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Dec072021

Episode 460 – She Did What Now?

The last three podcasts have dealt with the case that could overturn Roe vs. Wade and Planned Parenthood vs. Casey. I have been tunnel-visioned. I have neglected all of the other news out there. I cannot miss the other important news that has been occurring in the world simply for a huge social issue that is important to me.

Let me bring you back up to date!

 

Personal News

So this there was some great news and some bad news from this weekend:

The good news:

  • I finished two chapters of my book. Both written and typing.
  • I found an artist to help me with my cover art and some of the pictures in my book. OK, it’s not a real artist. It’s my dad who took up painting when he retired.
  • I finished my Christmas shopping. All online. Josie wanted to go to a mall and she did. But she didn’t make me go. That was great news.
  • I gave her some money. She went to the mall but it was terribly crowded and she found nothing. She came back horribly frustrated and gave me back my money. That’s great news. Not that the malls were terribly crowded (which I thought was funny) or that she was horribly frustrated (Though I told you so, comes to mind) but that she gave me my money back.

Now comes the bad news:

  • When one successfully finishes their Christmas shopping online, the crap is eventually delivered. Yeah, that did happen.
  • Josie took all the 6 ounce presents to store in her 3300 square foot apartment but she made me keep the slide and climbing structure that is the size of one of the small pyramids in Egypt. Needless to say, I don’t have room for it in the shoebox that I live in.
  • I’m keeping it on my patio.
  • The problem I have is that it’s going to rain over the next two days. If a drop hits the box of Josie’s grandkids Christmas present, I am screwed.
  • What’s worse, I’m going to have to put this f-ing thing together.
  • I’m just kidding. I’m not putting the thing together. That’s her problem.

Anyway, let’s get to the important news.

 

I Can Believe It

According to the New York Post:

The unidentified female flew from Syracuse, NY, to Atlanta, GA, where she was caught breastfeeding her feline on the plane. A flight attendant told her repeatedly to stop and put her cat back in its cage, however, the woman refused.

I don’t even know what to say about this. Even with the world as it is, this is weird.

The story continues:

A message was sent through the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) to alert Delta crew in Atlanta that a passenger in seat 13A “is breastfeeding a cat and will not put cat back in its carrier when [flight attendant] requested.”

There are some things the flight crew could have done to use a technicality to have this gal put the cat back in its carrier. Ask her if the cat is masked.

By the way, this brings up another question. When the vax mandate hits, it the can going to need to be fully vaxxed? With the booster?

The article continues:

Flight attendant Ainsley Elizabeth, who was on board during the incident, took to TikTok on Nov. 13 to explain more of what went down, Newsweek reported.

“This woman had one of those, like, hairless cats swaddled up in a blanket so it looked like a baby,” she said. “Her shirt was up and she was trying to get the cat to latch and she wouldn’t put the cat back in the carrier. And the cat was screaming for its life.”

Not surprised. I do the same thing at the airport when my beer is watered down.

By the way, I would assume because this was one of those wussy cats because it doesn’t have any hair. I’m sure that not having any hair as a cat is a COVID co-morbidity or a pre-existing condition. It should have been wearing a mask and be vaccinated. I don’t need to get the China virus from this cat.

Alright, I’m done. Spent way more time than I should have on this story. There are so many more important stories to go over.

The chick landed in Atlanta, got picked up and was probably issued a $7 fine for animal…I don’t know…cruelty? I haven’t seen this chick’s knockers so I don’t know. I know Atlanta is a Leftist city and doesn’t have any real laws so I doubt anything happened to her.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/02/woman-caught-breastfeeding-her-hairless-cat-on-a-delta-flight/

 

Innovative?

Europe has gone insane, or tyrannical when it comes to this stupid pandemic that kills less than 1% of their population.

Germany has decided to lockdown and separate the unvaccinated from the vaccinated. Sound familiar from Germany? They have grocery stores that have fencing. separating the vaxxed from the unvaxxed. I saw the pictures. First off I thought that fences and walls doesn’t work. Second, they were fences. Do they really think that a fences is going to stop a virus?

Anyway, Italy has also gone nuts, requiring vaccination to live life. Well, one guys came up with a brilliant idea to get a legal vaccine card without actually getting the shot.

From the New York Post:

Guido Russo, 57, had refused to get the jab before showing up Thursday at a vaccine center in Biella, where he used a silicone prosthetic during his ill-fated ploy to trick a nurse with the “well-made” fake arm, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported.

It worked for the first shot. But, apparently, the nurse during his second shot got a little touchy feely and found out that his arm was fake and his real arm was under his shirt.

This poor bastard is now being investigated for fraud. Russo is a dentist and requires something called a super green pass to live life in Italy. He said his life is now ruined.

According to the New York Post:

“Go away, you have ruined my life,” a peeved Russo told reporters from the behind the door of a villa in Pettinengo. “Go away, I’ll call the carabinieri.”

Russo had told the nurse last week who uncovered his bogus arm that he found himself in a bind.

“I don’t want to get the vaccine, but I need the green pass to work,” he told the nurse, Filippa Bua, la Repubblica reported Sunday.

His life is probably not ruined. Typical Italian exaggeration.

There was no mention of what penalties he could face but he says that his new found fame.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/06/man-who-used-fake-arm-to-avoid-covid-shot-says-life-is-ruined/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/germany-announces-lockdown-for-unvaccinated-people?%3Futm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwtwitter

 

Isn’t There Something Else They Could Research

According to the New York Post:

Taking Viagra slashes Alzheimer’s risk by two-thirds, research suggests.

Scientists claim the love drug may help boost brain health and cut levels of toxic proteins that trigger dementia.

Experts analyzed data on 7.2 million US adults and found regular users had a 69 percent lower chance of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s over the next six years.

Medics say the findings, published in the journal Nature Aging, suggest the little blue pill could soon be prescribed to tackle dementia.

At least when I get older and I get turned on I’ll remember why.

I remember, in the movie Idiocracy, researchers were doing research on making the perfect anti-ED pill instead of researching something one might think is more important like, I don’t know, cancer.

Here’s the Alzheimer’s is a terrible disease. My grandfather had it. But there are two things about this that annoy me. First, Viagra is not exactly a pill that can be taken by an Alzheimer patient, you know, because of the side effects. Not only the obvious side effect but also blood circulation issues that may be dangerous to older people and the reaction that it has with other drugs which older people are surely using. It also is dangerous for high blood pressure patients and patients with heart issues.

But that isn’t my biggest problem with this. You know who makes Viagra? Pfizer. You know what Pfizer also makes? The China virus vaccine. You  know what we know about the China virus vaccine? Not much.

We don’t know the long term effects. We don’t know how long it lasts or why it’s not effective. We don’t know the B-cell and T-cell effects. Maybe Pfizer should stop screwing around with an ED pill and figure that crap out.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/06/taking-viagra-cuts-the-risk-of-alzheimers-by-up-to-69-percent/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

 

You Knew This Was Coming

God bless capitalism. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this.

According to the Daily Wire:

In Massachusetts, an enterprising entrepreneur has opened a store called “Let’s Go Brandon.” The North Attleborough store “sells merchandise like hats, shirts, stickers and signs,” as WJAR reports.

The ubiquitous “Let’s Go Brandon” meme was triggered in early October, when an NBC sports reporter interviewing NASCAR driver Brandon Brown at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama after Brown scored his first career NASCAR Xfinity Series win stated in a video that the crowd was chanting “Let’s go, Brandon!” when in reality they were chanting “F*** Joe Biden.”

This store probably has a lease for only a short time because we have no idea how long Joe Biden is going to be President but this guy is going to make a ton of money in the meantime. What is also surprising is that this store is opened in Massachusetts which is a really blue state.

I’ll repeat what I said before. This is great. Joe Biden has become a national joke. People are beginning to push back against his idiocy. People are recognizing the damage he’s doing. The problem is that Joe Biden has the mental awareness of a palm tree. He’s not running things. We have only about a month to go before his damage can be limited because the campaign season for the 2022 midterms starts and the Dems are going to get their asses kicked and know it. The last thing they want is to go radical while debating a Republican.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/lets-go-brandon-store-opens-in-massachusetts

 

We Need More Drugs!

This is great!

From NPR:

City officials in San Francisco want to delay the imposition of a tax on lawful recreational cannabis businesses to help them compete with illegal marijuana dealers.

“Cannabis businesses create good jobs for San Franciscans and provide safe, regulated products to their customers,” Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said in a tweet. “Now is not the time to impose a new tax on small businesses that are just getting established and trying to compete with illicit operators.”

Last week the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance to suspend the Cannabis Business Tax for the 2021 and 2022 tax years.

The ordinance requires a signature from San Francisco Mayor London Breed before it takes effect. “Mayor Breed does intend to sign the ordinance once it passes the Board of Supervisors on a second reading tomorrow,” the mayor’s office told NPR.

Remember when they legalized pot in California they said the state would be making all this money? This is the same reasoning they are using to legalize meth, heroin and coke. Well here’s the problem: If pot is too expensive in the stores, people will sell it cheaper on the streets. This was a debating point against legalization. It wasn’t going to get rid of the drug dealers because their dope was going to be cheaper.

There is another problem the pot dispensaries are having and think this is a bigger problem San Francisco is having in general. Gangs of thieves are breaking into the dispensaries and stealing the pot. Dispensaries are having trouble making a profit and keeping stock because of all the theft and break ins.

But, again, this shows the Left never wants to deal with their real problems.

  • They don’t want to deal with crime that is partially motivated by drugs.
  •  They don’t want to deal with the drug addiction the plagues their streets. In fact, they created places to use drugs and do not arrest those using in public.
  • They don’t want to deal homeless problem that is caused by mental illness or drugs.

Instead, the city council is trying to make drugs easier to get. This is cynical but they want it for a reason. The want to keep a city of zombies. They want to keep the misery and hopelessness. They want to keep it so they keep their power. San Francisco, and Los Angeles too, are centers of polar opposites. You have the rich and powerful, one has to be in San Francisco to afford a place to live. Then you have the drones.

San Francisco is Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. You have the elite, who are described as the Alphas. You have the drones, which are the brainless Deltas. The government encourages the use of drugs, called Soma, the keep the population content and high. Any dissatisfaction is cured by using Soma.

I am not against pot. I don’t think it’s any worse than alcohol. That doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s not dangerous at all and anyone who says otherwise is an idiot. I also think it has some serious medicinal value. But there’s a reason the Left is pushing it. Control.

San Francisco is pushing it.

https://www.npr.org/2021/12/06/1061792972/san-francisco-moves-to-delay-its-cannabis-business-tax-to-give-legal-dealers-a-b
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/06/health/marijuana-sleep-problems-study-wellness/index.html?utm_content=2021-12-07T00%3A31%3A04&utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNN&utm_medium=social

 

Why Do They Continue To Do This

This such a dumb story on so many levels.

According to the New York Post:

Columbia University will not discipline a professor who angered students by using the N-word while quoting a scene from the film “8 Mile,” according to the school’s newspaper.

The Columbia Spectator reported that tenured teacher Jonathan Rieder will not face punishment after students filed a Title IX complaint in the wake of the Oct. 28 class.

Rieder, who is white, used the term during a “Culture in America” lecture and claimed he thought it was permissible because he pronounced it with an “a” at the end of the slur, instead of an “er.”

“In retrospect, it’s fair to say that I didn’t need to quote the word,” he wrote in an email to students after the class, according to student news site Bwog. “I regret any pain or offense caused by my quoting, whether one student or the whole class felt pain or offense. You should know that in the remaining weeks of the course, no material will call for saying the word.”

Why anyone would send their kids to college makes me wonder some time.

First off, what kind of idiot is this professor? Does he not read the newspapers? Did he really think this was going to go well for him no matter how he pronounced the N-word?

He didn’t quote Shakespeare or Twain, he quoted Eminem. What the hell does Eminem have to say that should be quoted in a class at Columbia. And who in the hell approved this class and that it would be non-controversial? I will give the school credit for not canning the guy.

And, of course, the wall flower kids.

I remember when one could say anything in college because it’s a place of learning and sharing ideas! No matter how controversial. How are these kids going to survive when they have to get real jobs, screw up and then get yelled at. Why didn’t the school just throw these woke idiots out of class, or better, out of the school.

I pity our future.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/06/columbia-declines-to-punish-professor-for-using-n-word-in-8-mile-quote/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dec062021

Episode 459 – A Second Chance to Screw Up Foreign Policy

Let’s get to some news, and there’s a lot of it.

And let’s complete the third part of our abortion talk.

 

News

Here is some news that happened over the weekend:

  • Bob Dole has died in his sleep at the age of 98.
    • War hero.
    • Purple heart award winner.
    • 2-time Bronze Star winner.
    • Presidential Medal of Freedom winner from Bill Clinton.
    • Senator.
    • Presidential candidate.
  • Bill de Blasio, who is leaving office in a month, has decided to screw New York as much as possible. He is the first mayor to implement a vax mandate to the private sector.
    • Vaccines for all private sector employees by December 27.
    • Proof of vaccination to go to restaurants, fitness facilities and entertainment facilities for children 5-11.
    • Requires 2 shots, up from 1.
    • This will affect:
      • 45% blacks.
      • 40% whites.
      • 30% Hispanic.
    • Is this Constitutional? This time it might be.
  • Afghanistan update according to the New York Times:
    • 22.8 million people, half the country, are facing starvation including 1 million children.
    • The Taliban were providing one meal a day for families. Now they are not guaranteeing that.
    • The economic system is crashing with sanctions from the United States and foreign aid from other nations not coming in.
    •  There is up to 50% unemployment.
    • Crops are failing and animals are starving.
    • The Taliban is having issues keeping power on in the middle of winter.
  • Russia, who also has a hypersonic missile, is now planning to invade Ukraine. Yay! This will be another foreign policy issue Biden can f-up.
  • The Chicago Public School District (CPS) is changing its signage for restrooms in all schools requiring the schools to adopt signage which no longer is separated into boys’ and girls’ restrooms but rather open to members of both sexes.

Listen to the announcement:

I guess Chicago learned nothing from the Louden County School District after a student raped two girls because the restrooms were desegregated.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-de-blasio-announces-nyc-private-sector-vaccine-mandate-for-all-employees-new-requirements-for-children
https://www.dailywire.com/news/lets-go-brandon-store-opens-in-massachusetts

https://www.dailywire.com/news/who-is-making-these-ridiculous-decisions-chicago-public-schools-blasted-for-eliminating-boys-and-girls-separate-restrooms

Their Sacrament of Abortion is Under Attack

In the last two podcasts, we talked about abortion and the current fight in front of the Supreme Court. What we didn’t talk about was the reaction. Needless to say, it has been really over-the-top. Let’s take  look.

 

The Protests

There were around 20,000 people protesting at the Supreme Court last week. It was pretty split, a lot of protestors were anti-abortion.

The anti-abortionists basically said the same thing. Parenthood is great and abortion is murder. But, of course, the media covers the pro-abortionist view. Too bad Julie Rikelman, who argued in front of the Supreme Court, never argued any of the points of the protestors:

Some things:

  • Women will to jail or die? Really? That didn’t happen when abortion was illegal. That whole urban legend of millions of women dying of back ally abortions never happened.
    • The head of NARAL admitted he made that up (Bernard Nathanson of NARAL).
    • In 1972, there was only 32 deaths due to illegal abortions.
    • Turns out, when you make something illegal, people don’t do that thing. This is my case for being against drug legalization.
  • There is not one restrictive abortion law, including the one in Texas, that criminalizes or penalizes abortion that goes after the woman.

Here’s something better. A bunch of gals decided to get together and take abortion pills to prove their support for abortion. Here’s that little clip:

I don’t know about you and I’m no doctor, but a pill that enacts hormones to push something out of your body that’s naturally in your body sounds like it’s probably not great for your body. These pills don’t even get one high.

I don’t know how many abortion pills these gals took but I hope they took a whole bunch.

 

Politicians

Nancy Pelosi had something to say about it. I hate putting her clips on because, between her being 80 years old and her dentures, you can barely understand what she’s saying. But I think it’s rich hearing her say anything. Listen:

Some things:

  • We’ve already talked about stare decisis and the other arguments, which she doesn’t mention. So, we’ll go past that. By the way, the only argument she brought up was stare decisis.
  • This woman is a “Catholic” and has five children. Does she really believe in abortion? Is she really the best speaker for abortion? Could she have political motives to being pro-abortion.
  •  I do not want to get a sex-ed lecture from someone who’s pro-abortion.
    • Anti-abortionists take responsibility before you get pregnant!
    • Don’t have sex, use contraception, get married.
    • Get your life together before you do something that will get you pregnant.
    • Personal responsibility is part of the sexual act. I know the Left hates personal responsibility.
    • What anti-abortionists are saying is getting pregnant is a little late. Pregnancy isn’t spread like the cold. We know how it happens and where it comes from. Be responsible then. Once pregnant, the horse is out of the barn.

Here’s Pramila Jayapal, who seems to have become the new leader of The Squad:

Some things:

  • For me, Jayapal, who has had an abortion, shows she has no personal responsibility and bad judgement. She should not have a position of power in government.
  • Outside of that, she is admitting that the abortion argument is weak.
  • The back ally abortion thing is not a thing. It was a lie.

 

The Media

The media has also had a lot of problems with this. Let’s listen to the genius of The View, Joy Behar.

Some things:

  • I love getting lectured from pro-abortionists about sex and how we don’t know anything. The Left has forgotten that sex leads to pregnancy.
  • This is why I choose to use contraception over birth control. I think you need to control conception. Birth control controls birth. Abortion is part of that.
  • No one is having sex with Joy Behar. She is a disgusting human being and I find it contraception to hear anything about sex coming from her mouth.
  • She’s leaving The View. Though they have many idiots on that show, she is the queen idiot and I’ll miss her for comedic reasons.

Then there’s Whoopi Goldberg from The View. 

Some things:

  • I have been reliably told by the ladies of The View that men can get pregnant. She just blew her entire argument, right of the bat.
  • Also, it doesn’t matter if I’m a man or a women, both, or neither; evil is evil.
    • Slavery was ended by white men.
    • The right to vote was given by men.
  • Finally, no one is touching Whoopie Goldberg’s body.

 

Opinion

Here is a crazy article that goes on to demonize adoption. This is from the New York Times called I Was Adopted. I Know The Trauma It Can Inflict by Elizabeth Spiers. I find this essay disturbing because it is trying to demonize any alternative to abortion. What is funny about the article is just how insane it is. It makes no sense whatsoever.

It is also one of the most egregious examples of debating from the position of moral authority I have ever seen.

On Wednesday, as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments from state attorneys seeking to uphold Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, Justice Amy Coney Barrett kept getting at one question: Why was abortion necessary, when women who do not want to be mothers can simply give their babies up for adoption?

As an adoptee myself, I was floored by Justice Barrett’s assumption that adoption is an accessible and desirable alternative for women who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant. She may not realize it, but what she is suggesting is that women don’t need access to abortion because they can simply go do a thing that is infinitely more difficult, expensive, dangerous and potentially traumatic than terminating a pregnancy during its early stages.

As an adoptive mother herself, Justice Barrett should have some inkling of the complexities of adoption and the toll it can inflict on children, as well as birth mothers. But she speaks as if adoption is some kind of idyllic fairy tale. My own adoption actually was what many would consider idyllic. I was raised by two adoptive parents, Alice and Terry, from the time I was an infant, and grew up in a home where I knew every day that I was loved. A few years ago, I found my biological mother, Maria, and three siblings I didn’t know I had via a DNA test and Facebook.

The first time I spoke to Maria on the phone — she lives in Alabama, not too far from my parents, and I live in Brooklyn — she apologized repeatedly for giving me up and told me she loved me and that I would always be family. “You are blood,” she would say later. I told her, and continue to tell her, every time she brings it up, that the apology is unnecessary. I had a wonderful childhood and I believe she had made the right decision. But she remains heartbroken about the years we missed together.

Both Maria and my mom, Alice, oppose abortion on religious grounds. My mom is white and Southern Baptist; Maria is Hispanic and Pentecostal. Both like to point to me to justify their beliefs, saying that had Maria gotten an abortion, I would not exist. It’s a familiar argument: The anti-abortion movement likes to invoke Nobel Prize winners who might never have materialized, or potential adoptees who might have cured cancer, if they hadn’t been aborted at eight weeks.

I’m no Nobel Prize winner, but I still resent being used as a political football by the right. I believe that abortion is a form of health care, and that every woman should have access to it if she needs it. But perhaps more than that, I resent the suggestion by people like Justice Barrett that adoption is a simple solution, and I resent it on behalf of Maria, who found the choice she made traumatizing and still feels that pain, 44 years later. Even when an adoption works out well, as it did in my case, it is still fraught.

When I echo Maria in saying that she “gave me up,” the language always rankles adoptive parents, because it introduces an unpleasant complexity — implying that my birth mother was not completely happy with her choice. Or worse, that it made her miserable. But that is sometimes the case, even when adoption is the best option for all involved. Adoption is not always an unalloyed good. It’s a complicated choice in a situation that has no right or wrong answer.

If the court overturns Roe v. Wade, many women will be forced to give birth to children they did not want or did not feel that they could afford to support. While pregnant, they will undergo the bonding with a child that happens by biological design as an embryo develops into a living, breathing, conscious human. And then that child will be taken away.

The right likes to suggest that abortion is a traumatic experience for women — a last resort, a painful memory. But adoption is often just as traumatic as the right thinks abortion is, if not more so, as a woman has to relinquish not a lump of cells but a fully formed baby she has lived with for nine months.

I’m a mother myself, to an adorable 6-year-old self-proclaimed Fortnite expert, and as is often the case, I did not know I was pregnant with him until the usual symptoms appeared a few weeks into the pregnancy. As anyone who has gestated a human will tell you, there is a vast difference between the fourth week of pregnancy and the 40th. By the 40th, you’re familiar with your baby’s regular rhythms of kicking and moving. When I awoke, my son would wake up shortly after and I’d feel him turning and stretching, or less pleasantly, jamming his precious little foot into what felt like my cervix. This is one of the paradoxes of pregnancy: Something alien is usurping your body and sapping you of nutrition and energy, but you’re programmed to gleefully enable it and you become desperately protective of it. It’s a kind of biological brainwashing. And this often happens whether you want to be a parent or not.

Justice Barrett is well aware of the kind of biological brainwashing that occurs during pregnancy; she gave birth to five children. And yet she blithely seems to assume that a mother can simply choose not to bond with the child she’s gestating solely on the basis that she is not ready to be a mother or believes that she is unable to provide for the child. She assumes that the mother will be supported financially and otherwise, throughout the pregnancy, even in a country where maternal mortality statistics are abysmal. And she assumes that children surrendered for adoption will find a home, and not a bed in the foster care system. She probably assumes these things because she cannot fathom being in this position herself. These are assumptions that stem from the privilege of being financially secure, having never needed an abortion, and perhaps the assumption that women who do have done something wrong and must face the consequences.

In my experience, some on the right believe that the trauma adoption inflicts is a consequence of irresponsibility. But unexpected pregnancy is not a de facto function of bad decision making. It can be a failure of contraception, the product of a rape, a mistaken belief that a woman is infertile. There is no justifiable reason to inflict harm on women and the babies they might produce in any of these situations, regardless of judgment.

The trauma doesn’t just affect mothers, either. Researchers have a term for what children who are adopted, even as infants, may suffer from later in life: relinquishment trauma. The premise is that babies bond with their mothers in utero and become familiar with their behaviors. When their first caretaker is not the biological mother, they register the difference and the stress of it has lasting effects.

I probably got off easy in that respect, in part because I did spend a few months with my biological mother before I was adopted, but that had the unintended effect of traumatizing my older siblings, who remember me as a baby who was there, and then suddenly was gone. This was driven home to me by my older sister Bobbi, whose first encounter with me was over Facebook. “All I can say is I remember you,” she wrote. “I have loved you and missed you my entire life.”

What Justice Barrett and others are suggesting women do in lieu of abortion is not a small thing. It is life changing, irrevocable, and not to be taken lightly. It often causes trauma, even when things work out, and it’s a disservice to adoptees and their families, biological and adopted, to pretend otherwise in service of a neat political narrative.

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Dec042021

Episode 458 – The Arguments

We went through the Mississippi 15-week abortion limits, Roe versus Wade and Planned Parenthood versus Casey. Now, let’s look at the arguments from this week’s Dobbs versus Jackson’s Women Health Organization.

 

The Arguments

I struggled to figure out how to format this whole thing and I decided to focus on the arguments of the lawyers rather than all of the questions from the Justices, though we will look at a couple of the questions and comments. This is because we can get an idea on how they are going to rule and we can see who is an activist on the court and who is actually looking at the precedents.

Now, please understand something. I am biased. I am very anti-abortion.

 

Argument to Overturn Roe and Casey

The lawyer arguing for the Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks is the Mississippi Solicitor General, Scott Stuart. Let’s listen to his opening:

Some things:

  1. The statements in the beginning where he says the damage that Roe and Casey have done are correct though they aren’t the first cases that did this. But, the cases are damaging because of the deaths they have caused over the last 50 years.
  2. This is an interesting point he brings up. There seems to be this belief that if a woman is in mortal danger by giving birth, she still can’t get an abortion. This is hogwash and always has been.
    • The mother’s life has always been more important than the fetus’s life. Abortion has always been permissible.
    • Even conservative religions like Catholicism and Judaism believe this and permit abortion when the mother’s life is in danger.
  3.  All of this is true.
      • We know for a fact that the baby is a human being at conception.
      • We know that abortion is both psychologically, emotionally and physically damaging to the woman. We just have to look at Kermit Gosnell to know this. Many of his patients were left sterile and a few died.
      • The process of abortion is brutal.
        • The doctor poisons the fetus.
        • Sucks out the brain to collapse the skull.
        • The cuts the fetus into pieces and then sucks out the pieces. This is also a major cause for infection within the woman.
  4. This is a very important point.
          • The idea with the Constitution is that decisions like this is left to the people of the state unless it is directly mentioned in the Constitution.
          • Abortion is not mentioned, at all, in the Constitution.
          • Privacy, which is what Roe rides on, is not mentioned in the Constitution.
          • Therefore, it should be up to the people of the state to make the decision on whether abortion is legal, restricted or illegal.
          • I also liked the way he argued for the rights of the fetus and killing the fetus violates his rights to due process and “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness”.
  5. This is also the great lie of the Left. If Roe and Casey are overturned, abortion will not be banned throughout the country. Quite the opposite for certain states like California, New York or Virginia. Abortion will probably be expanded. In those states you might be able to abort a kid after it is born.

One thing he does not mention in “women’s rights”. This is not an accident. It is not a right if that right harms another. In his argument, he makes very clear the humanity of the baby though I would have liked him to make a more scientific argument (though I am sure that is in his written brief and he only has two minutes for oral arguments).

 

 

Argument to Keep Roe and Casey

The respondent is Julie Rikelman who is the Senior Director of the Center for Reproductive Rights. Let’s Listen to her opening:

Some things:

  1. Her first premise is way off here.
    1. The viability standard is a subjective, non-scientific standard. There are children that have survived outside the womb over a month before the viability standard.
    2. The problem with the precedent is that it was unconstitutional.
    3. The forcing of women to “remain pregnant and force birth” is a false argument. The choice was when they decided to have sex and get pregnant. Nothing was being done against their will while getting pregnant.
  2. Stare Decisis is a weak argument.
    1. Stare decisis is defined is Latin for “to stand by things decided.” In short, it is the doctrine of precedent. Courts cite to stare decisis when an issue has been previously brought to the court and a ruling already issued. … Horizontal stare decisis refers to a court adhering to its own precedent.
    2. There have been plenty of precedents overturned in spite of stare decisis including Dread Scott to end Jim Crow laws. Why? Because they were evil and previous court cases were wrong which allowed the evil to continue.
    3. But I would say this is her strongest case.
    4. I also want to point out that she talked about “liberty” throughout her argument and not “privacy”. That’s because that is the wording of Section 1 of the XIV Amendment and she knows she has a bunch of textualists in the court.
    5. If it’s wrong, it’s wrong and how long a bad precedent has been around is irrelevant.
  3. The argument against this is simple:
    1. Roe and Casey weren’t right. They’re wrong morally, legally and scientifically.
    2. Again, the state is not taking anyone’s liberty away. It’s restoring the liberty of the baby.
    3. Abortion also has physical and emotional risks. Abortion is not safe, especially for the human being who is being terminated.
    4. I love the talk of consequences. Right now, consequences are on the federal government. By overturning Roe and Casey, consequences shift to the woman and man to take responsibility not to get pregnant.
    5. Again:
      1. Not a right when it violates the rights of another (in this case, the fetus).
      2. Not a Constitutional right because it’s not in the Constitution, which is why Roe and Casey are bad precedents.
  4. Propel women backwards?
    1. Everyone’s a victim. Women, poor women, she didn’t say women of color probably because Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood was a racist and a eugenicist and that would have opened a can of worms.
    2. What about the baby? Dead is pretty backwards. Notice, the baby is not one of her victims.
    3. Here’s something: Responsibility and consequences for bad decisions does sometimes suck.

Notice she doesn’t address something in this entire argument. She never denies that the fetus is a human being. She arguing about the viability of that human being and that should be the basis of the court’s decision. You hear during abortion protests that the fetus is just a clump of cells. Rikelman doesn’t say that. That does not make for a good argument when your opponent is arguing you’re killing a human being.

In fact, she doesn’t mention the fetus at all in her argument. It’s all women’s rights crap. The fetus is a human being. It is a human being at conception. Rikelman doesn’t argue that. This is the problem with the pro-abortion crowd. They can’t argue any of the facts. She did nothing to convince me of anything.

 

The Justices

Here’s Clarence Thomas asking Rikelman about what argument she’s trying to make.

Some things:

  • Thomas scored a huge hit on Rikelman.
  • Rikelman seems to be trying to rewrite Roe.
  • Roe was about privacy, not liberty. This is a problem for her because justices like Thomas may see the precedent as invalid since the XIV Amendment does not mention privacy.
  • Instead of saying, “I don’t know,” she goes on about liberty as if it means privacy.
  • She has no answer.

Here’s Justice Sotomayor making an insane comparison and expecting Stuart to answer to insanity.

Some things here:

  • I used to think you had to be smart to be on the Supreme Court. I have been corrected. This is an insane assertion. Or just an assertion of the truly stupid.
  • Brain death is degenerative and will lead to…wait for it…death.
  • A fetus is a developing person. In fact, a human being’s brain develops until the age of 25 when their prefrontal cortex is, finally, fully developed. That’s why people do stupid things at 21.
  • Sotomayor has shown herself as a biased, activist judge.
  • There is no reason for Stuart to take any of her question seriously. She has already made her choice.
  • This also shows how these judges, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, feel that the Constitution can be manipulated.

But, Sotomayor continues with her stupidity, totally missing what her job is. I can’t believe this broad in on the Supreme Court for the rest of her life:

Some things:

  • Um…what?
  • She has been appointed to the Supreme Court for life so she would be immune to public opinion and politics.
    • Read the Constitution.
    • Read The Federalist Papers.
    • She should be impeached from the court because she believes this.
  • Casey and Roe, which is what Stuart argues, were create because of popular opinion and politics. That shouldn’t have happened.
  • One thing I want to point out: She muddies the waters between the rights that are actually guaranteed by the Constitution and rights that are permitted by precedence. That is a huge mistake.
    • The only rights that are guaranteed are the ones through the Constitution. These are divine and God-given.
    • Rights through precedence are not rights. They are law that can be overturned.
    • If you want a right to be guaranteed, to be defined as God-given, we must go through the amendment process.
    • Abortion would never make it through the amendment process. It’s been tried.
  • This just shows we need term limits for Supreme Court Justices.

Here is Sotomayer continuing to be an idiot. This time, she not only denigrates Stuart’s argument but insults 80% of the United States. So much for giving a crap what the people think.

Some things:

  • I love this question. It shows the Left for what they are.
  • First off, Stuart made reasonable, moral argument. He never said anything about religion.
  • Second, debates about life, philosophically, which is what Sotomayor wants to focus on, does not change the science. That’s telling about how she is going to rule. She’s ignoring the science, which is absolute, and bringing it to a philosophical question, which isn’t. Science says, life starts at conception. Philosophy, at this point, is not even a question. It’s not even a debating point.
  • Stuart never made a religious or philosophical argument. It is a scientific argument based on decades of research. That’s why he’s so thrown off at the question.
  • It is actually Rikelman that makes the philosophical argument that is based on what we knew in 1993 with Casey.
  • Outside of the fact this is a smack at religion (in this case, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, which all ban abortion) it equates religion with morality.
  • And, it pushes law away from morality which law has a very iffy relationship with morality anyway.
  • Unfortunately, I could only answer these questions with questions because this is an insane question:
    • Is all morality based on religion?
    •  If so, with that fictitious separation of Church and State from that misread letter by Thomas Jefferson, does that mean law needs to be completely separated from morality?
  • Of course, neither is correct. If so, one could make murder arguably legal because those against murder could be see as moral and, therefore, religious. And we have separation of church and state.
  • This question has not been criticized enough. It’s an insane question.

Not the end of insanity when it comes to religion.

Here is Justice Stephen Breyer asking Stuart what atheists have said abortion is bad.

Some things:

  • Philosopher and bioethicists? Is this f-ing guy kidding?
  • Stuart is basing everything on actual science. Not ethics, not philosophy.

But let’s look at a couple of atheists who touted morality.

How about Friedrich Nietzsche. A humanist. When he said, “God is Dead” in The Gay Science, he wasn’t celebrating God being dead. He was lamenting it. He thought man needed religious morality to keep him from being tyrannical which would have led to the deaths of people.

What other philosopher believed in morality, not necessarily, religious morality? Albert Camus, the Absurdist who broke away from Jean Paul Sartre’s Existentialism. In The Stranger, he said we still have moral responsibility even though there is no moral bounds created by religion.

But, the reality is, Stuart made a scientific argument. He made a Constitutional argument. Religion had nothing to do with it.

Here is Clarence Thomas bringing things back to reality. What’s the law? What is it in the Constitution that makes your summation right?

Some things:

  • Thomas is looking for words.
  • She has none. She keeps throwing out keywords Thomas might like. One of the words she doesn’t throw out is “privacy”.
  • This is weak tea.

Thomas keeps pushing and he shows how lacking the pro-abortion attorney is in knowledge.

Some things:

  • Typical Leftist response.
  • Thomas asks a specific question. “What Constitution says abortion is Constitutional?”
  • Rikelman gives a long-winded word-salad that does not answer his question.
  • Thomas, in a few words, rephrases her answer. Is abortion the Constitution guarantees?
  • She gives a long worded that abortion is the guarantee in the Constitution.
  • Here’s the problem for the pro-abortion litigant: Abortion is not defined in the Constitution.
  • There would be no reason for Roe or Casey if it was. I’m sire she’s kicking herself in the ass right now.

 

So, What’s Next?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-dare-you-talk-about-what-a-fetus-wants-whoopi-goldberg-unloads-on-supreme-court-over-abortion-case
https://www.dailywire.com/news/germany-announces-lockdown-for-unvaccinated-people
https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-sotomayor-compares-unborn-babies-to-braindead-people-reacting-to-stimuli
https://www.dailywire.com/news/clarence-thomas-what-specific-right-is-in-the-constitution-that-allows-abortion
https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-kavanaugh-at-abortion-case-arguments-why-should-this-court-be-the-arbiter-rather-than-congress-states-the-people
https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-alito-questions-viability-standard-in-monumental-supreme-court-abortion-case
https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-abortion-protesters-allegedly-take-abortion-pills-outside-of-supreme-court

 

 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/waukesha-parade-suspect-has-long-history-abusing-women
https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspected-waukesha-murderer-was-assessed-top-risk-for-violence-was-released-by-leftist-da-anyway
https://www.dailywire.com/news/waukesha-christmas-parade-suspect-im-being-demonized-dehumanized

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Episode 457 – So What Is This All About?

I’m a big anti-abortion guy and abortion is on the docket of the Supreme Court. Let’s talk about what is on the line here.

 

News

We have a lot to talk with the Supreme Court case but there is so much news that we can’t skip it. So let’s do a quick look at the news.

  • Remember, last week, Biden released 50 million gallons of oil from the reserve? Yeah, well gas went down $.02 and the Democrats are celebrating that. Of course, gas at my station down the street went up $.10 so I’m not really sure what they are talking about.
  • The November jobs report is out and it is horribly disappointing…again. There were 210,000 jobs created. The Dow expected 573,000 jobs so less than half have been created. The unemployment rate fell to 4.2%. That’s good but let’s not forget a couple of things:
    • We have to remember the Trump’s economy before the pandemic was at 3.4%.
    • The long term unemployed and the people who have just left the work force is going up which will affect the unemployment rate.
  • An English professor, Christopher Trogan, from Fordham University, was fired because he confused the names to two black, female students in his class.
    • The two wrote him an E-mail saying they felt “disheartened and disrespected” and they believed it happened because they were black.
    • Trogan claimed it was an honest mistake. Trogan emailed the students back and claimed he was “centered specifically and explicitly around issues of justice, equality, and inclusion.”
    • Trogan then went into details about his credentials, and commented on “everything he has done for minorities.”
    • That was overkill. As one of the students involved told The Observer, “It seemed a little excessive, like all you needed to do was say sorry and it would have been fine. We were not actually that upset about him mixing up our names. It was more so the random things he would throw into the response.”
    • The students agreed that Trogan was giving off the vibe of a “white savior complex,” which he appeared to seal by offering to give up his job if the students felt they had been discriminated against, and inviting them to file a grievance to his superiors.
    • “Depending on your response,” he wrote in the email, “I may — or may not — be your professor in class next week. It’s all up to you.”
    • Two days later Fordham’s administration suspended him. A month later, he was unemployed.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-blasted-for-bragging-biden-made-gas-2-cents-cheaper-worst-defense-of-the-biden-admin-yet
https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-celebrate-gas-prices-declining-by-two-cents-in-two-weeks
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-november-jobs-report-falls-significantly-short-of-expectations-in-a-huge-miss-for-u-s-economy

New York Professor Mixes Up Two Black Students, Gets Fired For Defending Himself By Promoting His Woke Credentials

 

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

The Case

Let’s go over what this case is all about. It is a little confusing especially what could happen. I had to do a ton to figure it out myself. I know everyone is talking about Roe versus Wade but it’s not only about that. It also deals with Planned Parenthood versus Casey. Of course, this whole thing started with a law in Mississippi the limits abortion to before 15 weeks.

The ruling is going to make changes to either one of both of the previous precedence, throw out one or both of the precedence or throw out the Mississippi law. Let’s look at these precedents.

Roe versus Wade federally legalized abortion based on the woman’s “right to privacy” based on the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. It based legalized abortion to the second trimester of pregnancy.

There are some real problems with this case:

  • Here is Section 1 of the XIV Amendment: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
    • Do you see what’s missing here? The word privacy. In fact, the word privacy is not used in the entire Constitution. The word “privacy” was shaped in another precedent from the 1950’s.
    • The key word used here that the pro-abortion argument uses is “liberty”. This is important during the Supreme Court debate.
  • Viability is not mentioned here at all. That’s because no one was sure of the viability of the fetus and the Court admits that.
    • We did know about the viability of the fetus with the discovery of the test tube baby in 1980 which should have made this precedent obsolete.
    • This is why the pro-abortionists were afraid the precedent would be overturned and wanted to make the Equal Rights Amendment and Amendment to the Constitution.

Planned Parenthood versus Casey case arose from a challenge to 5 provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982; among the provisions were requirements for a waiting period, spousal notice, and (for minors) parental consent prior to undergoing an abortion procedure. Basically, it took away the states right to make any restrictions on abortion.

It also rid the trimester system from Roe versus Wade and switched to the 40-week system. This time, viability of the fetus was determined to be 24 weeks.

There are huge problems with this law:

  • It takes away states’ right to put limits on abortion. It federalizes the law. This is unconstitutional!
  • It creates limits. In other words, it is creating law! That’s not the Supreme Court’s job. Abortion is not in the Constitution!
  • The viability standard is still very subjective. The 24-week standard is not from science, it’s just some randomly picked number. We have had babies that have survived at 20 weeks.

Here’s the problem pro-abortionists have: Their precedents are build on sand. Roe v. Wade was always weak and everyone knows it. Even pro-abortionists know it. Planned Parenthood v. Casey tried to strengthen Roe v. Wade but it’s very weak. The reason is both create something that is not in the Constitution (they create laws) and not based on any science.

The Mississippi law does not attack Roe v. Wade directly but goes after Casey. It attacks the 24-week viability standard of Casey and the state’s ability to determine viability. All Mississippi has to prove is that a fetus is a human being, which is science, or, at least, prove that the fetus is a human being at 15 weeks. Hearing the arguments on Wednesday, they did that.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-hears-mississippi-abortion-case-arguments-what-to-know

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Episode 456 – Ciao Bella!

CNN says ciao bella to Chris Cuomo.

Joe Biden gets kicked in the teeth again over his vax mandates.

And abortion is under the microscope of the Supreme Court.

 

Ciao, Bella

Chris Cuomo is out at CNN.

It was discovered that Chris Cuomo had used his media contacts to get information about his governor brother, Andrew Cuomo, on his sexual harassment victims. CNN couldn’t ignore this like they did for the last year. They finally suspended him indefinitely.

This is a big problem for CNN. Chris Cuomo’s show was the highest rated show on CNN. Now, that isn’t saying much. The Fox News show at 5 AM has higher rating than Chris Cuomo’s show. Heck, there are two HLN shows that are beating CNN’s top rated show. Don Lemon’s show is so in the tank, Chris Cuomo spent the first fifteen minutes of Lemon’s show joking around with Lemon to stop people from changing the channel. So what is CNN going to do.

I want you to remember one thing: Jeffry Toobin. Yes, the guy who was caught jerking off on a CNN Zoom call involving the 2020 elections. He, too, was indefinitely suspended. Now, Toobin is back on CNN, albeit at a distance from any other panel member. Call me cynical, but I see this being a bit of a publicity stunt. I think he might be off air for a month and then CNN will unsuspend him and they will celebrate the return of Chris Cuomo.

Here’s the thing, Chris Cuomo should have been fired. Not because he helped his brother, but because he’s an idiot and a liar. He lied about his brother. So it shouldn’t be a surprise they fired him. What’s a surprise is CNN hasn’t fired their entire lineup. They’re highest rated show is ranked around 25. This station needs to fix themselves and firing everyone is a good way to start.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-suspends-chris-cuomo
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-suspends-cuomo-over-new-info-involving-brother-cuomo-claims-media-never-really-liked-brother

 

Another L!

A federal judge in Louisiana blocked Democrat President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for health care workers on Tuesday, issuing a nationwide injunction on Biden’s order.

Louisiana Western District U.S. Judge Terry Doughty wrote:

“If the separation of powers meant anything to the Constitutional framers, it meant that the three necessary ingredients to deprive a person of liberty or property – the power to make rules, to enforce them, and to judge their violations – could never fall into the same hands. If the executive branch is allowed to usurp the power of the legislative branch to make laws, two of the three powers conferred by our Constitution would be in the same hands. If human nature and history teach anything, it is that civil liberties face grave risks when governments proclaim indefinite states of emergency.”

Yes, yes! This is why the Biden administration thinks this is unconstitutional. This is exactly why we have a House, a Senate, a President and a Supreme Court. So one person doesn’t control everything. That’s how tyranny grows.

“During a pandemic such as this one, it is even more important to safeguard the separation of powers set forth in our Constitution to avoid erosion of our liberties. Because the Plaintiff States have satisfied all four elements required for a preliminary injunction to issue, this Court has determined that a preliminary injunction should issue against the Government Defendants. This matter will ultimately be decided by a higher court than this one. However, it is important to preserve the status quo in this case. The liberty interests of the unvaccinated requires nothing less.

This is why the Left are making the unvaccinated evil. Because the Left cannot win through Congress or the courts. No one buys their crap. They have to fight this through the court public opinion.

Guess what? They’re losing there too.

Listen, I love the vaccine. I took them both and I was glad to have them. I will not take the booster next month because I had a rather uncomfortable reaction and I want to see more. I’m not saying I won’t take it. But there are two reason I am not interested in getting a booster at this time:

  • There are no studies on B or T-cell immunity for the vaccines. It is possible I am safe from dying from COVID because my body knows how to fight it because of the vaccines.
  • I am still moderately young and healthy. I would rather catch the damn thing, suffer for a couple of days and have natural immunity before I get older and then compromised. This disease isn’t going away. It’s endemic and will always be here.
  • I think there is a high chance I’ve already had it. Maybe if we did more antibody testing instead of nose swabs, we’d know where we really stand in this country.
  • I don’t want to take boosters for the rest of my life.

“Therefore, the scope of this injunction will be nationwide, except for the states of Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, since these ten states are already under a preliminary injunction order dated November 29, 2021, out of the Eastern District of Missouri. This preliminary injunction shall remain in effect pending the final resolution of this case, or until further orders from this Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, or the United States Supreme Court.”

Biden has been skunked on his vaccine mandates:

  • His mandate for private industry has been blocked.
  • His mandate for the healthcare industry has been blocked.
  • His mandate for the military has been fought against and pretty much blocked, especially by the Marines and Navy.
  • The unions refuse to take the vaccine.

Well, he’s decided to go in a different direction. On Thursday he’s going to announce new restrictions for those entering and leaving the United States, including for American citizens.

  • A person entering the country must have a negative test one day before entering the country. If positive, no entry.
  • A person must quarantine for seven days after entering the country even with a negative test.
  • Anyone violating the order is subject to fines.

This is beginning to sound more like Australia than the United States.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/federal-judge-blocks-biden-vaccine-mandate-for-health-care-workers-nationwide
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-another-federal-judge-deals-blow-to-bidens-vaccine-mandate-issues-nationwide-injunction

 

Opinion

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will weigh in on Mississippi’s controversial anti-abortion law that bans abortion past 15 weeks. This decision could overturn Roe versus Wade making abortion an issue of the state. Of course, because the Left treats abortion as a religious ritual, the news media is throwing all their attention to it.

Here is an opinion article from the Washington Post. It is called If the Supreme Court throws out ‘Roe v. Wade,’ it will tear the country apart by Eugene Robinson. I found it interesting because I thought it was the most honest and it brought up the fact that there is 50% of the population that thinks abortion is wrong. It doesn’t demonize anti-abortionists unlike the other articles I read.

Roe v. Wade is an important piece of the duct tape that holds this fractious nation together, and it would be a grievous error for the antiabortion majority on the Supreme Court to rip it away.

But that is precisely what the court, with its 6-3 conservative majority, looks poised to do. Wednesday’s oral arguments over Mississippi’s law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy will not really be about “textualist” or “originalist” legal principles. They will be about whether the Constitution protects a woman’s freedom over her own body — a liberty recognized when Roe was decided on Jan. 22, 1973.

Some things:

  • How is Roe v. Wade duct tape? I think it is one of the worst decisions in U.S. history. It’s up there with Jim Crow and slavery. It’s extremely polarizing.
  • First off, let’s ease up on the 6-3 Conservative court.
    • John Roberts is hardly made any Conservative decisions.
    • Neil M. Gorsuch has made some iffy decisions.
    • Kavanaugh and Barrett seem to not like going against precedence.
    • I am just not sure how Conservative this court is.
  • This has everything to do with “textualist” principles. The term abortion is not used once in the Constitution.
  • Roe v. Wade is a terrible precedence because it just came up with some crap about privacy. That’s why the Left has been worried about it being overturned since the eighties.

I remember that day well, because it was also the day when former president Lyndon B. Johnson died. I was one of the editors of the Michigan Daily, the student newspaper at the University of Michigan, and we had a passionate argument that went late into the evening over which should be our lead story. Should it be legalized abortion across the nation? Or the man who sent tens of thousands of young Americans to die in the Vietnam War?

Most of the female editors saw the historic importance of Roe and understood the impact it would have on women’s lives. Most of the male editors — myself included, I confess — could not see past Vietnam and pushed hard for LBJ. We won, sort of: The paper ended up stripping Johnson’s death across the top of the front page and putting the Roe decision right beneath it, still above the fold, with a boldface two-line headline. For history’s sake, I thought that was the right call.

I was spectacularly wrong. Johnson was indeed a towering figure, but he’d been long out of office and had to die at some point anyway. Roe was like a bolt from the blue, and with it the nation took a giant stride toward treating women as full and equal citizens under the law. The decision’s impact continues to this day — but perhaps not for many days longer.

Some things:

  • This paragraph points out the disparities between men and women. Sexism anyone?
  • The point here is he is right. The Vietnam war led to the deaths of 65,000 Americans. Abortion has killed over 60 million American babies since Roe v. Wade. So he’s right, abortion was the bigger story.

There are those who claim that Roe is divisive, that the ruling set the stage for years of bitter conflict by recognizing a constitutional right to abortion that cannot be unduly infringed by the states. But I believe that analysis is wrong. What’s truly divisive is abortion itself — an issue on which, for many Americans, there simply is no middle ground.

Some people believe that all abortion is murder and that every pregnancy should be brought to full term. I do not share this view. But for those who do, how could there ever be compromise? What does it matter whether an abortion takes place in the first, second or third trimester, or whether it takes place before or after the point at which the fetus would be viable outside the womb? What is the difference between taking a Plan B pill and having a surgical abortion after 15 weeks? If both are “murders,” how can one be acceptable and one not?

Some things:

  • Abortion is not a Constitutional right if one is a textualist which is what I am. It has been artificially made into a Constitutional right through a very week precedence.
  • There’s another Constitutional right that the Left always forgets: Right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
  • Because it’s not a Constitutional right, it is up to the states. He’s just wrong here.
  • Because he doesn’t see abortion is murder, our debate is done.
    • It’s been scientifically proven since the 80s though test tube babies, invitro fertilization, DNA testing and being able to map the stages of growth through sonograms.
    • Saying it is not killing a baby is denying science.
  • Taking the abortion pill is killing the baby. Weak sauce argument here.
  • Here are a couple of questions I have:
    • Why not be able to kill a baby after it’s born? It still has a dependence on the mother.

Like most Americans, I do not believe that all abortion is murder. It doesn’t matter whether I think a line should be drawn at viability or how I believe the health and well-being of the pregnant person should be factored in. What matters is that my view, whatever its nuances, can never be acceptable to those who take an absolutist position against abortion.

Viability is not relevant here. A baby is not viable months after it’s born. It’s if the zygote or fetus is a separate human being is the question.

The pregnant person has an option to get pregnant or not. Here’s a news flash: We know how people get pregnant. There’s no mystery in it anymore. This what the Left does. The strip personal responsibility from people. If you strip personal responsibility from people, then there are no consequences for bad decisions.

This is why I see Roe as unifying rather than divisive: It makes a yes-no decision. It sets a baseline that some of us cannot abide but that most of us applaud or can live with. It says that, yes, the Constitution, in its words and its penumbra, does protect a woman’s fundamental right to terminate her pregnancy.

Unifying for who? Unifying for Leftists. I think abortion is murder. I think women who have multiple abortions, and I know and few and so do you, are disgusting, selfish and immoral.

Then he contradicts himself is the next line that “some of us cannot abide” by it says that it is not unifying! By the way, it’s not :some of us”. It’s like 50% of the country thinks abortion is wrong.

Like all of our constitutionally protected freedoms, the right to choose can be restricted, but not taken away. That has been the status quo for nearly five decades, and the nation has muddled through. But if Roe is reversed — if the court rules, as its most conservative justices have argued, that no protected right to reproductive choice exists — then the political cold war over abortion will flare immediately into a roaring blaze.

Reproductive choice always exists. You have the choice to use condoms. You have the choice to use birth control pills. You have the choice not to have sex. That choice is gone when you get pregnant. The horse is out of the barn at that point.

If states such as Texas pass laws that effectively eliminate all abortions, those with the means will travel to other states to terminate their pregnancies. Many poor people will risk their health by seeking illegal abortions. Some doctors will most likely risk imprisonment. There will be intense pressure for pro-choice federal legislation, and abortion will be a hot-button issue in every congressional district.

As if our politics needed more heat.

Roe will never please everyone, but it has served the country well. I fear this Supreme Court is foolish enough to throw it away.

Some things:

  • I liked this article because it wasn’t vicious. He didn’t demonize anti-abortionists. He just thought they are misguided.
  • The problem is if he got into a debate with an anti-abortionist, he would get killed. The facts just aren’t on his side. The example would be he doesn’t believe abortion is murder.
  • He tries to argue that Roe v. Wade is unifying. But this is not his real argument. His real argument is that abortion has been around for 45 years and we should just live with it.
  • Not only should we live with it, but we should just ignore anti-abortionists, though he never explains why. He doesn’t think its murder so that enough. He spent half the article saying that but doesn’t say what he doesn’t think it’s murder.
  • I, on the other hand, can write an article as to why it is murder.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/29/abortion-supreme-court-roe-v-wade-unity/

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Episode 455 – Cat Fight!

Congress has another cat fight on its hands.

Wikipedia is just proving that it’s not a real resource for information.

And CANCELLED!

 

News

Here is some quick news stories:

  • Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, will be stepping down as CEO.
    • It is unclear whether he is stepping down or being forced out. The latter is more likely.
    • Parag Agrawal, the company’s Chief Technology Officer, would be starting as CEO immediately, and that Dorsey would continue to serve on the Twitter board through to the end of his term this coming spring to “help Parag and Bret with the transition.”
    • Expect things to change? I do. I expect things to get worse.
      • Agrawal has said that free speech should not be something Twitter should concentrate on.
      • Just today, they have announced some changes on that people can do on Twitter for privacy concerns.
  • Actor Matthew McConaughey announced on Sunday that he will not run to be the next governor of Texas, a decision that came despite a push from left-wing media for the actor to challenge Republican Governor Greg Abbott.
    • That’s good because he would’ve gotten his ass kicked.
    • He is a Leftist. He wants to ban the Second Amendment.
    • He praises Beto O’Rourke
    • He’s a good actor. Just keep doing that.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/jack-dorsey-steps-down-as-twitter-ceo-there-arent-many-founders-that-choose-their-company-over-their-own-ego
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-actor-matthew-mcconaughey-announces-decision-on-running-for-governor-of-texas

 

The New Plan

They have 10 months and the Democrats are going to do anything to get Republicans off of committees. Their sights are now on Lauren Boebert.

Just a little reminder: during the Paul Gosar censure a week ago, Lauren went off. It was an outstanding showing and raised her visibility. Hell, I never heard of her before that speech.

Well, she had a rally at, what looked like, a western bar and she made a joke. Here it is:

Couple of things:

  • She looks great in black jeans.
  • She has a great body and is very sexy for a representative in Congress.
  • No woman should ever wear high heels with jeans.
  • And the joke was funny.

Omar got upset about something that’s true and started throwing a fit. Then, Boebert made a big mistake. She apologized. Why, in God’s name, did she do that? This never works. It admits guilt over something that is not a mistake or a crime. It was a joke.

Ilhan Omar, on the other hand, has done some very bad things:

  • She dismissed the 9/11 terrorist attack saying “some people did some things”.
  • She wrote a letter saying that several men trying to join ISIS should not be prosecuted because they’re poor.
  • She dismissed the danger of Al Qaeda in an interview because she took a terrorism class in college.
  • She’s a rabid anti-Semite.
  • She married her brother to commit get him into the country.
  • Then she married her second husband without getting a divorce. This led to tax issues.
  • She had an affair with a campaign staffer and lied about it.
  • She then got a divorce and married the staffer.
  • Now, theoretically, she’s being investigated for giving a couple of million dollars in campaign funds to her current husband’s company.

There’s enough to joke about her. She has enough sympathies for terrorists to make that joke funny because it’s true.

Anyway, Boebert calls Ilhan Omar to personally apologize and Omar demands a public apology. Of course she does. She and the other Democrats her to admit guilt in public so they can censure her just like they did Paul Gosar over that stupid video. She refused to do it and Omar hung up on her.

Later, Omar tweeted her thoughts because that’s what you do today:

 

I’m sorry. It was a joke. It was funny.

They’re going to try to censure her and they’re going to succeed. They’re going to pull her off all her committees. The Dems want to strip Republicans of all power. You know it because she will be the third Republican removed from committees this year.

I hope Kevin McCarthy has balls. I hope he does the same thing next year. I hope he gets rid of Maxine Waters, Eric Swallwell, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, Rashida Tlaib, Cory Bush, Ayanna Pressley and, of course, Ilhan Omar.

He’s going to gain 40 to 50 seats next year. He’s going to be able to do it.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/boebert-apologizes-to-muslim-community-for-omar-remark
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reps-boebert-omar-tense-phone-call-controversial-remarks

 

Changing History

This is an amazing story because it is so obvious that the Left is trying to change history.

According to The Telegraph:

A Wikipedia entry detailing “mass killings under Communist regimes” faces being purged from the platform over fears about bias.

The page outlining the deaths of millions in one-party states including the Soviet Union and China has been flagged for deletion, with some users responsible for maintaining the site taking issue with blaming mass murder on Communist ideology.

The dedicated entry listing the actions of figures like Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, and Kim Jong Il has been accused of putting forward a biased “anti-Communist” point of view, and site administrators will decide whether it should be removed.

The future of a page titled “Anti-communist mass killings” is not in doubt, however, as the entry outlining occasions on which Communists have been killed under other political systems has not been flagged over concerns about neutrality.

It’s funny that they won’t remove non-communist countries that had genocide like Nazi Germany. I think that’s funny because Nazi Germany was pretty much the same government and economy as countries like the Soviet Union and China. The Nazis were socialists. It’s in the name (National Socialist German Workers’ Party).

Let’s understand something about Wikipedia: it is not considered a encyclopedic site. The information is added by users and many of it isn’t confirmed. It is not considered a reliable source by colleges. But, like the tearing down of statues, this is their attempt to change history to, not only making communism more palatable, but also excuse the sins of communism today. An example of that are the atrocities being committed in China, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/27/wikipedia-may-delete-entry-mass-killings-communism-due-claims/

 

CANCELLED!!

Time to go over a couple of things being cancelled by the Left.

 

The Simpsons

According to the Hollywood reporter:

Disney+ users in Hong Kong have noticed an episode of The Simpsons is conspicuously missing.

The 16th season of the iconic Fox animated show jumps from episode 11 to 13 when viewers in the city browse the flagship Disney streaming service. The missing episode 12, first broadcast in 2005, happens to be the one where Homer takes his family to China, where they visit Tiananmen Square and come across a placard that reads: “On this site, in 1989, nothing happened.”

It appears the episode has suffered precisely the kind of censorship it was written to ridicule.

Here’s the screenshot of the offending sign:

Walt Disney is turning in his grave. This is not how his company was to become.

Bowing to China is not only disgusting but it shows how China’s totalitarianism is affecting our culture. They have a say, through these companies, on what we see.

Just wait. That episode will soon disappear in this country.

 

Don’t They Have More Important Things To Do

The Camden School District in New Jersey has a Change.org petition to rename the Woodrow Wilson High School because Woodrow Wilson was a racist.

According to the petition:

After years of examining the legacy of former US President Woodrow Wilson, WE have come to see that his views and actions contradict the values and diversity We see in Woodrow Wilson High School today as well as the society WE live in Camden NJ.  

 These values We hold today are to be respected at the highest standard in regards to fair treatment of All individuals, and our aspirations to continue to be an educating, diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community in the City of Camden NJ it is only right in Our Eyes to right the wrongs that have plagued Us in Our oppressed society.

Then the petition goes through some evidence that Woodrow Wilson was a racist. It concludes:

… this conflicts with the values and aspirations of our times today as We see it but WE encourage each Of The elected Members named here in this Petition to embrace the coeducational, multi-racial, multi-ethnic, diverse and inclusive composition and ideals of our community today and they can do so by removing Woodrow Wilsons Name.

Woodrow Wilson was a racist. He was also a eugenicist. He as a terrible person. He was also a crappy President. I wouldn’t name a school after him. But he was also a professor, president of Princeton University, a governor of New Jersey and a two term President of the United States. He was a success and part of our history. Should he be banned?

I don’t like him. I understand why they want to change the name. I just find it ironic that the people who want to change the name have all the same beliefs that Woodrow Wilson had.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-removes-simpsons-episode-in-hong-kong-in-latest-move-to-appease-china
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/simpsons-china-censorship-1235053711/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-jersey-high-school-changing-name-over-racist-namesake

 

 

 

 

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Episode 454 – Dude, Toughen Up!

Here we go again. A new variant. I guess it’s time for us to run around like chickens with our heads cut off.

It might be time to stop wearing Levi’s.

And the Left is showing the contempt for the Constitution and no one is paying any attention. So I will.

 

Here We Go Again

I’m telling you, this is never going to end. A new variant of COVID-19 has been discovered.

 

The Variant

A new variant of the China virus has been found in South Africa earlier this month. I have looked up this variant and here is some of the information I got from the World Health Organization (China for short):

  • The TAG-VE was convened on 26 November 2021 to assess the SARS-CoV-2 variant: B.1.1.529.
  • It was first reported to WHO from South Africa on 24 November 2021.
  • Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant, as compared to other VOCs.
  • Current SARS-CoV-2 PCR diagnostics continue to detect this variant.
  • As such, countries are asked to do the following:
    • enhance surveillance and sequencing efforts to better understand circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants.
    • submit complete genome sequences and associated metadata to a publicly available database, such as GISAID.
    • report initial cases/clusters associated with VOC infection to WHO through the IHR mechanism.
    • where capacity exists and in coordination with the international community, perform field investigations and laboratory assessments to improve understanding of the potential impacts of the VOC on COVID-19 epidemiology, severity, effectiveness of public health and social measures, diagnostic methods, immune responses, antibody neutralization, or other relevant characteristics.
  • Individuals are reminded to take measures to reduce their risk of COVID-19, including proven public health and social measures such as wearing well-fitting masks, hand hygiene, physical distancing, improving ventilation of indoor spaces, avoiding crowded spaces, and getting vaccinated.
  • They included to references to follow. Both references are for following the rules of the previous variants.

What do we know about this variant. Nothing. The WHO has nothing new about it except, like Delta, you can catch it if you’re vaccinated or have been infected with an earlier variant. They do not even know how dangerous it is or how infectious it is.

https://www.who.int/news/item/26-11-2021-classification-of-omicron-(b.1.1.529)-sars-cov-2-variant-of-concern

 

But She Knows

Dr. Angelique Coetzee, a board member of the South African Medical Association, first noticed otherwise healthy patients demonstrating unusual symptoms on Nov. 18. She saw that it was the China virus but it did not behave in the same way as the previous variants so she alerted the WHO.

But she does have some interesting tidbits of information.

 

In other words, people have a mild case of the flu. By the way, as the virus matures, it is going to become less deadly. The virus is designed that way. It’s designed to spread, not kill. It wants people to survive so it can spread to other organisms. Just about all viruses do this.

She continues with a warning (which is what doctors are suppose to do):

“What we have to worry about now is that when older, unvaccinated people are infected with the new variant, and if they are not vaccinated, we are going to see many people with a severe [form of the] disease.”

Well, duh! We know that people who are not vaccinated may experience harsher symptoms. The hospitals are not being overrun. There isn’t a huge uptick in cases.

Here’s what I think is happening and it’s going to happen for the rest of time. This virus is going to mutate, just like the flu. All the previous variants are going to run through the population or people are going to get the vaccines (which we still aren’t sure of). Each new variant is going to become weaker and the population is going to become less susceptible to the disease.

In two years, it’s going to be another version of the flu. End of story.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/south-african-doctor-omicron-variant-symptoms-unusual-mild

 

Let the Overreaction Begin

“Never let a good crisis go to waste,” said Obama progressive Rahm Emmanuel.

The Left has re-invented Emmanuel’s quote:

“Make a non-crisis into a crisis so we can never let a crisis go to waste.”

The Leftists are going off.

Joe Biden made a statement while vacationing, again, in a billionaire’s home in Nantucket:

“We don’t know a lot about the variant, except that it is of great concern. It seems to spread rapidly. And I spent about a half-hour this morning with my COVID team, led by Dr. Fauci, and so, that was the decision we made.”

Oh, yeah, and get vaccinated against a variant we know nothing about. Never let a good crisis go to waste.

There are a few problems here. First, it’s not a great concern in South Africa, where it was found. That news is from South African doctors! 

Second, it’s not spreading rapidly. Hospitals in South Africa are not being impacted. That’s according to South African doctors!

Third, the WHO doesn’t know anything about the variant. Shouldn’t we learn something about it before we make alarmist statements?

Finally, Dr. Fauci has been wrong and been lying about everything! Why is Biden listening to him!

Biden implemented a travel ban from the African countries of South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, and Malawi. Something that got a lot of attention on social media since Biden and Kamala called Trump a racist for implementing a travel ban. What’s worse, they called Trump a racist on social media so everyone knows they did it! What a pair of tools.

But there’s more.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an Executive Order declaring a “Disaster Emergency in the State of New York” in anticipation of winter COVID-19 case increases. She’s preparing to shut the state down again and gain more control. She declared that elective surgeries are to be cancelled.

Didn’t they do that before and it fixed nothing except kill people because they saw a heart stint as being an elective surgery? I have to tell you, she’s worse than Andrew Cuomo. Wait till Gavin Newsom of California finds out. Can’t wait to hear what he’s going to do.

Israel is shutting its borders again even though 90% of the population is vaccinated. I thought the vaccines worked.

Great Briton is reimplementing mask mandates.

Fifteen days to slow the spread.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-fauci-urge-americans-to-get-vaccinated-as-omicron-concern-grows
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ny-gov-hochul-declares-disaster-emergency-as-omicron-coronavirus-variant-takes-focus
https://www.foxnews.com/us/state-department-issues-do-not-travel-warnings-eight-countries-omicron-variant
https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-fda-head-gottlieb-bidens-omicron-travel-ban-counterproductive
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-south-african-travel-ban-necessary-omicron

 

And This Is Just Funny

According to Fox News:

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed it skipped the Greek letters “nu” and “xi” in naming its new COVID-19 variant, which it dubbed the “omicron” variant.

“‘Nu’ is too easily confounded with ‘new,’ and ‘xi’ was not used because it is a common last name, and WHO best practices for naming disease suggest avoiding ‘causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups,’” a WHO spokesperson told Fox News in a statement on Saturday.

That’s right, they skipped two Greek letters because they were too close to the name of the dictator of China and they openly admit it. See, being politically correct does have its problems for Leftist organizations.

By the way, “nu” is problematic because it’s original pronunciation is “nee” (which means “new”) and is too close to “xi” which is the dictator’s name.

Needless to say, there was a lot of mocking of the WHO on social media:

https://www.foxnews.com/world/who-nu-xi-omicron-variant

 

Man the F-Up

Apparently it might be time to stop wearing my favorite clothing.

After Kyle Rittenhouse was found innocent last week, Levi’s Strauss, the makers of Levi’s jeans, had to hire a trauma specialists because they thought that some of their employees might start to suffer PTSD from the thought that a convicted child-raping pedophile was killed in mid-attack.

Levi Strauss chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer Elizabeth Morrison said in a letter to staff:

“With the news that Kyle Rittenhouse was not convicted in the shooting of three individuals — two of whom lost their lives — during racial justice protests last year, this is a difficult day for many.

“To help promote safety, sharing and to encourage healing, I’ll be hosting a fireside chat and Q&A with Dr. Jamila Codrington, a licensed psychologist and racial trauma specialist in early December. Dr. J and I will talk about the mental and psychical impacts of back-to-back social and racial justice events and trauma coping mechanisms during our discussion.”

Now I know Levi Strauss is a Leftist organization (they are located in San Francisco) but I think it is rich that they think they have such pansy employees when the product they sell is touted as cowboy rugged. You know? Flying off horses and bulls and crap and the jeans can handle it. Heck, Levi’s has always been an American icon for masculinity. You’re not even suppose to wash the damn things. Throw them in the freezer for an hour of so and they’re clean (that is recommended). I can’t think of anything more masculine than that.

But this isn’t the only place that’s doing that. You know the colleges were going to have a negative response to the verdict. I mean, people are banning a story about a white boy helping a black slave escape because they were naked on a raft in one scene and they said words.

California State University, Long Beach gave students and faculty the chance to attend a “debriefing” of Rittenhouse’s acquittal, which would be attended by staff from the Counseling and Psychological Services office.

University spokesman Jim Milbury told The College Fix in an email:

“When there are higher-profile events and issues in the public discourse, it is not uncommon for our university to provide spaces for our campus community to discuss those topics.”

God, we need a bloody war with a common enemy to toughen our kids up.

On the brighter side of the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, The View’s Joy Behar and Whoopie Goldberg are getting sued for $60 million by Rittenhouse for defamation. That was quick. That kid is going to be so rich.

By the way, Rittenhouse is taking online classes at Arizona State University and not the students want him kicked out. He’s taking online classes!

https://www.dailywire.com/news/levi-strauss-provides-racial-trauma-help-for-employees-troubled-by-rittenhouse-verdict
https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/29/left-wing-groups-arizona-state-university-kyle-rittenhouse-withdrawn/

 

Sorry, Not Surprised

Remember the multitude of times I said the Left doesn’t care about the Constitution and will just ignore it when it’s convenient? Well, they aso feel they don’t have to go through the amendment process to implement an amendment.

Remember the Equal Rights Amendment that was being pushed way back in the 1960s and 70s? It never became an amendment, though it was close, and the time expired in making it an amendment, not to mention five states de-ratified it after they found out what was in the amendment.

Here’s the story in case you’re not as old as I am (though I was too young to understand it at the time):

  • At issue is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a benign-sounding Nixon-era amendment that concealed an unpopular feminist agenda. Critics say it would erode the legal protections of women and create a constitutional right to abortion just as Supreme Court justices seem poised to amend, or overturn, Roe v. Wade.
  • The Equal Rights Amendment seemed destined to become the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1972.
  • Article V of the Constitution requires amendments to pass Congress by a two-thirds margin, then be ratified by three-fourths of the states (38 states out of 50)
  • The ERA — which was championed by democratic socialists Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY), Gloria Steinem, and Betty Friedan — passed the U.S. House of Representatives by the required margin in October 1971 and cleared the Senate five months later.
  • But the legislation they passed contained a time limit: The ERA had to be ratified within seven years.
  • That hurdle seemed insignificant, as a total of 30 states ratified the ERA within a year — 14 of them within the first month. Five more states followed by 1978, when the Democrat-controlled Congress voted to extend the deadline to June 30, 1982.
  • Enter Phyllis Schlafly, a well-educated mother from Illinois. She found:
    • women’s exemption from being drafted into military service;
    • separate facilities for showers, restrooms, college dorm rooms, battered women’s shelters, and prisons;
    • federal programs like Title IX, Social Security benefits for women who worked in the home, and Women Infants and Children (WIC)
  • The Senate began to read the amendment and began to, in a bipartisan fashion, to strip the bill of some of its major language.
  • After the United States had an opportunity to digest these arguments, momentum stopped, then reversed. Although the Democrats extended the ERA’s ratification deadline, no additional states signed on, and five states rescinded their previous ratification votes: Nebraska (1973), Tennessee (1974), Idaho (1977), Kentucky (1978), and South Dakota (1979).

Enter the Left.

How extreme is this amendment? Ben Johnson of the Daily Wire wrote:

Although you have likely not heard much about it from the media, the Democrats recently unveiled a plan to illegally add an element of their radical, intersectional agenda to the text of the U.S. Constitution. The controversial amendment could eliminate all laws that recognize biological differences between men and women, and it could force taxpayers to fund abortion-on-demand. Worse yet, their actions come decades after the Left tried and failed to convince Americans to adopt the proposed amendment democratically.

Right now, the House is holding hearings to make this bill an amendment even though it didn’t pass 40 years ago.

Though the amendment is dead, blues states ratified it anyway. Those states were Nevada in 2017, followed by Illinois in 2018, and Virginia in 2020. According to the Left, that means the amendment has been ratified and it is part of the Constitution. Nevermind the fact that five states went against the ratification later, that doesn’t matter.

The DOJ under the Trump administration said that the bill could not be ratified because it expired. The Left argues that the expiration is procedural and not written into the ERA itself so that doesn’t count. They also say that states do not have the right to decertify because it’s not in the bill. Therefore, the fives states that pulled out don’t count.

Guess it’s kind of important to read and understand bills before voting for them. That’s something out politicians haven’t learned yet.

The Left tried to sue and make a judge declare the amendment part of the Constitution. In March, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras, an Obama appointee, ruled that a “ratification deadline in a proposing resolution’s introduction is just as effective as one in the text of a proposed amendment,” so the deadline to adopt the ERA “expired long ago.”

Even the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg seemed to reject the Left’s arguments. She asked in 2020:

“How can you disregard states that said ‘we’ve changed our minds’? I would like to see a new beginning” for the ERA’s ratification, starting from scratch, she said.

But the Left don’t need to follow them stinking rules:

  • First, in March, the House passed a resolution from retiring Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) retroactively repeating the ERA’s 1982 ratification deadline, 222-204.
  • Then on October 21, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing where they said the ERA is part of the Constitution.
  • All this stuff, by the way, is unconstitutional.

Then, the Left decided to bring in the big guns. Enter Alyssa Milano, the has-been, Who’s the Boss star. She testified in front of Congress:

The states have directed Congress to amend the Constitution, and it is now the duty of Congress and the Administration [sic] to get out of the way and remove the arbitrary, unnecessary, and shameful deadline that was cynically imposed nearly a half century ago as a poison pill. … The lack of Constitutional [sic] protections for anyone who is not a cisgender man is a blemish on the very idea of Americanism. … The Framers failed us when they did not include women in the Constitution. Congress failed us when it added the deadline for ratification of the ERA. You, the members of this committee, have the opportunity and the obligation to fix the constitution [sic] and stop it from failing us.

That worked! How can we reject the wisdom of a has-been actress?

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) said, “I contend based on this testimony, that the ERA is now an amendment to the Constitution duly ratified by the 38th state, the Commonwealth of Virginia.”

Well, if Gerry and Alyssa say so it must be so.

This is going nowhere but it does show something. It shows the disdain the Left has for the Constitution and the rule of law. This is why when they talk of the Constitution and democracy, I cringe. I reject the way they view they law and I don’t want their version of democracy. Their version of democracy looks hauntingly like communism.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/an-obligation-to-fix-the-constitution-alyssa-milano-and-democrats-team-up-to-illegally-amend-our-founding-document

 

 

 

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Episode 453 – Happy Thanksgiving!

Getting ready to spend the afternoon barbequing ribs. This podcast is going to be short but straight to the point.

 

This Is Getting Old

This year’s getting rough for Jen Psaki. She is constantly trying to deflect for the President, even at times when she was not in the picture. What’s worse is she’s got Peter Doocy from Fox News to deal with who, honestly, seems to have fun making her squirm.

Here, Doocy asks Psaki if Old Joe is going to apologize to Kyle Rittenhouse for calling him a militiaman and a white supremacist. Her answer shouldn’t surprise you:

I do want to give her a break here. She wasn’t in the Biden administration when he said any of this so I’m not going to give her crap for not explaining why Biden ripped this kid. Where I will give her crap is the lie that Donald Trump never condemned white supremacy.

He did. A lot. He did it in a debate. He wouldn’t condemn the Proud Boys because he didn’t know who they were. It turns out the Proud Boys aren’t a white supremacist group, they are a chauvinist group. They believe in masculinity. Some would say toxic masculinity. But they’re not white supremacists. The founder and current president is Mexican. That’s the group Trump wouldn’t condemn.

Doocy doesn’t let her off the hook. Here he is asking how Biden could go to a billionaire’s mansion when people are suffering through inflation.

Some things:

  • Turkey’s aren’t $1 more. I don’t know what she’s talking about.
  • It’s not just the turkey. Ham is way up, baked goods are way up, sodas are way up (if you can find them), dairy is way up.
  • This Thanksgiving is going to cost 15% more than last year. That’s a lot.

But she doesn’t answer Doocy’s question. Of course, Doocy doesn’t put up with that:

Again, doesn’t answer the question.

The answer is that Biden is president, you’re not. He is elite, you’re not.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/psaki-on-biden-spending-thanksgiving-at-billionaires-compound-turkey-is-only-1-more-for-americans
https://www.dailywire.com/news/psaki-on-whether-biden-will-ever-apologize-to-kyle-rittenhouse-its-trumps-fault

 

He Was Right

Remember when Trump warned what would happen if we started getting rid of the Confederate statues? Well, here’s a reminder:

Trump was right. And notice the difference of the press for him and Joe Biden?

The statue of Thomas Jefferson, which has stood for almost 200 years, has been removed from New York City’s Council Chamber. It has been sent to the New York Historical Society.

According to the council’s Black, Latino, and Asian Caucus:

“This Administration owes it to the more than five million New Yorkers of color our members – past, present and future – represent, to resolve that the individuals memorialized within the confines of our People’s House be reflective not only of the best traditions of our city’s history and its diversity but unquestionable character.”

Bill de Blasio said in a statement:

“The de Blasio administration will continue the progressive war on history as he, himself, fades away into a portrait on a City Hall wall.”

Thomas Jefferson did own slaves. He slaves when slavery was accepted. Blacks, in America, also owned slaves. Most of them because their indentured servitude expired, were given land and they bought slaves to help with their crops. That what The 1619 Project doesn’t tell you. Slaves were sold in Africa by African chieftains. That’s something The 1619 Project doesn’t tell you.

Thomas Jefferson also wrote The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, was the third President and denounced slavery as something that went against his words in The Constitution. That’s what The 1619 Project didn’t tell you.

Trump was right. But it gets better.

A statue of Theodore Roosevelt, which has stood in front of the American Museum of Natural History for 80 years, because the “statue is problematic in its composition. Moreover, its current location denies passersby consent and context.”

The statue is Roosevelt riding on horse with two American Indians running by his side. The Indians are trackers, leading Roosevelt through one of his soon-to-be national parks. How do I know this? I looked it up. Maybe some of these people needed to do that before moving this statue.

So now a statue need consent to stand there. It will be moved to North Dakota.

There are two question here:

  • Doesn’t New York have bigger problems?
    • Their murder rate is up 200%.
    • They have a drug problem.
    • They have a homeless problem.
    • They have high taxes.
    • Low standard of living.
    • People are leaving to the point they lost a rep in the House.
  • The second question is why?

Now, before, I used to say they eliminate American history. I was wrong. They are trying to replace American history.

  • While we are tearing down statues of great men who were flawed, we are resurrecting statues of people like George Floyd, who provided nothing to society except terrorizing it.
  • A Catholic church is under fire for putting up a painting putting the face of George Floyd on Jesus.
  • This guy was not Jesus.
  • Howard Zinn wrote an alternate history of the United States.
  • Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote and alternate of history of the United States.
  • Ibram X. Kendi wrote an alternate history of the United States and justifies discrimination against white people.
  • Critical Race Theory is an alternate of history of the United States.

An we’re hearing now on Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims violated the American Indians. That didn’t happen.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/thomas-jefferson-statue-officially-booted-from-new-york-city-council-chamber
https://nypost.com/2021/11/22/natural-history-museums-theodore-roosevelt-statue-headed-to-north-dakota/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/damning-disservice-catholic-university-features-paintings-of-george-floyd-as-jesus

 

 

 

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Nov232021

Episode 452 – The Real Terrorism

A terrible act of terrorism hits Wisconsin. But who are the real terrorists?

 

News

Here are some news stories that came out that I shouldn’t skip:

  • President Biden took a physical.
    • The President has experienced increasing frequency and severity of “throat clearing” and coughing during speaking engagements. He has exhibited such symptoms for as long as I have known him, but they certainly seem to be more frequent and more pronounced over the last few months. It is acknowledged that this perception may be artificially confounded by the undeniable fact that, as President, a much greater attention is directed toward his public engagements as compared to that which he experienced in previous positions. Nevertheless, this symptom is clearly present, and warranted detailed investigation.
    • The President’s ambulatory gait is perceptibly stiffer and less fluid than it was a year or so ago. He has several reasonable explanations for this in his orthopedic history, but again, a detailed investigation was appropriate.
    • He did not appear to take a cognitive exam.
  • President Biden has indicated that he is going to run for re-election. Wow, at 36% approval rating, that’s going to go well.
  • Finally, Joe Biden has decided to release 50 million barrels of oil. Sounds like a lot. We use 18 million barrels of oil a day. If we do the math, that extra oil will get us halfway through Friday.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-physical-reveals-multiple-health-issues-does-not-appear-to-have-gotten-cognitive-test-reports
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-taps-strategic-oil-reserves-for-50-million-barrels-to-address-high-pump-prices

 

Black Supremacy, Domestic Terrorism?

Something you are not going to hear a lot about on CNN and MSNBC is how a 39-year-old black man named Darrell Brooks Jr., drove his car through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin. So far, 5 have been killed and over 48 have been injured including 10 kids.

There is very little information on this case and trust, because he is black, the media won’t get that information out anytime soon. He’s got a record to length of my arm including two open felony cases ($1000 and $500 bail), he has served very little jail time because Wisconsin is a social justice state, and he’s a sex offender.

Here he is explaining how he got into trouble for sleeping with a 16-year-old:

He is a BLM supporter and was heavily against the police. He was bonded out on $1000 bail on Friday.

So tell me, does the justice seem fair? Why was this guy on the street? White supremacy?

https://www.dailywire.com/news/at-least-5-dead-40-injured-after-driver-plows-into-christmas-parade-possible-suspected-identified

 

Let’s Take a Look

The media is being really quiet about this guy. It looks like there’s a reason.

The media, with the little information they put out, screwed even that little information. They first reported that Brooks was being chased, fleeing from another crime scene. I wasn’t surprised about this lie because that would let the media blame the police for keeping the chase going and that caused the accident, not the black criminal.

That story turned out to be false.

So was it terrorism? The Waukesha police chief says “no”. This guy has a long criminal history including battery, domestic violence, cocaine possession and resisting arrest. We also can’t forget he’s a registered sex offender for having sex with a 16-year-old. He was also on bail for two pending felony charges and three misdemeanor charges (that’s part of the problem). Earlier this month, the suspect was arrested for allegedly punching his child’s mother in the face and hitting her with his car at a gas station. The bail amounts? One for $500 and the second one was more severe, $1000. Right now, the Wisconsin DA admits the bail amounts are way too low and there is an investigation into what happened. More on that later.

His social media account does show that he is a Black Lives Matter supporter, that he hates Republican politicians and media, and he was spewing black nationalistic quotes from people like Malcom X.

But was this terrorism.

Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire thinks that this was terrorism based on the videos (he appeared to be aiming at people), the location (this was only a few miles from Kenosha) and the timing (two days after the Rittenhouse verdict).

What do I think? It definitely is a form of terrorism. But there are a few things in the video that tell me this may not have been intentional, planned terrorism. The video shows that, though he looks like he’s in a hurry, he was being chased by the police. I cannot be sure when the chase started and we have not been told. In the video, he does look like he is trying to avoid people not aiming at them. There was one video that showed Brooks driving by the sidewalk and he had a clear shot at a child. All he had to do was veer a little right to take her out. He didn’t.

The real terrorism is crime. People are not safe anywhere. This guy had no business being on the street. I’ll go a step further, he had no business being out of prison. This is a career felon. He cannot be rehabilitated. He should be spending the rest of his life in prison. This guy was going to take a life. That’s because he doesn’t care about life. He showed that in the video I played earlier.

In the 1990s, a bunch of states had a three strikes law. These laws stated that someone who committed three felonies were automatically sentenced to life in prison because they were see as career criminals. Even California had it. But blue states like California got rid of the three strikes laws because of social justice. Jails and prisons are seen as evil places that victimizes people, especially people of color.

Crime rates in the United States have gone through the roof. The Left wants to defund the police, close jails and prisons, and end bail. They are responsible for the terror they have unleashed on this country. Wisconsin is an example of this. Instead of changing their tune, the Left just doubles down.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html
https://www.dailywire.com/news/waukesha-police-chief-there-was-no-police-pursuit-that-led-up-to-this-incident
https://www.dailywire.com/news/alleged-waukesha-killer-charged-with-5-counts-of-intentional-homicide-alleged-social-media-posts-show-extreme-views-reports
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-wisconsin-da-admits-waukesha-person-of-interest-released-on-inappropriately-low-bail-before-tragedy

Doubling Down

The day after this tragedy, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a tweet about a letter she sent requesting that New York eliminate cash bail because people of color are being kept in jail awaiting their trials.

Couple of things here:

  • Just because someone hasn’t been convicted of a crime does not mean that they did not commit a crime.
  • Typically when someone is given a high bail it’s because of the seriousness of the crime and a preview of the evidence given to judge at bail hearing.
  • Bail is made to ensure that the suspect comes back to court. High bail is used when the judge is pretty sure he won’t come back to court.
  • The judge also wants to ensure that the suspect won’t commit another crime.
  • I also find it funny that she wants to release criminals for social justice but she wanted Kyle Rittenhouse thrown in prison for life for the sin of defending to himself.
  • Finally, why would she say this the day after a guy ran over 53 people, killing 5, and he was out of jail because because of an inappropriately low bail.

She got a lot of crap about this on Twitter:

  • Ben Shapiro, The Daily Wire: “Your timing is…odd.”
  • Mike Cernovich, political commentator: “The day after a massacre occurred in Wisconsin by a violent criminal released under bail reform policies, AOC posts this.”
  • Dana Loesch, radio host: “Because Waukesha wasn’t bad enough apparently.”
  • Matt Walsh, The Daily Wire: “Holy sh**. @AOC is a demonic sociopath. A guy out on $1,000 bail just mowed down a bunch of women and children, and her immediate response is to ensure that even more violent criminals are released back into their communities. These people are really, truly, diabolically evil.”
  • Erick Erickson, radio host: “The Squad really is a House Freedom Caucus parody project, right? I refuse to believe these people aren’t part of a satirical project poking fun at the left.”
  • Matt Whitlock, political strategist: “The day after a man kills 5 people and injures 48 while out on a $1,000 bond (after trying to kill someone ELSE with his car), AOC comes out with a letter arguing that bails are too high. Can’t make it up.”
  • Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch: “The extremist Left opposes incarceration, in principle. Don’t be distracted by arguments about bail, criminal justice reform, etc. The communist revolutionaries believe the criminal justice system has no moral authority to jail anyone (other than their political enemies).”
  • Dan McLaughlin, National Review: “Today was really not the day to be pushing to get more dangerous people out on bail. Really, really not.”

But it isn’t just AOC. Another dumbass, Rashida Tlaib, was interviewed by Axios reporter Jonathan Swan about a bill she proposed that would release all federal prisoners. It didn’t go well for her:

This is the problem with Leftists. They are so busy tearing down the systems of the United States, they have no answer as to the damage that could be done not do they have a replacement to the system they’re tearing apart.

She also knows that her bill will cause a severe backlash. It will make lives worse for a lot of people. She is lying about who it will affect and the extent of the bill she wrote. She needs to make it look good. She doesn’t want you to know her bill would release terrorists, serial killers and the leadership of hate groups like the Aryan Nation. Hey, I think these people are mentally ill too but I don’t want them on the streets.

Finally, look at how blasé she is about it. Her stupid bill is not going to affect her life. She is an elite. She has private security. It’s our lives that are going to be f-ed.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-faces-backlash-for-urging-lowering-of-bail-amounts-after-people-killed-at-christmas-parade
https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-aoc-targets-excessive-bail-day-after-suspect-out-on-bail-hit-50-people-with-car-in-waukesha
https://www.dailywire.com/news/but-thats-what-what-the-act-says-jonathan-swan-corners-rashida-tlaib-over-prison-bill-that-would-release-everyone

 

Conclusion

I have said this before and I’ll say it again. I think there should be some reforms. I think there should be some rehabilitation for prisoners if they are going to get out. I think prisoners should work in meaningful ways to help that rehabilitation.

But I also believe that prison is there for one real reason: punishment. It’s justice for the victim. Prison should be the lack of freedom, it should be miserable and it should be hard. And, if someone is there for life, we shouldn’t give a damn about their suffering, comfort or rehabilitation. They should get stuck in their cells and rot.

 

 

 

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Nov222021

Episode 451 – The Reactions Are In

This is the fun part. With Kyle Rittenhouse being found not guilty on all accounts, we get to see the gnashing of teeth and bloodlust from the Left.

And we are seeing it. So are Rittenhouse’s lawyers.

 

Friday Night Lights

We celebrated the big victory on Friday over on Rumble. If you haven’t seen my video, here it is:

https://rumble.com/vphww8-episode-5-its-over-thank-goodness.html?mref=iesjt&mc=ahjle

I’m not going to go over the verdict here. I’m sure you heard and saw the drama.

As far as unrest goes, there were moments of it in Los Angeles and New York. None in Kenosha. Everything was rather quiet.

This was great news for 2nd Amendment advocated and equality under the law and that’s what I was most concerned about. I saw the videos and everything was quite clear: Kyle Rittenhouse defended himself from some very bad people who were trying to kill him. There was no doubt about that. I was worried that the media and BLM had intimidated this jury enough to either hang or say he was guilty on some of the charges. They weren’t able to manipulate the jury and that’s a great thing.

Let’s be clear on one thing: I do not see Kyle Rittenhouse as a hero. I see him as an innocent and naïve kid that was some place he shouldn’t have been. He put himself in a very dangerous position. That does not mean he didn’t have a right to be out there. It just means it was not the best place for a 17-year-old to be that night. I don’t think Rosenbaum or Huber belonged out there either. And that does not change whether he is innocent or not. He was definitely defending himself and those who attacked him were some bad hombres.

By the way, nobody but Rittenhouse faced charges? Why didn’t Gage and “jump kick man” face assaults charges?

Before you start screaming at me, Rittenhouse did do some courageous and virtuous things that night. He was cleaning up graffiti off the walls. He was putting out fires. He was giving medical aid to the rioters who got hurt. He was guarding a business from the rioters. Yes, he didn’t belong out there at his age but he was doing good things while he was out there.

Now, the media has some problems. Either they take the “L” and admit Rittenhouse was innocent, change the narrative to something more palatable to the citizens and viewers or they double-down and call Rittenhouse a racist white supremacist that eats puppies and pees on orphans. His lawyers are hoping for the last (and they won’t be disappointed).

 

The New Narrative

I turned to MSNBC because I knew there would be a lot of whining. And there was. But I think they were in some shock when the verdicts went down. There was not a lot about Rittenhouse himself. They needed a few hours to warm up.

Their lawyers talked about the up hill battle of the prosecution and even mentioned their incompetence a couple of times. But one thing they tried to do was craft a new narrative. Some them included:

  • The need for stricter gun control.
  • The need to get rid of the 2nd Amendment.
  • The need to change “right to defense” in the criminal law code.
  • The failure of the jury system in the United States.

I was surprised to hear some outlets defend Rittenhouse and the verdict. CNN said that justice was done even if “we” didn’t like it. The Washington Post and New York Times put out opinion pieces about how the system did work. The writers said that it works for both sides and the case was very weak.

But, as usual, when the shock had waned, they went right back to the narrative. Kyle Rittenhouse is a racist and white supremacist and he a representative of all white men.

Let’s look at some examples.

 

Reaction

The Media

Though Chris Cuomo on CNN said that the verdict was just, Van Jones and Anderson Cooper didn’t think so:

Couple of things with this:

  • Kyle Rittenhouse is being compared to Bernard Goetz and George Zimmerman as a vigilante. This is not the case. In fact all three cases are different.
    • Goetz was a vigilante and faced charges and was convicted because of it.
    • Zimmerman was a neighborhood watch guy. He saw someone suspicious and reported it and was then attacked. He shot only after he suffered injuries. He is a dumb guy but he defended himself, none the less.
    • Kyle Rittenhouse only shot those who attacked him. All this is on video. No one got shot that wasn’t attacking him. He defended himself.
    • I still have yet to see this white supremacy thing the media is talking about. To them, white supremacy is anyone who is a white man.
  • None of the cases he mentioned have anything to do with each other. All were unrelated and the circumstances were unrelated.
  • I love that they bring up January 6th but never talk of the destruction the BLM riots caused.
  • He says there is one section of society that is walking out of the house carrying guns. Hello, all of these guys that Rittenhouse shot were expected to be armed. Even Rosenbaum was was suspected to be armed with some sort of liquid, be it bleach, gas or lighter fluid. He threw the bag at Rittenhouse. One hit Rittenhouse twice with a skateboard. One had a gun.
  • Here are some questions:
    • Where were the cops?
    • Why did Kyle Rittenhouse feel he needed a gun?
    • What were those guys doing while Rittenhouse was out there?
    • What about the violence in Kenosha? Should that just be ignore?

But then there’s Tiffany Cross of MSNBC:

Some things:

  • I’m glad people at MSNBA can’t contain themselves. More money for Rittenhouse. He’s no white supremacist.
  • Blacks actually did vote before the Civil Rights Act. They voted Republican.
    • Lyndon Johnson pushed it through to change that. He even said, “N-words will be voting Democrat for the next 200 years.”
    • Martin Luther King was a liberal Republican.
    • Democrats instituted and enforced Jim Crowe laws. Republicans ended slavery and condemned Jim Crowe laws.

Joy Reid said:

Jeez! Some things:

  • Gun control.
  • The system is flawed and racist.
  • This was not a protest, it was a riot.
  • Rittenhouse did not shoot any black people.
  • The lies: Rittenhouse’s father lived in the state and he worked in the state.

I want to bring up a couple of things here:

  • I love that the media is doing this now. Before the verdict, it’s only opinion. After the not guilty verdict, it’s slander.
  • Rittenhouse is going to win a lot of money through lawsuits.
  • I want to ask a couple of questions:
    • When are we going to talk about black supremacy?
    • When are we going to talk about black nationalism?
    • When are we going to start condemning Van Jones, Joy Reid, Ibram X. Kendi or Tiffany Cross as racists? If I said the same thing but reversed the races, that would be considered, rightly, racist.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-host-disgusted-by-kenosha-verdict-calls-rittenhouse-a-little-murderous-white-supremacist
https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-vigilante-violence-cnns-anderson-cooper-and-van-jones-discuss-rittenhouse-verdict
https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-host-disgusted-by-kenosha-verdict-calls-rittenhouse-a-little-murderous-white-supremacist

 

Politicians

Doesn’t just end there. Politicians went off. Here’s Joe Biden’s response:

“While the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken. I ran on a promise to bring Americans together, because I believe that what unites us is far greater than what divides us. I know that we’re not going to heal our country’s wounds overnight, but I remain steadfast in my commitment to do everything in my power to ensure that every American is treated equally, with fairness and dignity, under the law.”

Mr. Unity. He even admitted he didn’t know anything about the case. This is a guy who spent his entire campaign calling Rittenhouse a militia member and a white supremacist. I hope Rittenhouse can sue the President.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA): “America today: you can break the law, carry around weapons built for a military, shoot and kill people, and get away with it. That’s the message we’ve just sent to armed vigilantes across the nation.”

In San Francisco, the shout down a Louis Vitton and about ten Walgreens because people who steal under $100 don’t get arrested so I don’t want to hear about breaking the law from him.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL): “Carrying a loaded gun into a community 20 miles from your home and shooting unarmed citizens is fundamentally wrong.”

Congressional Black Caucus: “It is unconscionable our justice system would allow an armed vigilante — who traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin and killed Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber, and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz — to go free.”

Rep Cori Bush (D-MO): “The judge. The jury. The defendant. It’s white supremacy in action. This system isn’t built to hold white supremacists accountable. It’s why Black and brown folks are brutalized and put in cages while white supremacist murderers walk free. I’m hurt. I’m angry. I’m heartbroken.”

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA): “Racism & white supremacy remain the bedrock of our legal system. My heart breaks for the family & loved ones of those whose lives were stolen, and the trauma our communities face today and every day.”

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI): “Our justice system is broken. It protects white supremacy. The two people who were killed deserved justice and so did our communities who continue to be targeted with violence like this.”

 

Sports

Colin Kaepernick: “We just witnessed a system built on white supremacy validate the terroristic acts of a white supremacist. This only further validates the need to abolish our current system. White supremacy cannot be reformed.”

NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace: “Ha, let the boy be black and it would’ve been life…hell he would’ve had his life taken before the bullshit trial. Sad.”

NBA: “Our thoughts are with the families of those whose lives were taken in this tragedy. The right to peacefully protest is a bedrock of our democracy and the National Basketball Social Justice Coalition remains committed to preserving that right for all. Any forms of vigilantism in our society are unacceptable.”

 

Culture

Nikole Hannah-Jones: “In this country, you can even kill white people and get away with it if those white people are fighting for Black lives. This is the legacy of 1619.”

“But Trayvon Martin deserved to die because he fought back against an aggressor with no weapon. This is the legacy of white supremacy in action.”

Ibram X. Kendi: “They are fighting to maintain white male supremacy,” Kendi quoted from an article he wrote last year. “Which is to say, they are defending law and order. Defending their America — where white men can rule and brutalize without consequence.”

George Takei: “Justice denied is a body blow to our national psyche. On trial was not only a killer, but a system that continues to kill. Today that system defeated true justice, once again. But mark these words: We will never stop fighting for what is right and just.”

Jemele Hill: “The Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, that several states have enacted laws that allow motorists immunity if they hit protestors with their cars, is about this country’s addiction to maintaining white supremacy at all costs. It’s on brand, and in line with who America always has been.”

MoveOn: “Our judicial system upholds white supremacy. The entire trial and the verdict today is just another example of that. For us all to truly be safe, it must be reimagined and transformed.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/famously-woke-nba-releases-statement-on-rittenhouse-verdict-claims-rittenhouses-attackers-were-peacefully-protesting
https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-most-insane-leftist-responses-to-the-kyle-rittenhouse-verdict

 

 

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