Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

[hedge]

Just keep predicting landslides.

I didn't make a prediction...

[Jungle Rat]

I wish i could predict your death. It would be fun, bloody and comforting the MYL with my dick down here throat.

[Jungle Rat]

Sorry. To much Criminal Minds. But i will still cut you corn boy.

[Professor Tiger]

The awesome responsibility of having three balls is really getting to Rat.

TREY GOWDY FOR SCOTUS!

[Toemeesleather]

Massively entertaining evening watching BSNBC and the derangement shitshow. Flipped back during commercials about 15 times....dialogue the same, only the faces changed:


Deranged talking head: "This will surely mean the end of Roe v Wade?"

Sycophant dem senator/rep/consultant: "Yes, no doubt, conservatives will take control of women's bodies"


Only election night 2016 was better.

[Toemeesleather]

The predicted "Blue Wave" will evaporate just like Hillary's Midwestern "Blue Wall." No worries there


Yes, we saw the blue wave preview in the NY dem primary that the Cortez Communist won....LMAO. Some 27,500 votes TOTAL were cast in district that is part Queens/part Bronx. Again....27,500 votes in a district of millions, that some wave they got going there.....maybe they just need time to take the Cortez agenda (same as Bernie's) to the heartland...that'll play.

[Toemeesleather]

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[Professor Tiger]

TREY GOWDY FOR SCOTUS!!!

[Professor Tiger]

The Annapolis shooter must be a Republican Christian Tea Party NRA member who voted for Trump.

[Jungle Rat]

Trump killed them.

[bluetick]

Trey " Wrap the Damn Thing Up" Gowdy: 2 1/2 years investigating BENGHAZI!, no indictments, no guilty pleas


Robert "Silent Bob" Mueller: 1 year investigating Trumpski, 20 indictments, 5 guilty pleas, 1 in prison so far


TREY GOWDY FOR SCOTUS!!!!! LMAO

[Professor Tiger]

20 indictments, 5 guilty pleas, 1 in prison so far

None of which had anything to do with Trump colluding with Russia, which is supposed to be what Mueller's investigation is all about. You're doing a heckuva job, Bobby!

At least Gowdy proved with actual tangible evidence that all the accusations made about Hillary's role in Benghazi were true. Ambassador Stevens really did beg for more security in a deteriorating and dangerous situation, and Hillary denied it. During the attack, the Obama DoD could have done something to defend the embassy staff, but somebody decided not to. Gowdy especially proved that everything Hillary said about Benghazi were lies, starting with the whopper that it was a spontaneous demonstration about a youtube video.

Mueller has no such actual proof of wrongdoing by Trump like Gowdy produced on Hillary. Gowdy 1, Mueller 0.

[Toemeesleather]

This gnashing of teeth and rending of cloth is a symptom of the dysfunction and corruption of the constitutional order. The reason Kennedy’s retirement matters so much is that he was the swing vote — the justice who could bequeath victory or defeat to the liberal or conservative bloc in any important case that divided the court.

And the reason the swing vote matters so much is that we’ve made the Supreme Court far too important in our lives. By being the deciding vote on so many issues, Kennedy in effect became the court itself, making him the de facto incarnation of the judicial branch, the way the president is the physical personification of the executive branch. This became all the more problematic because Kennedy’s philosophy of judicial review all too often took the form of a deep personal inventory of his feelings rather than of Constitution’s text...

Thus, Kennedy’s decision not to live forever — or at least until a Democratic appointee could replace the Reagan-appointed justice — was seen as a personal betrayal, because the political has become so personal for so many.

How did we get here? Two tracks converged to deliver us this dysfunction. The first is narrowly political. The Democrats, confident that they were on the right side of history, thought there was no harm in accelerating the rush to total victory. For years, Democrats practiced the rule that all is fair in judicial-confirmation battles, starting with the war on Judge Robert Bork in 1987. Then, under the leadership of Barack Obama and then–Senate majority leader Harry Reid, they did away with the filibuster on judicial appointments short of the Supreme Court, opening the door for Republicans to nudge it slightly more wide open.

The second track is longer. Starting over a century ago, progressives began emphasizing ends over means. If the Supreme Court could deliver wins unattainable at the ballot box and unsupported by the Constitution, so be it. Thus was born the “living Constitution” — the doctrine that holds that the magical parchment should mean whatever progressives need it to mean at any moment. This was how Anthony Kennedy became an (apparently temporary) gay-rights hero. After consulting his feelings, he found a constitutional right no one had found in the text before....

The panic unfolding across the progressive landscape stems from the creeping fear that the Supreme Court might start doing its job — and not the job progressives have assigned it.

[Professor Tiger]

Great article. Link?

I especially agree with the statement that Kennedy often judged based on his feelings instead of the actual law as written. His opinion on Obergfell read more like a Harlequin romance novel than a reasoned examination of the Constitution.

I also agree that, for a long time, liberals have often failed to implement their agenda through democracy and the ballot box. But they could usually count on SCOTUS to enforce their unpopular ideas.

Thankfully, those days appear to be over. From now on, if liberals want to socially engineer all 50 states, they will have to do hard work of convincing voters that their version of utopia is worth voting for. SCOTUS will no longer do that for them.

[Toemeesleather]

Jonah Goldberg's column at National Review.

[hedge]

"His opinion on Obergfell read more like a Harlequin romance novel than a reasoned examination of the Constitution."

You wouldn't know what a reasoned analysis of the Constitution looked like if it fucked you up the ass. You'd probably like it, though...

[Professor Tiger]

Classic case of projection.

[Jungle Rat]

So when does Trump Tower Moscow break ground?

[Toemeesleather]

Although much is made of the political and cultural left, few realize that this creature is long extinct. Once it stood for stronger unions, economic equality, better working conditions and organized labor. Such was its root, its reality, from which it has fully severed itself.

This means that the left now chases utopias — from multiculturalism to environmentalism and green initiatives, from the “rights” industry and intersectionality to gender-fluidity, from anarchism and communism to ever-morphing liberalism, from abortion and euthanasia to the cult of Trump-hatred by self-styled sophisticates. In each case, the logic is the same: Shoehorn reality into theory, and mold humanity into the confines of ideology.

And, because it is now rootless, the left is all things to many agendas, and thus stands for nothing. The only coherence it possesses is progressivism, whereby all that ails society is to be cured by economics and technology, whose anodynes are doled out by politicians in thrall to “experts,” who in turn cannot help but contradict each other.

For example, race and culture are declared inseparable (hence multiculturalism and its handmaid, cultural appropriation). But “race” is also said to be a social construct used to dominate the underprivileged. Which is it? How can cultures be the sacred property of ethnic groups when races don’t exist?

Likewise, gender is declared a social construct but gayness is said to be natural. But if gender is artificial and fluid, there is no basis for gayness, since neither masculinity nor femininity exist. Gender-fluidity also destroys feminism, for women cannot be oppressed because they can simply become men.

As for abortion, it is justified via legalese (body ownership and the definition of a human). But if a body belongs solely to the individual, why do others own the body of the unborn (no matter how it is defined)? And, if a fetus is killed because it is not human enough, then environmentalism, which seeks to protect all life, is contradicted. Even if legality denies the fetus its humanity, it is still life (since non-life cannot flip into life).

Then, there is the left’s penchant for the great “Freetopia” — free healthcare, free education, free childcare, a universal basic income, paid leaves and guaranteed work. All these grand plans are blissfully detached from the reality of economics. An old saying gives the best perspective: “Money does not grow on trees.”

In effect, the left is structured for failure because it always pursues the imaginary and then justifies everything by manipulating language.

Such abuse of language is made possible because absolutes, or primary ideas (truth, meaning, goodness, beauty — and their opposites, evil, falsehood, moral ugliness) are reduced to linguistic categories. Absolutes become mere words that can be interpreted in any way possible, because words no longer embody truth but are arbitrary symbols meant to keep things moving along, without purpose. Words can become anything you want them to say. Hence the ever-shifting re-definitions of reality (gender pronouns, climate change rather than global warming, no nations, no borders and so forth).

The left, therefore, possesses a degraded philosophy that has nothing to do with life (or being), because it extols what life should, or could, be (or becoming) – rather than what it really is.

If language manufactures reality, and life is merely word-play, then humanity is subjected to all kinds of tyranny: Control words and you control people’s behavior, thinking, expectations and their will (the strategy of corporate media and its news narratives).

This “logic” derives from the notions of Michel Foucault, whose influence, sadly, has been more profound than his scribblings warranted. It was he who popularized the “end of mankind” by arguing that there is no such thing as human nature because it is “constructed” by socio-cultural conditions. Change those conditions, and you change man. Foucault was hardly being original, for he was rehashing La Mettrie (machine-man) and Condilliac (man as a statue).

The left fiercely embraced Foucault as an oracle of the contemporary world, so much so that humanity itself has now been degraded to a linguistic category that can be rewritten, manipulated and refashioned to fit or justify socio-cultural whims, or even political needs. Mankind has been shattered in order that it might be built better by ideologues. The old dream of the New Man.

It might appear that the left is dominant. But notice its dominance depends only on its ability to spread its bad philosophy via the media-entertainment-education complex. Take away that dependence and the dominance collapses, for the left is not an organic growth from life itself, as all proper culture should be. Instead, it is an imposition by experts. Because agendas need the agency of institutions to sustain them, they have already failed.

This means that the left is hardly a threat, despite its bluster. For how long can reality be denied, and what civilization has mendacity ever built? Many have tried to fabricate the better human, the New Man. And they have all failed — and will always fail — because life is greater than theories, and humans are more than ideology.

“There are only two forms of conduct for people who are truly uprooted: Either they fall into a spiritual lethargy, much like death, or they hurl themselves into action, often violent, designed to uproot those who are not yet uprooted.” These words of Simone Weil sum up what the left is — rootless and unhinged from reality, promoting either lethargy or a violent hatred of those rooted.

Because there is no life without a root, the left is dead.




...and they see the solution is to move even farther left.....Excellent!

[bluetick]

I used to think toe never cited his sources because he's a dumbass who doesn't know how. Lately it's occurred to me that he's just not confident in his choices.

That abbreviated mishmash of Cro-Magnon thought wrapped in pseudo-intellectual 'talk' is the product of a guy named Nirmal Dass. Here's his bio at Thistledown Press: Nirmal Dass currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. He holds a PhD in critical theory and is the author of five books of verse in translation. These include: The Avowing of King Arthur: A Modern Verse Translation; Rebuilding Babel: The Translations of W. H. Auden; and Songs of the Kabir from the Adi Granth, as well as a book-length study of the philosophy and practice of translation.
He is known to root around in dead languages—the deader the better, in fact.

He must have gotten his PhD online because there's no mention of it anywhere. He's currently a professor in the Classics department at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. These are the kind of remarks he gets from Rate-a-Professor: Awful - 1.0 out of 10 - You will learn virtually nothing useful from his rambling and often nonsensical presentations. Based on fact checking some of his material, it's clear that he knows less than he thinks he knows. Don't know if he's tenured, but if not, the university should get rid of this guy.

Anywho, the Daily Caller did indeed publish Mr. Dass's letter, and of course toe laps up anything that touts bigotry multi-syllabically.


Nirmal Dass.."Gender-fluidity also destroys feminism, for women cannot be oppressed because they can simply become men." (guy has never been laid and his future prospects are dim)