Eschew Obfuscation

Retired IT Executive, Cynic, Curmudgeon.

Castigat Ridendo Mores

What is right is more important than who is right.

Ad hominem = instablock

[Eschew Obfuscation @JScotchyScotch]

@Abomination81 Shallow Hallie should start shopping for cat friendly furniture.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

The Babylon Bee nailed it with this, Leftist’s call Republicans a Derogatory Word which actually describes them.

[Joshua Harmon @JustJoshnu1986]

@NausheenPirwani

[Cassándrā "Cassy" Coelho R. @IDontCareBear]

South Park hasn’t landed a punch this hard in years.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

“Threatening television networks” lol. I seem to remember the IRS coming to my house and House Democrats threatening me with jail and not a peep of protest from the supposed civil liberties party

[Chris Hughes @ImChrisHughes]

@cwebbonline Kid looks young. Probably the first time in his life he’s seeing the law enforced. Normalizing lawlessness for decades has consequences and so actually enforcing the law is causing people’s brains to explode.

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

The abject incompetence of California Gov gruesome Gavin Newsom is only dwarfed by his scapegoating and his refusal to take any personal responsibility for violent crime, homelessness and the torching of his State with fires and protests.
And this lunatic actually wants to be President?!

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

Why Is Governor Newsom Going Full Jefferson Davis?

What triggered the American Civil War were state officials who refused to honor federal law and instead boasted of their open defiance of Washington.

That precedent apparently is the incendiary model for the weird, but dangerous recent behavior of an increasingly unhinged California Governor Gavin Newsom.

He is currently supporting the often-violent protestors in Los Angeles and their resistance to federal officials’ enforcement of immigration laws.

Newsom claimed that Trump’s use of ICE to detain those here illegally in the U.S. was “reckless”, “chaotic” and “eroding trust”.

Does he think that his own rhetoric is creating calm and building trust by opposing the lawful enforcement of federal statutes? Or is he following the baleful model of arch-Confederate rebel Jefferson Davis?

Does Newsom support the similar defiance of fellow resistor Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass? She all but called for official city resistance to the enforcement of federal law, with an added threat, “We will not stand for this."

What does Bass—who recently was junketing in Ghana as entire swaths of Los Angeles were incinerated—mean by “we”? All of Los Angeles? The LAPD?

Will Bass use the LA police to stand against federal officers who are implementing the law and have a constitutional right and indeed requirement to enforce federal laws within the states?

Does the governor grasp that his reckless states’ rights rhetoric empowers violent protestors who torch cars, pelt passersbys, and assault officers?

Take, for example, fellow California Democrat, Congresswoman Norma Torres. She just messaged federal immigration officers with the obscene threat,“Get the f--- out of LA.”

Does Torres believe that Los Angeles should become a modern-day South Carolina of 1861, boasting that it will defy the federal government?

Is Torres echoing Democrat and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries? He just boasted that he would dox endangered ICE agents, publishing their personal information and revealing their identities (“Every single one of them, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will of course be identified.”).

How exactly does Rep. Torres think she is going to get federal officers “the f--- out of LA”?

Does Torres consider the now outnumbered and often threatened ICE officers to be the modern versions of surrounded federal troops at Fort Sumner?

Newsom did just not stop at siding with violent resistors to federal officers.

He again took on the federal government and the Trump administration for reminding California that it is subject to federal fines for its current defiance of federal Title 9-related presidential executive orders barring transgendered biological men from competing in women’s sports.

Trump recently was merely following the precedent of the Obama administration that first issued such warnings of cut-offs to educational institutions that might not abide its own Title 9 federal policies and directives.

Here is how Newsom worded his threats of insurrectionary resistance to Washington:

“Californians pay the bills for the federal government. We pay over $80 BILLION more in taxes than we get back. Maybe it’s time to cut that off”.

Cut that off?

Has the rebellious Newsom read the U.S. Constitution? Is he calling for us Californians not to pay our federal income taxes?

Does he know that he just de facto called for federal tax evasion—an act that could be construed as a felony under 18 U.S.C. Section 2 of the federal tax code?

States do not have the legal authority to override the federal government by arbitrarily withholding federally
warranted income taxes from its U.S. citizens. In 1861 such defiance almost destroyed the U.S.

And does a clueless Newsom really believe that California’s $80 billion surplus of taxes versus receivables with the U.S. Treasury actually pays “the bills for the federal government”? Hardly.

In truth, it amounts to no more than 1.5 percent of the annual $5.5 trillion in federal revenue?

Does Newsom even realize that California taxpayers are American citizens first, and California residents second?

Or has his past advocacy for defiant sanctuary cities and current nullification of federal law made him a states’ rights rebel in the past fashion of George Wallace’s Alabama resistance?

Beside their Confederate-like defiant threats to resist federal laws, do Newsom, Bass, and Torres realize they are clearly on the wrong side of public opinion?

Despite the media and leftwing hysterias, even the liberal CBS poll just reported that 54 percent of Americans still support deportation as a legitimate means of enforcement of federal immigration law.

In contrast, Newsom’s latest polls show that just 2 percent of Democrats envision him as their 2028 party presidential nominee.

Worse, in the most recent average of some 30 polls, only 27 percent of those surveyed expressed a favorable opinion of Newsom.

Does he think that illegal aliens violently breaking the laws of the nation in which they demand to stay and burning its flag, while waving the flag of the foreign country to which they refuse to return, will win the support of the American people?

Does he grasp that 75 percent of Americans support the deportation of illegal aliens who commit criminal acts like many of those currently in the Los Angeles protests?

Or is Newsom signaling that given all these polls he prefers to end his political career—and so just blew it up?

[Eschew Obfuscation @JScotchyScotch]

@agtrader @theglobaltrader Russia has shown countless times that they are not serious about any peace that does not include Ukrainian capitulation. Why do you think this time would have been different?

[Deplorable Weirdo @CO_Contrarian]

Now Jake Tapper has a problem with the left’s lunacy? Now that his kid, his football-playing, future cop son is being harassed by the same unhinged mob he’s been fluffing for years? Cry us a river, Jake.

You spent years spewing smug, self-righteous bullsh*t, pushing Democrat propaganda like it was holy scripture, and painting conservatives - hell, anyone not licking Biden’s boots as racist, dangerous scum. You celebrated the cultural rot when it canceled other people’s kids. You cheered while good people were labeled bigots for having a backbone. And now you want sympathy because the woke wolves turned on your own flesh and blood?

Nah. You don’t get to act surprised, pal. You fed the beast. You raised the pitchforks. Now it’s your castle being stormed.

And your fake outrage? “This is why you fu**kers lose elections.” Oh really? No sh*t, Sherlock. You helped build the losing strategy. You propped up Biden like he wasn’t a walking teleprompter corpse. You told America men were toxic, cops were racist, and anyone proud of this country was a threat. But now your kid wants to serve and gets attacked, and suddenly the Democrat party has gone too far?

You're not waking up. You’re just trying to save face while selling your garbage fantasy sh*t book in a country that's finally sick of your crap.

Go cash your book check, Jake. Just don’t expect applause.

[Peter Laffin @petermlaffin]

@NBCNews Let's say, for the sake of argument, that these are indeed "baseless" claims (they aren't). What authority does @NBCNews thinks it possesses right now to make such a determination?

Has no one told them that the jig is up?

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

If you celebrated American citizens who took selfies in the Capitol on January 6th being held in jail for years without due process, then I don't give a f*ck about what you have to say about illegal immigrants being deported without due process

[TONY™ @TONYxTWO]

Holy sht!! Unleashing @StephenM on the media is one of the BEST decisions Trump has ever made 🔥🔥🔥

[Eschew Obfuscation @JScotchyScotch]

Throw the book at that POS. And find a way to spin it up to a felony.

[Eschew Obfuscation @JScotchyScotch]

@RichardAngwin @amuse Using the hackneyed phrase "Speaking truth to power" in the context of the actions of a military officer shows that not only have you never served, but utterly lack an understanding of how the military works.

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

There are 677 local district judges.

Under current procedure, the president needs unanimous consent from all 677 to implement a major decision.

If just 1 communist out of 677 unelected judges disagrees, the action is frozen. Nationwide.

That is not democracy.

That is tyranny.

[END-THE-FED @VulgarityBrand]

@JRHewitt2 @elonmusk Is there a crime? You investigate crime not people. Thats the main issue with “lawfare”
Prove there was a crime, and investigate to find who did it.
Not choose a person, and investigate to uncover their crimes…

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

"If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly."

— Thomas Sowell

[Dan Bongino @dbongino]

Democrats tipping off other Democrats in the media about raids to arrest gang members, rapists, murderers, and criminals, is peak Democrat.

[S David Sultzer @s_sultzer]

What pure bullshit.

Explain how funding gain of function research in Wuhan protected the US from the spread of global disease.

Explain how funding NGOs that organized and funded illegal aliens passing into the US is addressing the root cause of immigration.

Explain how any of the programs identified below grows markets for the US:

https://t.co/ZT1xh4IgdE