“Not according to the recent Supreme Court case of bite versus me.” – House, M.D.
No one complained when I got into Buddhism and became a Buddhist. No one complained when I got into Affirmative Action and became an activist. But get into fashion?
Today the Supreme Court (it’s like regular court, but with sour cream and tomatoes) said that, under the Equal Protection clause, that discriminating against people (or even for people) based on race is against the Constitution. I guess you could say that the Supreme Court has changed since Ginsberg passed away: it’s now Ruth-less.
For the longest time, the courts were sort of ignored by the Right. The judges appointed by the Right (when they were in power) were often horribly Leftist advocates of state power. At some point, the Right started picking justices based on choosing people who actually weren’t horrible Leftists in disguise (looking at you, David Souter). The Federalist Society® was the catalyst for this. Of the current Supreme Court, six of the nine justices are current or former Federalist Society™ members.
Yes, this is a real Tweet® and not a parody account.
The vote to kill affirmative action on campuses was six to three.
That’s an important number because it shows that the Federalist Society©, founded 41 years ago, has now defined the Supreme Court and the judges that have been nominated.
This is a victory.
But it wasn’t easy, and the span of effort to get that victory took decades of effort. When the Federalist Society™ was founded, the court system of the United States was an absolute shambles. When the Leftists couldn’t pass legislation that let them do things they like to do, like killing moar babiez, the courts could be counted on to find a new right that was somehow stuck in the “penumbras and emanations” of previous rulings to let them do whatever was popular with the cool kids that week.
Think that’s what happened to the Titan?
What always bothered me was that they could take a simple phrase like, “shall not be infringed” and twist it through precedents and rulings and interpret it to mean, “shall be infringed whenever we feel like it, you stooge”. The “you stooge” part wasn’t actually in the ruling, but it can be inferred through the “emanations and penumbras”.
Why did Roe v. Wade get struck down to allow states to make laws against baby killing? Because of the Federalist Society™. If you’re ever able to go buy a .50 caliber Ma Deuce at your local convenience store in full auto as God intended? Thank the Federalist Society©.
I don’t remember Linda leading the Leftist Karen Brigade in the Amy Coney Barrett Insurrection . . . do you?
Another place where the Left has lost is on carry of weapons. In 27 states you can take your favorite hand cannon and pop it right under your vest without a permit, and without asking anyone for permission. It’s what’s called “Constitutional Carry”. This didn’t happen by accident. It took dedicated groups working locally through decades to get these laws passed.
That’s the key. Victory isn’t won in an afternoon after a training montage where Luke© spends 22 minutes with Obi Wan® and learns the Force™. Nope. Victory is won by grinding it out, day after day, putting people in place. Having conversations. Convincing people that the idea of freedom is better than the idea of government control takes time.
Remember, it only works if you have goals.
One view is that, from the viewpoint of the Right, that there has been nothing but a long string of loss, and there is no way that we can every come back.
Clearly, that is wrong. The grassroots pushback against the insanity of The Narrative can’t be stopped. Why, exactly, do gays and transexuals and drag queens need access to our children? That question is in the minds of enough people that celebration of Pride Month, 2023, was a bit limp.
I guess we’ll have to re-purpose the journalist machine, after a fair trial, of course.
Have we lost most university campuses? Have we lost the military senior officer corps? Have we lost the senior management in most Fortune® 500 companies?
Yup. We’re still down in many places. But Budweiser® is afraid now. And we don’t have to destroy every company that goes woke. There’s an old Chinese saying: “Kill the chicken to scare the monkey.” We don’t have to destroy every company, but I’m certain that the distinct lack of Pride stolen rainbow colors in June on every damn corporate logo was a result of that Budweiser© chicken being plucked.
Where will the next victories come from? They will come from places that passionate people have been working for decades. It doesn’t require money, it requires work. As the other saying goes, “The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second-best time is now.”
The seeds of our future victory are being planted right now in the heads of they youth. They see the lies, greed, and envy that are the only things outside of Nancy Pelosi swimsuit pictures that the Left has to sell. Today, removed from their menu, is the idea of Affirmative Action. That idea is dead.
I know nobody wanted to see the swimsuit picture. You’re welcome.
The battle is not over. The Left is always better organized than the Right, but the Right has a wonderful thing on its side: the Truth. As I have always maintained, we will win. And as I have also always maintained, the final victory won’t be tomorrow, or next week, or next year, though some events will certainly happen suddenly.
And the Supreme Court? They can go out to dinner together again since Ginsberg died. She used to steal food from people at diners – they called her Booth Raider Ginsberg.
First off where is that convenience store? I have a blind side and M2 is the solution!
Two I think the pedos need contact with children, that is properly placarded in a community zoo. Every kid should be taught to recognize them from there stare.
Three I agree truth wins, after serious conflict and divine intervention.
Lots of conflict. Yup, we need that store . . .
Agreed. I was having just this conversation with one of my grandsons this morning.
He was under the impression that the only way to own and operate full auto firearms was by being in the military/SWAT Team, but even now – as long as you’re willing to only own a pre ’68 manufacture weapon – even people that live in the Peoples Republik of Maryland can own them (for now, at least). With an annual ‘tax stamp’ fee. And a particularly in-depth (and lengthy) ‘background check’. As long as they’re not ‘Assault Weapons’. Those are still a no-no here, regardless of what the Supremes say.
I’d say ‘for now, at least’ – but I’m not holding my breath. We’re getting to the point where State and Local governments literally don’t care what the Constitution says, or how the Federal and/or Supreme courts interpret it – unless it’s an interpretation that they like. The Bruen decision striking down ‘Good and Substantial Reason’ thereby making Maryland a ‘Shall-Issue’ state only really was implemented due to an outgoing Governor of the (R) persuasion instructing the State Police to ‘make it so’. So sure – we can get a card that tells the responding authorities that I’m allowed to carry (and even use!) my hand cannon – but the legislature is now trying to designate the entire State (minor exception for your own domicile and/or business) as ‘sensitive’ areas – precluding actually carrying said weapon on one’s person. It’s pretty ridiculous.
I’m imagining that in some of the Free States we’ll be able to make our own at some point. If weed states can thumb their nose at the DOJ, can Red States thumb their nose at the ATF?
The greatest failures of both the Bush presidencies (other than that whole WMDs thing) was in the judiciary and the only redeeming virtue of Trump was that he followed the recommendations in appointing judges from the Federalist society. It won’t be enough, I expect to see expanding the SCOTUS as a major issue in the next election, but it helps for a little bit.
Yeah, they’re mad about judicial activism when they’re not the ones in charge. But, boy, do they nominate idiots.
Well, Karen, oh sorry it’s Erica. Some advice. You can’t take someone with an 80 IQ with a belligerent mindset and mix he/she/xer/xim in with 120-140 IQs with judgment & manners and, “POOF”, overnight! you have a rational, functioning & contributing member of society.
You can’t teach a pig to sing. Its just irritates the pig and frustrates you.
And if they were told they were smart, they’d think the fix was in.
Excellent homily! This is what keeps me coming back day after day! Thank you!
My biggest mistake was foretold in Matthew 7:1-6. I am now taking what steps I can to correct that error.
Oh, man, I’m 100% at fault there. I even judge judges.
Yeah, me too. I even give doughnuts to Fido.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there’s lies, damn lies and statistics, but still…
https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-new-higher-ed-data-by-race-and-ethnicity/
From the first pie chart: “In 2011, as the pie chart on the left shows, more than 60 percent of the nation’s 20.6 million college students were white, according to an estimate by the National Student Clearinghouse. By 2020, the year represented by the pie chart on the right, the total number of college students had fallen to 17.8 million and the share of white students had dropped by almost 9 percentage points to 52 percent, still a majority. During the same period, the share of Hispanic students grew from 14 percent to 21 percent, and the share of Black students remained constant at just under 14 percent. Asian students increased from 5 to 7 percent of the college population.”
(Huh…the key point of this pie chart to me is that in just 11 years the number of total college students went from 20.6 to 17.8 million, a drop of 14%…)
From the next bar chart: “…this chart below, comparing the National Student Clearinghouse’s college enrollment data for 2020 with the young adult population, as reported by the U.S Census, so you can see how closely college enrollment tracks actual demographics.”
(The key point in this bar chart to me is that in 2020 the proportion of college students that are black EQUALS the proportion of blacks ages 18-24 in the general US population. BY DEFINITION THIS MEANS THE ORIGINAL SUPREME COURT GOAL OF COLLEGE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HAS BEEN ACHIEVED.)
From the next line chart: “Roughly 60 percent of young Black, Hispanic and white Americans are trying for a college degree. The college going rate for Asian Americans is much higher; more than 80 percent enroll. The zigs and zags in this chart show how college going among Hispanic and Black Americans is influenced by business cycles. ”
(The key point in this line chart to me is that yeah, since 1993 the red line showing black enrollment levels has almost always been BELOW the yellow line showing white enrollment levels. But in 2021 the red and yellow lines touch, showing EQUAL ENROLLMENT RATES for both blacks and whites. BY DEFINITION THIS MEANS THE ORIGINAL SUPREME COURT GOAL OF COLLEGE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HAS BEEN ACHIEVED.)
Now, there’s lots of other data showing blacks have a harder economic time financing college than whites, are generally enrolled in lower quality college institutions than whites, make lower college grades than whites, have lower college graduation rates than whites, etc. I am willing to accept that all these points have merit and represent problem areas needing further progress. NONE OF THEM DEAL WITH COLLEGE ADMISSION, which was the point of Affirmative Action.
Once you’re on the campus, you’re on your own and it’s all up to you. Good luck.
One should never confuse “college students” with “college graduates”. Not the same thing at all.
Most affirmative action admissions fail out and drop out at 2-3 times the rate for regular admissions, because they weren’t anywhere near properly prepared, and frequently, simply aren’t packing the mental gear to succeed in college to begin with. But they got let in for their skin color, or their jump shot, rather than their SAT scores.
And their college loans are now indischargeable by any means, even when they fail out.
“MacNamara’s 100,000”, times an entire generation of Diverse retards.
The average grade at Harvard is an A-. Go figure.
Lake Wobegone’s children!
They’re all above average.
Indeed! I thought of that the first time I read that. But the Bidens gotta be able to get into school somewhere.
The past six decades of AA empowered and enriched white females far more than the POC. Lori Lightfoot isn’t your enemy . . . not really. LINDA BROWN — whose surname matches her soul — is your enemy. Times seventy million.
This piece of paper won’t end AA because that is what America now is, culturally and institutionally. The decision is a bone thrown to the Right. This means our Rulers are not ready to tank the joint quite yet. Must be some more blood left in that turnip.
The likes of Kavanaugh the Weepy is gonna save the place? He of the empowered daughters, he of the legal staffs consisting of empowered female clerks, he of the girl’s softball team? Good luck with that. Shit reason you are where you are is because of soft balls. :O)
I think the colleges will just ignore it.
Even if the S.C. said hey, no more ripping off men and white guys, who is gonna make the colleges do it? Nobody.
It’s another big Nothingburger to quell the Right.
Yup.
It’s a good decision but around 50 years too late. May those that promulgated the idea find all the doors in Hell closed, except the one that goes to the furnace.
Your clock is nearly perfect – back then, those administrations might have paid attention. Today? Not so much.
Yes. The colleges and the Left know damn well that the damage has been done, and that this ruling is meaningless. There is no cure for the past fifty years.
Cage match:
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2023/06/29/read-clarence-thomas-straight-fire-response-to-ketanji-brown-jackson-in-affirmative-action-case-concurrence-n768847
Wow. She needs burn ointment.
Lived the Zimbabwe dream for 24 hours with no electricity after a mighty thunder boomer and triumphant return of the Bolt Thrower, we needed some rain.
Local trees are mighty and beautiful but look out when they give way.
Stopped by the Wild Zone for this piece of good news, I’m sure Brandon will ignore the student loan debt but probably not this one.
That tweet by comrade Erica should be archived and blacks with brains should be offended by the you just can’t make it without me attitude.
We can thank Trump for the SCOTUS appointments, his lasting legacy besides buying us some time.
Enjoy victories then prepare for the next attack, comrade lefty is like rust.
Battles are won by those that want to win. Do we? Because it’s a decades long fight.
Or about a solid week of just doing it right.
10/10. It’s getting the populace to that point that takes the work.
That post from Erica Marsh is an ai created image an bot post.
Not a bot (my guess), but maybe a really, really good parody account. Read through the Tweets . . .