Douchebag of the Week (Week Ending 7/25/2025) Zohran Mamdani, Man of the People...

 

"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats but yearn for dictatorship.  They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office..." -- Ludwig von Mises

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries..." -- Winston Churchill

When You Even Get Revisionist History Wrong...

"Who controls the past controls the future; Who controls the present controls the past" -- George Orwell, "1984"

A History Lesson: Fascism....

"The word Fascism has now no meaning except insofar as it signifies 'something not desirable'" -- "Politics and The English Language", George Orwell

Voices Inside My Head (#13 - Stuff That Needs Sayin')

"Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic", no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power lust nor stupidity are good motives."  -- Ayn Rand

The Derp State Approaches...

"Self-righteous dumbfuck is not a very good look, nor a profession, Missy." - The Overlord

"Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice." -- Thomas Paine, The Crisis

Great Moments in Dumbfuck: And A Little Child Shall Lead Them Edition...

"When the Overlord finally conquers the Galaxy, it shall be at the head of an army of five-year-olds; for five-year-olds are smarter than democrats and have more imagination than republicans..." -- The Overlord

A Majority of One (A Mental Health Fortnight...)

Note to Readers: The thickness of the new breed of bullshit was such as to make it necessary for your Overlord to step away from the keyboard these last two weeks just to avoid committing an act of mass murder.

We Interrupt This Blog for an Important Bulletin...

I will finish the VICIOUS (someone complained), poorly-written (someone complained) and totally ACCURATE (someone complained) and well-deserved (sez me) expose of the infantile, pot-addled mind of the Libertarian later this week. But I must pause here to address another issue of burning importance.

I'm a Libertarian...And I'm a Doofus (Part I)

"All kinds of people today call themselves “libertarians,” especially something calling itself the New Right, which consists of hippies who are anarchists instead of leftist collectivists; but anarchists are collectivists. Capitalism is the one system that requires absolute objective law, yet libertarians combine capitalism and anarchism. That’s worse than anything the New Left has proposed. It’s a mockery of philosophy and ideology. They sling slogans and try to ride on two bandwagons. They want to be hippies, but don’t want to preach collectivism because those jobs are already taken. But anarchism is a logical outgrowth of the anti-intellectual side of collectivism. I could deal with a Marxist with a greater chance of reaching some kind of understanding, and with much greater respect. Anarchists are the scum of the intellectual world of the Left, which has given them up. So the Right picks up another leftist discard. That’s the libertarian movement. " -- Ayn Rand

Douchebag of the Week (Week Ending 6/30/18 - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)

"Some apologists try to excuse Marxism by saying that it has ‘never had a chance’. This is far from the truth. Marxism and the Marxist parties have had dozens of chances. In Russia, a Marxist party took power. Within a short time it abandoned Socialism; if not in words, at any rate in the effect of its actions. In most European nations there were during the last months of the first world war and the years immediately thereafter, social crises which left a wide-open door for the Marxist parties: without exception they proved unable to take and hold power. In a large number of countries — Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Austria, England, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, France — the reformist Marxist parties have administered the governments, and have uniformly failed to introduce Socialism or make any genuine step towards Socialism... These parties have, in practice, at every historical test — and there have been many — either failed Socialism or abandoned it. This is the fact which neither the bitterest foe nor the most ardent friend of Socialism can erase. This fact does not, as some think, prove anything about the moral quality of the Socialist ideal. But it does constitute unblinkable evidence that, whatever its moral quality, Socialism is not going to come." -- James Burnham