Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

[Johnette's Daddy]

JD, nice to see you jump on the Trump bandwagon.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/ ... mQJmvmHhGt

If your lead in is "I'm no Uncle Tom," you are definitely an Uncle Tom.

[hedge]

Well, they already have Log Cabin republicans, I guess there's room for Uncle Tom's Cabin republicans. It's a big tent party!

[Toemeesleather]

Little children have imaginary friends. Modern liberalism has imaginary enemies.

Hunger in America is an imaginary enemy. Liberal advocacy groups routinely claim that one in seven Americans is hungry—in a country where the poorest counties have the highest rates of obesity. The statistic is a preposterous extrapolation from a dubious Agriculture Department measure of “food insecurity.” But the line gives those advocacy groups a reason to exist while feeding the liberal narrative of America as a savage society of haves and have nots.

The campus-rape epidemic—in which one in five female college students is said to be the victim of sexual assault—is an imaginary enemy. Never mind the debunked rape scandals at Duke and the University of Virginia, or the soon-to-be-debunked case at the heart of “The Hunting Ground,” a documentary about an alleged sexual assault at Harvard Law School. The real question is: If modern campuses were really zones of mass predation—Congo on the quad—why would intelligent young women even think of attending a coeducational school? They do because there is no epidemic. But the campus-rape narrative sustains liberal fictions of a never-ending war on women.

Institutionalized racism is an imaginary enemy. Somehow we’re supposed to believe that the same college administrators who have made a religion of diversity are really the second coming of Strom Thurmond. Somehow we’re supposed to believe that twice electing a black president is evidence of our racial incorrigibility. We’re supposed to believe this anyway because the future of liberal racialism—from affirmative action to diversity quotas to slavery reparations—requires periodic sightings of the ghosts of a racist past.

I mention these examples by way of preface to the climate-change summit that began this week in Paris. But first notice a pattern.

Dramatic crises—for which evidence tends to be anecdotal, subjective, invisible, tendentious and sometimes fabricated—are trumpeted on the basis of incompetently designed studies, poorly understood statistics, or semantic legerdemain. Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger. An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department. An unwanted kiss or touch is not the same as sexual assault, at least if the word assault is to mean anything.

Yet bogus studies and statistics survive because the cottage industries of compassion need them to be believed, and because mindless repetition has a way of making things nearly true, and because dramatic crises require drastic and all-encompassing solutions. Besides, the thinking goes, falsehood and exaggeration can serve a purpose if it induces virtuous behavior. The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.

And so to Paris.

I’m not the first to notice the incongruity of this huge gathering of world leaders meeting to combat a notional enemy in the same place where a real enemy just inflicted so much mortal damage.

Then again, it’s also appropriate, since reality-substitution is how modern liberalism conducts political business. What is the central liberal project of the 21st century, if not to persuade people that climate change represents an infinitely greater threat to human civilization than the barbarians—sorry, violent extremists—of Mosul and Molenbeek? Why overreact to a few hundred deaths today when hundreds of thousands will be dead in a century or two if we fail to act now?

Here again the same dishonest pattern is at work. The semantic trick in the phrase “climate change”—allowing every climate anomaly to serve as further proof of the overall theory. The hysteria generated by an imperceptible temperature rise of 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880—as if the trend is bound to continue forever, or is not a product of natural variation, or cannot be mitigated except by drastic policy interventions. The hyping of flimsy studies—melting Himalayan glaciers; vanishing polar ice—to press the political point. The job security and air of self-importance this provides the tens of thousands of people—EPA bureaucrats, wind-turbine manufacturers, litigious climate scientists, NGO gnomes—whose livelihoods depend on a climate crisis. The belief that even if the crisis isn’t quite what it’s cracked up to be, it does us all good to be more mindful about the environment.

And, of course, the chance to switch the subject. If your enemy is global jihad, then to defeat it you need military wherewithal, martial talents and political will. If your enemy is the structure of an energy-intensive global economy, then you need a compelling justification to change it. Climate dystopia can work wonders, provided the jihadists don’t interrupt too often.

Here’s a climate prediction for the year 2115: Liberals will still be organizing campaigns against yet another mooted social or environmental crisis. Temperatures will be about the same.

[hedge]

Nobody is going to read that...

[AlabamAlum]

[youtube]2ESI4pTDI9g[/youtube]

This is ugly. Let's hope we have a better plan than the French for any refugees we plan to take.

[AlabamAlum]

And, not all in "the jungle" are Syrian, but it's easy to see that this is a bad situation.

[crashcourse]

90 % of women in the military claim to have been sexually assaulted

the % of men claiming the same is also rising

and yet in the 21 years I worked emergency rooms and saw active duty folk on 9 different army installations I only saw 2cases where it was investigated--cid involvement or rape kit usage.

always wondered where those 90 % of women came from or if they ever left a paper trail.

not saying these women in their own minds somehow convinced themselves they were assaulted but just because the guy doesn't call you the next day doesn't mean its assault

[10ac]

I see you read it too.

[10ac]

Where are the women and children in the video AA posted?

[Professor Tiger]

Nobody is going to read that...

Reminds me of AA's lengthy posts.

[Professor Tiger]

In honor of the Paris Climate summit, I wish to say that Manmade Global Warming is bullshit.

That is all.

[Johnette's Daddy]

90 % of women in the military claim to have been sexually assaulted

the % of men claiming the same is also rising

and yet in the 21 years I worked emergency rooms and saw active duty folk on 9 different army installations I only saw 2cases where it was investigated--cid involvement or rape kit usage.

always wondered where those 90 % of women came from or if they ever left a paper trail.

not saying these women in their own minds somehow convinced themselves they were assaulted but just because the guy doesn't call you the next day doesn't mean its assault

The girl who does my wife's hair served in Afghanistan. She claims sexual assault was rampant and that when a guy tried to assault her, she stabbed him in the leg. The investigation was basically her CO telling her that she had a (non-existent) back injury, which resulted in a discharge and disability pay. She was fine with that and doesn't think anything happened to the guy who attacked her.

[Jungle Rat]

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.

There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses
All went to the university,
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,

And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

[Professor Tiger]

I testified at a court martial of a sergeant who date raped a female soldier in his platoon. He was found guilty and got the hammer.

[Professor Tiger]

Well, they already have Log Cabin republicans, I guess there's room for Uncle Tom's Cabin republicans. It's a big tent party!

The current Republican field is WAY more diverse than the Democrat one. The GOP has a female (Fiorina), a black (Carson), two Hispanics (Cruz and Rubio) and a homosexual (Graham). For all their claims of diversity, the Dem's have two white geriatrics.

[hedge]

LOL on Graham...

[Toemeesleather]

There are other protests than Chicago, same quantity of dead folk, just not the right message to get on the national news.....


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[hedge]

"just not the right message to get on the national news....."

But perfect for this shithole...

[BigRedMan]

No money in the truth, Toe. No headlines. No votes. No ratings.

[Toemeesleather]

But perfect for this shithole...


Seeing this place as a shithole points out the obvious....yer head IS up yer ass.