Israel-Hamas conflict vigorously protest at the DNC headquarters in Washington DC. “Top House Democrats evacuated” from the building. Why this is a sign of hope: Conflict among the left’s identity politics groups is a good thing. In this case it’s Jews and Muslims. Also, Jews historically vote heavily Democratic, i.e. for the party that advocates and practices the importation of kilotons of Muslims. Maybe this will make some of them re-think that. I doubt it, but it’s possible.
6) The comments to this Army ad, November 2023, are quite heartening. I’ve read hundreds of the comments (of about 2.6K) and they’re 99.9% dismissive and contemptuous… and for the right reasons. They all say, explicitly, “Why on earth would I risk my life fighting for a government that hates me?”
7) Continuing a trend – see New York City, e.g. – Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says it’s “abhorrent” to send illegal immigrants to her sanctuary city. LOL. Shit sandwich, you made it, now you’re being forced to eat it.
Does it even occur to leftists to just not make shit sandwiches in the first place?
8) Geert Wilders wins election in the Netherlands. I don’t know much about Wilders but the media uniformly describes him as “far-right” – media-speak for “moderate centrist who doesn’t want his country invaded” – so I assume he’s good.
9) After an Algerian man stabs five in Ireland, including a five-year-old girl and two other children, the Irish people show some backbone in responding (more below). While most media outlets described the man as “an Irish citizen” – I instantly knew that meant a non-Irish paperwork citizen from another country – even Newsweek (!) admits the perpetrator was Algerian. The media have also been describing the attacker as someone “who has lived in Ireland for twenty years.” That doesn’t make the point you think it makes, media whores. It means that even after twenty years, the Magic Dirt still fails. It means that even after twenty years, the invaders haven’t assimilated and still might knife a five-year-old girl.
The story also says, “One Irish woman and one American woman stood in front of the suspect to stop people from beating him.” Jesus.
But also, Irish people rioted massively. “The fact that a man attacked a school run through the Irish, or Gaelic, language helped fuel an outpouring of rage that saw anti-immigrant riots, lootings and arson in the hours that followed. Police struggled to contain the crowds, who attacked them on the street, and burned a hotel housing asylum seekers as well as a tram, a double decker bus and a police car.” The Irish are still willing to fight back when invaders assault their countrymen.
First, the background: “In 2015, many liberal residents in Hamtramck, Michigan, celebrated as their city attracted international attention for becoming the first in the United States to elect a Muslim-majority city council.” Streets were littered with the unconscious bodies of leftists who had fainted from the virtue-signal overload in the pleasure centers of their brains. (The article then goes on to call that election a “rubuke” of Trump, even though this happened in 2015.)
Now to current events:
“This week many of those same residents watched in dismay as a now fully Muslim and socially conservative city council passed legislation banning Pride flags from being flown on city property… Muslim residents packing city hall erupted in cheers after the council’s unanimous vote, and on Hamtramck’s social media pages, the taunting has been relentless: ‘Fagless City’, read one post, emphasized with emojis of a bicep flexing.”
We then get: “While Hamtramck is still viewed as a bastion of multiculturalism…” Er, yes.
“…the difficulties of local governance and living among neighbors with different cultural values quickly set in following the 2015 election.” Now they’re acknowledging “the difficulties of local governance and living among neighbors with different cultural values.” No apology and not even a quantum of shame at having spent decades shrieking “Racist!” at other people who warned of that. In a sick, warped way it must be sort of fun to be a leftist and be so utterly shameless.
They claim to be surprised that the Muslims did what they always said they wanted to do. Too stupid to be believed. Hey, maybe this is all some incredibly clever plot by lefties to ditch the gay stuff. They import a bunch of Muslims, who will do the job of removing homosexual propaganda from public spaces, and the lefties can cry crocodile tears about how upsetting it all is.
I’d almost believe that idea if leftists weren’t so incredibly fucking stupid. To be serious, here’s the puzzler, and about this I’m not kidding:
Leftists obviously don’t actually care about whatever it is they say they care about, including gay lib, but they definitely DO care about acquiring and keeping power. And to do that they need a coalition that’s not rent by shriekingly intense internal conflict. This was a foreseeable problem for leftists. It was foreseen! The most Machiavellian of them is now thinking what, exactly? Maybe it’s “The gays served their purpose so we are now tossing them over the side in order to cement the Muslims into our coalition.” Is that it? And all the “Oh no, this Hamtramck thing is terrible” from white liberals is just performance art? It’s so difficult to figure out the thoughts of people who are insane, stupid, and evil. You never know what’s part of some clever Master Plan and what’s straightforward stupidity.
I could actually almost see this Master Plan notion being true, if I were willing to set aside Occam’s Razor for a moment: Clever, far-sighted leftist “thought leaders” import tons of Muslims while pimping both the gay thing and the Islam thing. In the short run they use both groups as part of their electoral coalition. Meanwhile the supply of Muslims is rapidly growing, both by importation and by breeding. Homosexuals are at a disadvantage in terms of breeding, for obvious reasons. Eventually the Muslim faction is so large that the gays aren’t needed any more, so they can be tossed out the car window. The Muslims are the hit man in this particular job, so the non-Muslim lefties get to shed fake tears on Instagram and moan that they have the sadz. As a bonus, they get to betray a group, gays, who loyally served them and gave them no cause for offense. Leftists, like all servants of Satan, love to betray their erstwhile allies for no reason.
(In living memory, straight, blue-collar white men were the backbone of the Democratic political coalition. The Dems now loudly boast that they regard such men as Public Enemy Number One. Fair warning to all who would join the leftist coalition.)
Now you can usually tell a story you want to tell that “fits” the available evidence… if you’re willing to abandon Occam’s Razor. The problem is that in doing this you’re desperately grasping at a story that could possibly be true instead of the one that’s most likely true given the evidence. In the case of the foregoing Master Plan story, here are three (okay, two and a half) reasons it violates Occam’s Razor:
Muslims vs. Jews. For decades, US jews have overwhelmingly voted in favor of Democrats, the party that pushes the importation of millions of jew-hating Muslims. Many of these Muslims want to kill all jews, and aren’t all that shy about saying so. There’s no way to see this as a clever master plan. It’s unbelievably stupid. And it’s already causing US jews noticeable political problems and physical danger, as has been revealed by the Israel-Hamas conflict. This is, I think, the last time that US jews will be able to (just barely) keep a lid on things. Ten years from now, the demographics will have changed the power balance, and the next time a similar flare-up happens in the Middle East, the consequences in US politics will be very different.
The trans thing. The left is betraying women in general, and feminists and lesbians in particular, by pushing the Trans Movement. This is obviously not clever, far-sighted power politics because there are infinitely many more women and even just feminists than there are transvestites. It makes no sense. The only way to explain this one is with the good, old-fashioned concept of the holiness spiral. And a love of betrayal for its own sake.
Electoral fraud. This is only partially relevant due to the timing, but it’s still relevant: Now that Democracy ™ is Fortified ™ the left doesn’t need Muslims or homosexuals to acquire and keep power. Granted, this is more recent – it wasn’t until 2020 that it became definitively confirmed that the left had elections under control – but still, they thought they had them under control in 2008 when Obama won. So why bother to import a flood of hostile foreigners? Why import Group B (Muslims), who you know hates and will fight with your other faction, Group A (gays)? It just causes unnecessary internal conflict.
All these facts (and many others) refute the notion that leftists are super-genius James Bond villains. They’re just a horde of mindless demons who attack normal people by instinct. There’s no “motive” for it.
We continue with Hamtramck, Michigan:
“‘There’s a sense of betrayal,’ said the former Hamtramck mayor Karen Majewski…”
Why? The Muslims did exactly what they said they wanted to do.
“Majewski said the majority is now disrespecting the minority. She noted that a white, Christian-majority city council in 2005 created an ordinance to allow the Muslim call to prayer to be broadcast from the city’s mosques five times daily. It did so over objections of white city residents, and Majewski said she didn’t see the same reciprocity with roles reversed.”
No shit, you brainless cunt. We warned you for decades that these people aren’t “tolerant.” They told you they were not “tolerant.” What the leaping fuck did you expect?
Also, it is with great joy that I observe you (1) following what you see as the rules about tolerating ideas you don’t agree with, and then (2) having those ideas’ adherents knife you in the back. Does that sound familiar at all?
The Guardian closes by quoting “Gracie Cadieux, a queer Hamtramck resident who is part of the Anti-Transphobic Action group”: “‘We aren’t in the business of excluding people from our society and I’m not going to exclude socially conservative Muslims – they have a place at the table just like everyone else,’ she said. ‘However, they cannot, and will not, shove another community out of the way'”
Um, “cannot and will not”? They just did it, you drooling sow!
11) Whew! The mind boggles at life in 2023. Let’s end on a lighter note:
I can tell you the exact moment when the first proto-human crossed the line into Homo Sapiens: When he saw a big blank space in front of him, and felt compelled to draw a picture of a dick on it.
“Hey Zorg, check it out, I drew a picture of a dick on this thing.”
“That’s hilarious, Grog!”
Neurotoxin 