What exactly would determine this country is being invaded and the military needs to be called in?
When you have government that supports perversion, no one should be surprised when perverted things happen.
And when is Joe Biden going to do something about the situation in the Middle East?
News:
Here is some news:
- A car barreled into the presidential motorcade. The president was there.
- No one was hurt.
- The man was arrested and questioned.
- The president was fine.
- The driver did break through a blockade.
- The driver is black so expect not to hear anything about this as we have heard nothing about it so far.
- 14 Houthi drones have been shot down by the U.S. Navy.
- Cargo ships have continued to be attacked by Houthi pirates.
- Marist, the largest shipping firm, refuses to travel through the Red Sea.
- Three hostages were killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces. Of course, everyone is going to blame Israel for this. They shouldn’t be.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-moment-car-smashes-into-bidens-motorcade
https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-destroyer-shoots-down-14-terrorist-drones-over-red-sea
Dumbasses of the Day
Is This an Act of War?
According to Fox News:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is warning agents to be on the lookout for explosive devices.
A federal law-enforcement source shared with FOX Business Network an internal officer safety alert dated December 13th that warns CBP agents to be vigilant after the Mexican military seized 10 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at the border.
The IEDs were found by Mexican authorities after Tucson border patrol observed gunshots at the U.S.-Mexico border and a Tucson supervisory border patrol agent arrested an armed person on the U.S. side who had a loaded AK-47 rifle, two loaded AK magazines, loose rounds and a handgun.
CBP is warning its agents to “exercise extreme caution and should report any possible armed subjects approaching the border with possible explosive devices,” according to the memo.
What happened was a hole was found at the border fence and the cartels were fighting over it. One Cartel for human trafficking and the other to smuggle drugs.
Apparently, Border Patrol wasn’t targeted.
Question: Are we at war yet?
Well, Arizona thinks so. They have called the National Guard in to protect the border. What’s funny is that the governor there is a far Leftist who was just fine with the border being open. Not anymore.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-us/10-ieds-found-us-mexico-border-cartel-gunfight.amp
Color Me Shocked!
According to the Daily Wire:;
U.S. Capitol Police is reportedly investigating a gay sex tape that appears to have been filmed in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington D.C.
Why is this a shock?
The Daily Caller obtained and released the recording of the alleged staffer having anal sex with another man, who is not identified.
“The alleged staffer can also be seen in a photo, naked on all fours, looking back at the camera on the table where Senators often sit to ask questions during a hearing. It appears to be unprotected sex,” The Daily Caller’s Henry Rodgers reports.
The Washington Free Beacon reports that the staffer allegedly is Aidan Maese-Czeropski, who worked as a legislative aide for Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD). Maese-Czeropski has since responded to the allegations in a statement on social media, saying that he has been “attacked for who I love,” and that he “would never disrespect my workplace” and is “exploring what legal options are available to me.”
Cardin’s office released a statement on Saturday saying that Maese-Czeropski was “no longer employed by the U.S. Senate.” The declined to comment further on the matter.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-sex-tape-congressional-staffer-allegedly-seen-leaked-video-could-face-charges-lawyer-says
https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-investigating-gay-democrat-sex-video-in-senate-room-lawyer-says-charges-could-be-filed
No, It Happened
Last week was the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. There was a huge celebration in Boston.
There is an opinion piece in the Washington Post by Theodore Johnson called Was the Boston Tea Party an Act of Terrorism? It Depends.
Normally, I would tell you I read the first two paragraphs, saw it was predicated on bullshit and would dismiss the article. There are books out there that I threw away because the introduction was all lies. Ibram X. Kendi’s book, How To Be An Antiracist is an example of this.
Two hundred and fifty years ago this week, a group of men descended on Boston Harbor, boarded three privately owned ships and dumped more than 45 tons of tea overboard. They were upset about the Tea Act of 1773, part of a suite of taxes that the British Parliament used to fund the British governors in the colonies. The size of the tax wasn’t the problem; the legitimacy of it was. The people who would soon become Americans resented being forced by a legislature they didn’t elect to pay for leaders they didn’t choose.
The story of that night became lore — and the lore evolved into national myth. The Boston Tea Party has come to symbolize the revolutionary spirit that led to independence. It engraved the catchphrase “no taxation without representation” on the country’s cornerstone and signified the embrace of democracy.
This guy is calling the Boston Tea Party a myth and lore. It actually happened. There’s no myth or lore about it. Of course, he would like to make it a myth and lore because it is something Americans should be proud of.
Yet there’s another version of the event, one less suitable for national mythology. A horde of White men disguised themselves as Native Americans — coppering their faces and donning headdresses in the same tradition that would lead to blackfaced minstrel shows decades later — to commit seditious conspiracy and destroy private property. The riotous mob trespassed on three ships and destroyed goods worth nearly $2 million in today’s money — all because they didn’t want to obey a duly passed law.
Here you go. The Boston Tea Party was made up of a bunch of racists. Minstrel shows actually existed before this event, but mostly in the south.
The outfits were worn to disguise themselves. They weren’t wearing them to be racist but not to get caught. Kind of like when all those hoodlums wear goodies as they’re robbing a Target.
And the law to raise taxes WASN’T duly passed. THAT WAS THE POINT OF THE ATTACK!
Only one of these versions is central to our national identity. The other is swept under history’s rug to prevent the colonists from being cast as common criminals hiding behind racist face paint. How a country chooses to remember a historic event, and the parts it chooses to forget, reveals its character. The event’s characters matter, too.
He’s right. We can see the character of the individual, especially this writer. If you look at the Boston Tea Party and only see that it’s racist, I suggest your character is very flawed. Short-sighted, ignorant, self-centered, unappreciated and racist.
I also want to add that this guy probably thinks the above-mentioned guys robbing the Target are victims of a racist society and he had no problem with the $1 billion in damage the BLM riots caused. Do you really respect this guy’s opinion of who is a criminal or not?
A nation’s myths — exaggerated or imagined as they might be — shape its identity. Scholars claim these myths merge fiction and truth, transform incidents into parables, become sacred and resilient in the face of scrutiny, and influence personal and group behavior. If you want to know what a nation thinks of itself, listen to the stories that persist. And if you want to know whom a nation values, look to the heroes of those myths.
Again, the Boston Tea Party was not a myth. It did happen. It did lead to the Revolutionary War and freedom from Britain. It did lead to thw formation of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
American myths say something about our nature, about who we are, about where we’re going. Whether George Washington truly confessed to cutting down a cherry tree is less important than making the prototypical American honest and a lover of truth. The self-made man is also a mythical American creation, consecrating the link between hard work and prosperity; it suggests that failure is either a personal choice or a personal defect. The collection of myths about the nation’s providence and the melting pot and manifest destiny feed the idea of American exceptionalism — a shining city on a hill, the first thing the light touches.
We see why he has issues with myths. Men cannot be self-made. Men cannot be honest and truthful (especially white men). Personal choice do not exist and the country is not exceptional.
I not-so-respectfully disagree. All those things exist.
They are moving stories. But the heroes of these myths don’t look like the majority of Americans today. Many of us descend from people labeled threats or, at best, sidekicks and free riders. It leaves us wondering when we’ll get to be the protagonists in a core national myth.
It’s for this reason that there’s a growing clamor for new American stories. Not because the lessons of the foundational myths are invalid, but because heroes should look like the nation they embody, the people they represent. Being able to see yourself in a story validates both the person and the example. Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks and Thurgood Marshall, for example, made the United States truer to its principles. They demonstrated how a previously excluded people can be the fullest expression of — not a threat to — the nation’s virtue.
There you have it. There can be no white heroes. They can only be black.
New stories, however, disrupt old myths. The main characters change. And the folks who identify with the people in the earlier telling feel displaced. Debates about historical facts disguise the true source of tension: which of us is at the center of the story.
Benjamin L. Carp, author of “Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party & the Making of America,” says that night on the wharf is such a formative myth because it reveals a core tension between two values: democratic protest, and law and order. It was principled and nonviolent, carried out by common folk who believed virtue was on their side. It was also criminal — Carp notes that a comparable event now might be classified as an act of terrorism.
The paradox remains alive and well. The civil rights movement was both a First Amendment triumph and branded unlawful by officials who sent in police with batons and dogs. Some considered Black Lives Matter protests to be legitimate civil disobedience, while others focused on the property damage that sometimes occurred alongside the protests and declared the movement fundamentally un-American. Many rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were duly convicted of seditious conspiracy and property damage, while a quarter of the country regards them as patriots and “political prisoners.”
Both democratic protest and law and order are widely regarded as vital American values. Yet we disagree about which protesters should be deemed patriots and which should be gathered up by the long arm of the law. Who will be the champions of our myths? It is a foundational quandary worth marking, one engraved into the nation’s cornerstone.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/13/boston-tea-party-anniversary-crime-patriot/