A Red Dawn in New Yorkistan...

 

"Do you know the hallmark of a second-rater? It is resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own ...They bare their teeth at you from out of their ratholes, thinking that you take pleasure in letting your brilliance dim them...They envy achievement and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become acknowledged failures..." - Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"

Maybe You're Just an Idiot?

"Entitlement is a disease. It appears to have infected everyone under the age of thirty. I would say the remedy is failure, but it appears the remedy was simultaneous to the infection and they somehow cancelled each other out, but still left the pustules behind..." -- The Overlord

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

You All Suck (#59 - Be Careful What You Ask For Edition)

 "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it, good and hard..." -- H.L. Mencken

Marx, Riots and Lunatics...

 

"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except by the means of achieving the same ultimate end; communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide..." -- Ayn Rand, "The Ayn Rand Lexicon"

Douchebags of the Week (Week Ending 5/10/2025 -- Bernie and Sandy)

 "One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draws to them with magnetic force every fruit juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England..." -- George Orwell, "The Road to Wigan Pier"

James Burnham Warned You...

 "Where there is no alternative, there is no problem..." -- James Burnham

"There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters..." -- James Burnham, "The Machiavellians"

The Mask...

 "The Mask is the new gender-neutral burka..." -- The Overlord

Authenticity?

The political left has a strange relationship with the word "Authenticity".

Generally speaking, when a Leftist refers to something as being "inauthentic" what they really mean is "This is the Real McCoy, however, admitting so makes me look stupid, so we'll just pretend otherwise".

Four Observations and A Diagnosis...

 Been busy packing up the Death Star and searching out more worlds ripe for conquest. Apologies for the interruption in the supply of snark this past week and for having no quote today.

Praising the Fleas...

 "A dog does not praise it's fleas..." -- W.B. Yeats.

Defeating the Left, Part Three: The Endgame...

 "Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task that has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us..." -- Winston Churchill

Defeating the Left, Part Two (The Indirect Approach)

 "The Theory of Indirect Approach operates on the line of least expectation...The most effective Indirect Approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move -- so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his own overthrow..." -- Basil Henry Liddel-Hart, "The Strategy of Indirect Approach".

Defeating The Left, Part One (Know Thy Enemy)...

 "If you know the enemy, and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, then for every victory gained you will suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy or yourself, you will succumb in every battle..." -- Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"

Mental Illness, Politics and Religion...Sorry, I Repeat Myself...

"Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer; 2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind." -- Eric Hoffer

My Inner Child Rejoiceth! The Outer Children Needeth Beatings...

"In every man a child is hidden that wants to play..." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

When You Even Get Revisionist History Wrong...

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

You All Suck (Example #36 - Facebook, Coronavirus and Politics Edition)

"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech..." -- Benjamin Franklin

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

Minor Shitstorms of Stupid...

"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of our society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs; we should test people for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." -- P.J. O'Rourke