Oh, Man! Potpourri: Dobbs, Craziness, Social History ...
Surfing the interwebs this morning I came across some fun items, some half serious items, and some off-beat serious ones. And I decided to share them.
Let’s start out on a totally serious note. And because this is America, 2022, we turn to the Babylon Bee:
Yep, the Bee is talking about Dobbs and Dems.
Not to be outdone, Red State expands, in their own style, on the Dem call to violence:
Democrats don’t actually respect the institutions of power as they claim. Rather, they seek to bend them to their will. What denotes a threat to “democracy” isn’t any objective standard of risk, but simply whether essentially anything stands in their way.
But if you thought Warren’s faux-intellectual rantings were bad, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot decided to up the ante. She appeared at a concert on Sunday evening to shout “F*** Clarence Thomas” to the cheers of thousands.
I guess we should just see this as totally normal. I mean, at least she didn’t tell people to go “peacefully protest,” otherwise she might be accused of trying to incite an insurrection. But the rules don’t apply to Democrats because they make the rules.
See? We live in a Rules-Based Order, which means a Left dominated order. Which is why I get crazy about the “conservatives” who don’t get that the war on Russia is simultaneously a war on normal people who prefer the Rule of Law.
For a moment, try to imagine the outrage that would ensue if Ron DeSantis stood on a concert stage and shouted “F*** Sonia Sotomayor.” Yes, I know DeSantis would never do that because he’s not a mentally disturbed, terrible person, but in some alternate universe where he did, it would lead to weeks of outrage and accusations that he was trying to cause violence against the Supreme Court.
That’s the operative word here: “violence”. By invoking violence the Left is claiming, implicitly, that their own planned violence—prepped by weeks of insurrectionary rhetoric—will be justified:
“Morning Joe” on MSNBC continued the insanity by stating that the Dobbs decision was “violence.”
Democrats know exactly what they are doing when they make statements like that. One of the most common tropes on the left is to describe everything they disagree with as an act of “violence.” That’s purposeful. After all, the right to self-defense exists. Democrats are actively trying to desensitize the public to the types of violent outbursts we saw over the weekend in places like Los Angeles and Phoenix. To say that the Supreme Court has committed violence against women by denying a federal right to kill children is to suggest that violence can be returned.
As I’ve said before, none of this leads to a good place. The division being pushed is dangerous and is based on abject lies. Democrats are feeding an alligator they aren’t going to be able to control.
This next one is just brilliant:
Clint Ehrlich makes a good point, graphically. Remember? We live in a Rules-Based Order. The US Establishment makes the rules. Do you really expect smart results from that set up?
How about the social history behind America from Roe to Dobbs? Steve Sailer’s got it. Of course, just like the rest of history, the story doesn’t end here. I found this quite interesting:
Roe V. Wade: Were the Beatles English Protestants or Irish Catholics?
The Roe v. Wade decision was issued on January 22, 1973 by a Supreme Court quite different from the current one. It was of course all male, although — contrary to feminist theory — that didn’t stop the Court from voting 7-2 to legalize abortion largely unchecked through six months of pregnancy.
Indeed, perhaps the most ardently pro-abortion Justice, environmentalist mountain climber, William O. Douglas, was on his fourth wife. In his mid 60s, he’d married in rapid succession two 23-year olds.
Douglas is forgotten today. And the ardent civil libertarian would likely be cancelled in about 30 minutes now, but he was the largest personality on the Court in his time. He was constantly on book tours to promote the 30 books he published — I read one as a lad about mountains he’d climbed — and squabbling with his fellow Justices and his own law clerks. Although he served longer on the Supreme Court than anyone else at 36 years, he seemed to think a cruel fate had sidelined him to the Supreme Court and kept him out of the White House, thus wasting his life. He might have been right.
But the Supreme Court that legalized abortion also differed in that it had eight mainline Protestants and one Catholic, in comparison to the current one with six Catholics (five Republicans and Sonia Sotomayor), two Jews, and one Anglican who used to be Catholic.
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Don Surber is totally on a roll this morning. How about this one—in which Don perfectly captures the incredible idiocies that have proliferated on the media since Dobbs (cf. above):
ITEM 16: The BET Awards were on a half-dozen cable channels last night. There are no white-only awards shows.
I skipped them but I was fascinated by this winner.
“It’is about damn time we talk about the fact that guns have more rights than a woman. It’s a sad day in America” – Taraji P. Henson #BETAwards pic.twitter.com/OwohHB7phS
— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 (@BrentHBaker) June 27, 2022
Maybe we should treat women like guns. Let's have a mandatory background check before dating one. That would screen the felons, the wife-beaters and the other losers.
Or this entertaining touche at the anti-Trump GOPe:
ITEM 1: Ted Frank is a lawyer who sues Class Action Suit lawyers to reduce their cut of the action. He also came up with an entertaining theory of how the Cancel Culture canceled Roe v. Wade.
Ted Frank tweeted, "In 2015, Donald Trump started what was intended as a gimmick of a presidential campaign. Trump had previously floated similar half-serious campaigns in earlier elections, including 1988 and dropping out after winning 2/2 primaries for the Reform Party nomination in 2000.
"2015 was intended the same way. Trump likes publicity. He’d give some speeches, get some attention, and raise the ratings for his flagging tired TV game show that was his current main source of income. Same cast as 1999-2000, including Roger Stone.
"But in his opening speech, Trump took an anti-immigration position. And 2015 was a different atmosphere. It wasn’t enough to criticize someone’s politics, one had to call them a racist, even if all they did was take a position held by a majority of Americans.
"And even in the nascent days of cancel culture, that was enough: people demanded NBC fire Trump, and they did just that. Trump’s presidential campaign had inadvertently backfired and burned the bridges behind him. Trump could no longer quit; he could only move forward.
"And he did just that. CNN and MSNBC found stoking outrage against Trump was good for ratings, so they treated him as the serious front runner with billions of $ of free publicity, snickering to themselves how they were undermining the GOP by saddling them with an incompetent.
"So the dominos fall as such: cancel mob gets Trump fired from NBC, thwarting his plan to use presidential campaign to raise his ratings, and forcing him to go all out. Trump wins, likes plaudits for good judicial selections, makes them. Those justices reverse Roe."
Simplistic. I believe Trump wanted to stop Hillary and become president.
But be careful of what you wish. I offer as proof Biden.
I agree with Don. Trump’s platform was not new. He’d been saying the same things since the mid 90s. Simply, the time had come. Trump realized that, but the GOPe, in large part, has still failed to figure that out. They still think that a Rules-Based Order in which they’re the junior Rules makers will somehow end well.
"All speech the communists do not like is called violence. All violence the communists support is called speech." – Conservative Treehouse
Anything the Democrats dislike is a threat to democrazy, not democracy.