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Ghod, did you watch that garbage?

If you haven't – you need to.  I know, if you're either uninterested in politics, or you're a Republican, you probably didn't and won't.

These people want you dead, enslaved, or both and they don't much care which it is.

This isn't typical political polarization, which not only isn't news it isn't new either.  This is much, much worse.  It is rabid, it is spiteful in the extreme and it comes with a willingness to inflict violence if you disagree.

The now-closed-out impeachment of Trump is symptomatic of these fools, but by no means is it exhaustive and that's dangerous.

I'd leave aside that they've outright threatened to kill people on hidden cameras and all over the Internet (and that Twatter ignores said threats) but that would be unwise.  If there's a saving grace in any of this it's simply that most of the protagonists are "Pajama Boys" and, as I've noted before, are unlikely to have better than a 50/50 chance of correctly figuring out which is the business end of a firearm.  Unfortunately firearms are actually fairly poor ways to kill large numbers of people effectively and without immediate blow-back.

Dispossessing someone of everything is quite effective at killing someone too, either in terms of realistic outcomes or in actuality.

Let's just take one example: Vindman.  He and his brother were fired yesterday.  The facts are that all military officers serve at the pleasure of the Commander in Chief.  That's the President.  End of discussion, full-stop right there.

The facts are also that Vindman was pissed off that Trump did not "adhere" to his talking points for the Zelinsky call (he testified as such) and he tried to falsely modify the transcript after the fact but wasn't able to because it had been placed on a system where he had insufficient credentials to make changes.  That decision on the part of the White House was a smart one as it thwarted his intended actions.

The left, including the people on the "debate stage" last night, went after Trump for firing Vindman despite it being a fact that he not only had every legal right to do so he had every ethical and moral right to do so.  Insubordination is an extremely serious matter and to treat it as a civil right rather than an outrageous act of misconduct belies the fact that in the Democrats mind there are no standards at all provided they get what they want, and anyone who opposes what they want is worthy of immediate and permanent personal and professional destruction.

Folks, if you think they wont kill you if this pattern is not stopped you're wrong.  They most-definitely will.  They will either do so by dispossessing you of your property and ability to earn a living and if that's insufficient they'll do it physically.

Better wake up folks.  These people don't just disagree with you.

They want to kill you if you won't convert to their political religion – and this is no longer a tiny fringe on the outskirts of the left.  It is the mainstream position of essentially all viable candidates attempting to gain the Democrat Presidential nomination.

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Mike Bloomberg: Those Uneducated Midwest Rubes Are Just Too Stupid for Trans Bathrooms

BY TYLER O'NEIL FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Michael Bloomberg wants to become the 46th president of the United States. Source: Boss Tweed / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Back in 2016, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg made elitist and demeaning comments about Midwestern rubes who are too uneducated to support transgender bathroom access. The remarks, which resurfaced on Friday, illustrate the patronizing attitude many pro-transgender activists have toward those who dare to disagree with the view that gender identity overrides biological sex. Ironically, transgender activists were triggered by how the former mayor insulted the Midwesterners who disagree with them.

Speaking to an audience at Oxford University and addressing the Brexit vote, Bloomberg said, "We, the intelligentsia, the people who could make it into this room, we believe a lot of things in terms of equality and protecting individual rights that make no sense to the vast bulk of people."

"They are not opposed to you having some rights, but there's a fundamental disconnect between us believing the rights of the individual come first and the general belief around the world, I think it's fair to say, that the rights of society comes first," Bloomberg continued.

Then came the geographical snobbery.

"If you want to know if somebody is a good salesman, give him the job of going to the Midwest and picking a town and selling to that town the concept that some man wearing a dress should be in a locker room with their daughter. If you can sell that, you can sell anything," he said.

"They just look at you and they say, 'What on Earth are you talking about?' And you say, 'Well this person identifies his or her gender as different than what’s on their birth certificate.' And they say, 'What do you mean? You’re either born this or you’re born that.'"

Here's @MikeBloomberg in December 2016 at Oxford explaining how trans rights simply won't fly in the midwest because only the "intelligentsia" can understand why "some man wearing a dress should be in a locker room with their daughter." pic.twitter.com/g6aa8aB1jq

— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman)February 6, 2020

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These remarks managed to trigger transgender activists while insulting both Midwesterners and those who believe biological sex takes precedence over gender identity.

Charlotte Clymer, a biological male who identifies as a woman and campaigns for transgenderism, called Bloomberg's remarks "deeply disgusting and disqualifying."

"Trans people were living openly in the Midwest long before Bloomberg woke up one morning and decided to start buying elections," Clymer added.

This is deeply disgusting and disqualifying, and @MikeBloombergneeds to apologize for it. Trans people were living openly in the Midwest long before Bloomberg woke up one morning and decided to start buying elections. https://t.co/zHIbyjkqg2

— Charlotte Clymer?????? (@cmclymer)February 6, 2020

Activists like Clymer objected to the idea that biological men who identify as women and use the women's restroom should be referred to as "some man." In their eyes, such a person is a woman because he identifies as a woman, regardless of his male DNA, the effects of testosterone on his body from the womb onward, and the fact that his body developed differently from that of a woman.

Yet Bloomberg appeared to suggest that any disagreement with transgender ideology comes from a lack of education and sophistication. He insulted an entire geographic region of the country — the Midwest — by associating it with a lack of education and sophistication.

Yet a broad coalition of conservatives, feminists, and lesbians have allied against this ideology, for a whole host of reasons.

Feminists have condemned the transgender movement as a "men's rights movement" since it involves biological men forcing their way into women's spaces. A group of British lesbians tried to separate the LGB from the T, but eventually settled on removing the L from the acronym instead. "Let the L Out" accused the transgender movement of promoting "rape culture" because it "promotes the right of heterosexual males who 'identify' as women and lesbians (despite most of them still retaining their male genitals) over the right of lesbians to choose their sexual partners. This new 'queer' LGBT politics thus coerces lesbians to accept the pen*s as a female organ and promotes heterosexual intercourse between male and female as a form of lesbian sex."

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