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Feb082021

Episode 292 – What is this QAnon Anyway? Apparently, I’m a Member

Marjorie Taylor Greene is facing a Democratic firing squad for saying some really weird things. But is this a good idea for the Democrats to pull the trigger?

What the hell is QAnon? We should probably find out because all conservatives and Republicans are being thrown into the QAnon bucket. Let’s talk about them or us or whatever.

Marjorie Taylor Greene

What Happened?

A rural part of Texas, a very small district, elected Marjorie Taylor Greene as a Representative to the House of Representatives. Telling you that the size of the district is important as you will see later.

A few years ago, before she was elected, she would participate in some really odd conspiracy theories.:

She said that 9/11 was not by terrorists but by the U.S. government.
She said that the forest fire in California were caused by a Jewish space laser.
All sorts of other weird theories.

At first, reps wanted her to resign her seat. But these posts were all made before she was elected to office. The theory is that the people in her district knew what they were getting when they elected her. So getting rid of her was out.

Republicans voted on whether or not she should be removed from her two committee assignment. They held a vote on it and she was allowed to keep her committee spots. I understand the reason for it. She was elected and she can’t do any good just sitting on the sidelines. It would not be fair to her constituents. But I also understand why her committee assignments should be suspended, at least for a little while. I thought it was kind of a mistake to let her keep her committees because the Republicans would get hammered by the press and Democrats. OK, they already are so what difference would it make.

Democrats decided they didn’t want Greene to have any assignments to committees. They decided they were going to hold a vote to expel Greene from committees. This is unheard of and has never happened before. The minority party has a history of choosing their members to House committees and expelling them. It is not up to the majority party. It is party of the minority rights thing that the Founding Fathers had in mind. The majority party has no say to who the minority party puts into a committee.

Kevin McCarthy made it clear that this was unprecedented and, like ending the judicial filibuster, Democrats were going to regret it in the future.

Another issue that McCarthy professionally points out is the hypocrisy of the Democrats. They have had plenty of opportunity to kick bad apples out of their committees including Eric Swallwell for having sex with a Chinese spy, Ilhan Omar for her anti-Sementic rants and Maxine Waters for her call for violence against Trump supporters.

The strongest defense for Greene was Greene herself. She sat in front of Congress and apologized for the unwise things she believed way back. She made clear she did not believe in these things now. It was only during the very insecure times that she fell for the conspiracy theories.

Listen, I know people who believe in this stuff. Seriously. Someone close to me believes in a lot of this stuff. It’s crazy stuff. But, said the right way and it advantages those you like, it can be believable. I don’t believe in any of it and we are going to talk about what their belief system in a few minutes.

Democrats didn’t buy it. They voted her out of all committees along with 10 Republicans. This is not a good vote and should have been ignored by all Republicans out of sheer ethics of the whole thing. The Democrats have no say as to who the Republicans put on a committee and the Republicans should have no say who Democrats put on committees.

Well, they do now.

The New Narrative

The goal of the Democrats for the last twenty years is to vilify the Republicans. At first, this was just by questioning the policies and ideas of the Republicans. Whether what they were doing would work, was moral or ethical. Later, Democrats would point out that the Republicans were lying. The Iraq War was an example of that. By the way, the Iraq war proved to be legitimate and the United States did find terrorists and yellow cake uranium.

But, as the Democrats went more Left, their claims about Republicans became more extreme. And, with the help of the entertainment, news media and the education system, people are beginning to believe some of these things. But, I think it is a very few people. And, in the future, it could backfire.

You might be asking, “What does this have to do Marjorie Taylor Greene?” That’s a good question. This is a first-time elected official to the House of Representatives. She is from a rural area in Texas and probably won her elections with a few thousand votes. No one knows her. I don’t even know what she looks like. Why is this a big deal?

Because it is a new narrative. The theories that Greene was embracing is the theories of QAnon. This is an alt-right, radical conspiracy group. It is way out there. And when I say, “way out there” I mean, nuts. What the Democrats and the media are putting out there now is that all Republicans are part of this conspiracy group. In other words, all Republicans and Conservatives are nuts too.

I had never heard of QAnon. I am not much of a conspiracy guy either. I think John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln because he hated Lincoln. I think FDR didn’t know about the attack on Pearl Harbor. Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK because he was a communist. We did land on the moon. Terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the world is round. I don’t believe in conspiracies.

So, since my philosophies and beliefs, yours too, are being wrapped up into this QAnon thing, let’s define what QAnon is and what it does.

QAnon

What Are They?

QAnon is what the media says all us Conservatives and Republicans believe in. It is what makes us what we are and it is the reason we are bad and evil and bigots and racists and whatever. So I decided to look it up so that I and you know what we believe.

First things first, I do have a ton of sources for this. Most are Left-wing in nature so I am not sure if what I’m writing is completely correct. I have heard that this group was way out there so I assume some of it is right. All I’m saying is take this with a grain of salt. It might not be completely correct.

QAnon is an alt-right Internet group that was started after the Trump election in 2017. Again, I am not sure the starting date is correct. This is a Wikipedia post (Left-wing) after all. They are primarily a conspiracy group that some classify as a cult.

They believe:

The government is run by a satanic cabal.
Government officials are part of a global pedophile ring that traffics in children throughout the world.
President Trump was sent by God to destroy the cabal and it would take two terms for him to do it.
They say that a “storm” would take place. This is when the government would arrest the QAnon folk, thousands of them, and jail them in places like Guantanamo Bay. Trump was there to stop them.
They believe that the Russia probe was a ruse started by Trump to enlist Robert Mueller to expose the child sex trafficking and prevent a coup by Obama, Clinton and George Soros.

Got that? That’s what you believe. That’s what the media is telling you that you believe. This is why Democrats should totally ignore you, condemn you and cancel you.

This is the new media narrative. Don’t believe me? Watch CNN or MSNBC. That’s what they are saying. Don’t think this is something we should take seriously because most normal people don’t believe in this crap? I also didn’t believe in the Russian hoax. I also don’t believe in Jewish space lasers and a satanic cabal. O think we would have heard about it before 2017. Even CNN might have reported it.

QAnon was first started as a 4-Chan post. 4-Chan is an alt-right message board, much like Reddit but for white supremacists and weirdos like that. Anything on 4-Chan is usually pretty extreme.

The “Q” in QAnon comes from the first person who posted. Supposedly, he is a big deal because he has a Q-level clearance with the government. Only those who deal directly with the President have that clearance. So you can imagine, this guy has a lot of knowledge (except there is no such thing as a Q level clearance that I know of).

The “Anon” part stands for “anonymous”. Got it, QAnon.

The government did investigate this group as they do all groups on 4-Chan. The QAnon account has had its posts stylistically analyzed and it was found that at least two other people were working under the account. The FBI believes it is actually a group of people. That’s a lot of people with a Q security clearance.

The popularity of the group led to other QAnon-type groups including CIAAnon, FBIAnon and others. The group, though originates in the United States, is gaining popularity in the UK, Germany, Australia and Japan. In 2018, the group was listed by the FBI as a possible domestic terrorist organization.

Trump has not helped himself with separating himself with this group:

In 2018, members began showing up to Trump rallies.
Bill Mitchell, a QAnon member, showed up to the White House for the Social Media Summit held by Trump.
The QAnon motto, “Where we go one, we go all” was used at a Trump rally by the guy introducing Trump.
In 2020, Trump did not reject the group during a press conference though he did admit he did not know anything about them.
Trump is a hero of QAnon and is considered the “Q+”. Though that’s not really Trumps fault.

But the bizarre things they believe is just incredible.

Kim Jong Un is a puppet leader of North Korea placed by the CIA.
DNC leader, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had an MS-13 gang member kill Seth Rich. The 27-year-old Rich was an employee of the Democratic National Committee(DNC) who is thought to have leaked DNC E-mails.
German Chancellor, Angela Merkle, if Adolf Hitler’s granddaughter.
The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 made the United States run by a corporation. They believe, on March 4^th, 2021, the law will be overturned and the country will revert to what the Founding Fathers set the country up as. Donald Trump will become President again but, this time, the 19^th President of the Founder’s country. Weird. I know people who believe this.

After learning about QAnon, this is a dangerous group. They take their beliefs in an almost religious way, which is weird. They are kooks and they should be seen and treated as kooks. They should also be seen and treated as dangerous. It only takes one to get so radical, he starts trying to take out President Biden. I do not like President Biden but I don’t want the guy assassinated.

There has been a backlash against QAnon. Facebook and Twitter have suspended and taken down known QAnon accounts. Media Matter (a far Left-wing outlet that validates news and is a “fact checker”) says that Trump and his minions have been using “dog whistles” to QAnon, sending them secret messages. I don’t put much value into this. Media Matter has called Ben Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew, a white supremacist.

I would not mind people going after QAnon too much if these same groups went after Antifa and BLM also. I think QAnon is a crazy group, and with crazy comes dangerous typically. But they have done no damage like that of BLM and Antifa, even including the January 6^th riot at the Capitol building.

Understand this: I think QAnon is bad. But I also think Antifa and BLM are bad. All three groups should be condemned. The difference is two promulgate Leftist ideas and the other does not. This is not “whataboutism”. This is me condemning both groups. Me pointing out that I condemn both groups and the Left only condemns groups that don’t go along with their agenda.

On the subject of conspiracy groups, they have been with us forever. There was a book I read about why conspiracies come about. Usually, it is because a tragedy took place that was so horrific that people cannot believe that what happened could be something so simple.

How could the Japanese attack Pearl? Conspiracy: They couldn’t. The United States must have known about it.

How could a lone gunman kill the most powerful man in the free world, John F. Kennedy? Conspiracy: He couldn’t. The CIA, industrial military complex, the mob and LBJ all conspired to kill JFK and bury the evidence.

The moon is really far away and my cell phone is stronger than the computers used in 1968. How could we have landed on the moon? Conspiracy: We didn’t land on the moon. It was all staged in Burbank.

How can nineteen terrorists hijack four jets with nothing more than box cutters and kill 3000 Americans? Conspiracy: They can’t. It was the U.S. government shooting missiles into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.

See how this works? Here’s the problem with conspiracy theories: They require large numbers of people to keep quiet and not spill the beans. This is not a thing. Someone will always be the “whistleblower”. None of these conspiracies had a whistleblower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

Feb052021

Episode 291 – Our Rights are Vanishing Before Our Eyes

If you can’t get rid of a Constitutional Amendment, let’s make it impossible for the people to use that freedom. This is the most important story today that no one is talking about.

Maxine Watters, the Democrat from California and the dumbest person in Congress, proves just how dumb she is.

H.R. 127

The 117^th Congress is off to a flying start. That means they are working hard to circumvent the Constitution and take away our freedoms that were given to us by God. Of course, the Left doesn’t believe in God so it is no big deal to take away our freedoms.

Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democratic Representative from Texas, has put in bill, H.R. 127 that has decided to really restrict gun rights and the ability to get or keep a gun and ammo.

I think this is an important bill that needs to be defeated so we should look at it. But this bill, which probably will be defeated, opens up other questions that we should all be asking and should have us a little nervous.

So, here’s what the bill does:

Gun Registry

This bill will create a searchable gun registry which will hold quite a bit of personal information. Here are the details:

Will be available to all government agencies including federal, state and local governments and the military.
Will be open to the general public.
Will give our personal information including:
- Gun model.
- When purchased.
- Serial number.
- Dates acquired.
- Licensing information.
- Location of the gun within the residence.

There are some real problems with this:

Government sucks at everything. This database won’t be different. Hint: hacking.
The information can be used by the government for future raids and confiscation.
This data is an invitation for criminals.
Pissed off neighbors now can watch you very intently like you’re a terrorist.
This data invites harassment and doxing by anti-Second Amendment folks.
If this information is combined with gun storage laws, a person can get convicted if his gun is stolen during a burglary.

Who Am I Getting a License From?

I live in California. California has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country. It is very difficult to get a gun or ammo in California. But California law does allow one to get a carry permit and a concealed carry permit. But you must register through the Sheriff’s department.

Guess what happens? The bureaucracy is so thick and the state so doesn’t want to give these permits, it could take years before one even gets an interview for the permit. Don’t believe me? The process can be viewed on YouTube. It’s impossible.

California also restricts everything so much, I’m afraid to go out and buy a gun or ammo.

This law will make California laws into federal law. Here’s what they do:

The individual must petition the Attorney General to get a license for owning a gun. If the AG is anti-gun, good luck. This also invites the bureaucracy into the mix.
The applicant must go through a psychological exam. Looking at how psychology is a soft science, I can’t see what would go wrong here.
Family members must be interviewed by law enforcement. That includes current spouse, children and…ex-spouses. Yeah, nothing wrong there. My ex-wife would have me suspected of killing Jimmie Hoffa after he interview.
The license will last five years. After that, the whole process starts over again including petitioning the Attorney General and all the training and it can be revoked for whatever reason. If revoked, all weapons must be turned in to the government.
Oh, yeah. I forgot that one will need to pay $800 a year for “firearm insurance”. So, I buy a $200 shotgun and am spending a year, thousands of dollars and have to navigate the bureaucracy to buy a gun? Nice.
But it gets worse. You have that nice 18^th century musket that hangs on the wall? You need an antique gun license for that. Better not have a criminal record.

Talk about a little bit of government overreach.

Restrictions on Weapons and Ammunition

What is a gun control bill without restrictions. And this bill has a bunch of them:

Any weapon that is a replica of a “military style weapon”, whatever that means.
All AR-type pistols.
The Colt AR-15.
Some semi-auto shotguns.
Magazines with 10 or more rounds. There go your automatic hand guns that average 12-18 rounds.
Ammo that is .50 caliber or above. Home one doesn’t run into any bears.

The Penalties

So, what happens if you don’t follow these way too restrictive rules. As you can imagine, the penalties are far more brutal than one can imagine. Hell, there are degrees of murder that get less time in jail than just owning a gun without the government’s approval. Heck, child molestation and rape can get one less time.

If you possess a gun or ammo without a license, you face 15-25 years in prison and/or $75-$150 thousand in fines.
If you transfer a gun to an unlicensed person, you face 10-15 years in prison and/or $50-$75 thousand in fines.
If you give a gun or ammo to an unlicensed person, you face 5-10 years in prison and/or a $30-$50 thousand in fines.
Loan a gun or ammo to an unlicensed person, you face a $5-10 thousand dollar fine.

What’s funny is that if you lit a business on fire last summer, you were unlikely to get any jail time.

Conclusion

This is insane and, what more insane, is this law could pass. What’s ironic, after the Revolutionary War, men of fighting age were required to have a gun and a certain number of rounds. This was in order to form a militia if the government got too big or fight against foreign enemies like Britain or France.

Fortunately, I don’t think the particular bill is going to go too far. Some moderate Democrats, like Joe Machin from West Virginia, will be a bit tentative to vote for it. But it is scary. This is only the first bill. The Left will do anything they can to go around the Second Amendment.

I do want to point something out. All the Democrats do is talk about democracy, freedom and the Constitution. But they are the ones that are slowly taking away the rights of the people:

Eliminate free speech.
Deplatform conservative press.
Demonize religion.
Call peaceful protest that goes against their values insurrection.
Eliminate gun rights.
Steal money through taxes.
Allow illegals aliens to enter the country with no say from legal citizens.
Eliminate the electoral college.
Eliminate the filibuster.
End capitalism.

Interesting, huh? The party of the people doesn’t seem to care much about the people. And a lot of the population are still buying their bullshit.

Auntie Maxie is a Nut Job

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) says former President Donald Trump should be charged with “premeditated murder” because of the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Auntie Maxine said:

“He absolutely should be charged with premeditated murder because of the lives that were lost for this invasion with his insurrection. For the president of the United States to sit and watch the invasion and the insurrection and not say a word because he knew he had absolutely initiated it – and as some of them said, ‘He invited us to come. We’re here at the invitation of the president of the United States.’”

“What’s so interesting about all of this is they tried to make themselves the victim when indeed they are following the president of the United States of America who had advance planning about the invasion that took place in our Capitol. Even there’s information that some of the planning came out of individuals working in this campaign.”

“When he rallied, he said go to the Capitol, fight hard. This is, take back your country. So if that’s not inciting the kind of violence that we witnessed, I don’t know what is.”

Maxine Waters is an absolute idiot. She has to be the dumbest person in Congress. Let’s not forget what she said in 2017 after Trump was elected.

Do as I say, don’t do as I do. It’s to bad she doesn’t take care of her district like she prepares for stupid, inciteful and violent speeches.

Feb052021

Episode 290 – Wokeness for Serial Killers?

The Culture

Last week, Josie and I watched a Netflix miniseries called Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer. Actually, I saw it twice because Josie fell asleep once and had to leave my place once. I finished it because I was transfixed.

Now I remember this case. I was 17 years old at the time and lived in Los Angeles. Josie was only 6 years old and lived in San Diego. I wasn’t into news at the time but I followed this one. I remember that we would lock all our door and windows. I remember that there were hourly reports on the case. I remember that the news, only daily at the time, spent 15 to 20 minutes out of an hour on the murders. And there were a lot of murders. One every few days.

The documentary, which I recommend if you are into true crime stories, was excellent. There were a lot of things that were skipped probably because of censorship reasons. Richard Ramirez, who ended up being the Night Stalker, was a seriously twisted…human being? No, he was an animal. Filth. But, outside of that, the story was pretty accurate.

But the Left wing news outlet, Vox, had a problem with it. one could tell by there title, Night Stalker Review: Netflix misguided Night Stalker series treats cops like gods by Aja Romano. The bad grammar on the title is theirs.

It said:

The climactic moment of Netflix’s true crime docuseries Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, is probably supposed to feel cathartic. In the final minutes of the four-part series’ third installment, San Francisco detective Frank Falzon recalls how he tracked down a friend of the California serial killer whose string of attacks throughout 1984 and 1985 made him a household name among true crime followers.

Falzon describes this moment with relish almost four decades later. In his recounting, the friend — who’d originally contacted police himself with a tip about the Night Stalker’s identity — balked when Falzon asked him to reveal the Night Stalker’s full name. So Falzon forcibly dragged the friend-turned-informant into his police car, threatened him, and punched him in the face. This is a lie. That’s not what happened and that’s not what the movie said had happened.

A woman calls saying her father, who was homeless, might be hanging out with Ramirez in Skid Row.
Police find the man and he admits that Ramirez confessed the murders.
He said that Ramirez gives him a gun and sold it to someone in Tajuana.
Police fly to TJ and get the gun. They also find a radio which has a matching serial number to one that was stolen during one of the murders. At this point, they know Ramirez is the murder but only know him as “Rick”.
An informant gives a bracelet to police.
Police question the woman who owned the bracelet and said it was a gift from her boyfriend.
The boyfriend was, then, confronted by police and that’s when he got smacked down for not turning over a serial killer.

Worse, he knew what Richard Ramirez was doing.

“It wasn’t my best punch, but it definitely wasn’t my worst,” Falzon says. After further threats, Falzon says, he lunged toward the informant, who cringed away from him, “threw his hands up in a cross,” and stammered out: “Richard Ramirez. Richard Ramirez. Richard Ramirez.”

As Falzon repeated the name, the music swelled and grew more ominous. The episode cut to the docuseries’ cliffhanger end credits. And all I could think was how terrified this person must have been of the police.

Um, he should have been terrified of the police. He was hiding the name of a serial killer, rapist and child rapist. A man who had victimized over 20 people that the police knew of.

On the one hand, the production must have felt it would be satisfying to deprive Ramirez of some of that notoriety. To some extent, it is satisfying. In particular, it’s inspiring to hear from Ramirez’s survivors, including one couple who narrowly escaped their brush with Ramirez, and one victim who was assaulted by Ramirez when she was a child. Seeing her declare with certainty that she’s fine feels like the ultimate victory over Ramirez.

But Ramirez’s life arguably fits into a conversation about the cyclical nature of abuse and the cyclical horror of war — each a form of trauma. Likewise, a more thorough examination of Ramirez’s actions in the context of Satanic Panic could have made for a fascinating discussion within the series, had it been handled well. To what extent was Ramirez responding to the Satanic Panic of the era, and to what extent was he acting independent of it, but still becoming a part of the larger societal hysteria? These are all themes I’d have loved to see explored.

So, what this is saying, is that the film unjustly made the police into heroes for capturing a serial killer who left few clues and was completely random in his crimes. Instead, the documentary should have showed how a rapist, serial killer who kidnapped children and raped them was a victim. Nice.

The absence of Ramirez from his own story wasn’t that confusing to me because I could see what Night Stalker was trying to do. But it was confusing to other viewers I’ve spoken with, many of whom were totally unfamiliar with Ramirez’s story and naturally expected to learn about the titular serial killer.

There’s an obvious argument to be made that “understanding the mind of a serial killer” is too often used to justify overblown, glorified serial killer narratives. Sure. But we also need to understand the minds of serial killers, as well as the societal and personal circumstances that can lead to criminal behavior, if we’re ever going to fully understand criminality and attempt to rehabilitate potential offenders before it’s too late.

The only thing that would have confused me is why the writers didn’t say all that Richard Ramirez did. A lot of that was cut out because of the shear brutality of his crimes. There was more than enough as far as the timeline goes and pictures and videos of the crime scenes. In fact, other critics said that the documentary was too violent.

Perhaps it was. Carrillo and Salerno seemed to do good police work, even if the clue that led to the killer came from a Northern California citizen who apparently got punched in the face for his good deed. We need dedicated police officers who have positive relationships with their communities. Whenever cops do good work — work that truly serves the public — that moment feels like a victory. It comes with deep relief and pride in the justice system for functioning as it should.

But herein lies the difficulty of being a true crime fan: We have to recognize that police officers as a group perpetuate an inherently flawed and racist system of justice that fails people of color and marginalized communities far more often than it serves them. We can never lose sight of the reality that for every moment when the cops and the community are in harmony, there are countless others when the police force is the oppressor. And cases like Ramirez’s are often used as excuses for police to crack down and enact violence on people who aren’t serial killers.

Night Stalker doesn’t acknowledge this paradox at all. Instead, it treats Carrillo and Salerno like demigods. It approvingly lets a cop talk about punching an informant in the face and edits it like a pivotal, satisfying moment of triumph rather than a horrifying example of police brutality. And that strange omission — I mean, it’s dealing with the LAPD in the ’80s, perhaps the most notoriously racist police force to exist outside of the LAPD in the ’90s! — undermines Night Stalker’s effort to excise the bad seed at the heart of its story. Especially given the racial tensions between the police and their communities that erupted across the nation in 2020, I’m wondering if the production team ever stopped to think about how their approach to the police might be perceived.

Do you know how the police could reach out an support the community? By capturing a serial killer who was raping and sodomizing women, girls and boys. Arresting a man who was killing people every couple of days with no discernable pattern and would not leave any clues. Guess what? The community thought that too. Ask the 50 people who beat the crap out of Richard Ramirez when the caught him.

These detectives were not demigods. They made mistakes. They problems in their family lives. They were drinking too much. They made mistakes during the investigations. All this was in the show including that the police officer lost his temper and smacked down that guy who wouldn’t tell them who Richard Ramirez was.

And about that guy. This author is making the guy who got punched into a “citizen”. This is crap. He knew what Richard Ramirez was doing. He was fencing the stuff Ramirez was stealing during his crimes. How do you think the cops found him. He was also be belligerent and was picking a fight. This is something the writer of the article kind of leaves out. That guy was not an individual that the community of color would have embraced.

But, the writer has to say this because it validates the narrative that cops are bad and they abuse innocent civilians. And any story or documentary that show how the police did their jobs and how they felt cannot be celebrated. Here’s the thing: this case may never have been solved simply because the assaults and murders were so random and there were no clues left.

Night Stalker is a reminder that building a true crime story around the non-criminals isn’t enough. You need balance — and more crucially, context — for every narrative beat, especially because these are real crimes, still sending ramifications and echoes throughout society decades later.

Those echoes are clear, just from the fact that so many people who witnessed and lived through the Ramirez story are still around to talk about it nearly four decades later. History is living and walking — and very occasionally still stalking — among us. In the case of Night Stalker, that history deserved more careful attention.

The story was about how Richard Ramirez was caught. So it makes sense that the writers would talk to the cops who were involved in the investigation. This was not about the mental capacity of Richard Ramirez, his life that may have made him, or what the community thought of the police. This is a true story.

The last line where “history is living and walking” is a lie. History is history. It does not change. This podcast is history and it’s not going to be change. It’s people who change history. The revisionist history. That doesn’t mean the history actually changed. We are seeing this in our history books today. We are seeing this in our children who cannot tell us who the first President was and can’t pass the civics exam to become an American citizen

Overall I thought the movie was very good. It brought back a lot of memories and showed aspects of the case that were not known back then. I did not know how much of an unimaginable bastard Richard Ramirez was until this documentary and how much effort the police had to make to catch him. It’s worth a watch if, for nothing more, because Vox says you shouldn’t see it.

https://www.vox.com/culture/22240673/netflix-night-stalker-docuseries-frank-salerno-gil-carrillo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ramirez

Feb032021

Episode 289 – And the Winner Is…

New York doesn’t believe in science. So all the scientist quit.

Europe, once again, shows that the Nobel Prize is worthless.

An let’s talk culture.

It’s Science, All!

Andrew Cuomo continues to prove he is the worst, most arrogant, incompetent and corrupt governors in the United States today. That is saying a lot.

New York has always led the way with Wuhan flu infections. This is not a shock because it is heavily populated and people are always smooshed together.
Andrew Cuomo issued an order that allowed old people who had the Wuhan flu to be put back into retirement homes.
At the time, we already knew that the elderly were more susceptible.
Thousands of the elderly died, helping to make the state the second highest in COVID deaths in the country behind New Jersey.
Who’s fault did it end up being? Listen

https://nypost.com/2021/01/29/gov-cuomo-blames-politics-amid-covid-19-nursing-home-report/

That’s right! It’s Trump’s fault! He doesn’t blame the CDC or the WHO or China or Dr. Fauci. It is Trump’s fault cause I guess Trump is going around and spreading this thing and not helping anyone.

Oh, wait! President Trump did help New York and other states.

Trump sent tons of PPE to New York.
Trump sent thousands of respirators and ventilators to New York.
Trump sent two hospital ships from the Navy to New York.
The Navy ships, ventilators and respirators were not used.
Cuomo specifically thanked Trump for all his support.

The media were all in on Cuomo. They saw him as the savior against the Wuhan flu and kept pointing out that New York is the way all states should have been handling the virus. Listen to this from Grabien:

Andy embraced the sudden fame.

He wrote a book about how he handled the pandemic.
He created a map of the pandemic’s progress over the last year. There was a bit of irony here.
He won an Emmy over his press conferences.

But everyone was not a fan of Andy. There were people who wanted explanations. That’s when Andy’s lies started coming to light. An investigation was done by the state Attorney General. Oops!

New York’s top prosecutor, Letitia James, has determined that Cuomo’s administration may have attempted to cover up mistakes by undercounting the number of elderly who died in nursing homes from the coronavirus. The deaths were shorted by over 50%.

What they did was call COVID deaths from nursing homes, hospital deaths.

A COVID patient from a nursing home is about to die.
The retirement home will send the patient to the hospital.
The patient dies of COVID.
The death is a hospital COVID death not a retirement home death

This softens the blow of Andy’s incompetence. Oops.

Andy’s response was less than sympathetic.

This guy is so out of touch. He is so arrogant. He refuses to take responsibility for anything. It’s just incredible. What’s more incredible is no one in the media is talking about it and even editing interviews that blame Andy Cuomo.

But that isn’t it. Andy’s behavior caused a lot of friction with his own health department. You know, the health department that is run and advised by doctors. Mr. Follow-the-Science decided he was going to run the COVID policy and, now, the vaccine distribution from his office, no matter what his health department says.

At least nine top New York health officials have left their posts since March of last year over Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the pandemic.
According to the NY Times, The governor ignored advice from his public health experts while using them as a foil during a recent press conference while answering questions on the pandemic.
State health officials have grown increasingly irritated at Cuomo’s approach to the pandemic, claiming that the governor has issued top-down orders to combat the coronavirus without first notifying health department staff.
One of the latest incidents occurred in Cuomo’s shaping of the state’s vaccine distribution plan. The governor scrapped a plan that health officials at all levels of state government had been working on in some fashion for about two decades.

The NY Times stated:

In the fall, Mr. Cuomo shelved vaccine distribution plans that top state health officials had been drawing up, one person with knowledge of the decision said. The plans had relied in part on years of preparations at the local level — an outgrowth of bioterrorism fears following Sept. 11 — and on experience dispensing vaccine through county health departments during the H1N1 pandemic in 2009.

As a result, local officials across the state complained that their efforts to vaccinate were undercut by the Cuomo plan.

“Wait a minute, why are we not doing this?” Anthony J. Picente Jr., a Republican who is county executive in upstate Oneida County, said he remembered thinking.

Cuomo’s plan was to have hospitals deal with the vaccination, something his advisors quickly advised against. They believed the vaccinations should be handled by the local governments. This is because hospitals could not manage it because…they were busy.

Guess what happened? The hospitals could not keep up.

Andy Cuomo stated:

“When I say ‘experts’ in air quotes, it sounds like I’m saying I don’t really trust the experts. Because I don’t. Because I don’t.”

Man of science.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/ny-gov-cuomo-shunned-experts-embraced-lobbyists-drove-top-health-officials-to-quit-over-pandemic-response-report
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-furious-woman-whose-mother-died-in-ny-nursing-home-says-nbc-news-blocked-her-mentioning-cuomos-name
https://nypost.com/2021/01/29/gov-cuomo-blames-politics-amid-covid-19-nursing-home-report/

These Guys Must Be Kidding

The Nobel Peace Prize list of nominees for 2021 have been released. Some make sense others will just make you go, “hmm”.

These Guys Make Sense

Jared Kushner – Kushner, who is Trump’s son-in-law, and Berkowitz, who was the Middle East envoy, were key figures in negotiating deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.

Donald Trump – Duh. Signed the Middle East Peace deals. Defeated the terrorist organization, ISIS. Was the only President in, forever, not to start a new foreign war. Oh, yeah, and he never started a nuclear war.

Alexei Navalny – Man who is running the Opposition to Russian President Vlad Putin.

Wait…What?

Black Live Matter. What?

Norwegian Member of Parliament Petter Eide (a socialist) writes:

“I find that one of the key challenges we have seen in America, but also in Europe and Asia, is the kind of increasing conflict based on inequality. Black Lives Matter has become a very important worldwide movement to fight racial injustice. They have had a tremendous achievement in raising global awareness and consciousness about racial injustice. They have been able to mobilize people from all groups of society, not just African-Americans, not just oppressed people, it has been a broad movement, in a way which has been different from their predecessors.”

Politifact reported:

Officers injured: The New York Post reported on June 8, citing the U.S. Justice Department, that more than 700 law enforcement officers were injured on the job during nationwide protests over Floyd’s death.

People killed: In early June, news accounts reported the number of people killed during the Floyd protests at roughly a dozen, or as many as 19. The victims include a 77-year-old man who was a retired St. Louis police captain and a 22-year-old woman from Davenport, Iowa.

Damage caused: In late June, Fox News reported that according to insurance experts and city officials, the Floyd protests could eclipse the 1992 Los Angeles riots to become the most expensive civil disturbance in U.S. history. The 1992 riots, which followed the acquittal of four police officers in the beating of Rodney King, cost $1.4 billion in 2020 dollars, according to the report, which did not give a specific damage estimate for the Floyd protests. A spokeswoman for the Insurance Information Institute told Scripps National News that “most likely” the Floyd protest “would lead to higher losses,” but did not provide an estimate either.

Black Lives Matter didn’t respond to our requests for comment.

They also support what most Nobel voters support:

Socialism.
Hatred of the United States.
Breaking up of the family.
Anti-religion
Anti-capitalism.

Stacey Abrams. This is the person who lost the governor election in Georgia but thinks she’s still governor of Georgia.

NBC reported:

Abrams, who played a critical role in helping to register thousands of voters for the 2020 presidential election and Senate runoff election in Georgia, is being nominated for her work to “promote nonviolent change via the ballot box.”

“Abrams’ work follows in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s footsteps in the fight for equality before the law and for civil rights,” Lars Haltbrekken, a Socialist Party member of Norway’s parliament, said.

Abrams has done absolutely nothing in her career except bitch that she lost the gubernatorial election in Georgia. I’ll go a step further: her bitching about having had the election stolen from her (she lost by 50K votes) was a self-centered pitch to make her more relevant in the next election.

The media loves her and Europe can’t get enough of her. That’s because she’s a socialist.

Greta Thunberg is back. Who cares.

The environmental activist has done nothing except travel around the world in a boat, missing school, yelling at adults for ruining her life. I don’t know.

At least she turned 18 and we can not fuck with her without being accused of being closeted pedophiles.

The World Health Organization. Wow.

Let’s see:

They were wrong about how COVID was spread.
They were wrong about how transmissible it was.
They did not press China to let them analyze it.
They lied about how China was handling the disease.
They were wrong about how deadly it is.
They were lied about how many people died in China.
They did not acknowledge that this virus was developed in a lab and not a natural outgrowth.
They called travel restrictions xenophobic.
They spread the Chinese talking point about COVIS. And SARS. and Swine flu. And Bird flu. And they were all lies.
They ignore the enemies of China including Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Yeah, they did such a great job on the Wuhan flu.

Do you guys see something with the Nobel Peace Price? Yeah, it’s bullshit. It’s such bullshit, I would question whether Jarod Kushner or Donald Trump were closeted communists.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/stacey-abrams-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize
https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/01/jared-kushner-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/nation-world/nobel-peace-prize-nominees-list-jared-kushner-stacey-abrams/507-c9408831-7335-4725-96f1-d2b52cd482de
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/01/stacey-abrams-among-2021-nobel-peace-prize-nominees-.html
https://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-nobel-peace-prize-2021-list-of-nominees-greta-thunberg-donald-trump-2872067

The Culture

But the Left wing news outlet, Vox, had a problem with it. one could tell by there title, Night Stalker Review: Netflix misguided Night Stalker series treats cops like gods. The bad grammar on the title is theirs.

It said:

Um, he should have been terrified of the police. He was hiding the name of a serial killer, rapist and child rapist. A man who had victimized over 20 people that the police knew of.

https://www.vox.com/culture/22240673/netflix-night-stalker-docuseries-frank-salerno-gil-carrillo

Feb032021

Episode 288 – The 1619 Project

One thing I hate about our society, specifically on the Left, is how we are changing everything.

We have changed language. We have normalized in correct language like using “at” at the end of the sentence. We have changed definitions like how we did with the term “gender.” We have even changed the way we use pronouns referring to an individual as “they.”

We are trying to change science because of political correctness. A man wanting to be a woman means that he is a woman, no matter what his DNA says. Gender dysphoria is no longer a mental disorder. We are assigned gender, not born with it. And the world is going to end in 10 years because of weather.

But the worse thing we are doing is changing the history of the United States without adding context to the history of the world. The revision of our history is enunciating our dark moments without acknowledging our successes. The goal of this is to emphasize the failure of the United States and all its systems.

Enter the 1619 Project.

What is the 1619 Project?

There is a huge push to revise history within the United States. This revisionist push is not something that just happened in the last ten years. It has been around for almost a century. People like Howard Zinn have written histories that make the United States look like an imperialistic tyranny instead of a country that celebrates freedoms that have been given to us by God, not government.

In Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, a book that was touted by Matt Damon who played a genius in Good Will Hunting, blamed all evils in history on the United States. Slavery, the Native American crisis, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, Vietnam, the wars in the Middle East, even terrorism was all because of the imperialism of the United States. Many of Zinn’s findings were actually debunked by real historians. In fact, there is an entire book written that destroys all of Zinn’s arguments. But this doesn’t matter to the Leftists. The book is being touted as a legitimate history of the United States and has found its way into out high schools and colleges as mandatory reading.

In 2019, another document that tries to revise American history was released: The 1619 Project. According to Wikipedia.com:

The 1619 Project is a long-form journalism project developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, writers from The New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine which “aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the United States‘ national narrative”.[1] The project was first published in August 2019 for the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in the Virginia colony.[2] The project later included a broadsheet article, live events, and a podcast.

It is not a year that most Americans know as a notable date in our country’s history. Those who do are at most a tiny fraction of those who can tell you that 1776 is the year of our nation’s birth. What if, however, we were to tell you that this fact, which is taught in our schools and unanimously celebrated every Fourth of July, is wrong, and that the country’s true birth date, the moment that its defining contradictions first came into the world, was in late August of 1619? Though the exact date has been lost to history (it has come to be observed on Aug. 20), that was when a ship arrived at Point Comfort in the British colony of Virginia, bearing a cargo of 20 to 30 enslaved Africans. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country’s very origin.

Out of slavery — and the anti-black racism it required — grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system, diet and popular music, the inequities of its public health and education, its astonishing penchant for violence, its income inequality, the example it sets for the world as a land of freedom and equality, its slang, its legal system and the endemic racial fears and hatreds that continue to plague it to this day. The seeds of all that were planted long before our official birth date, in 1776, when the men known as our founders formally declared independence from Britain.

The goal of The 1619 Project, a major initiative from The New York Times that this issue of the magazine inaugurates, is to reframe American history by considering what it would mean to regard 1619 as our nation’s birth year. Doing so requires us to place the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country. Perhaps you need some persuading. The issue contains essays on different aspects of contemporary American life, from mass incarceration to rush-hour traffic, that have their roots in slavery and its aftermath.

Each essay takes up a modern phenomenon, familiar to all, and reveals its history. The first, by the staff writer Nikole Hannah- Jones (from whose mind this project sprang), provides the intellectual framework for the project and can be read as an introduction. Alongside the essays, you will find 17 literary works that bring to life key moments in African-American history. These works are all original compositions by contemporary black writers who were asked to choose events on a timeline of the past 400 years. The poetry and fiction they created is arranged chronologically throughout the issue, and each work is introduced by the history to which the author is responding. A word of warning: There is gruesome material in these pages, material that readers will find disturbing. That is, unfortunately, as it must be. American history cannot be told truthfully without a clear vision of how inhuman and immoral the treatment of black Americans has been. By acknowledging this shameful history, by trying hard to understand its powerful influence on the present, perhaps we can prepare ourselves for a more just future. That is the hope of this project.

The Goals of the Project

This is a complete rewrite of American history. Its goal is to:

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Become the new education tool of American history.
Change the way our children think about America. They will be our leaders one day. The goal is to change the culture so the future generations will change it politically. Politics is always down stream of culture.
Blame America for slavery. Slavery has been around forever and still exists.
Make it only that blacks made America what it is today and ignore what we did as a nation.
America is evil and must be changed. That includes eliminating our philosophy, accomplishments and successes.
Ignore our real history and the struggles we went through to become the successful country we are.
Makes racism systemic. It’s not.
It ignores the struggles this country went through, black and white, to get where we are today.
It ignores how far we’ve come.
Demonize an entire race; the white race. This is a document on black supremacy. This is dangerous. When you demonize a skin color, you end up with slavery, gulags and holocausts. Isn’t this what they are fighting against?
Ignore that whites are diverse. We are English, Irish, Scottish, Italian, Russian, German and many others.
Ignore the sins of other civilizations including African and Muslim civilizations.

This is some really dangerous stuff. This is changing U.S. history in order to demonize a country, its citizens and the system:

Justifies cancel culture. This will kill the economy, kill innovation and kill national pride.
Promotes a complete change to the system of the most successful country in world history.
Justifies the persecution of those who don’t agree.
Creates race superiority.
Justifies policies that will hurt the economy of this country, further pushing the need for socialism. Socialism leads to tyranny.

Oops! It Ain’t that Accurate

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According to the Wall Street Journal article by Elliot Kaufman:

‘So wrong in so many ways” is how Gordon Wood, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution, characterized the New York Times’s “1619 Project.” James McPherson, dean of Civil War historians and another Pulitzer winner, said the Times presented an “unbalanced, one-sided account” that “left most of the history out.” Even more surprising than the criticism from these generally liberal historians was where the interviews appeared: on the World Socialist Web Site, run by the Trotskyist Socialist Equality Party.

A September essay for the World Socialist Web Site called the project a “racialist falsification” of history. That didn’t get much attention, but in November the interviews with the historians went viral. “I wish my books would have this kind of reaction,” Mr. Wood says in an email. “It still strikes me as amazing why the NY Times would put its authority behind a project that has such weak scholarly support.” He adds that fellow historians have privately expressed their agreement. Mr. McPherson coolly describes the project’s “implicit position that there have never been any good white people, thereby ignoring white radicals and even liberals who have supported racial equality.”

The project’s creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, is proud that it “decenters whiteness” and disdains its critics as “old, white male historians.” She tweeted of Mr. McPherson: “Who considers him preeminent? I don’t.” Her own qualifications are an undergraduate degree in history and African-American studies and a master’s in journalism. She says the project goes beyond Mr. McPherson’s expertise, the Civil War. “For the most part,” she writes in its lead essay, “black Americans fought back alone” against racism. No wonder she’d rather not talk about the Civil War.

When called out by the socialist organization, Nicole Hannah-Jones doubled-down using race as her justification:

To the Trotskyists, Ms. Hannah-Jones writes: “You all have truly revealed yourselves for the anti-black folks you really are.” She calls them “white men claiming to be socialists.” Perhaps they’re guilty of being white men, but they’re definitely socialists. Their faction, called the Workers League until 1995, was “one of the most strident and rigid Marxist groups in America” during the Cold War, says Harvey Klehr, a leading historian of American communism.

“Ours is not a patriotic, flag-waving kind of perspective,” says Thomas Mackaman, the World Socialist Web Site’s interviewer and a history professor at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He simply recognizes that the arrival of 20 slaves in 1619 wasn’t a “world-altering event.” Slavery had existed across the world for millennia, and there were already slaves elsewhere in what would become the U.S. before 1619.

But “even if you want to make slavery the central story of American history,” he says, the Times gets it backward. The American Revolution didn’t found a “slavocracy,” as Ms. Hannah-Jones puts it. Instead, in Mr. Mackaman’s telling, it “brought slavery in for questioning in a way that had never been done before” by “raising universal human equality as a fundamental principle.” Nor was protecting slavery “one of the primary reasons” the colonists declared independence, as Ms. Hannah-Jones claims. It’s no coincidence the abolitionists rapidly won votes to end slavery in five of the original 13 states, along with Vermont and the new states of the Midwest.

Ms. Hannah-Jones insists “anti-black racism runs in the very DNA of this country.” Mr. Mackaman calls that claim “anti-historical.” Proving it requires her to belittle the most progressive declaration of modern history: “that all men are created equal.” Ms. Hannah-Jones calls this a “lie” and claims its drafters didn’t even believe it. The abolitionists disagreed. So did Martin Luther King Jr: He saw it as a “promissory note.”

Other things that the 1619 Project gets wrong:

Sociologist Matthew Desmond marshals substantially discredited research to tar the whole of American capitalism as a legacy of slavery.
Legal activist Bryan Stevenson presents the war on drugs and broken-windows policing as successors to lynching, the Black Codes and other white “strategies of racial control.”
Joseph Kishore, the Socialist Equality Party’s national secretary, says the “1619 Project” is aimed at legitimizing the politics of the Democratic Party and at “dividing workers” by race.

Other issues about the 1619 Project come from The Atlantic, far from a right-wing publication. They did try to ease the conflict but pointed out that the conflict was started by real historians who had issue with the layman’s history created by the doocument:

Several weeks ago, the Princeton historian Sean Wilentz, who had criticized the 1619 Project’s “cynicism”in a lecture in November, began quietly circulating a letter objecting to the project, and some of Hannah-Jones’s work in particular. The letter acquired four signatories—James McPherson, Gordon Wood, Victoria Bynum, and James Oakes, all leading scholars in their field. They sent their letter to three top Times editors and the publisher, A. G. Sulzberger, on December 4. A version of that letter was published on Friday, along with a detailed rebuttal from Jake Silverstein, the editor of the Times Magazine.

The letter sent to the Timessays, “We applaud all efforts to address the foundational centrality of slavery and racism to our history,” but then veers into harsh criticism of the 1619 Project. The letter refers to “matters of verifiable fact” that “cannot be described as interpretation or ‘framing’” and says the project reflected “a displacement of historical understanding by ideology.” Wilentz and his fellow signatories didn’t just dispute the Times Magazine’s interpretation of past events, but demanded corrections.

The letter is rooted in a vision of American history as a slow, uncertain march toward a more perfect union. The 1619 Project, and Hannah-Jones’s introductory essay in particular, offer a darker vision of the nation, in which Americans have made less progress than they think, and in which black people continue to struggle indefinitely for rights they may never fully realize. Inherent in that vision is a kind of pessimism, not about black struggle but about the sincerity and viability of white anti-racism. It is a harsh verdict, and one of the reasons the 1619 Project has provoked pointed criticism alongside praise.

Americans need to believe that, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, the arc of history bends toward justice. And they are rarely kind to those who question whether it does.

What Does This Document Ignore?

This document ignores a lot of things.

From a history standpoint, the Africans brought over in 1619 weren’t slaves, they were indentured servants. That sucked too. But, after a time, they were freed and given land. Some of those same blacks brought over in 1619, owned land as freeman and owned slaves. Chattel slavery did not really start until later in the century.
It ignores that the English Puritans and Spanish colonists did not support any type of slavery. Christopher Columbus got into trouble with Queen Isabella for sending 500 Haitian slaves back to Spain. He was arrested and the slaves were immediately freed and sent home.
The Founding Fathers did debate ending slavery with the new Constitution. George Washington actually freed his slaves. Slavery is mentioned in the Federalist Papers. But, because the south depended on slavery and the Union needed to remain unified, the Founding Fathers decided to deal with slavery later.
The abolition movement in the United States started right after the Revolutionary War and picked up steam in the early 1800s, well before the Civil War.
It ignores the individual and puts individuals into groups based on race. This is evil. This racist. This was done during slavery and Jim Crow. It was also done in Nazi Germany, done in Cuba by the Leftist-revered Che Guevara and is currently being done in China with the Uyghers.
Likewise, it groups whites as a single race and all with the same privilege. This is racist. It doesn’t acknowledge that whites also were in their own little castes within the United States. Germans, Irish and Italians are all white ethnicities but were seen as lower class compared to the northern European races. They were treated pretty badly. Jews, also white, were treated with disdain. But none of that matters, they’re all white.
It ignores individual’s capacity. If a black man can only get a job as a ditch digger, it is because of racial inequity. If a white man is a ditch digger, it is ignored. There is never an acknowledgement that each have their own abilities.
If there is systemic racism in the United States, where is it? What evidence is there? We were systemically racist before the Civil Rights Act but where is it now?
It ignores that times have changed and that history is flat within the United States. According to the 1619 Project, blacks have it just as bad today than they did during slavery and Jim Crow which is just ridiculous.
It states that all technology and feats achieved by the United States have been abled by slavery, giving blacks credit in areas that just are not true. The light bulb, electricity, space flight, the Internet, computing, cars, television, astrophysics, the plane and jets and other forms of technology are all because of slavery. None of this stuff has anything to do with slavery.
The document has no problem stating what America has done wrong but ignores what America has done right throughout history to fix their sins. The Civil War, Women’s Suffrage, reparations for the Japanese interned during World War II and the Civil Rights Act. These never happened and, if acknowledged as significant times in American history, would make America a country that acknowledges its sins.
It also brings up the rich black culture and how it affected American culture. Now this is true. Blacks have a great culture that I embrace including dance, blues and jazz music and literature. But American culture seems to be forgotten. Whites had some culture also. Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, John Wayne and Elvis might have a say about that.
It ignores the success that blacks have had in this country. Ophra Winfrey is worth billions of dollars. Would she have done that in another country? LeBron James, who is no genius and continually bitches about equity, is worth a billion dollars. Everyone who added to the 1619 Project has a degree is black and from Harvard or Princeton. Does it sound like these people are being oppressed? Stop it.
Didn’t mankind have slavery throughout its history? Weren’t the pyramids of Egypt built from slave labor? Weren’t the pyramids of Mexico and South America built on slave labor? Doesn’t China still have slave labor? Not sure? Where the hell do you think your f-ing iPhone came from?
Finally, why is there an equity problem in the black community? Why are blacks not earning as much as whites (or Asians)? Why are blacks jailed in disproportionate numbers than any other races including Hispanics? Because of systemic white racism? Then why aren’t there more Asians and Hispanics in jails? Why are white men still the majority in jails and prisons? And what are the examples of unjust imprisonment? None of this is answered. It’s just stated and that’s it.

What is the Goal of this Document?

Not sure who said it but some said, outside of 2+2=4, that math can be manipulated to show whatever you want to show. Physics, with the math in the right places, can prove that an elephant can hang off a cliff with its tail tied around a daisy. Well, so it is with history.

This is pure revisionist history. The document admits it. It is revising history to teach the truth. Problem with revisionist history is it adds what “historians” want you to know and leaves out what they want you to forget. The problems with the 1619 Project: It adds stuff that, flat out, isn’t true and leaves out most of true American history. I think it is a good idea to go through all of the history of the New World and the United States. I think U.S. history starts well before the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus.

This document is to change our culture. It is to teach our children the fallacy that the United States is evil, always has been and always will be. The United States is systemically racist. The Left wants that philosophy bled into the institutions: the news media, entertainment and, especially, the education system. Once in the culture, it is a short trip to politics.

Once in politics the system can be changed.

What Do We Do?

The Left wants to “counter” systemic racism by, you got it, implementing systemic racism. But the racism will go in a different direction. Let’s listen to Joe Biden, who, in this statement, is promoting systemic racism:

That is promoting systemic racism. Help everyone except white people. Maybe the government will help white women.

When the government will benefit one race over another, that is systemic racism.

When the government supports the change of history to demonize a race, that is systemic racism.

When the government condemns and prosecutes white rioters at the capital building but ignores the $3 billion in damage by BLM and Antifa because of “racial justice,” that is systemic racism.

So what do we do who are concerned with this very disturbing turn of events:

Read the Bible and go to church. Many of our philosophies are based on the Judeo-Christian philosophy. Our rights came from God, not government. You might as well know what God said. Include your children. They will need a moral base because they are not going to get it from public school.
Read the Declaration of Independence. This document defines who we are as a nation. It is never changing. We are to be in 2021 that we were defined to be in 1776. Make sure your children know about it. Teach them. They won’t get it in public school.
Read the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and all the Amendments. This document is the law of the land and gives us the exact process to lead us to be what is defined in the Declaration of Independence. Know that was not defined in the Constitution is a state’s right. Abortion: Not a Constitutional right. Make sure your children know about it. Teach them. They won’t get it in public school.
Devour history books. Read history from all sides. I have read Howard Zinn’s The People’s History of the United States. It was crappy and filled with lies, but that’s what your children are learning in school. I like Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen’s A Patriot’s History of the United States because it is a far more detailed history of America, both positive and negative, and will counter the Leftist narrative on history. Talk to your children about American history. Learn what they are learning and teach them how to be critical of what they learn. They won’t get any counter arguments in public school.
Home schooling is not a thing for everyone. It’s just not possible. But talk to your children. Teach them. Teach them morality, religion, history, math and English. They ain’t learning it is public school. Make them read Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and JD Salinger. Their books are banned in public school.

We need to take over the culture. The only way we do it is teach our children.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-1619-project-gets-schooled-11576540494
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/historians-clash-1619-project/604093/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project