Our society has a disease and it might be terminal. It is not a biological disease. Biological diseases are physical, scientific and exact. We have a societal, cultural disease. This disease is hard to see because it is idealistic, conceptual and hard to define.
I was struck by events that occurred last week. Hell, I’ve been struck by the occurrence of the last ten years. Let’s talk about illness of our culture, the symptoms and how we can heal it.
The Disease
The occurrences that have happened over the last year, and specifically over the last couple of weeks, really show the rot that the disease of our culture is causing.
George Floyd, Armand Arbury and Brionna Taylor.
Satan Shoes by internet rapper Lil Nas X.
The death of Mohammad Anwar by a 15 and 13 year old while he was working for Uber Eats.
The Symptoms
The symptoms of our cultures disease has been around for years. No, decades.
I’ve been hearing this same crap since I was a kid. I’m 53 years old. I’m old. Really old. I remember Earth Day in the 70s and hearing about how the world was going to end in ten years. I also heard that in the 80s, 90s and, of course, 2000s. AOC is behind the times a bit.
Let’s look at what is causing our illness.
Revisionist History
This includes the tearing down of statues, the 1619 Project and Howard Zinn. We need our history. The good and the bad. It must be cancelled or made flat. That’s because one has to hide the good things that have happened in our history and demonize the bad things. But that’s not enough. We also have to make shit up in order to make us worse than we are. You already know what I think of the genocide of the Indians.
Cancel Culture
Dr. Seuss
Mr. Potatohead
Aunt Jamima
Uncle Ben
Dumbo
Peter Pan
The Aristocats
Swiss Family Robinson
Shakespeare
Gina Corano of The Mandalorian
President Trump
Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne
Pepe LePew
Speed Gonzales
Gone with the Wind
The Washington Redskins
The Washington Redskin cheerleaders
Plato
That’s just to name a few.
The Left must kill our current culture because it is good. It is fun. It is entertaining. It shows our creativity. And it’s all good. The Left can’t have that. We need the bland and sterile culture of political correctness and indoctrination. Just like China. We’ll be talking more about his later in another podcast.
The Leftism Spreading the Disease Through Our Institutions
Our institutions have been infiltrated and are now openly pushing the Leftist ways.
Education
Corporations/economy/financial system
Entertainment
News media
The family unit
Religion
The military and police force
Individualism Being Replaced by the Collective/Class Warfare
Death of the Meritocracy
The Causes
This has been happening for years. It didn’t just happen. This is our fault. When this first happened, we ignored it. The Left was the counter-culture and no one took it seriously. So it just grew and grew. Nikita Khrushchev said this back in the 50s and 60s. Communism would take over the United States with out anyone needing to fire a single shot.
Here are the causes of the decay of our culture:
Race
Environmentalism
Inequity\class warfare\inequality
Feminism
The rise of the LGBTQ
Hatred of capitalism/communism
How Do We Fix This
We would have a lot easier a time fixing this if we had hit this years ago. But that’s water under the bridge. We have to try to fight it now. The best we can do is just do what we should and have been doing.
Gain knowledge in history, art, philosophy, literature, science and the Constitution.
Embrace God and religion. Know the Bible. Teach morality. Know the seven deadly sins and the 10 commandments and how to apply them in life.
Get educated, get a job, get married, have kids and teach those kids. In other words, embrace the family and raise moral children.
Embrace individuality and treat each person based on that person.
Keep a freedom library. I have a Mark Twain and Shakespeare anthologies. And buy books, nothing electronic.Make sure you have one for your kids too.
If a business does something you don’t like, ignore the business and don’t support it. Forget boycotts. They never work.
Speak up when you hear something wrong. Silence is surrender. Lead by example.
Don’t trust one side of an argument even if you like that side. Listen to all sides. This will usually confirm your beliefs.
Be happy and laugh at what’s funny, even if it is at yourself. I love South Park for a reason. Most of it is an exaggerated look at what is happening in life.
The Biden administration is racist because it doesn’t have enough Asian Americans.
Where did all this everything-is-racist crap come from?
And baseball starts this week and they still don’t get it.
Of Course It’s Racist
Here we go again. The Democrats will do anything they can to guarantee another two Senators. So let’s try to make Washington DC a state.
There are a lot of reasons that Washington DC cannot be a state. Maybe too many and too strong of reasons. But the Democrats have decided to go to that old well of racism. Let’s listen to Ayanna Pressley:
Racism is the best argument the Democrats can make and they have to hope everyone believes in it for that charge to work. I’ll tell you why after I tell you why Washington DC can never be a state.
There are major Constitutional issues with making Washington DC a state. I’m not surprised Democrats don’t know this because they have not actually read the Constitution.
The Congress shall have Power… To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States….
Done. Pre the Constitution, Washington DC cannot belong to any state. Federalist Paper 43 by Madison explains why. There is no ambiguity.
In fact, Washington DC was a city in Maryland and had to succeed in order to house Congress. Technically, Washington DC is part of Maryland and not a separate state.
Then there’s Article IV, Section 3: Maryland’s Permission. Washington DC cannot not become a state without Maryland’s permission. Because it was city in Maryland. This is still argued as being a Constitutional issue but there are arguments on both sides.
Finally, and the most serious, is the 23rd Amendment:
The District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State….
What the fuck does that mean. I had to look it up.
The language of the amendment obviously recognizes an existing district of government of a particular size. And it refers to the District as a permanent constitutional entity. Legislated D.C. statehood would be an oddity to say the least when the Constitution itself refers to the area “as if it were a State.”
The 23rd Amendment also raises a conflict concerning the number of electors to which a state of New Columbia would be entitled. Every existing state is entitled under Article II, Section I of the Constitution to electors in proportion to its congressional representation. Yet the terms of the 23rd Amendment provide that D.C.’s electoral votes would be capped at the number granted to the state with the lowest population (currently three), regardless of D.C.’s own future population. Of course, this problem may be somewhat abstract, since D.C.’s population continues to decline.
Soooo:
You have to Articles of the Constitution that says you can’t do this.
You have an Amendment of the Constitution that says you can’t do this.
You have a Federalist Paper by James Madison (#43) that explains why you can’t so this.
Any questions?
This is why Washington DC becoming a state will take forever or will never happen without a Constitutional Amendment.
So why do Democrats bring up racism? Because they need something that they can use to call the Constitution systemically racist and then bypass the Constitution. This is what they’re going to have to do in order to avoid needing an amendment.
There has been a lot made of violence against Asian American recently. This was exasperated by the mass killings two weeks ago by a mentally deranged man with a sex addiction who killed six Asian American women. Mind you, he also killed two other people weren’t Asian American, but this was dropped because it does not go with the narrative.
So, suddenly, there is racism against Asian Americans. Of course we need to forget some things like:
Asian American income is the highest in the country. Even higher than whites.
Asian Americans fill our colleges to the point Democrats don’t want them in colleges.
Those committing violence against Asian Americans are actually black people, not white people.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D. Illinois) said she would not vote for any more of Biden’s picks until he appoints more Asian Americans into his cabinet. She is backed up by Maise Hirono (D. Hawaii). The two state that the Biden administration is not diverse enough and has too many white people.
Ugh. This is getting so old. Maybe too old.
Mind you, Hirono and Duckworth aren’t the rocket scientists of the Senate. I’ll go a step further to make my self clear: They’re stupid.
Things to think about:
When you refuse to vote for someone because they are the wrong race, that’s racist.
This is the Left’s attempt to create another racial group in order to isolate the white race.
It ignores the success of Asian Americans. Remember, Asian Americans were actually considered white until recently. They were actually being accused of buying into the white supremacy of the United States as a reason why the are successful.
Crap like this is all over the place in our society and, like a virus, it is spreading. I know they consider white supremacy to be the new pandemic but I will go on the wagon that says it is the toxic idea of anti-racism that is the real pandemic. And it is spread by our news media, the entertainment industry including sports, education and now the government. It is also infecting institutions that should have nothing to do with this crap like the law and law enforcement, the military and immigration.
Where did this anti-racism thing come from and what is it about?
Anti-racism
I bought the audio version of Ibram X. Kendi’s, How to be an Anti-Racist. I have not listened to the entire book yet but I got the idea.
Anti-racism is the brain child of Ibram X. Kendi, a very rich professor who leads the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University. This is him defining anti-racism on The View:
That was a rather tame definition of what it is to be an anti-racist. Let me tell you what he says in his book.
Every white person is racist. He may not know it but he is.
People of color cannot be racist because they have never had power within the hierarchy.
It is the systems within the United States that harbor racism all the way back to before the founding of this country.
What people must acknowledge their racism and be anti-racist. There are no other options.
In order to be an anti-racist, one must see racism, call it out and fight against it including the racist systems of the United States.
That simple.
If you are white, you are a racist and always will be.
All the systems of the United States are racist.
You can only be an anti-racist if you reject and try to strip the United States of its systems and philosophies.
He also does not believe in the individual. He believes that all inequity is because of race. He does not believe in the capacity of the individual or that an individual’s decisions have anything to do with outcome. Sound familiar.
Of course Kendi has a lot of baggage that actually kind of makes him look like a racist.
He believes the reason people of color are being affected by the pandemic is racial. He said, “This is the racial pandemic within the viral pandemic”.
Kendi said, of the George Floyd protests, the riots were “a signature, significant distinct moment of people striving to be antiracist”. He never talks about the circumstances that led to George Floyd being arrested in the first place.
Before the protests, Kendi published a proposal for a Constitutional Amendment in the U.S. to establish and fund the Department of Anti-racism (DOA). This department would be responsible for “preclearing all local, state and federal public policies to ensure they won’t yield racial inequity, monitor those policies, investigate and be empowered with disciplinary tools to wield over and against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas”. In other words, he wants to condemn all people he disagrees with. We can take a guess who he would be going after.
When talking about Amy Coney Barratt having adopted two Haitian children, he said, “Some White colonizers ‘adopted’ Black children. They ‘civilized’ these ‘savage’ children in the ‘superior’ ways of White people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity. And whether this is Barrett or not is not the point. It is a belief too many White people have: if they have or adopt a child of color, then they can’t be racist.”
That sounds like a pre-judgement. They didn’t do it because they were caring, empathetic people. They can’t be. They’re whit and racist. They did it to control the black man. You know who agreed with him? Richard Spencer, a neo-Nazi.
Oh, yeah. Ibram X. Kendi is 38 years old. He’s never lived through Jim Crowe and Segregation.
He has degrees from Florida A&M University and Temple University.
He’s worth millions of dollars by selling his books and doing speaking tours.
Does he sound like someone who had no chance to make something of himself? Heck, does this sound like a good guy?
Here’s the thing. Kendi believes that blacks have the high ground because they are morally superior to whites because of slavery and Jim Crowe. In other words, he is condemning white people.
The definition of racism according to the Oxford dictionary:
The belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another.
Is Kendi doing this? He sure is and his racist crap is infecting all our institutions.
More on this when I finish his book. I just started it but I can see where it is going. Howard Zinn anyone?
They Don’t Get It
Major League Baseball’s Players Association is “open” to discussing moving the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta, Georgia, following the state’s decision to enact a comprehensive anti-vote fraud bill aimed at curbing the abuse of absentee and mail-in voting provisions.
The Georgia bill has been framed as an attack on voting rights, particularly of minorities, but as the Daily Wire’s Ashe Schow reported on Saturday, the bill actively prevents activist organizations from electioneering and restricts voting by mail, following concerns that voting rights activists may have abused provisions in the law. As Fox News reported late last year, groups, including one run by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, are under investigation by the Georgia Secretary of State for “seeking to ‘aggressively’ register ‘ineligible, out-of-state, or deceased voters’ before the state’s Jan. 5 Senate runoff elections.”
Black Lives Matter organizations, however, say the bill is aimed at preventing minorities from exercising their right to vote in Georgia just as minority voters have become a force within the state, and they are now pressuring sports organizations, like the MLB and the PGA to move major sporting events from Georgia.
If you don’t want Washington DC to be a state you’re a racist. But is it Constitutional.
And Joe Biden held a press conference and, well, you tell me…
He Should Have Stayed in the Basement
Joe Biden had his first press conference since he became President 64 days ago. It did not go well. He looked old, had no energy and went on for about 30 minutes. A press conference. This shouldn’t even be a story. But it is.
Here are some things we got out of the press conference:
He downplayed the border crisis and barely even addressed it. He said that surges happen all the time during this time of year. Bad news: They don’t during the winter.
He said he would be transparent about letting the press looking at the border agencies. But only after it was fixed.
He threatened North Korea after NK started testing missiles again. He said he would negotiate, which means give them money.
He is open to getting rid of the filibuster to push through his agenda (more on this later).
He pushed gun control.
He pushed voting “rights” including the elimination of voter ID laws.
He will run for President in 2024, at the age of 82. I wouldn’t walk in front of Kamala Harris anytime soon.
Things that made me kind of feel sorry for him. Kind of.
He had notes. He knew the questions the reporters were going to ask.
He had a list of reporters to call on. He did not even hide this.
The questions were really softball with no follow up questions. He was called a “moral, decent man”. There were no challenging questions.
Biden did not call on any confrontational reporters like Steve Ducey of Fox News.
He rambled. His answers were way too long.
He became confused a few times, seeming to forget the question in the middle of his answer. Reporters actually helped him complete his answers.
One time, he actually walked away from the podium. I don’t know why. Neither did the camera man.
He made some really bazaar statements. He said that voter ID laws were like make “Jim Crowe in to Jim Eagle”.
It was an embarrassing press conference. I have to believe this might be his last press conference and I have to believe his time as President is counting down.
There are things he did not talk about:
Hunter Biden.
COVID.
School openings. They don’t know if we are going to open completely by Fall. What?
The China conference.
Vlad Putin’s challenge.
The January 6th Capitol riots.
Never talked about him falling while boarding Air Force 1.
Kids in cages at the border.
The economy, his spending bills.
Tucker Carlson’s commentary:
He’s Playing for Keeps
Joe Biden now says he would support the ending of the filibuster so he could push his massive agenda before the 2022 election.
He knows he is going to have a problem getting legislation pushed through with the filibuster alive. Remember, once the minority party starts to filibuster a piece of legislation, it will take 60 senators to end the filibuster. Without a filibuster, legislation could be passed with a simple majority. The Senate is in a 50-50 deadlock with Kamala Harris being the tie-breaker.
Joe Biden knows it is going to be difficult to pass any of his radical legislation with the filibuster. That legislation includes:
A $5 trillion spending package. This is on top of the $1.9 trillion he just spent.
Election reform.
The new gun control bill.
Amnesty for illegal aliens.
Washington DC statehood, which I am pretty sure is unconstitutional.
His equality and equity programs.
Biden and the Democrats already are sure that they only have a year and a half to get this stuff pushed through. They are probably going to lose the Senate and the House. Though Biden’s approval rating is at 56%, I think this is a red herring.
His policies and his picks for his cabinet are not popular.
Gas prices are soaring.
There’s a huge problem at the border.
His foreign policy is being mocked by out adversaries.
We are looking at tremendous inflation before his Presidency is complete.
His racial policies are beginning to piss people off. He appears to be pandering.
According to Axios:
President Biden recently held an undisclosed East Room session with historians that included discussion of how big is too big — and how fast is too fast — to jam through once-in-a-lifetime historic changes to America.
Why it matters … The historians’ views were very much in sync with his own: It is time to go even bigger and faster than anyone expected. If that means chucking the filibuster and bipartisanship, so be it.
Four things are pushing Biden to jam through what could amount to a $5 trillion-plus overhaul of America, and vast changes to voting, immigration and inequality.
He has full party control of Congress, and a short window to go big.
He has party activists egging him on.
He has strong gathering economic winds at his back.
And he’s popular in polls.
Presidential historian Michael Beschloss told Axios FDR and LBJ may turn out to be the past century’s closest analogues for the Biden era, “in terms of transforming the country in important ways in a short time.”
Beschloss said the parallels include the New Deal economic relief that Franklin Roosevelt brought in 1933, which saved the country from the Depression and chaos.
And Biden is on track to leave the country in a different place, as Lyndon Johnson did with his Great Society programs.
People close to Biden tell us he’s feeling bullish on what he can accomplish, and is fully prepared to support the dashing of the Senate’s filibuster rule to allow Democrats to pass voting rights and other trophy legislation for his party.
He loves the growing narrative that he’s bolder and bigger-thinking than President Obama.
This temptation to go even bigger, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell insists, will create such a fissure between the parties that he compared it this week to “nuclear winter.”
But we’re told Biden won’t hesitate. Just as he passed the $1.9 trillion COVID rescue package with zero Republican votes and zero regrets, his team sees little chance he’s going to be able to rewire the government in his image if he plays by the rules of bringing in at least 10 Republicans.
He won’t rub their noses in it, we’re told. That’ll be the Biden touch to rolling the opposition — and getting that much closer to the status of latter-day FDR.
Biden’s list includes: rural broadband expansion, which would be transformative for those communities … make child tax credit permanent … landmark legislation on climate, guns, voting.
The other question is who are these historians and “activists” that are egging him on? According to the Free Beacon:
Fix Our Senate is steering a coalition of 60 progressive groups to pressure moderate Democrats to eliminate the filibuster, which requires a 60-vote supermajority to advance legislation. The group is a project of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a nonprofit incubator managed by the D.C.-based consulting firm Arabella Advisors. Arabella’s network of funds is used by the nation’s wealthiest liberal donors to secretly bankroll a host of progressive initiatives. …
The coalition led by Fix Our Senate is trying to drum up support by painting the filibuster as a racist tool. On Thursday, the coalition launched a nationwide, six-figure ad buy that “makes the case that the filibuster, a long favored procedural tool of segregationists, has prevented voting rights and civil rights from passing the U.S. Senate.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) has similarly argued that the filibuster has “deep roots in racism.” …
Fix Our Senate does not have to disclose its donors or file tax forms that would shed light on its financial activity, board members, or contractors. The Sixteen Thirty Fund is used by liberal billionaire George Soros and others in the Democracy Alliance, a secretive donor club that financially supports progressive causes. Arabella-managed funds facilitated $715 million of dark money in 2019.
Remember how people in the media used to mock Trump for saying there was a Deep State or Swamp in Washington DC? That he was there to end that corruption? It doesn’t look so far-fetched anymore, does it?
There are four hopes that the filibuster won’t go anywhere:
Joe Biden decides to be moderate. Level heads.
Democrats Joe Manchin (W. Va.) and Kirsten Sinima (Az).
Time. Democrats may not have it.
Donald Trump.
This is the first time I’ve really been afraid of where this country is going. This is the first time I do not feel like I am part of this country.
Trump is about to pull the trigger on changing the culture.
The southern border is a disaster.
And another mass shooting starts the age old debate about us losing our rights.
You Knew Something Like This Was Going to Happen
President Trump has been banned from Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, Twitch, Shopify, Google, TikTok, Apple, Discord, Pinterest, Amazon AWS, Stripe, Okta and Twilio.
Ugh. What does a billionaire do to be able to sit on the toilet and post something at 1 AM? How about build his own social media site? That’s what Donald Trump is going to do. And, unlike the condemned Parler, he’s going to do it right.
This week, the Trump organization stated that they were going into the business of social media.
Trump advisor, Jason Miller, stated:
“The fact the president’s been off of social media for a while because his press releases, his statements have actually been getting almost more play than he ever did on Twitter before. I’m not sure if that’s because the length of them are a bit longer. [We] even had one reporter say that she thought it was much more elegant, the way that the president was able to communicate his thoughts and very much looked more presidential in that longer form.”
“But I do think that we’re going to see President Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here with his own platform. And this is something that I think will be the the hottest ticket in social media. It’s going to completely redefine the game and everybody is going to be waiting and watching to see what exactly President Trump does. But it will be his own platform.”
Miller said Trump has had “a lot of high-powered meetings” at Mar-a-Lago with “numerous companies” about creating a platform that he hopes will bring in “tens of millions of people.”
You knew something like this was going to happen. I thought it would be a news organization but he is a social media guy and he’s banned from everything so this makes scene.
This is also the direction conservatives need to go. We must create our own economy and culture.
There was a shooting in Colorado earlier this week. The media did exactly what they do: Claim that this was another white supremacist shooter. They compared this to last week’s shooting of eight people at two Asian massage parlors.
There were a few problems with this:
The second perpetrator ended up being a Syrian refugee who hated Trump and believed the country is filled with racism.
This probably wasn’t terrorism. He had extreme mental problem (paranoia).
All the people shot and killed were white.
I find it amazing that when a white guy commits these crimes, it is because of white supremacy. If a person of color commits these crimes, it’s because of guns. How about everyone who does these things are just pieces of trash.
But this has started the whole gun control thing all over again because race cannot be the thing here. And Joe Biden is ready yo do it on his own if Congress does not pass a gun control bill. Here’s Jen Psaki reiterating this:
So, here we go again. I’m not sure what Biden is going to set up in an Executive Order but you can expect it is going to be extreme and unconstitutional.
So let’s take a look at some of the arguments.
The 2nd Amendment was referring to militias, not private citizens. False. Private citizens were the militia and were required to own a gun and a set amount of ammunition.
The 2nd Amendment protected muskets and not assault rifles. False. Muskets were considered weapons of war. Assault rifle, by the way, has no definition. What gun is not an assault weapon.
Assault weapons bans have worked in the past. False. The 2003 “assault weapons ban” that lasted 10 years did not lower gun violence. In fact, gun violence has gone down in the last 10 years while gun ownership has gone up.
Gun control works. False. Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Boston and Washington DC have the most stringent gun control laws in the country with the highest levels of gun violence. Vermont, which has the easiest gun ownership laws has very little gun violence.
The United States has the highest level of mass shootings in the world. False. In the last 10 years, The US has been number 10 to 12 levels of mass shootings. Norway is leading the pack. Also in that point, Sweden has more mass shootings.
No one needs an AR-15 for home protection. False. Most AR-15s are used for home protection. That’s because they are so easy to use with so little kick that a child can use one.
Australia had a gun buy back and mass shootings are almost unheard of. False. There were already very few mass shootings in Australia and only about a third of the guns were actually collected.
What is the Biden administration going to do?
Implement restrictions on a certain type of scary looking guns.
Implement restrictions on magazine size.
Create a gun owners database. This includes location of the firearm.
Firearms insurance at the cost of $800 a year.
Required psychological testing.
Federal government background checks.
Remove protections for gun manufacturers.
I know they are all talking about “common sense” gun laws for “assault rifles”.
We are in a serious mess. Not because me who think they are women should compete against women. Not because everyone is a racist. Not because our children are being raised as mindless zombies. Not even because there are factions of this country that want to destroy moral and philosophical base of this country. These are important but we can get over these cultural problems…hopefully.
There are immediate threats in the world that I find are more dire and need a leader that is going to be able to counter and deter these threats. Looking at Joe Biden, who can barely string together a sentence and took a header trying to get up to Air Force 1 last week, I hardly think we have that kind of leadership. What’s worse, our enemies around the world know it too. It cannot be anymore obvious than what happened last week.
Let’s talk about it.
The Story
One of the areas where Joe Biden and the Democrats have always been weak is foreign policy. Democrats have always been more concerned with appeasement and money than actually putting evil countries in their place. Real diplomacy must come from a position of strength not weakness or surrender. We have seen this policy with North Korea, Iran, China and the European Union. For some reason, the Democrats feel the need to apologize and bend the knee to other countries.
This type of diplomacy has consequences. We end up losing respect from, not only our enemies, but all other nations. I understand that the Democrats believe in globalism. We are one world, one nation, with no borders. Here’s the problem: no other country believes in that. Even the European Union, through Brexit, is learning that nationalism is still the main philosophy of most countries and their citizens.
Last week, the disrespect for the United States and its leadership became apparent.
China
The United States and China met on Thursday of last week. To say that China ate our lunch during this meeting would be an understatement. What’s worse, China really showed how full of shit they are and the Biden administration never pushed back.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan reiterated that the U.S. had “concern[s]” with China’s “economic and military coercion to assaults on basic values,” but said that they “do not seek conflict, but we welcome stiff competition and we will always stand up for our principles, for our people, and for our friends.”
That did it.
China’s representatives at the meeting were Chinese Foreign Minister and State Councilor Wang Yi and Yang Jiechi, director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party.
Yang touted the power that the Communist Party of China has in their country and highlighted what he claimed were Chinese achievements before immediately going on the attack against the U.S. Yang’s initial attacks on the U.S. included:
Yang openly mocked Blinken’s comments about “‘rules-based’ international order.” Yang said, “What China and the international community follow or uphold is the United Nations-centered international system and the international order underpinned by international law, not what is advocated by a small number of countries of the so-called ‘rules-based’ international order.”
We need to get rid of the UN because they cow-tow to China and Russia.
This is the first problem with globalists. They don’t understand that a lot of other countries are nationalists first then, when they get what they want, worry about the rest of the world.
Yang openly mocked the “United States-style democracy,” saying that the “Chinese-style democracy,” which does not truly exist, had contributed to “peace and development of the world” while he accused the U.S. of “invading” other nations “through use of force” and toppling “regimes through various means” and massacring “people of other countries.”
They also claimed to have ended poverty and established a peaceful and efficient culture. They failed to mention the attacks against Tibet, Hing Kong, India and the threats against Taiwan. They failed to mention The arrests and “re-education” of dissidents including government officials. They failed to mention the President Xi has declared himself President for life, in other words, a dictator. They failed to mention about the torture, rape and murders of the Wiegers in concentration camps.
You know who else failed to mention that? Jack Sullivan and Antoney Bilken.
As far and invading other countries and massacring foreign peoples, I’m not sure where that is coming from.
Yang exploited political divisions in the U.S., saying “many people within the United States actually have little confidence in the democracy of the United States, and they have various views regarding the Government of the United States.”
Fact check: sort of.
Most Americans citizens don’t believe in the news media or the Leftists views. They are just the loudest. But, unless we can stop with the indoctrination of our children by the school system, entertainment and the news media, China could be right and we will be at the mercies of a growing China.
Yang also cited the Black Lives Matter movement to attack the U.S. on the issue of human rights, saying that there were “many problems within the United States regarding human rights.”
BLM and Antifa are Marxist ideologies that, for some reason, the youth is embracing. But they are hardly the strong examples of American ideology. I will even go so far that a lot of the youth is beginning and will continue to reject this ideology.
“On cyber attacks, let me say that whether it’s the ability to launch cyber attacks or the technologies that could be deployed, the United States is the champion in this regard,” Yang said. “You can’t blame this problem on somebody else.”
We aren’t but we should be. We created the Internet. We should make it that if someone attacks us over the Internet, we should shut their power grids down for an hour.
Yang openly mocked the U.S. and the Biden administration, saying that it did not “represent international public opinion” and neither does the Western world. “Whether judged by population scale or the trend of the world, the Western world does not represent the global public opinion,” Yang said. “So we hope that when talking about universal values or international public opinion on the part of the United States, we hope the U.S. side will think about whether it feels reassured in saying those things, because the U.S. does not represent the world. It only represents the Government of the United States.”
Question for you: Would they have said any of this about the Trump administration?
Secretary of State Bilken and Sullivan had no answers. Like the rest of the Biden administration, they showed weakness in front of an enemy. They are not our friends. They hate us. They want us destroyed. They see what we are doing and know they do not have to fire a single shot to win a cold war. All they have to do is wait, grow (through tyranny) and let us implode.
In an interview on ABC News with Democratic activist George Stephonopolis, Joe Biden was asked a question about the President of Russia, Vladamir Putin.
Biden threatened to place sanctions on Russia for interfering and spreading misinformation during the 2020 elections.
At first, Vlad took the insult in stride. He said:
“I would say to him: I wish you good health. Although they think we are the same as them, we are different people; we have a different genetic and cultural-moral code. But we know how to defend our own interests, and we will work with them but in those areas in which we are interested and on terms we consider favorable for us. And they will have to reckon with that.”
But he had a little time to think about it and Vlad got ticked off. He later said:
“I want to offer President Biden to continue our discussion but on the condition that we do it live, online, without any delays but in an open, direct discussion.”
Oops. Joe Biden won’t talk live in front of a press that loves him. There is no way he’s going to hold a live conversation with Vlad Putin. Nothing good could come from that. And Vlad Putin knows it. Now, before you think Vlad was kidding, he sent a message to the Biden administration asking for the meeting.
Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, was asked about the incident:
REPORTER: While you’ve been briefing, President Putin has just extended an invitation to President Biden to continue their conversation, but this time he wants to do it live. He’s asking for a livestreamed conversation, an open, direct dialogue. Putin says he’s available tomorrow or Monday. Is this something that you would consider?
PSAKI: I’ll have to get back to you if that is something we are entertaining. I would say that the President already had a conversation already with President Putin, even if — as there are more world leaders that he has not yet engaged with. And we engage with Russian leaders, members of the government at all levels, but I don’t have anything to report to you in terms of a future meeting. The President will, of course, be in Georgia tomorrow and quite busy.
The Kremlin responded:
“An inquiry has been made and there is either an answer or the absence of an answer to it. The absence of an answer is generally a refusal from such communication.”
The White House is going to downplay this and hope it goes away. The way the media does their job, this will be short lived. But this does show the lack of respect Russia has for the Biden administration. Putin wants the opportunity to make Biden look bad and weak. Though they did not have a conversation live on television, he accomplished his goal. To make Joe Biden look like an old fool and a coward.
Things with North Korea look like they are returning to normal after Trump left office.
North Korea refused to speak with the Biden administration. They have yet to return calls even though the administration has tried to contact the North Korean leader several times.
North Korea is going to restart missile and nuclear testing.
North Korean has started threatening the United States and South Korea if they have their yearly war games.
Iran
Iran is also stepping up in its sabre rattling. Of course, this was sure to happen since Biden is very sympathetic to Iran and hates Israel, especially Benjamin Netanyahu.
The United States has had one of the most powerful militaries in human history. Our technology, training and will to fight for the right thing has always made us a formidable country in a scrape.
One of the things the military has done is stayed out of politics. The follow the orders of the Commander and Chief and usually never comment about his policies or decisions. When you see a general on television, he is usually just telling you what the military has done during their missions. Outside of that, they pretty much stay out of the way.
Unfortunately, the military is an institution and the Left must control all aspects of all institutions. Once, the military was immune to all political or cultural influence. Not anymore and not with the Left.
Since we have a growing conflict brewing with China and plenty of enemies around the world, let’s talk about our military and the consequences if the Left gets its claws into it.
Making News
The military has always been above politics. Just about everyone appreciates them and most do not get mixed up with them and just leave them alone.
Politically, they were able to do whatever they had to in order to complete their mission. This led to many victories up until the Korean War. But then things turned to the worse. During the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the military was used as pawns of the politicians. They could not do their jobs during those wars which led to the loss of North Korea and North Vietnam. Of course, if one actually looks at the history of both wars, one will find that we actually did not lose these wars militarily but politically.
Pollicization of the military can also be seen in the wars in the Middle East. The military was not popular with the Iraqis and they did everything they could to demonize the military. Abu Grab, enhanced interrogation and the deaths of child terrorists by the military all overshadowed the deaths of our military personnel.
But, looking back, that was nothing compared to what the politicians are doing to the military now.
Woke culture is now coming after the military and it is coming with a vengeance. The military, as usual, is complying. But it also seems that the woke culture has poisoned some of the people in the military and their leaders. This can be a bad thing. The last thing we need with the growing threat of China is to have a military that is more worried about wokeness than, say, killing people and destroying things. That’s all their training should be concerned with. That’s there job.
Let’s take a look at some things the military is implementing.
Elimination of the Transgender Ban
One of the first thing the Biden administration did was lift the transgender ban. This was implementing by Trump per the request of the military.
This is the reason that Biden wrote the Executive Order reversing the ban:
Now, I know this is not going to be a popular statement. The reason trans people cannot be in the military is because they do not qualify to be in the military. Trans people are actually seen by the psychological commuting as having a mental disorder. Though the main psychological association in the United States, though watering it down for woke reasons, still considers Gender Dysphoria a real mental issue. It is defined in the latest version of the DSM.
The military does not take trans people just like they do not take those with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and even depression. The last thing that the military wants on the battle field is people who are going to be unpredictable when the fighting gets going.
They also have to worry about what happens to these people after the get off the battlefield. Trans people have a suicide rate that approaches 40% without the stresses of war. What’s going to happen when you throw a little PTSD in an already damaged mind?
When Trump signed that Executive Order, he didn’t do it in a vacuum. He did it because the military told him they shouldn’t serve because of their malady. And Trump also didn’t sign the order because he hates trans people. He signed it because he was actually protecting them. I don’t know if he intended this but I believe it probably was whispered in his ear.
Free Sex Change Operations
This absolutely amazes me. It amazes me because a guy who is having that much issue being a guy shouldn’t be a Marine. Also, and this is forgotten, sex change operations are extremely expensive and I don’t want my tax dollars going to this type of thing.
The Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin said:
“Prospective recruits may serve in their self-identified gender when they have met the appropriate standards for accession into the military services. This revised policy will also ensure all medically-necessary transition related care authorized by law is available to all Service members and will re-examine all cases of transgender Service members that may be in some form of adverse administrative proceedings.”
OK, there are a some problems with this:
First, it becomes a tax payer expense.
Second, the surgery can be done while the soldier is serving. The recovery time for these types of surgeries is quite lengthy. Seems that the guy will spend more time recovering than serving.
Third, watch all the trans people join the military with no intention of serving but getting those free sex change operations.
I just think this is dumb.
Literature of Critical Race Theory is Recommended
Racism. It’s everything today. All white people are racist. No one else is, just white people. We all have privilege and crap like that. And even if we seem to be living a hard life, white people still have privilege. I had a very interesting debate with a moderate liberal and know her well. She believes this crap. She’s in college and they’re teaching her this. What’s worse, she’s beginning to believe it. She’s even spouting the same platitudes that the Left always spouts. Good news! I was able to get through to her. A little.
Well, the military is implementing critical race theory and even recommending books on it.
The United States Navy’s most recent suggested reading list includes books that explicitly endorse critical race theory and intersectionality. Among these books is How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi.
Here’s the problem with Ibram X. Kendi’s book, critical race theory, anti-racism theory and intersectionality: it divides people. It tells people that white people are racist and they can’t help themselves. With Kendi’s book, all white people are assholes and all people of color are victims. Can you think of anything that is more divisive?
With the military, especially in war, one must trust his comrade in arms. He must trust that, if he gets hurt, someone will be there to save him. If he dies, someone will recover him for his family. He must trust that his brethren will keep his rifle pointed forward to destroy the enemy and he will do the same. He must trust he is a brother.
That is the problem with critical race theory. It doesn’t understand the comradery men of war must have with each other. It doesn’t care. Because of this, it doesn’t belong as part of their training.
Lowering of Standards
Finally, the Entry to the Political Sphere
Last week, Joe Biden promoted two women to be generals. This would be historical if it weren’t for the fact that Trump did the same thing. But it is what he said during his speech that caught Tucker Carlson of Fox News. Here is the clip from the Tucker Carlson Show that has everybody in a tither:
Something I find absolutely amazing, Marine Master Sergeant Scott Stalker released a video condemning Tucker’s comments because he, well listen:
A few things about this response:
I was in the military, I believe everything Tucker said.
Sergeant Stalker said twice that Tucker’s opinions were not relevant because Tucker did not serve in the military so his opinion doesn’t count. You know who else didn’t serve in the military? Joe Biden.
Finally, this just doesn’t happen. The military stays out of politics. Opinions are kept to themselves. It’s the first thing you learn. Your opinion doesn’t matter, you are part of a team.
No one in the military should be taking sides when it becomes part of policy decisions. You don’t have to like what someone says but it is not up to you to point it out. When the military starts to have political opinions and then starts expressing them and putting them into practice, that’s when a true tyranny starts. The military does not make an oath to a person or a political party. They make an oath to defend the Constitution. The military has the responsibility to protect the country, including from the government itself. That’s why it is so important that the military be and remain neutral.
Two people have been arrested in the death of Brian Sicknick during the January 6th riot at the Capitol building and the media cheers while ignoring the other fifty riots spreading throughout the country by Antifa and BLM.
And the Catholic church does something that it has done for the last 2000 years (and beyond) and everyone is surprised.
Still Don’t know What’s Up
Two men sprayed Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick with bear spray during the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to charging documents unsealed on Monday.
Julian Khater of Pennsylvania and George Tanios of West Virginia have been charged with assault for allegedly hitting Sicknick, who died a day after the riot, with the chemical spray.
There still is no information how Sicknick died. The autopsy has not been released. But it wasn’t a fire extinguisher as the the New York Times initially reported.
Now, this doesn’t change anything. If Sicknick died due to being sprayed in the face with mace, these two should be charged with murder, not assault. The fact that they were not charged with murder or something in the vicinity of murder leaves some questions as to what happened.
There have been 315 arrests so far over these riots out of about 500 rioters. I’m going to say this: that is awesome. They should catch every one of them.
With that. let’s talk about what is happening in Seattle, Portland and Minneapolis.
I had to do some math here but it has been about 69 days since the January 6th Capitol riots. That has been all the news media has talked about. What they are ignoring is that antifa and BLM have had dozens of riots since then.
In Minneapolis, antifa and BLM have opened another autonomous zone within the area that George Floyd died called the George Floyd square. Once again, the Leftist government are just letting it go.
The zone takes up about four blocks and police are not allowed. Businesses are threatened and closed. The press is not allowed in. Basically, people’s lives are being destroyed. This is all in preparation for the Derrick Chauvin trial. The city is already preparing for rioting because no one is really sure if this guy is going to get convicted.
Would you consider this an insurrection? On Sunday, someone was killed within the autonomous zone by a drive by shooting. Police could not get in to help and he died.
By the way, Minneapolis gave $27 million to George Floyd’s family as a death settlement. This is probably going to delay Chauvin’s trial because it makes Chauvin look guilty. How an ex-felon, drug addict is worth $27 million is beyond me.
In Portland, things are going really well.
Antifa decided to threatened to burn down a federal court house. Then they threatened security inside. Then they vandalized it. The government didn’t arrest anyone. Instead they put up fencing and barriers. Antifa tried to attack the courthouse but failed because there were barriers. They arrest a couple of antifa members, who were just released a few hours later with no charges.
Things were quiet for a few days so they took down the fencing and barriers. Then, this weekend, it was the anniversary of Brionna Taylor’s death and antifa tried to burn down the same federal courthouse. Fifteen people were arrested including one guy who was arrested a few days before.
These antifa and BLM riots have been occurring all over the country including Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Seattle. There have been dozens of riots since the Capitol riots and less than 50 have been arrested. See a problem?
Why All the Love for Antifa?
The Left doesn’t believe in antifa as a terrorist organization and they have been saying this for the past year, even during the peak of the violence over the summer when the violence peaked.
Here’s Jerry Nadler:
Here’s President Biden during his debate with Trump last year:
Here’s Joy Beihardt yesterday on the The View talking about comments Ron Johnson made about antifa:
So, let’s get this straight once and for all: Antifa is real. It has been around since the 1940s. Antifa is using the same emblem they were using in the 1940s. They have a flag. They have a uniform. Though not centralized, they sects. They have a hierarchy within those sects. They have funding and a support staff. They travel from riot to riot. They’re armed. They have philosophical literature. They have a training program. They have a recruitment process.
Antifa, in some ways, is more organized and better funded than ISIS. And they have caused a lot of damage. They are not a myth. Not an idea. And not fiction. They exist.
With all the crap being brought up about a riot in Washington DC that lasted for three hours and 60% of the perpetrators have been arrested, why does the Left continually down play antifa and BLM, which have been rioting for almost a year and have caused between $2-3 billion in damage?
Because the Left wants antifa and BLM. They want that police force that does their bidding. Mussolini has his Black Shirts. Hitler had his Brown Shirts (the SS). Stalin had the NKVD. Each organization was a terrorist organization used to keep the people in line. Now the Democrats have antifa. This why they are not condemned, arrested, prosecuted and are ignored by the Leftist media.
It’s really scary to see all of the parallels between totalitarian governments and what’s happening in America today.
The Vatican declared Monday that the Catholic Church cannot bless gay unions because God “cannot bless sin.”
The decree came as the Vatican’s orthodoxy office, called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), responded to a question about whether Catholic clergy can bless same-sex unions.
The church has previously welcomed gay people into its fold but does not recognize their unions as marriages. Instead, Catholic doctrine teaches that marriage is a union between a man and woman.
The decree states:
“The presence in such relationships of positive elements, which are in themselves to be valued and appreciated, cannot justify these relationships and render them legitimate objects of an ecclesial blessing, since the positive elements exist within the context of a union not ordered to the Creator’s plan.”
By the way, God’s plan for marriage is that the couple will have children. Obviously, a gay couple cannot have children together. If you’ve ever been married in a Catholic church, it is the main covenant that the couple makes to God. To have children and raise the children as good Catholics.
Pope Francis holds a lot of Leftist thoughts but he still has not shied away from keeping the traditions of the Church. Gay marriage and abortion have been real problems for the Catholic church and he has not relented in the least. Pope Francis has even criticized politicians of support abortion like Joe Biden.
Don Lemon took real offense to this. Which is weird and I’ll say why in a second. He’s gay and engaged. He decided to put his two cents in on The View:
OK, a few things here:
Don Lemon used to be a Baptist and is non-denominational that “believes in a higher power.”
Catholicism has been around for 2000 years. I’m pretty sure that there has been a philosopher or two that are more wise than Don Lemon.
Just because the Catholic church says they can’t bless his marriage doesn’t mean he still can’t get married.
God’s main role is to judge.
Sorry this upsets Don Lemon but the Catholic church is not going to change 2000 years of doctrine and philosophy because Don Lemon is gay and offended even though he is not a Catholic.
The Biden administration was not thrilled with the church’s decision not to bless gay marriage. Jen Psaki said that she did not have a message from Biden personally, but as a “devout Catholic” still believes in gay marriage.
Joe Biden is a devout Catholic? He believes in abortion up till the moment of birth. He has been refused communion. I’ll go a step forward: He does not support free will or choice. His belief in big government and telling people what to do goes against the Bible. How do I know that? The Founding Father wrote the Constitution based on freedom of the individual and the contraction of the federal government. This belief was based on Judeo Christian philosophy.
In the end, this bitching about a Catholic edict that has been around for 2000 years is meant to demonize the Catholic church. The church goes against Leftist philosophy. Yes, Pope Francis is a Leftist that believes in redistribution, environmentalism and is against capitalism but when the rubber hits the road, he will follow doctrine. Because he has too. No matter whose feelings it hurts.
Grace Church School published a 12-page memo that encourages people to stop using certain terms that it considers to be outdated and to replace those terms with “inclusive” terminology.
Just an FYI: that school costs $57K a year.
The memo states the following:
Instead of saying, “boys and girls,” “guys,” “ladies,” and “gentleman,” say, “people,” “folks,” “friends,” “readers,” “mathematicians…”
Instead of “assuming gender based on stereotypes,” people should “respectfully ask how they identify if familiar establishing a culture of sharing affirming pronouns in class.”
Instead of saying, “mom and dad,” say, “grown-ups,” “folks,” “or family.”
Instead of saying, “parents,” say, “grown-ups,” “folks,” “family,” “and guardians.”
There are dozens of other examples of changing the language.
There are also terms that must not be used anymore. Those include:
Colorblind—No one is color blind as it pertains to race. We see the skin tones of people and assumptions are made about how someone identifies racially.
Caucasian—The correct term is White. White is a more accurate description of light-skinned people of European descent.
Diverse person/student—referencing a person of color. A person is not diverse. A group of people can be diverse.
Traditional Family—we actively try to undo notions of a “typical” or “normal” family structure, each family is unique
“Real” parents—a preferred term is birth parents
The purpose of the policy, according to the school guide:
“The goal of this guide is to provide the community with more inclusive language that is aligned with the mission of Grace Church School. While we recognize hateful language that promotes racism, misogyny, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination are already addressed in our school handbooks, we also recognize that we can do more than ban hateful language; we can use language to create welcoming and inclusive spaces. This guide addresses ways we can remove harmful assumptions from the way we interact with each other.”
“Families are formed and structured in many ways. At Grace Church School, we use inclusive language that reflects this diversity. It’s important to refrain from making assumptions about who kids live with, who cares for them, whether they sleep in the same place every night, whether they see their parents, etc.”
Of course, this is suppose to be a Christian School. At least that’s what they say in the title of the school’s name! But Merry Christmas is way out of bunds too. The school says:
“At Grace Church School, we work to be mindful of the language we use in order to avoid making assumptions about people as we engage in conversation that touches on religion.”
That’s awesome. SO one can get into trouble with saying Merry Christmas at a Christian school.
You know, one can sort of expect to see this type of thing in public schools especially with the political climate we have today. But when this type of poison begins to make its way in private schools that can be a really bad thing. At least with our private schools we can expect some kids to grow up, I don’t know, knowing things and loving this country.
Next week, the California Department of Education will vote on a new statewide ethnic studies curriculum that advocates for the “decolonization” of American society and elevates Aztec religious symbolism—all in the service of a left-wing political ideology.
The new program, called the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, seeks to extend the Left’s cultural dominance of California’s public university system, 50 years in the making, to the state’s entire primary and secondary education system, which consists of 10,000 public schools serving a total of 6 million students.
According to the City Journal:
In theoretical terms, the new ethnic studies curriculum is based on the “pedagogy of the oppressed,” developed by Marxist theoretician Paolo Freire, who argued that students must be educated about their oppression in order to attain “critical consciousness” and, consequently, develop the capacity to overthrow their oppressors. Following this dialectic, the model curriculum instructs teachers to help students “challenge racist, bigoted, discriminatory, imperialist/colonial beliefs” and critique “white supremacy, racism and other forms of power and oppression.” This approach, in turn, enables teachers to inspire their pupils to participate in “social movements that struggle for social justice” and “build new possibilities for a post-racist, post-systemic racism society.”
Notice the whole idology was created by a Marxist. You know what would be nice? If schools decided to teach the evils of Marxism, socialism and communism. All used social justice as the launching boards but all ended in poverty, suffering and death.
The City Journal continues:
R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, the original co-chair of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, developed much of the material regarding early American history. In his book Rethinking Ethnic Studies, which is cited throughout the curriculum, Cuauhtin argues that the United States was founded on a “Eurocentric, white supremacist (racist, anti-Black, anti-Indigenous), capitalist (classist), patriarchal (sexist and misogynistic), heteropatriarchal (homophobic), and anthropocentric paradigm brought from Europe.” The document claims that whites began “grabbing the land,” “hatching hierarchies,” and “developing for Europe/whiteness,” which created “excess wealth” that “became the basis for the capitalist economy.” Whites established a “hegemony” that continues to the present day, in which minorities are subjected to “socialization, domestication, and ‘zombification.’”
If these communists want to see “zombification” they should go to China or North Korea or Venezuela or Cuba. These are countries that turn their citizens into slaves. Another thing no one talking too much about. The communist countries really aren’t that racially sensitive.
The Soviet Union threw Ukrainians, blacks and Jews in the gulags. Heck, they threw anyone who knew anyone mentioned in the gulags.
The Chinese have put Buddhists and Uyigers into their concentration camps.
Cuba used to put homosexuals and blacks into their work camps.
We already know what Hitler did.
I don’t want to hear about the empathy of the communists and Marxists.
The City Journal continues:
The religious narrative is even more disturbing. Cuauhtin developed a related “mandala” claiming that white Christians committed “theocide” against indigenous tribes, killing their gods and replacing them with Christianity. White settlers thus established a regime of “coloniality, dehumanization, and genocide,” characterized by the “explicit erasure and replacement of holistic Indigeneity and humanity.” The solution, according to Cuauhtin and the ethnic studies curriculum, is to “name, speak to, resist, and transform the hegemonic Eurocentric neocolonial condition” in a posture of “transformational resistance.” The ultimate goal is to “decolonize” American society and establish a new regime of “countergenocide” and “counterhegemony,” which will displace white Christian culture and lead to the “regeneration of indigenous epistemic and cultural futurity.”
There are a few things that really bother me about this stuff from our educated college elites.
The first thing is the language that these guys use. This is why I like to read these articles. It shows how saint-on-top-of-the-hill they are. Half these words are just made up and really mean nothing but sound really scholarly when they are slapped together.
Another issue is there is going to have to be a rewriting of American history for any of this shit to have a choice to ring true. History is going to have to be rewritten to show that there was some sort of genocide against the Indians. Guess what, there wasn’t. Most of the Indians were killed through disease. The next killer was war. The Spanish, the puritans and other religious groups took a dim view of doing anything with the Indians. They even traded with them. Most of the conflicts didn’t have anything to do with the color of one’s skin but on land rights.
The Indians sold Manhattan to the Europeans. Ten years later, the Indians wanted the land back because they thought they leased the land not sold it. This is because the Indians did not have an understanding of land ownership. By the way, the Europeans gave the Indians resources and money. They didn’t just give them four goats and shiny beads. This is where the term “Indian-giver” came from. This started a war.
Finally, this is something I was expecting and has been happening kind of quietly for a while. Now it is in the open. The demonization of religion, particularly the Judeo Christian religion. Don’t forget the Judeo Christian religion is the basis for the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. This is what the Left must do. They must make evil anything that can destroy their philosophy. The Judeo Christian religion is one of those things. Don’t kids yourself: all religion will be on the chopping block. That includes the Muslims and even the Indian religions. They just need to destroy the most powerful first.
The article continues:
This religious concept is fleshed out in the model curriculum’s official “ethnic studies community chant.” The curriculum recommends that teachers lead their students in a series of indigenous songs, chants, and affirmations, including the “In Lak Ech Affirmation,” which appeals directly to the Aztec gods. Students first clap and chant to the god Tezkatlipoka—whom the Aztecs traditionally worshipped with human sacrifice and cannibalism—asking him for the power to be “warriors” for “social justice.” Next, the students chant to the gods Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and Xipe Totek, seeking “healing epistemologies” and “a revolutionary spirit.” Huitzilopochtli, in particular, is the Aztec deity of war and inspired hundreds of thousands of human sacrifices during Aztec rule. Finally, the chant comes to a climax with a request for “liberation, transformation, [and] decolonization,” after which students shout “Panche beh! Panche beh!” in pursuit of ultimate “critical consciousness.”
The chants have a clear implication: the displacement of the Christian god, which is said to be an extension of white supremacist oppression, and the restoration of the indigenous gods to their rightful place in the social justice cosmology. It is, in a philosophical sense, a revenge of the gods.
So they want to replace the peace and love that Christianity promotes (that’s not saying Christianity doesn’t have its skeletons) for the chants of a civilization that murdered millions. In a four day stretch, the Aztecs killed through sacrifice 800,000 indigenous people, most slaves from other tribes.
The Aztecs were not just defeated by the Spanish but also by other Indian tribes in the region because the Aztecs would systemically raid other villages; enslave, rape and murder the inhabitants. This was a bad civilization that other tribes wanted ended.
The Andrew Cuomo drama continues. I don’t talk too much about him because I just don’t care about him and I think we have completely missed the boat on why he should be out of office.
First, he killed about 16,000 old folks with his policy of putting COVID patients back into retirement homes. Then, he lied about it and covered up the data. This is being investigated by all the sharks, specifically Leticia James, who are eyeing his Governor’s seat. This little bug-a-boo is spreading. Governor Gretchen Whitmer is now being investigated for doing the same thing.
He is not being accused of sexually harassing seven different women including one where he is being investigated for sexual assault by Albany PD.
He has been encouraged to resign by most Democrats including Jerry Nadler, AOC, Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. That may not matter. The New York state legislature is looking to impeach him and they have the numbers to do so.
Joe Biden finally commented saying, “I think the investigation is underway and we should see what it brings us.” This is not a strong stance either way but it is definitely not very supportive. At least he was able to say something without falling asleep.
This guy is done he just doesn’t know it yet. He’s not going to make it to the election. I would bet anything he will resign before the end of the month, especially as this impeachment thing begins to build steam. There is also the question of whether or not he can do his job as governor with all this crap swirling around him.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Sunday blamed former President Trump for the current crisis at the U.S. southern border, saying that President Biden inherited a “broken system” from the previous administration.
Pelosi said:
“This is a humanitarian challenge to all of us. What the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border, and they are working to correct that in the children’s interest,” she said, adding that the Biden administration is effecting “a transition from what was wrong before to what is right.”
Before Biden got elected, there were few illegal crossings. In October, before the election, there was about 34,000 arrests. When Biden got elected, that average doubled. When he got into office, crossings tripled.
Though they refuse to call this a crisis, they are now running at close to 100% capacity and the illegal border crossings of unaccompanied minors has already reached the total for all of last year. Folks, it’s March.
FEMA has been called in by Biden to try to help with the border patrol with the housing of illegals.
Winston Marshall, the lead guitarist for Mumford and Sons, was kicked off the band because he tweeted that he liked Andy Ngo’s book on antifa called Unmasked. He apologized which was a mistake.
Unilever, which owns brands like Dove and Sunsilk, said a study had found that the word “normal” makes most people feel excluded. A spokeswoman said it would remove it from more than 200 products.
Disney Plus has made it that kids under the age of seven can see the classic movies Dumbo, The Aristocats and Peter Pan. I thought all those movies sucked.
Speedy Gonzales, the mouse from the Warner Bros. cartoons is no longer being used because it is a stereotype of Mexicans. Me Mexican fiancé is pissed.
Pepe Le Pew will not appear in the next in the second Space Jam movie because people believe the cartoon skunk promotes sexism and rape culture.
The Democrats pass HR 1 – For the People Act of 2021. As we go through the bill, we will see the only people being benefitted are Democrat politicians.
The Senate passes a massive $1.9 trillion stimulus deal. Republicans think this is going to be a disaster.
HR 1
The Democrats have decided that if they could win an election with a guy that doesn’t run and is practically dead, they can win anytime. So, this week, the House passed HR 1. This would make it that future elections will be just as chaotic as the election of 2020. This is the worst example of the Democrats trying to retain power at any means necessary.
Remember when we used to have election day. You went out, stood in line, voted, put that little sticker on and then, when you got home, the counting started and we found out who won the election by midnight Pacific time? You know, the elections worked. Sometimes your candidate won. Sometimes he/she lost.
Now Democrats want to make sure they never lose again. Here’s what HR 1 or the For the People Act of 2021. This will be from the Heritage Foundation.
Seize the authority of states to regulate voter registration and the voting process by forcing states to implement early voting, automatic voter registration, same-day registration, online voter registration, and no-fault absentee balloting.
Registration is part of the voting process and it is a pain in the ass. It should be a pain in the ass. One should want to vote. Anyone who does not make an effort to vote probably shouldn’t be voting.
This federalizes the voting process. It takes it away from the states. This shouldn’t be a surprise because of how the Democrats are trying to eliminate the electoral college.
This is unconstitutional.
Make it easier to commit fraud and promote chaos at the polls through same-day registration, as election officials would have no time to verify the accuracy of voter registration information and the eligibility of an individual to vote and could not anticipate the number of ballots and precinct workers that would be needed at specific polling locations.
There’s a reason one must register two weeks in advance of the election. So one can be verified.
Because this takes the process away from the state, the is probably unconstitutional.
Hurt voter turnout through 15 days of mandated early voting by diffusing the intensity of get-out-the-vote efforts; it would raise the cost of campaigns. Voters who vote early don’t have the same information as those who vote on Election Day, missing late-breaking developments that could affect their choices.
I think this is one of the reason Trump lost. People were voting before the debates and the Biden scandals were released. People did not know everything about their candidates before they voted.
We don’t three weeks to vote. For the last 240 years, we have been voting on one day. There’s no need for 15 days of voting.
Degrade the accuracy of registration lists by requiring states to automatically register all individuals (as opposed to “citizens”) from state and federal databases, such as state Departments of Motor Vehicles, corrections and welfare offices, and federal agencies such as the Social Security Administration, the Department of Labor, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services. This would register large numbers of ineligible voters, including aliens, and cause multiple or duplicate registrations of the same individuals and put federal agencies in charge of determining a person’s domicile for voting purposes (as well as that individual’s taxing state).
This is what California is doing right now with the DMV. If you register at the DMV you are automatically registered for the election. California said that it has nothing to do with illegals voting and that there are separate forms for legal citizens and illegal aliens. Problem is the forms are identical and there have been “mistakes”.
This is fraught with corruption.
Constitute a recipe for massive voter registration fraud by hackers and cyber criminals through online voter registration that is not tied to an existing state record, such as a driver’s license. It would make it a criminal offense for a state official to reject a voter registration application even when it is rejected “under color of law” because the official believes the individual is ineligible to vote. It would also require states to allow 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds to register; when combined with a ban on voter ID and restrictions on the ability to challenge the eligibility of a voter, this would effectively ensure that underage individuals could vote with impunity.
Nothing, when it comes to registration or voting, should be done online. It is way too insecure. Registration to vote and voting should be done on paper. Period. We’ve been doing this for almost 250 years and it has always worked. Technology does not benefit voting or registering at all.
Allowing 16-year-olds to vote is just stupid. Sixteen year olds are dumb. Sorry, they are. It’s also unconstitutional per the 26th Amendment of the Constitution. If the Democrats want this, they have to add another amendment to the Constitution repealing the 26th Amendment.
Require states to count ballots cast by voters outside of their assigned precincts, overriding the precinct system used by almost all states that allows election officials to monitor votes, staff polling places, provide enough ballots, and prevent election fraud.
Again, this replaces state laws with federal laws. This is probably unconstitutional.
Mandate no-fault absentee ballots, which are the tool of choice for vote thieves. It would ban witness signature or notarization requirements for absentee ballots; force states to accept absentee ballots received up to 10 days after Election Day as long as they are postmarked by Election Day; and require states to allow vote trafficking (vote harvesting) so that any third parties—including campaign staffers and political consultants—can pick up and deliver absentee ballots.
This will allow for nothing but corruption. California does this now and is the primary reason Democrats have held every office including offices in red districts.
First off, 10 days after the election votes can be counted?! Are you kidding?! You mean with all the technology we have, our voting system is worse not than it was in the 1980s?
This also allows for cherry picking of ballots. If I want a Democrat to win, I will only pick up ballots for registered Democrat.
Another problem is ballot harvesters have been known to intimidate and influence voters who may not have completed their ballots. This has happened in California, especially with the older voters.
Finally, this brings into question the chain of custody for the ballots. Who are these ballot harvesters? Do they manipulate the ballots they’re picking up? Do the ballots even get to their destination? We have seen videos that this sometimes doesn’t happen.
Prevent election officials from checking the eligibility and qualifications of voters and removing ineligible voters. This includes restrictions on using the U.S. Postal Service’s national change-of-address system to verify the address of registered voters; participating in state programs that compare voter registration lists to detect individuals registered in multiple states; or ever removing registrants due to a failure to vote no matter how much time has elapsed. It also would substantially limit the public release of voter registration information, making it almost impossible for nonpartisan organizations to verify the accuracy of registration rolls, and prohibit states from using undeliverable election mail as a basis for challenging a registrant’s eligibility.
No ID for voters. No address verification. No signature verification. Improperly filled out ballots remain counted. Yeah, nothing to see here.
Ban state voter ID laws by forcing states to allow individuals to vote without an ID and merely signing a statement in which they claim they are who they say they are.
I need an ID to drive, drink, get a hotel room, board a plane, see an R-rated movie, buy a gun, pay with a check or credit card, withdraw money from my bank and lease an apartment. But I don’t need one to vote. Wow.
Violate the First Amendment with respect to a vast range of legal activity. Voter intimidation or coercion that prevents someone from registering or voting is already a federal crime under the Voting Rights Act and the National Voter Registration Act. But H.R. 1 would add a provision criminalizing “hindering, interfering, or preventing” anyone from registering or voting, which is so vague and so broad that it could prevent providing any information to election officials about the ineligibility of an individual, such as an applicant not being a U.S. citizen.
We have to see if this will conflict with existing laws. But I believe this provision makes it that questioning an illegal alien about voting could be construed as voter intimidation.
Expand regulation and government censorship of campaigns and political activity and speech, including online and policy-related speech. H.R. 1 would impose onerous legal and administrative compliance burdens and costs on candidates, citizens, civic groups, unions, corporations, and nonprofit organizations. Many of these provisions violate the First Amendment, protect incumbents, and reduce the accountability of politicians to the public; its onerous disclosure requirements for nonprofit organizations would subject their members and donors to intimidation and harassment—the modern equivalent of the type of disclosure requirements the U.S. Supreme Court in NAACP v. Alabama (1958) held violated associational rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.
This is probably unconstitutional because the Federal government cannot impose laws on states. If the regulation change state laws, that’s a problem.
Reduce the number of Federal Election Commission members from six to five, allowing the political party with three commission seats to control the commission and engage in partisan enforcement activities.
This can actually bite both parties in the ass. Just not a solid decision.
Prohibit state election officials from participating in federal elections and impose numerous other “ethics” rules that are unconstitutional or unfairly restrict political activity, eliminating the ability of the residents of specific states to make their own decisions about what rules should govern their state government officials.
Unconstitutional. We don’t have a federal election. We have 50 state elections. Each state has rules their legislatures passed.
Require states to restore the ability of felons to vote the moment they are out of prison regardless of uncompleted parole, probation, or restitution requirements. Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment gives states the constitutional authority to decide when felons who committed crimes against their fellow citizens may vote again. Congress cannot override a constitutional amendment with a statute.
This is right. It is unconstitutional.
Transfer the right to draw congressional districts from state legislatures to “independent” commissions whose members are unaccountable to voters. H.R. 1 would make it a violation of federal law to engage in “partisan” redistricting and mandate the inclusion of alien population, both legal and illegal, in all redistricting. This is an anti-democratic, unconstitutional measure that would take away the ability of the citizens of a state to make their own decisions about redistricting.
Again, the federal government can’t tell states how to run their elections.
Authorize the Internal Revenue Service to engage in partisan activity. H.R. 1 would permit the IRS to investigate and consider the political and policy positions of nonprofit organizations before granting tax-exempt status, thus enabling IRS officials to target organizations engaging in First Amendment activity with disfavored views.
I hate this for three reasons.
First, I’m not sure what this is for outside of the IRS going out to harass religious and conservative organizations. That leads to my second problem with it.
The IRS has already proven partisan and has been used as a weapon for Barrack Obama during his term. Yeah, the guy who never had a sandal. This would just make the weaponization of the IRS legal.
Finally, the last thing this country needs, especially when dealing with voting, is another bureaucracy. The IRS is the epitome of bureaucracy. It also is a bureaucracy that has already condemned certain groups. Probably want to keep them out of this one.
Limit access to federal courts for anyone challenging H.R. 1. The bill would prohibit the filing of any lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of H.R. 1 anywhere except in the District Court for the District of Columbia and would allow the court to order all plaintiffs and intervenors, regardless of their number (such as all 50 states), “to file joint papers or to be represented by a single attorney at oral argument,” severely limiting the legal representation and due process rights of challengers.
Very convenient to make a law that says we can’t use the law to say this law shouldn’t be a law.
Yeah, this is unconstitutional.
Establish a “Commission to Protect Democratic Institutions” that would threaten the independence of the judiciary. H.R. 1 defines “democratic institutions” as those that are “essential to ensuring an independent judiciary, free and fair elections and the rule of law.” The commission would be given the authority to compel judges to testify and justify their legal decisions, threatening their independent judgment and subjecting them to political pressure and harassment.
Awesome! Another bureaucracy that will attack other parts of the government. The judiciary is meant to be independent. This would break that.
This is also unconstitutional.
Here’s the news about this bill. It will never pass the Senate. Senators from small blue or purple states will not pass this. I suspect this is going to get blown out in the Senate.
If it doesn’t, it will get deemed as unconstitutional because…it’s horribly unconstitutional.
The Senate passed Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package. It was passed right down party lines 50-49. Kamala Harris was heading to the Capitol to be the tie breaking vote but a Senator from Alaska needed to go back to Alaska for a funeral.
So let’s make clear here: Not one Republican Senator or Congressperson voted for the bloated bill that will only offer 9% of its price for COVID relief.
Mitch McConnell pretty much summed it up after the bill was passed:
There were a few things that happened before this vote happened:
But the debate on the bill was quickly scuttled by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who requested the entire 628-page legislation be read aloud by the Senate clerks in advance of any discussion on the merits of the proposal. That meant Senate clerks spent the next 10 hours and 44 minutes reading the bill until 2:04 a.m. Friday.
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., worked through the night without sleep, according to a spokesperson, as he prepared to offer amendments to support the Keystone XL pipeline and cut spending from the bill, including about $175 million in transit projects from California, New York and elsewhere.
Sean. Bernie Sanders tried to get the $15 minimum wage stuck in the bill. That failed. He didn’t get any help from Joe Machin or Kirstin Sinima who both rejected the amendment.
The things that were changed in the bill:
The $15 minimum wage was removed.
The raising of unemployment raised from $300 to $400 was removed but benefits were extended by two weeks.
The bill is being sent back to the House for a vote. But this is not a guaranteed thing. Some of the Leftists are pissed about the minimum wage being removed. Nancy only can afford to lose only four votes. I think it will get through but I will not be broken hearted if it doesn’t. It is a huge, bloated pig of a bill. We have spent $3 trillion last year and will have spent $2 trillion in the first three months of this year.
According to analysis, each person will receive a $1400 check, but it will cost over $5750 per person. I’m no accountant but that seems like a bad deal. A bad deal that our kids and grandkids will be paying for.
This is an incredible story and it shows the societal failures within the United States. This is a lesson on what needs to happen within society but, also, no one reads the tea leaves and makes any effort to solve the problems.
It is a parable about the circle of failure that has been going on for generations and, reading the blame game of the article, will be with us for generations after.
I hope this story scares you. I hope this story depresses you. I hope this story, which could easily have been avoided, shocks you into doing something about it.
The Story
I like covering the news. Sometimes, the news comes wild and wooly and I can’t keep up. I do have limited resources.
I had three stories ready to go for today but there was an unrelated story I just couldn’t ignore. It is a real life social commentary on what the Left is trying to do to our society and has been for generations.
This is an extremely disturbing story that is happening more often that not. And it is the reason were, as a country, are in the position we are in right now.
This story is from Fox Baltimore and is titled, City student passes three classes in four years, tanks near the top of his class with a 0.13 GPA by Chris Papst.
It’s as bad as you think.
A shocking discovery out of a Baltimore City high school, where Project Baltimore has found hundreds of students are failing. It’s a school where a student who passed three classes in four years, ranks near the top half of his class with a 0.13 grade point average.
Tiffany France thought her son would receive his diploma this coming June. But after four years of high school, France just learned, her 17-year-old must start over. He’s been moved back to ninth grade.
“He’s stressed and I am too. I told him I’m probably going to start crying. I don’t know what to do for him,” France told Project Baltimore. “Why would he do three more years in school? He didn’t fail, the school failed him. The school failed at their job. They failed. They failed, that’s the problem here. They failed. They failed. He didn’t deserve that.”
I want to point out the self-centeredness of France’s comment here. She’s going to cry. “They” failed him. This is a set up for her not taking any responsibility for her son’s education.
There were a lot of failures here. Not just Tiffany’s failure. But placing 100% blame and not acknowledging blame elsewhere does not solve the problem.
Hint: Tiffany is partially to blame.
France’s son attends Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts in west Baltimore. His transcripts show he’s passed just three classes in four years, earning 2.5 credits, placing him in ninth grade. But France says she didn’t know that until February. She has three children and works three jobs. She thought her oldest son was doing well because even though he failed most of his classes, he was being promoted. His transcripts show he failed Spanish I and Algebra I but was promoted to Spanish II and Algebra II. He also failed English II but was passed on to English III.
“I’m just assuming that if you are passing, that you have the proper things to go to the next grade and the right grades, you have the right credits,” said France.
She assumed? Really? She thought he was doing well even if she knew he was failing all his classes, so she knew? She didn’t bother to inquire? It is her son, right?
I also don’t care if she is working three jobs. There’s no sympathy for an absent parent from me. Why? Because I was a single parent too and I had to make changes to my life to deal with my kids. More on that one later.
As we dig deeper into her son’s records, we can see in his first three years at Augusta Fells, he failed 22 classes and was late or absent 272 days. But in those three years, only one teacher requested a parent conference, which France says never happened. No one from the school told France her son was failing and not going to class.
“I feel like they never gave my son an opportunity, like if there was an issue with him, not advancing or not progressing, that they should have contacted me first, three years ago,” said France.
There are two things to question here:
One – He was absent for 272 days and the parent didn’t know? She was asked to have a parent/teacher conference but it never happened? She didn’t follow up?
Two – Where were the authorities? Absent for 272 days and minimal effort to contact the parent? The school, child services and police should have all been involved. Where were they?
In his four years at Augusta Fells, France’s son earned a GPA of 0.13. He only passed three classes, but his transcripts show his class rank is 62 out of 120. This means, nearly half his classmates, 58 of them, have a 0.13 grade point average or lower.
“He’s a good kid. He didn’t deserve that. Where’s the mentors? Where is the help for him? I hate that this is happening to my child,” said an emotional France.
Project Baltimore talked with a City Schools administrator, who works inside North Avenue, but asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation. That administrator says the school system absolutely failed France’s son.
Tiffany France is completely correct. Where was everyone? Where were the mentors, the authorities and the teachers?
But she did forget one person. Where was the parent, Tiffany France? Where was the kid’s father (more on that later)?
The administrator told FOX45 News, City Schools failed because it has protocols and interventions set up to help students who are falling behind or have low attendance. In France’s son’s case, they didn’t happen.
“I get angry. There’s nothing but frustration. We see on the news the crime that occurs, the murders, the shootings, we know that there are high levels of poverty in Baltimore. Things like this are adding to that. His transcript is not unusual to me. I’ve seen many transcripts, many report cards, like this particular student,” said the City Schools administrator.
Hmm. So what the administrator is saying is the system failed. Have we heard this before?
Dr. Sonja Santelises was the City Schools CEO four years ago when France’s son was a freshman. But she will not interview with FOX45 News. Instead, we received a two-page statement, which explains what should happen when a student is chronically absent or failing.
The district says students received a letter about their academic status this past summer, and records can be accessed through the campus portal. When a student is absent, an automated call is placed to the number on file. The statement also said the school conducted recent home visits and the student’s parent visited the school. France says none of that happened.
What the statement does not address, is why France’s son was promoted despite failing classes. It doesn’t discuss his class rank, or the 58 other students with a GPA of 0.13 or lower. But it does say North Avenue is “reviewing actions that impacted student outcomes” at the school prior to this year.
What does this tell us? The system doesn’t care. The system will not be held accountable and they do not have to answer for their failures. This child is not a victim, he’s the problem. Hey, they sent several automated messages and gave him a letter.
By the way, just a reminder. The system is the government.
“It took a lot for me to just build the courage to do this,” France told Project Baltimore.
I want to point something out: Tiffany France is not a hero. She’s not a whistleblower and she shouldn’t be celebrated as such. She neglected her child. That is a heavy statement and it is not all France’s fault. But her child is her responsibility. She also failed. We’ll get into that later.
Project Baltimore asked the City Schools administrator what they would say to France. The administrator replied, “I didn’t have a hand on this student, but I worked for City Schools. So, he is one of my kids. I would hug her, and I would apologize profusely.”
This is the problem with a bureaucracy. There is nobody who is directly responsible. That’s bureaucracy is a machine and not people. It is processed paper and moving student numbers through the system so they can be “promoted” and be the problem of the next bureaucracy. There are no human beings in a bureaucracy, just numbers.
“He feels embarrassed, he feels like a failure,” France said of her son. “I’m like, you can’t feel like that. And you have to be strong and you got to keep fighting. Life is about fighting. Things happen, but you got to keep fighting. And he’s willing, he’s trying, but who would he turn to when the people that’s supposed to help him is not? Who do he turn to?”
France has pulled her son out of Augusta Fells. He’s now enrolled in an accelerated school program at Francis M. Wood in west Baltimore. If her son works hard, he could graduate by 2023.
Too little, too late. This child may not be able to break the cycle he and his mother and probably his grandmother is in. That might seem cynical and I’m sorry for that, but we have heard this story a thousand times before.
But how can this happen and how do we break this cycle.
This is a Societal Problem
Death of the Nuclear Family
Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty (1965) destroyed the nuclear family. Men were no longer necessary in the family because of welfare and food stamps. Women could receive more government assistance with no husband and a bunch of kids. I am oversimplifying this but not by much.
Feminism made sure every woman realized they did not need a man in their lives even with children.
The erosion of the importance of religion decayed the need for a family to stay together. It used to be that one only divorces if there is no other option. Today’s generations don’t even bother getting married.
Studies have shown the effects of a family made up of a father and mother has on children. It’s not even close. Today, over 50% of children are born out of wedlock (75% in the black community).
