Today’s theme is moral inversion.
Not to be confused with cranial-rectal inversion, which is a common phenomenon on the left. (See: “let’s defund the police so that crime will go down,” or “if a dude puts on a pair of ruby slippers and taps his heels together while saying, “I’m a girl,” he’s a girl.)
One example of moral inversion is the way national Democrats deal with the statute of limitations, which is the legal principle setting a time limit after a crime, during which charges must be brought. It’s a reasonable rule, because as time goes by, evidence is lost, witnesses die and memories fade.
Dems have provided several great examples of why a statute of limitations is necessary. When the left wanted to stop Brett Kavanaugh from getting onto SCOTUS, activist/loon Christine Blasey Ford came forward to accuse him of raping her decades ago.
Unfortunately for lovers of distorting the constitution, Ford was a little fuzzy on the details. Details such as where it happened, and who else was there, and what town it was in, and what year it occurred.
I’m not kidding. She couldn’t remember the YEAR. Which is all you needed to hear to know that she was full of (Adam) Schiff. Because anyone who had any really bad experience in high school – never mind something as traumatic as being raped! – can tell you the year it happened.
In fact, many people recall their teenage years mainly through the disasters: freshman year was when I broke my arm; sophomore year was when my folks got divorced and Beth broke up with me; junior year I totaled dad’s car and got chlamydia; senior year I voted for Bill Clinton. Etc.
Of course, Kavanaugh wasn’t charged with a crime; the Dems were just trying to smear him to keep him off the court.
But even though Ford turned out to be a lemon (ha!), the Dems were undeterred. Last year the corrupt NY Dem party passed a law that temporarily got rid of the statue of limitations, specifically so that E. Jean Carrol ( I’m guessing that the “E” stands for either “eccentric” or “erratic”) – a fruitcake who makes Blasey Ford look almost high-functioning by comparison – could accuse Trump of sexually assaulting her almost 30 years ago.
Or maybe more than 30 years ago. Because she too could not even pin down the year when the phony assault supposedly happened. At one point she said that it was definitely a specific year in the 1990s because she remembers wearing a designer dress that came out that year. Except that when someone looked it up, it turns out that the dress didn’t exist that year. D’oh!
But never mind. The Dems trashed the law, and got their false accusation turned into a civil conviction against Trump.
And then last week, the Dems found a judge and DA so corrupt that they once again broke the law by charging Trump for mis-classifying business records – misdemeanors on which the statute ran out in 2019, if they had actually happened in the first place.
But they zapped those dead charges back to life – much as they do with Joe Biden’s earthly remains before a public speech – and turned them into 34 transparently illegitimate felony convictions.
So the Dems are happy to trample the statute of limitations when it serves their purpose. But how do they regard the statute when it can be useful to them? As the most sacred of legal principles, of course.
Enter addict, dead-beat dad, and dead-brother’s-widow-jumper Hunter Biden. Among his many apparent crimes are some serious actions of corruption and bribe-taking from foreign governments, most of which implicate his corrupt dad (and our current Cadaver-in-Chief).
Those crimes would be relatively easy to prove in court, partly because of the mountain of evidence against him, and partly because a jury would have to believe many patently unbelievable things to acquit him.
Things such as that a shady Ukrainian energy company paid him $80K per month purely for his expertise in Ukrainian energy – even though he couldn’t find Ukraine on a map, and all he knows about energy is that snorting a bunch of cocaine off a hooker’s rump gives you A LOT of it.
“So Martin,” you are not asking, because you already know the answer, “when is Hunter’s devastating trial on those serious crimes going to start? I thought he was only facing relatively paltry gun and tax evasion charges.”
You’re right, of course. Because Merrick Garland – and say what you will about the Chinless Cartoon Turtle Mitch McConnell, but he kept that creep off SCOTUS! – Toobin-ed his way through the first three years of Biden’s term.
And just when he got around to considering the slam-dunk case against Hunter, wouldn’t you know it? That pesky statute of limitations had run out.
To quote the mobster who whacked Joe Pesci in Goodfellas, reporting the news to DeNiro: “That’s that. And we couldn’t do nothing about it.”
So when it’s one of their guys, they use the statute to evade the consequences of their crimes, and when it’s someone from the other side, they misuse the statute to convict on non-existent crimes.
THAT’s moral inversion.
Media figures and “journalists” are especially skilled at moral inversion. Stories about the rights of women and girls to be safe from disordered men using their showers and bathrooms are called stories about “trans rights.” Abortion is called “women’s health care.” Jill Biden is called a “doctor.”
Another recent example – which also fits perfectly into my column category of “you don’t hate the media enough” – comes from Mannheim, where a cop was stabbed to death. Two of the MSM headlines were as follows: “Officer dies after being repeatedly stabbed in attack at anti-Islam rally in Germany,” and “Officer Stabbed During Attack at Far-Right Rally Dies.”
Now if you had the miniscule IQ or the gullibility of an Ivy League grievance studies major – or of AOC, just to pick a random juicy booty (her words, not mine) out of a hat – you might jump to a conclusion. You’d focus on the key words – Germany, Far-Right, anti-Islam rally, cop gets stabbed – and figure that the Germans were reverting to aggressive form, and menacing the adherents of the Religion of Peace™
But nope! The stabber turned out to be a radical Muslim from Afghanistan.
UNEXPECTEDLY!
Also, Yay, diversity!
Tragically, the deceased officer died largely because when some Germans jumped on the terrorist who had already stabbed people, the cop and others yanked the Germans off of the terrorist, to protect him.
After which he turned on the cop – who was holding down an innocent German at the time – and fatally stabbed him in the back.
Ugh. Rather than end on that dark note, I’ll give you one final example of moral inversion, along with an example of how to think clearly.
Before I left for Colorado, the Iranian president – a mass-murdering jihadi sadist named Ebrahim Raisi – died in a hilarious helicopter crash in the mountains, along with several of his weird-beard co-religionist co-conspirators.
The guy was called “The Butcher of Tehran.” And not because he cheerfully provided the kind of tomahawk pork chops and ribeye steaks which all good meat-eaters appreciate.
So how did NBC describe him in the sub-head of their story on the crash? As “a hard-line conservative cleric.” Because of course they did. Because they suck.
And how did the Biden administration respond? By issuing a State Department statement offering its “official condolences” for the death.
To see how a government official should actually respond to the much-deserved death of a smelly terrorist leader, I refer you to Trump’s announcement of the death of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whom our special forces – and military dogs! – raided and killed.
If you haven’t seen it before, you must watch Shane Gillis’ hilarious four-minute recounting of Trump’s epic, trash-talking speech that night. The most famous line from it is that al-Baghdadi “died like a dog.” But my favorite moment is one that Gillis highlights.
Trump acknowledged that Baghdadi likely had a suicide vest on, and talked about the way our special forces guys went in through a wall with a robot and military dogs. “They used dogs… beautiful dogs.”
And then he mocked Baghdadi, praised our troops and our dogs, and then mocked Baghdadi some more.
THAT’s how you announce the death of a terrorist!
On a related note, I can only hope that the IDF is deploying dogs in Rafah right now.
Beautiful, Jewish dogs.
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 