Five or so years ago, a guy named Randall posted a hilarious if somewhat profane You Tube video making the point that the Honey Badger Don’t Care, though other terms of endearment were used. The video became a meme because of the ability of the animal to hunt and eat cobras, attack bee hives and other things that poison and sting with seeming impunity.
With the aftermath of the presidential campaign, the destruction of the Republican establishment and two political dynasties – the Bushs and the Clintons, and most importantly neutering or gelding the democrat cheerleading operation that masquerades as the formerly mainstream media, I am wondering if we are on the doorstep of the age of the Honey Badger Conservative.
Now this doesn’t mean we have won anything. Rather it means that we conservatives no longer care what the left thinks of us, says about us, or accuses us of doing or being. You can only be called a racist, homophobe or bigot so many times before those epithets dissolve into so much foul smelling smoke.
The Hillary campaign calls half of the country a basket of deplorables. What do they do? They turn out in sufficient numbers to flip states which have been comfortably in the democrat column for decades.
Hillary surrogate Jill Stein demands a recount in states precisely selected to flip the election back to Hillary after the fact. What happens? Trump picks up votes during the recount.
The cast of Hamilton, many of whom do not bother to vote or otherwise participate in the political process, deign to lecture the VP-elect from the stage following a performance in NYC? A couple days later, a Trump supporting member of the audience returns the favor during a Hamilton performance in Chicago.
One Brad Avakian, commissioner of the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, the guy who famously ordered the owners of Sweet Cakes to pay $135,000 damages to a gay couple for refusing to sell them a wedding cake, loses his election for Secretary of State. This loss is the first statewide loss by a democrat in 20 years. Honey Badger don’t care.
Kellogg’s pulls its advertising from Breitbart because of all the usual reasons. Its customers respond with a loud, nasty boycott. Target joins the bathroom wars on the side of the left and loses billions in stock value. ESPN turns its content over to its left wing social justice warrior announcing crew and sees its subscribers running for the hills. The NFL refuses to discipline Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the National Anthem and wonders why its ratings are falling.
Honey Badger don’t care. Honey Badger gonna do what it wants to do regardless of the pain inflicted on it.
The left has been dishing it out for a long, long time. Appears they are going to receive a bit of return fire. It is long past time for this to begin. Fire for effect, guys. Fire for effect.
Alex Gimarc lives in Anchorage since retiring from the military in 1997. His interests include science and technology, environment, energy, economics, military affairs, fishing and disabilities policies. His weekly column “Interesting Items” is a summary of news stories with substantive Alaska-themed topics. He is a small business owner and Information Technology professional.
