With apologies to the producers and directors of the cartoon movie hit “Despicable Me”, the label “Despicable Them” aptly applies to politicians in general, but to Leftist politicians in particular. As always, it’s a question of degree. The degree to which the Democrat leadership (note I say leadership, not ALL Democrats) exhibits despicable behavior and spews despicable rhetoric dwarfs, as Jupiter dwarfs the Earth, anything the Republican leadership has done or said.
Examples abound but probably the best one is that of Nancy Pelosi ceremoniously ripping the State of the Union speech in half and claiming it was all lies. As regards despicable rhetoric: Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Bill deBlasio, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Linda Sarsour…the list of those with verbal diarrhea goes on and on. Every time any of these people open their mouths, nothing but despicable falsehoods and bile emerge.
How do they get away with this? Edmund Burke had the answer:
The Fourth Estate. In Thomas Carlyle’s book On Heroes and Hero Worship he attributes
to Burke: “Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the
Reporters’ Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than
they all.”[i] He
was of course referring to the Press, or in today’s language, the “Media”.
The term “fourth estate” and “fourth branch” are
both used to describe what used to be journalism, which clearly doesn’t exist
anymore. Someone I know with a degree in Journalism from Columbia University,
arguably the pre-eminent journalism school in the country, grudgingly admits
that the principles taught there are violated continuously.
Fourth Estate as a term is meant to emphasize the
independence of the Media, while the related term “Fourth Branch”
suggests the Media is an extension of the government. In my opinion, it’s
hardly the latter, but the Media’s ability to influence (i.e. brainwash)
inattentive or non-critical-thinking minds is obvious. Abandonment of
journalistic principles such as three-source corroboration or the vetting of
sources to ensure reliability, coupled with the power of the internet to broadcast
the most salacious lies and twisted arguments, has fostered an environment where
despicable behavior and rhetoric thrives.
Given that the professional Media is predominantly Leftist,
as are the indolent with too much time on their hands to do anything productive
but tweet and post (I hasten to defend that the reason I have the time is that
I’m retired after working hard for fifty years), the Left are provided with overwhelming
covering fire. The saturated with Leftist garbage airwaves thus leave little
room for any reasonable debate or reflection. That same cover gives impunity to
the most despicable, even immoral Leftist behavior in both the commercial as
well as political realms.
The Left is guilty too of what I think is one of the most despicable
behaviors: Projection. Albeit in its weak-mindedness much of the Left
doesn’t even see it, or its hypocrisy, it’s axiomatic that if they are whining
about something, accusing the Right of something, falsely claiming credit for
or denying culpability for something, it is precisely what they are guilty of. Just
today Chuck Schumer sent a letter decrying Attorney General William Barr’s
throwing of the BS flag on the Roger Stone sentencing. Said the spotlight-hog/grandstander/demagogue
Schumer: “This situation has all the indicia of improper political
interference in a criminal prosecution.” Sure, and the Left has NEVER
improperly interfered in a criminal prosecution…Schumer’s statement is stupid
as the President and Attorney General are empowered to intervene ex officio, and
the public knows damn well the prosecutors are piling on a Trump ally. (But put
a microphone and a spotlight within a hundred miles of Schumer and he will RUN
to it!).
Projection.
Thank God we now have pro-justice leaders like Barr who are
willing to wade into the Swamp with a flame-thrower to destroy the truly despicable,
poisonous rot of the Left that has festered for so many years.
I’ve written about this before, but it’s plain to see that two halves of our population can look at the exact same set of facts and firmly believe positions that are 180 degrees apart. But it is astounding that ANYONE in this country can look at the Democrats’ impeachment antics as credible, or the horrifying (to those of us with brains who are paying attention) stupidity coming out of the mouths of the Democrat candidates for President as believable, yet there are many, even if not 50% of the population, who do. THAT’s what’s scary about what we’re witnessing…that ostensibly ‘normal’ people could buy the nonsense the Left is peddling.
Don’t they get it? How is it that they can’t see how perniciously
calculating, conniving, dishonest and hypocritical the Left is?
I have a theory. It goes back to the basic principle that our perception is based on our experience (see my post (https://grumpsreport.com/?s=Briggs). In my opinion, the experiences of half the country have consisted of Leftist indoctrination, read brainwashing.
The Left is brilliant at manipulation, false-impression-creation,
misrepresentation, and above all, in knowing how to play on human emotions. They
cannot appeal to peoples’ left brains so they go after the right hemisphere and
heart strings. Play the right music in the background and a horror film becomes
a comedy. Set the lights just right and the ugly can appear beautiful. Put just
the right amount of quiver in your voice and twist the story line and you can
make anyone a victim. Celebrating losers and victims is their stock-in-trade.
Disagree with that and you’re a racist, bigot, heartless, entitled, privileged
old white person the product of a discriminatory society bent on crushing the less
fortunate.
Hollywood is of course the crucible in which all the leftist soup is created. The world’s greatest experts in deception and heart-string manipulation, Hollywood has fed generation after generation since the Greatest Generation with emotional drivel which, while entertaining, is taken as reality. It is THIS emotional drivel that has been the diet of those, in my opinion, who believe what the Left is saying and doing.
It’s no wonder therefore that the EXPERIENCE of half the country…the half that have swallowed the drivel with little to no critical thinking, are empty vessels into which the current Leftist nonsense can be easily poured. It fills their souls with emotional satisfaction to hear concepts like “Medicare for All” and Welcoming (i.e. ‘Open’) Borders. And it’s what allows them to believe the lies about children in cages and every other lie put forth by the Left.
It’s not FAKE NEWS, it’s blatant indoctrination, messaging with an agenda, subjective twisting of facts, figures, data to push a narrative that anyone with a functional LEFT brain sees as destructive to mankind and the world. The “Media” is just a court jester, pandering to whomever will buy their verbal diarrhea for the highest amount.
Follow the money. Always. The self-righteous and hyper-hypocritical
Left will do whatever maximizes the cash in their pockets, and the quickest way
to undeservedly do so is to amass and exercise POWER.
To be fair, there are plenty on the RIGHT who subscribe to
this strategy and who take advantage of it. But like so many other things, IT’S
A QUESTION OF DEGREE. The Left is guilty of lying, cheating, and
indiscriminately acting in ways that benefit themselves thousands of times more
frequently than the Right.
Not until the weak-minded and gullible face REAL reality ( I can’t believe I’ve had to use such a term ) or have their heart strings pulled by Goodness, Grace, God or the Holy Spirit, or whatever universal positive Force you subscribe to, or, alternatively, have an experience or experiences that wake them up to the real world, will they make their way back to the realm of the grounded human race with traditional values and practices, and will our Country revert to its position as Light Shining on the Hill.
The constantly self-promoting Narcissist-in-Chief of our
country is a classic New York real-estate thug. There’s a reason they’re called
moguls and if you’ve ever had the experience of dealing with any of them
closely, you’ll find they’re woven from similar cloth. They’re all arrogant, self-absorbed,
tyrannical, conniving, ruthless, calculating, sly, dictatorial at times and obsequious
at others. Nevertheless, they succeed because these are the qualities necessary
to deal with the myriad forces that make the real estate business so difficult,
particularly in cities like New York. But one of Trump’s other characteristics
is that he believes what he says about making the U.S. great again, and he does
and has done what he says.
It’s evidence of how bad things really were…how far down
the slippery slope our society had traveled, that a man who can’t string two
English sentences together without repeating himself five times while patting
himself on the back could both become President of the United States and do so
much good in three years as he has done. And what he’s done primarily is reverse
the rampant encroachment of the “State” (i.e. government at all
levels) by throwing the BS flag at every opportunity, wielding the awesome
power of the Presidency to blast 40 years of necrotic, liberal/collectivist
nonsense whenever possible.
His methodology is antithetical to the political status quo.
It’s precisely because he is NOT a politician but a tyrannical, ass-kicking and
name-taking business thug that he has succeeded. He has sufficient “FU Money” that he
truly doesn’t care what people think of him, and throughout his life he has
taken every advantage our great country has to offer to further his wealth and power,
thus understanding what opportunity means, and how to seize it.
So it really didn’t take all that much to produce the
positive results he’s produced over the last three years. An iron will, an
“I don’t care what they say or think” attitude, a horde of advisors
and handlers that, notwithstanding the revolving door they go through, have helped
him navigate the D.C. minefields that he couldn’t blast his way through, and a fundamental
and underlying “America First” approach to “managing his portfolio”…these
and no doubt God-given tireless energy are what has turned the slide down the
slippery slope around.
At the core, what he did was unleash the true American
Spirit, create by example an atmosphere which permitted the unmuzzling of the
Silent Majority, and thus unlocked the pent-up anger of millions who could no
longer abide the sniveling, arrogant, loser-celebrating, hyper-hypocritical
megalomania and condescension of the Leftists who sought to “fundamentally
change” America over the previous eight years.
Having grown up overseas and travelled extensively, am I embarrassed
by his lack of civility, decorum, inarticulate speech and un-presidential
demeanor? Often, but the alternative was and is unacceptable, and the substance
rather than the form is what matters.
Rogue, buffoon, narcissist…call him what you will, thank God there was someone who could apply the brakes to the Leftist hydra that was dragging us further and further into the globalist, statist abyss, (and which is today writhing in an attempt to restore its power and control).
He has pointed our faces back up the hill to the sunlight.
Now we must take it upon ourselves to help each other up the slope.
Where to begin? The last couple of months has been marked by
a series of headlines that even Hollywood couldn’t invent. You’d have to be
living under a rock not to see or hear what’s been happening in the economy, politics,
society, media, technology, defense, even the environment.
In the economy. Forget the statistics – they’re useless in
depicting what’s really going on in your wallet. The old adage “Figures lie and
liars figure” has never been more true. Depending on how the pundits and
so-called “experts” spin them, the only thing that really matters is how we and
our families are doing. It’s a good time to ask the question, “Are you better
off now than you were three years ago?”
For the vast majority of Americans, the answer is an
unequivocal “Yes.” Rising wages, low inflation, increasing productivity,
greater convenience and utility provided in part by technology, in part by
innovation, systems and processes…all have improved our lives. The stock market
at all time highs doesn’t just impact the wealthy. It impacts everyone. Whether
or not you have an investment portfolio, economic GROWTH, which the stock
market reflects, increases demand for goods and services, including the things
made by the companies we work for and the services WE render. That all
translates to improvements in our lifestyle.
In politics. The cataclysmic impact of the 2016 election on
the status quo, what some call the “Deep State” or the legions of government
minions many of whom work hard but produce little of value, has slowed the
slide down the slippery slope the Left has had us on for so long. It is a long
slog back up, but the shrill, childish and petulant voice and actions of the
so-called but misnamed “progressives” have been fully exposed. The cancer has been
identified and bit by bit it is being eradicated such that the greatness and
“can do” spirit of America has begun to re-emerge.
In society. Some are content to let the next couple of
generations have the world they’re making. I am not. I believe it is still my
duty as a parent and as a concerned citizen to impart traditional values and
traditional norms to my children and grandchildren. Basics like manners, virtues
such as thrift and hard work, meritocracy, courage, self-reliance, communication
and interpersonal relation skills in the face of technological isolation (a
subject for another time), the importance of family, charity, trustworthiness,
and on and on. These are things that I’m afraid the next two generations don’t
fully understand, appreciate or possess as much as they should.
In media. As I have stated often, the impact of the
“one-to-many” amplification provided by the Internet has allowed the most
fringe-lunatic, caustic voices to reach and influence many. We used to say that
PowerPoint made everyone a graphic artist. Similarly, Social Media has made
everyone and anyone a journalist or pundit (present company included). The
firehose of data not all of which is actual information but all
of which is biased and deceptive in one form or another has created a distorted
reality…in fact, it has changed reality and societal norms, not always for the
better. Character assassination, taunting and hazing, for example, are
facilitated and empowered with the new media. And like the accident by the side
of the road, it is the macabre, shocking and emotion and nerve-tingling input
we receive that we pay the most attention to and are most influenced by. Never
has the need for critical thinking been greater. And never has it been found
more wanting.
In technology. Rapid advances in technology are proving to
be be both good and bad. This is a subject which we’ll touch on more and more
as robotics, artificial intelligence and quantum computing impact our society
and livelihood more and more, and at an accelerating rate. My wife received an
umbrella from the firm she works for recently. Nice umbrella, but would you
believe it came with an APP!!!! Yes, an umbrella with an App! For those of you
who are blissfully unaware of what an APP is…it’s just a software program dedicated
to doing a limited set of tasks on your desktop, laptop, tablet or phone like
report the weather or control your whole house! I mean really…an umbrella with
an APP???!!!!
In defense. Envy is one of the seven deadly sins for a
reason. It spawns evil leaders and causes even whole nations (or quasi-nations)
to seek power and dominance at the expense of others. Rodney King had it right
when he said, “Can we all get along?” The answer is “no”, not until a perfect, benevolent
leader (e.g. Jesus Christ) comes along who can inspire men with free will to
follow Him so as to eschew and eliminate evil. In the meantime, the United
States, despite all its imperfections, is still the best surrogate or
substitute because our form of government vests power (nominally) in the
people, i.e. spread across everyone rather than a single benevolent,
charismatic leader. Our constitutional republic or representative democracy has
been the greatest catalyst to human advancement in the history of the world,
despite its faults. It is not just worth defending…it MUST be defended against
those who seek to destroy it out of envy and a thirst for power. Wilsonian
appeasement of evil cannot and must not be tolerated. Might doesn’t make Right,
but adults (the U.S. at its best) must stop and modify the aberrant behavior of
petulant and in some cases violently misbehaving children (Iran, NOKO, Venezuela,
Russia, China). As arrogant as that sounds, it is, in my opinion, an apt characterization
of the current world stage and depiction of our responsibility as a nation.
In the environment. I’m not running for office so I’ll state
it plainly. Climate change is real – it changes all the time. And man has little
to nothing to do with it. The famous George Carlin routine says it best where
he humorously but acerbically rants at environmentalists while pointing out how
insignificant mankind is when compared to the history of the earth and
concludes, “The planet is fine. The people are f****d!” The wildfires in
Australia? No, not global warming…man-kindled by a bunch of malcontent Leftists
as it turns out. Bears floating on minuscule ice packs? Nonsense…they swam
several miles out there to hang out and fish! Follow the money! If there’s a
tree-hugging environmentalist/alarmist out there, there are grant dollars
nearby. “Please pass the offering plate…”
Are there Rightist sins? Of course! But in the grand scheme
of things, the principles of the Right are, in fact, RIGHT! Evil exists over
here as well – crony capitalism comes to mind. But for my money, Winston
Churchill was also right (.sic): “Democracy is the worst form of government except
for all those other forms which have been tried…” and by
extension…conservative/Right principles are the worst form of societal norms
except for all those other forms (socialism, communism, democratic socialism,
etc.) that have been tried.
And America still stands as the light shining on the hill.
God Bless Her! Happy New Year and Happy New Decade.
On a Sunday morning sipping coffee and listening to some
peaceful music rather than a blaring shout show on tv, I reflected on the
Left’s banal vituperations against ‘nationalists’ and ‘nationalism’. As usual,
they have hijacked words and language to warp meaning and seek to paint
Traditionalists as negatively as possible.
Thomas Madison, in an article penned
yesterday describing the interaction between presidential candidate Tulsi
Gabbard and ignorant hyper-hag Joy Behar on “The View”, described how
Gabbard schooled Behar “on the definition of “nationalist,” a word
synonymous with “patriot.”
Madison explained, “The term “white nationalist” has
been hijacked by liberal Democrats, beginning in Charlottesville, where the anti-American
left began its campaign to make the term synonymous with “white supremacist,”
made clear by their continued talking point, citing “white nationalist” and
“white supremacist,” in the same sentence. The narrative has been pushed by
liberal liars from Barack Hussein to congressional Democrats to the partisan
talking heads in the liberal mainstream media, so that today all leftists
believe that a “white nationalist” is a “white supremacist” when actually, a
white nationalist is a patriot who happens to be white. There are white
nationalists, black nationalists, Asian nationalists, and Latino nationalists,
American patriots all. But, let’s not allow the truth to interfere with a good
liberal smear narrative.”
Nationalism,
above all, refers to a belief that individuals and their communities, as well
as the nation as a whole, must have sovereignty.[1]
I often point out that one of the big differences between the people of England
and the people of America is that in England The People are SUBJECTS. In
America, The People are CITIZENS. Nationalism is a belief in self-governance by
CITIZENS. It is a belief in freedom to set policies and enact laws for ourselves,
not subject ourselves to laws made by elitist, often unelected bureaucrats in
another country (e.g. Brussels and the European “Union”). The latter is
a philosophy of the “Globalists”, an insidious scheme to force winners
to provide for losers, to advance the Marxist philosophy: “From
each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
Nationalists
oppose policies such as open borders, mass migration, and forming
international organizations that have as their end goal one-world government. Nationalists
thus also support policies such as building border walls and
maintaining border security.
Nationalism, or Patriotism therefore, is a sense of pride in
one’s country. It’s the father of the phrases “My country do or die” or
“America: Love it or Leave It”. It’s what’s behind the chants of
“U.S.A., U.S.A.” at rallies. It’s about citizens all over the country
flying American flags on their houses. Of course the Left, wanting to
“fundamentally transform” America, condemns these expressions and
actions as sinister: xenophobic, racist, etc.
Globalism, on the other hand, refers to the authoritarian desire for a “one
world” view that rejects the role of sovereign nations in protecting distinctive
national values. Globalism is anti-American in encouraging Americans to
adopt a “world view” rather than an “American view.” The
ultimate goal of globalism is the eventual unification of humanity under
a one-world government.
Globalists oppose nationalism, national
sovereignty, and self-governance. Instead, they favor open borders, free
trade, H-1B visas, interventionism, foreign aid, and changing the U.S.
Constitution. They oppose strong border security and the building of border
walls.
Leftists support
globalism because it leads to centralized power, thereby providing them with an
easier way to gain control. Leftists can more easily persuade a handful of
people in centralized government to rule in their favor than convince everyone
of their agenda in a decentralized form of government.
I recall saying to myself just before the 2016 election when
I like so many other traditionalists expected Hillary to win, “Only a
cataclysmic event like another 9-11 or a world war, God forbid, will force
America to halt its slide down the slippery slope to ruin and turn back to
traditional values that would allow us to begin the long and difficult climb
back up”. The jury is still out but Trump may have been that cataclysmic event.
His views on Nationalism and Patriotism, while crassly rather than inspiringly
articulated, reflect what the majority of Americans, I believe, feel and
believe about our country.
The shrill and cackling voice of the Left (e.g. Joy Behar) has
so polluted the airwaves that it’s sometimes difficult to see the forest, but
in my more hopeful moments I sense we might be nearing the bottom of the slippery
slope and are poised to start the long climb back up.
With the world falling apart in front of us and Leftists assaulting every sacred and historically treasured traditional value while asserting that the dismantling of our culture is “progressive”, what if we challenged the notion that “there’s no going back”?
What if we were to withdraw our troops from all of our
foreign bases and let Russia and China fight it out for hegemony and see what
it’s like to be the world’s policeman, getting bogged down in endless wars and,
unlike us out of largesse, squandering their resources on attempted world domination?
What if we were to perfect Reagan’s original Star Wars
Strategic Defense Initiative, i.e. reproducing the Enterprise’s “shields up”-
and photon torpedoes capabilities so as to negate or obliterate anything our
adversaries could throw at us?
What if we were to withdraw to secure borders and become
completely self-reliant and self-sufficient as we have with oil? Suppress the
horror and revulsion that leaps to mind when a 55” flat screen television
suddenly but temporarily costs $3,000 again instead of $500. Instead, imagine
“Made in the U.S.A.” instead of “China” or “Mexico” on just about everything we
buy and consume. And Bass Weejuns were once again made in Maine.
What if we were to withdraw from the United Nations and establish
a new organization of free, democratic countries and emerging nations that
subscribe to our federalist-constitutional-‘meritocratic’ approach to government and society?
What if we were to roll back the welfare/nanny state and
restore an “everybody needs to pull their weight” culture? What if we were to
dismantle the safety nets and nanny protections that have made all of us
soft-in-the-belly and turned Millennials and Gen Z into snowflakes? How bad
would it be if they had to actually work hard and produce things of real value?
What if we were to reduce the size of the Federal government
by half? Would we miss having six different departments massaging the same
numbers and producing meaningless (and misleading) reports that cast them in 6
x 6 different ways?
What if we were to eliminate abortion-on-demand, restore
marriage to what it is and has been for thousands of years, and truly
“eliminate welfare as we know it”? Would families matter again? Would “taking
care of one’s own” be so bad as they, and their communities, came together to
help one another out of necessity because the government handout offices would
be closed?
What if continence and self-control, a restored respect for
one another in male-female relationships were restored. What if the natural
consequences, including stigma attached to divorce, abortion, broken families,
of immorality were to come back? Would these constraints on our “anything goes
so long as it feels good or doesn’t interfere with what I want at the moment” approach
toward life be destructive or beneficial?
What if were to eliminate tenure and
“retire-after-twenty-years-with-rest-of-life
pensions-and-100%-healthcare-benefits-coverage” and restore the teaching
profession to the noble one it once was? What if we taught kids to read using
common sense phonics instead of “whole word” recognition. What if we
went back to teaching arithmetic and insist there are right and wrong answers
rather than “good tries”? What if we only gave real winners trophies?
And what if we could once again celebrate victories instead of falling over
backwards to ensure that losers’ feelings weren’t hurt? What if we were to show
the movie “Rudy” to kids instead of some documentary on turning algae
into fuel?
What if we once again started the school day with the Pledge
of Allegiance, and allowed assemblies and the start of sporting events to be
opened with prayer? And allowed the Star Spangled Banner to be sung at public
events?
What if we didn’t reprimand kids for sitting “indian
style” on the floor instead of “criss cross applesauce”?
What if we were to celebrate nuclear families again instead
of “non-traditional” families? And what if we were to put the
“boys” and “girls” or “men” and “women”
signs back on bathroom doors?
Would that be so bad?
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts numerous times, our
society seems so hell bent on meeting the needs of the few that we overlook,
neglect and harm the many.
Compared to “misogynist”, “racist”, “homophobe”, “angry
white male”, “supremacist, “PSM” (Pale, Stale, Male)… these days excoriating a
traditional man as a “Male Chauvinist Pig” seems kind of quaint!
Back in the 60’s, while some of us were working our butts
off, obeying the laws, seeking to get ahead, providing for our families, treating
everyone with respect irrespective of their color, creed, religion, and holding
doors open for women, others shed their steel capped shoes for birkenstocks,
grew their hair long, wore tie-dye with beads around their necks and smoked
dope. With the latter celebrated in song, dance and Hollywood, it’s no wonder that
women eventually began to look with derision at limp-wristed washouts and loser
men abrogating both their responsibilities and, well, their manhood.
Forced or at least compelled to pick up the slack, women, many
whom really were discriminated against, took what has always been a
battle – the “Battle of the Sexes” from a cold war to a kinetic one. What
started in the early 1900’s as a demand for voting rights has now turned into
vicious misandry.
Look up male chauvinist pig and you find it refers to men
who think that women are inferior, objects to be used or kept like pets. The definition
is now used by militant feminists as depicting ALL men, but particularly white
men. And while we old white guys can laugh it off much as we do all the other
Leftist hysteria and political correctness, the assault on men has now
permeated pre-K and elementary schools, where normal boy behavior is denigrated
and labeled “toxic masculinity.”
Nicholas Chauvin, of course, was a legendary soldier in
Napoleon’s army who was famously supportive of his emperor and his country.
Chauvinism, therefore, meant patriotism but in the 60’s morphed into a
pejorative label referring to bigotry or bias on the part of any man.
I believe actual MCP’s in our society are few and far
between. Of course one can always find examples of men who treat women as
inferior and exhibit truly reprehensible behavior, but the vast majority of men
whom I’ve seen and encountered throughout our country, (and I’ve traveled
widely) treat women with respect, dignity, sometimes even reverence, and
always have!
Does the row of hard-hat construction boys with open
lunchboxes ogle and smirk and occasionally whistle at the women walking by?
Yes, and it’s more than just bad manners, but it isn’t male chauvinist pigism! Do
the vast majority of them head home after work, help their wives get dinner on
the table and the kids with their homework afterword? Yes, in my experience,
that’s precisely what they do.
Boyhood is and has been under attack for some time. “All boys, especially white boys, are rebuked for their masculinity. They watch as girls are told they are special. They are told they are privileged, guilty, and must atone for their sins as if they are themselves were white supremacists. The expectation for white boys is that they should get in line behind girls, children of color, and illegal immigrants.” – Noel Anenberg, August 16, 2019, American Thinker, “Ideology, the Schools, and Murder: The McInerney/King Case“
Should women look at every man as a potential rapist or
molester? Should men never again compliment a woman for any reason? Shall men
allow themselves to shrivel up and just sit quietly in a corner while feminazis
(my preferred term for the small minority of loud, bitter, militants who have
hijacked the noble feminist agenda), foment
their warped ideology and escalate a battle that has resulted in
anti-patriotism (e.g. the Women’s Soccer Team) and, for example, female quotas
for football teams and military combat units?
I think not.
Not too many years ago I held open a door for a woman who
nastily said as she came through, “I can open it myself.” Should I
have slammed it in her face? I felt like it, but no, in fact, we traditional
men are going to have to suck it up and ride out this war, picking our battles
and alternating between fighting and diplomacy, between stiffening our spines
and quietly acquiescing, between speaking out against the male-bashing drivel
and just staying quiet and letting the feminazis spew their venom. I’m
heartened that traditional women are increasingly throwing down the BS flag on
radical feminism and pushing back with “You don’t represent ME!”
In short, if holding to traditional views of gender roles,
civil, polite and well-mannered manhood is being a Male Chauvinist Pig, please
feel free to call me one!
The hyperventilating politicians can’t help themselves. Doing
something, ANYTHING whether it makes sense or not, is not only predictable, but
to every thinking American, laughable. We see this in children desperate for
attention, except these are supposed to be adults. “Never let a crisis go to
waste.” Insidiously true!
First come the cries of “We have to have a serious conversation…”. Almost immediately thereafter comes the search for a scapegoat, “It’s the [fill in the blank]’s fault!” Then come the condescending vituperations and finally, if enough celebrities jump on the bandwagon, come the protests and sometimes riots.
For example, let’s take the current “mass shootings”. Even
though it’s been said a dozen times over that all the legislation needed to
enforce gun laws are already on the books, and nothing being proposed would
have made any difference in the great majority of the incidents, the theatrics
are omnipresent. The 2020 presidential candidates’ hand-wringing, eye-rolling,
blame-their-opponents, gnashing of teeth, weeping, wailing, demands to “do
something”… it’s all unadulterated nonsense.
Why? Because if every gun in America were eliminated on a Monday, how many guns would there be on the streets by Friday, and who would have them? Of course, the answer is hundreds, if not thousands, and it’d be the criminals and the madmen! And then we’d have to defend ourselves with baseball bats. I submit you’d have to have a hellavu swing to knock out of the park a 9MM bullet shot by a determined gunman threatening your family.
But on the Left, the rhetoric is tantamount to “confiscate all guns and America will be a safer place”. More nonsense. It’d be like giving everyone in the country a tee-shirt with a target on it and the words, “shoot here”.
“We’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of the people who shouldn’t have them,” is another familiar cry. Enacting legislation that tries to do this would create more injustice to responsible gun owners. Whether a responsible gun owner goes to jail or not would then be dependent on how good the victimhood act from the aggrieved party is. “He (or she…let’s not be sexist here) is an angry old white man who’s threatening me!” Of course, the spouse making that allegation may have just had his or her belongings destroyed by that baseball bat or some other infliction, and the threats were made by the non-gun-owner party. Who gets arrested?
No, the solution to the mass shooting problem is not more legislation. The solution is easily described but terribly difficult to achieve. It is the return to and practice of traditional values in society. Fundamental morality has to become popular again. The teaching of right and wrong has to be the norm. Heroes have to be good rather than evil, and the Golden Rule has to prevail. In the late sixties, before the pendulum swung completely to the left, it would not have been such a herculean task. Today, with the pendulum so far left it’s near the 270 degree mark, it is.
We are repeating the mistake of history. Every great civilization: Egypt, Athens, Rome, Western Europe and now America, has gone through the same pattern: growth, prosperity, indolence, moral decay, the rise of deviant, destructive hedonism and demagogues, challenges from envious nations, the crumbling of traditional family units, the celebration of evil and immorality, the eventual decline of the culture, sovereignty impugned until its demise and replacement by another civilization in an earlier stage of the cycle.
Where do you think we are in this continuum?
The rampant demagoguery we’re witnessing is the sad symptom of a great civilization that is very ill. Is our situation fatal? Absolutely not. There are many among us who are speaking out and trying to push that pendulum back the other way. We do so by word and deed. In public we no longer speak in whispers or hushed tones about the rabid and caustic influence the Left is having on our society. When we walk our dogs, we don’t just pick up after them, we take an extra bag along and collect wrappers and cans and plastic water bottles along the street as well.
Sadly, but inevitably, it takes an outside shock like a world war, a natural disaster, a pandemic or some other cataclysmic event to wake us up and propel us to pay attention to the basics again. And by basics I mean the STUFF THAT MATTERS.
But the one thing we need more than anything to turn our
civilization around is MORAL LEADERSHIP. The fact that so many would scoff at
the previous sentence is symptomatic of how great the need is.
The 2016 presidential election was a cataclysmic event and it indeed caused us to reflect on what matters. Now we need to pick up the pieces of our society broken by the events of the last 11 or so years and MAKE GOOD COOL AGAIN.
And we have to somehow get rid of demagogue politicians and replace them with serious adults who ACTUALLY care about our country and its future rather than power, influence and money – ones who will sometimes stand there and do nothing instead of making things worse.
I pray it is not too late. I pray there are still places in our country where traditional values still prevail. But the other day I read an article in American Thinker: “When the Left Snatches our Kids” by Sally Zelikovsky, to whom all credit is due, that so closely reflects my fears that I’m going to “retweet it”, i.e. reproduce it in full. It is precisely the kind of alarm I’ve been trying to raise for my own children and grandchildren. It isn’t so much prescriptive as a call to arms. It succinctly rifles to the crux of all that’s going wrong with our society.
While I’ve been careful to distinguish between Conservative and Traditional in my writings, one could do a cut and paste, replacing the word Traditional with Conservative in the article and it would remain spot on. The italics are mine.
“I am skeptical that our efforts as conservative parents to produce conservative offspring will materialize. Even with the best of intentions, the odds are not in our favor to successfully counter the Democrat-Media Complex, the educational system, and pop culture. That doesn’t mean there aren’t success stories (some in my own family), but I hear more about the failure and the disaffection it engenders in conservative families.
Conservative parents have learned the hard way that how your kids turn out depends on a host of factors that, at some point during the maturation process, are way beyond our control — friends, personal experiences, a particular book or documentary, brain chemistry, friends, a teacher/professor/boss, personality, a romantic relationship, college activities, pop culture, hobbies, and…friends. Usually, it’s not one but an amalgamation of several factors and presto chango! The kid who was once the lone conservative arguing at the lunch table, now thinks David Hogg and AOC are bitchin’.
We see them everywhere — the emaciated college-age vegans working at Starbucks, hysterical young girls pounding on Supreme Court doors, attractive anti-Semites leading the charge in Congress. I’m sure some of them had conservative upbringings — you cannot assume they were all raised by liberals. Yet, in her reporting about out-of-control liberal college students some time ago, I heard Laura Ingraham link their behavior to their upbringing. Only a parent whose children hadn’t yet attended high school could make such an absurd connection. We can try but we cannot guarantee what our children will believe.
Once again, I find myself referencing Red Scare movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It resonates. We have to be vigilant, stay informed, understand the arguments of the other side and how to combat them. If we don’t, eventually the pods take us over. I graduated high school a Reagan Republican whose political arguments were admittedly my Dad’s. When I arrived at a competitive college filled with smart, often private-school educated Merit scholars, I lost every political debate. I just didn’t have the breadth of information and understanding of history to counter their arguments. Thus, I graduated college…a Democrat. In time, I fell back on those critical thinking skills my parents instilled in me. A desire to understand more as I graduated from law school and entered the work force, led me to self-educate and, eventually, return to my conservative roots.
That was also in the ‘80s and early ‘90s when life was simpler and more balanced: when “gay marriage” was still an oxymoron; before triggers and safe spaces, the internet, social media, doom and gloom “climate change,” and legalized pot; before we had an alphabet of sexualities to choose from and the ability to change sexes; before blended families became the norm; before hatred became the quintessential reason for all of society’s ills.
Not all teachers and professors were proselytizing progressives, the media was less corrupt, and your politics were not a factor in getting or retaining a job. Because of the deep societal changes since then, not every Millennial or Gen Xer has the wherewithal, the background, or the backbone to recognize and then punch back against the forces of propaganda, fess up to and toil with their own ignorance, or simply engage in respectful debate with those who have another point of view — no matter how steeped in conservatism their childhood.
I am not suggesting we stop lecturing our children about competing points of view, stop teaching them to be skeptical about what they learn in school or from their peers, or stop challenging the false orthodoxies they are barraged with on virtually every topic from sexuality to climate, energy to food, and national security to border security. We should continue to bang the drum. We must. And we must remain hopeful that someday those we lost will return to the conservative fold because they see the wisdom of conservative principles. But for all of you young parents out there who think you’ll do better than those before you, be prepared for disappointment.
The conservative path is littered with the bodies of well-intentioned parents who are devastated when their formerly straight kids come out of imaginary closets, transition to the opposite sex, or demand to be called “they”; when their Jewish Day School educated children announce their support for the BDS movement; when their evangelical children support blatant infanticide; when their happy, well-adjusted kids go off to college and return believing weed is innocuous, struggling with drug addiction, or suffering from mental illness.
These cultural maladies affect liberals and conservatives alike, but are unusually bitter pills for conservatives to swallow because they are packaged in a lifestyle and value system antithetical to everything we teach our children — resilience, pride, integrity, honesty, open-mindedness, self-reliance, individuality, taking responsibility for our actions, doing right when we screw up, and teaching a man to fish. Liberals cast us as hypocrites whose principles clash with reality, but what they don’t understand is that we believe in taking responsibility for and learning from our missteps so we constantly evolve into better beings (and don’t get mired in unbridled, misplaced hatred and lifelong victimhood).
Secondly, conservative parents are treated by their children with a level of hostility that doesn’t seem to afflict liberal parents with conservative children. Loving, nurturing conservative parents find themselves catapulted to Holocaust-denier status and demoted to homophobic, intolerant, racist, privileged, religious zealots. Relics of an oppressive past. It is painful when your kids reject everything you raised them to value. Despise you. Scoff at you. Turn against you. Align with your political foes. Resent you for brainwashing them with yourhateful, 1950‘s agenda.
Now, some of that is typical teenage/young adult angst and rebellion. When frontal lobes are soothed by the right combination of hormones and our insecure little monsters segue into more confident adults, those nasty side effects often dissipate. But much of the antipathy they are exposed to is encouraged by “the man” in the liberal camp — we’ll call him “the burning man.” He instructs us to hate authority, hate anything established, hate tradition, hate the moral code you grew up with, hate anyone who is white or successful, and hate those who embrace any of this. Hence, hate your parents. Hate your old neighborhood. They are the problem. And while today all you have to do is oppose them, someday you might have to actively go against them, even “turn them in.” The burning man says this is okay because you are right and the end justifies the means. I’m not being paranoid. Our entire educational system is based on appropriating the minds of our children and undoing all they have learned at home, turning them into weapons of mass societal destruction in the burning man’s toolbox.
We have all participated in holiday dinners and family vacations ruined by dissension and door-slamming. Family harmony devolves into family discord, function into dysfunction, and closeness morphs into estrangement. Parents are instructed to just shut up already! Politics and religion are off the table. Dinner conversations revolve around silly cat videos and trivial drivel. Soon there is little left to discuss. After all, everything is political now — from your sneakers to your bus commute during Pride Month.
Once upon a time, we could fall back on cultural interests like music, movies, theater, travel, and sports to avoid potentially explosive conversations at family gatherings about politics and religion. Now, virtue signaling is so ubiquitous that everything seems to fall into the Realm of the verboten. It becomes more and more difficult to find common ground. Constructive input I like your haircut and simple questions Did you decide on a major? What are you doing for break? How do you like your job? are potential triggers. Family get togethers are so contentious there is an increasing tendency to minimize interactions. Even life’s big “hatching, matching, and dispatching” events are often fraught with tension — relatives who couldn’t be seated together because of some family squabble are now separated because one has a worldview the other finds detestable.
Some parents give in. They don’t want politics or values to stand in the way of their relationships with their kids, so they re-visit their Weltanschauung. Constant pressure from your 20-year-old bubelah goes a long way towards re-educating Mom and Dad. Senator Rob Portman was against gay marriage until his son came out and then… he evolved. I’d rather fight than switch is a paean to another time.
This is nothing new. Many parents drank the Kool-Aid and became part of the 60s counterculture their children brought home. Ironically, many of their hippie children became yuppies and did the unthinkable — morphed into their conservative parents. Hmm. I suppose we can be clear-eyed about the transformative societal and political forces pulling our children away from conservatism, at the same time we cling to the hope that our liberal progeny will switch and fight for conservative principles and maybe even cling to their bibles and the Constitution, too.”
Wish I could have said it like that!
Comment by DOC DURACOAT August 3, 2019: “All you people should move to Boca Raton, Florida! Our public high school has been rated A for the last 10 years straight. We have a very active ROTC program, and it is routine to see these kids in the halls wearing military uniforms. The flag is respected, everyone stands for the pledge of allegiance, even the minority students. Graduation rates and college acceptance rates are very high. Discipline is enforced, disrupting class is not tolerated. My kids and their friends all graduated as sports playing, modest dressing, great conservative kids. Come on down and bring your guns and bibles! Your kids will graduate with a great education and strong conservative moral values.”
Attributed to the American author Samuel R. Delany is the phrase “Words mean things.” Hijacking words and phrases is a powerful tool in the arsenal of the demagogue. And the twisting of usage and meaning into pretzels has always been a favorite device of politicians and pundits. With this in mind, I thought I should explain what I mean when I refer in my writing to Traditional Values, Traditionalists and Traditionalism.
Look up Traditionalism and you’ll receive a panoply of descriptions and definitions. One of the first articles that comes up from a search is: “a school of thought promulgated by a group of 20th and 21st century thinkers who believe in the existence of perennial wisdom, or perennial philosophy, primordial and universal truths which form the source for, and are shared by, all the major world religions.” Look further and one goes through the looking glass and into a rabbit warren of definitions in the context of societal norms, religion, philosophy, economics, culture, etc.
In 1964 Supreme Court Justice Potter Steward famously described obscenity (or rather, what it is not) as follows:
“I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [“hard-core pornography”], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.”
Jacobellis v. Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964)
Borrowing on that phrase, I will suggest that Traditionalism may be defined in a variety of ways, but in the end, Traditionalists know it when they see it.
However, a shortcut to how I define Traditionalism is: that body of ideals, values and mores that we were raised on by the Greatest Generation.
Speaking of the Greatest Generation, one of the definitions of Traditionalists refers to those who were born between 1900 and 1945. I believe it is precisely because of their espousal of Traditional Values that they were Great!
We Baby Boomers born between 1946 and 1964 on the other hand, are split into two camps: a) those of us who listened to what our Greatest Generation parents taught us, who were grateful for the peace and prosperity they bequeathed to us and who have tried to live our lives by their example and rules; and, b) the prodigals, the “Me” generation of the sexual revolution who grew up to be the radicals of the 70’s and the yuppies of the 80’s, a few of whom have come home to Traditionalism and the balance of whom have become today’s Leftists.
So what do I mean by Traditional Values? Often the term is conflated with “Family Values.” They are similar, but Traditionalism goes beyond Family Values. To me, Traditional Values include support for:
individual freedom to live as we wish within the basic constraints of Judeo-Christian principles;
the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights as they were intended for then and all future generations;
fundamental patriotism, including honoring our Flag, national symbols, anthems and emblems;
a strong military and national defense and protection of our sovereignty;
the right of self-defense and to keep, bear and utilize arms to ensure that right;
obeying the Law and supporting those who serve in law enforcement;
marriage defined as between one man and one woman (including acceptance of the biological fact that men and women are different!);
support for nuclear families consisting of a father and mother and their children;
freedom of worship and expression;
the Golden Rule;
support for and defense of free-market capitalism;
equal opportunity, not equal outcomes; and,
separation of powers within a limited, and republican government.
Traditional Values also include opposition to:
social engineering and bad (many wouldsay EVIL) social, economic and political ideologies such as socialism and communism;
crony capitalism;
‘free love’ and promiscuity;
abortion on demand and in lieu of contraception;
gender confusion;
LGBTQ militancy;
fascism masquerading as liberal or progressive free expression;
violent protest; and,
collectivism, globalism, cultural marxism and so-called “progressivism”.
The Greatest Generation didn’t have to think about or debate these principles – they lived them. They were part of the fabric of their society.
Today, these principles are under constant assault.
I used to teach a lesson in Sunday School using a glass of water and a dropper full of black ink. The water represented our souls. In the context of this article, it represents the reservoir of societal values. The black drops of ink I slowly added to the water represent, for purposes of this article, Progressive/Leftist ideas, norms, habits, values. Add one drop to the water and nothing seems to happen. As successively more drops are added, however, the water starts to turn grey, then greyer, murky, and finally black.
The metaphor aptly describes what’s happening to our country.
I hope and pray I’m joined by the
Silent Majority of our Boomer generation and budding Traditionalists of succeeding
generations in fighting for a return to the Traditional principles that made us
the greatest nation on earth and in the history of the world.
TODAY IS
Tuesday May 06, 2025
Quips & Quotes
April 20, 2025 "There’s a price to pay when you go all-in on DEI—and the piper always comes calling. You can’t lower standards, abandon merit, and inject politics into everything, then act shocked when the results go straight into the toilet. Life doesn’t work that way. Businesses don’t work that way. And elite universities certainly don’t work that way.
Once the gold standard of higher education, they’ve become a punchline—rotting from the inside out thanks to progressive nonsense and DEI disasters. It’s gotten so bad, they’re now offering high school-level math to students who can’t keep up—students who have no business being at Harvard in the first place. These aren’t academic standouts—they’re DEI charity cases, picked because of the color of their skin or their sexual fetishes.
Let’s be honest—you don’t need a Harvard Ph.D. to see what’s going on here. When you stop choosing the best and start choosing the most diverse, you don’t get excellence. You get mediocrity, decline, and total embarrassment.
That’s exactly what former law professor Jonathan Turley is sounding the alarm about.
Turley took to X and pointed out that since 1636, Harvard has prided itself on admitting only the best students with the highest scores. And shockingly now, it only took one generation of woke ninnies to wipe all of that greatness out." Revolver, April 19, 2025 "The Mayo Clinic just tried to pull a fast one on the Trump administration, but social media busted them…"
April 4, 2025 "American families have been strip-mined, plundered, and debrided of healthy tissue, that essential primordial ooze from which happy parents and children spring. Americans have been forced to soak in sterilizing solvent—liberal feminism, K–12 school indoctrination, toxic social media, and four years at woke finishing schools formerly known as “college.” How could anyone escape with their morals, identity, and mind intact? Many don’t.Some manage to make it through the gauntlet intact, but their children aren’t so lucky; their budding hopes and dreams are blown apart or mangled by landmines buried in the ground. These landmines include infinitehorizon dating, the abortion industry complex, the failure to marry or stay married, unwanted childlessness, careerism, opioid addiction, pornography, “finding yourself,” and the temptation to sell your eggs, your sexuality, your identity, and your soul to the highest bidder—among many others. All that’s left is a cohort of young people unable to form meaningful relationships, raise children, and otherwise perpetuate the species into the future. Loneliness, depression, drug abuse, infertility, and generalized despair have taken hold." Peachy Keenan, (2003) "Domestic Extremist", Regenery Publishing, New York
January 2, 2024 "As we enter 2024, there is widespread public agreement about two things: (1) something big is about to happen, and (2) whatever that something is, it sure as hell won’t be pretty! While it may get pretty ugly pretty fast, though, there is an upside to what’s coming: as a country, we can finally pull this disgusting Band-Aid off, face reality for what it is, and stop pretending. However bad this year might prove to be, it might also be tremendously liberating.
Why? Because, one way or another, things will soon change. For too long, those who “run” America have had two things in common: (1) a hatred for individual freedoms, and (2) an even deeper hatred for the one country on the planet explicitly founded on their protection. As a national security surveillance State superseded the U.S. Constitution, leftists have controlled academia, journalism, the legal system, and entertainment. They have shoved anyone with a working brain out the door while assuring themselves that they deserve their privileged social positions and unearned accolades. They tell themselves that they are smart and enlightened, but anybody capable of self-examination knows this not to be true. Leftists are not happy people. They have not figured out any special meaning to life because, to them, life is meaningless. In other words, for too many years, a collection of the most depressed, least curious, morally relativistic, and intellectually homogenous people on the planet have been given pampered positions in exchange for acting as nihilistic and narcotic-dependent sea vessel captains willing to steer America into an iceberg of decline and failure." J.B. Shurk, American Thinker, January 2, 2024 "Do We Hit the Iceberg or Finally Change Course?"
November 3, 2023 "There’s a subtext to nearly all American political trends today. It’s hardly ever spoken about overtly and explicitly. But the topic is nonetheless always there. All insiders know about it. It’s also the central and critical debate concerning America’s future.
The question is as follows. Will the United States continue the present system whereby representative democracy persists as a mere veneer to keep the public distracted and defocused on the real rulers in the nation? Or will something dramatic be achieved whereby the swamp is truly drained, the administrative state gutted, the agencies disempowered, and we return to an actual constitutional system in which the people truly rule themselves through their elected representatives?
These are the two paths. It’s one or the other. They’re mutually incompatible." Jeffrey A. Tucker, November 3, 2023, Epoch Times, p A22, "Are You an Institutionalist or Anti-Institutionalist?"
October 30, 2023 "If you want an indicator of how lost Western civilization has become, go to your kids’ school and check their rules on fighting. Most likely, you’ll find out if two kids get into a fight, both get suspended, regardless of whether one was a punk bully who started it and the other was simply defending himself or some little kid. This is a moral disaster, of course – violence in the defense of what is right is a moral obligation and a symbol of a greater rot within society."
"The world's true nature is that good is forever pitted against evil."
"We must learn again to be ruthless in defeating our enemies. The big lie that Western civilization tells itself is that there are no real enemies, that there are no bad people – except the people of the West themselves, who bear some sort of original sin for not being corrupt and inept Third World barbarians."
"We have forgotten our strength and our courage. We have forgotten that we survive not through gentle hugging but through sword-swinging.The idea that Israel should somehow give these Hamas barbarians food, water, and electrical power even if it surrounds Gaza and prepares to attack is mind-boggling insanity. The moral illiteracy of expecting Israel to care more about the Palestinian people than other Palestinians do is simply bizarre."
"The hard truth is that the world contains bad people who must be crushed through ruthless violence, which shocks and horrifies modern sensibilities. But it is reality nonetheless. When people want to kill you, you are at a decision point. You can either let them kill you or stop them. But stopping them often involves aesthetically displeasing actions, such as blowing them into little bits with bombs or shoving a bayonet into their guts and watching them die in agony. And it necessarily means inflicting death and damage on the noncombatant camp followers around them. That’s why they say war is hell. And that’s why starting one is probably not a good idea. But when someone else starts one, you have to choose them or you. Someone’s going to die badly, and you know, I propose it is those other guys."
October 16, 2023 "Though around the world sociopaths stabbed some folks, the Day of Jihad fizzled in America – how many bummed patriots slammed in a mag hoping some mutant was going to choose his small town to prove Jason Aldean right? But it is only a matter of time. When you allow millions of military-aged males to come unvetted into your country, including many from bizarre hellholes where hatred for Americana is more common than food and indoor plumbing, there is a non-zero chance that some of them are part of sleeper cells waiting for the signal to murder Americans here at home." Kurt Schlichter, Town Hall, October 16, 2023, "We Are Sitting Ducks And Our Leaders Do Not Care"
August 22, 2023 "When arguing in federal court in HI in 2020, I had to get permission from the governor to enter his precious state to argue that his silly COVID lockdowns violated the Constitution. I lost. This same state, in real life, has shown how little respect for life its leaders really have. My perfectly healthy clients were not allowed to travel from one island to another to visit their own property. American citizens were turned away at the airport because they got the wrong COVID test on the mainland. The hotel gave me “parole” from the one way card key rule only to do my legal business and leave. I could not call an Uber or take a taxi at the airport. The National Guard met me at the gate to escort me to Hawaii COVID immigration to provide my information, which they verified with the hotel. I was to keep my phone on at all times so that they could track my location. This same police state didn’t turn the water on in Lahaina, didn’t have sirens, can’t begin to tell you how many children died from their incompetence. Or begin to explain it. Remember all this the next time you are asked to comply with farcical, unjust “laws” made by dictators. They are lying when their lips are moving about how much they care about you and your little life and your paper constitutional rights. Americans are beginning to realize how much we are on our own. Such a betrayal." Harmeet K. Dhillon, on "X", 8/22/23 12:44 AM
August 17, 2023 - A MUST READ!!!! The following is a transcription of Newt Gingrich's comments on Hannity last night. "“I think what you’re seeing tonight is one tree in a forest, and I think we are drifting towards the greatest Constitutional crisis since the 1850s, uh, and the rise of secession and the Civil War. I don’t mean that as hyperbole. Uh, if you read Andy McCarthy’s remarkable book, Ball of Collusion, which came out in 2019, he makes very clear that it is Barack Obama who corrupts the Justice Department, it is Hillary Clinton who routinely breaks the law and gets away with it. And now we have Joe Biden who’s learned, he’s learned from Obama that is doesn’t matter what you do, if you’re a liberal Democrat, you will not be prosecuted. He learned from Hillary that a person in high public office can get millions and millions of dollars. And they learned from watching Donald Trump that a true outsider, willing to take on the entire system, could destroy their entire machine. So what you’re seeing across the country, is a desperate, last-ditch effort by a corrupt machine to destroy their most dangerous opponent in a way which not only breaks the Constitution, destroys the rule of law, and establishes a moment of bitterness, uh, which I think will last for a generation or more. I think this is gonna be a horrendous period and we just need to understand: The people who want to control America and dictate to the rest of us will break any law, lie about any topic, and manipulate the system any way they can, and that includes a lot of the elite news media.”
August 10, 2023 "The fact that young men are getting more conservative is a cause for optimism. Remember, if you grew up male in the last ten years or so, every institution has been deployed against you. You’ve been told you are bad and horrible and evil and worthless. In contrast, every girl is an empowered girlboss ready to take her rightful place at the pinnacle of society. And to facilitate that, they must displace the dudes. And it’s no secret – that displacement, that consignment of men to second-class status, is not merely admitted but celebrated by our trash ruling class." Kurt Schlichter, August 10, 2023, Town Hall, "Angry Young Men Are Going To Disrupt The Garbage Paradigm"
Articles/Writings We Think Are A Must Read
Who Will Say No More to the Current Madness?
Once again, Victor Davis Hanson has nailed it. In his article there is a list of the most egregious crimes and failings of the Left and this Administration. Stronly urge readers to read the whole article. Here’s an excerpt of the most salient points:
“America is in existential danger.
The Biden administration has utterly destroyed the southern border — and immigration law with it.
Biden green lighted 7 million illegal aliens swarming into the U.S. without legal sanction or rudimentary audit.
China spies inside and over the U.S. with impunity. Beijing has never admitted to its responsibility for the gain-of-function COVID virus that killed a million Americans.
President Joe Biden printed $4 trillion at exactly the wrong time of soaring post-COVID consumer demand and supply shortages. No wonder he birthed the worst inflation in 40 years.
In response, interest rates tripled, gas prices doubled.
Our military is thousands of recruits short. It lacks sufficient munitions.
Following Biden’s humiliating pullout from Afghanistan, vast troves of arms were abandoned in Kabul. Billions more in scarce weapons were sent to Ukraine.
The Pentagon’s woke agenda trumps meritocracy in promotions and advancement.
Our enemies — Russia, China, Iran, North Korea — are on the move, while the U.S. seems listless.
The Biden renegade Department of Justice, CIA and FBI have become weaponized. Ideology, politics, and race — not the law — more often guide their investigations, intelligence operations and enforcement.
The downtowns of our once majestic major cities are becoming unlivable.
They are mired in refuse and trash, violent crime and homelessness. Stores and businesses leave. Millions each year flee the blue urban coasts to the red west and south.
To even say there are still two biological genders, that global warming may not be entirely manmade or necessarily destroying the planet, or that class, not race, is the proper barometer of inequality is to face ostracism and career cancellation.
The public assumes that Biden is severely cognitively challenged, likely corrupt, and a serial fabricator.
Most know what must be done, but few will tell the truth: Balance the budget. Return to legal only immigration. Restore a well-funded, but unwoke Pentagon.
Insist on racial unity. Curb the overweening administrative state. Enforce the rule of law.
Produce more gas and oil. Reestablish civic education. Insist universities protect free speech and due process — and stop proselytizing.
In other words, restore what until recently made America the strongest, most prosperous, and freest nation in the world. And quit undoing all the great good that eight generations of prior Americans bequeathed to us.”
Victor Davis Hanson saying it better than anyone. Perfectly describes the childish, impetuous behavior of the Left. A quick and incredibly accurate take on everything we see before our eyes.
An excerpt:
“Cry-baby tantrums won’t win over the public. These nonstop puerile meltdowns have turned off most Americans who tire of whiny narcissistic hypocrites.”
Strongly recommend the artful summary of what the Left is trying to do with the Disinformation Governance Board canard written by Michael Walsh in “The Pipeline”, May 2, 2022. You’ll find the whole article here. Some excerpts:
“So now the mask has dropped and, for the first time, the American people can see the modern Left in all its hateful, unadorned, vituperative, spiteful glory. Case in point: the announcement last week that the Department of Homeland Security—one of the excrescences of the Bush administration, cobbled together in its panic over 9/11—has created the “Disinformation Governance Board” in order to combat what it has, via its hitherto little-known Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, already dubbed “mis-, dis-, and mal-information.” Otherwise known as alternative points of view, but shut up, citizen.”
“Let us now remind ourselves of the late historian and Soviet scholar Robert Conquest’s third law of politics: “The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.” At this point in American history, that is not only a theory but a fact. Having narrowly “won” the 2020 election by stealing it fair and square, the Left is putting pedal to the metal to accomplish as much of its anti-foundational agenda as it can before the clock runs out on its tiny congressional majorities this fall.”
On the Subject of “Things happening in the background to purge the illicit Biden administration“
The article in American Thinker by Dr. Brian Joondeph entitled: “Nothing Can Stop What is Coming. What if Nothing is Coming?” lays out the case for the increasingly skeptical that anything is going to halt the Leftist Leviathan. Strongly recommend this article not to throw cold water on all the hope so many of us have of there being some justice on the horizon, but to lay out the stark possibility that it’s all wishful thinking and we’re stuck with what we’ve got at least until January 2023.
On Climate Change Fraud
One of the best debunking articles/videos I’ve seen recently on the revolting fraud being perpetrated by the climate alarmists. In very calm, easy to understand terms the author shows how graphs and picking the right starting point for data visualization is being used to create the narrative that they rely on for their funding, their power, their nefarious attempts to alter society and our world. This same manipulation occurs with ALL kinds of data and the Left is expert in obscuring truth, altering perception and brainwashing a lazy, non-thinking mass of sheep to believe what they want them to believe. Strongly recommend watching this…12 minutes long and a must see!
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Robert Gore’s blog. I put Gore up there with Victor Davis Hanson, Jordan Peterson and Thomas Sowell. His theses are chock full of substance.
The Burning Platform
Unabashedly conspiracy-theory driven, but thoughtfully so and well-written. Makes one think, “could this really be what’s happening?”