Author name: Josh Slocum

“Racism” and “misogyny” are funny things these days. We’re told by the left that they go on everywhere all the time. Criticize a black person for bad or criminal behavior? Racist. Notice black on black crime? Racist. Criticize women for lying and  making up stories about rape and harassment for personal gain? Misogynist. Prefer a male candidate to a female candidate for office because you like his policies better? Misogynist. 

You’ll notice the emotional inflation of small, or perceived, or non-existent, slights into alarm-clanging “hate.” Whereas 15 years ago you might have heard people discuss sexist policies in an office, those same policies today are “misogyny.” Same with race. It’s not possible in Liberal Land to have different preferences, or to disagree with a black person or a woman, without being guilty of smoldering, dangerous “hate.”

This is a tactic used by abusive and manipulative people—they’re the ones actually mistreating others—to get a leg up on others who have done nothing wrong but to disagree with them. 

What’s bizarre is how far they will go to insist that “racism” or “misogyny” explains everything and anything. Take the case of conservative black politician Larry Elder, who ran in an unsuccessful recall campaign against California liberal governor Gavin Newsom in 2021. So enraged was the leftist political class that a columnist at the Los Angeles Times called Elder (remember, he’s black) “the black face of white supremacy” who was “hurting Californians.”

It is astonishing that a mainstream leading newspaper would allow or publish such an extreme and near-libelous column, but it’s even more astonishing that three years later, it’s still proudly published. 

But we’re through the looking glass entirely, so what’s coming next won’t surprise you. Barack Obama, former (and according to many, current) President of the United States, has put on his best stentorian condescension to tell fellow black men that they’re misogynists if they don’t vote for Kamala Harris. 

Check out this 1 and a half-minute video. Speaking to a group of black male voters, Obama puts on an affected “black” accent. All of a sudden, he’s from da hood. “I’m gonna speak to y’all,” he says, adding in a “speak widchoo.” While he never explicitly calls the men misogynist, the implication drips off this patronizing tongue as he lectures them for not turning out to vote for Harris. After all, he says, she’s just like them. She grew up like them. She “went to college” with them. 

The looks on their faces do not indicate that the men agree that Kamala Harris is “one of us.”

And then CNN. Contributor Scott Jennings called it like it is, tearing into Obama’s condescending treatment of a bunch of guys he’s trying to convince to vote for his gal. Jennings is right: this party actually has a problem with men, with men voting their minds. They can’t speak to men like people, because they don’t think men are fully moral humans the way women are. 

Collin Rugg comments on this on X/Twitter. 

Let’s see what the crowd had to say. 

Not going well for Barack so far. Let’s keep looking. 

Sad trombone for Obama. 

It’s always been the case that egotistical people are attracted to positions of power. We often remark on how power corrupts, but it’s probably more accurate that positions of power attract the already corrupted, the narcissistic. 

But it’s undoubtedly the case that our society in general today is more narcissistic, and it looks like the percentage of people with strong narcissistic tendencies is greater than it’s ever been in living memory. 

Power-hungry people use many tools to beguile us and extract resources: flattery, lying, manipulation. One of their favorite tools is the “narcissistic reversal.” It’s so simple and straightforward that you may be surprised at how well it works (and it works most of the time). It’s just reversing the truth, calling black white, calling good actions bad actions, calling perpetrators of abuse “victims.” Normal people don’t act this way, and that’s how we’re taken in by the narcissistic reversal. We can’t imagine lying this way, so we incorrectly assume that no one else would.

Therefore, if John says he’s a victim, he must be, right? 

The Democrat Party has been doing one hell of a reversal on the concept of masculinity. Anyone who has watched Minnesota Governor and vice presidential hopeful Tim Walz prance across the stage would not think of him first when talking about the art of manliness. His feet barely touch the floor and he waves frenetically like Jack Tripper, the character in the old sitcom Three’s Company who pretends to be homosexual so the landlord will allow him to room with two girls (oh, remember the days when people cared about propriety?). 

Yet there the blue team is trying to portray Walz as “America’s Dad.” 

It’s not as obviously ridiculous since Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff has not been observed prancing, but the left is trying to sell us on the idea that Emhoff is “the new masculinity.” What women on the left are doing is reversing the definition of “masculine.” Emhoff appears to be content, as commentator Matt Walsh said recently, to play second fiddle to his wife. That’s what these women really want, and they’re calling that “masculine” to sell it to sane people. 

But even under the old definition of manliness, Emhoff doesn’t look so good. Prolific X user Collin Rugg has this on allegations that Emhoff (who cheated on his former wife and got the nanny pregnant) has a history of abusing women. 

As Rugg said on X, “It’s always the male feminists.”

Let’s see what others had to say. 

Chuck has a good question. 

Eric here is probably going to be waiting a long time. 

The Jesterhead has picked up on the narcissistic reversal. 

Have Americans gotten used to being yelled at by our presidents? President Joe Biden seems to believe it’s normal to scream at his audience and the population generally as if he were an angry father. 

The tone of some of his statements during the “pandemic” shocked many observers. In September of 2021, a year and a few months into the “pandemic” that turned into an excuse to abrogate the constitutional rights of Americans, Biden made an address that would have sounded at home in a public service ad about domestic violence. 

“We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin,” he said. To whom? The portion of the population that had not taken or refused to take the Covid vaccines. It left many of us asking, “Who does this man think he is?”

In our modern era, we’re undergoing a reversal. Politicians and public servants now assume that they’re in a parental or power-over relationship with the citizens. Somehow in recent years, it has become normal for elected representatives or plain old government workers to issue orders to citizens, rather than the other way around.

Nowhere was this more evident than in Biden’s infamous “red speech,” also in September of 2021. Standing in front of Independence Hall that was bathed in blood-red light, Biden yelled and harangued the American people, insulting regular citizens who had voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

About ordinary Americans, Biden said, “MAGA Republicans do not respect the constitution,” and that they were “empowering election deniers.”

But it is Biden who does not respect the constitution. Indeed, it is an open question whether he actually understands it. It is unclear which group of people he was addressing on Thursday, September 27, but his message could not have been easier to interpret. Raising his voice like an exasperated dad, Biden told a familiar lie: he claimed that the Second Amendment did not give Americans the right to own a cannon. 

With what has become his characteristic slurring, Biden said, “I taught constitutional law for years. NEVER was the second amendment meant to be absolute. Back when it was passed you could not own a cannon.”

You really need to listen to the audio to get the full, disturbing “vibe” from the angry way Biden spits out his words.

Check out this video clip:

But his tone is not the only problem. He’s just factually wrong. The Second Amendment has never been interpreted to mean that you can’t own a cannon. Biden has repeated this lie many times before; it is simply not credible to believe he is honestly mistaken. Three years ago, the notoriously Biden-friendly Washington Post even conceded that he was telling a lie. 

Here’s the truth. You’re allowed to own a cannon under the Second Amendment. And also; Biden never taught constitutional law.

Let’s see if X users were persuaded by bellicose Biden. 

On this next one? Yes, Biden did indeed say that.

Dave picked up on Biden’s other big lie today:

Aw, yeah!