Ignoring Makes Sense

It's What Apparatchiks and Idealogues Do

It was buggy and wet up here in Minnesota so my wife and I decided to watch the debate. It seems the rain will never end here. We are Republicans so there is zero chance we would even consider voting for Biden but we decided to watch anyway.

To be clear, Republicans aren’t perfect and the Republican Party has career politicians in it that aren’t that much different from the career politicians in the Democratic Party. But, taken to its extreme I will take Marjorie Taylor Green and Laura Boebert over AOC and The Squad any day of the week.

If you have had your head in the sand, I will summarize the debate for you. Joe Biden mumbled and stumbled. He couldn’t put a coherent thought together. When you saw him walk on the stage, he looked like the stiff old man in the nursing home walking to line up for early dinner. His wife helped him get off the stage. I got down the stairs better a day after having knee surgery. It was so bad, that the hard left-wing NY Times published an editorial telling Biden to withdraw from the race. 100 Million people watched the debate and I hope the momentum Trump receives carries through to November and he has coattails.

Joe is fit enough to sit in a chair.

Joe can’t think critically on the fly. Presidents are confronted with all kinds of problems that need to be solved quickly and expeditiously. Biden can’t. He should be nowhere near the position of President of the United States.

You might hate Trump but the guy can think critically. He can adjust and process information on the fly. He built an international business and isn’t a career-grifting politician. I respect businesspeople more than career pols.

As Republicans, I would remind you there was supposed to be a “red wave” in November of 2022 and it didn’t happen.

The fact people won’t abandon things they think are true runs amok in our culture. Chamath tweeted this out and I think it fits not only with the subject matter but also with the Democratic apologists for Biden, and how people of all stripes cling strongly to things even when they aren’t true.

From WSJ: “When management consulting firm McKinsey declared in 2015 that it had found a link between profits and executive racial and gender diversity, it was a breakthrough. The research was used by investors, lobbyists and regulators to push for more women and minority groups on boards, and to justify investing in companies that appointed them. Since 2015, the approach has been tested in the fire of the marketplace and failed. Academics have tried to repeat McKinsey’s findings and failed, concluding that there is in fact no link between profitability and executive diversity. And the methodology of McKinsey’s early studies, which helped create the widespread belief that diversity is good for profits, is being questioned.”

It comes from this article.

Biden’s administration has taken that study to an extreme. He has appointed people into positions simply based on skin color or gender or some other characteristic that is meaningless when it comes to performance. What’s clear from the start is his administration hasn’t performed, and instead has focused on dismantling the ideas America was founded upon.

No amount of data can change people’s opinions. I got in an X exchange with a doofus who was all about solar power. When confronted with the choice between nuclear and solar, he was still all about solar even though we have reams of data that show it doesn’t work for its intended purpose.

It is unsurprising to me given the fact that since Claudine Gay testified before Congress we have seen how DEI and all the drek that comes with it is plagiarized research at best. The research and conclusions that come from that research are at their best shams, and at their worst organized and calculated to try and steer society away from free market capitalism to something more sinister.

Mark Glennon of Wirepoints cited some research in this article that should help illuminate what I am trying to get at.

The question therefore becomes: Why would Pritzker use a claim that’s so widely known to be a lie?

Much of the answer, I submit, is in what pollster Scott Rasmussen calls “the most terrifying poll result I have ever seen,” and it goes beyond Pritzker. In that poll, his agency asked, “Would you rather have your candidate win by cheating or lose by playing fair?”

Just 7% of Americans said they would want their candidate to win by cheating.

But here’s the kicker: That number jumps to 35% among the elite 1% and skyrocketed to 69% among those who are part of the politically obsessed 1%, meaning they talk about politics every day. The full poll is here and Rasmussen’s comments on it are in this Daily Signal interview.

If cheating to win is acceptable, lying surely is as well, and the vast majority of people of influence have no problem with it. Just lie like hell. Follow the old rule that lies told often enough come to be accepted as truth by many. That’s what we’ve come to. We can be thankful only that most Americans have better values than our elites.

Hence, Democrats will gaslight and repeat lie after lie just to win. They will run the White House as Weekend at Bernie’s as long as they can. Their only concern is power which is why they are outraged at the SCOTUS Chevron decision. The decision usurps power from the unelected bureaucratic branch of government and returns it to legislators. Another of this week’s SCOTUS decisions empowers individuals to be able to fight the executive bureaucrats when they are accused.

Slowly but surely, we will see the true goals of the left-wing Democrats unmasked. It is fun to watch centrist Democrats go through their process of discovery. I just hope they can overcome their cognitive dissonance in November.

Of course, that hope pre-supposes that Republicans will do the right thing if they control the Executive and both legislative branches of government. If people like Thomas Massie and Rand Paul are the driving forces in each legislative house, we have a chance.