Friday, July 17, 2020

Not For You, For Those People You Know That Need It

It's pretty safe to say we all know some useful idiots.  People who are so indoctrinated to the anti-American, anti-Constitutional viewpoint that they're swallowing everything about the riots, burning and protesting.  Of course, the term is commonly credited to Vladimir Lenin but is used widely now.  In communist conversation it denotes the people who aren't really dedicated to the revolution but can be counted on to voice support for all their talking points and chant all their protest chants.  The idiots will be lined up against the wall when the executions start.  The communists don't want revolutionaries, they want obedient slaves.

Perhaps you've tried to point out their logical inconsistencies to them; perhaps you've disputed some of their points, but you haven't made any progress pulling their heads out of their asses; the vacuum is just too strong.  A staff writer for Glenn Beck's media company put together these “21 ways to know if you're a 'USEFUL IDIOT'”  You don't have to subscribe to anything to read it - unless my computer remembers things I don't.  I'll copy it here. 

Written in, and intended to be read in, Jeff Foxworthy's You Just Might Be A Redneck manner. 
  1. If you donate to a political organization without knowing how or where they actually use the money, you might be a useful idiot.
  2. If you find yourself having to defend or explain political slogans you don't actually believe in, like "Defund The Police" doesn't actually mean defunding the police, you might be a useful idiot.
  3. If you join a protest march or rally in order to feel like you're "doing something", you might be a useful idiot.
  4. If you continue to rationalize and justify violence against innocent business owners, police or bronze statues, you might be a useful idiot.
  5. If you support a political organization because of what they say they are against but are ignorant of what they claim they are for, you might be a useful idiot.
  6. If your Facebook, Twitter or Instagram feed contains a black square in the past 60 days, you might be a useful idiot.
  7. If you support COVID-19 government orders to wear a mask as legal - unless someone feels the need to scream in the face of a police officer, you might be a useful idiot.
  8. If your support for police or justice reform includes a checklist of ideas like government-mandated vegetarianism, carbon-taxes on manufacturers and higher taxes on the wealthy, you might be a useful idiot.
  9. If you claim to support generic ideas such as "Black Lives Matter" but then donate to organizations like Planned Parenthood, you might be a useful idiot.
  10. If you are against The 2nd Amendment but also support defunding the police, you might be a useful idiot.
  11. If you claim to defer to science when the data supports your political ideals but then ignore it when it inconveniently does not, you might be a useful idiot.
  12. If you find yourself parroting vague aphorisms like "No Justice, No Peace" while claiming to be against violent protestors, you might be a useful idiot.
  13. If you claim 1st Amendment protections for speech and public assembly for protestors but then support government lockdowns for public health reasons, you might be a useful idiot.
  14. If you believe you can simultaneously support the Black Lives Matter or Antifa organizations and the US Constitution, you might be a useful idiot.
  15. If you are using an iPhone to Tweet a selfie wearing a #BLM T-shirt but believe Capitalism is part of the problem, you might be a useful idiot.
  16. If you feel guilty because of your skin color or something your dead ancestors did, you might be a useful idiot.
  17. If you support government-funded abortions for Black/Brown communities but are opposed to government-funded abstinence education, you might be a useful idiot.
  18. If you carry a sign supporting BLM, Antifa or Defund the Police and don't see Carl Marx when you look in the mirror, you might be a useful idiot.
  19. If you define generic words such as 'looting' or 'vandalism' as inherently racist, you might be a useful idiot.
  20. If you believe teenagers robbing beer from a CVS is some form of reparations for slavery, you might be a useful idiot.
  21. If you believe anything a white person has achieved or owns is proof that systemic racism exists, you might be a useful idiot.


A crop of useful idiots on the right, photo from the source website.

Does anybody recognize the city?  The only things I can read that offer a clue are the Tim Horton's shop behind the bike cops on the very left of the frame and, on the top tube of that bike on the left closest to the camera, I think it says Columbus Police.  The Webz tells me there's a few Tim Horton's shops in Columbus, Ohio.  That seems possible but isn't a slam dunk.




9 comments:

  1. Seems like we oughta replace the MIGHT with ARE for the sake of accuracy, right? I mean, when would someone believe these things and NOT be a useful idiot? Thank you for the great work here!

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  2. "Perhaps you've tried to point out their logical inconsistencies to them; perhaps you've disputed some of their points, but you haven't made any progress pulling their heads out of their asses; the vacuum is just too strong."

    Priceless

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  3. Sean Hannity: Hate, hysteria and the New York Times

    https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2020/07/sean-hannity-hate-hysteria-and-new-york.html

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  4. Thanks for the list, SiG!

    I'll post it on FakeBook with attribution, and see if it get me tossed in the FB slammer!

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  5. Oh yeah. That's Columbus, Ohio. The scrolling sign has a notice about Westerville.

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  6. too bad they ,ui's, don't know the commies will slit their throat when they are no longer useful. it will come as a complete surprise, even though every commie regime in history has done it.

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    1. Well, if they knew anything about the history of socialism they wouldn't be UIs.

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  7. There are a lot of useful idiots out there. They haven't been culled in the usual way with wars, famine, etc. so they reproduce.

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  8. Even the Party leaders and true believers get the chop, or a bullet when the revolution consolidates power under a "leader". After all if you were dedicated to the first revolution, you might foment another revolution. Examples include but not limited to: Ernst Rohm, the night of the long knives, Leon Trotsky, the purges of the old Bolsheviks, Maximilien Robespierre, the list is nearly infinite.

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