HALF-FULL REPORT 12/23/16

Merry Christmas!  The days of “Happy Holidays” are over, as is the whole multi-culti libtard diversity Orwellian con game.  America is having a Merry Christmas – and if the hopeless losers of November 8 can’t, it’s not possible for us to be less concerned.

The picture and its message you see above is funny, right?  Actually, it’s much more than that.

Recall the days of yesteryear, when in 2008 it was absurdly ridiculous for Americans to consider electing a president with absolutely no qualifications whatever, so hardline Leftist he approved his Communist preacher praying for God to damn America, so mysterious he didn’t even have a valid birth certificate, simply because of the color of his skin.

Yet he was elected anyway as no criticism mattered, if you dared criticize him you were a racist.  Once in the Oval Office, he initiated the most scandal-ridden presidency in US history – and none of that mattered as well.  He proceeded to “fundamentally transform” our country straight into a cultural cesspool.  Any objection to him and his policies was proof you were a racist bigoted homophobe, something irredeemably deplorable.

Big time Bad Karma.  Which brings us to something called the Overton Window.

There’s a writer at National Review named David French who remained a NeverTrumper all the way to the end.  See his What Comes Next for Never Trump (11/10).  Yet he’s a bright guy who a month later (12/08) figured out Trump’s capacity for radically and quickly shifting the Overton Window a yuge distance to the right.

The late Joseph Overton at the Mackinac Center defined his eponymous window as the range of politically acceptable discourse on any given issue.  The Left used its demonization of any critic of Zero’s to so radically shift the window in their direction that formerly unimaginably ludicrous demands such as transgenderizing the military became the norm.

Trump is still four weeks away from his inauguration, he’s only president-elect, yet already he’s moving the Overton Window in our direction so fast it’s giving us all whiplash – giving lefties a splitting migraine and making us dizzy with joy.

And that brings us to The Slants.  They are the world’s first all-Asian-American rock band, playing what they call “Chinatown dance rock.”  They also call themselves “The band that must not be named.”  The US Trademark Office, you see, denied their application to trademark their name on the grounds that it was “offensive or disparaging to others.”

The Slants promptly sued the PTO (Patent and Trademark Office), on the grounds that “the First Amendment forbids government regulators to deny registration because they find speech likely to offend others.”  The case has now reached the Supreme Court, on the docket as Lee v Tam (Lee being PTO Director Michelle Lee, Tam being Slants frontman Simon Shiao Tam).

While The Slants’ reason for choosing their name is irrelevant to their free speech rights, the suit states, nonetheless it was “to undercut slurs about Asian-Americans that band members heard in childhood, not to promote them.”

Well, isn’t this exactly why Trump supporters proudly call themselves Deplorables as a giant middle finger to Hillary and all lefties who disparage them?

Thus a few days ago (12/16), the Cato Institute filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of The Slants case.  It is beyond question the most enjoyable, entertaining, and informative legal petition to the Supreme Court you’ve ever read – and the must-read of the week.

You won’t be able to resist at first sight of the brief’s title:

BRIEF OF THE CATO INSTITUTE AND A BASKET OF DEPLORABLE PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS AS AMICI CURIAE SUPPORTING RESPONDENT

Both Skye and I have been laughing our heads off reading it.  As he says, Cato’s Supreme Court brief is “a paean to political incorrectness… so good that it could be made into a hit Broadway musical – with music by The Slants of course.”  Then Skye makes the key observation:

“When the meaning of language changes, that is a much bigger deal than a mere election.  This is more evidence of a truly seismic shift in the Overton Window of what constitutes acceptable political discourse.

 

An Overton Window tipping point has been tipped,  and the liberals are rapidly skidding over the edge of the cliff onto the ash heap of history far below.  They don’t know it yet; their foot is still hard on the gas.  Go, baby, go!”

Thirty years ago, I not only predicted that the Soviet Union would collapse and cease to exist as a nation-state, but that it would happen fast.  That its political structure was brittle, such that it wouldn’t slowly erode over time, but that with the right pressure in the right places, one moment it would be intact and unyielding, the next moment it would suddenly shatter into pieces.

That happened with the pressure Ronald Reagan placed upon it.  Now, with the pressure Donald Trump is placing upon the Left’s institutional control of our culture and lives, what happened to the Soviet Union is going to happen to the American Left.

We are going to have a superbly Deplorable New Year!

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Ps. to the above.  I’m suggesting that Trump invite The Slants to perform at his Inauguration.  Please consider doing the same.  Here’s how to contact the Trump Transition Team.

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Yesterday (12/22), the WaPo provided a preview of how fundamental will be Trump’s Overton Window shift:  The coming battle between the Trump team and economists over the true cost of climate change.

There won’t be any battle because Scott Pruitt at EPA and Rick Perry at Energy won’t be paying any attention to the opinions of  economists on greenie payrolls.  The battle will be in courts with countless greenie lawsuits.

And the fight will be a Battle Royale, tooth and nail desperate because Global Warming aka Climate Change is the single most important issue of the Left.  They’ll throw every other issue dear to their hearts overboard to save it.  Why?

Because it’s the replacement for Marxism as the rationale for government control over everyone’s life.

The purpose of every leftie’s life is to have control over other people’s lives.  Not freedom, not prosperity, but control.  Running people’s lives is what they live for.  It’s what makes them lefties.

Lefties – communists, socialists, fascists, liberals, progressives, Democrats – are not and were never committed to Marxism at their ideological core.  It just provided the best excuse they could get away with for ordering people around.   That excuse died with its principal proponent, the USSR.

They needed a new excuse – and what better one could there be than a demonization of the basic element of which life itself is composed – carbon?

It was brilliant, allowing them to pull off the greatest scam in history, spending literally trillions of dollars subsidizing crony capitalist renewable energy frauds like windmills, enabling vast hordes of greenies to feed at taxpayers’ expense, and bribing throngs of scientists to prostitute themselves with fraudulent research.

That’s why Trump’s kneecapping of the scam is going to cause the greatest Global Leftie Freakout you’ve ever seen – not just here in America but worldwide.  Wait ‘till you see Nikki Haley at the UN, at Trump’s instruction, blow off the Paris Accords.  Wait ‘till you see the Chicoms’ heads explode realizing the scam they thought would self-castrate America is over.

And wait until you see Putin Huilo unable to compete with US frackers free to get so much oil and gas out of federalie lands and offshore they can export it to Europe and China at prices Russia can’t compete with.

Soon, Warmism – man-made global warming – will be gone with the wind.  That may well turn out to be Trump’s greatest Overton Window shift of all.

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In the context of all the above, here’s the Fun Gloat read of the week.  On Monday (12/19) from those bitterly scared moonbats at hyper-leftie The Salon: The dirty deplorables: Who’s who on Donald Trump’s team and how they’ll destroy the environment.

It’s simply sadlicious.

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And we’re sure you sadliciously enjoyed the total epic fail of Dem intimidation and protests regarding the Electoral College vote on Monday (12/19).

CBS News ran this blaring headline: Demonstrators Greet Pennsylvania Electors at Capitol.  How many – tens of thousands? Thousands?  Nope – about 200.   Same scary headline, same pathetic turnout in Ohio.

As you know, the November 8 EC results were Trump 306 – Hillary 232.  The EC vote on Monday was Trump 304 – Hillary 227.  So much for Zero’s CIA coup attempt.

The HFR Heroes of the Week are clearly the Trump Electors who stood up to and shrugged off all the unhinged Dem hate, intimidation, and threats.  True patriots, true heroes.

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But now, believe it or not, is a word in praise of Zero.

In his end-of-the-year press conference last Friday (12/16), he said something that elicited this headline from Politico:  Obama Dismisses Russia as a ‘Weaker Country’.  In fact, he nailed it:

“The Russians can’t change us or significantly weaken us. They are a smaller country, they are a weaker country, their economy doesn’t produce anything that anybody wants to buy except oil and gas and arms. They don’t innovate.”

That is precisely and obviously true.  Then he said something scarily true:

“Over a third of Republican voters approve of Vladimir Putin,” a former colonel of the KGB.  “Ronald Reagan would roll over in his grave.”

I can assure you that would be Reagan’s reaction if he read, e.g., the pro-Putin comments of conservatives reacting to the Politico article on Lucianne.

These folks need to wise up. The alleged Trump-Putin “bromance” the Enemedia is pumping up will soon be over once Putin fails at bluffing or intimidating Trump.

That’s already started this week.  Yesterday (12/22), Putin gave a talk at the Kremlin.  The headline was: Putin Calls for Strengthening Russia’s Military Nuclear Potential.

 Within hours, Trump fired off this Tweet:

The Donald is not going to fall for the Russian Bear bully act.  Note that Pooty-poot is getting the message.  Today (12/23) he cooed, “If Trump invites me to travel to the United States, I will of course go.”  Off to a good start, Donald.

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Okay, folks, that’s a wrap.  In a few hours it will be Christmas Eve.  Santa is loading up his sleigh as we speak.  But we’ve already received the Christmas present of our dreams:  our America.  We have our country, the America we love, back again.

Now let’s make sure we keep it – and not just make America great again, but greater than ever before.  Merry, merry, merry Christmas to you all.