The Most Dishonest Brokers of All

The following was prompted by an insightful piece published by Fran Porretto Dishonest Brokers.
 

     This is the pattern dedicated statists follow: “We need more.” “What do we get in return?” “Sit down and shut up. We need more, and if you protest we’ll defame you, harass you, and call you everything but white.”
     Most important of all: there’s never a “refund clause.” Should the promised benefits (if any) not materialize, the expropriation is not reversed; rather, still more is demanded.
     No private actor could possibly get away with such blatant bad faith exhibited over dozens of transactions. He’d be lucky if a court were merely to strip him naked in restitution. In the Nineteenth Century West, a “snake-oil salesman” who didn’t have the good sense to move on quickly after a round of sales would be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail. Some who didn’t were lynched. Yet governments, and those who aspire to rule, get away with far worse betrayals repeatedly.
     I submit that they know what they’re doing and are doing it with malice aforethought.

I agree with Fran whole-heartedly. But still I felt compelled to add this observation because it is one that is frequently skirted. The most dishonest brokers of all are the GOPe. This is a group often known as RINOs, but more accurately labeled as SKUNCs because they are far from tough-skinned and short-sighted, and most definitely stink.

What it takes to remove them from their positions of power should have been objective number one long ago.

Over more than a century of our society being squeezed away from its sane foundations, they have been instrumental in making sure that we never adequately deal with the agents openly demanding of "more." No vise operates with only one arm.

I am certain I am not the first to make this point. Indeed, I am certain that those who preceded me backed off from action because, in large part, they glimpsed the chaos that would ensue and abandoned the crusade. However seemingly well-intentioned, that wishing to avoid the looming chaos has only ensured that our posterity will face much bleaker prospects. There is no doubt that they felt comforted by the likelihood they 'would not be here to endure it.' I feel comfortable in my certitude of what I just wrote because I've lost count of the number of people I've heard actually utter such words.

Justice would see that each of our generation will earn damnation measured on a scale not merely based upon our overt sins, but with an eye jaundiced to the extent that we were cowards in battling the sort of evil embodied in GOPe types.

Liberal Profs Awaken Too Late for Their Lives

What I want to highlight today is that liberal "intellectuals," having been slammed hard in the chops, can end their piece wondering "Is the modern Antifa fight against fascism actually fighting for fascism without realizing it?" [emphasis in the original]

Let's get on to the lunacy.

Photo provided by the following link

In Mussolini’s Description of Fascism Sounds a Lot Like Antifa  you will read that the intellectuals have discovered among Mussolini's drivel a passage that mimics what they witnessed on their former campus (they've been expelled for not being Left Sinister enough.)

"the modern relativist infers that everybody has the right to create for himself his own ideology and to attempt to enforce it with all the energy of which he is capable.” -- B. Mussolini [emphasis mine.]

Essentially these liberal professors may have finally awakened, realizing the Left Sinister is not liberal but as bad as the fascists the Antifa claim to oppose. Can you imagine that?  Antifa is not only not what they claim to be, but they are what they claim to be against. 

Are these profs yet so naïve that they still can ask 'how is that possible?'   Seems so.

Why next they may awaken to the fact that the overarching group from which the violent Antifa sprang, the Progressives, are really regressive authoritarians, the original masters of disguising themselves and hiding their agenda of gaining power by any means necessary.

But, like their quote of Martin Niemöller, it will be too late for these profs. They will be destroyed by the Progs because they know too much. Or they may be destroyed by the patriots, fighting to reclaim their republic, for remaining useful idiots to the end. (You will notice if you read the whole above link, that they are quoted still rationalizing the role their "good intentions" played in their own undoing.)

This find by a friend, and sent to me, is priceless. I'd never have read this site on my own.

I wish I could say I enjoy the schadenfreude, but I fear too many patriots will have a share of their karma. All who have known better, but wrote off evil too often as mere stupidity, means all earned share.

Now let me answer the link's final wondering question "Is the Antifa fight against fascism actually fighting for fascism without realizing it?" 

Yes. Definitely yes, you dolts.

For sure, there are undoubtedly useful idiots within Antifa who don't know it. They provide cover for the violence the thugs have inflicted and will continue to inflict -- just as you libs with all your alleged good intentions provided reasons and cover for the Left Sinister to incrementally steal power for the last one hundred plus years.  

But the bastards who provide them funds, train their leaders, and see that hardly any are arrested let alone restrained, know full well these are fascists.

And you "intellectuals," because you are only just wondering if they are fascists, are indeed dolts. For even if you are wise as serpents, and are still playing a role trying to convince us you've been fooled, you are still dolts. Because, in the grand scheme of things, you will pay a price, one whose painful extent you are too stupid to see.

Lessons in Humility, No. 1

Allegedly modern (meaning "seeking the best") man frequently derides previous generations as being primitive and, at best, benighted.  Behold.

1,000-year-old onion and garlic eye remedy kills MRSA
 h/t AoSHQ

Scientists recreated a 9th Century Anglo-Saxon remedy using onion, garlic and part of a cow's stomach.

They were "astonished" to find it almost completely wiped out methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, otherwise known as MRSA. 

Their findings will be presented at a national microbiology conference.

The remedy was found in Bald's Leechbook - an old English manuscript containing instructions on various treatments held in the British Library.
...

"But we were absolutely blown away by just how effective the combination of ingredients was," she [Dr Freya Harrison] said.

I fear that the more we think we are the best, the more we actually slip into post-modernism (meaning "get beyond this modernist seeking when we should be seeking to be simpler like the noble savages".)

As that is the condition that the self-assessed elite Progs want to inflict on us lesser humans, I offer this story as one lesson.

Let it help us recall that older -- and what is too often presumed lesser -- generations actually can provide us with not only good solutions, but remind us of something considerably more dangerous. That the cultures subjected to Prog dominance are flattered about their alleged intelligence. They are indoctrinated in complacency (read compliance) to have the carefree nature of Eloi: "Why seek more knowledge when you already are the best?"

The intent is to make the subjects dumber, more vulnerable to things like disease, and easier to control. That father of the Morlocks, H. G. Wells, set the Prog standard and it seems that they continue to follow toward his goal.

Even if this blog post got wider distribution, I don't expect very many people to take it seriously. That is truly sad.

Because if it were taken seriously, such a response would actually start some real countermeasures rolling. There is greatness to be gained in remembering to be humble.

Corollary to Godwin's Curse

The Corollary to Godwin's Curse posted yesterday:

When one is living the consequences of Godwin's Curse¹, adherents to Godwin's Law² will then know what desperation really means.

¹Godwin's Curse
There will be a point in time where events have so deteriorated that the value of any comparative arguments, such as how similar behavior led to the same repercussions, will be moot.

²Godwin's Law in short asserts
Mentioning Hitler or Nazi for any reason in support of an argument implicitly categorizes the speaker as desperate.

Can't Break an Old Dog of a Bad Habit

I still consider the BC issue to be a deliberate red herring. Nevertheless, the ramifications that illuminate how much stupidity exists in halls of power makes it meaningful beyond it being meant to distract attention from all the other extra-constitutional activity going on in DC.

Something came up this morning that runs contrary to my surmise that the release of Mr. Bummer's birth certificate was a deliberate, in your face "Yes, I lied. Watcha gonna do about it punk?" kind of tyrannical ploy.

The following also suggests someone in the White House deliberately has it in for Mr. Bummer. (Let's face it: I think we would all much rather have the turncoat scenario be true than the Stalinesque scenario.)

The following is an excerpt from this.

And now, let’s compare the birth time and the dates of the signatures on your long form cert abstract to the Coast Province General Hospital, Mombasa, British Proctectorate of Kenya, Barack Hussein Obama II Certificate of Birth. I’m sure you see what I see, Sir. Your boy genius, the Official Document Maker Czar, has just effectively tied you to the Kenyan Birth Certificate a Lucas Smith bribed to get from Kenyan officials. [emphasis added]

Yep, they are identical. The original “fraudulent” Kenyan birth certificate somehow has the same time of birth, 7:24 PM, as Bummer’s reluctantly released long form.

If the Kenyan BC was a fraud, and the Hawaiian has supposedly been under lock and key until early this week, how did the alleged Kenyan forger know that last year?

I am embarrassed for all of us for not noticing that amazing coincidence. There are 1440 minutes in every day. Somehow the Kenyan “forger” chose the correct time of day? The probability is 1/1440. Not impossible, but so unlikely without prior knowledge, that it is more likely the alleged forger of the recently released long form is so lacking in creativity, he wound up plagiarizing the earlier forger’s material.

Quick — do you remember anyone in Bummer’s WH who has a history of plagiarism?
[fill-in the blank]

Obama: “Hey Joe. I give you a simple little job to do, plenty of money, and this is the best you could come up with?”

This is a foul-up, hiding in plain sight, that is of Nixonian proportions. All the usual suspects will defend Mr. Bummer and try to explain away this Bummer snafu, and maybe some new, formerly thought Right-loyalists, will join in.  It will be of no good to him.

IMO, this is what comes from Mr. Bummer declaring that he would not follow a law that Congress had passed and he himself had signed rather than veto. Mr. Nixon tried something similar, and the sleeping dog of Watergate became news all over again very shortly thereafter. Mr. Bummer is a very poor student of history too.

An Image to Tickle Your Psyche

Assume that many of Obama's acolytes believe he might be foreign born, but that is okay with them.

Well, they surely will denounce the copy of the alleged Kenyan birth certificate below as a fraud. And it might very well be a fraud.

But the next one may be legitimate.

So they worry. Oh how they worry. And they can't admit it, right?

Okay, now here's the image I've been chuckling over. It is one that I've verbalized in order to share it with you.

Wouldn't it be delightful to have hidden cameras on every beach Obama visits from now on just to take note of how diligently his entourage obliterates his footprints?

The above did not strike me as all that humorous at first. However, each time I thought about it, it was as if Obama had gone on yet another vacation. Somehow each subsequent vacation was becoming a bit more troubling for him than was his previous ones. I'm not sure what to call such a belabored spectacle, but there is something righteously laughable about it.

SKUNCs, DAMNED SKUNCs, and Statist Icks

First, let's salute cynical humorist Mark Twain, who made most famous the line bowdlerized by the title of this post.  However, the treachery I'm addressing is no laughing matter. Statist icks is really quite an understatement. If anyone can suggest a more disgustingly apt term, be my guest.

For those who may be new here, yesterday we concluded a 35 day long search for a more accurate acronym than RINO. A Republican who, due to declines in the electoral institution, finds he no longer is held accountable to voters he allegedly represents, remains a republican still until the republic dies completely. The acronym I liked best was SKUNC -- Statist Knowingly Undermining National Charters. However, it's an acronym which is a suitable label for all those seeking to subvert the fundamental charters of their nations for the benefit of a few.

So I've kluged together an additional acronym to tack on before SKUNC:

Deceitful American, Morally Noxious, Elitist Defenders of Statists Knowingly Undermining National Charters

DAMNED SKUNCs refers to members of the Republican Party who view conservatives with contempt, and will sell out American sovereignty to the detriment of the whole world. They are worse than the radical-Left dominated Democratic Party. At least the Dems have made little secret for their contempt of America and her middle class. They've been actively subverting the US for at least 50 years, and makes no show of loyalty to founding American principles. But the GOP is the ostensible opposition to that -- and our SKUNCs are the lowest form of human life known: false patriots; moles; fifth columnists; Quislings who lack the former heroics and stature of a Benedict Arnold.

It's not perfect, but I personally like the sentiment.

That they are willing to sell out the US of A makes it clear to every other nation in the world that the United States government at every high level is now totally unreliable in a pinch. House Speaker John Boehner on Egypt sounded like Jimmy Carter! No effing wonder that Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah are looking for the exits.

I say that if the prayers of men who have yearned to be free are heard, that once the United States is subverted to the UN or some other globalist entity, the US SKUNCs would most certainly be the most damned among a whole host already damned.

Ask for forgiveness and turn on the other DAMNED SKUNCs while you still have a chance, you dumb bastards.

Consequences

Andrew Klavan has another humorous demonstration about where good liberal intentions are leading.



But Mr. Klavan only suggests all this in biblical terms and images. I've no idea why he did not connect the Hell he is suggesting to the Hell on Earth so many other humans had to endure in the past and even today as subjects of Leftist tyranny.

So I will take it that extra step. Ironically, it will be the Left who'll be the most unprepared. Pray for them when you pray for America and yourselves. Honestly, they know not what they do.

When the liberals and Leftists are no longer needed, they will be chewed up by the all powerful state they helped create. 

When the false promises fail, as they must, the most visible Leftists will be sacrificed as scapegoats. The process is so progressive regressive that it's positively pagan. This follows from the premise that the total state is infallible and the "there are no enemies on the Left" doctrine. 

The schnooks will be demonized as counterrevolutionary fascists, forced to confess, and then imprisoned, brutally punished, and slowly and painfully killed. It may even be broadcast live as there will no longer be need to hide these practices. Their consequences will serve as warnings to all the rest of the subjects. 

"Be still, accept your fate, and we may let you live a bit longer and without extra pain." 

The promise of The Terror will have come into its own.

Remember Patton's Dictum...

and then post this warning:

Question: What's Patton's Dictum?
Answer: For those who insist on further explanation, assume they are the other poor dumb bastards.

They May Eat You Last...

... But They Will Still Eat You.

At AoSHQ we see Monty expressing this reality is a slightly more subtle way. In Lefty union-loving magazine owner hoist by own petard, Monty explains the lead in to a coup de gras.

• Harper's magazine is the New Yorker for people who find The Atlantic too gauche.
• Liberal and Luddite owner John MacArthur eschews modern technology including the web.
• Resultant losses had MacArthur laying off UAW organized workers.
• MacArthur has slathered praise before on the UAW, including "the country’s best and traditionally most honest mass labor organization."
• ...
• Monty concludes much as I began: "It's all liberal solidarity until your own employees turn on you, isn't it, Mr. MacArthur?" 

For the rest as implied by the elipsis point above, go to the link above that.

Postscript: The lesson here applies not only to liberals who one day awaken and find themselves being mugged. There are conservatives among us who are conservative in ways other than in support of higher principles. How? "Damn you Pascal: now you're rocking my boat. Shut Up!"