HALF-FULL REPORT 06/05/15

Abraham Lincoln was fond of asking a riddle of anyone he thought was proposing nonsense.  "How many legs would a dog have if you called his tail a leg?"  He would always get back the answer, "Well, five, of course."

Lincoln would smile and shake his head.  "Of course not," he’d reply.  "Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.  The dog still has four legs as before."

We can be confident that this would be Lincoln’s answer – as it would be any rational person’s – to Bruce Jenner’s assertion that he is now somehow a woman.  He is instead still a man – albeit a very, very psychologically ill one.

Thus there is no need to go apocalyptic about this, as if the cultural sky is falling.  It’s time to have fun instead.  The easiest thing in the world to do is enrage a liberal – and it’s so much fun.  The libtards have given us a golden opportunity to ridicule what George Neumayr calls "the intensely reverential reaction to Bruce Jenner’s narcissistic self-mutilation."

It’s also an opportunity for ridicule to cull idiots out of the Pub prez candidate roster like Rick Santorum, who says of Jenner:  "If he says he’s a woman, then he’s a woman."  Does that mean if someone says he a chimpanzee, that makes him one?  How stupid can you get?

What we need now is lots of Jenner jokes, like Jamie Foxx’s, "Bruce Jenner will be performing for us tonight – he’ll be doing a his-and-hers duet by himself."  Or Will Farrell (as Ron Burgundy) making fun of Hollywood elites: "You’re Bruce Jenner Hollywood hermaphrodites, that’s all you are!"

Or doctors twittering: "Where’s Caitlyn’s G-spot?  Will she have her prostate checked now?" "Hey, Bruce, nice move waiting until you’re 65 to become a woman – you get to skip all those periods."

Or about his car crash causing a woman’s death: "It wasn’t my fault!  My car had tranny issues!"

Or…

This drives libtards into sissy-fit tirades, calling you "transphobic."  That’s their latest insult.  Oh, please, don’t throw me in the transphobic briar patch!  Thank you for sharing, now STFU.

As Ludwig von Mises pointed out in his 1956 classic The Anti-Capitalist Mentality, "liberals cannot take a joke.  No disrespectful reflection on them is tolerated."  Well, hallelujah! Ridiculing the Gaystapo and all the other Fascisti of the Left is exactly what we should be doing.

So kudos to the folks who, with tongues firmly in cheeks, launched the Twitter hashtag #givebackthegold, and a petition demanding the International Olympic Committee revoke his Decathlon Gold Medal, since "we must now either claim that Bruce Jenner and Caitlyn Jenner are two entirely different people (which we know is not true), or that Bruce Jenner was, in fact, a woman participating in a men’s event."

The bottom line:  It is not "transphobic" – and why should we care if it is, anyway? – to recognize this farce as a media publicity stunt. 

Jenner is a mentally ill pathological publicity-seeker.  The entire "transgender" hysteria is simply the latest lunacy of the left, which he cynically manipulated to gain gigantic publicity for a 65 year-old has been. 

It’s a total farce, and could not possibly be more deserving of disgust and ridicule.  The Pub prez candidate who has the courage and brains to take advantage of this, of ridicule being the Left’s Kryptonite, is who the HFR will root for in 2016.

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In other words, your reaction to the Jenner Media Farce should be "That’s ridiculous!"  Which brings us to Charles Murray’s just-released By The People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission.

This is in effect a scholar’s response to my The Double-D Strategy for Rescuing America from December 2009.  The first D is Defund, and we’ll get to that in the next section.  Murray focuses on the second D, Disobey. 

My article called for "a Revolution of Disobedience… Disobey the Gandhi Way.  Peaceful civil disobedience.  No violence.  Just the refusal to obey fascist and unconstitutional laws."

Murray has worked out a specific strategy on how best to do this.  He proposes a test for selecting which laws and regulations to disobey:  the "That’s ridiculous!" test.  If that’s the reaction of the public at large regarding the law/rule, you have a good chance of mass disobedience and winning in court.

Two perfect examples emerged this week.  On Tuesday (6/02), Breitbart reported that New York police arrested two men for "manspreading" while riding on the subway – after midnight when it’s, ah, not very crowded. 

What a marvelous opportunity to disobey a law that’s merely a feminazi rant.  New York Metro even has anti-male posters in the subway cars saying, "Dude – Stop the Spread, Please."  Every strap-hanger guy in Manhattan should sit down and disobey.

An even better example came on Monday (6/01).  Late last April, Stop Hillary PAC received a demand from the FEC that it cease using the PIAPS’ name, because it was "not an authorized committee" of her as a candidate.

The response, from Stop Hillary PAC‘s treasurer and legal counsel, Dan Backer, came on Monday, starting with a one-word reply to the FEC demand: "No."  You’ve got to read the whole letter, for it’ll give you the belly-laugh of the day.  Here’s Backer’s money quote:

"This Committee would encourage the FEC to vigorously investigate who it is that is so stupid that they would think a political committee named "Stop Hillary PAC" is in any way an authorized committee of Hillary Clinton."

He doesn’t stop there.  It gets even better.  This is precisely what Murray and I see as the way to regain our freedom "without permission," via civil disobedience and ridicule regarding a federalie edict any normal person would say, that’s ridiculous. 

If we had a lot more Dan Backers, we could regain our freedom – and a lot quicker than all the years Murray thinks it will take (that’s ridiculous, Charles!).  Dan Backer is the HFR Hero of the Week.

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About that first D – Defund.  On Monday (6/02), House Appropriations defunded 15% of State Dept. funding until it forks over Hillary’s docs on Benghazi – including those of her aides like Huma Abedin.  (The emails on Hillary’s private server with her lover Huma should be interesting.)  Appropriations also defunded Zero’s efforts to normalize relations with Cuba.

On Tuesday (6/03), the full House defunded any money spent by the Justice Department to oppose the 26-state lawsuit against Zero’s Executive Amnesty.  The vote was 222-204.  Not one single Dem voted Yes.  19 RINOs voted No, i.e., for Amnesty.  Remember their names.

These are defunding baby steps, true, but they’re a start.  We need a president in 2017 who’ll demand Congress defund entire federal agencies.

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What we need this week is a House leadership not in collusion with Zero to pass his secret Obamatrade bill.  This really is crazy.  One of the few Congressmen who has actually gone into the Capitol basement and read the thing tells me it’s a dog’s breakfast of garbage.

Yesterday (6/04), Carly Fiorina demanded that Zero release the text to the public.  It is Kafkaesque for Boehner & Co to keep the bill a state secret while arm-twisting their colleagues to pass it – and all the while, refusing to say they’ve even read it. 

"The devil is in the details" on Obamatrade, observes Carly, and the public, according to a CBS/NYT poll released today, understands the devil is Zero.  By 55% to 42%, they don’t trust it or him.  As well they should.  The hero in this sad saga is Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL).  He’s confidant he has enough House members on his side to block the bill.  Let’s hope so.

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OK, time to gloat.  Sit back and enjoy.  This week has a Schadenfreude Hat Trick.

*First, the Greenies took it in the shorts this week when their very own bought-and-paid-for EPA betrayed them with a report issued yesterday (6/04) declaring that fracking poses no threat to drinking water.  Whoa… their entire Luddite fear-mongering argument against the most game-changing technology in the world today just went straight down the rat hole.

Sorry, guys, it’s fossil fuels forever.

*Second, the PIAPS’ "inevitable" candidacy took it in the shorts this week with a devastating hit piece by… wait for it… The New York Times.  Yes, Hell just froze over.

On Saturday (5/30), The New York Times blasted Bill Clinton for in effect stealing 500K from the mouths of children in Thailand, Haiti, and Indonesia.  The money instead went to Bill & Hillary’s Greed Machine laughingly called the "Clinton Foundation."

As AT asked in a detailed commentary on the story, "How Low Can the Clintons Go?"

Much lower, of course.  On Tuesday (6/02), the Washington Times ran the exposé on how the Clintons were bribed by Sweden with $26 million that SecState PIAPS never reported.

To top the bad week off, the video clip of Her Shrillness telling an admirer to "go to the end of the line" has gone viral.  No wonder she’s no longer inevitable any more.  57% of voters now think she is not honest and trustworthy.  PIAPS indeed.

*Third, the corrupt crook who runs the world’s most corrupt sport, Sepp Blater, resigned as head of FIFA.  The corruption probe may result in Blatter going to jail, and both Qatar and Russia losing their World Cups that they bribed so many millions to get.  Besides, Putin can’t afford to host the World Cup anymore.

As many TTPers know, I think "soccer" or "futbol" should be renamed bograkab – which stands for bunch-of-guys-running-around-kicking-a-ball.  And that it will never catch on as a major spectator sport in America, like every parent whose kid plays bograkab has been predicting for forty years.

Five years ago in the HFR of June 11, 2010, this was explained.  It is now appended as a helpful exegesis at the end of this HFR.

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Actually, there’s something else to gloat over.  This week it dawned on most anyone not delusional themselves that Zero is clinically, in fact, no hyperbole delusional.  He’s losing it fast.

On Tuesday (6/02), he told a young leaders audience that people who "like being important" shouldn’t go into politics.  He really said that without evincing the slightest awareness he was talking about himself.

On that same day, he gave an interview to an Israeli journalist in which he stated, "I’m the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat in this office."  For the most anti-Semitic president in US history to say this is simply unhinged.

On the day before, Monday, he made this claim: I’ve Restored the US as the "Most Respected Country in the World."

No wonder that lots of folks in Washington and elsewhere are beginning to seriously ask if Zero’s mental health is deteriorating.  As Investors Business Daily wonders, Is Obama Growing Delusional?  The same question should be asked of any of his supporters.

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Let’s contrast that with a bit of refreshing sanity – which came this week in the form of Rick Perry.

He announced his candidacy with a bang yesterday (6/04), with country singer Colt Ford recording a version of his Answer To No One just for the event (video in the link):

On Monday (6/01), Perry said if elected, he would rescind any agreement of Zero’s with Iran within minutes of his taking the oath.

This morning (6/05), Business Insider advised: Why We Should Listen to Rick Perry. The Dallas Morning News reminded us: Rick Perry Has More Gubernatorial Experience Than Any Presidential Candidate Ever.

Even the New York Times ran a touching, respectful article on Perry’s bond with Navy SEAL Marcus Lutrell, and noting that Perry’s "passion for the military will be front and center during his second bid for the White House."

Then there’s National Review on Wednesday (6/04) explaining Why One of the GOP’s Sharpest Policy Minds Chose to Work for Rick Perry.

The point to all of this is not to endorse Perry over his competition.  It is to emphasize just how deep the Pub Prez bench is.  We’re talking first tier here – Walker, Cruz, Rubio, Fiorina et al, and not the ego-trippers (Santorum, Pataki, Huckabee etc.). 

We may have our favorites, but look at the collection of young vibrant talent we’ve got who represent the future – while the other team has Hillary of the Past.

Which team would you bet on to win the future? 

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Here’s that Appendix I promised. From HFR 06/11/10:

We close the week with a HFR bonus feature, an analysis of why we Americans are not infected with the current mania sweeping the globe.

Maybe you saw the big banner headline on Drudge yesterday (6/10) Everybody… but America – meaning the whole world has come to a screeching halt and can focus on nothing else but the World Cup soccer games, while we stupid pitiful gringos in America couldn’t care less.

Which gives me ample opportunity to explain why Americans don’t care about soccer and never will.  Why, for Americans, the game should more appropriately be called bograkab – which stands for bunch-of-guys-running-around-kicking-a-ball.

Billions of people all over the planet think soccer is the most exciting game to watch there is – but very few of them are Americans.  Both of these facts should be acceptable to all.  But for some reason, global soccer fans become infuriated and incensed that we think their game is excruciatingly boring.  Here’s why.

Run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball – never score.  Run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball – never score.  Run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball, run around kick a ball – never score. 

That’s pretty much it for Americans.  Once in a blue moon, someone does manage to score, and everyone runs around with berserk-o excitement as if they won a Gold Medal at the Olympics.

In other words, Americans don’t get it.  Why don’t they get it?  Because, for them, there’s no pace, there’s no drama.  Soccer fans will sneer and shout of course there is – but that’s true for them, not Americans.

There’s no doubt that high-level soccer players are amazingly skilled athletes in amazingly good condition.    But it’s still drama-less bograkab for Americans, because they prefer a far different kind of drama.

Compare the drama of football – real football, American football, not futbol as soccer is also called – to bograkab.  There’s an incredible amount of complex skilled action compressed into a few seconds, then the action stops – and while the players are regrouping and figuring out what’s next, so are the fans. 

The drama, the anticipation, builds.  It’s 3^rd and three.  Will they go long or just try and punch it through to grind out another first down?  Every play is like this.  Over and over again.

The drama and pace of this compressed action/no action-analysis-regrouping cycle is completely different from the drama and pace of endless bograkab – and thus, no matter how dazzling the athletic performance, it remains unappealing and boring to Americans.

The other thing that’s such a turnoff about soccer is that it’s so infuriatingly phony – watching skilled athletes in great shape at the slightest interaction with opposing players fall down and writhe around the ground in ersatz girlie-man agony.  If the ref doesn’t call a penalty, the fans go berserk in anger.

Can you imagine the level of contempt Americans would have if they saw NFL players pretending to be girlie-men in order to get a foul called on the other team?

So –now you know.  And now you know why American kids, who love to play soccer because kids love to run around and kick a ball, have been growing up for decades and end up football, not soccer fans.  For 40 years I’ve been hearing how soccer-playing kids will grow up to be soccer fans.  Not gonna happen, not in America.

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