Shrinking Violets

For a long time we Conservatives have been shrinking violets. No more! The Progs have finally become too aggressive in pushing their loopy agenda ... right in the face of Conservatives who have believed in “fairness.” Well fairness and comity haven’t been working ... the Progs are using every dirty trick and their media buddies to prevail ... so an increasing number of Conservatives (we, after all, are the majority) have decided to push back. Enough of this bullying! Time to start asserting our advantage in numbers and right reasoning!

And you know why we have finally gotten some backbone? Why it’s that we finally realized our potential? Very simple! It’s the Orangeman, Donald J. trump.

For all his flaws and faults, he has shown the Right that they don’t need to keep rolling over for the  Left. The Progs are much more wrong than they are right ... and their leadership, both at the local and national level, has not kept us winning. Yet somehow we are magically still number one ... on the strength of our “greatest generation” ... but, if we don’t wake up soon, we’re doomed to hold that fingered “L” to our foreheads ... to the muffled giggles of the George Soros posse and the America Lasters.

I know I am sounding jingoistic ... but one needs not to look far across this great country to realize how low we have sunk in the last thirty years ... while much of the rest of the world has played us for suckers.

After winning the Cold War, we were resting on our oars while others took advantage of us. Now, no more! Unless our snowflake generation behaves as their pedagogical betters have programmed them to, our country now has a chance to recover our greatness ... and bequest a genuine legacy of freedom and prosperity to all our issue.

And we are starting, ever so slightly, to prevail. Thank you, Donald for opening our eyes!

Floral Displays

Shrinking violets are never part of grand floral displays. — Anon.

Shrinking Violets

President Obama has finally shown a bit of a backbone in his "limited" air strikes against ISIS artillery pieces and mortar positions in Northern Iraq. I say a "bit of backbone" for he still believes that he is reflecting America's reluctance to engage in any significant show of air power after Libya has blown up in his face. 

Not only is Obama still a shrinking violet but he resides in a field of such flowers. No country in Western Europe ... save Great Britain ... has shown the slightest inclination to deal with the spread of ISIS and its brutality. This group of about 10,000 jihadists just killed at least 500 Yazidis ... many buried alive ... see: Huffington Post Story (Huffington Post editors ... I think you are playing into ISIS’s barbarous hands by calling them the "Islamic State") ... and the world yawns.

And this field of posies is not limited to Western Europe. Where is Saudi Arabia? (Oops, I forgot, Saudi Arabia, like ISIS, is Sunni also.) Where is Iran? (Oops, I forgot, Iran, even though Shi’ite, does not mind seeing mass executions … particularly in Iraq.) Why is Catholic Latin America not rising in humanitarian outrage to save other Christians from being crucified? (Oops, I forgot, they’re all on trains to the Texas border.) The African nations, Eastern Europe, Egypt, Israel. Jordan and Lebanon have their own problems. But what about Russia (here I’m a little surprised at Putin’s wallfloweredness.) And the rest of the world is apparently not paying attention.

So President Obama must feel vindicated to lead from behind once again. “If the rest of the world wants me to fix this mess again, I’ll not be dragged into another war by you folks. I’ll make like I’m appalled and do a few token things, but the American people (me) don’t want any more involvement in this Mideast swamp. I think I’ll just take a couple of weeks off in Martha’s Vineyard, I’ll play some golf, I’ll eat some ice cream, and see if things aren’t better when I (lots of first person references here) get back.”

“I'll keep talking about not puttin' boots on the ground [in my opinion an over-used red herring] and then maybe I’ll pick some violets …”