Maverick Philosopher

In Keeping with the Joyous Kamala Vibe . . .

. . . this old tune by the Beach Boys captures the sum and 'substance' of her campaign. Come Tuesday night, the surly scowls of the racist Trump will have no chance against Kamalita's vibrations and excitations.

And Kamala Baby would never, ever, bomb Iran.

Son of 'in case you missed it'

Down with a bad case of TDS? Check with your doctor to see if Independence is right for you.

Finally! A Cure for TDS

Check with your doctor to see if Independence is right for you.

Seriously, though, is TDS really a psychiatric condition, a form of topical insanity? Or is it rather a form of willful self-enstupidation? If the latter, then it is a grave moral defect, a form of vincible ignorance, and morally censurable as such.  

To put it crudely, TDS-ers are either sick in the head or else moral scum. Pick one.

Related: Michael Savage on liberalism as a mental disorder. I prefer the phrase, 'progressive disease.'

Kamala as Zelig

Do you remember Zelig? If Zelig was the human chameleon, Kamala Harris is the political chameleon.

Official Trailer #1

Mia Farrow as Kamala

Who is Kamala Harris?  The Language Nazi cannot resist pointing our that the author of the linked piece confuses 'errant' with 'arrant' about five paragraphs down.

No Entity without Identity

Some political wit in the Alinskyite style is the Stack topper of the day. 

A Vote for Sleepy Joe . . .

. . . is a vote for Cackling Kamala. 

She may be a cackling clown, but she is a 'person of color.' Indeed, she is of two 'colors,' Tamil Indian and Afro-Jamaican. She is thus doubly qualified for high office, and trebly to boot considering that she is of the female persuasion. It's a three-way intersection. If only she were, in addition, a transgendered lesbian illegal immigrant!

The only drawback visible to me is that she gives salads a bad name.  Your typical salad, as a comestible composed of comestibles, evinces gustatory coherence. Her famous 'word salads,' however, are notoriously bereft of semantic coherence.

My mind drifts back to John Searle's remark anent Jacques Derrida: "He gives bullshit a bad name." 

Too Old to Lead

Bede, History of the Abbots, 16 (on Abbot Ceolfrith; tr. Christopher Grocock):

Now he saw that, being old and full of days, he could no longer prove to be an appropriate model of spiritual exercise for those under him either by teaching or by example because he was so aged and infirm. He thought over the matter long and hard, and decided that it would be more appropriate for an instruction to be given to the brothers that they should choose a more suitable father-abbot for themselves from among their own number, following the statutes of their privilege and the rule of the holy abbot Benedict.

uidit se iam senior et plenus dierum non ultra posse subditis, ob impedimentum supremae aetatis, debitam spiritalis exercitii, uel docendo uel uiuendo, praefigere formam; multa diu secum mente uersans, utilius decreuit, dato fratribus praecepto, ut iuxta sui statuta priuilegii iuxtaque regulam sancti abbatis Benedicti, de suis sibi ipsi patrem, qui aptior esset, eligerent.

Reproduced verbatim from classicist Michael Gilleland's Laudator Temporis Acti weblog. Commentary unnecessary.

'Woke' Home Defense

Helpful tips. About three minutes long.

But wait, there's more: a case for pre-natal squatters' rights.

The Left's Orwellianism Pictorially Represented

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What Leftists Mean by 'Democracy'

They mean woke globalist plutocracy, or something in the semantic vicinity thereof.  This is why the enemies of the people see nothing contradictory in using 'lawfare' to keep Donald Trump off the ballot. We the people, however, understand 'democracy' to mean rule by the people. On this understanding of the word, it makes no logical sense to attempt to defend democracy anti-democratically, that is, by silencing the vox populi.

The Orange Man, however, gets the last laugh since SCOTUS has spoken, 9-0.   Even Justice Jackson went along, she who doesn't know what a woman is. Has she grown a pair?

The THC level of the stuff smoked in Colorado these days is much higher than that of the  weed  smoked back in those fabulous and far-off  '60s.  And the Coloradans, unlike Bill Clinton, inhale.  The Rocky Mountain high is now 'plutocratically' high. Are the higher THC levels a causal factor, along with high altitude, in the etiology of Coloradan chucklephuckery?

Is that a rhetorical question or am I really asking? And what about the immediately preceding question? Rhetorical, or am I really asking?

Hot damn, if I didn't enjoy writing the above! The joy of blog. Seriously, though, mockery and derision are among the weapons we must deploy against our political enemies. 

Political Parsimony

Do not multiply enemies beyond necessity.

William of Ockham: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

William of Alhambra: Inimici non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

Enemies are worse than friends are good. The enmity of the enemy is more to be feared than the friendship of the friend is to be desired. But show me a man with no enemies, and I'll show you a man with no character. We of the Coalition of the Sane and the Reasonable are distinguished by our enemies, in two senses of 'distinguish':  we are set apart from them and we are set above them.  A man is judged by the nature of his enemies — and by the nature of his friends.

Political Circularity

The Democrats circle the wagons.

The Republicans prefer the circular firing squad.

The Libertarians favor the circle jerk.

I trust my meaning is clear.

Milquetoast Mitt Won't Seek Reelection

Here. Good riddance!

Who will the Democrats replace him with?

Hurricane Hilary is Misnamed!

Disasters should be named after disasters. The name should be Hillary.

Epicurus Redivivus

As in the case of Joe Biden and those who support him.

The Purpose of Kamala Harris

Actually, she has two.

The first is to make Joe Biden appear articulate by comparison. 

Her main purpose, though, is to insure that Biden not be removed from office.

Why Shouldn't the Vatican Go 'Woke'?

The RCC is already a joke with a clown at its head; why then should it not go 'woke'?  It has needed defunding for a long time now. It is up to us to make it true that 'go woke, go broke.' Story here:

VATICAN CITY — An unprecedented global canvassing of Catholics has called for the church to take concrete steps to promote women to decision-making roles, for a "radical inclusion" of the LGBTQ+ community . . . .

The document also asked what concrete steps the church can take to better welcome LGBTQ+ people and others who have felt marginalized and unrecognized by the church so that they don't feel judged: the poor, migrants, the elderly and disabled, as well as those who by tribal or caste feel excluded.

Perhaps most significantly, the document used the terminology "LGBTQ+ persons" rather than the Vatican's traditional "persons with homosexual tendencies," suggesting a level of acceptance that Francis ushered in a decade ago with his famous "Who am I to judge" comment.

Satanists must feel terribly marginalized by the RCC even at this late date. They need to be recognized so that they don't feel judged.  'Catholic' means universal; so shouldn't everyone be included?  Diversity, equity, inclusion!  In fact, Satanists are more worthy of inclusion than New Atheists (Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens, Harris, et al.) because the former, unlike the latter, believe in the super-natural, the meta-physical.  In any case, the New Atheism is so passé! Hell, nobody knows what it is is anymore. Satanism is the current thing and must be honored as such. Diversity demands the inclusion of Satanists! And (superlunary) equity, equality of soteriological outcome, for all, regardless of merit or demerit!

Moral judgment must be avoided at all costs since, as we all know now, there is no difference between making moral judgments and being judgmental, and no bien-pensant wokester wants to be perceived as judgmental.

"LGBTQ+ persons" absolutely must replace the Vatican's traditional "persons with homosexual tendencies," because of the latter's implied distinction of tendency/disposition and exercise.  It was traditionally held that there is no sin in having the innate homosexual tendency or disposition; the sin consists in exercising or acting upon it. But this distinction is quite obviously homophobic and hateful because it marginalizes those who act upon their inherent homosexual desires. Besides, it's a bogus distinction; it sounds like some dusty punctilio from some superannuated scholastic manual of the sort the beatific Bergoglio rightly excoriated.   Both disposition and exercise are to be, not tolerated, but celebrated.  By her own astute admission, Karine Jean-Pierre, as the first black, female, lesbian WH press secretary, is a historic figure.  No doubt about it, and qualifications for the job have nothing to do with it.

See? I'm a clown! Who am I to judge?

DEI and Crash Dummies

DIVERSITY demands that crash dummies be of all sizes, shapes, races, ethnicities, animal species including trans-species hybrids such as the Cat Man, and also 'genders' including trans-dummies, and let's not exclude living humans who 'identify' as crash dummies the better to facilitate their exit from life's freeway. 

EQUITY will then be served: an equal outcome will be achieved by all dummies including the dumb-assed Dems who 'identify' as inanimate dummies when they are 'merely' transgressive leftards.

INCLUSION rules out, or excludes, all conservatives from serving as crash dummies, and rules in all fat, ugly, 'vertically challenged,' and 'differently abled' persons especially such politicians as Lori Lightfoot and John Fetterman.

What am I mocking?

We Need a Fitter Man

Who Could Deny that the Latin Mass is White-Supremacist?

It is perfectly obvious, and here is the proof:

1) Blacks don't know Latin
2) What blacks don't know is white-supremacist; therefore
3) Latin is white-supremacist.
4) The Latin mass is in Latin; therefore:
5) The Latin mass is white-supremacist.

Quod erat demonstrandum! 

Vide hic et hic. (Am I writing in 'code'?)

The Ultimate Orwellianism

The ultimate Orwellianism is to refer to the terminally benighted as 'woke.'

Is Obama a Semi-Racist?

The illustrious Joe Biden has enriched the national conversation with his introduction of 'semi-fascist.' Why not then 'semi-racist'? A semi-racist is one who is half-racist. Now we know that every white, but no black, is a racist. So anyone who is half-white and half-black is a semi-racist. 

Fetterman Unfettered: Against Ableism

In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, John Fetterman is currently competing with Dr. Mehmet Oz for a seat in the U. S. Senate. Any objective person who observes both men in action can see that Fetterman is mentally, morally, and politically unfit for office.  (I won't comment on the 'hoodie,' the ugly forearm tattoos, the neck bulge, the man's lack of a career outside of politics, or his 'anti-gravitas': the man's overall thuggish appearance.)

Mentally, he has trouble formulating clear sentences.  A recent stroke has left him impaired. Morally, he is a brazen liar: he recently stated in a debate with Dr. Oz that he supports fracking when it is obvious from his previous assertions and his overall position that he does not. Politically, he supports destructive hard-Left positions with respect to drugs and crime and everything else.

But let's say you believe in 'equity' as wokesters use the word. You believe in equality of outcome and proportional representation regardless of merit and qualifications.  If 'equity' is your concern why shouldn't a stroke-impaired man be a U. S. senator? After all, if dementia is no bar to high office, why should stroke-impairment be?  Fetterman's fit with the Biden bunch couldn't be tighter. To demand qualifications for high office or for any job at all is to discriminate against the unqualified, and we now know that discrimination is among the worst of sins. We are all equal and the supposed accomplishments and talents of Dr. Oz the heart surgeon really ought to count for nothing in an equitable society. We have made progress in the 'progressive' sense of the term. And we are better people for it. 

The disabled are just as qualified as the rest of us. For they are not really disabled at all; they are differently abled.  I myself was born with only one functioning ear. But this birth defect gives me the ability to block out sound in bed by putting my good ear down on the pillow. Clearly, this wonderful ability of mine compensates for all of the drawbacks of monaural hearing such as the inability to tell from which direction a sound is coming. The point generalizes: all disabilities are really abilities in disguise. No one should ever be evaluated in any way on the basis of supposed 'talents' or 'qualifications' or 'abilities' or 'accomplishments.' What I said in my first paragraph convicts me of the thought crime of 'ableism.'  I ought to check myself into the nearest 'progressive' re-education camp.

The Albatross and the Donkey

Joe Biden is and will remain an albatross around the neck of the Democrat jackass.

The 'Equity' President

'Equity' is wokespeak for equality of outcome without regard for merit or qualifications. In Joe Biden, the demented have finally a representative at the highest level of government in the greatest nation the world has ever seen. Who can deny that this is progress? To question it would be discriminatory and ableist.

Face Masks

Masks are a form of cultural appropriation. We have no right to adopt the apparel of criminals, thereby disrespecting by co-opting the accoutrement of their chosen lifestyle.  That lifestyle is who they are!  But not only that. Since criminals are disproportionately black, masks are also racist! 

Masks are also discriminatory and non-inclusive. Doesn't every pathogen have a right to migrate whithersoever it wants?  Nancy Pelosi, that shining star of political wisdom, taught us that walls are immoral using those very words; how then could masks be any less immoral? 

A Riddle I Posed Two Years Ago

If Joe Biden is elected, who will be president? 

What is the Most Pernicious of the Left's Errors?

Contemporary leftists (cultural Marxists) deny that there is a reality antecedent to our classifications and conceptualizations. (V. I. Lenin was of course an exception along with other classical Marxists.) Everything becomes a socio-political construct. How convenient for identity-political totalitarians! The bird of reality can be carved up in any way that suits the will to power of some interest group -- because there is no bird to carve. Avis rara in excelsis!

 

Next stop: the Twilight Zone.

 

Rachel Dolezal is black. Elizabeth Warren is a Cherokee. Warren, a.k.a. 'Fauxcahontas,' despite her contribution of a recipe for lobster bisque to Pow Wow Chow, that must-have cookbook for the bien- pensant, is the Rachel Dolezal of American politics. Continuing in the alimentary mode, Warren cooked her own goose anent her presidential pretensions, and is now 'toast.'

 

But why can't a cooked goose 're-imagine' herself as toast?

Leftist 'Logic'

Remember the Mueller Report? It found no wrongdoing on the part of Donald Trump or his team. The long investigation, prosecuted with pit-bull intensity by enemies of the president, and at great taxpayer expense, failed to establish that he or they colluded with the Russians to influence the 2016 election.

 

THEREFORE, reason key Democrats and the boys and girls of MSNBC and the other leftist media outlets, TRUMP MUST BE IMPEACHED!

 

The Gospel of John, at 18:28 and 19:4, reports that Pontius Pilate found no fault with Jesus. "I find no basis for a charge against him." And yet, "When the high priest saw Jesus, they shouted 'Crucify him!" (John 19:6)

 

A witty comparison, no?

 

The leftist dumbass will not be impressed. "So you think Trump is Jesus?"

 

No, you idiot, but you think he is Hitler!