Category: politics

bookmark_borderThe best thing to do is point and laugh…

Posted on by Marissa

Generally, I’m not a big advocate of pointing at people and laughing. Generally, I consider this a pretty mean thing to do. But honestly, I 100% agree with the below posts from Twitchy and the Firearms Policy Coalition:

I am so utterly sick and tired of Democrats and their hurtful and intolerant words and policies. I am so tired of being insulted, attacked, shamed and ridiculed. I am so tired of the vicious, nasty, and pompous condemnations of people who have done nothing wrong. I am tired of innocent people being hurt, and then when they express their hurt, treated as if they are the problem. I am tired of people violating the rights of others, and then acting as if they’ve done something positive, something that gives them a claim to the moral high ground. I am tired of the self-righteous intolerance, tired of the bigotry mischaracterized as virtue. I am tired of the hypocrisy, the inconsistency, the double standards, the lack of logic, and more than anything else, the lack of empathy.

They hurt us, and then criticize us for being hurt.

They anger us – by taunting, insulting, ridiculing, and attacking us – and then criticize us for being angry.

They violate our rights, and then criticize us for protesting (after they themselves have spent months and months engaging in the most violent and vicious protests imaginable).

They are cruel to us, and then accuse us of being cruel.

They exclude us for being different, and then accuse us of exclusion.

They engage in a campaign of systematic obliteration of all diversity from our world, and then pontificate about the importance of diversity.

They insult us because of our skin color, and then accuse us of being racist.

They condemn us for being “insurrectionists” and “traitors” – as if resisting authority is self-evidently pejorative – and then characterize themselves as “fighting back” and “the resistance.”

They have demonstrated, again and again, the most abject and appalling lack of empathy imaginable, and then accuse us of lacking empathy.

For so long, Democrats have pointed and laughed – and far worse – at people who have done nothing whatsoever to deserve such treatment. For so long, Democrats have piled on – inflicting additional pain and harm on people who are already hurting – and then acted as if this somehow constitutes moral virtue. It’s past time that they get a taste of their own medicine. Maybe then they will actually understand the magnitude, the severity, the sheer enormity, of harm that they have caused and the pain that they have inflicted.

bookmark_borderThe condescending, stuck-up attitude of Gavin Newsom

Posted on by Marissa

I saw this post by Charlie Kirk a while back and was struck by the attitude that California Governor Gavin Newsom expresses in the third slide:

 

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“You don’t believe in climate change. You are excused from this conversation.”

Excuse me? So because Trump doesn’t share the same beliefs as Newsom, he is “excused” from the conversation?

In other words, Newsom seems to be saying, only people with the same beliefs as him are allowed to participate in the conversation. Only people with the same beliefs as him are allowed to voice their opinions.

News flash: Gavin Newsom does not have the right to dictate who is allowed to participate in a conversation and who is not. He does not have the right to dictate which people are and are not allowed to voice their opinions.

I am so tired of these types of pompous, self-righteous, stuck-up, and condescending statements. People need to actually listen to those who are different from them, or at least respect those who are different from them, rather than mindlessly condemning and shaming them as Newsom does.

bookmark_borderThe difference between supporters and opponents of MAHA

Posted on by Marissa

 

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The most important sentence in this post: “the ability to impose those same views on others.” The controversy about RFK (which shouldn’t exist, because everyone should unanimously support him) is a conflict between two groups, one of which believes that the products and services of big food, big pharma, and the medical industry are good for people’s health, and the other of which believes the opposite. But the biggest thing at issue here isn’t what is healthy and what is not. It’s whether individuals should be able to make their own decisions about their health. Not only do RFK / MAHA opponents blindly follow the recommendations of the medical industry, but they believe that everyone else should be forced to do so as well. While RFK / MAHA supporters believe that every person should be able to make their own decisions.

And that’s what makes RFK’s critics morally wrong. Even more problematic than their erroneous beliefs about what is healthy, is their erroneous belief that they have the right to impose their own beliefs on others. The fact that it is morally wrong to require people to undergo a medical procedure shouldn’t be even remotely controversial. The right of people to make their own medical decisions should not be political. 

bookmark_border“No one elected Elon Musk”

Posted on by Marissa

“No one elected Elon Musk,” Democrats have been pompously stating (see an example here). 

This statement is angering for several reasons:

First of all, it is hypocritical. As various commentators on the post linked above have pointed out, no one elected Kamala Harris, or Bill Gates for the matter, yet Democrats aren’t complaining about them. 

Second, a good argument can be made that people did, indeed, elect Elon Musk. As DC Draino explains in the post linked above, Trump campaigned with Musk and made it clear that Musk would play a role in his government. Trump also campaigned on the idea of cutting wasteful government spending, which is exactly what Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency are doing. A majority of people voted for Trump, knowing that Musk would be part of his administration; therefore people did, arguably, elect Musk.

Third, even if no one elected Elon Musk, so what? Because taxation is morally bad, and government spending requires taxation, government spending is morally bad. Spending should be kept to an absolute minimum in order to keep taxation to an absolute minimum. Therefore, the steps that Musk and DOGE have taken to cut government spending are morally good. And this is true regardless of whether anyone elected Musk, and regardless of whether anyone voted in favor of the things that Musk and DOGE are doing. Moral right and wrong are completely independent of what anyone voted for.

As Robert Kroese points out in a tweet that is quoted in the post linked above, “I didn’t vote for the FBI, ATF, CIA, PBS, NPR, FDA, WHO, UN, IRS, Federal Reserve, EPA or CDC.”

And I didn’t vote for the historical figures that I love to be brutally murdered, or for all people who work at a company with over 100 employees to be forced to undergo a medical procedure.

Yet Democrats did these things anyway.

For them to pompously condemn and shame Musk and Trump for actually doing something good with the government, is reprehensible.