Libs Say The Darndest Things By James Lewis

 

Libs Say the Darndest Things by James Lewis over at American Thinker

In my never-ending effort to understand the liberal mind, I'm beginning to scribble down nutty sayings from the liberals I happen to run into.  I call it Libs say the darnedest things.

This idea started for me a couple of weeks ago, when a lefty cat-lady (a big demographic) told me with a hypnotic stare, "There are no facts."

Wow.  Floored in one.  I was left gaga.  Couldn't figure out what to say that would get through her concrete space helmet.

So I staggered off and had a drink.

This one has gone viral in the lefto-psychosphere.  You get 2,560,000 google hits for "There are no facts."

Such little mindworms tell us about our age of ignorance and superstition.

Obama has contributed his own pearls to the genre, like "The private economy is doing fine" when unemployment is at 8.2%, about 7% of American workers are underemployed, and another big chunk are on permanent disability, making for about 20% of the work force not working.

Wow.

The Bamster is an endless fountain of oddball quotes, and half the country doesn't notice anything wrong. At least Jimmy Carter got bitten by a killer rabbit.

Heard about Obama's Relativity Theory of the U.S. Constitution?  It's really true.

A couple of years ago, the Washington Post boasted about Obama's brilliance as a student at Harvard Law.  Just to prove the point, a WaPo reporter cited Professor Larry Tribe's thank-you footnote for Obama, in an article claiming that Einstein's Relativity Theory applies to the U.S. Constitution.  It appears that constitutional time and space can be twisted around heavy objects, like the heavy-duty intellects of Barry and Larry, twin stars of the legal cosmos.

Or something.

Obama is pretty awful, but Joe Biden...well, that's shooting ducks in a pond.

Here are a few I've picked up.  Please add your own in the comments below.

1. A couple college-educated libs talking about insecticides that are safe to use around pets: "It's organic.  It's safe."

The organic poisons that will kill you include arsenic, apple seeds, cherry leaves, unsoaked kidney beans, cassava roots, and uncooked potato skins.  But they're organic!  They can't hurt you!

This is sheer, unvarnished superstition, straight from the Dark Ages.  Every other liberal believes it.

Or how about...

2. "My kids will have free health care for life."

Told to me by a rich but really eccentric lib, with two unemployed children in their 30s living in San Francisco.

Guess why they can't find jobs.  Right.

3. "Marijuana is a medicine."

The PubMed biomedical database has 648 scientific articles on the toxicity of marijuana.  It seems that maryjane can trigger schizophrenia in some teenagers, and that it may cause "paranoia" (severe anxiety) in chronic users.  Countries like Egypt and India have used bhang for centuries and have long linked it to low-level depression and poor motivation.  Cannabis makes male mice infertile.  Smoking rather than chewing bhang causes clouds of burn particles to get into your lungs with every breath you take.  That's one reason why cigarettes cause lung cancer.  It's not the nicotine; it's the burn particles in the smoke.

The only nugget of truth in this urban myth is that synthetic THC can help manage the pain of some cancers in carefully controlled doses with near-perfect purity.  But the marijuana plant in your backyard has thousands of molecules beyond THC, with completely unknown effects, different toxins in different plant varieties, and hitting your lungs and bloodstream in totally uncontrolled amounts.  It's a crapshoot.

Scientists aren't allowed to study people smoking joints, but about 100 million Americans are running their own trials at home.  In about ten years we'll find out what happens to them as the cumulative effects of decades of dope-smoking start to take their toll.  Baby-boomers may actually end up saving Medicare, because they may go down long before Social Security runs out.  I don't think that's good, but self-inflicted ignorance carries a high price.

A lot of modern America makes more sense when you realize that tens of millions of people are getting chronically stoned on mind-altering drugs.  Alcohol is not hallucinogenic.  Being a drunk is bad enough, but now you can have 57 varieties of mind-altering chemicals at your local high school.

The media won't tell you if a popular drug is toxic, because they're the biggest dope fiends around.  Ever wonder why celebrities seem to die before their time?

Here's another stunner.

4. "I voted for Obama because Hillary is too white."

This one came from a young, unemployed man in 2008.  He still doesn't have a job, is still living on Mom's income, but can't figure out why.

Another collectible:

5. "It wasn't really rape-rape."

I don't know if this gets a pass from the International Society for Goofy Lib Sayings, because it's from Whoopi Goldberg, who is technically a comedienne.  The "not really rape-rape" she was referring to was committed on a 13-year-old girl by an adult narcissist of the Hollywood type, who is now idolized by the cult that runs the darker nooks of our celebrity culture.

6. "Gangsta rap is art." 

This one goes under Things Liberals Are Not Allowed to Question.  They are commanded by Lady Gaia to believe in Darwinian evolution even if they know nothing about it -- but they are strictly barred from questioning the profound artistic value of gangsta rap.

Go figure.

7. "How can they stand being so hated?"

Finally, a little gem from a nice Episcopalian lady at a get-together with cookies and everybody being painfully nice.  She had this one all lined up and ready to launch, as I could tell from the glitter in her eye.  The "they" she was talking about was Israel.

"How can Israel stand being so hated?"

How about sixty years of oil-fueled hate propaganda?  But I didn't say that, because she had me in shock.  I spend a lot of time being floored by the things liberals say.

Months later I thought of the perfect answer: "How could Jesus stand being so hated?"

I don't know if Episcopalians still believe in Jesus, so even that zinger might have bounced off her Grade A mental armor.  But you can think of a slew of examples.

"How could blacks stand being so hated in the Jim Crow South?"

"How can Coptic Christians stand being so hated by the Muslim Brotherhood?"

"How could witches in the age of Cromwell stand being so hated?"

"How could the Jews of the Holocaust stand being so hated?"

Come to think of it, all the celebrated victims of the left are hated, or at least live with the idea that they are.  Being hated is the very essence of liberal victimhood.

Or as the King James Bible renders Isaiah 53-3:

          He was despised

          rejected

          rejected of men; 

          a man of sorrows,

          and acquainted with grief...

Remember that tune in Handel's Messiah?  You can probably hum it.

Naturally, I didn't think of the Jesus comeback, because I was left floundering at "How can they stand being so hated?" -- a single sentence that captures endless depths of ignorance.

But my nice Episcopalian lady knew in her bones that she had the answer to all that noisy fuss in the Middle East, not to mention the question of war and peace through human history.

Talk to your local liberal.  They believe they have all the answers, which may be the real peak of arrogant ignorance.  To prove their moral superiority, they carefully avoid reading the news.  That's another gem I hear over and over again.

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