This is my ideal of an officer-involved shooting:

Quick summary: police in Iron County, Utah responded to a couple suspected thieves in a parking lot. The female was brandishing a screwdriver. The morons repeatedly refused to obey police orders to disarm(her) and step out of the way for safety’s sake(him).

One officer eventually pulled out his taser and deployed it on the female. Didn’t work. The officer sighed, switched to his pistol and kneecapped the female in cold blood.

What makes this incident more than the usual dopamine hit of watching idiots get hurt is that it represents the flip side of police/civilian interaction.

On the one hand, innocence must protect the civilian; otherwise, he has no incentive to be innocent and society unravels. On the other hand, when a civilian refuses the protection of innocence then he refuses the protection of law. The officer must still follow established procedures but that’s it. Here, Barbie brandished a deadly (if improvised) weapon despite police repeatedly making the reasonable request to put it down, a weapon that probably doubled as a burglary tool, and insulted the officers. At that point, the officer’s concern properly switched to the bystanders instead of the suspect and he dropped her before she could make an attack.

No bystanders were endangered.

No police were endangered.

And Barbie survived. That would probably not have happened had the police waited for her to rush them or something. This is an ideal outcome. The innocent were protected and the guilty were harmed.

The investigating DA said the officer was unjustified but charges wouldn’t be filed. I believe the shoot was justified because the cop protected society from a potential threat. “Society” would have included the female had she chosen to abide by the law when the law was threatening to shoot her.

We don’t need police brutality but we also don’t need police who assume verbally abusive, disobedient suspects with shivs are law-abiding citizens until a jury says otherwise.

The #MeToo train has no brakes. Hawaii’s latest gift to the United States Senate, Mazie Hirono, has been busy practicing what could be construed as criminal entrapment of Trump’s court nominees.

https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/08/07/senator-hirono-invades-judges-privacy-by-prying-into-their-sex-lives/

Dem Sen. Mazie Hirono invades judges. privacy by prying into their sex lives

By Jerome Woehrle August 7, 2018

…Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) is asking people nominated to become federal judges intrusive questions about their sex lives, as lawyer Scott Greenfield notes in .Hirono’s perjury trap.” Hirono asks nominees a confusing compound question that conflates merely asking your spouse for sex with serious acts of sexual harassment:

Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?

This question deliberately lumps together two very different things. A request to your spouse for sexual favors is not illegal, even if your spouse says he doesn’t want sex; by contrast, assault of a sexual nature certainly is illegal, and should preclude anyone who commits it from ever being a judge.

There is no way to be certain about whether a request to your spouse for sex will be “unwanted” before you make the request. And asking your spouse or romantic partner whether they want to have sex can be useful in ensuring that they do, in fact, consent, thus preventing “unwanted” sex from happening.

Of course, it is impossible for a man to never make unwanted requests for sex. Hirono is not asking in ignorance, good faith or due diligence. When an ugly, bitter woman in authority over you asks questions about your personal sex life, it’s only because she wants you dead and is searching for a way to shift the blame of your upcoming summary execution.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Commissars in particular.

But Mr. Woehrle didn’t dig deep enough to showcase the utter wickedness of this latter-day fifth columnist. Let’s go to an article by New Proletariat Revolution, better known as NPR:

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/07/617239314/the-quiet-rage-of-mazie-hirono

The Quiet Rage Of Mazie Hirono

Nina Totenberg, 7 June 2018

Mazie Hirono used to be known as the “good girl” of Hawaii politics.

She was seen as polite, never in-your-face, not a boat-rocker. But now, that view has changed.

As one Hawaii columnist put it, she is a “badass.”

“I always was,” Hirono said in an interview with NPR. “I just wasn’t very noisy about it. I’ve been a fighter all my life. I just don’t look like that.”

That certainly puts “model minority” in a new light. Turns out Easterners are as racist as any other ethnic group except whites. They just have our patience.

The Senate’s only immigrant takes that fight to President Trump, whom she openly calls “xenophobic” and a “liar.” “To call the president a liar, that is not good, but it happens to be the truth,” the soft-spoken Hawaii senator told Time recently.

“Senate’s only immigrant”, WTF? Did Hawaii secede from the Union before California got the chance? Per Wikipedia, Hirono was born in Japan but got American citizenship from her mother. A Japanese woman called Trump a xenophobe? Was she complimenting him?

The Democrat also takes that fight to Senate Judiciary Committee, as it weekly considers a tranche of Trump judicial nominees, abandoning long-standing rules that guaranteed significant time to examine each nominee’s record.

Longstanding rules to not allow right-wing judges, they mean.

That doggedness will be even more important this summer because Republican leader Mitch McConnell has just canceled most of the August recess, mainly to push through more Trump judicial nominees before the midterm elections. McConnell’s aggressiveness about judges is galling to Hirono.

Kudos Mitch McConnell. *GQ does a double take* Republicans aren’t trying to lose anymore?

“The word hypocrisy comes to mind,” she said, adding that McConnell just wants to get “more right-wing, ideological judges” onto the courts. The Republican-controlled Senate has already confirmed 21 Trump appeals court appointees, compared with nine Obama appointees when the Democrats controlled the Senate at an equivalent time.

Fuck your hypocrisy and fuck your mother, Japanese-Marxist-Pretending-To-Be-An-American. You liberals picked the game. We’re just playing it.

“As long as we’re going to be here,” Hirono said with a twinkle, “maybe we should pass something important like DACA or an infrastructure bill.”

Or impeachment of a Senator? Some criminal justice could impose a “chilling effect” upon America’s Commissariat.

 

Alex Jones is who Rush Limbaugh would’ve been had he gotten addicted to uppers instead of downers. How did I miss him for so long? I never thought of him as more than a shock jock until yesterday when he got banned in a smoking-gun-level collusion of Big Tech companies. Trump should start antitrust proceedings. (It’s overdue anyhow but when Zuckerberg was called to testify before Congress, it was embarrassing. Maybe voters shouldn’t reelect politicians beyond the limits of embalming?)

I like this sort of persecution much more than the last version, which consisted of 4am visits from secret police and kids reporting their parents to the Commissariat. As pushback, I’ve added Infowars to my blog sidebar and discovered Jones is kinda fun to listen to at work. Because of Jones’ persecution, he gained a listener and more notoriety. Getting banned will probably lift Alex Jones’ show to new heights. Well done, FAGS! (Facebook, Apple, Google, Spotify. h/t Kallmunz commenting on voxday.)

Speaking of Vox Day, his perspective is the correct one here: it’s inevitable that Leftoids will kick us off their platforms so don’t get mad. Use that backup plan and get even.

The 21st Century is weird. The enemy of my enemy is GAY FROGS!

Signaling the Democrat Party’s transition from “working men” to “MS-13 slave traders” are their reactions at watching trade unions, once their breadbasket, change political loyalty to President Trump. An op-ed hit piece:

https://www.nytimes com/2017/04/08/opinion/sunday/the-unions-that-like-trump.html

8 April 2017

Mr. Trump and his advisers know that his “America First” message resonates with autoworkers and other blue-collar workers. The Trump team also knows that if it can win over some of the nation’s major labor unions . they’re usually a pillar of Democratic campaigns . that will badly weaken the Democrats for years to come. …

Sean McGarvey, president of North America’s Building Trades Unions, came away applauding Mr. Trump’s plans for the Keystone Pipeline and other projects, which could mean more than 100,000 new jobs. .So far so good . our concern is basically the economic trajectory of our membership,. Mr. McGarvey said. (Though when President Trump spoke last week to the construction unions. legislative conference, some union officials . unhappy about his push to repeal Obamacare and his rolling back of some worker safety regulations . booed him and held up signs saying, .Resist..)

Ah, old-school politics: ‘more jobs’ versus ‘more freebies’. That world is gone. There will soon be no more freebies for anybody, only weaponized identity politics. Then was Left vs Right. Now is Nationalist vs Globalist. Anybody who wants health care isn’t going to get it from Obamacare. It’s an unworkable mess and don’t unions offer their members health benefits anyway?

Although labor unions have declined in size and might . just 10.7 percent of American workers belong to unions, down from 30 percent under President John F. Kennedy . they still pack plenty of political punch. Many labor leaders were mortified that Hillary Clinton narrowly lost in three longtime union strongholds, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin; they say that if she and labor had campaigned a bit smarter in those states, she could have won them, and the White House. One reason she lost Wisconsin is that union rolls there have plummeted . from 15 percent of all workers in 2009 to 8 percent today. A big reason: Gov. Scott Walker moved aggressively to shrink Wisconsin’s public-sector unions.

Dems have doubled down so hard on free trade and mass immigration that they’ve lost control of their historic base. Their choice is to either apologize to their constituents or (continue to) replace their constituents. This graph is rather more informative than those statistics:

Notice private union membership went down a whopping 60% beginning around 1975… concurrent with the start of mass immigration? And public sector union membership doubled in 1962, that’s interesting. From Wikipedia:

Executive Order 10988 is a United States presidential executive order issued by President John F. Kennedy on January 17, 1962 that recognized the right of federal employees to collective bargaining. This executive order was a breakthrough for public sector workers, who were not protected under the 1935 Wagner Act.

No wonder the Left idolizes JFK. He did more with that one executive order to build the Deep State than any politician since the Butcher of the South. Back to the op-ed,

…The nation’s unions are divided into three camps regarding Mr. Trump.

The construction trades are the most pro-Trump. Many liberals have criticized Mr. McGarvey’s enthusiastic words for the president, but he said it’s smart to work with politicians. .We’re working on creating a building trades majority, Democratic and Republican, whether state or national,. he said. .We never want to be in a position where losing an election changes the economic trajectory of our membership..

The strongly anti-Trump camp includes the Service Employees International Union, the National Education Association and several federal, state and municipal employees. unions. These unions oppose the federal hiring freeze, the proposed budget cuts and repealing Obamacare and are aghast at Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s antagonism toward traditional public schools. .The budget they’ve put forward is horrible, and DeVos is on a path to destroy public education,. said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.

Then there’s the ambivalent, middle camp, including the autoworkers, steelworkers and machinists unions. They applaud Mr. Trump’s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact and his vows to bring back factory jobs and renegotiate Nafta. Dennis Williams, the U.A.W..s president, applauds Mr. Trump’s tough stance on Mexican trade . .We’ve been hollering about this for 20 years. . and at the same time slams his policies on immigration and Obamacare.

Translation: the not-offshoreable-trade unions love Nationalism, the Gimmiedat Communist Agitator unions love Globalism and the transnational-corporate-employee unions would generally prefer their factory-enclaves to be located within their home country.

Gary Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University, said some unions have accepted a Faustian bargain. “Aside from somehow creating jobs for some members, what do you get in return?. he asked. .You can forget about having any labor law reform to make it easier to unionize, and you can kiss goodbye a $15 federal minimum wage..

You don’t have a job anymore but if you did, you’d be a millionaire. Vote for me again so I can keep my job!

Professor Chaison said union leaders understand Mr. Trump’s type of personality. .That’s the reality they deal with every day . C.E.O.s who are often arrogant,. he said. .They know how to deal with them.” Still, the language many labor leaders use toward Mr. Trump is more modulated, not their usual muscular talk. Perhaps they are scared of his wrathful tweets or his history of retaliating against critics.

Heehee, a tenured Marxist professor of greed called somebody else arrogant.

Mary Kay Henry, the president of the Service Employees International Union, said that labor is not nearly as divided as some say. Her union is working closely with the steelworkers to promote environmental protection and green jobs, and numerous unions banded together to try to block Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court and to battle Republican efforts to pass “right to work” legislation in Missouri (where it was enacted) and in New Hampshire (where it was defeated).

Reading between the lines, her union is circling the wagons to prevent steelworkers from supporting Trump’s protection of their industry. I’m sure that won’t backfire at all.

.The Trump administration is just another step in a 40-year attack that’s been waged against unions,. Ms. Henry said. .The American labor movement is bound together by our deep desire to create good-paying union jobs. We’re not going to support any agenda that seeks to divide unions from each other..

Unions do not create jobs. Unions provide collective bargaining services to people working for businesses.

.I.m grateful he was able to keep 730 Carrier jobs here in this country,. [Chuck Jones, president of the steelworkers local in Indianapolis] said. Some union members challenge his skepticism that Mr. Trump will be a friend of blue-collar workers. .He’s fought against unions,. Mr. Jones said. .He’s filled his cabinet with big-business people.” But he acknowledged he was pleased with Mr. Trump’s comments on manufacturing and trade, although he wants to see what the president does next. .I.m encouraged that he pulled out of T.P.P., but it was pretty much dead anyway,. he said.

The Trans-Pacific Prosperity abomination was not “pretty much dead”; it had been a high priority for Globalists for many years.

Mr. Jones said he wasn’t surprised that many union members backed Mr. Trump. .He was singing the right message on jobs and manufacturing,. he said. .Hillary didn’t have a message for labor. People bought into Trump..

This last comment is significant. The Democrat candidate for POTUS had nothing to say to labor unions? Was that a massive election oversight or did she have a replacement constituency in mind?

A more recent sign of Big Labor panicking over their membership joining Trump is seen in their opposition to SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/10/trump-scotus-pick-kavanaugh-pro-business-tilt-stokes-unions-concerns.html

…Legal experts say that while [Kavanaugh] has taken a more overtly pro-business stance than some of the other leading candidates on Trump’s list, his rulings on such issues are unlikely to push the court much further to the right than with Kennedy on the bench.

Labor unions . including the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest federation of unions . and workers’ rights groups are still concerned, however.

“Judge Kavanaugh routinely rules against working families, regularly rejects the right of employees to receive employer-provided health care in the workplace, too often sides with employers in denying employees relief from discrimination in the workplace and promotes overturning well-established U.S. Supreme Court precedent,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a statement.

Working families, not workers? That’s a bad misstep these days. Legal American workers are not keen on seeing courts double down on Duluth.

For a humorous digression, Kavanaugh sided with orcas in denying employees relief from being eaten in the workplace.

https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2018/07/10/scotus-nominee-kavanaugh-backed-seaworld-in-case-involving-trainer-death/

In 2014, President Trump’s pick to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy sided with the Orlando-based theme park company in the case of a $70,000 OSHA fine involving the 2010 death of SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau by the killer whale Tilikum.

Kavanaugh dissented in a 2-1 decision that upheld the fine. (The majority were D.C. Court of Appeals Judges Merrick Garland . President Obama’s doomed pick for the high court . and Judith Rogers.)

In her majority opinion, Rogers didn’t accept SeaWorld’s argument of a precedent in a San Diego case. Cal-OSHA hadn’t issued a citation for killer whale hazards after Kasatka bit and dragged a trainer underwater. The trainer, Ken Peters, [had] suffered a fractured left foot in that 2006 incident at SeaWorld San Diego.

…On Tuesday, a blog post by Jordan Barab, the Obama-era deputy assistant secretary of labor at OSHA, quoted former OSHA Assistant Secretary David Michaels.

.In his dissent in the SeaWorld decision,. Michaels said, .Judge Kavanaugh made the perverse and erroneous assertion that the law allows Sea World trainers to willingly accept the risk of violent death as part of their job. He clearly has little regard for workers who face deadly hazards at the workplace..

Too funny. San Diego is a surprisingly conservative city. Coincidentally, they’re also the closest metro to Mexico. Back on topic,

Daniel Goldberg, legal director at the progressive advocacy group Alliance for Justice, was even more blunt than Trumka.

Goldberg said that while every name on Trump’s list of 25 Supreme Court candidates poses a threat to Obama-era health-care laws and the abortion protections enshrined in the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, Kavanaugh in particular represents a “who’s who of protecting the wealthy and the powerful.”

Considering that labor unions have had notoriously high pensions and benefits for decades, why should union workers care about Obamacare? Once again, it’s Nationalism vs Globalism.

AND WHAT THE HELL DOES ABORTION HAVE TO DO WITH ORGANIZED LABOR? It ain’t that kind of labor, Mister Lawyer.

While Trump is not accomplishing any permanent solutions, his willingness to be pro-America at all is opening the door for union activists to join us in protecting our nation from globalist thieves & arsonists. People are getting mighty tired, even frightened, of these monsters. But will they themselves repent of their lust for other peoples’ money?

 

I spent the weekend in my kilt watching the Scottish Heavy Athletics and buying a new belt for my kilt because I outgrew the old one–all muscle from the gym, at least, but what’s a guy to do when the weight for height is 56lbs?

(Not me, not the Monterey event)

While there, I got sold on some gourmet mustard. The guy had a spicy variety he’d tamed with vinegar and citrus and I thought to myself, “vinegar? Seafood”. So I bought it, baked some rainbow trout with a Parmesan crust, spooned the mustard on as a spread and it was really good. Not too spicy, kept the trout from tasting dry, a hint of orange flavor to the flesh and not a gram of added sugar!

I’m going back to the fairground next weekend for “Monterey Baconfest”. Honestly, I didn’t even know Baconfests were real. Gonna load up on bacon, some precooked burger patties, add a chipotle mustard I bought at Scottishfest and have gourmet bacon cheeseburgers for work-lunch for a solid week. A different bacon every day!

I haven’t had this much fun eating as a bachelor since a couple years ago, when I impulsively bought 20lbs of assorted steaks for an entire summer of cookouts. Pre-seasoned peppercorn is awesome. *checks* Hey, they’re still in business. If you’re a barbecue-dude near Fresno or Medford then try http://pacificprimefood.com .

And they say MGTOWs don’t know how to have fun!

On a related note, did you know that one way to curb invasive species is to eat them?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-we-really-eat-invasive-species-into-submission/

Can We Really Eat Invasive Species into Submission?

The tale of a giant Amazon fish reveals the promise and peril of .invasivorism.

A story of Bolivian farmers who began eating the endangered yet invasive species named “Paiche”, the world’s largest freshwater fish at a weight up to 400lbs.

Seems the bugger got flooded out of its natural habitat and began consuming all the other freshwater fish it could find. Bolivians retaliated by putting it on the menu. But now environmentalists fear it’s become too profitable to be endangered anymore.

Bolivia is now faced with a controversy that, for the last decade, has been a central debate in the young field of invasion ecology here in U.S.: Could human hunger help control the spread of invasive species or will the rules of capitalism, combined with our unquenchable thirst for more, only make matters worse?

The article doesn’t answer the question so I will: The profit motive will ensure both that it doesn’t go extinct and that its reign of terror upon nonnative habitats will not go unpunished. Behold! A problem being solved without massive, punitive, centralized, totalitarian gov’t policies implemented top-down from U.N. Headquarters! And the worst that can happen is the Paiche is forced to go back!

There’s no pleasing eco-Nazis. First they complain it’s endangered, then they complain it’s everywhere, then they complain that folks are pan-frying them for fun, profit and a re-balanced ecology. Here’s a typical, if slightly dated example of their whining:

https://ensia.com/voices/why-eating-invasive-species-is-a-bad-idea/

September 9, 2014 . It seems like whenever an edible animal becomes an invasive pest, someone suggests that getting people to eat it will solve the problem. For instance, in 1998 the state of Louisiana induced famous New Orleans chefs to develop recipes for nutria, which are eating away the state’s coastline. Even highly visible invasive plants inspire dreams of a gastronomic solution . there are at least four kudzu cookbooks. These schemes have never worked: Nutria continue to gnaw away at Louisiana (and Maryland and Delaware), and kudzu occupies 7.5 million acres in the U.S. and is spreading by some 125,000 acres annually. …

Why not? If the species is there, not supposed to be there and capable of being sold for $5 per pound then that’s a strong economic incentive to “reduce the population”. That’s much more efficient than paying a legion of botanists to kill it and NOT eat it.

However, even if the public could be convinced that an invasive species is a delicacy, a gastronomic approach to management is problematic for four big reasons.

First, it might not work. For dining on an invader to lower its population size, mortality must exceed the birth rate. Often mortality from harvest is simply what wildlife biologists call “compensatory” . it removes individuals that would have died anyway by old age or other means. Even if harvest mortality is not just compensatory, it must impose a huge, consistent toll on reproductive individuals to overcome reproduction, and a characteristic feature of invasive species is a very high reproductive rate.

Cry me a river, wide and deep. Eating it might not kill all of the species so, what? Eating it must not be attempted? Why should we discourage economic incentives for killing invasive species even if it’s not a Final Solution?

Second, creation of a market for an invasive species provides an incentive to maintain the species in order to sustain the market, or even to spread the invader in order to improve profits.

Um, wouldn’t these supposed farms not come into existence until after the wild population is controlled? You don’t have to farm kudzu to get more of it. You only have to close your eyes and count to ten. That’s why it’s an invasive species: we can’t easily restrict its wild growth.

Illegally introducing fish in order to create a sport fishery is common practice and suggests the sort of spread that marketing an invasive for food can produce.

Bullshit.

Third, if a nonnative species becomes an integral part of regional cuisine, it may become a revered cultural icon. Introduced wild boar are ecologically disastrous to the Hawaiian Islands, eating and rooting up endangered plants, causing massive erosion, and producing breeding pools for nonnative mosquitoes that carry malaria and pox that threaten the existence of several native bird species. Yet attempts to eradicate or even control populations of wild boar engender heated, heartfelt opposition from Hawaiians who have feasted on them for generations and view them as a valued part of their culture.

This is why we call them eco-Nazis. Yo, environmentalists, if the locals don’t want you micromanaging their ecology then guess what? You don’t get to micromanage their ecology. Let them enjoy their mosquitoes & malaria, if wild boar truly is what’s causing the problem.

I’ve spent time on Kauai. They have chickens there, chickens everywhere. A chicken coop was left behind during the Hurricane Andrew evacuation and by the time the natives returned, the wild chicken population was established. Today, Kauai is the least bug-infested island in Hawaii and the natives are content to have a self-sustaining, emergency food supply for the next hurricane. An invasive species improved island life for both locals and tourists.

Fourth, U.S. law prohibits widespread transportation and marketing of most invasive species. Conservation laws forbid buying, selling, possessing or transporting any federally designated invasive plant or animal. Food laws forbid selling meat that is not properly inspected: wild-caught nutria, for example.

“Existing laws didn’t take this situation into account” is not a reason for anything except ignoring existing laws. Those prohibitions on transporting invasive species probably don’t apply to dead specimens processed into sushi and if they do, they need to be changed to encourage the scorched-earth extermination of the edibly unwanted.

If you want to get rid of a species then make it profitable to hunt & kill. California has success stories of this sort: sardines during WW2 and sea otters are prominent in local history.

So, environmentalists, what does invasive lionfish taste like?

On the plus side, lionfish are tasty . the flesh is white, firm and mild. This has led restaurateurs to feature lionfish at premium prices.

Mmm. *Gunner breaks out the gourmet mustard, fantasizes about SCUBA spearfishing his dinner among the coral reefs of the Bahamas.*

There is no evidence that this market has dented lionfish populations, but popular media reports about it have had the unfortunate effect of spreading the idea that a market can help control invaders, with virtually no discussion of efficacy or downsides.

The only downside mentioned in this article is the locals taking advantage of a new, tasty, plentiful food supply hasn’t yet resulted in the food supply’s disappearance. If that’s a problem then get out of my way, hunger-striking hippies. This MGTOW loves all of God’s creatures… fajita-style… and there’s money to be made. I wonder if Monterey Baconfest will feature invasive species? Everglades Tegu bacon?

Call me Invasivorist!

 

You can learn a lot about an animal by studying the creatures that prey upon the animal. How they go about getting food illustrates the animal’s strengths and weaknesses. A second article from the Soros-funded Demos think tank discusses the magical “working class” that Communists love to prey upon.

https://www.demos.org/publication/understanding-working-class

Defining the Working Class by Tamara Draut, 16 April 2018

Social scientists use 3 common methods to define class.by occupation, income, or education.and there is really no consensus about the “right” way to do it. Michael Zweig, a leading scholar in working-class studies, defines the working class as “people who, when they go to work or when they act as citizens, have comparatively little power or authority. They are the people who do their jobs under more or less close supervision, who have little control over the pace or the content of their work, who aren’t the boss of anyone.” Using occupational data as the defining criteria, Zweig estimated that the working class makes up just over 60 percent of the labor force.

The second way of defining class is by income, which has the benefit of being available in both political and economic data sets. Yet defining the working class by income raises complications because of the wide variation in the cost of living in the United States. … The third way to define class is by educational attainment, which is the definition used in this paper.

How interesting that the old definitions of “working class” no longer apply. No occupations are reserved by the Elites and income is so fluid that ‘Old Money’ is a concept no longer in use. One would think Communists would declare success at such an achievement even if it be the achievement of their enemies.

Instead, Tamara seeks to redefine “working class” by education. That’s an odd choice because higher education is so massively subsidized by gov’t and banks that a massive student debt bubble has formed. It’s not like med school is a hopeless dream even for ghetto rats today; you only have to sell your financial soul. Just like the preppy whities do! Equality! Fraternity! Bankruptcy!

Education level has the benefit of being consistently collected in both economic and political data sets, but, more importantly, education level is strongly associated with job quality. The reality is that the economic outcomes of individuals who hold bachelor’s degrees and those who don’t have diverged considerably since the late 1970s. While people with bachelor’s degrees experienced real wage growth in the 30 years between 1980 and 2010, incomes among those with only a high school education or some college declined precipitously.

This is entirely false. The middle class has been hollowed out since the 1970s. Bachelor’s degrees are not worth more today than when the Baby Boomers were young. Indeed, outsourcing/immigration is so heavily used to suppress wages that most economic growth recently have been in the trades because those jobs can’t be “offshored”.

Today having a college degree is essential (but no guarantee, of course) to securing a spot among the professional middle class. As unionized manufacturing jobs got sent overseas, the once-blurred lines between occupation and class grew quite sharp. The blue-collar middle class is an endangered species, shrunk to a size that makes it no longer identifiable in national surveys.

The blue collar was never the ‘professional middle class’. It WAS the working class, back when America had a manufacturing industry. That entire working class died… and they know the Communists are responsible for that. They know what you did to them. Every time you scream for more sanctuary cities, sanctuary churches, sanctuary universities, sanctuary STATES and the wholesale abolition of the Border Patrol, they remember why they don’t have jobs anymore. M.a.s.s…I.m.m.i.g.r.a.t.i.o.n.

America’s manufacturing sector used to be a Democrat stronghold. Unions bought many, many elections for tame politicians. When immigration was weaponized and free trade implemented, the unions screamed at their congressmen to stop it all. The unions knew what would happen to the manufacturing sectors, including themselves personally, so they pulled every string to stop the globalist agenda.

And every politician they owned, every single one, to the last man, openly defied the unions. Those Democrats preferred unlimited immigration and Third World sweatshops to bushels of reelection money. That was an early “oh, shit” moment for me. Politicians don’t do that. They don’t betray longtime supporters with endlessly deep pockets. Except they did… for the globalists.

The downside of using education to define the working class is that education is not a perfect proxy for establishing the power or autonomy one has in the workplace or society.the traditional definition of class. There are definitely well-educated workers who hold menial jobs or jobs that pay low wages, just as there are less well-educated workers who have jobs with great autonomy or power. It is a blunt definition, but in the aggregate it is a reasonably accurate way to distinguish between the working class and the middle class.

Today, the Commies are desperately looking a “working class” they can champion, to replace the old “working class” they betrayed for Soros shekels. Might be hard to “bluntly define” such a group into existence.

“In this brief, .working class. is defined as individuals in the labor force who do not have bachelor’s degrees. This includes high school dropouts, high school graduates, people with some college, and associate.s-degree holders. It includes the unemployed, who are counted as still in the labor force as long as they are actively looking for work.”

Nope. Not seeing it. She’s smoking the good stuff. Her self-contradictions drag on for several more paragraphs, omitted.

There is no doubt that the United States has a serious voter turnout problem. Over the past 4 decades, turnout in presidential elections has hovered around 60 percent. In 2016, 61 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot. And among that meager percentage, wealthier and white voters show up in greater numbers than others. In 2016, 48 percent of people with incomes below $30,000 voted, compared to 78 percent of people with incomes above $100,000.

It’s like the wealthy care more about being looted than looters care about finding victims. That might be because the gov’t helpfully does the looting for them. No need to get off the couch and smash a storefront window; just wait for the monthly check.

Why is low voter turnout a problem, anyway? It increased the voting power of those who do care to vote. This is a good thing; the only people who should have a say in gov’t behavior are people who care enough to suffer mild inconvenience.

But yes, liberals love, LOVE increasing voter turnout. Absentee ballot abuse is a good demonstration of why. We have “motor voter” laws in California to make voting anytime, anywhere possible. (In fact, voting absentee has recently been made opt-out mandatory.) What typically happens is a ghetto gets its ballots delivered in the mail. “Community organizers” hold a rally to incite the dupes to vote their way and pressure them to fill out their votes on the spot. That way, the vote is cast the way they want even if the voter has second thoughts after calming down.

And contrary to popular perception, voters with incomes below $30,000 overwhelming cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, by 53 percent to 40 percent.

HAHAHA wishful thinking, Barbie! All those manufacturing people remember who screwed them out of an INDUSTRY! Even her numbers are serious. Trump promised no freebies and still got 40% of the freebie-loving demographic? Perhaps liberals shouldn’t have backstabbed Bernie Sanders quite so enthusiastically.

Since 1972, the difference in the policy preferences of voters and nonvoters about government’s role in our society have widened, with voters much more aligned with conservative preferences and nonvoters more aligned with progressive policy preferences. Missing voters, who are more likely to be low-income, are more liberal on questions of redistribution in particular, specifically on the need for government to provide jobs, services, and health care.

The low-income are most likely to be dependent on gov’t freebies? You didn’t need a think tank for that finding. This is a major motivation behind tax-and-spend, the impoverishment of taxpayers. You rob (er, TAX) people until they can’t make it on their own anymore and then offer them the chance to fleece the next guy like they were themselves. “It’s your turn, dude! Free money! Let me help you screw the rich!”

Politicians focus their campaigns, and all of their polling, on motivating “likely voters” to cast their vote for them. But structural barriers, including burdensome registration procedures, combined with an enthusiasm gap means that the working class is more likely to be missing from the pool of “likely voters.” And so the agenda is set by an electorate that is more white and more affluent than the nation as a whole.

This is a very telling insight into the Commie-vulture mindset. Aren’t these the tolerant, color-blind people I’ve heard so many good things about? How quickly they drop the act in order to discuss marginalizing whites in gov’t and encouraging the politics of envy.

Whites are the most productive race so if we lose gov’t power then we’ll be looted into oblivion. Along with successful non-whites, let me note.

A study of 85 democracies found that higher voter turnout leads to higher total revenues, higher government spending, and more generous welfare state spending.

One could conclude from this research that the recent conservative attacks on voting rights, from requiring photo identification to shortening early voting opportunities, both of which dampen turnout among younger, lower-income, and voters of color, are clearly designed to preserve an ideological hegemony that doesn’t reflect the needs of all the people in our democracy.

In saner times, the police would be allowed to investigate Tamara and Demos for vote fraud based on this paragraph alone.

It.s all too common to hear a political pundit say that most Americans identify as middle class. But it isn’t true. Part of the problem is that many polls don’t even include the option of identifying as “working class,. instead offering only upper, middle, and lower class as options. It turns out that when polls offer “working class” as an option, just as many people self-identify as working class as middle class.

Are you upper class, middle class, lower class or a Loyal Citizen?

Peeking under the hood of Leftoid HQ is relieving. They’ve exhausted their prey and are scrambling to find more ways to get their tyrannies enacted. The old ways of class division and income “inequality” have entirely collapsed thanks to ruthless implementation of globalism. They’re now reduced to courting college dropouts (like Bill Gates?) who have no control over their working conditions (in violation of OSHA?) and the prospects are so meager, they want to not only extend voting privileges to all illegal immigrants but FORCE THEM to vote as well.

Somebody is on the wrong side of history.

 

Demos is a Soros-funded think tank that, inexplicably, publishes its work publicly on the Internet. I found a couple insightful articles. Today, here’s a report they published of a national study to determine how they should phrase their totalitarian policies to be more agreeable to the American voter.

Let’s look at a few excerpts:

On one hand, this feels depressing. This is cynical mind games to trick the average voter into supporting elitist agendas he would reject if he took the time to understand them… and to a degree, it probably works.

On the other hand, that cynicism cuts both ways. The Soros clowns know they’re selling pure evil designed to kill those they’re tricking into purchasing it and consequently, they aren’t even trying to be understood. They’re doing studies to find the most convincing lie and probably doing so on a rotating basis as one lie after another becomes ineffective, like viruses exposed to sunlight. That sounds like a lot more work than upholding Christ & Country while not caring if anybody notices you upholding them.

The very existence of studies and think tanks like this one is very good news for our side.

These Jedi mind tricks don’t work. In the last panel, where oppositions (read: non-Marxists, non-gullibles) increased their support for illegal immigration from 39 to 48%, did they actually change their beliefs due to a simple changing of language? Of course not. They were tricked into giving a good answer to the poll, not a good vote to the ballot. This is the face of liberal desperation: expensive Mk-Ultra-lite thought experiments designed, like most modern research, to foster the illusion of progress instead of actually progressing. Even atheists want to see miracles.

These charts are like watching Crossfitters do kipping pull-ups. The purpose of the traditional pull-up is to strengthen the body. The number of pull-ups one does is secondary; you can get measurable benefits just from hanging on the bars in a pull-up position. But the Crossnutters do kipping pull-ups in order to bypass the purpose of the pull-up (build strength) in favor of the metric (I just did 150 pull-ups! -Twiggy the Soyboy)

Similarly, polls are useful for measuring what people already believe… but this kind of “what can we do to make the numbers look better” polling is not something polls were ever intended to do. In statistics class, the changing of numbers due to how questions are phrased is considered a source of systematic error… and come to think of it, nowhere in the report did I see error analysis.

These guys are gaming their patron, Mr. Soros.

Face it, liberals, fooling low-information voters is one thing; keeping them fooled long enough to wander into a voting booth is another; and there’s nobody left to fool you into thinking the world will be more fair after you deceive your Brave New World into existence.