House of Eratosthenes

Never have so many been so angry about so little bad news. With nothing real to complain about, they have to hype every silly little thing to the point where they are screeching “Nazi!” at you while you are trying to gnaw on a Quarter Pounder.
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Oh, there’s plenty of big talk among Dems and their media Schumer-sniffers about the onrushing blue wave, but where is this wave? Where is it hiding? Where is there any indication that the people who elected Trump are going to say “Yeah, I like the tax cuts and the booming economy and beating ISIS and my kid not having to fight street-to-street in Seoul and the crackdown on illegals and the conservative judges and Trump generally not taking of guff from liberals and their media pets, but I’ve suddenly just realized that Trump can be mean sometimes so I’ll vote for Democrat guy who wants to help Pelosi take my guns, import MS-13 into my neighborhood, and then pester me at the Arby’s.”

Where is someone saying that? Where?

Just look how unhappy the libs are. It’s all outrage, all the time. You can’t be happy if you are constantly agitated. It’s unhealthy. It makes you look like a wacko. Yet they go nuts on social media, they go nuts at awards shows, and they go nuts when conservatives are trying to scarf down some tacos. If you are always going nuts, maybe that’s an indicator that you are nuts.

He’s talking about, well, so much; where to begin. Waters. Matthews. Lemon. Moore. Well…I have to stop short of sadism. Can’t find happiness in other people being unhappy. But it pleases me greatly when unhealthy things look unhealthy, and the level of difficulty involved in pretending they’re healthy, zips upward through the skies like a hobby rocket. I mean yeah, sure, some people will rise to the challenge…but that brings us back to things looking like what they are. I find that refreshing.

I grew up in the era of “We don’t even see color, but we celebrate it anyway,” and “we need more equality and that means discriminating against the right people” and “men and women are the same, although terrible men must step back and let the wonderful women run things for a change.” The timeframe of my mortal existence has bathed me, like everyone else, in this dirty bathwater of “Pretend this all makes sense or else.” And so I get a kick out of it when deranged people actually look deranged. It’s a new thing. We haven’t really been here before, not like this.

The outrage over Justice Kennedy retiring (ad auto plays) and PDJT being “allowed” to nominate his replacement, is particularly fascinating to me. As usual, I can understand the feeling. But someone has made the calculation that it’s time to disseminate this feeling of outrage before any word has gotten out about who this nominated successor is supposed to be. Now, the last I checked, the conservative observation that conservative justices acknowledge 2+2=4, and that up is up and down is down, whereas liberal justices are compelled to find byzantine little detours around such obvious things…the above remark from me about “equality means discriminating,” people who are familiar with the Supreme Court’s decision history will find this example adequate…went unchallenged. It seems right-wing and left-wing court watchers have achieved consensus here about what the disagreement is, with regard with what justices and judges should be doing. Conservative judges acknowledge water is wet, liberal judges come up with surreal hypothetical situations too delude themselves and others into thinking it isn’t so.

And here they are, getting all flustered about the prospect of water being acknowledged, by persons in authority, as wet. One more judicial officer, failing to put in the requisite effort required to be a liberal, to maintain the necessary cognitive dissonance. There’s no specific individual we’re discussing yet, let alone a case. Just the rustic mindset of “If it’s true, for crying out loud just admit it.” The mere suggestive prospect of such a thing, makes their heads go all explodey.

And as Schlichter so artfully points out, it isn’t like they’re elevating their level of esteem in the eyes of the voting public by being this way. It’s just their nature.

Related: Had to snag this one before it drifted out of sight into the here-be-dragons turf…

Now remember. These people don’t know who the replacement Justice is going to be, let alone what cases would be voted upon by that person as opposed to Kennedy. They don’t know he or she would decide anything any differently, ever, or if so, how often.

In short, there is nothing to cheese them off here, at all, other than the ethereal concept of losing at something rather than winning it (or having a 50/50 shot at winning it). It’s pure tribalism on display.

When they get their emotions all revved up and jammed into overdrive like this, it’s easy to think they’re all hung up on the plight of whatever unfortunates are involved in the case. Which looks, to the casual lazy observer, like compassion.

Well, here there is no case. So it isn’t that. It’s just tribalism. Weepy, soap-opera-drama tribalism. No need to argue about it or wonder about it. We know.

I read the Townhall article this morning when I got up. It’s nice to have a topper so soon. It’s also nice to have something to quell my outrage at the constant outrages. Especially made-up and intentional misleading outrages. I’d make a “case in point” argument but they’ve been coming so fast and furious (POW!) lately that it’s hard to pick one. Border N Families! A mostly conservative retiring and going to be replaced by another mostly conservative! Maybe even a conservative! A liberal soy-boy shooting up a news agency because Trump points out the fact that the majority of Americans, EVEN DEMOCRATS, are aware that the news is made-up and intentionally misleading.
(Kudo’s to the conservative news sites and blogs that have focused on the fact that soy-shooter had a beef with the paper and not pointing out that his social media feeds are all pro-Hillary. I don’t have that self-control and I’d be screaming it to the rooftops and calling Maxine…and Obama…and Reiner…and Fonda…and FatBoy Moore…and Behar…to account.
- P_Ang | 06/29/2018 @ 08:17
P.S. When are we gonna be able to edit our hastily-typed, spellin’-n’-grammar loaded masterpieces on yer blog? I mean…Hello Kitty lets you…
- P_Ang | 06/29/2018 @ 08:20
“I have to stop short of sadism. Can’t find happiness in other people being unhappy.”

That’s not sadism, that’s schadenfreude. I’m not going to gloat and lord it over them, but I am going to smirk just a little bit.
- Wamphyr | 06/29/2018 @ 10:31
Yes, I get that it’s all about the schadenfreude. I’m smirking up a storm here…just don’t want it to be terrible for them, at least, not for the ones who are fresh recruits, and could still be swung back toward the light.

I do like the idea that there is some discomfort involved, in fact, but only in the sense that the medicine stings when it’s working. It’s a pretty fuzzy line we’re dealing with here, because a lot of people have become “liberals” out of a desire to never ever be proven wrong — for the very first time in life. They’ve never had to seriously ponder the question “am I really making the right decision here?” because they’ve never gone against the grain. And when Hillary lost, that’s when their cherry got popped. Thus, in the second year afterward, they’re still recovering. I do relish their learning moment and the discomfort involved too, but only in the sense that this is bringing them closer to the end of it all, assuming they ever get there.
- mkfreeberg | 06/30/2018 @ 04:58
This is why I find it hard to be unhappy about the events in Annapolis. They got what they have been wishing on Deplorables across the country. What’s not to like?
- MarkMatis | 06/30/2018 @ 05:17
“I do like the idea that there is some discomfort involved, in fact, but only in the sense that the medicine stings when it’s working.”

I’m not sure it’s currently working though. I don’t think ‘their cherry got popped’ when Clinton lost; most of them doubled down on ‘everyone who voted for Trump is a racist sexist bigot fill-in-the-‘phobe’ deplorable’, so that they could remain aloof to their own decision. Scott Adams’ piece on cognitive dissonance is spot on.

In any case, the medicine stings while it’s working but it’s not stinging enough. Like the difference between Mercurochrome and Merthiolate. Both were widely used as topical antiseptics when I was a kid (yes I’m a bit older, get off my lawn.)

Mercurochrome stung – a little. Merthiolate came in a bottle that looked just like the Mercurochrome bottle, the medicines looked just like each other and was applied the same way to scrapes. But it burned like a motherF. Like dropping fire ants onto the wound, and the ants brought little bottles of sulfuric acid and molten lava along to help.

I’m wondering if most of the liberals will eventually need the Merthiolate to eventually ‘get there’.
- Wamphyr | 07/02/2018 @ 11:18

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