It's kind of fun to watch the Dems coping so hard in the wake of being serially pummeled by the Supreme Court and with the doom rushing toward them in November. You're going to hear a lot more of it, lots of tales about how new blue voters are being mobilized to get out there and support the guy who brought us $7 gas. Don't buy it.
Boy, the Democrats haven't been so mad since 70 years ago in Brown v. Board of Education, when the Supreme Court also stopped them from treating a group of human beings inhumanely. I like how they are trying to riot, mostly in Democrat cities. You might call it an "insurrection," but it's becoming a cliché to point out that there is a two-tiered system at play in America right now where those scumbags get to do what they want and we get persecuted. I think it's much better just to ruin them than to point out the cosmic injustice of it.
And we are.
Land of Cope and Glory
I'm starting to see a lot of the similar messages and tweets on social media where you have some hack telling us that their non-political friend who's never been interested in politics before is suddenly determined to go out in November and vote for the Democrats because of the J6 kangaroo kommitee, or because the Supreme Court is making it more difficult for people to kill babies. Now, I don't want to seem overly suspicious or untrusting, but I'm not sure that Democrats are particularly reliable about this stuff. In fact, and again I don't wanna seem cynical, but this just seems like a giant cope to me.
They cope because they have to tell themselves something about what we all know is coming. And what is coming is their worst nightmare. Despite the best efforts of the Republicans, including that preening doofus John Cornyn's gun control fiasco, it looks like the Republicans are going to crush the Democrats in spite of themselves. Obviously, the election of a conservative Republican Latinx woman – "Latinx" is our word now – in a long-standing Democrat district on the Texas border was an indicator, and it is a really big indicator.
These doofuses have squandered what used to be a huge advantage in the minority community in a way that couldn't have been more comprehensive if they had convened a meeting of the dumbest strategists they have – "Get me Rachel Bitcofer!" – and asked themselves, "How can we screw this up worse?" Boy, have they ever been thinking outside the box. It's like they brainstormed, "Yeah, let's take our Hispanic immigrant constituency and give them a stupid new name that will only be used by aggravating wine women with poetry degrees from Wellesley, and then let's dig in really hard on the idea that it's OK to take your son, cut off his genitals, and turn him into a chick. That's really going to appeal to the Hispanic community, and I know Hispanics because I've had a gardener for a very long time! Are we out of Chardonnay?"
You know, the social media cliché of the eight-year-old son who asks some MSNBCNN-approved question to his father and then everybody claps is being replaced by the social media cliché of the freshly-politicized voter suddenly called to woke action because 18 months ago that horn-helmet guy took some selfies on the Senate floor. Yeah, that's a thing that totally happened. Yeah, some barren cat lady who is a couple of years from retiring as the assistant deputy human resources manager for the Central Northeast District of MegaCorp and whose husband left her for a woman is now being inspired, for the first time ever, to vote Democrat because she's not going to be able to get an abortion quite as easily anymore, menopause be damned.
I'm not buying it, you're not buying it, and I don't even think the Democrats are buying it. But they have to tell themselves something, and it can't be, "Gosh, our bizarre social pathology that masquerades as an ideology has screwed everything up, and it's all our fault, and the voters are going to justly punish us for our failure."
If you have no hope, you cope.
Fussy Dems Riot Like Sissies
Well, the post-Dobbs riots fizzled out faster than the wedding night of Brian Stelter, who is a potato. As soon as Justice Alito sent the rulemaking on abortions back to the states, all sorts of the usual suspects sought out microphones to share their ominous threats of retaliation and payback and even violence.
Well, it all came to nothing, like a Jeffrey Toobin Zoom call. In Los Angeles, that hotbed of anti-abortion restrictions, they blocked the freeway and shouted a lot and then went home to their parents' basements. In Washington, DC, and New York, they marched and fretted and nothing happened. In Arizona, they tried to rush the capital while the state Senate was in session, which I was told by important and serious people on cable TV constitutes an "insurrection" when Republicans do it. Sadly, hundreds of them were not locked in solitary confinement for several years despite the speedy trial right in the Constitution – a right that they don't seem to think is as important as the right to tear fetuses to pieces with forceps. In the end, the cops drove them away with a little tear gas.
As far as a riot, I have to give it a two on a scale of 1-10.
I gotta say that their threats of civil conflict are not particularly threatening. I talk about this tactic in my new non-fiction book "We'll Be Back: The Fall and Rise of America," which looks at the potential for a second civil war (among other things) and how it might look in all its forms. One of the scenarios the book discusses is blue insurrectionists attempting to start a street insurgency like the communists tried in the 60s and 70s with the Weather Underground and the Symbionese Liberation Army. As then, it would have a significant regular criminal element:
"The most likely initial step is some sort of lower-grade left-wing insurgency, probably with Antifa types and similar degenerates adopting organized deadly violence as an escalation of their current property crimes and street-thug bullyboy schtick. There were only a few dozen Weathermen, but there are thousands of Antifa-type criminals, and the term 'criminal' is used with intent. The majority of the people out doing the semi-organized street violence in Portland and elsewhere in 2020 and onward are actual petty criminals dressing up their sociopathology with a patina of politics. When Kyle Rittenhouse conducted his act of societal hygiene by capping three scumbags with an AR-15, two of them terminally, they all had criminal records, including one gem who did a stretch for sodomizing young boys. When you pick three dudes at random and 100 percent are criminals with 33.33 percent of them potential CNN producers, that tells you all you need to know about the composition of the military wing of the Democratic Party."
We'll see if they can make that happen in any systematic way beyond isolated spasms of collective violence. Until then, there comes a point when threats are no longer threatening, just annoying. And I think we're reaching that point.
You guys wanna play horsey? Roll the dice. Go ahead and start it. We'll finish it.
Maybe they will throw down. As we saw above, their frustration is only going to grow as November approaches and their power slips through their soft girlish hands.
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