The Left has become completely unmoored from reality. Today's news is filled with it.
The Atlantic:
“Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!”Why are journalists even covering this conference? This is not news, nor is it important to average Americans what a conference of neo-Nazis is doing.
That’s how Richard B. Spencer saluted more than 200 attendees on Saturday, gathered at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., for the annual conference of the National Policy Institute, which describes itself as “an independent organization dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States, and around the world.”
Spencer has popularized the term “alt-right” to describe the movement he leads. Spencer has said his dream is “a new society, an ethno-state that would be a gathering point for all Europeans,” and has called for “peaceful ethnic cleansing.”
For most of the day, a parade of speakers discussed their ideology in relatively anodyne terms, putting a presentable face on their agenda. But after dinner, when most journalists had already departed, Spencer rose and delivered a speech to his followers dripping with anti-Semitism, and leaving no doubt as to what he actually seeks. He referred to the mainstream media as “Lügenpresse,” a term he said he was borrowing from “the original German”; the Nazis used the word to attack their critics in the press.
This is a classic example of the MSM trying to push an agenda. In this case, it is the flawed theory that President-elect Trump is racist. For all of Trump's flaws, racism of the white supremacist variety is not one of them.
If you still believe Trump is racist, or if you just want something to give to your Leftist friends to talk them off the ledge, read Scott Alexander's blog post "You Are Still Crying Wolf". It proves how silly this racism charge is, not to mention how dangerous.
Speaking of silly leftists...
Los Angeles Times:
Supporters of a plan for California to secede from the union took their first formal step Monday morning, submitting a proposed ballot measure to the state attorney general’s office in the hopes of a statewide vote as soon as 2018.Anyone who knows me knows that I fully support any state's effort to secede. So if California wants to, more power to them.
Marcus Ruiz Evans, the vice president and co-founder of Yes California, said his group had been planning to wait for a later election, but the presidential election of Donald Trump sped up the timeline.
However, this is comparable to my wife wanting to divorce me because of my affair with Jessica Alba. Aside from the "only in my wildest dreams" aspect of it, it would be a silly thing for my wife to do. It wouldn't do anything for either of us, and probably cost both of us a lot of money.
It is the same deal for California and the U.S. If California left the U.S. over a Trump presidency, it would cost both California and the U.S. a lot of money, and still not change the fact Trump is president. But at least our next president would be much more conservative.
Speaking of reality checks for the Left...
The Deplorable Climate Science Blog:
Thermometers show the US cooling since about 1920, but NOAA massively cools the past to create the appearance of a warming trend.
The best part of this story is the chart described as "a spectacular hockey stick of data tampering":
This is what passes for climate science nowadays. But like with Trump's alleged racism, when you did a little deeper, the evidence is lacking.
Fortunately, people see past the Left's lies:
Yahoo News:
Milwaukee (AFP) - On North Avenue, young black men with nothing to do wander past boarded-up buildings and dilapidated shops. It is a sad, desolate landscape.Americans get it. The Left has failed, and Americans see the evidence all around them, even if the Leftists in their glass towers miss it completely. But the worst part is how the Left not only denies their failure, but creates lies and false facts to cover up for it.
They and other African Americans in Milwaukee contributed to Hillary Clinton's crushing defeat in the presidential election: not only did they not vote for her, as had been expected, some even backed Donald Trump.
Wisconsin's largest city is also America's most racially segregated one, according to a study based on the 2010 census.
And Wisconsin served up one of the biggest surprises of an election day that shocked America and the world: no one thought the midwestern state would fall to the Republican billionaire.
Clinton was so sure of victory she did not even bother to campaign here after the Democratic primaries, instead sending her daughter Chelsea or her husband, former president Bill Clinton.
"She probably thought she had Wisconsin wrapped up," said Ronald Roberts, a 67 year old retiree, as he left a shop called Bill the Butcher. Its aging sign is missing the R.
"You can't take the voters for granted because they'll stay home," said Roberts, who used to work as an auto mechanic.
That is just what happened here, according to exit polls taken on November 8.
While I doubt Trump is the answer, at least he isn't a continuation of the current problem.
Finally, there is a positive note from that last article:
"I voted for Trump because I believe he can create jobs. Period," said Dennis Johnson, a 39-year-old truck driver.Amen brother.
"He said, 'Hey, what have you got to lose?' To me, it just made perfect sense," said Johnson.
He added: "Now, listen, this country will survive four years of Trump. We survived eight years of Obama and eight years of Bush."
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