Donald Trump has been indicted again.
A report states that white men are killing themselves at a record number last year. I wonder why.
And, according to a priest, pedophilia is just not that big of a deal and those right wing extremists should just mellow out.
Dumbass of the Day
Just Wow!
The 41-count indictment charges 19 individuals, including Trump, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Mark Meadows, Ken Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis, Ray Stallings Smith III, Robert Cheeley, Mike Roman, David Shafer, Shawn Micah Tresher Still, Stephen Lee, Harrison Floyd, Trevian Kutti, Sidney Powell, Cathleen Latham, Scott Hall, and Misty Hampton.
The charges include violating the Georgia RICO Act — the Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations Act; Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree; Conspiracy to Commit False Statements and Writings; Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents; Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree; Filing False Documents; and Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer.
Georgia Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis gave Trump and the 18 other dependents until Aug. 25 to surrender. Willis, Monday night during a press conference, said she would like a trial to take place within six months.
Trump has been charged with 115 counts within the last three months.
Trump responded:
“Nineteen people were indicted, and the whole world is laughing at the United States as they see how corrupt and horrible a place it has turned out to be under the leadership of Crooked Joe Biden.”
“This politically-inspired indictment, which could have been brought close to three years ago, was tailored for placement right smack in the middle of my political campaign, where I am leading all Republicans—by a lot—and beating Joe Biden soundly in almost all polls.”
He also said:
“The racist and corrupt district attorney of Fulton County, which has turned out to be a murder capital of the world with among the highest violent crime levels anywhere in our country, just opened a fundraising site in order to benefit off the things she most campaigned on, ‘I will get Donald Trump.'”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-grand-jury-returns-10-indictments-in-georgia-election-case-against-trump-allies
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/donald-trump-fourth-indictment-georgia-elections
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-grand-jury-returns-10-indictments-in-georgia-election-case-against-trump-allies
I Wonder Why Men?
According to the Daily Wire:
Suicides climbed to a record 49,500 last year, putting the suicide rate higher than it has been since the beginning of World War II, according to government data released Thursday.
Suicide deaths rose 3% in 2022, jumping by more than 1,000 deaths, the new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show.
Men took their own lives nearly four times as much as women.
A total of 39,255 men committed suicide last year, compared to 10,194 women. Both numbers are higher than in 2021, when suicides spiked 4% and a total of 38,358 men and 9,825 women took their own lives.
White men have the highest suicide rate among male racial groups with about 50 suicides per 100,000 men, the CDC said.
Male suicidality has been a known crisis for years. Risk factors for men can be loneliness, social alienation, or a weakened sense of meaning or purpose in life, which can result from difficult events like losing a job or the dissolution of a man’s nuclear family, such as through divorce, according to academics.
I Told You So
Here is a weird opinion article. This is from Canadian news source, The Globe and Mail. It is an opinion piece by an Angelicin Priest named Michael Coren.
Here’s the article:
I’ve just experienced another attack on social media. The harassment on X, as Twitter now calls itself, usually lasts around 36 hours, and while most of the nasties are trolls and bots, I can’t pretend that the hundreds of comments don’t have an effect. I’m a priest, progressive, outspoken. No point in complaining. But a disturbing new aspect of these bombardments are the repeated and constant false accusations of pedophilia – not a libellous dribble, but a flood.
Basically this guy is yelling about Left wing, secular nonsense and people are saying he’s not a real priest. That’s it. No threats against him or his family or anything like that. They’re just calling him a sham which he is.
It’s not really about me of course, and I’m in good company. Last month in Belleville, Ont., when Justin Trudeau was swarmed by a right-wing mob, one of the hysterical shouts clearly heard was that he was a child molester. It’s grotesque nonsense about the Prime Minister that swamps social media. In fact, there aren’t many politicians and activists on the left who haven’t been accused of this awful crime.
Well, Justin Trudeau does want the government to take custody of children from their parents so he can drug them and cut off their body parts, so there is that.
And with a horribly convenient timing, a new movie, Sound of Freedom, is currently the talk of the far right. Jim Caviezel (who played Jesus in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ) stars as Tim Ballard, a former government agent who rescues children from sex traffickers. As the critic Sam Adams wrote perceptively for the online magazine Slate, it “arrived in theatres surrounded by a cloud of innuendo put forth by its star and its noisiest right-wing supporters – conspiratorial insinuations about who doesn’t want this story to be told and what real-world traffickers are really up to.”
This movie was based on a true story. All the characters are real and a lot of this happened. There is a lot of sex trafficking in the world. Most slavery is for sex trafficking.
And what is inconvenient about the release of the movie? That’s a strange statement.
Rescuing children is one thing, and entirely admirable, but this phenomenon goes much further than that. Mr. Caviezel himself has spoken of “the whole adrenochrome empire,” describing the substance as “an elite drug that they’ve used for many years” that is “10 times more potent than heroin” and “has some mystical qualities as far as making you look younger.”
Adrenochrome, zealots claim, can only be obtained from adrenal glands in a living human body, thus the need to abduct children. It’s obscene and dangerous quackery, but that doesn’t help convince the cult of the credulous. This rubbish has its origins in a QAnon belief that powerful, international figures intent on resetting the world, controlling people and destroying religious freedom are also kidnapping little boys and girls.
Caviezel was using a metaphor. He wasn’t being literal.
As far as his last statement, that is not QAnon or conspiracy theory. Left has wrote books about it. The World Economic Forum has a website that preaches this. Jeffry Epstein was caught doing this for people like Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton.
That was the lunacy behind Pizzagate in 2016, when thousands believed that a pedophilia ring led by those at the highest levels of the Democratic Party was operating out of a Washington pizza restaurant. More than a million messages were sent on Twitter supporting the fantasy, eventually leading to employees being harassed, followed by a shooting and then an arson.
There’s always been a strong dose of homophobia involved, through the venomous old canard of gay men being groomers, in spite of all the facts and evidence. Facts and evidence, however, are the last things relevant in all this. The trans issue magnified the paranoia, and it’s been pushed into the mainstream by a new generation of right-wing politicians.
What does LGBTQ crap have to do with pedophilia? Could it be that it is that cult that is pushing sexuality on our kids? How about, “yeah”.
When Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill was being debated, for example, Governor Ron DeSantis’s press secretary Christina Pushaw wrote that anyone who opposed the legislation was “probably a groomer.” In 2020 on NBC, Donald Trump spoke of his supporters as being “very strongly against pedophilia and I agree with that. And I agree with it very strongly.”
Yeah, because the bill said you couldn’t sexualize kids in school. If you want to sexualize kids in school, that makes you a groomer.
These statements have enormous influence on the gullible. Bizarre ideas about superwealthy and secretive cabals imposing godless liberalism, fears of children being sexualized or stolen, a terror of change – all this has been empowered by the increasingly media-savvy secular and fundamentalist Christian right.
I would love to debate this guy. Everything he mentioned there is happening. I can give you examples.
The disorder may be unique in details but not in theme. In medieval Europe, antisemitic blood libels accused Jews of kidnapping and killing children so as to use their blood, usually for the Passover ceremony. Pope Innocent IV condemned the libels as early as 1247, but they continued, even as late as the last century. They led, inevitably, to pogroms and murder.
Yeah, all that did happen. But the church admitted it was wrong.
Notice, he’s saying the church is the same today as they were in 1247. That’s not a stretch at all.
Scratch the surface of modern conspiracy theory and antisemitism often appears, but today the accused are usually singled out not by race but ideology, and that includes politicians and public figures considered to be left-of-centre, or even people who support vaccinations, abortion rights, LGBTQ equality, or climate justice policies. This might sound fanciful, but the evidence is sadly abundant.
I don’t see a correlation between antisemitism, abortion and pedophilia as related. I’m pretty sure I can be OK with Jews but think this guy is a pedophile and be against abortion. The three subjects seem to be independent of each other.
It’s particularly tragic as children increasingly suffer under a culture of poverty, food insecurity and forced migration. Ironically, those roaring about pedophile rings tend to ignore all of this and are often downright opposed to legislation that may help children. As well, child abuse and human trafficking are genuine issues and have to be taken extremely seriously; baseless and hateful hyperbole only worsens the situation.
He’s got all the Leftist terms going.
Forced migration means illegal immigration and we are against that mainly because a lot of the child sex trafficking occurs with it. If you follow the laws and prevent illegal immigration, you will hamper child sex trafficking.
Well, pedophilia can be prevented.
There’s no indication that this horror show is diminishing, and it has to be condemned by conservative leaders who consider themselves to be moderate and responsible. They may not be to blame, but their relative failure to speak out simply won’t do. If something doesn’t change soon, I genuinely fear that violence will occur, and judging by the temperature, volume and numbers of the far right, that violence could be of the worst possible kind.
https://thepostmillennial.com/canadian-newspaper-has-meltdown-over-conservatives-fighting-pedophilia?utm_campaign=64466
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-far-rights-fixation-on-pedophilia-is-dangerous/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter