When I saw peaceful, unarmed citizens getting beaten, bludgeoned, and pepper sprayed for simply attending a speech, I knew that it was time for the Right to tool up. Like many, I tolerated all of the threats as the Left experiencing the many stages of grief. Remember when the Left held up signs that read, “Rape Melania”?

DC Trump Protestor “Rape Melania” pic.twitter.com/ZFmjbEiOHl

— Beck (@thereal_beck) November 13, 2016

I do.

Or how about the lady who said that “there will be casualties on both sides” and that “people have to die to make a change in this world”?

I do.

But then the Milo thing happened at Berkeley, and I knew that they would never “coexist” with us peacefully. That’s when I decided to regard the Left as a clear and present danger that posed an existential threat.

At the time (and not currently), I did not advocate for an offensive strike against the Antifa rioters, I did raise my expectation for the Right and Trump supporters to defend themselves with proper gear. It was foolhardy to show up to any Conservative or pro-Trump event without taking the proper precautions. Eye protection, ear protection, gas masks, helmets, shield and/or a weapon to deflect other weapons. The freedoms that protect us can easily be taken away by other people who are determined enough to take them and if we are too complacent to defend them. Well, we are now faced with people who are determined to take our freedoms. Is the Right prepared to defend them?

Lately, heroes have been emerging from the pitched battles that are erupting around the United States. Take for instance, Based Stickman:

Here’s another video of Based Stickman taking on a group of Leftists as he strolls around Berkeley with an American flag. Notice the knife that gets brandished at the end:

I find it hard to believe that this kind of thing is happening in Berkeley of all places. It’s even known as the birthplace of free speech! And yet, the regressive Left uses violence to shut down free speech it disagrees with. But I digress. The Right is not taking this BS anymore. And today, we are seeing fearlessness on our side. Here’s Lauren Southern with her recap and firsthand experience:

I don’t know about you, but this makes me think of a war zone. This shouldn’t be happening in the United States. In any event, I’m glad our side won the day, but there are still too many people on our side who clearly showed up expecting a modicum of peace and civility. There are too many people who aren’t dressed in protective clothing. There are too many people carrying signs, thinking that this is a time for words. The Left isn’t interesting in communication. They just want to hurt you. That’s what it’s come down to. So when I see a video like this from the same event:

I am seriously bothered by the lack of strategy on our side which can only result in unnecessary injuries. We have proven to the Left (and ourselves) that we are willing to fight back. Many on our side are learning to defend themselves. The next step is to coordinate. We need to be smarter about how we engage. We need to start assigning roles. I understand and appreciate the individualistic nature of members of the Right, but when you are fighting a collective, a little teamwork will go a long way.

In today’s digital age, there is a strong impulse to document your actions, but when you are at an event where you know there are going to be cameras anyway, perhaps not everyone has to have their cell phone out. Instead, we need to designate videographers and deploy them to different areas to make sure every facet is covered. That way, fighter roles can concentrate on defending the group.

Fighters on the frontlines really need to protect themselves from every tactic the enemy uses. Remember, they are not above throwing explosives in your face, hurling bricks at you, or pepper spraying your eyes. And once you are on the ground, the Left has no compunction about beating you into a coma. So fighters need to have teammates who can assist and/or pull out the fallen and get them to support roles.

Supporters need to stand back and be ready with eye wash, bandages, splints, and clear paths to police and professional medical care. Remember, these pitched battles will not end. And if our numbers can’t last because our fighters are being taken care quick enough to recuperate for the next fight, then we will eventually lose. It’s obvious that the police will not intervene in a meaningful way, but they will disarm those who are willing to obey law and order. That means most of our side is going into these skirmishes with just their fists to fend off people with real weapons. We’re going to have casualties, and supporters need to patch them up.

Finally, we need PR roles. These will be the common sign wavers who can pose for cameras and interact with journalists. They need to be away from the fighting, but still be looked out for in case an errant brick comes flying their way.

I know that this is rudimentary, and it will probably be too difficult to get everyone to cooperate, but I also didn’t think the Right had it in them to fight back, either. Color me surprised. If defending free speech means that we have to fight the Left block by black bloc, then so be it. No cause is worthier. But if we’re going to take up this cause, then let’s do it intelligently.

We didn’t seek war, but if you bring it to us, then we will fight it.

Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis became infamous in early September when she refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.

By doing so, Davis defied the Supreme Court, which legalized gay marriage nationwide in June, and spent a few days in jail, leading her to become a celebrated icon for Christians who oppose marriage equality.

Afterward, Davis was the subject of ridicule as meme after meme emerged of characters who disagreed with portions of their jobs still doing their jobs.

Oh, but that was so last year! This year we have Electors who need to do their jobs, which is vote the will of the people. But now that it’s convenient for the Left, suddenly people shouldn’t do their jobs and instead should obey their consciences. A bunch of B-list celebs got together for yet another “white background” video to convince Electors to flip against Trump. What strikes me the most about the video is the arrogance or these people who think that their star power alone is enough to be persuasive. If the first video with actual recognizable celebs didn’t do the trick, then why would you think unrecognizable celebs would be any better?

This is why you should never ever cave in to the demands of the Left. They lull you into thinking that their demands are reasonable and that they will adhere to the same rules. But they will break those rules as soon as they need to and tell you why their situation is different. As the saying goes, if Liberals didn’t have double standards, they would have no standards at all.

From one of Trump’s earliest press conferences where he brought up the families of murder victims at the hands of illegal aliens, I knew that he was the president I wanted to lead this country. And every day since then has been a continuous slog against everyone and everything, including, #NeverTrump, the corrupt news media, Leftist agitators, Hollywood elite, moneyed interests, and more. But I never wavered. Trump was still my guy.

Still, when you are outnumbered and surrounded – and infiltrated! – by enemies, victory is never assured. So, I will admit that I was nervous on election night. I left work early to go vote. And this was a first for me – voting, not leaving early. It took a man like Trump and the movement he inspired to finally get me to take advantage of my right as a citizen. And, I have to tell you, it felt great! Afterward, I grabbed a meal at a restaurant and headed home to watch the returns come in.

I don’t have television so I just pulled up the Alex Jones election night stream and loaded Drudge on my browser. Alex Jones is a little out there for my tastes, but he’s very pro-Trump and I needed to be around the same stubborn support I gave. As for Drudge, his site auto refreshes and he was already displaying running percentages for several states on the top half of his site. Then I just lay in bed in the dark, with my ceiling illuminated by the glow of my phone screen waited for the outcome, hoping that Trump’s efforts had been enough.

When Trump led in Florida, I was feeling hopeful. When I saw him leading in Wisconsin and Ohio, I was feeling confident. Alex Jones and his guest, Roger Stone, were discussing electoral college vote combinations and how Trump’s path was still narrow and that he would need to capture specific states to win. But if Trump flipped Pennsylvania, then it would be over. I looked at Drudge and Trump was winning Pennsylvania. I texted my newly converted to Conservatism friend, “Is this real life?”

Minutes later, my close Liberal friend whom I’ve known since high school but rarely talk to called me. I knew that if he was calling me, then the Left must have been losing their minds over the returns. We were going to win this thing.

I always believed that the Left used scaremongering tactics to drum up support and get the vote out. I never believed that the intelligent among them actually believed their own agitprop. But here I was, talking my Lefty friend – one of the most intelligent people you’ll meet – down from the ledge.

“At the beginning of this,” he said, “Trump had a narrow path to victory. But now, it’s the inverse! She has to win almost every state to win!”

We talked at length about our fears of the aftermath – mine being civil unrest if Trump won and his being the formation of Waco compounds around the country if Hillary won. He dismissed my concern as just an annoyance, whereas armed militia compounds were an actual threat. As we spoke, I looked at the CNN website to see images from Oakland, Calif where protesters were already setting fires in the streets. Yeah, annoyance.

And then it came. Hillary conceded. The news media could delay no longer. All night they had been reluctant to definitively call states for Trump despite 97% reporting. But as soon as the polls closed on the west coast, California, Washington, and Oregon were immediately called for Clinton with 0% reporting, just so that she could get some points on the board. But a little before midnight in California, I looked at the CNN website again and the words “CLINTON CONCEDES” were emblazoned across the screen. Trump had done it.

Against all odds he had done the impossible.

“You have to assure me of something,” my Lefty friend said brusquely. “You have to assure me that Trump and a Republican Congress isn’t going to create a law where people who weren’t born here aren’t going to be trusted.”

I was momentarily stunned at the request. It was absolutely absurd. But it did give me insight into Lefty thinking. At the base of Leftist orthodoxy, baked into the foundation is some irrational fear that dictates behavior. In my Lefty friend’s case – a foreign-born Asian who became an American citizen later in life and even served in the United States military – his deep-seated fear was xenophobia. I can only imagine that he had experienced some kind of racism early in life that forever altered the trajectory of his politics. So, it was a foregone conclusion that the Left would swallow him into their folds of inclusivity and affectations of tolerance. I’ve known this friend for over 20 years, but it took Donald Trump to cut to the heart of the matter and reveal my friend’s neuroses.

I responded to absurdity with absurdity. “As the de facto ambassador for all things Republican, nothing like that is going to happen.”

He seemed satisfied, and the conversation slowly wound down. He hung up, and I turned my attention back to the election. I watched Trump’s victory speech and danced around my apartment a bit. Something had gone very right in the world. Many people had been savaged by the Left over the last decade, and Trump’s win was an unequivocal vindication for those people.

I think back to Sarah Palin and how she was slandered in the vilest, unrelenting ways eight years ago. And I think about Ann Coulter and how the Left treated her in the same way more recently. Just take a look at the Rob Lowe roast, and listen to all the horrible things the Left said to Ann. No one should have to endure any of that just for having a different political position.

During an interview with Dennis Prager, speaking about the roast, Ann said, “I’m just glad my parents weren’t alive to see me go through that.” Just writing that makes me emotional and, as a man, makes me want to hurt someone.

I thought America was beyond the tipping point. I thought the country was lost. Donald Trump proved me wrong. But it can’t be stated enough how close to the brink of extinction we were. Trump is teaching the silent majority how to fight back. By the grace of God, we were given a second chance to save this country. We can’t waste it. And after witnessing the horrors that the Left inflicted upon this country over the last decade, I know we won’t.

We have a long road ahead of us, and there’s a lot of work to be done. But for now, while we regain our strength for the fight ahead after Donald Trump’s inauguration, let’s enjoy what is best in life: crushing our enemies, seeing them driven before us, and hearing the lamentation of their SJWs.

I opened with this video because it’s a perfect example one of the extremely malignant cancers that is destroying this country. She is what I believe Michelle Malkin coined as a “crybully”. She feigns victimization and then uses her victim status as a bludgeon against people she disagrees with. By itself, that’s bad enough, but she actually exemplifies something worse, which probably composes the majority of crybullies: She’s a fake victim.

If you watch the video all the way through, then you’ll see how the trajectory of her story and attitude changes when she realizes that the cop isn’t having any of it. She starts off falling back on her status as a frail woman who was frightened by the aggressive man who followed her. When that doesn’t work, she drops the act and reveals that she isn’t frightened at all and becomes very aggressive, calling the man a “pussy” for being afraid of a five-foot-tall woman. And let’s not forget that she incited this incident by harassing the man at his home. I don’t know about you, but if someone slowed down in front of my home to verbally assault me over my political affiliation and then drive off, I would want to know as much about that person as I could. Small woman or not, I couldn’t be sure if she’d come back with a group of big men in the middle of the night.

And this behavior is not some one-off example. The fact that she recorded herself, thinking that she actually had the moral high ground shows that she has an audience that agrees with her and that supports her. And then there’s the case of Zarna Joshi and Hugh Mongus:

This is a similar situation as the first video, except here we have a woman who is working with even less evidence to build a foundation of victimhood. Yet, she tries anyway, knowing that just accusing the man over and over again of having sexually assaulted her is enough to potentially put him in a dangerous situation. I can only imagine what could have happened to Hugh if this encounter happened in a public space away from professional security and police officers.

The internet is littered with scenes like these that happen every day. And those are just the ones that are digitally documented. Who knows how many more confrontations like these are going on where any imagined slight is being blown out of proportion to drum up cases against political opponents. We have only to look at college campuses for evidence of totalitarianism among the PC authoritarians.

This is why I’ve always supported Donald Trump for President of the United States since he announced. In my mind he is a much needed societal correction to free this country from the PC shackles that keep good judgment from voicing concerns out of fear of offending…someone. As Voltaire (may have) said, “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” And I’ll be damned if I hop to whenever the PC brigade makes up a new rule.

Escapists

And yet, there are people on the Right who refuse to help smash the PC industrial complex. There are many “principled” Conservatives who view Trump as a fatally flawed candidate, and by voting for him, these Conservatives are somehow compromising their principles. Well, that’s life! Life isn’t perfect. Life is all about compromise. We pay for and enjoy media created by people who hate us. We work for people who support causes we oppose. We join unions who donate to groups with goals that are anathema to us. We do these things because there is a net positive for us as an individual. We compromise because the long-term goal is more important than the immediate one.

A recurring theme I keep reading about is how Clinton and Trump are the most disliked candidates in the history of America. Every time I read that, all I can think is, “So what? Get out there and vote.” Folks we have a binary decision to make. There are two people who have a realistic chance of becoming the next President of the United States, and one of them ultimately will. To cast a protest vote or purposefully not vote is nothing short of escapism.

A protest vote is a wasted vote. Any sensible person on the Right wants disillusioned Bernouts to cast protest votes for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson. That’s because we know that these candidates have no chance of winning the Presidency and can only diminish Hillary’s chances. But the other side of the same coin is protest votes from the political Right. They’re all just wasted votes, and we need as many votes that help us as we can get.

Some among the Right have convinced themselves that there is literally no difference between Clinton and Trump. That to vote for Trump is to vote for Hillary. This is nonsense. Or laziness. Make the effort to find a difference that you can appreciate. Whether it’s Trump’s focus on border security, his guaranteed media scrutiny, or even his simple love of country, these differences are worth voting for even if the candidate is not ideal.

Sin-eaters

When I imagine my ideal American President, Donald Trump is not it. He’s not particularly eloquent, pleasant to look at, or perfectly aligned with my political views. But these are not ideal times. Instead, we’re living in a zombie apocalypse, and, of all the tools that were presented to us to fend off the zombies, Donald Trump was the most effective choice.

Stella Morabito from The Federalist generally sums up my feelings:

Looking back on my support for Ted Cruz, I realize that neither he—nor any of the other candidates save outsider Donald Trump, warts and all—had a snowball’s chance in hell of truly taking on the mammoth Clinton machine.

As its machinations come into focus, it seems clearer to me that only a street fighter like Trump could have taken this on. It’s like we deplorable clingers are hanging on the very edge of a vast abyss. Perhaps Cruz or Marco Rubio would have had a chance in a more stable America, in a more virtuous America less poisoned by a massive propaganda machine. But not in this culture of corruption fed endlessly by political correctness.

I hear arguments from people on the Right who I like and respect that the most heartbreaking thing about Trump is that if we had just nominated anyone else that this whole election cycle would be a cakewalk and that our side would be up 10 points. I completely disagree. As I discussed in a previous post, the Left understands how to present something innocuous as something poisonous, and the Right doesn’t understand how to ignore whatever the Left says. This is why Romney’s “47% gaffe” was so damaging: The Right acknowledged it as damaging when they should have just ignored it and voted for him instead.

And while those on the Right who let the 47% gaffe affect them could feel content with the pats on the head from the Left for playing by the Left’s rules and worldview, any clear-eyed person had to know that the outrage behind Romney’s statement was manufactured. And now, four years later, we get Bill Maher saying as much:

Oh, so the Left was just attacking Bush, McCain, and Romney for political advantage? But the attacks were baseless and these men were honorable? But this time it’s completely different! Trump really is as bad as they say! OK, we believe you.

I’ll never understand why people on the Right allow the Left to dictate what is right and wrong.

So, what does any of this have to do with Sin-eaters? First, a definition. Per Wikipedia: “A sin-eater is a person who, through a ritual meal, takes on the sins of a household, often because of a recent death, thus absolving the soul and allowing that person to rest in peace.” With that out of the way, I understand that for many people on the political Right, Donald Trump is a repulsive candidate. They feel that they cannot vote for Trump for various principled reasons. Because of those people, I implore everyone else to become a sin-eater.

There are many people on our side that cannot be convinced. They cannot see the threat that a Hillary Clinton presidency brings with it. They don’t understand or refuse to acknowledge that as much as Clinton is protected by the media now, she will be doubly protected as POTUS. Any wrongdoing that comes to light will be unreported, under-reported, or obfuscated, and she will be accountable to no one.

It’s up to those of us who are flexible enough to eat the sins that come with a Donald Trump presidency so that the rest of our cause can remain pure. This is the only option left to us. I wish things were different. I wish there was someone coming to save us, but there isn’t. It’s up to us, and our enemies are substantial. Recently, President Obama all but encouraged illegal aliens to vote:

Look at how heartened the girl looks when Obama says, “When you vote, you are a citizen yourself.” He assures her and all illegal aliens watching that if they illegally vote that they will not be punished for it. Furthermore, we also must remember all the evidence that James O’Keefe and Project Veritas discovered with their hidden camera stings, such as:

Is the election rigged? Can something be rigged when the rigging is happening in plain sight? It’s clear now that we need as many sin-eaters as possible. We can’t win without you.

It wasn’t enough that social media was another outlet to “boost the signal” of Leftist media; the Left needed groups to aggregate, focus, and curate Leftist media so that the messaging could be distilled into its most pure and motivating form. Sites like Upworthy polluted social media with videos and articles that drove traffic back to the Upworthy site where marketing automation could take over and begin the lead generation process. If you “liked” one of the more mainline pieces of content on their site, then they would ask if they could email you more content that you might like. It’s easy to see how a moderate person might be slowly shifted to the Left as the messaging ratched in that direction with each step in the campaign automation. The political Right had no similar apparatus. To this day it still doesn’t.

What the Right should have learned from the Left is that ridicule and emotion are two very powerful tools, and the Left wields both masterfully. But even though the Left is really good at playing this game, the reality is that it takes two players, and, unfortunately, the Right has been playing by the Left’s rules for too long. The Left weaponized comedy to savage political opponents, and when the victims complained, they were accused of “not being able to take a joke”. And the Right played along, accepted the judgment, and backed down.

So the Right, in my opinion, has been in dire straits for almost two decades. Not only was the Right not as skilled at manipulating public opinion as the Left, but the Right also had no installed apparatus to disseminate their message, and if they began to build one, it was ridiculed as not having a sense of humor. Without public opinion on their side, the Right would be doomed to play defense going forward into perpetuity. But all of this could have been turned around if the Right simply said, “I don’t care what the Left says, I’m going to fight back.”

And that’s precisely why I’ve always backed Donald Trump as the Republican Presidential Nominee. His personality and rough behavior makes him the only suitable candidate on the Right that can survive in the gauntlet that the Left has installed in the political arena. Offensively, he rates very highly, ready to pick apart perceived weaknesses in opponents and keep them on their heels. Sure, sometimes Trump is too offensive and people around him end up as friendly fire, but no one’s perfect. What makes him very valuable as a candidate, however, is well he rates defensively. In that regard, Trump actually benefits from some of the same gimmies that Liberals get. For instance, Vice President Joe Biden says a lot of stupid stuff, but is always forgiven because “that’s just Joe!”

The same concession has been extended to Donald Trump because he is so consistent in his persona. His frequent impolitic statements actually boost his trustworthiness because people feel like he’s actually saying what’s on his mind. So it’s difficult for the Left to ridicule something he says when his supporters have already decided to accept his personality and behavior. Furthermore, the Left can’t paint him as a closet anything when Trump is so forthcoming with his opinions. Finally, I’ll be the first to admit that Donald Trump has some optics issues with his visual presentation. His orange skin. His hairstyle. His corpulence. But once again, Trump owns these facets of himself and he is not afraid to show them. As a result, if my Facebook feed is a good sample, there are no effective memes about Trump that mock his looks. And just to further disarm the Left, Trump shows just how un-sensitive he is about his hair:

And this is why I don’t think any of the other candidates would have stood a chance against Hillary. Not when the media controls the election. Only Donald Trump knows how to handle the media, whether it’s social media, entertainment media, or the news media. He proved yesterday that the news media will never cover the Right fairly unless they’re tricked into doing so. For instance, they’re not going to show off the sizes of Trump’s rallies — especially compared to Hillary Clinton’s. They’re not going to show the vile behavior of protesters at Trump rallies or ask those protesters if they’re Hillary supporters. And they’re not going to show Trump being endorsed by decorated Veterans…unless there’s a bigger “get” for doing so. Trump and his team understands this, which is why his “birther” press conference was such a masterful stroke!

The video above is just the press conference, but Trump actually tricked the media into covering a tour of his new hotel in addition to what we see above, which is Veterans who have received the highest honors extolling Donald Trump’s virtues, before Trump finally states that President Obama was born in the United States. BUT! Trump maximizes his effort by reminding the public that Hillary Clinton and her 2008 campaign were the originators of the “birther” controversy, which is not widely known. So Trump actually got a lot out of this little stunt: free promotion of his hotel, free good press, and once again putting the media and opposition on the defensive as they scramble to defend Hillary Clinton and try to pin “birtherism” on Trump.

Thankfully, we have something called the internet now:

Obviously, Hillary Clinton was already defending herself against “birther” charges as early as 2008. Donald Trump was nowhere near this issue back then. And now journalists are coming out describing Sidney Blumenthal, a key member of Clinton’s campaign in 2008, was circulating the “birther” angle back then.

Just when I thought Donald Trump was going to have to untangle a bad appearance at a church in Michigan, he gives the media a much shinier object to fetch. It was a masterful move, and I don’t think any of the other candidates would have had the balls to pull something like this.

What I find the most distasteful about people like King and Buffett is that they always pick a number that they’re comfortable with. There’s no research or consensus-building. They don’t turn to the underclass and ask, “How much do you think we should pay in taxes?” If these people were really serious about income inequality and fairness, then they should consider the ideas from the ultra-Left, like maximum incomes. Would King be OK with being capped at one million dollars a year with the rest of his earnings taxed away to the government to spent as it saw fit? After all, one million dollars a year is still a very comfortable life. And if he’s not willing to do that, then why not? Is it because he feels entitled to the money he earned? And does he feel that he should be able to spend his money as he sees fit? What people like King don’t realize is that it doesn’t matter how far Left you think you are; there’s always someone farther Left than you who will force you to defend your position using politically Right arguments.

I’m getting a little off-topic here. I only bring up Buffett and King because I had occasion to think about them in light of what’s going on with Colin Kaepernick and how his empty protest is gaining traction and infecting other players. This protest against the National Anthem is just more virtue signalling. It’s easy to take a stand — or a knee — when there are no consequences to pay. The NFL isn’t punishing these guys. The news media isn’t condemning them. In fact, ESPN commentators are praising the protests! I believe one player lost an endorsement, but I’m sure that came as a surprise and not as a calculated trade-off. And, once again, what is this accomplishing? Is disrespecting one of the sacred acts that bonds us as Americans really going to achieve the equality they think is lacking for their targeted groups? Are police officers around the country seeing Kaepernick bent down and saying to themselves, “We can’t have that! I guess I’ll stop being a racist!” Of course not. All it does is rile up the malcontents in the United States who want nothing more than to shit on something good and wholesome and is at the core of what defines American society.

On that low note, I’d like to leave you with a thought experiment: Despite being part of the bedrock of the United States, Christianity has been largely removed from public schools, and steps are being taken to further remove it from government spaces because non-Christians were offended. If American citizens can now be offended by the National Anthem, then how long do you think we have before it’s no longer played before every game? It used to be that hard work was the key to affecting change; now it’s victimhood that gets things done.

As I argued in my last post, Leftists don’t like to be outed as hypocrites. And while the focus on John McCain’s health as a crucial factor in whether or not to vote for him has largely dissipated from public discussion, the political Right haven’t forgotten it. And in the age of the internet, it’s easy to “remember” the past in very vivid detail. So the strategy here should be to hold Leftists to their own arguments and see which crumbles first: their support for Hillary Clinton or their deeply ingrained ideology. Presidential candidates come and go. Ideology is forever.

Today, Hillary Clinton had a scary medical episode at the 9/11 memorial in New York, which Donald Trump also attended. Clinton left early because she wasn’t feeling well. Unsurprisingly, the news media decided not to have a camera on her as she departed, but thankfully there were citizen journalists on hand to fill the gaps. Check this out:

Hillary Clinton 9/11 NYC pic.twitter.com/q9YnsjTxss

— Zdenek Gazda (@zgazda66) September 11, 2016

While the video doesn’t capture everything, we can clearly see her legs buckling while on the curb. Then seconds later it looks like she has completely collapsed and secret service are literally dragging her lifeless body into the vehicle. There are reports that she lost her shoe underneath the van and that it had to be fetched. Unreal!

McCain never had a medical episode during his campaign. And this is a guy who suffered unspeakably under torture and who still suffers to this day because of what he endured physically. But the medical episode that the Left salivated for never happened. And yet, now we do have a Presidential candidate that is falling apart before our eyes. It’s time for the Hillary-supporting political Left to answer a question: If you claimed health was import eight years ago for a Presidential candidate but are still supporting Hillary Clinton today, then were you lying then or are you lying now?

That’s why I didn’t pay any attention to the non-troversy of Mitt Romney’s “47%” gaffe when it was splashed around during the last election cycle. I figured the response would break down across party lines. The Left would play it up as the “true face” of Romney looking down upon the little people behind closed doors with wealthy donors. The Right would simply nod their heads and say, “Yeah, he’s saying exactly what I feel.” But when people on the Right started to come up to me and tell me how tin-eared Romney was to say what he said, I suddenly realized just how powerful the media was — it could actually shape the opinion of people who knew better. Here’s Mitt Romney’s infamous “47%” gaffe:

Watching it again now, I’m outraged that this discussion of strategy played any negative role in Mitt Romney’s Presidential aspirations. I can’t be sure if the percentage he referenced is accurate, but his overall message is correct: Promising low taxes is a non-motivator to a group that either has no income to be taxed or does have income but receives a 100% tax return. None of that is controversial. Interestingly, reading the comments on the YouTube page reveals a lot of viewers who are not bothered by anything Romney says here. Moreover, some of them claim they were outraged four years ago by this, but today no longer. Why is that? Because the picture by itself is innocuous. It’s the frame that makes it ugly. And since the media is no longer working to frame this “gaffe” as such, the average person can now consider Romney’s words clearly.

Now we have another Presidential candidate painting the electorate with a broad brush at a fundraiser. Hillary Clinton called half of Donald Trump supporters as belonging in the “Basket of the Deplorables”. According to Clinton, that basket contains the following groups: “Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it.” Here’s the clip below:

Two things immediately jump out at me. First, Clinton’s name-calling is not part of any GOTV strategy that she’s sharing with donors. She just wants to marginalize and dismiss Trump voters to give anyone on the fence a taste of how the Left will treat them if they think about supporting Trump. It also allows Clinton’s donors to feel superior. Hey, if they’re donating, then they might as well get their money’s worth, right? Second, notice how after Clinton insults Trump supporters her supporters start cheering and laughing! That should be the big outrage from what Clinton said. At the end of the day, Clinton is going to say what her supporters want her to say, because her words will reflect their thoughts. And apparently they think that their fellow Americans are deplorable.

Honestly, however, like the Romney “gaffe”, I do not find what Clinton said to be controversial, but for different reasons. Romney’s statement was not controversial because it objectively was not controversial. Clinton’s statement is not controversial because the Right has been living with this disdain from the Left for so long now that nothing they say is surprising anymore. And it’s not a controversy for the Left because this is how they think; Clinton simply gave voice to their thoughts. Their laughter and cheers are proof of that.

What I find interesting, however, is that this discovery of Clinton’s words is still offensive to the Left for a very unique reason. One thing the Left can’t stand is being outed as hypocrites. This is why they always conflate extra criteria into word definitions so that they can’t be defined in the same way someone on the Right could be despite performing the same actions. That’s why a Black guy can hurl racial slurs at White people and not be “racist” because the Left has defined racism as racism + power, and they take for granted that Black people have less power than Whites. Yeah, that’s where we are now as a planet. 

So, bringing this back to Hillary, the problem here is that the Leftist media overplayed their hand four years ago. They made Romney’s “47%” stick, but it stuck too well, and now it’s trapped in the electorate’s mind. How can they possibly spin Clinton’s words as being less damaging to her than Romney’s were to him when her words are so much worse? The answer: They can’t. As a result, Clinton had to apologize — or get to as close to an apology as her heartless shell is capable of. From CNN:

Hillary Clinton expressed “regret” Saturday for comments in which she said “half” of Donald Trump’s supporters are “deplorables,” meaning people who are racist, sexist, homophobic or xenophobic.

“Last night I was ‘grossly generalistic,’ and that’s never a good idea. I regret saying ‘half’ — that was wrong,” Clinton said in a statement in which she also vowed to call out “bigotry” in Trump’s campaign.

Notice the subtle framing of the reaction that CNN does here. All Clinton has said here is that she regrets her calculation. She regrets “saying ‘half'”. Clinton probably thinks “all” Trump supporters belong in the Basket of Deplorables, and she regrets saying “half” when she should have said “all”! There’s no apology here. So what CNN does is frame what Clinton said as expressing regret for what she said. So now the average person will think that Hillary walked back her statement even though she did no such thing.

So when Donald Trump fights the “dishonest media” he’s not kidding around. What impresses me most about all of this is that this video of Clinton even saw the light of day.

In the mind of the Leftist, no one on the Right can be good or do good works of any kind. And if you are a Trump supporter, then you must be evil. If Republicans have a tarnished brand, then it’s mostly because the Leftist media has painted them so. And when the Left is so focused as to blur out a pro-Trump t-shirt, then you know how determined they are to control the narrative.

The media has played defense for the last eight years, ensuring that Barack Obama never looked bad, even when he was returning gifts from other countries or giving inappropriate gifts to heads of state, or during the Solyndra debacle, or the Obamacare fiasco, or his various moments of ginning up racial animus. However, I think the news media had an easy time defending Obama because the public wasn’t as outraged as it could be. I think deep down everyone understood that Obama was incompetent and that poor decisions were going to be part of the package with the first affirmative action President.

But now there’s Hillary, and she’s just a dumpster fire.

More importantly, however, we have this crazy election cycle where the Left was — for a short time — not this mindless block of voters marching in unison. There were actual, tangible degrees of Leftism within their ranks The Far Left actually gave the Less Far Left a run for their money with the rise of Bernie Sanders. Unfortunately for the Far Left, they’re not the ones in control of the news media, and for the first time in their lives they got to see weapon they enjoyed pointing at others suddenly pointed at them. And I’m not just talking about biased reporting; I’m talking about he collusion of the news media and the DNC as revealed by the Wikileaks dump of the hacked DNC emails. Trump is right: The system is rigged. The news media was supposed to keep everyone — especially the government — honest. Instead, they’re playing at being kingmakers.

But Hillary Clinton has too many skeletons in her closet. Heck, she has too many skeletons out in the open! Can the Leftist news media keep covering for her and under-reporting her issues and still think they can be taken seriously? Over Labor Day weekend Hillary Clinton was practically dying on stage at rally as she coughed up a lung for four minutes! And then later she had another coughing attack on the plane. And we’re supposed to think she’s healthy because she opened a pickle jar on a late night talk show? And now we come to find out that Hillary lied about not having more than one Blackberry — she had 13 that she would continually lose! And that devices were destroyed after being subpoenaed. Not to mention all of the other horrendous things to come out of Hillary’s interview with the FBI, like not understanding that “C” stood for “confidential” or “classified”. She’s not even trying to hide her horribleness anymore. She’s so accustomed to the media protecting her. My hope is that someone in the news media will break ranks and actually start reporting the news. But after watching this excellent piece from Ezra Levant at Rebel Media, that hope is dwindling:

On the first point, I’m not a football fan or even a sports fan, but even I can understand how politics has no place in a pure meritocracy like physical competition. Sports is probably the last bastion of defense against Leftist culture, like affirmative action, diversity, and political correctness. That’s not to say that kowtowing doesn’t happen when there’s enough of a blowback from the Liberal society we live in, but at its core, sports is still very objective oriented. It doesn’t matter if you are Black, White, Asian, Latino, or whatever. All that matters is that you can achieve the objective better than the opponent and better than the next person who wants your position.

So here we are enjoying our “safe space” where players are masters of their own destiny — a reality that really can’t be found anywhere else — and Colin Kaepernick has to muddy it with outside issues. Now we can’t just focus on a game and judge these players on their abilities. Instead, we have to think about the minority groups they represent and if every member of those groups is being oppressed in any way. Are we even allowed to watch Black men toil for our entertainment? Is that somehow morally wrong depending on the race of the viewer? Must we now judge the other players who stand or don’t stand with Kaepernick? None of these questions should ever have to be considered when watching a football game. Yet, here we are, forced to wonder if every thrown interception, slide, or wrong quarterback read is possibly a personal protest against some injustice suffered by someone off the field.

On the second point, I’ve always felt that the national anthem and the American flag were holistic symbols that represented everything that is the United States. They represent our history, our people, our freedoms, our futures, our ability to change and adapt, our innovation, our everything. And Colin Kaepernick’s grievance is very small fraction of what makes up America. No country is perfect. Humans are fallible. If you want to make efforts to correct the portion you personally feel needs correction, then go ahead. But don’t protest an entire country by way of disrespecting the national anthem.

Finally, I would have given Kaepernick the benefit of the doubt that his cause was pure if he hadn’t started wearing “pig cop” socks. Alas, I can’t.