WHAT MAKES AMERICA GREAT IS WHY THE LEFT HATES AMERICA
Nothing exemplifies Donald Trump’s political genius better than his campaign and now presidential slogan MAGA – Make America Great Again.
Just compare it to his opponent’s pathetically stupid and empty, I’m With Her. A campaign about nothing but Her, focused entirely on Her, devoted completely and totally to the egomania of Her.
By contrast, Trump’s campaign was about America – the America that every normal voter knew used to be great until Obama opened the gates of the Left’s insane asylum creating a mayhem of cultural lunacy, the America that every normal voter wanted once more.
Trump’s question to the voters – “Do you want more lunacy with Her or do you want to make America great again instead?” turned out to be rhetorical.
But just what is it that made America great in the first place? And whatever that is, why does it drive Lefties insane?
DONALD TRUMP, FEMINIST HERO
Why is it that liberal-run cities and institutions all seem to be hotbeds of sexism and racism? Maybe there’s a reason the Left is so obsessed with sexual harassment and racism, because it is practiced so much in their communities and institutions.
The firing this week of Matt Lauer from NBC, the latest sex scandal of leftie journos and Hollywood bigs, brings to mind an interview with “feminist” actress Amber Tamblyn about the Harvey Weinstein scandal that started all this.
The Cosmopolitan magazine interview, dated October 26, was headlined:
Yes, although she doesn’t realize it, she’s arguing the President is a Feminist Hero.
THE MEDIA PLAYS CHECKERS – TRUMP PLAYS 3-D CHESS
The checkers-chess cliché is overused but often accurate. It was the media's meme for George W. Bush; he played checkers, and China and the rest of the world played chess.
The media hated W. almost as much as they loathe Trump, but this time, it is Trump who plays the media as Isaac Stern plays the violin.
He tweets or tosses off a line, as he did this week when he referenced Elizabeth Warren, then sits back and watches the fun begin. The press corps goes berserk and accuses Trump of all the usual crimes: racism, sexism, etc.
The "racial slur" allegation was particularly off the mark. These lefty journalists leap into the expected fray before they remember to think. Trump knows this and enjoys trolling the press. The reporters rise to the occasion every time. They put on a show of perpetual outrage, no matter how flimsy, misplaced, or phony their indignation.
So convinced are the media that they are Trump's intellectual superiors that they make utter fools of themselves on an almost daily basis.
CALLING WARREN POCAHONTAS IS THE BEST WAY TO FIGHT RACISM
Senator Elizabeth Warren, America’s greatest living Fake Indian, is outraged.
"There he was, at a ceremony to honor Native Americans,” the former Harvard Law prof, who claimed to be Native American on account of her grandfather’s high cheekbones, fumed on Monday (11/27), “And President Trump couldn't even make it through a ceremony to honor these men without throwing in a racial slur.”
The “racial slur” was calling a woman who is as Indian as the pilgrims, Pocahontas.
Taunting an American Indian that way might be a racial slur. Taunting Warren that way doesn’t insult her race. The millionaire former asbestos lawyer is as white as cottage cheese. It insults her character. It reminds everyone that Warren is as much a fighter for the “little guy” as she was a Cherokee.
UNDOING THE DIS-EDUCATION OF MILLENNIALS
I teach in a law school. For several years now my students have been mostly Millennials. Contrary to stereotype, I have found that the vast majority of them want to learn.
But true to stereotype, I increasingly find that most of them cannot think, don’t know very much, and are enslaved to their appetites and feelings. Their minds are held hostage in a prison fashioned by elite culture and their undergraduate professors.
They cannot learn until their minds are freed from that prison. This year in my Foundations of Law course for first-year law students, I found my students especially impervious to the ancient wisdom of foundational texts, such as Plato’s Crito and the Code of Hammurabi.
Many of them were quick to dismiss unfamiliar ideas as “classist” and “racist,” and thus unable to engage with those ideas on the merits. So, a couple of weeks into the semester, I decided to lay down some ground rules. I gave them these rules just before beginning our annual unit on legal reasoning.
Here is the speech I gave them.
MEDIA BIAS VS. REALITY
Why is it that those who have been right in the past are often ignored, while great attention is paid to those who have been wrong?
Many “politically correct” forecasters’ words are accepted as gospel by the media despite dismal records. New York Times economic columnist Paul Krugman, who has a long record of gross error, said immediately after Donald Trump won the presidency a year ago: “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”
His forecast was off by a mere $5 trillion (the rise in the value of the market since Election Day), and those who followed his advice are poorer — but Mr. Krugman still has his job, because he works for a fake news outlet rather than a profit-making investment group.
The debate about climate change, the minimum wage and the proposals for tax reform illustrate why so many get it wrong. Yet rather than admit error, many forecasters and their media allies double down instead of lauding those who were closer to the mark. Why do you think?
THE MURDER WEAPON
UNDOING THE DIS-EDUCATION OF MILLENNIALS
I teach in a law school. For several years now my students have been mostly Millennials. Contrary to stereotype, I have found that the vast majority of them want to learn.
But true to stereotype, I increasingly find that most of them cannot think, don’t know very much, and are enslaved to their appetites and feelings. Their minds are held hostage in a prison fashioned by elite culture and their undergraduate professors.
They cannot learn until their minds are freed from that prison. This year in my Foundations of Law course for first-year law students, I found my students especially impervious to the ancient wisdom of foundational texts, such as Plato’s Crito and the Code of Hammurabi.
Many of them were quick to dismiss unfamiliar ideas as “classist” and “racist,” and thus unable to engage with those ideas on the merits. So, a couple of weeks into the semester, I decided to lay down some ground rules. I gave them these rules just before beginning our annual unit on legal reasoning.
Here is the speech I gave them.
Join the forum discussion on this postMEDIA BIAS VS. REALITY
Why is it that those who have been right in the past are often ignored, while great attention is paid to those who have been wrong?
Many “politically correct” forecasters’ words are accepted as gospel by the media despite dismal records. New York Times economic columnist Paul Krugman, who has a long record of gross error, said immediately after Donald Trump won the presidency a year ago: “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”
His forecast was off by a mere $5 trillion (the rise in the value of the market since Election Day), and those who followed his advice are poorer — but Mr. Krugman still has his job, because he works for a fake news outlet rather than a profit-making investment group.
The debate about climate change, the minimum wage and the proposals for tax reform illustrate why so many get it wrong. Yet rather than admit error, many forecasters and their media allies double down instead of lauding those who were closer to the mark. Why do you think?
HALF-FULL REPORT 11/24/17
We begin with the Snowflake Social Justice Buffoons at Reed College in Oregon – whose parents are stupid enough to pay $53,900 a year for them to be uneducated laughingstocks to the world.
On Tuesday (11/21), the NYPost revealed their descent to new low of Leftie Buffoonery by claiming Stave Martin’s famous 1978 SNL skit of King Tut is racist. You don’t know which is funnier, Martin’s skit (video above), or the self-lampooning brainless twits at Reed.
That’s just the start of this fun Thanksgiving Weekend HFR. Let’s go!