Admit Your Failure
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Kurt Schlicter - Townhall
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/08/30/own-your-failure-biden-voters-n2594924
Own Your Failure Biden Voters
I will admit my own relatively minor failure: I voted for invertebrate-con Mitt Romney in 2012 and have spent the last nine years regretting it, but now I look at the saps who checked the box for that crusty old pervert who’s busy flushing our country down the crapper and I feel really bad for them. Well, at least for those Biden voters who weren’t dead when they cast their ballots.
They thought that mean tweets and dating Playboy models was so outrageously awful that they needed to exchange him for a half-wit plagiarist with busy hands and a slothful mind. He was no prize before he put the “d” in “dementia.” Prior to allegedly being elected president, this dork was, as Democrat Robert Gates famously put it, “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." The same genius who thought capping Bin Ladin was a bad idea also thought ditching Bagram was a good one. Well, at least he’s consistent.
Look around, at the $5 gas and the hobos pooping in our parks, at the constantly shifting vaccine/mask goalposts and the cat ladies/public school teachers determined to inject Ibram X. Kendian race hustling into your kids’ cerebellums. Look at the flag-draped caskets coming off the planes at Dover.
You did that, non-dead Biden voters.
You.
This is your failure.
Own it.
Electing Joe Biden was an essentially unserious act by essentially unserious people applying essentially unserious criteria. And these entirely predictable consequences flowed from that failure on the part of people who refused to demand a real candidate instead of this exceptionally dumb ventriloquist dummy. None of the Democrats were prizes, but this guy can’t find his left slipper on his own, much less lead our country.
For the elite, Trump was a threat to their gravy train and an utterly intolerable insult to their puffed-up self-image. Trump saw the scam clearly because he was of them – he hung out with the elite all his life, and he took pleasure at their pathetic groveling for dollars. But while he sometimes gave them money, he did not give them respect, because he knew they deserve none and he was incapable of pretending that they did. They had to destroy him, and his entire presidency was consumed with demonstrably false pseudo-controversies from the fake Russia nonsense to the fake Ukraine nonsense to the fake insurrection nonsense.
So, the elite were never going to support their nemesis. It was in neither their economic nor aesthetic interest. And, as our ruling caste is defined by its utter refusal to accept any accountability for its myriad fumbles, it will never admit it and conduct the kind of personal inventory that electing this catastrophe of an administration requires.
But the regular people who voted against him – that’s a different story, because they voted against their interests. The economy was humming, and even after the elite’s Chi Com comrades inflicted the pangolin pandemic on us, we were coming back. We were energy independent. The border was getting secure. Taxes got cut. Soleimani was a cinder and ISIS was a skid mark. We had no new wars, and the one in Afghanistan was set to end without a live production of Miss Saigon II: We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Airbases.
But then there were those mean tweets, those awful mean tweets. And all the racism and sexism and homophobia and more racism and … well, there wasn’t any of that but there still had to be some because, well, you know, reasons. So, a bunch of people voted for “normality,” which really meant the absence of a perpetual media-fueled ruling class tantrum at the uppity upstart backed by all those red-hatted flag/gun/Jesus people from West Dakota and South Virginia and that other state with all the corn.
You got normality, alright. The normality of 1979 under Jimmy Carter, except worse. At least he had Billy to provide comic relief.
It’s time to accept responsibility for what you’ve done. Your failure was voting for Biden, and you need to own it. In this way, the pain of recognizing that you sucked and that you helped make a small contribution to the decline of your country into the gelatinous blob it has become in just seven months under Grandpa Badfinger may dissuade you from failing again in the future.
Don’t front and try to throw down the “No Ragrats” card. Accept that by voting for Biden, you were yet another color in his rainbow of failure. Once you do, you can grow.
And people are choosing to grow. The change is coming. Here’s a perfect story – it totally supports my narrative so you should be suspicious but it’s all true and you can take it how you wish. It’s about the recall, which is the first real test of Democratic strength this cycle. The kid I grew up with when I lived in Ohio, before I was kicked out and exiled to California, moved out here too a while ago. He’s a hippie, by which I mean hippie, right down to the hippie music and hippie lifestyle. He’s literally the anti-Kurt. We’re still pals, of course, because we aren’t idiots who hate old friends for disagreeing. Anyway, he texted me about which Republican to vote for, because he’s voting “Yes” on the recall. He’s never voted “R” before.
You can believe it or not, but it’s true. The California recall is going to be the first test of whether people who voted for Failboy are going to rethink it. Poor Gavin Newsom – which is a contradiction in terms – is the lab rat for this experiment. And when Governor Larry Elder gets sworn in, as polls say he may, we’ll know that people have begun to repent of their failure
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"Own Your Failure Biden Voters"
Yeah, well, I’m done.
I won’t vote again.
Beginning with the first election I was eligible to vote in up to this day, I have struggled with the issue of whether or not to vote. Always I have erred on the side of giving the political class the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they’re not as bad as they seem; maybe their best work is below the surface; maybe I should remember that to err is human. Maybe this, maybe that.
No more. After the Afghan pullout, I can no longer fool myself into believing in the best of them. There is no best. It has ever been their biggest con: The idea that there are two sides politically. There aren’t. There is only one side: their side. To believe otherwise makes me their mark. A big part of their job – and how successfully they do it determines their odds of re-election and is their sole motive for anything they do – is to keep you believing that they’re your pal in Congress.
It's all theater.
I’m not going to help them anymore. Not going to pretend that I’m part of a wonderful experiment -- flawed, but striving ever upward. The days after that shameful pullout, filled with their odious howling and finger-pointing, harshly exposed the con and finally killed my faith. The thought of playing their game even one more time fills me with disgust – not for them, but for myself.
Done.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@catseye3 said in Admit Your Failure:
"Own Your Failure Biden Voters"
Yeah, well, I’m done.
I won’t vote again.
Beginning with the first election I was eligible to vote in up to this day, I have struggled with the issue of whether or not to vote. Always I have erred on the side of giving the political class the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they’re not as bad as they seem; maybe their best work is below the surface; maybe I should remember that to err is human. Maybe this, maybe that.
No more. After the Afghan pullout, I can no longer fool myself into believing in the best of them. There is no best. It has ever been their biggest con: The idea that there are two sides politically. There aren’t. There is only one side: their side. To believe otherwise makes me their mark. A big part of their job – and how successfully they do it determines their odds of re-election and is their sole motive for anything they do – is to keep you believing that they’re your pal in Congress.
It's all theater.
I’m not going to help them anymore. Not going to pretend that I’m part of a wonderful experiment -- flawed, but striving ever upward. The days after that shameful pullout, filled with their odious howling and finger-pointing, harshly exposed the con and finally killed my faith. The thought of playing their game even one more time fills me with disgust – not for them, but for myself.
Done.
Well, everybody has to grow up sometime.
It was once said on the floor of the U.S. Senate, that if you thought you knew politics, move to Louisiana and get a graduate education.
So, having been raised in this viper's nest of dog-eat -dog politics, let me begin your education...All politicians lie. Even the Good Guys. All politicians have egos. Usually, huge ones. All politicians like to bask in the light of adoration or at the very least, they want to get the warm fuzzies in their soul, from "accomplishing" something for somebody - as long as they don't have to stick their neck out. And politicians of all stripes like money, as money is the mother's milk of politics.So why bother with this crap? Because we must. We are a representative democracy and we're gonna elect somebody. That somebody will have power, be it large or small.
Now, politics is the art of the possible. There will be deals cut, unworthy projects funded and the pork barrel always needs another scoop. But you want to make sure that your ideology, your wishes, are at least
getting partially done. You're never going to get exactly what you want, so you want the most you can get. That's why you might elect a snake, but at least he's your snake!That's why I voted for Trump. Twice. The man can be insufferable at times, be known to pull an occasional boner and he has a mean streak a mile wide. But I like his policies. And even though all of them were not enacted, I got enough of a loaf to fee happy with the results.
That's why you vote.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@jolly said in Admit Your Failure:
t was once said on the floor of the U.S. Senate, that if you thought you knew politics, move to Louisiana and get a graduate education. So, having been raised in this viper's nest of dog-eat -dog politics, let me begin your education.
Sorry, I didn't read past this patronizing opening.
You handle it your way and I'll handle it mine.
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka
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@catseye3 said in Admit Your Failure:
@jolly said in Admit Your Failure:
t was once said on the floor of the U.S. Senate, that if you thought you knew politics, move to Louisiana and get a graduate education. So, having been raised in this viper's nest of dog-eat -dog politics, let me begin your education.
Sorry, I didn't read past this patronizing opening.
You handle it your way and I'll handle it mine.
Cats, fuck you.
Sincerely. You are a simpering, low-information, goddam idiot. I gave you some decent advice, do with it what you will.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@horace said in Admit Your Failure:
Renauda will lose respect for you if you don't vote, Cats. Also jon will make fun of you. The assault you'll be under here if you don't vote, is withering. That's why I recommend pretending to vote.
If you tallied up all the time you spend talking about politics per four years and compare it to the total time it takes to vote, if the former is longer, I too will judge the shit out of you. Just pick somebody you think would do a good or the least damaging job, it's not hard.
Please love yourself.
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@aqua-letifer said in Admit Your Failure:
@horace said in Admit Your Failure:
Renauda will lose respect for you if you don't vote, Cats. Also jon will make fun of you. The assault you'll be under here if you don't vote, is withering. That's why I recommend pretending to vote.
If you tallied up all the time you spend talking about politics per four years and compare it to the total time it takes to vote, if the former is longer, I too will judge the shit out of you. Just pick somebody you think would do a good or the least damaging job, it's not hard.
People make stupid judgments all the time for reasons they're not fully aware of, that is not new. For instance, jon, Renauda, and I suppose you, probably legitimately think they're taking a principled stand against expressing opinions while not voting. But over here in reality, we're aware that that principled stand is only deployed against opinions from the other side.
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No, I've redd (ain't that a helluva personal perversion of a word for silliness ' sake) your stuff. I take it to heart, when you admit a myriad of times to being caught like a deer in the headlights about some current event that all of us have at least a glimmer of knowledge about.
Currently, you're sitting in your dung heap, wearing the tattered robes of the sanctified, throwing woeful ashes of regret in the air, bemoaning the whole electoral process and vowing to never vote again.
Well, get over it, toots.
What we have is an imperfect process, populated by elected people you wouldn't want to marry into your family and actually run by a Swamp of nameless, faceless, souless, bureaucratic minions. But it beats the Hell out of most anything else, so instead of Phibing (see, I can make up words, too) about the situation, embrace the suck and make the system work as best it can.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
Warning: I post things that interest me. Read and comment at your own discretion. -
@horace said in Admit Your Failure:
People make stupid judgments all the time for reasons they're not fully aware of, that is not new. For instance, jon, Renauda, and I suppose you, probably legitimately think they're taking a principled stand against expressing opinions while not voting. But over here in reality, we're aware that that principled stand is only deployed against opinions from the other side.
No, I don't feel good about myself regarding this issue. I don't get a moral high from voting, I don't care. I think what I think because the action changes what you're communicating. Bitching while voting means at the very least you're trying to do something constructive. The one thing you have total control over. Bitching while not voting means at the end of the day, you can't be counted on to try to fix the situation. So the bitching doesn't come from a place of hoping for something better and hey at least I'll give it a go, it comes from "bitching and navel-gazing deflects from the fact that I won't help in this situation."
It seems this line of thinking doesn't seem to get me into trouble with the rest of society, either—in fact most people seem to agree more than not—I'm not likely to change my opinion.
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Yes social coercion to vote is widely agreed upon. But, while we can all happily clap one another on the back for agreeing to that, it remains completely debatable whether convincing people to vote if they have some reason not to want to, or no reason at all, actually is for the greater good. The only thing you can say for sure about that is that it reduces information per vote. My own reason is purely pragmatic. I’m lazy and I know the results in my particular state are a done deal. I understand some will misinterpret that as a stain on my soul, but again, people make stupid judgments all the time and I can’t worry too much about it.
Education is extremely important.
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@horace said in Admit Your Failure:
My own reason is purely pragmatic. I’m lazy and I know the results in my particular state are a done deal.
Well, I think the reason you provided isn't good enough to take seriously. But I'm also not going to take to the twitters that I know a guy who doesn't vote so I can feel good about myself, that's ridiculous.
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@jolly said in Admit Your Failure:
But it beats the Hell out of most anything else, so instead of Phibing (see, I can make up words, too) about the situation, embrace the suck and make the system work as best it can.
Hey - don't blame me for this bollocks! My role is similar to that of the USA at the beginning of WW2. I provide funding, and I wring my hands a lot, I just don't get directly involved
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Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@jolly said in Admit Your Failure:
Funny you should say that...I'm off to start a thread...
I hope you're not going to claim that America won The Battle of Britain
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Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@jolly said in Admit Your Failure:
the UK won
Strictly speaking, it was the Commonwealth rather than the UK, as I'm sure Canadians and others would point out. Plus, Poles of course.
