Supply-Side Economics, but for Liberals New York Times In the emerging liberal version, government programs enable more people to work, and to work in higher-productivity, higher-income jobs. The end result, if the research is correct, is the same: a nation that is capable of growing faster and producing more. |
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Supply-Side Economics, but for Liberals - New York Times
Liberals belong only on the stage, for the curious, not to be taken seriously. That is common sense
Among the great mysteries of the universe are questions the lucid among mankind have asked for generationssuch as:
Why are liberals so enamored with Islam and so hostile towards Christianity?Islamists, if given the opportunity, would behead every godless liberal they found.
Why do liberals want to protect violent criminals and condemned prisoners, but are willing to kill the unborn right up to the time of birth?
Why do liberals want to apply socialist/communist solutions to problems when socialism has never worked anywhere in the world at any time?
And the question of our time: Why do liberals want to admit unskilled illegal aliens, criminal or otherwise, without extreme vetting, into our country while turning away many would-be legals like scientists and engineers?
No one can deny that most true liberal believers are intelligent. But, something is missing. Liberals are intellect without discipline, without God, flashlights without batteries. As explained in Psychology Today (PT), they are intelligent people that incorrectly apply abstract logical reasoning to social and interpersonal domains.
PT further explains that the ability to think and reason evolved as a means to solve common problems such as parenting, personal relationships and social dealings, referred today as common sense. Everyone is equipped with common sense, but liberals have a tendency to over apply their analytical and logical reasoning abilities, derived from their intelligence, incorrectly.
Liberals feel in situations where they are supposed to think and think in situations where they are supposed to feel. For any given problem, the application of common sense to a liberal is just thatcommon. Many intelligent people, especially liberals, are anything but common. In many cases they refuse to apply common sense when their intellect says there is a better way.
Liberals think they are being clever, when in actuality they are being oblivious to reality. If you disagree with them, they are convinced it is because you do not understand.
Liberals always prefer absurdly complex solutions to common sense solutions, displaying their intellect, their god-like qualities, the more complex the better. So godlike, in fact, that true liberals have a terrible time believing in God, a being infinitely more intelligent than themselves, if that is possible.
Only a liberal would think that spending to prevent bankruptcy is smart. Only a liberal would think a gun free zone would prevent criminals from carrying guns. Only liberals would require safe zones to protect themselves from common sense. Only a liberal would require 20,000 pages to cover a health care law that makes almost everyone unhappy.
What is so infuriating is that the clever but oblivious have completely taken over the Democratic Party, the media and academia. It cannot be stressed strongly enough that we need to prevent liberals from entering government, education, the media and anywhere else they may affect other peoples lives. Liberals belong only on the stage, for the curious, not to be taken seriously. That is common sense.
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Liberals: Clever, But Oblivious - Canada Free Press
A march of the local demonstrators is blocked by riot police officers nearby the headquarter of the governor Fidesz party as students, teachers of the Central European University and their sympathisers protest in Budapest on 9 April. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty
The urbane, intellectual figure of Michael Ignatieff seems an unlikely candidate to play the role of bogeyman in the eyes of Viktor Orbn, Hungarys populist prime minister, as he strives to turn his country into an illiberal state.
Yet it was on him that Orbns official spokesman focused while scrambling to explain recent mass protests supporting Budapests Central European University (CEU) a small elite institution of higher learning of which Ignatieff is rector, and which could, theoretically, be forced to close because of a new higher education law.
Referring to the academics past as a former leader of Canadas Liberal party, the spokesman, Zoltn Kovcs, dismissed Ignatieff in an interview with the Observer as a failed liberal politician from Canada very obviously representing a different political agenda. He also suggested that Ignatieff had publicly misrepresented the law as an attack on educational freedom.
The comments are a departure from the rightwing Fidesz governments usual target of abuse George Soros, the Hungarian-born billionaire philanthropist who is the universitys founder and whose Open Society Foundation (OSF) has earned Orbns wrath by helping to fund local civil society groups, some of whom have defended refugees and migrants.
But they also appeared to betray a government caught off guard by the strength of popular opposition to the legislation, which was fast-tracked through parliament in days and signed into law last Monday by President Jnos der.
The university, nestled between popular bistros and Budapests historic St Stephens basilica, has gained an international reputation since its foundation in 1991 in the aftermath of communisms collapse, although it has rarely registered high on Hungarian public consciousness. Yet the capital has been convulsed in the past two weeks by protests over the laws apparent goal of singling out CEU which would be forced to open a campus in its registered country of the United States, in line with 27 other foreign universities operating in Hungary, in order to stay open.
Demonstrators have thronged the citys elegant streets and squares in numbers belying the universitys tiny student body of 1,400, and with an enthusiasm seemingly at odds with the dry principle of academic freedom that Ignatieff and others say is at stake.
An estimated 70,000 attended a rally last Sunday, marching across the Chain Bridge that spans the Danube in scenes with the potential to embarrass a government used to revelling in its popular support. In another mass protest on Wednesday, crowds chanted Russians go home a reference to Orbns perceived intimacy with Russian president Vladimir Putin and shouted Europe, Europe as a young man hoisted the European Union flag in the Oktogon square, in one of the citys busiest thoroughfares. The latter gesture hinted at how the CEU protests have become a focal point for wider discontents while highlighting Hungarys increasing isolation in the EU under Orbns aggressive Brussels-baiting leadership.
The latest confrontation comes amid rising concern over Hungary, which under Orbn has gained a reputation for the draconian and inhumane treatment of migrants, curtailing media freedom and interference in judiciary independence. Orbns government has already drawn widespread condemnation this year by detaining asylum seekers including children of 14 in shipping containers, a practice human rights groups say breaches EU law. Last week Germany citing Hungarys record of ill-treatment became the first member state to declare it would not send migrants back there under the Dublin regulations, which specify that asylum seekers should pursue their claims in the first EU country they arrived in.
Orbn, who has been in power since 2010, has justified the actions by calling migrants a Trojan horse of terrorism and has trumpeted his self-appointed role in defending Christian values.
The new law, dubbed Lex CEU, represents the governments latest front in its declared war on Soros, whom Orbn and his allies have vowed to extrude from Hungary in 2017, encouraged by the belief that they would face little resistance from US president Donald Trump, whose supporters include fierce Soros critics.
The anti-Soros assault gained further momentum last week when Fidesz MPs tabled a bill requiring civil society groups that receive money from abroad to list themselves publicly as foreign-funded organisations or face prosecution. The proposal is widely seen as an attempt at stigmatising groups receiving funding from Soross OSF. Amnesty International has compared the legislation with Russias 2012 foreign agents law, which led to the intimidation and harassment of civil groups.
What is troubling is that they portray civil society organisations that are holding them to account as enemies of the state, said Goran Buldioski, director of the OSFs Budapest-based Europe office. This is how they depict the bigger, well-established groups in Budapest. Imagine the intimidating message it sends to smaller organisations in the provinces. In line with his attacks on Soros, Orbn launched yet another anti-EU salvo this month in the form of a government-backed consultation exercise provocatively titled Lets Stop Brussels! which asked voters to respond to what critics say are six deliberately loaded questions presented as binary choices.
The move was reminiscent of last years ill-fated referendum proposing to reject the EUs quota scheme for resettling refugees, which won an overwhelming majority but was invalidated by a low turnout. Yet there are signs that Orbn may have misread the mood and that the CEU attack has given the EU an opening to act on longstanding misgivings about his increasingly authoritarian leadership.
Last week Frans Timmermans, the European commissions first vice-president, said he would investigate the law targeting CEU which he described as a jewel in the crown over suggestions that it breached European freedom of movement law on educational services. He promised a decision by 26 April. The European parliament is also scheduled to debate the situation in Hungary after the Easter break.
The EU intervention drew a splenetic response from Kovcs a former PhD graduate from CEU who described it as camouflage for pushing an agenda favouring illegal migration. To sum up, basically its all about illegal migration, he said. What they would like to enforce and push through this year is the quota system and [that] Europe should be more receptive to illegal migration.
That, in turn, provoked an astonished reaction from Ignatieff. My mouth falls open, he said. Does he understand what his words imply, which is that the Hungarian government is involved in some political operation because they have some agenda relating to migration? So their idea of a smart move is to attack an institution which has been part of Hungarian life for 25 years. What relevance does that have?
It just makes perfectly clear that this is a political attack serving some political agenda that doesnt concern me.
The law, Ignatieff said, represented a flagrant and discriminatory attack on academic freedom that is unprecedented in the history of Europe since the second world war. The university would not close under any circumstances, he said, adding that a negotiated solution would be found.
Ignatieff, 70 next month, has lobbied western capitals, including Washington, winning support from the Trump administration in an implied rebuff to Orbns hope of improved ties. A US state department spokesman, Mark Toner, last week called on Hungary to suspend the law, which he said threatened an institution that is an important conduit for intellectual and cultural exchanges between Hungary and the United States.
Just as telling is the public support for the CEU. The direction the government is taking makes me frightened for the future of the country and my place in it, said former student Istvn Szcsenyi. I want the democracy that was promised to my parents when communism collapsed.
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It has always been considered over-the-line to attack the family of your political enemies, but liberals believe those rules dont apply when it comes to Donald Trump. Him, they hate so much that theyre willing to even go after his children. Its disgusting, its hypocritical and as you are about to see, its very, very liberal.
1) Rosie ODonnell Speculated That Barron Trump Is Autistic. In a typically classy move, Rosie ODonnell speculated that 10-year-old Barron Trump might be autistic on Twitter.
Barron Trump autistic? If so what an amazing opportunity to bring attention to the AUTISM epidemic.
After she was buried in an avalanche of grief over her attacks on a 10-year-old, Rosie said she meant no harm because speculating about how other peoples children may have some disorder is apparently what caring people do.
2) Saturday Night Live Writer Katie Rich Said Barron Trump Would Be Americas First Homeschool Shooter. I know that Donald Trump intimidates liberals, but do they have to take it out on his 10-year old-son by tweeting things like, "Barron will be this countrys first homeschool shooter?" Even Saturday Night Live thought that was over-the-line and suspended Katie Rich which of course, prompted liberals to publicly support her because adults bullying a 10-year-old kid is okay as long as his dad is a Republican.
3) The Daily Mail Claimed Melania Trump Was A Prostitute: After claiming that Donald Trumps wife was an escort in the 90s, the liberals at the Daily Mail got a lawsuit for their trouble. Worse yet, they LOST that lawsuit and had to pay out 2.9 million dollars for their malicious attacks.
4) The Daily Show Pushed The Idea That Donald Trump Wants To Have Sex With His Daughter Ivanka. Trevor Noah from the Daily Show promoted the hashtag #DonaldTrumpWantsToBangHisDaughter. Liberals, being liberals, laughed it up, spread it around twitter and made multiple webpages tied to that phrase. Imagine the reaction to a conservative TV show asking people to spread the hashtag #BarrackObamaWantstoScrewMalia. Congressmen would be asked to disassociate themselves from the show, MSNBC would spend all day talking about it and the Daily Show would attack the show relentlessly. But you know, since Ivanka is a Trump, its okay to say things like that about her and her father. Hypocrites.
5) Chelsea Handler Attacked Eric Trumps Unborn Child. Not only have liberals launched hate at the Trump family, theyve even gone on to attack the children in the womb as long as theyre Trumps. Chelsea Handler had this to say about Eric Trumps unborn son, "I guess one of @realDonaldTrump's sons is expecting a new baby. Just what we need. Another person with those jeans. Let's hope for a girl." First of all, jeans? What an idiot. A mean spirited, untalented idiot.
6) Baron Trump Is A Handsome Date Rapist To Be. Comedian Steven Spinola, who contributes on Comedy Central, referred to 10-year-old Barron Trump as a handsome date rapist to be. He followed that up by saying, I dont want my Mom to get raped, but if she does I hope its by Barron Trump. Small pp [sic] would be painless and wed win lots of money in court. Wow, I would say this guy has no future in comedy, but liberals apparently love nasty attacks on kids and if Sarah Silverman and Margaret Cho have careers--thats proof that pretty much anyone can make it.
7) Rapper Bow Wow Said He Would Pimp Out Melania Trump. After Donald Trump complained about rapper Snoop Dogg pretending to threaten him with a gun in a music video, the rappers nephew Bow Wow tweeted, "Ayo @realDonaldTrump shut your punk a-- up talking s--t about my uncle @SnoopDogg before we pimp your wife and make her work for us." Lets face it: Melania Trump is worth more than Snoop Dogg and his untalented cousin combined; so if anybody is getting pimped, it would be Snoop and Bow Wow. (PS: Hey, if either of you read this, your names are just stupid.)
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The 7 Worst Liberal Attacks on Donald Trump's Family - John Hawkins - Townhall
The United States dropped a 22,000-pound bomb on Islamic State forces in Afghanistan Thursday, reportedly killing 36 ISIS fighters. The bomb was thelargest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat.
The bomb, a Massive Ordinance Air Blast weapon, is often referred to as MOAB. The acronym led to its nickname mother of all bombs.
Liberals were quick tohash out their thoughts on social media, but one criticism of the days incident was particularly puzzling.
MOAB is the epitome of lethal patriarchy, one Twitter user said:
Others even singled out BBC News and asked them to stop using the term on their broadcast because it was offensive:
LiberalTwitter users were offended at the term for various reasons, one even asking the question, Why isnt it called the father of all bombs?
Others on social media were quick to mock the outrage, pointing out flaws in the baffling argument:
Why is it called the "Mother of all bombs"
Damn sexist bomb. ?Does the #moab cost .77 cents on the dollar? #wagegap #foab equal rights!
— Mike (@Fuctupmind) April 14, 2017
The term mother of all has commonly been used for quite some time to indicate something is the biggest or the best, as pointed out by the Washington Post.
In fact, all the way back in 1991, New Zealand lawmakers nicknamed their budget the mother of all budgets because it drastically reduced spending and social welfare programs.
Restaurants in cities all across the nation have dubbed their biggest hamburgers mother of all burgers, and some even have food challenges to go along with it.
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