In the collective insanity that is Post Trump America, it is almost impossible to be a reasonable person.

Today is the one year anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando.

To mark this occasion, the New York Times publishes an OpEd A Night of Terror, a Year of Racism.  It was written by a gay recent college graduate.

I remember being amazed by the swift and empathetic response from the city and much of the country… As a gay person of color, I found something truly comforting about this response. Part of me felt accepted, understood and even coddled in the midst of this harrowing event.

People came together after this tragedy to support their fellow Americans.  How beautiful.

Another part felt more targeted than ever.

And victim.

This stereotyping has gotten much worse since the Pulse shooting, because despite the outpouring of support for L.G.B.T. and Latino people, the tragedy became an excuse to vilify Muslims before the 2016 presidential election.

And ISIS throwing gay men off buildings, or in the “Moderate” Muslim nation of Indonesia where gay men are caned.

From that moment on, it was clear that the tragedy would not become a reason to champion noble or productive causes like gun reform.

Never mind that the shooter was a self identified “soldier of Islam,” the real problem is guns.

Instead, it would become Exhibit A in Mr. Trump’s justification for a ban on Muslims entering the country — despite the fact that the shooter was an American and Muslim refugees have not killed anyone in the United States.

He’s right.  It seems that the leading killers in the US and UK are the children of refugees.  If we don’t let in the refugees, they won’t have radical kids.  It’s a long term strategy.

The national coverage linking Islam to the massacre was inescapable.

Yep.  Just like 9/11.

And you could feel it in Orlando. In July, a month after the tragedy, the Orlando Sentinel reported that Muslim bias had spiked in our area: A Mason-Dixon poll found that 21 percent of Central Floridians held views on Muslims that were “more negative than before the shooting.”

Pretty sure killing 49 people and wounding 50 more in the name of Allah will do that.

The Pulse nightclub shooting was a terrible act of violence against a marginalized group of people. Attacking another marginalized group is not the way to prevent more shootings, or to help survivors heal.

The real victims of the Pulse shooting were Muslims.  Yeah, 50 members of the LGBT community were dead and just as many were wounded.  But being gay is almost passe at this point.  It hasn’t been cutting edge since the late 90’s.  Will and Grace made it almost mainstream.  Muslims are the new “in” victims.  Not that a gay man ever opened fire in a Mosque as retaliation or anything.  Fifty dead gays is nothing compared to the sideways glances Muslims in the US get.

Over to The Washington Post, the article de jour was A year ago, 49 people died at Pulse nightclub. Today, Orlando remembers.

Oh no, 49 people died at a nightclub in Orlando?  Was it a bad batch of fuzzy navels?  Did they they dub step themselves to death?  What happened?

It had been a year since the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history stole 49 lives there and scarred countless others; a year since Pulse, a safe space for Orlando’s gay community, fundamentally changed. 

So less died and more murdered?

We are then treated to an extended history of the club, then this.

For 12 years, the club grew into an integral space for the gay community, one shattered within a matter of minutes by a madman with a gun.

A madman.

In the entire article, the words “terrorism,” “Islamic,” or “ISIS” didn’t appear once.

The responses by the political elite on social media were just as vapid.

The slogan of the onePulse Foundation, founded in the memory of the victims, is “we will not let hate win.”

Guess what.  Hate fucking won.

A man, motivated by an ideology that hates gays, pledged allegiance to an army that murders gays, murdered 49 people in the name of his ideology,  an nobody seems to want to confront that thought crime about that.

Instead, the June 11 Gay Pride day was as a tribute to the Pulse victims, and rapidly turned into an anti-Trump #Resist march.

Welcome to 2017.  A radicalized Muslim, son of refugees, murders 49 people in a gay club in the name of Allah, and a year later the LGBT community honors the victims of the largest terrorist attack in the US since 9/11 by protesting the President of the US that wants to combat radical Islamic ideology.

Hate really fucking won.  First Islamic hate of gays scored a high body count.  Then Progressive LGBT hate of Conservatives won at the memorial for the victims.

If the LGBT community can’t address the real enemy they are facing and instead want to bash their political opponents than there is nothing I can do to help them.

Fuck it.  My well of empathy is empty.

I wanted to post a quick followup to my earlier post about the intolerable Jordan Klepper Solves Guns special.

As it turns out, Klepper is such an intolerable, self-righteous,  progressive turd that even the writers at Salon got tired of him after 30 minutes.

Sure they praised his show and it’s crap content, but

“Regardless of how someone feels about Klepper, Sunday’s special grants the soon-to-be host a chance to discover his strengths and areas of improvement as a headliner before being thrust into the day-to-day grind. That has value.

It also provides viewers with an idea of how much of Klepper’s benignant character is bearable. An hour feels like a bit much. A half hour of his own design should work just great. That much, we can piece together.”

When the intolerable, progressive jackasses at Salon say they reached the bearable limit of Klepper’s progressive jackassary, you know that the average American was done with that crap before the first commercial break.

Klepper is apparently getting his own show to follow The Daily Show.  I didn’t think they could do worse than The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.  I was wrong.

Last night Comedy Central debuted an one-hour special: Jordan Klepper Solves Guns.

I watched it.  It was an hour of Poe’s Law.

The special opens with Jordan Klepper explaining in detail that he is an East Cost progressive.

“I’m enlightened, I’m progressive, and I feel like I was put on this earth to enact righteous change, AKA, I’m a 2017 comedian.”

This last part was painfully self aware.

Samantha Bee did a terrible job convincing people that she wasn’t a smug liberal by being a smug liberal on CNN with Jake Tapper making this face:

Bee, like Klepper, is a veteran of The Daily Show.  Even the New York Times had to admit that Samantha Bee’s not funny but preachy and self-righteous brand of progressive comedy rubbed people such the wrong way that it helped cost Hillary Clinton the election.

Not 30 seconds into the special, Klepper admits that he’s from the Samantha Bee ilk.

Then he says he wants to solve guns.  Not gun crime.  Guns.  His show is about trying to convince America to give up its guns.

This is the same guy that called the NRAAM the “Comic-Con of Death.”  He admits he hates guns.

It gets worse from there.

Within the first six minutes, he pushes the NRA blood libel (yes, I’m going to start calling it that) that 1) politicians are held hostage/controlled by the NRA, and 2) the NRA is responsible for America’s gun crime.

Then, in typical Daily Show interview gotcha tactics, he tells an NRA official right to his face that guns are for men with little dicks.

He wants to meet some gun owners so uses the SPLC website to track down the Georgia Militia.  Because of course that is what a progressive who wants to make enemies with the Heartland does.  Later when he tries to swing the opinion of a “moderate” gun owner, he writes anti gun messages on a car and goes around a track with it because gun owners love NASCAR (his words).

He jumps from liberal stereotype about gun owners to liberal stereotype about gun owners.  But he knows they are stereotypes.  He has to know he’s not approaching these people like people, and is only going to rub them the wrong way.

He fakes wanting to learn about guns so meets up with up with tactifool Pat McNamara.  Why?  Because rather than find a good firearms instructor, he finds a YouTube idiot.

If I were going to do a parody about about an out-of-touch, Liberal comedian from NYC who tries to ban guns, I’m not sure I would have done a single thing differently.

For all the talking he does about the 33K gun deaths in the US, he never talks about Chicago’s crime issue, “Snitches Get Stitches” in Baltimore, or any of the other locales where gun crime is a real problem.

He hates guns, he says that several times, and so he goes after law abiding gun owners.

Towards the end he tries to push that he has a big win that most Americans support background checks, but doesn’t differentiate between background checks as we have them now and the most extreme form of universal background check regulation that anti-gunners want.

It wasn’t funny.  It was obnoxious.

It wasn’t going to win hearts and minds.  It was something for Blue State liberals who already agree with him to watch and feel good about.

It was Comedy Central going full ESPN on the issue of guns.

Considering the ratings drop of ESPN since it started getting into politics, I have a bit of advice for Comedy Central.

A while back Miguel made a post about how the Antifa was attempting the ultimate goal post move, in which a voicing a differing opinion to them was violence and therefore they were allowed to defend themselves with force.

That’s nothing anymore.

Welcome to the Critical Race Studies in Education Association.  They just wrapped up their annual meeting.

Here are some Tweets from attendees and speakers.

Yes, you read all those correctly.  According to the CRSEA, simply being white is an act of violence against black people.  You don’t actually have to do anything, you just have to exist and you are inflicting violence on them.

The logical next step is the justification of violence against white people for just existing.

That’s not a leap.  That is a tip-toe.

How long until we see some SJW who has been steeped in this mentality engage in the knockout game and then claim that he was defending himself against the victim’s “whiteness?”

This is not just a SJW justification for segregation, this is the type of language that was used to justify the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda.

I don’t think it is a coincidence that the the Hutu paper used to justify the genocide of Tutsis was Kangura, which means “awaken” and the word for the philosophical movement that justifies this type of anti-white hatred is “woke.”

I really don’t want a Rwandan race war in the US.  These people seem to really want to start one.

In Washington DC, the city government installed duck ramps to help duck climb in and out of the Capitol Reflecting Pool.

A member of the House GOP had the temerity to voice concern about the duck ramps and was assailed with social media hate for it.

Fast forward to today….

More than 80 ducks have died because of infection from parasitic snails that live in the Reflecting Pool.  Now the pool has to be drained to kill the parasites.

I cannot think of a better metaphor for Washington DC than this.

The government does something with – giving them the benefit of the doubt – the best of intentions.

The goverment doesn’t understand the totality of the situation or accurately predict the ramifications of their actions.

Casualties ensue.

The the millstone of goverment bureaucracy continues to grind on, unabated.

We are all ducks now.

After a year of waiting…

Eat your hearts out guys.

I caught a piece of news that I just had to comment on.

In Ontario, Canada, the legislature has passed a bill that would allow the goverment to take children away from parents if the parents do not agree with the child’s gender identity.

In Ontario, if your child jumps on the transgender train because it’s trendy, and you say  no, Ontario will take you child away from you, presumably to transition them.  With no regard, of course, to the fact that most transgender children grow up to be normal.

The idea that parents no aquessing to a child’s gender identity is abuse is something the Left is pushing here in the US.

Here’s my warning to the Left:

In the 1930’s,  sick fuck named Josef Mengele was consumed by a fascist ideology about race.  With that as a justification, he engaged in bizarre “experiments” and medical torture on Jewish Children.

Never again.

If some bureaucrat decided that my child should be taken from me and given poison that will render them sterile and butcher their body with freakish surgery, because of some all consuming fascist Social Justice ideology on gender…

I.  WILL.  KILL.  YOU.  ALL.  FULL.  STOP.

You better come with a god damned army because the first social services agent that knocks on my door and says “we’re here to rescue Xir from your transphobic abuse” is going to get shot in the face and the body county will go up from there.

Your Gaystapo Mengele will not touch my children.