Maggie's Farm

Re: Election results in the Netherlands and Argentina

I was a Red Sox fan in the 50's and 60's. They were a pretty good team with some pretty good players. But they never failed to disappoint. Year after year they would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

I am a conservative fan in politics. They have the better ideas and are on the right side of history. But they too never fail to disappoint. Every time conservatives get a position of power they equivocate, argue among themselves, call each other names, waste time on the least important things and worse they allow the left to walk all over them usually by "compromising".

I expect nothing more from this latest wave of conservative wins. I expect the left to undermine them and beat them at every turn. Look what the left is doing to Trump. Charged with 97 felonies and defending himself in court so much that he cannot reasonably conduct his campaign. Look what they did to his administration while he was president. Now watch what they will do to the Dutch and Argentina's new leaders.

The "hate crimes" was invented to add additional charges and additional opportunities to charge those people the left hates. Kind of ironic. When a black person or group of black people commit a crime against a white person and even say they did it because they hate white people you never see a hate crime charge. But if a black person assaults a white person with a gun and tries to rob or kill them and the white guy shoots the black guy the first thing brought up is "could this be a hate crime?" Hate crimes make no sense. Either you did or you did not break a law without regard to why you broke the law. Charge the law breaker with breaking the law, DUH! Forget the politically and racially motivated "hate" motive. If you kill or assault someone intentionally it has to be from hate. It wasn't out of love.

We see in Europe where now speaking out on an issue is a hate crime. The crime? What you said hurt feelings! Incredible! Based on that premise wouldn't it be a hate crime then to charge someone with a hate crime??? I know it would hurt my feeling if I were charged with a hate crime.

"Burning a cross on someone's lawn isn't just vandalism. It's an attack against the entire community and should be punished as such."

It should be punished for the crime it is. Nothing more, nothing less. Otherwise it is the nose under the tent of a slippery slope to tyranny.

Why wouldn't wearing the kefir by a hate crime? Glorifying terrorists and the despicable inhuman acts they committed. Why wouldn't rioting for Hamas be a hate crime? Why wouldn't sending money to Hamas be a hate crime? Why wouldn't chanting "from the river to the sea" be a hate crime?

"The keffiyeh is a traditional headdress, originating with the Bedouins."

Yes, and why? To protect them from the harsh environment that they lived in. The heat, the blowing sand, the sun. So why are they wearing a kefir in 40 degree weather in America? They don't wear them all the time only when they want to demonstrate their hate of the jews or Americans. To try to make excuses for it or rationalize it as something else is pure BS.

Europe is beginning to ban the wearing of a hijab. Why? Not because they are opposed to "tradition" but rather because it is obvious that the Hijab is used to divide people and demonstrate their hatred of the citizens of Europe.

It's time to ban these hate symbols. If you are a legal immigrant than assimilate. If you don't want to assimilate go back to your traditional country and wear your traditional clothing. Don't bring that shit here. Leave your hate in the country you left and become an American.

Why do you constantly defend terrorists and haters?

And their other quaint traditions of raping women to death, cutting off baby's heads or burning women alive doesn't seem to bother you either.

The article " Byron Wien’s 20 Life Lessons" had an interesting lesson. He referenced "10 surprises", that is 10 things that happened to the economy where he and his company guessed wrong. Fair enough it happens to everyone and we learn from our mistakes. But, if you understand economics and are paying attention you would of course know that these things that are happening are not just out of the blue or handed down from god. They are the result and the intent of those people who manage our economy and spending. We didn't just because of bad luck get high inflation, it was the inevitable result of Bidenomics, poor legislative choices or Democrat spending. He would have to know this BUT went to great lengths to not say it. Why? Because he is a political animal and he knows the price of criticizing the party of no tolerance for criticism.

Another example is the surprise that the economy is doing better than predicted in spite of the terrible and fool hardy agenda of the left and the ever skyrocketing national debt. But again he would have to know this is a Potemkin village constructed by the FED buying up the debt with make believe money. This, buying up the debt with fake money, is from an economic standpoint an egregious mistake that can only lead to an even worse disaster than what was prevented in the first place by this can kicking mistake. The Democrats, with some Republican help, has flooded our economy with fake/borrowed money to hide the fact that the economy is in a slow motion crash simultaneously with an inflation rate at least double the official rate.

We are in uncharted territory. Yes government have done similar things in the past; Germany in the 20's, Argentina, Venezuela, etc. but these were not the largest economy in the world making the dumbest economic decisions in the world. If as expected our economy crashes from these decisions and the piper must be paid there isn't enough money in the world to pay the piper. There is no soft landing or legitimate turn around that you can make. About the only legitimate choice is a national bankruptcy followed by starting from scratch.

That would work; everyone loses everything and begins again with nothing and tries to stay alive. But, it ignores the fact that there are international threats who are waiting for exactly this to destroy us. Perhaps that is the reason we are kicking the can down the road, i.e. that our leaders know we are toast but they can put of the inevitable for awhile in hopes of a miracle. I think that is where we are, on the precipice of the worlds largest crash hoping for a miracle.