Philosophy

Feb032021

Episode 288 – The 1619 Project

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

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

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

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

Enter the 1619 Project.

What is the 1619 Project?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Goals of the Project

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

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

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

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

Oops! It Ain’t that Accurate

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According to the Wall Street Journal article by Elliot Kaufman:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other things that the 1619 Project gets wrong:

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

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

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

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

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

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

What Does This Document Ignore?

This document ignores a lot of things.

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

What is the Goal of this Document?

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

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

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

Once in politics the system can be changed.

What Do We Do?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jan202021

Episode 282 – New President, Same Garbage

Joe Biden is getting ready to screw up the country.

But first, let’s listen to Captain Unity:

Old Joe, Same Crap

Old Joe is coming out with his policies…finally. And they are the same old thing. Well, I mean, he’s saying what his policies are going to be without actually giving us any information on them or what they are going to do to the country or what we are going to have to do to meet these policies.

Which is fine. The media doesn’t care. His policies will work because the magic policy fairy who hated Trump because he is a racist, homophobe, xenophobe, white, straight guy will come to Biden and make it all work.

Biden said there are going to be four major “emergencies” that he is going to pay attention to. I’m sorry, not emergencies but “crisis”. Here they are:

According to the Daily Wire:
Incoming White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain vowed Saturday that President-elect Joe Biden will take “decisive action” on four different crises affecting the country during his first ten days in office.In a memo to incoming senior White House staff, Klain identified the four crises as “the COVID-19 crisis, the resulting economic crisis, the climate crisis, and a racial equity crisis,” and promised Biden would take executive actions to address them.

Um, ok. Let’s take a look at this.

The China virus crisis- already handled. What else is Old Joe going to do?
The economic crisis because of the China virus- Trump already took care of that. Florida, Texas, Idaho and other states that ignored the panicking news media are doing great. Chicago, New York and other Lefty cities and states want to now open their economies. Um, that will fix the economy and he won’t have to do much of anything but it will look really political.
The climate crisis- in other words…weather. He’s going to change the weather? We won’t have a hurricane again? or tornadoes? It won’t be hot or cold again? There will not be droughts or fires in California again? Good luck with that.
The racial equity crisis- This is just taxes, redistribution and socialism. That’s all it is. Trust me, people of color won’t see a dime of the evil rich white men. Once the government gets money, it doesn’t give it up.

Sleepy, Creepy Joe has said he was going to use his executive orders to overturn a bunch of Trump’s executive orders. I’m sure liberal lawyers will appear in front of liberal judges to get those executive orders blocked like what happened when Trump tried to overwrite the the DACA executive order under Obama because its, supposedly not easy to overwrite executive orders. Oops, they did cancel Trump’s executive order overwriting Obama’s executive orders.

Anyway, here are the executive orders Old Joe is going to overwrite:

Biden is expected to sign more COVID-19-related executive actions to order schools and businesses reopened under new federal health guidelines. More federal government control.
Biden will announce a plan to reunite families separated by federal law enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border. This is a weird one. Does that mean Biden will send the kids back to their families in Mexico or bring the families into the United States? Yeah, no possible disaster here.
Unveil criminal justice reform proposals. Not sure how Biden will do better on this from his point of view.
Announce new strategies to battle climate change. In other words, he wants more regulation that will stifle businesses. No more fracking (which would be a campaign promise that was a lie), closing all drilling in federal lands that made us energy independent because we need to save the horney toad squirrel and lower CO2 levels from all business and citizens. Basically stick us back in the 1700s when it comes to technology and standard of living.

One of the big things Biden wants to to is raise the minimum at the federal level to $15.00 an hour. That’s a great idea when businesses are closed and wondering where they are going to get their income to put more crap on them by making him pay workers double what he has to pay them not.

I hate minimum wage. In fact, I think the minimum wage should be $0.00. The market should be what determines the value of labor not the government. The government doesn’t have any skin in the game when it comes to a person’s business. But an employer will pay for good workers. The better the employee, the more he will be willing to pay. If the employer doesn’t pay the worker for what he deserves than the employee will quit and find a job that will pay.

Here’s the cold hard truth: If an employee cannot negotiate a $15.00 an hour wage, that employee probably doesn’t deserve $15:00 an hour. Period done.

But raising the minimum wage has huge economic issues:

Cost of products and services will go up. This will slow economic growth.
Businesses will cut jobs to meet their budget. Raising unemployment.
Employees in specialized jobs, such as my fiancé, will demand a higher wage. This will raise inflation.
Many businesses will close because they require a specific number of employees but their profit margin is so razor thin they cannot maintain the business. This is a common issue restaurants have.
People thinking about starting new businesses will be less likely to do so with such a high starting cost.

I find it amazing that this is an issue when unemployment is up because the country is shut down because of the China virus. We might actually see the unemployment rate actually go up when the economy is re-opened. We are currently at about 7% unemployment but businesses are going to be struggling even if they re-open. Remember, there is a lot that goes into a business that has been closed. It’s almost like these businesses have to start from fresh. There’s:

Inventory that needs to be replenished which requires money.
Delivery of that inventory.
New marketing strategy.
New regulations for the China virus that need to be met.
The hiring of new or former employees.

Now business owners have to worry about paying low-skilled workers twice what they were earning before? Washington and Oregon already have a $15.00 an hour wage. Their economies were decimated. What I’m saying is we have seen this movie before.

This is part of the Democratic plan.

They like sticking it to small businesses. They love corporations. Big corporations pay big money, do what they want and support mass regulations. They want small business to die. Less competition.

Democrats want unemployment. They want the people to suffer and depend on the government to survive. That way, people become subservient to big government and will do whatever those in power want to do including raising taxes and accepting the loss of our freedoms.

This is how socialism works. Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister in England, said, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” The minimum wage is going to damage the economy. People will lost their jobs. They will go on government assistance and get decent money. A bunch will not even go back to work. Unemployment will go up, more people will go on assistance. The government will have to raise taxes. Raising taxes will cause businesses to lay off more people to keep their profit margins. Or the business will close altogether. More unemployment. More people depend on the government. More tax raises.

Eventually the government can’t get more taxes. The rich leave the country or they are no longer rich. The rich who do not embrace the government, much like Donald Trump, will have their wealth taken or, worse, prosecuted and condemned. When the government can’t tax, they take. They take wealth and commandeer business, making it property of the state. This will cause lack of production and lack of innovation making the economy stagnant. The only thing that moves in a socialist economy is unemployment, GDP, innovation and misery. Only the government’s power grows.

When the government has no more money, they discard all the benefits they promised. People begin to have problems getting basic necessities. Inflation makes prices go through the roof. Store can’t afford inventory. People will begin to lose their patience. They will begin to revolt. Those revolting will not be armed (remember, Democrats don’t want the 2nd Amendment). Those protestors will be seen as traitors, be arrested, prosecuted and thrown in jails and prisons.

This is an abbreviated synopsis. Though not by much. It usually takes about five years for it to be implemented and all things go south.

This process happened under Mao in China. It happened under Mussolini in Italy. It happened in Germany under Hitler. It happened in North Korea under Kim. It happened under Lenin and Stalin in the Soviet Union. It happened under Castro in Cuba. It happened under Chavez and, now, Maduro in Venezuela.

Setting a high minimum wage isn’t all that creates the mess that I mentioned about. Other things include:

Government controlled, socialized healthcare.
Control of institutions such as media, education, entertainment, business and the economy.
Making it so the population cannot be armed.
Ending of free speech and censorship.
Condemning those that do not fall in line with the government line (cancel culture).
Encouraging people to tattle with each other. Separate people into groups. Create discord.
Demonize and eliminate the opposition.
Eliminating religion. Government has to be God.
Heavily regulating or government ownership of business (fascism).
Control of the courts.
Eliminating minority rights.

Do any of these things sound familiar?

I do not look at the raising of the middle wage as just bad economic policy, though it is. I see it as a way to, slowly, take over the population through dependence and increase government control. It’s a very bad thing that might not look so dangerous on its own. But when added to the other Leftist policies, it sounds horrifying.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-reverse-trump-policies-during-flurry-of-executive-orders-in-first-days-in-office
https://www.dailywire.com/news/team-biden-vows-decisive-action-on-four-crises-in-first-ten-days
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-seeking-increase-of-fed-minimum-wage-to-15-an-hour

https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-migrant-caravan-forms-in-honduras-looking-to-make-the-deadly-journey-to-the-united-states
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-ask-congress-on-first-day-to-grant-legal-status-to-11-million-illegal-aliens
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-team-to-migrant-caravan-now-isnt-a-good-time-try-coming-later

Nov152020

Episode 249 – Animal Farm, Chapter 9

Here is chapter 9 of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. This chapter will show us the utter evil of the pigs and their oppression is beginning to become a stark reality for the animals of the farm.

1 – This is a flat out lie as we will see later. There is no lush green pasture for those who are too old to work.

2 – This is a common tragedy in communist countries: starvation and famine. That is because most of the countries are isolated and cannot produce what is necessary for the population. It is also because the population must perform other tasks outside of their normal duties. In this case, the windmill needs to be rebuilt. This takes the animals time away from farming. The pigs are both blind to this and turn the other way. They do not think it is a bad as all that because the pigs are satisfied. Communist countries that have suffered from starvation and famine leading to tens of thousands of deaths include China under Mao, the Soviet Union under Stalin, Cuba under Castro, North Korea under the Kim family and Venezuela under the Chavez/Maduro regimes. By the way, Orwell is specifically talking about communist governments but this is really about tyrannical governments. Mao, Stalin, the Kim family, Castro, Chavez and Maduro were all dictators.

3 – The great lie we are even being told today. When life is dictated by a government, one can never be free. Suffering, risk and hard work are part of freedom. That is how one can rise above their current situation and become successful. That’s capitalism. Socialism promises nothing and gives no rewards for success. We will get that example with Boxer, the hardest worker on the farm, later in the chapter.

4 – This is the creation of the upper and lower class. The pigs were to be segregated from the rest of the population because the rest of the population was below them. What’s worse: the animals now had to work harder to build structures that only benefitted the pigs.

5 – Pure tone-deafness of the pig leadership. Or they just didn’t care. With the animals starving and not enough food being grown, the pigs take up much needed fertile land to grow barley for their luxury of beer.

6 – This is a prime example of military parades. These parades are meant to instill pride with its citizens and instill fear for their enemies. Though the animals did not have a vast army of large missiles to show their strength, the firing of the gun could be that intended intimidation.

7 – Do you ever notice tyrannical governments always refer to themselves as “democracy” or “democratic republics” even though they are clearly dictatorships or totalitarian communists? Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. People’s Republic of North Korea. People’s Republic of China. German Democratic Republic (East Germany under the Soviet Union). None of these countries practiced the political systems of the republic or democracy.

Also, we see the continued erosion of history. This is needed to continue with the “revolution” or “us and them” mentality.

8 – This metaphor is pretty obvious. Moses represents Moses from the Old Testament who led the Jews out slavery from the Egyptians and to the promised land. This could be a rebuke at the rejection of the animals for disavowing their god (God?) for the promises of earthly material things also know as utopia (heaven on earth).

I’m not sure I like that Orwell added this metaphor into this book. As far as I’m concerned, it’s too little, too late and it has not been something brought up since the beginning of the book. Not to mention, it has very little to do with the conclusion of the book. It’s almost as if Orwell wanted to add another page to the chapter.

9 – This is probably the second most powerful scene in the entire book. Boxer was a devout follower, almost a religious follower. This might explain the religious context from the Moses text. But, when his value to the collective ran its course, he was banished and his body, which had three years left, was used to profit the farm, leading to his death. See, the collective only sees people as commodities that are there to serve the collective. When the commodity cannot provide for the collective, it is cast away. To the tyrannical collective; in this case, communism, people are things that can be discarded.

10 – This is a threat. A warning. All dissenters will face the lash, the gulag or the guillotine.

11 – Something I want to conclude with. In this book, Orwell is trying to convey the evils of communism. But I rarely talk about communism. I talk mostly about the tyrant or tyranny. I do this because the country he is referring to, the Soviet Union, was not really a true communist or Marxist country. Neither are many of the “communist” countries. The were dictatorships. They may have started as communist countries but the, eventually turned into dictatorships.

Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavez, the Kim family, Maduro, Chavez, Hitler, Mussolini were all dictators that practiced either a socialist or fascist economic system. They were no different the open dictators like Bashar al-Assad, Ferdinand Marcos, Napoleon or Genghis Kahn.

Remember, tyranny is about power, and power can only belong to one. And it must be protected by the tyrant.

Nov062020

Episode 245 – Still Nothing

Prematurely Calling the President

Decision Desk HQ has declared Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden the winner in the 2020 presidential election, the first major outlet to make a call in the race. A handful of battleground states remain hotly contested and other outlets have yet to make a final call in the presidential race.

Once again, in the middle of the night, Biden took the leads in Georgia and Pennsylvania. These states are not called. There is a lawsuits in both states. Georgia still has to count military ballots which should go mostly to Trump.

According to the Daily Wire:

According to CBS Atlanta, with 100% of precincts reporting and the vast majority of the ballots counted in the state of Georgia, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has amassed 2,449, 377 votes, giving him a 917 vote lead over President Trump, who has amassed 2,448, 454 votes, Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen gathered 61,380 votes. Both Trump and Biden received 49.4% of the vote.

According to the office of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger at 8:15 a.m. on Friday, approximately 8,197 ballots remained to be counted, dispersed this way: Floyd County: 444; Gwinnett County: 4,800: Laurens County: 1,797, and Taylor County: 456. The office added, “An additional approximately 8,900 military and overseas absentee ballots have been sent out to requesters but not yet returned. Such ballots, if postmarked by Election Day, can be accepted within three days of Election Day.”

The Vote Marches On

Trump Gets a Win

The Trump campaign notched a second win in a Pennsylvania court on Thursday after a judge ruled that some ballots lacking identifying voter information should be set aside and not yet counted.

The decision from Mary Hannah Leavitt, the president judge on the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, came through on Thursday afternoon. She ordered that all ballots received between Nov. 9-12 that lack voter information on them should be separated out and not counted pending further instruction of the court.

“The county boards of elections shall segregate ballots for which identification is received and verified on November 10, 11, and 12, 2020, from ballots for which identification is received and verified on or before November 9, 2020,” the court order says. “The segregation for which identification is received and verified on November 10, 11, and 12, 2020, shall not be counted until further order of this court.”

That’s good. And that’s how it should be. It will definitely be a useful judgement if Pennsylvania needs to do a recount. But it also leaves open the fact that, if Biden ends up losing the state, a challenge can be made by the Biden campaign. This is going to be a long one.

It Ain’t Over in Arizona

President Donald Trump is “still in line” to overtake Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in what may be a crucial win in the battleground state of Arizona. On MSNBC,

Arizona election officials are continuing to tabulate outstanding ballots, which the Trump campaign has said should cut in favor of Trump and give the president the boost he needs to overcome his deficit to Biden. If Trump can get the votes he needs to overtake Biden and secure Arizona’s 11 electoral votes, Trump’s pathway to reelection is on much steadier footing, though still likely an outside shot.

Arizona officials were continuing to release data on ballot counts early into the morning on Thursday. After the last dump of counted ballots, the Phoenix-based data analytics and survey research firm Data Orbital said that Trump was still on track with their model to overtake Biden. The data firm released numbers coming from several counties in Arizona with comments on how the updated vote count aligned with the firm’s projections.

In a Twitter thread beginning early in the evening on Wednesday and ending early Thursday morning, Data Orbital said:

Pima County – 5,614 ballots 50.8/47.3 Trump to Biden. Overall, this is a strong County for Biden. Good sign for Trump.

Maricopa County 74,547 ballots. 57.6/40.7 Trump to Biden. President nets 12,644. A bit below our 14,000 projection but good progress for the President. #AZ

Garrett Archer, a data journalist for ABC 15 Arizona, backed up Data Orbital’s read of the data, saying that the fresh data puts Trump on track to overtake Biden’s lead, though narrowly. Arizona is still either side’s state to take, he noted.

“While on the surface good, this drop is a ‘tread water’ for what Trump would need to flip the state. As we get closer to the end, the ballots get less friendly (ballot drop off uni will have a lot more Independents in them),” Archer noted after the latest drop of data early Thursday morning.

“Trump now needs 68,390 to catch Biden. There are approximately 430k or so ballots left in the state,” Archer said, providing a rough overview of the state of Arizona’s outstanding ballot count.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-campaign-scores-another-win-in-pennsylvania-court-some-ballots-lacking-voter-id-info-must-be-set-aside
https://www.dailywire.com/news/good-progress-for-the-president-trump-in-line-to-overtake-biden-in-arizona-data-firm-says

Nothing Like Getting Information From a Racist

I love hearing crap from a race-baiter like Al Sharpton. I also love that these people, who really got killed in the House and Senate races, still doesn’t get it when it comes to race.

On MSNBC, Sharpton acknowledged that the Republicans did very well in this election.

“He has done better than, in my judgment, he should have with black men and Hispanics, which means that we’ve got to really look in the civil rights community, both on the Latino and the African American side, on a real conversation in our communities on what it is to be different in terms of being entrepreneurial aspirants and being fair in terms of how we look from the whole.”

“I think he appealed to some that wanted to feel that they had to be a certain kind of way to be aspirational and that you can be that and still be centrists.”

“I think that a lot of them bought into the false view they were putting out on Joe Biden with the crime bill rather than dealing with the fact that Joe Biden was going along with the majority of people, even in the Black leadership with the Black crime bill.”

Going forward, Sharpton said that Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) are going to have to work to capture those communities if they win the White House.

“I really believe there is going to be a lot of work in those areas. If we ignore it, or act like it doesn’t matter, I think is not wise and I think if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, if they’re successful, are going to have to really work.”

Charles Blow of The New York Times was distraught over Trump’s gains with minorities, Tweeted:

“This is so personally devastating to me: the Black male vote for Trump INCREASED from 13% in 2016 to 18% this year. The Black female vote for Trump doubled from 4% in 2016 to 8% this year. Also, once again, exit polls show a majority of White women voting for Trump.”

“Also, the percentage of LGBT voting for Trump doubled from 2016. DOUBLED!!! This is why LGBT people of color don’t really trust the White gays. Yes, I said what I said. Period,” he continued. “Also, the percentage of Latinos and Asians voting for Trump INCREASED from 2016, according to exit polls. Yet more evidence that we can’t depend on the “browning of America” to dismantle White supremacy and erase anti-Blackness.”

Here’s the problem with these guys: They are doubling down on the same narrative that cost them 15 seats in the House and allowed the Republicans to keep the Senate. They don’t get that calling anyone who doesn’t agree with them a racist, homophobe, xenophobe, sexist or misogynist is a way to convince them of their policy and social views. People don’t want to hear how terrible our country is and will always be. People of color see this stuff and are beginning to reject it. The Democrats do not understand that they have to change their philosophy but they won’t do it.

Republicans had the same problems before. Donald Trump, who the Republicans hated, won the election because of his message. Then, as President, his message got through most of the Republicans in Congress and people who did not vote for him in 2016 embraced his message. What was his message?

The United States is the greatest country in world history.
We are individuals with a set of freedoms given to us by God.
Our country should be protected by a strong military, border security and securing our technology.
Socialism is bad.
Capitalism has created prosperity throughout the world.
The media is slanted.
He works for the people.

This is a message that permeates. This message brings pride to people. It is positive. It makes people who love this country and want to fight for it.

Democrats don’t get that this is what wins elections. This is why Democrats lost 30% of the House seats and lost the Senate. And they may have lost the Presidency, we don’t know. Doesn’t look good but there are still a lot of questions about the election. Instead of looking inside themselves, they have decided to double down.

Claire McCaskill, a Democrat from Missouri, lost her election. She said said it is because Democrats are becoming tone deaf. She said:

Let me make things simple. I hope the Democrats keep following AOC. The 30 year old dunce whose only job outside of being a congressman was a part time bar tender. After 2022, the Republicans will be running the government for 20 years. McCaskill is right. The Democrats have picked and chose certain platforms that have nothing to do with 98% of Americans and think they will win.

The Democratic party is fractured. The Republican party is united. President Trump did it. Whether he wins or loses, he has already had an impact that will reverberate throughout history. History will find that Trump will be the most influential one term President in history.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/al-sharpton-trump-did-better-than-he-should-have-with-black-men-and-hispanics
https://www.foxnews.com/media/aoc-rips-msnbc-claire-mccaskill-why-do-we-listen-to-people-who-lost-elections

These Guys Don’t Get It

ABC News’ “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin feels that over 68 million Americans who voted for President Trump are “selfish” because they voted for someone who she says is racist, misogynistic and homophobic.

The hosts on The View are not exactly rocket scientists. In fact, they know nothing about politics. In fact, all these people are just celebrities. They are not journalists. Whoopie Goldberg starred in a movie where she played a criminal, lounge singing nun. But I want you to listen to this because I have a point. But there is more.

Actress, Janelle Monae (never heard of her) Tweeted:

“F**k Donald Tromp [sic] and every American citizen, celebrity, white woman, black man, ETC who supported him burnnnnnnnnnn.”

She deleted the Tweet but it was captured. Funny thing is, she included a pic of her doing some sort of finger sign with spandex showing how sexy she is in her 2800 square foot bathroom. That’s a great political argument and not tone-deaf at all.

She then Tweeted, and deleted, another Tweet:

“I’m not going down the list for y’all you do the research and see who gave him millions of votes.”

That’s a threat. She’s encouraging doxing. Twitter never suspended her.

Actor John Leguizamo Tweeted:

“Florida is dead to me! Let the lemmings drive their golf carts into the ocean!”

These actors don’t understand how they talk down to people. So anyone who voted for Trump is an arctic and colorful rodent? This is unifying? Or is it just condescending? I find this amazing coming from a guy who hasn’t done a straight-to-DVD movie in ten years.

Finally, to prove my point, we have Kathy Griffin, who blocked me from her Twitter account because I debated her and she didn’t like it. Do you remember when she Tweeted a picture of her holding the severed head of Donald Trump (alla ISIS)? By the way, she was never banned for that and the Tweet was deleted by her. Well, she decided to re-release it. It was really tacky. She has lost all of the attention she got when she released it the first time. She’s not getting a lot of attention now with the re-release of that picture.

Should you be pissed off about all this crap? If you heard my podcast, you might say, “no.” If you didn’t, you probably are saying, “yes.”

Here’s the thing we learned this election: People aren’t buying the Left’s BS. We see that with the black, Hispanic and female vote. We see that with the popular vote that said Trump would be down 10 points. Hell, gays are voting for Trump. The Left is saying that the reason Trump and the Republicans did so well is the rejection of intersectionality and identity politics. The Left is so arrogant, or just stupid, they don’t realize it.

Here’s the thing: Let them go crazy. Let them call everyone who doesn’t agree with them racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, bigoted and a misogynist. The Left doesn’t get that these viscous attacks are becoming…boring. I’ve been called a racist on Twitter dozens of times. I don’t troll on Twitter, I debate. It doesn’t mean anything to me. Well, I’m not the only one who thinks that.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/sunny-hostin-trump-voters-unamerican-racist-homophobic-candidate
https://www.dailywire.com/news/actress-janelle-monae-everyone-who-supported-trump-should-burn
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-the-daily-show-imagines-blowing-up-florida-after-trump-wins
https://www.dailywire.com/news/election-night-kathy-griffin-retweets-infamous-pic-of-her-with-trumps-severed-head

Oct042020

The Gloves are Off!

Let’s take a look at last week’s Presidential debate.

The Debates

So the Presidential debate was on Tuesday and I had to see it twice. The first time I watched it was on the Louder with Crowder. I like the show because the debates are boring and Steven Crowder and his brood are funnier than all hell. The problem is they talk over the debates. So I watched it again on Wednesday and listen to a few podcasts to get the highlights because I think I fell asleep half way through it.

So I’m not going to play any sound bites from the debate. The big bites (and there weren’t many) have been played over and over and I have more stories for today. What I am going to talk about is the performance of all the actors: Biden, Trump and Chris Wallace, the moderator. Then I will give my opinion about who won.

Sleepy, Creepy Joe

Here are Biden’s highlights:

First look, Joe looked terrible. I don’t know if he was sick or tired or whatever but he actually didn’t look well. He was pale, slow and his eyes looked a bit glassy.

Joe’s mental acuity seemed pretty good. He did stumble several times and sometimes he ran on in several different directions. There were a few times one had no idea what the hell he was talking about.

Once again, Biden doesn’t seem to have much in the way of policies. He seems confused about the Green New Deal and the Biden Green Deal. He actually rejected the Green New Deal and then supported the Green New Deal within 35 seconds. That was weird and shows that he is compromised in some way. Either because his mind is going south or he is a puppet of the Left. I think it was a little bit of both.

He still did not condemn Antifa or BLM even when pressed on it. He said that Antifa is not a group but an idea. Well, if a bunch of people in uniforms, a flag and have U-Haul trucks with weapons from the leadership then that’s a group. I also want to point out out that these thugs are getting plane tickets so they can riot in other cities.

Whenever Biden was attacked and had no answers, he looked down or chuckled or looked in a different direction. Whenever someone has no answers, they begin to look at their notes or look away or just look down. They don’t look into the camera or look at their debate partner. Kamala Harris and Hilary Clinton do this.

Biden lied a ton, especially about COVID. He made it out that Trump botched the COVID response and was responsible for all 200,000 deaths. Believe it or not, this was Trump’s best moment. He put Biden in his place saying Biden would have screwed the whole thing up. He also pointed out that the estimates put the death toll at 1.5 to 2 million.

Biden said that he thinks that all the systems in the United States are systemically racist. This is an egregious statement. He said that the police are systemically racist but there are good cops. And it was a serious opportunity missed by Trump (though Wallace did help). If I were Trump, I would have asked three questions:

What systems are racist?
How can there be good police when the system is racist? Aren’t any new cops racist because the want to be cops?
Finally, if all the systems are racist, and you, Joe, have been part of the system for 47 years, doesn’t that make you a racist?

Another big mistake that Trump didn’t take advantage of: his taxes. The New York Times released a shitty report about how Trump “cheated” the government on taxes, “paying less than a nurse would pay.” This was another missed opportunity.

This is just a lie. And the release of his records is illegal. Trump paid millions the year the New York Times pointed out.
How many people has Joe Biden employed? Donald Trump has employed tens of thousands. Business is business.
I would have pointed out that Joe Biden used the tax laws to save himself $500,000 in federal income taxes.
Finally, who created the tax laws? Trump didn’t violate laws. Biden was a senator for 39 years and voted on laws.

No policies. Just orange man bad.

Biden was terrible. But Trump missed a ton of opportunities to bury him.

Trump Fucked it Up

Trump did not help himself.

He definitely had the better performance. He looked strong and confident and not as orange as he usually is. He showed the usual energy. That would be a problem. But he was like a honey badger. He attacked and attacked and attacked and never let Biden talk, which is what Biden didn’t want to do. The more Biden talks, the more people how doddering he is and how he has no policies.

Trump’s continued arguing was very annoying and made him look like a bully. I think he even pissed off the moderator, Chris Wallace.. We’ll have more on Wallace later. He did not do a great job and I like Chris Wallace.

Trump was not prepared for this debate. He did not have a lot of facts. Facts that would have buried Biden. There was not one question in the debate that Trump would not beat Biden on.

Trump should have gone after Hunter Biden right at the start. It would have thrown Biden off his game in the beginning. Pissed him off. But Trump waited until forty minutes into the debate to bring it up. By then, most people had already turned the thing off.

Trump is very clumsy with his words. Clumsy to the point that he does not get his answer across in the most absolute way. Then, the media jumps all over him. When he was asked if he would condemn white supremacy, the answer should have been, “absolutely” and story over. Then he could go after Biden about the violence by Antifa and BLM. I actually thought this was a crappy question.

Trump needed to let Biden talk. He needed to ask a question and let Biden answer. When he did this, Biden stumbled, Biden refused to answer or just looked in all directions. He would look really bad.

Moderator or Debater

Chris Wallace did not do a good job. I was surprised. I thought he was one of the best journalists on Fox News. He is hard hitting, he doesn’t care who he interviews, his questions are probing and he knows how to ask follow up questions. My dad told me that he did not like Chris Wallace. He thought he is a liberal. I called my dad on Wednesday and agreed whole-heartily. I hate having to admit I’m wrong.

Now, I am not going to flip out completely on Wallace. I think Trump’s interruptions and badgering probably angered Wallace and Wallace held it against him for the rest of the debate. But as a journalist and moderator, he needs to be bigger than that. Even the broadcasters on Fox News said that Wallace did not do a good job and appeared biased.

Biden never answered any questions. Wallace never followed up on them.

Wallace cut off Trump when Trump was scoring points on Biden. When Trump brought up Hunter and Antifa, Wallace cut the questioning, essentially bailing Biden out.

The white supremacy question was just idiotic. Trump has been condemning white supremacy for four years and his social life involves tons of minorities. Remember Hershel Walker? Remember Don King? Remember Mike Tyson? He had relationships with all those people. What was more insulting is he did not push Biden on condemning Antifa or BLM.

He didn’t do a great job.

Overall?

It was a draw.

I like Trump and Biden didn’t seem too coherent so I think Trump won. But that because I like Trump’s policies and philosophy. I don’t think the United States is evil. I hate critical race theory. I don’t think we are systemically racist or the police are evil. I don’t like socialism. The think the Green New Deal is trash. I think Biden will resign in the first year and that he has dementia. I believe in the free market system. I believe Antifa and BLM are evil, terrorist groups. I don’t think we should defund the police.

I’m listening to an audio book now called America Crusade by Pete Hegseth. It really is an inspiring book. He says that most Americans are “squishy” Americans or 50% Americans. What that means is that we love to country, culture, history and philosophy of the United States. Why we are “squishy” or 50% American is because, when faced with people or groups who may not agree with us, we hold our beliefs back as not to insult someone. Here’s the problem: There is no middle ground anymore. We actually have to fight for this country now.

Per Hegsseth, civilizations last between 235 and 270 years before they collapse. The United States is 245 years old. People are beginning to forget. They are rejecting our Judeo-Christian moral purpose and Greek reason. People ignore, or don’t know, the history of a growing country. No one understands how capitalism works or what a democratic republic is. No one considers that socialism and communism has never worked in world history.

Well, I do. And I wear my Donald Trump mask. I will be a 100% American. That’s because this country is worth fighting for. That’s why I think Trump won. He’s fighting for what our founding fathers fought a war for. He believes in what they created. Biden just wants to overturn the country and apply policies that will affect my children and grandchildren. They may never know why this country is the greatest country in human history.

So, my advice to you: wear your MAGA hat. Slap that bumper sticker on your car. Put that “Trump 2020” mask on your face. Don’t be afraid. Be 100% American. By the way, I didn’t make that up. That was from Hegseth’s book too.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/james-woods-sums-up-presidential-debate-in-one-hilarious-tweet

Sep052020

Episode 214 – Privilege Doesn’t Have a Color

Hypocrisy rules.
The elites don’t need the law.
Biden Sounds crazy.

Some are More Equal than Others

This is something I don’t like to talk about because I do not like the concept of an elite class in this country. This is something that Tucker Carlson point to a lot. How the elite of this country control and crave power and don’t need to follow the same rules that all us “little people” have to follow.

But, over the last four months since the lockdown, we normalies have had to hide ourselves, lose our jobs, lose our economy and have to find skin friendly leaves to wipe out butts because we cannot find any toilet paper. It’s been miserable. We can’t go to restaurants, movies or even go on hikes because we could get the COVID. We have to wear masks everywhere we go. They are hinting they want us to wear masks outside now. Our kids are all stuck inside. They can’t go to school, they can’t go the park, they can’t go out and swim in the beach.

The weight of this change in our lives is taking its toll.

Teenage suicide is up 50%.
Children, who have only had online school, are showing they are not learning anything.
Child abuse is up dramatically.
Domestic abuse is up dramatically.
Divorces and separations are up by almost 60%.
Businesses are closing and people will permanently be losing their jobs.
Finally, do you think the lockdowns might have something to do with the riots we’re having.

But, meanwhile, our elites, who are preaching that we must continue to shut our schools and keep our businesses, seem to think they are on a different plane than the rest of us. They can’t get COVID like the rest of us. So they can live their lives as they always have and force businesses to violate our elites own laws in order to accommodate the elites. Coincidentally, those elites also happen to be Leftist Democrats:

Let’s look at some examples over the past few months:

Bill DeBlasio decided to go to a gym right after he shut down all the gyms in the city.
Lori Lightfoot decided to get her hair styled when she had closed all the hair salons and barber shops.
By the way, Lori Lightfoot had no issues with the protests in Chicago. Until the rioters came to her neighborhood. That’s because she is a high level target and her family was threatened. Wow.
Gretchen Whitmar, the governor of Michigan, waved off her husband’s name-dropping when he wanted to have his boat put into one of the lakes, even though Whitmar closed the lakes.
Chris Cuomo, brother of New York governor Andrew Cuomo, got into an argument with a guy because he publicly admitted he had COVID and the guy called him out.
Recently, Nancy Pelosi, who won’t help anyone during this pandemic, was recorded getting a hairdo in a salon that was closed because of the shutdown.
On Wednesday, Portland mayor said he was moving from his $800,000 condo because Antifa and BLM thugs, who apparently do not exist, because of his and the other tenants safety.

“Do as I say, don’t do as I do.”

“All animals are created equal.
But some are more equal than others.”

That was an Animal Farm reference. We’ll talk more about that later as we go through Animal Farm.

Here are some questions that will never be answered:

Why do you people set up laws and edicts but don’t feel you should follow them?
Is COVID really a thing anymore? Nancy Pelosi is 80 years old and at the highest risk for COVID. If she isn’t afraid of it, why should we?
Why does Nancy, and the others, blame small businesses that are closed? Why can’t she just say, “I’m sorry”?
When are you people going to allow people to come out of their houses and live?
If you’re seem to be lying about COVID, why trust you on anything else you people are pushing?

That’s it. The best way to handle problems is to ask questions. Plato did this. Socrates did this. Aristotle did this. Trey Gowdy wrote a book about this.

I’m done.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-fights-back-the-salon-owes-me-an-apology-for-setting-me-up
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nancy-pelosi-accuses-salon-of-setting-her-up-suggests-shes-owed-an-apology
https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-mayor-ted-wheeler-moving-from-residence-after-far-left-extremists-attack-it
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/chicago-mayor-defends-hairstylist-visit-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-n1181546
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-chelsea-clinton-i-want-my-white-children-of-privilege-to-erode-that-privilege-throughout-their-lives

White Privilege

This reminds me of another thing the elites are doing which is pretty disgusting: accusing everyone of white privilege. I was going to talk about this earlier because of a discussion I had with Josie, my fiance.

First off, what is white privilege? Wikipedia, where the Left defines pretty much everything, defines it:

White privilege (or white skin privilege) is the societal privilege that benefits white people over non-white people in some societies, particularly if they are otherwise under the same social, political, or economic circumstances.

In other words, because I am white, I am privileged. Everything good that has happened to me is because I am white. I am treated better because I am white. And we are told this by the elite or those who are elitist. It’s kind of disgusting.

Listen to the most elite, privileged person in the world, Chelsea Clinton

What a way to raise you kids. She is basically telling them that they are stained because they are white. I think, personally, this is shitty parenting. It’s indoctrination into a bullshit belief system.

Even someone like Chelsea Clinton is not privileged because she’s white. She’s privileged because she’s the daughter of a President. She has the same privilege as the daughters of Barrack Obama. Their privilege has nothing to do with race.

There are a couple of things that annoy the crap out of me when it comes to this.

A lot of the good things that happen to an individual are actually through talent and hard work. Not race.
It ignores the bad things that an individual must go through.
It ignores privilege of those who are people of color. How did they get their privilege?

My fiance and I got into a debate. She said that there was white privilege. I thought this was funny but I didn’t laugh in her face. I wanted to debate. I asked her some questions:

If I have so much “white privilege,” why have I been unemployed 4 times?
Why has my bank account been overdrawn and could depend on no one to fill it?
Why do I live where I live and she lives in a two bedroom apartment with a gym and swimming pool?

Now, am I privileged. Damn right I am. I had a supportive family. I have great parents and great kids. All they wanted was the best for me. I never had to worry about being homeless. I have had problems that kept me up at night but knew I could get through them on my own. But I worked my way through college while raising a family, being a sports coach and stuff like that. I got a divorce and had financial struggles. I have my own place though it looks like something somebody camps in instead of lives in.

I have had some good luck. Have had some bad luck. Am I privileged? Yeah. Is it because of my race? Not at all. Neither is Chelsea Clinton’s privilege.

Aug272020

Episode 210 – Time to Double Down

No haiku tonight. I’m too pissed.

Mob Rules

Things are getting really hot across the country.:

We are in the third day of riots in Kenosha. We are in the in the 80th day of riots in Portland.
A sixty to seventy year old man was knocked unconscious by a rioter for using a fire extinguisher to scare off looters of his business.
In Kenosha, three people were shot, two are dead. More on that later.
On Twitter, BLM activists are filmed harassing people in restaurants, forcing them to raise a fist in support. Those that refuse are screamed at by the mob. One person that refused to comply was a BLM activist. Two others actually were mentally challenged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prmL14ERKkQ

The Media Lies

The main stream media is about narrative. And you can tell by how the media is covering this stuff.

They continue to say that the rioters are protesters.
They do not show the damage caused by the riots.
They say the protests are “mostly” peaceful.
They do not talk about it.

The Jacob Blake case is an example of “proof” of racism before anyone knew anything. Now, more information is coming out. And this is pretty serious information:

Jacob Blake was not breaking up a domestic dispute. He was in the middle of the domestic dispute. He stole the car keys of the woman, who is also black, who called the police. The call was recorded and released.
A new video was released showing that Blake was fighting the police and had broken free of them, violently, before walking around the car.
Blake had a warrant for domestic violence and third degree sexual assault on a 15 year old.
His three kids were in the car but it is not clear if the car was actually his (possibly his former partner).

Here’s the thing: the media is lying about the actual cases that they are putting on a pedestal as an example of systemic racism and police brutality.

George Floyd had a heart condition and died of a fentynal over dose. He was also screaming he couldn’t breathe before he was brought to the ground. This does not justify what Derrick Chauvin did but Second Degree Murder?
Michael Brown committed a strong armed robbery 15 minutes before he assaulted the police officer who shot him.
A report was released in the Brianna Taylor case this week and no one will hear about it.
- The drug dealer was first reported not to be in the house. He was.
- It was believed that the cops broke into the house unannounced (this was a no-knock warrant). The police did announce themselves.
- It was reported the police broke in a started shooting. That is not true. Taylor’s boyfriend started shooting first and the police shot back, killing Taylor.
- There is evidence, during the undercover investigation, which includes audio, video and telephone conversations that, not only did Taylor know about the drug dealing, but she was directly involved.
- The Louisville mayor dismissed the report.

And that’s the tip of the iceberg. We could talk about all of the cases the media uses as “evidence” of systemic racism. There are, literally, only about twenty controversial cases over the last ten years.

The main stream media is about narrative. Facts are not a thing for them if they go against their narrative. Statistics are not a thing for them if they go against their narrative. Their narrative is that this country is racist, sexist, homophobic and xenophobic. The police and the system are racist. They ignore facts and history. They treat us like we are stupid. They ignore the violence in the street and, when they don’t, they say the violence is not only justified, but is proof that the system is racist.

That’s right! The looting, the harassment of innocent citizens, the destruction of private property and businesses, the injuring of over 900 police officers and the murders by rioters are proof of systemic racism.

How can the system win when the violence caused by the fascism of Marxist and anarchist group is proof of how bad this country is?

The Democrats are No Where to be Seen

Where are the Democrats during all this violence? They talk about criminals getting shot by the police, and you will have to show me an unjustified death. Heck, I thought Derrick Chauvin’s behavior was over the top but it is not looking like he is an incompetent and not necessarily a racist. In fact, I don’t think they are going to get second degree murder.

Tony Evers, the Democratic governor of Wisconsin, has condemned the police without knowing anything about the police and has only asked the rioters not to be violent. He sent only a quarter of the National Guard that the Kenosha police requested and rejected federal help.
Jenny Durkin, the Democratic mayor of Seattle, has rejected and condemned federal help to quell the riots in Seattle. She even called the riots a “big street party”.
Jay Inslee, the Democratic governor of Washington State and a former Presidential candidate, didn’t even know there were riots in Seattle for two weeks. Either he was lying or he’s incompetent.
Lori Lightfoot, the Democratic mayor of Chicago, is more concerned about the shooting in Kenosha, WI than the 66 black people shot in her own city. People who were shot by other black people.
Mayors Bill DeBlasio (D.-NY) and Murial Bowser (D.-Wash D.C.) are more worried about painting “Black Lives Matter” on their street than the fact that crime has gone up by 200% in their cities.
Violent crime, drug addiction and homelessness are out of control in San Francisco and Los Angeles but Gov. Gavin Newsome (a Democratic) and mayors Eric Garcetti (D.- Los Angeles) and London Breed (D. – San Francisco) are more interested in preventing its citizens from going to church than about anything else.
By the way, Gavin Newsom’s stupid policies have caused the state to burn with brush fires and are causing rolling black outs during a heat wave. Some cities haven’t had power for three days. But he wants to raise the state income taxes by 4% and kill Prop 13 so he can collect more property taxes.
I did not mention Baltimore, Boston, Atlanta, Houston, Austin or Denver (all run by Democrats).
There was not one mention of the riots during the Democratic National Convention.
Kamala Harris, the de facto Presidential candidate, never mentioned the riots in her speech. She has yet to take a question from the press.
Joe Biden is still in his basement. He has condemned the violence during the protests…once. The last time he took a question from the press was July 8th and I do not count the interview with Cardi B, the intellectual of the Democratic party.

Here’s the big story: the Democrats don’t care. They like this. They don’t care whose lives and businesses are ruined. They don’t care who dies. As long as their narrative is met. Their narrative:

Trump is bad.
Trump is orange.
Trump is chaos.
The country is in chaos.
Vote for Democrats to end the chaos.

We are being held hostage. The Democrats are telling us that all this shit will stop if they are elected, though I doubt that. I doubt it because the people that are rioting are extremists and want to fundamentally change the country. They want fascism and tyranny.

Civil War, Anyone?

There are three reason we can have a civil war:

Ideological – A groups of people do not believe in the same philosophy. An example of this would be the Bolshivick revolution in Russia/Soviet Union. Lenin believed in Marx’s philosophy though he believed that it could not be implemented gracefully or naturally. His Bolshivicks needed to implemented it by force.
Territorial – One group wants more territory than they have. The American Civil War could be seen as partially territorial. Partially.
Cultural – The culture of one generation has taken new values that the older generation. Kind of what’s happening now.

By the way, I am making this shit up. I didn’t read about this. You are actually hearing my philosophy.

Here’s the thing: none of these works by itself. It is about a combination of two or all three.

We are, officially, in a civil war. The reasons?

Culture – Our culture, right now, is about collectivism. This has been around since the sixties. But, like the pigs thought in Animal Farm, they thought it would take a long time. So the Left took over the major institutions of our civilization over the last 50 years: education, media, education, art and entertainment. The institutions that accept individuality and personal freedom and capitalism; religion and business, are being cancelled if they do not comply. This wasn’t a thing ten years ago.
Ideology – The United States was founded on individuality and predetermined, inalienable rights. Life, liberty and the pursuit of property (happiness). We have natural rights. Those rights include speech, religion, peaceful protest, right to vote and the ability to protect those rights and overthrow a government that has become tyrannical. The Fore Fathers thought that this was human nature and absolute. That these rights proceeded government. The Left does not believe in personal freedom. The believe that rights should be given by the government and that human nature is malleable.

See the difference? There can be no middle ground between the Left and the rest of us. Ben Shapiro, in his latest book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, called the Left Disintegrationists and the classical liberals Unionists. There is no middle ground. There is no negotiation. Right now, in this country, it’s one against the other.

On Tuesday, a seventeen year old boy vowed to protect the business of Kenosha, WI. It was caught in an interview. He was carrying a rifle. Should a 17-year-old be carrying a rifle in the middle of a riot. Probably not. No matter what his intentions. Because seventeen year olds are stupid. All children are stupid. Here’s what happened:

There were shots. Apparently, this 17-year-old was involved. One was killed.
He ran away and was chased by the mob.
He was attacked, thrown to the ground and beaten by…whoever. No one cares about that.
He turned, with his rifle, and shot.
He shot one in the head and another one in the gut. One of the assailants died.
Though the rioters were in striking distance, he didn’t shoot again. In fact, one assailant was within seven feet. He didn’t shoot.
He walked away without firing another shot.

This is how revolution starts. We now have three sides.

The Left.
The alt-Right.
The militia.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/jacob-blake-kenosha-wisconsin-protest-shooting-militia
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-shots-fired-during-kenosha-blm-riots-after-democrat-governor-reportedly-refused-federal-help
https://www.vox.com/2020/8/24/21399690/jacob-blake-police-shooting-wisconsin
https://www.foxnews.com/us/blm-dc-protesters-berate-diners-demand-they-raise-their-fists-in-viral-videos

Aug072020

Episode 199 – He Didn’t Just Say That, Did He?

Another screw up.
New York is at it again.
Jesus, they’re puppets.

Oh..This Guy!

Biden…damn. Listen:

Imagine if Trump had said that. Hispanics are the most diverse and are what’s going to change the election? Blacks aren’t diverse? Whites aren’t diverse? Only Hispanics? Really?

How does he get away with this shit? This is an everyday thing. He asked a black guy, yesterday, if he got tested for cocaine…yesterday. He said you couldn’t walk in a 7-11 without hearing a person with an accent. He said that Barrack Obama was “smart and clean”. He said that poor kids were as smart as white kids.He eulogized Robert Byrd, a former KKK Grand Dragon. Jesus, what if Trump said or did any of that?

Do I think Biden is a racist? No, just really prejudiced. In fact, I think his comments were probably just not well articulated. I think had another point. But it shows a few things:

The mainstream media does not care about racism or prejudice. It’s just a narrative.
That Democrats don’t care race or prejudice. They only care about the narrative and using it for power.
Biden is getting worse. His cognitive abilities appear done. He can’t articulate a thing.

I understand why Biden’s handlers are allowing him to do interviews. Trump is on television every day, showing that he knows what is going on with the virus. Fox News

More Attacks on the Second Amendment

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday that the state is suing the National Rifle Association (NRA) and several of its high-profile leaders, and looking to “dissolve” the organization over alleged financial irregularities.

James said on Twitter;

“I filed a lawsuit to dissolve the National Rifle Association for years of self-dealing and illegal conduct. The @NRA is fraught with fraud and abuse. No organization is above the law.”

“We are seeking to dissolve the NRA for years of self-dealing and illegal conduct that violate New York’s charities laws and undermine its own mission. The NRA diverted millions of dollars away from its charitable mission for personal use by senior leadership. Our lawsuit charges the NRA as a whole and four senior leaders, including Wayne LaPierre, with failing to manage the NRA’s funds and failing to follow numerous state and federal laws. These actions contributed to the loss of more than $64 million in just three years for the NRA.”

She accuses the executives of:

Using NRA funds for private travel, vacations and restaurants.
Awarding companies contracts based on family members.

The NRA responded:

“The NRA has full confidence in its accounting practices and commitment to good governance. The association’s financials are audited and its tax filings are verified by one of the most reputable firms in the world. Internally, the association has an appropriate conflict of interest policy, which provides that all potential conflicts are reviewed and scrutinized by the audit committee.”

This is all probably true. Fact is, the NRA has to be audits because of its non-profit status and any weird accounting would probably be caught. Also, if there is some illegal activity, why not fire the people who are doing the funny business? Why does this gal find the need to dissolve the entire organization (which I don’t think she can legally do). The reasoning is simple: they want to get rid of the NRA. The Left sees them as an evil organization and in their way of the ultimate goal: getting rid of the second amendment.

James is also a piece of work (well, piece of shit). She’s the gal who said she was going to investigate Trump to find a crime. By the way, that is illegal. You don’t investigate a person to find a crime, you investigate a crime that a person possibly committed. All this shows is that she is a political animal and will target her enemies or the enemies of the Left.

By the way, I think she has more important things to worry about. The murder rate in New York is up about 170%. I hardly think that’s the NRA’s fault. Sounds to me that is the fault of that shitty, gopher killing mayor, De Blasio and an ineffective New York justice department led by James herself.

The NRA didn’t just roll their eyes and sit on their hands. They filed a law suit against against the city for defamation and violating their rights to free speech. Good for them and they probably have a better case.

In their complaint, the NRA said:

“Despite hopes that playing by the rules would procure a just outcome, the NRA has not been treated fairly by James’s office. The New York Democratic Party political machine seeks to harass, defund, and dismantle the NRA because of what it believes and what it says.”

“James boasted that she would strike foul blows against the NRA and pound the NRA into submission. She vowed that she would use the NYAG’s investigative and enforcement powers for the precise purpose of stanching political speech (‘deadly propaganda). She has begun to deliver on her campaign promises to retaliate against the NRA for constitutionally protected speech on issues that James opposes. As NYAG, James has regrettably succumbed to ‘individual passions, and individual malevolence.’”

President Trump stated:

“I think the NRA should move to Texas and lead a very good and beautiful life. And I’ve told them that for a long time. I think they should move to Texas – Texas would be a great state or to another state of their choosing – but I would say that Texas would be a great place and an appropriate place for the NRA.”

He’s probably right but I can understand why the NRA would want to stay in New York. It is closer to Washington DC, a lot of their members live on the east coast, and what better place to attempt to influence than a city with the most restrictive gun control laws in the country.

In the long run, this law suit is not going to go anywhere. There is a lot of conflict within the NRA’s hierarchy and there probably was some questionable dealings like in all companies. Someone will probably lose his job. But the aggressiveness of James may get the best of her. She does have to show some cause. You can just go investigate someone hoping to find a crime. So, the NRA is in a strong standing with the counter suit.

The NRA will continue on.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-attorney-general-sues-to-dissolve-the-nra-citing-financial-irregularities
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nra-lawsuit-ny-attorney-general-lawsuit

Dude, They’re PUPPETS

I love the culture. Especially since the Left took over the culture. The things they do is so stupid it is funny. There are two web sites I love to read about culture. Vox.com and Slate.com. Slate is especially insane. They have a advice column that is just weird. It’s a great site. You should visit. Well, they have an article that is patently insane. It is titled It’s Time for the Muppets to Give a Different Couple the Spotlight. It actually analyzes the relationship between Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.

No kidding.

It said:

They are a terrible couple and Disney should not be beating their drum.
They are anatomically incompatible. Unlike gay men, women and transsexuals who Slate constantly touts.
Kermit is a nudist whereas Miss Piggy dresses extravagantly.
Miss Piggy is a domestic abuser.
They’re emotionally incompatible. One is a closed-off, neurotic commitment-phobe, the other a clingy, psychopathic narcissist.

“According to three relationship counselors interviewed earlier this year by Mel magazine, the pairing has long been in crisis. “If there’s that level of conflict, they need professional help,” said clinical psychologist Farrah Hauke. “They’d need to work with a couples counselor and do their individual work to identify their role in the conflict, as well as their partner’s role in the conflict.” This is, of course, ludicrous, as Miss Piggy would simply karate-chop the therapist.”

“Recently, it seemed the minders of the Muppets might realize that the central romance of the franchise no longer had currency. On the short-lived ABC series The Muppets, Kermit got a new girlfriend, also a pig, named Denise—the subject of the memorable Jezebel headline “I’m Sorry, But Who the Fuck Does This Homewrecking Pig Think She Is?” (Byline: “Definitely Not Miss Piggy.”) But by series’ end, the characters once again fell into familiar patterns, as the finale focused entirely on the will-they-or-won’t-they question—including other Muppets writing PRO and CON lists on a whiteboard as Kermit tried to decide. The episode ended on a cliffhanger of sorts, with Kermit professing his love for Piggy in a last-ditch romantic gesture.”

The article ends with:

“Call it what you will: Friggy, Permit, Hogwarts. Where it was once entertaining to watch a lovesick pig beat the crap out of a diffident frog, now it’s simply exhausting. It is well past time to retire this ship.”

Now, I hope this is an article written to be funny. After reading a bunch of Slate’s other articles, I can’t be sure. But there are a few things we should be aware of before we criticize the turbulent relationship of Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog:

This show was not meant to be a children’s show. It was meant for adults. There is a ton of adult humor and sexual innuendo that proves that.
Miss Piggy was not a physical abuser. It was cartoon like violence. Just like the Coyote would be blown up by the Acme explosives he used to try to stop the roadrunner.
Kermit was not a nudist. He was a frog. Frogs don’t wear clothes.
Kermit and Piggy did have an incompatible relationship. But not because Kermit is a frog and Piggy is a pig but because they are fucking puppets!

It is an adult comedy show! They’re puppets! It’s meant to be funny, not a serious look at relationships! And they’re puppets! Kermit is not a neurotic, commitment-phobe, nudist! Miss Piggy is not a clingy, narcissistic, domestic abuser. Kermit is a frog. Miss Piggy is…wait for it…a pig. They don’t need a psychologist to analyze their relationship. Do you know why? Because they are fucking puppets! Miss Piggy’s voice isn’t even done by a woman. It’s a man. Fuck!

Sigh…I feel better.

https://slate.com/culture/2020/08/muppets-kermit-miss-piggy-relationship-bad.html

Jul212020

Episode 192 – Give a Mouse a Cookie

Sick, sick, sick, sick, sick
We need to stop perversion.
Sick, sick, sick, sick, sick.

Crime

What do Minneapolis, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Philadelphia, Dallas and New York City all have in common? There are actually three things: They are all run by Democrats, they have all had their crime rates raised by 100% and they all have proposals to defund and get rid of the police.

This is a real problem for the Left. Shootings are up 80% including the killings of children. Robberies are up 120%. And there is not a cop around to deal with it. Heck, New York’s murder rate is above 240%! And they are still letting violent criminals, even ones that assault cops, get out with no bail hours after being arrested. Why not commit crimes? New York City has gotten rid of their plain clothes police force and cut $1.5 billion from the police force. Los Angeles cut $150 million from their police force. Minneapolis has voted to completely defund the police. Philly has a 5-year plan to eliminate the police.

Why is crime going up? I don’t know. Maybe it has something to do with do-nothing Leftist leaders supporting rioters and thugs over the police and innocent citizens. Maybe having no-cash bail and releasing criminals has something to do with it. How about cutting funds from your police force and disbanding the undercover police force that is responsible for capturing criminals while they are committing crimes?

Well, the Left has some ideas. Listen to AoC, the brain trust of the Left:

This idiot is blaming:

Poverty
Fear of homelessness.
Starvation.
The government not being fast enough to give them free money

Wow, ok.

But there is more! Bill DeBlasio blames COVID-19. Sheila Jackson Lee blames the lack of gun control. Good luck with that one. A group of the Left blames the police…get this one…for not doing anything. Oh, yeah, and racism.

Here’s the problem with the Left blaming everything and everyone besides their shitty policies. And when one tries to blame race and it turns out that most murders are within the same race, they need to shotgun a bunch of excuses and hope something sticks.

This is why I like Trump. He says, “this is fucked up,” then “this is how we are going to unfuck it,” and he unfucks it.

I do not know when people are going to learn. The Left only cares about talking points and narratives. And it is only to trick the people so that they give them power. And, when they have power, that real concern about the people will disappear. Hell you see it now. Look at Los Angeles.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspect-who-allegedly-attacked-3-nypd-officials-is-released-from-jail-without-bail

I Knew We’d Get to this Point

Introduction

Ten or fifteen years ago, there was this push by the LGB community to legalize marriage between gay people. In California, there was a law that we got to vote on that would define marriage between a man and a woman. Now, I was younger and dumber and had some misdirected issues with gays getting married. So, of course, I voted for the proposition (it was Prop 8).

Of course, I live in California where voting for state and local laws is really irrelevant (I don’t even bother voting in California anymore). Prop 8 passed by a huge margin, the governor said it was unconstitutional, the 9th circuit court of appeals overrules the vote and the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage a few years later. So much for voting.

But, over the years, I wondered what my reasons were for being against gay marriage. I came of with the following reasons:

I don’t like gays.
It’s against my Catholic faith.
Homosexuality is not natural and should not be supported by the government

That was it. Upon careful introspection, these three reasons were not only not true when compared to me belief system, but one went against my belief system.

I never disliked gays. In fact, during a debate, I was hurt when my friend told me she would not invite me to her wedding with her partner.
My religion really was not an issue. I could not quote anything from the Bible and gays would not be married in the church, mosques and temples of the major religions, which made them only a civil union.
And, the hypocritical belief that I am embarrassed by, the government should not be telling anyone what they can and cannot do. It is wrong.

Normal and natural are two totally different things. Homosexual men will never have children unless a woman is involved. That is because homosexual men cannot have babies because it is unnatural. Period. Normal is saying that one can be attracted to his own sex and it is what it is. Period. A civil union between two is not going to change what is natural.

But, my third point violates my true belief: the government should not tell people what the can and cannot do. I was actually being a dick to my own beliefs by saying no to the gay person to marry who he wanted to marry. Needless to say, being a hypocrite did not sit well with me.

I thought about it and realized it was not that I was against gay marriage. It was that I was against the militancy of the LGBT. And I still am and they are getting worse. But I will not condemn those who like members of their same sex. I will support them because I believe the spirit of the Constitution assumes that individual freedom. I know that is not exactly a textualist view but a Libertarian view.
Instead, I will focus on on the LGBTQ+ militancy and the topics that really bother me.

War on Religion

A few years ago, when the Supreme Court ruled that banning gay marriage was unconstitutional, I believe is was Justice Scalia that asked the pro-gay marriage lawyer if this was going to lead to forcing religions to marry gay couples. He responded that he did not know. In other words, yes. That is exactly what they are going to do and have been doing.

By the way, attacking religion is a strategy of the Left, not necessarily an LGBT thing. The Left hates religion.

The militancy I hate the most is the attack on regular people who own businesses and just want to live by their lives based on their values and faith. This attack, and not the only one, game against the baker Jack Phillips in Colorado. He runs wedding cake business. When he was approached by a gay couple to bake a cake, he refused but said they could buy one of his pre-made cakes. This poor bastard fought the court system, almost losing his business, for three years. He finally won in the Supreme Court.

This is the shit I hate. This is completely unnecessary and the media lied about it. The media never mentioned that Phillips would sell them a cake just not customize a cake. They made him out into a 100% bigot.

They did the same to VP Mike Pence especially that little rat Pete Buttigieg. Pence and his family is a fundamental Christian. He does not believe in gay marriage but never made a thing of it (that I have ever heard of). But the attacks on him by the LGBT and Buttigieg has been brutal. They attacked his wife because she works at a fundamental Christian school and require their teachers follow a specific moral lifestyle.

But their goal is to get religion banned. Choke them out financially. They want religion to lose their tax exemption status. This is wrong. All this is wrong.

They have to ban religion. Because religion will never promote what the LGBT really wants.

The War on Nature

There seems to be some confusion on nature versus normal. Just because it is normal does not make something natural. The reason the Bible says that “a man shall not lay with another man” is not because the writers of the Bible are gay hating bigots. It is because the purpose of procreation in to have children. It is the same reason the Bible said we should not eat pork and horse and men should be circumcised. It was a health (though bacon is good and women like men circumcised).

Gay men and women cannot have children. Period. Darwin, who the Left always trots out to dismiss religion, has proven. That survival of the fittest thing is about the species that can procreate and produce a bunch of kids. The Left, obviously, has stopped referring to Darwin because, I suspect, he disproves their point.

War on Science

It is not just a war in science but also a war on language.

Let us take a look at the growth of this movement. It used to the the LGB. Then it went to LGBT. Then it went to the LGBTQ. Now it is called the LGBTQ+. Probably because no one would be able to remember what they are called if the added the other 64 pronouns they are trying to get called.

The LGBTQ+ is trying to create language by changing the definition of sex and gender. They want one to believe that gender and sex are fluid. We are not male and female but we can be what we want to be which is complete crap. If you are a man that likes other men, you are still a man. But not so for them. We need to use other pronouns or fear insulting someone.

The big example is by changing the pronoun he or she to they. If I am bisexual or what ever, you should call me “they” and not “he”. This is the great lie. This is something that we cannot tolerate. It is dangerous to tolerate it.

What the LGBTQ are doing now is trying to change science through the acceptance of their manipulated language. Today they say that a man who says he is a woman is a woman. And more than one person has said it is scientifically proven. How? Because we call him “her” and that is acceptable in society. So it must be true. We are seeing this now.

Men who say they are women have asked the American Medical Association to treat those men as if they are women. There will be lawsuits over this. Men who say they are women want to compete in women’s sports. There is a lawsuit in Connecticut that is fighting to stop transsexual women from competing is in school sports. The judge in that case said that the plaintiff could not refer to the defendants of men because it was scientifically proven that men can be women.

This is wrong. This is sick. This is an abomination. This is a lie!

If someone wants to mutilate his genitals and call himself a woman, fine. He has the freedom to do that. I will even call him a her out of respect. But when a group of people say that I am a bigot, want me to lose my job and livelihood or even put in legal trouble because I will believe a man is a man and a woman is a woman, that is where I have an issue. I will not do that. The reason is simple: things can get worse and I do believe that we would end up normalizing perversion. Real perversion.

Embrace of Perversion

If you are older like me, you will remember that one was looked down on as a gay person. It was weird, perverse. Why would anyone want to do things like that to someone of their own sex. But, the reality is, homosexuality has been around forever so it is not that bazaar. J. Edgar Hoover was gay and rumored to be a transvestite in the 50s and 60s. This seemed to be an open secret. Dean Martin was gay. The guy from The Brady Bunh was gay.

Other historical figures include

Socrates
Alexander the Great
Leonardo Di Vinci
Michelangelo
Sally Ride
The Wachowski brothers
Oscar Wilde
Just to name a few.

So homosexuality has never been something unheard of in our society. I will even go so far as to say gay marriage probably had its movement started in the 60s and 70s. But we always feared that when you give a mouse a cookie, the mouse will want a glass of milk. That is what is happening.

The American Psychological Society took out the mental illness called Gender Dysphoria Disorder for the DSM-5, the medical encyclopedia for psychologists. This has changed the scene for potential transgenders and opened up a whole new form of perversion I never thought I would see in my lifetime. This has also changed our laws and procedures for changing one’s sex.

Laws are now in place that eliminate counseling for transgender candidates. This is a one way ticket folks and doctors want to make sure the potential patients know this. They also have eliminated the ability for psychologists and counselors to perform conversion therapies. Though I thought these could be a little extreme, there were people who appreciated them. A lot of the people just ended up happily gay but kept their stuff. That’s kind of important. This is because most people who have sex change operations typically commit suicide.
Today, boys who have not reached puberty are being encouraged to have hormone therapy in preparation for a sex change operation. There is a case in Texas where a woke mother wants to give hormone therapy and an eventual sex change operation to her nine year old son.

Sexualizing our kids is becoming a thing. Desmond the Amazing, a transsexual, transvestite 11-year-old has done a sex dance at a gay bar while having dollar bills tossed at him. Do not believe me? Look it up on YouTube! For some reason, YouTube will not block this.

Perversion is becoming mainstream. Listen to Don Lemon, who is a gay black man married to a gay white man, talk about pedophilia:

Wow!

The television show, South Park, had an episode called NAMBLA. NAMBLA stands for North American Man Boy Love Association. I looked this group up and it does exist. They say that they are an organization that believes that men who want to have sex with male children is normal. They actually have guides to groom and have sex with young boys and not get caught by the police. They wanted to be part of the LGBTQ+. Supposedly, they were rejected, but who knows what the “+” means. Could they be mainstream soon?

There is a man in Virginia who is suing to make incest legal. INCEST!! Remember that the governor of Virginia believes that babies who are born are not babies and can be killed. Could incest be mainstream.

The answer is “yes”. This is exactly why I was against gay marriage. Give a mouse a cookie and it will want a glass of milk. I am going to buy that book and read it everyday because it is so true. Perversion is something that should ever be accepted but, because we did not have the guts to deal with it at the get go, it is not going beyond anything we could ever imagine.

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Episode 191 – What Do You Expect From A Pig But Tyranny

Orwell had it right.
What we can learn from a pig.
Let’s read some Orwell!

Old Major’s Speech in Animal Farm

All the animals were now present except Moses, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind the
back door. When Major saw that they had all made themselves comfortable and were waiting
attentively, he cleared his throat and began:

“Comrades, you have heard already about the strange dream that I had last night. But I will come to
the dream later. I have something else to say first. I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you
for many months longer, and before I die, I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have
acquired. I have had a long life, I have had much time for thought as I lay alone in my stall, and I think
I may say that I understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any animal now living. It is about
this that I wish to speak to you.

“Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable,
laborious, and short. We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our
bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and
the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty. No
animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old. No animal in
England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

“But is this simply part of the order of nature? Is it because this land of ours is so poor that it cannot
afford a decent life to those who dwell upon it? No, comrades, a thousand times no! The soil of
England is fertile, its climate is good, it is capable of affording food in abundance to an enormously
greater number of animals than now inhabit it. This single farm of ours would support a dozen
horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep–and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are
now almost beyond our imagining. Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? Because
nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings. There, comrades, is
the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word–Man. Man is the only real enemy
we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for
ever.

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay
eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all
the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them
from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. Our labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and yet
there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin. You cows that I see before me, how many
thousands of gallons of milk have you given during this last year? And what has happened to that
milk which should have been breeding up sturdy calves? Every drop of it has gone down the throats
of our enemies. And you hens, how many eggs have you laid in this last year, and how many of those
eggs ever hatched into chickens? The rest have all gone to market to bring in money for Jones and his
men. And you, Clover, where are those four foals you bore, who should have been the support and
pleasure of your old age? Each was sold at a year old–you will never see one of them again. In return
for your four confinements and all your labour in the fields, what have you ever had except your bare
rations and a stall?

“And even the miserable lives we lead are not allowed to reach their natural span. For myself I do not
grumble, for I am one of the lucky ones. I am twelve years old and have had over four hundred
children. Such is the natural life of a pig. But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end. You young
porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within
a year. To that horror we all must come–cows, pigs, hens, sheep, everyone. Even the horses and the
dogs have no better fate. You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power,
Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will cut your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds. As
for the dogs, when they grow old and toothless, Jones ties a brick round their necks and drowns them
in the nearest pond.

“Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of
human beings? Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own. Almost
overnight we could become rich and free. What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and
soul, for the overthrow of the human race! That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion! I do not
know when that Rebellion will come, it might be in a week or in a hundred years, but I know, as
surely as I see this straw beneath my feet, that sooner or later justice will be done. Fix your eyes on
that, comrades, throughout the short remainder of your lives! And above all, pass on this message of
mine to those who come after you, so that future generations shall carry on the struggle until it is
victorious.

“And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray.
Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity
of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. Man serves the interests of no creature except
himself. And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. All
men are enemies. All animals are comrades.”

At this moment there was a tremendous uproar. While Major was speaking four large rats had crept
out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him. The dogs had suddenly
caught sight of them, and it was only by a swift dash for their holes that the rats saved their lives.
Major raised his trotter for silence.

“Comrades,” he said, “here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and
rabbits–are they our friends or our enemies? Let us put it to the vote. I propose this question to the
meeting: Are rats comrades?”

The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.

There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have
voted on both sides.

Major continued:

“I have little more to say. I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all
his ways. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a
friend. And remember also that in fighting against Man, we must not come to resemble him. Even
when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices. No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep
in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade. All
the habits of Man are evil. And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or
strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals
are equal.

“And now, comrades, I will tell you about my dream of last night. I cannot describe that dream to you.
It was a dream of the earth as it will be when Man has vanished. But it reminded me of something
that I had long forgotten. Many years ago, when I was a little pig, my mother and the other sows used
to sing an old song of which they knew only the tune and the first three words. I had known that tune
in my infancy, but it had long since passed out of my mind. Last night, however, it came back to me in
my dream. And what is more, the words of the song also came back-words, I am certain, which were
sung by the animals of long ago and have been lost to memory for generations. I will sing you that
song now, comrades. I am old and my voice is hoarse, but when I have taught you the tune, you can
sing it better for yourselves. It is called ‘Beasts of England’.”

Old Major cleared his throat and began to sing. As he had said, his voice was hoarse, but he sang well
enough, and it was a stirring tune, something between ‘Clementine’ and ‘La Cucaracha’. The words
ran:

Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful tidings
Of the golden future time.

Soon or late the day is coming,
Tyrant Man shall be o’erthrown,
And the fruitful fields of England
Shall be trod by beasts alone.
Rings shall vanish from our noses,
And the harness from our back,
Bit and spur shall rust forever,
Cruel whips no more shall crack.

Riches more than mind can picture,
Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels
Shall be ours upon that day.

Bright will shine the fields of England,
Purer shall its waters be,
Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes
On the day that sets us free.

For that day we all must labour,
Though we die before it break;
Cows and horses, geese and turkeys,
All must toil for freedom’s sake.

Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken well and spread my tidings
Of the golden future time.

The singing of this song threw the animals into the wildest excitement. Almost before Major had
reached the end, they had begun singing it for themselves. Even the stupidest of them had already
picked up the tune and a few of the words, and as for the clever ones, such as the pigs and dogs, they
had the entire song by heart within a few minutes. And then, after a few preliminary tries, the whole
farm burst out into ‘Beasts of England’ in tremendous unison. The cows lowed it, the dogs whined it,
the sheep bleated it, the horses whinnied it, the ducks quacked it. They were so delighted with the
song that they sang it right through five times in succession, and might have continued singing it all
night if they had not been interrupted.

Unfortunately, the uproar awoke Mr. Jones, who sprang out of bed, making sure that there was a fox
in the yard. He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom, and let fly a charge of
number 6 shot into the darkness. The pellets buried themselves in the wall of the barn and the
meeting broke up hurriedly. Everyone fled to his own sleeping-place. The birds jumped on to their
perches, the animals settled down in the straw, and the whole farm was asleep in a moment.

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