Monday, October 31, 2022

Someone is going to die????? Welcome to our world.

 I had to laugh when I read a Democrat congresswoman say about the Paul Pelosi “attack” that “Someone is going to die.” That was Michigan congresswoman (D) Debbie Dingell, who hired security after Tucker Carlson did a segment on her.

Somebody is going to die? Really? Congresswoman, somebodies have been dying. Many people have died. You just haven’t cared at all. Now, that a leading Democrat’s husband is attacked, you care.

I am pretty sure you are a CNN, MSNBC, NYTimesy kind of person, so I’m going to help you with one.

Do you remember, not so long ago –

The George Floyd riots (unbelievably called protests) led to two dead in Minneapolis/St. Paul (leaving aside all the arsons, vandalism and the like) and then, ongoing to thousands, tens of thousands? of young people, mostly minorities, being killed in cities, at increasing rates, caused by left-wing rioting, left-wing anti-police narrative, less policing, radical left wing Das and mayors (all pretending or maybe even believing they are helping the groups they care about).

Do you remember David Dorn, a retired officer trying to protect a friend’s store who was shot dead during the riots?

Do you remember Officer Shay Mikalonis, also shot during the riots, a young man who was on life support and now will spend the rest of his life paralyzed?

Do you remember the dozens of cops across the country who have been murdered or severely injured in the name of Floyd or BLM or Antifa and the fake systematic racism narrative?

All those children, down to babies, who I’m sure you would say you are all about – but you are not.

Do you remember CHOP in Seattle, which some left-wing politicians glorified as democracy and love, which ended in the death of two young men?

Someone is going to die? Where have you been?

Why weren’t you so worried when someone was going to kill Kavanaugh and other Supreme Court judges and why aren’t you demanding protection for them? When Steve Scalise was shot? You don't think someone could die then? Why didn’t you worry out loud when left-wingers were stopping free speech when conservatives would have a platform (go TheFire.org and just look back the last five years at how many more of these are left-wing attacks). Why is it you only woke up to the violence right now?

We could go on and on, and why bother even mentioning abortion? You wouldn’t understand or condemn it as violence.

Don’t say, someone is going to die now that you feel in danger, unless that you are willing to own up to the fact that your side’s systematic racism narrative, penchant for violence disguised as protested, phony stories about Trump (women abuser, Russian agent, scourge of Ukraine and designer of 1/6, for a few). Don’t try to take over government by eliminating the electoral college, adding Democrat states, packing the Supreme Court, ending the filibuster, encouraging unsecured mail-in voting, and the like, and maybe people would not think you are a threat. Don’t bully Americans into taking untested “vaccines” that doesn’t prevent the spread of a virus and destroy their lives when they don’t comply. Don’t sit quietly when people like that uber-fascist Maxine Waters calls for more rioting, or when Republicans are beaten or harassed in public by thugs. Don’t just pretend things have gotten violent when a Democrat is injured.

I should say “IF” he was injured. Because, after all the lies about Kavanaugh, Trump, after Jesse Smollett and many others found to have faked riot-wing violence, after the almost daily lies by Biden or his spokespeople (just recently, that congress voted on debt relief and it won, that gas was $5 a gallon when he took office), after all those Democrats and media figures saying they had proof Trump was a Russian agent and the like, after the Obama lies (too many to mention here, but including about what Obamacare would be, and the Iran Nuclear deal), after the lies about George Zimmerman, Darren Wilson and Kyle Rittenhouse, and so many other lies.

DON’T EXPECT ME TO BELIEVE NEWS REPORTS THAT A DEMOCRAT WAS HURT BECAUSE OF RIGHT-WING HATE WITHOUT A LOT OF PROOF.

Maybe he was attacked and injured, and I don’t wish or feel good about violence directed to anyone, even the heinous group that now runs our country. But I will have to see very convincing proof that he was attacked, injured, operated on and that it wasn’t by a friend or lover. Another shoe might drop, as it often does, though I’m sure, because of our feckless media, after the election. But why would I believe it when you lie about everything? Take a look at my recent post on August 25th, When the lies just fall like rain.

I’m perfectly aware that there are some on the right-wing who can be violent, some who are psychotic, some who I vehemently disagree with. But, as I have been writing about for the last few years, the violence has not only been predominantly left-wing, but they have been adopted into the mainstream left, including BLM and Antifa.

Like you, Congresswoman, I hope for a better, calmer, more peaceful, less violent country. I fear it will only become so after a more violent spasm. Unlike you, I count all those children, all those cops, all those people and politicians who are attacked. And, I blame it primarily on you and your friends.

Monday, October 03, 2022

Helping David Brooks

At the beginning of this year David Brooks, a longtime columnist at the New York Times, published a column there titled America is falling apart at the seams.  In it he discussed such problems as reckless driving, disruptive students, hate crimes targeting (for example he said) black people, increased gun purchases (that’s a bad thing to him, obviously – but I wonder if he owns one or if he thinks it is wrong for people fearful for their and their kids’ lives every day to have one in cities), drugs, declining charity – and abstract things like “polarization, hatred, anger and fear.” And that seems to be the worst part, what he describes as “a long-term loss of solidarity.”

Now, I used to read David back when he was the NYT’s pet R, a very moderate voice, barely Republican. I liked moderates and felt he was one. It wasn’t long after his debut in 2003, when he admits to meeting with a ferocious anger from Times’ readers, that he stopped acting or being an R, but he kept up the pretense for a while. He no longer pretends to be an R, claiming to be a moderate Democrat. Well, I guess that made it easier to get along with co-workers. I can’t read the Times anymore, not since its political pages, most of the first part of the paper, was no longer the standard bearer of journalism, but one more anti-Trump, sometimes pro-China rag (it was the latter that actually made me stop reading my lifetime favorite paper) who ignores anything bad on the left unless practically forced to or they feel it’s safe for their side (like admitting – with nothing having changed – that the Hunter laptop story was not Russian disinformation).

In any event, I am here to help you, my friend. But, to do that I have to call you out – You are l y i n g! I say you are lying, because I know you are a smart man. You know. You must know the answer. Yes, you give some reasons you think might be responsible for our social dysfunction, sociological, cultural – that’s your forte. And you end the column with – “As a columnist, I’m supposed to have answers. But I just don’t. I just know the situation is dire.”

Okay, that’s fine – IF IT WERE TRUE, DAVID. But it’s not, is it?

You did hint in your Times article by saying that Trump’s election might seem like permission for bad behavior to some (Why it would do that? You don’t say – but you don’t need to spell it out for your readers – it’s like saying someone is a Jew to a Nazi – the word “Trump” explains all to true-believers, and justifies them breaking Jews' or Trump supporters’ windows). But you still don’t know? Uhh huh. Sure.

Turns out that at the same time you wrote that column for the Times, you were writing or had already sent in an article for the Jan.-Feb. 2022 issue of The Atlantic, “What happened to American Conservatism?” where you wrote, much more clearly:

“Trumpism is pre-Enlightenment. Trumpian authoritarianism doesn’t renounce holy war; it embraces holy war, assumes it is permanent, in fact seeks to make it so. In the Trumpian world, disputes are settled by raw power and intimidation. The Trumpian epistemology is to be anti-epistemology, to call into question the whole idea of truth, to utter whatever lie will help you get attention and power. Trumpism looks at the tender sentiments of sympathy as weakness. Might makes right.”

So, were you lying in your Times’ column, saying you don’t have answers, when obviously, in another outlet you obviously felt you knew the problem, in fact explain their all the bad things that happened to your former conservative friends? Trump. How Biden-like of you. His administration has been living off this premise shamelessly – just recently blaming the crime in the cities on him. Not the mayors, governors and legislatures in the Democratically held cities, some for decades, but Trump.

Now I could spend a lot of time defending Trump against all those absurdities, show how he had actually been the opposite of authoritarian (now Biden – he’s authoritarian), not racist, not power hungry. But, I’m sure you read my blog (that’s a joke, folks) and I do that constantly. Yes, Trump is a difficult, hard to like man and he did behave somewhat badly on January 6th (hardly criminally or as bad as the all-Democrat or Trump-hating R committee) after the rioting started, I presume because of all that was done against him right up to election day and he didn’t see it as his fault. Actually, I do think he lost the election, but it was, of course, rigged in some ways. No one needs to speak anymore with one another directly to rig something. Judges toss his cases, social media blocks him from speaking, the mainstream media lies every day about him, the Ds doing everything in their power to attack him with the Russia Hoax, the phony Ukraine impeachment (they couldn’t even come up with a crime, David, not for lack of trying – did you notice?), blocking his appointments, the Clintons and the FBI worked together to sabotage his campaign, entrap his people, and so forth. I could go on, but you know all this. You are educated and I know heavily invested in politics. Either you are blinded like so many people I know by Trump’s being the new “Jews” or you are not very bright – and you are bright.

And I’m also not going to bother to go into Trump today because it doesn’t matter what I write about him – like so many of my friends and family, you can’t come up with bad acts or authoritarian policies for him, just adjectives, until January 6, 2021 – but you’ve all been saying it for four years. Did you notice in your anti-Trump supporter rant in The Atlantic you too don’t say why his followers are bad; you just resorted to adjectives like everyone else. You might as well of said his followers had “cooties.” I could use many labels to describe your and many others’ immediate reaction to his name. Some admit to “TDS,” Trump Derangement Syndrome (though they feel it is justified). That’s probably the easiest way to say it. Not that I personally like him, not that he isn’t full of character flaws – but that describes Biden to me as well – and you just ignore those.

But I said I was here to help you and I will. I’m going to explain to you why America is falling apart – and it’s you! That’s right, you. Not alone of course, but all those like you including among them many people dearest to me, generally moderates, some liberals but nice people, a few crazed liberals themselves. But, the liberals among them either really don’t know better or are trapped by their own people – afraid for their jobs or fighting with their family. Many are Republicans but watch CNN or MSNBC or read the Times as their sole source of news aside from their work or peer environment. I’ll take a pause to give one of my favorite recent quotes from long-time liberal Democrat writer, Naomi Wolf, who unlike you, figured out what the problem was and said in an interview about America’s breach of civil rights in its anti-Covid strategy:

America's now divided based on what news you consume. People I love and respect who are well educated who watch, I'm just going to say it. . . who read the New York Times and watch CNN and MSNBC are being lied to every single day about every aspect of this pandemic and these vaccines and the policies around them. . . ."

A little later:

“I confess that I believed the Russian hoax story too until it was conclusively debunked, not very long ago. I believed things that friends of mine of the Right think I’m crazy for having believed. If you watch CNN and read the New York Times, you’re getting a worldview—I don’t know how to say this, we’ve entered this time and the Smith-Mundt Act is part of this—where it is now legal to propagandize Americans”.

Not surprisingly, some of your cohorts describe her as “mad” or the like now, and severely criticized her with all the passion they put into avoiding saying how crazy Stacie Abrams is for claiming that fetal heart-beat monitors are designed by men to fool people into thinking fetuses (that is, babies in the womb) have hearts. Now, for them, probably you, David, it is not a heart-beat anymore, but a cardiac event. 

So, here’s my help, David. Open your eyes and recognize that you have given up your street cred as a fair columnist long ago (it was why I used to like you before you had to fit in with the company you kept). We’ve seen what has happened to Joe Scarborough over at MSNBC, once a borderline ridiculous red meat conservative who moderated himself for years on his Morning Joe (and with whose politics I probably agreed most), and then went from mocking his pink-tinged co-host, Mika, to romancing her and gave up all his scruples and politics, especially after Trump mocked her (and yes, he was disgusting, but that doesn’t justify Scarborough losing his mind). You are pretty much in his territory too, quite subservient to the woke publishing policies of your employer, if not as angry as he is (after all, Trump didn’t insult your wife).

I haven’t read all your columns the last few years once you became a tower of left-leaning rhetoric under the “moderate” guise, just a few. Maybe you have touched on some of what I’m about to suggest to you. I doubt with any actual vigor though. That vigor is saved for Trump and his “deplorables.” Of course, if you want to keep your sweet job, David, you have to blame Trump, and make remarks suggesting that his followers are Neanderthals. But, I don’t think you have to believe, or forswear criticizing every crazy idea the left has. You could be much more principled (as I’m sure you feel you are), more courageous. If you were really brave, you would have followed Bari Weiss out the door once you read her famous open letter and be doing fantastic work on Common Sense with her. Or writing real books, like Naomi Wolf, who finally saw that the emperor had no clothes. Or even just be like Alan Dershowitz or Jonathan Turley, both clinging to their D label despite seeing clearly and writing about all of the unfair, unconstitutional whatnot on the left and calling it out. I wish they’d just call it what it is – incipient fascism, but for some reason they still call themselves Ds and say they vote for them.

Of course, some of the Times’ readership are drooling left-wing zombies, and they would have demanded your being fired, wouldn’t they, if you were even a little honest like Dershowitz and Turley? People on the left can threaten lives or say horrible things, and that’s fine with journalists, but just try disagreeing with BLM or even acting like their “facts” were up for discussion. Even those who read you religiously or work with would have had your head. Can you admit that to yourself at least? They would destroy you, ignore or insult you, worse than they did when you signed on as a R before you crumpled, as they do with Dershowitz, for example. And if you can admit that - how do you justify staying a D, being left-wing? You know who they are.

Just do it. Free yourself. Say what you really know to be true (and I will give a push start below), because you do know almost everything they say is a lie or pretense or crazy, don’t you? Tell the Times to take their job and shove it if they try to push back or come up with some mysterious reason you must move on

Be bold, David. Tell your readers these things -that yes, the NYTimes and other left-wing media outlets and D politicians have been lying to them every day, as Wolf said. Tell them, and you will feel better, like someone who finally says – “I’m sorry, I don’t love you anymore” or comes out of the closet. The truth is cathartic. Some people will still hire you and welcome you back to sanity, just like they do Naomi Wolf.

And if you didn’t know the truth, which is almost impossible for you except by willful refusal, you can just research it now. Because everything I state below is verified, true and undeniable except by liars. Even with the silence of the mainstream media of anything that doesn’t support their narrative, you can verify it online.  

Listen closely, David  – Yes, America is falling apart – BECAUSE YOUR SIDE HAS GONE CRAZY, DAVID – AND NOT JUST ABOUT TRUMP.

Short, non-comprehensive, un-ordered list to help you understand how your side is destroying America, to help David Brooks understand why America is going to hell in the proverbial handbasket:

Yes, fetuses are babies. As a friend of mine who is so smart he religiously reads my blog, states: “Fetuses never end up born a bowling ball or a kangaroo, only a baby.” As Rush Limbaugh joked, it’s not a magic vagina that turns it into a baby when it comes out. It is no different than slavery. It will go on while people can comfortably say they are not babies. If we could hear their cries, it would be different. I know that is incredibly painful to hear for people who have had abortions, or their family or friends have, but it is true.

No, the Dobbs case did not make abortion illegal – the left-wing pols and media are simply lying. All it did was give the power to make abortion laws to the states where it was before Roe v. Wade, which even Ruth Ginsberg had admitted was a badly decided case. No, the Florida law protecting infants from being sexualized by their radical teachers was not an anti-gay law. I must repeat, the left-wing pols and media are simply lying to you. They literally lie about almost everything political.

It is ridiculously unfair for biological men to compete with women in most sports (I can’t know for sure, but I would bet that you have at least privately said as much to friends). Maybe not all sports (like auto racing, women’s gymnastics), but definitely where running, jumping, throwing, physical contact and the like come into play. RIDICULOUSLY unfair, as I explained a few months ago here. Don’t D’s believe that they are the party of women? It seems most voting women do. Why are you doing this to young women? Why do have empathy for “transgender” but not for women who know their own sex? Even Kaitlyn Jenner knows this is crazy.

No, hormone therapy and surgery cannot change men into women or vice versa, at least not yet or the foreseeable future. No, there are not many genders, just two. And it is a disgusting horror that so many on your side think it’s okay to mutilate children and also not to tell their children. We won’t let them smoke, but destroying their genitals and giving them drugs is okay?

Our education system has fallen to pieces. It is not just the crazy mask mandates that caused so much harm, it is the crazy ideas that schools should be re-writing our country’s history, teaching things like social justice math and science and preventing teachers from disciplining trouble-makers and punishing teachers who want tell kids the truth. If anthropogenic climate change is even true – I don’t know – this degradation of our children is a far, far, far bigger danger. Look at the lowered scores and the depression they’ve helped cause. Look at the absentee rate.

Biden’s and governors’ on the left insane response to Covid-19, has hurt people deeply. Now it is admitted that the vaccine never worked (do people even know that?) You are a numbers guy. How many good people lost their jobs due to mandates for refusing to take a drug in their own bodies? How many families have suffered because of that? As many have pointed out - what happened to “My body, my choice?” Does it only apply to killing babies?  

What the left has done to blacks in recent years is as big a crime as Jim Crow. You hysterically write in the Atlantic “To be conservative on racial matters is a moral crime.” You, not just blacks, but white liberals too, have led many blacks and whites into believing the crazy idea that cops are hunting blacks, that whites don’t value their lives, that whites get success because of their skin color and blacks punished for it, that blacks can only get justice (where virtually every single federal and state law is long made in their favor) by protesting or worse.

I know I repeat myself (I’m pretending you read my blog), but these George Floyd riots, this defund the police movement, these disgusting prosecutions like with poor Kim Potter or Kyle Rittenhouse, these phony investigations and trials, as into, have resulted in more young blacks dying from under-policing at a faster rate than the Ku Klux Klan could have ever dreamed - for their whole history! David, black on black crime is the cause of black death. How can it be fixed if it is not recognized and the pretense that it is whites who are violent is not addressed? Blacks are also, inarguably the cause of most murders in this country, regardless of the victim’s color. Why can’t you say that? It’s not prejudice. We all know poverty is a big reason for it, but so is culture and so is being raised without a father.

The numbers are overwhelming. Cops almost never kill unarmed cooperative blacks and avoid trying to kill them even if they don't cooperate. And cops actually kill more whites without a good reason than blacks. Every year. Far more cops are killed than unarmed cooperative blacks. Every year.

Why are you afraid to tell the truth? I know, you have job. You have a family, a reputation to protect. So do many of us who do tell the truth.

David, most blacks apparently don’t believe the left’s race-craziness. They want more police, more protection. Polling shows that. You should scream out about what your side is doing to them. They are dying. They want their children educated. They are not going to be now except to be told the lie that they are victims and that they must protest or perhaps riot to get ahead. It’s not a moral crime to be a conservative on race, David. Martin Luther King, Jr., unless radicalized, would probably be deemed an “Uncle Tom” conservative on race today. It is as he has been assassinated all over again, but this time his thoughts and work, with judging someone on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin being buried from Joe Biden down to the marchers – only race matters to them, so long as it gets them power and feeds their narrative. And you and the left can continue to ignore great black writers and thinkers like John McWhorter, Thomas Sowell, Jason L. Riley, Walter E. Williams, Shelby Steele (read him, David, on how white guilt hurts, not helps, blacks), Larry Elder, Robert Woodson (whose foundation actually tries to help blacks and lambastes BLM as a parasite destroying our country) and so on.

What Biden has done at the border is insane, so much worse than when I wrote how bad it was (David's blog: But Trump . . . . (deisenberg.blogspot.com) in June 2021, only 5 months into his term. According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, 4.9 million illegal aliens had crossed the border, 900,000 "gotaways," since Biden took office. There are almost 750 deaths this year (nothing compared to Afghanistan and fentanyl, right - besides, who cares if it doesn't convince those not paying attention that the narrative is a lie?), worse than the roughly 550 last year. Why do you think the WH doesn't brag about that number the way they do about inflation? And it’s not just the influx of illegal aliens, but the potential for terrorism and the drugs, the drugs the drugs! Take Fentanyl, a phenomenal danger to our country, especially our youth. It has been going crazy since the Obama years and even increasing through the Trump years. And thanks to the open border, we aren’t getting a handle on it – it’s getting far worse. It is now the leading cause of death, by far, of Americans 18-45 and if you follow the news, it is soaring.

Of course, everything about Biden is either insane or deliberately destructive for the country. Not only do we have a president who is obviously cognitively declining at a rapid rate, but he is responsible directly for 13 military deaths in Afghanistan, not to mention the deaths of who knows how many allied Afghanis - tens of thousands, hundreds? We don’t know. Does that not matter to you at all? Do you write about the American citizens abandoned and still trapped in Afghanistan? Maybe. I doubt it. The WH sure doesn't talk about it much. 

His abhorrent racism – (yes, he hires and nominates based on race, he rejoices when the population of whites relatively declines, he says only whites can be racists – this is what he says, not what I think. Even Kamala just said that help in Florida after the hurricane should be racially based (see used the word "equity" but we know what it means). Not just the continuous racism, but the insane spending; the frequent lies (he literally said in debate he will not stop fracking – don’t listen to Trump; then he stopped it day one); his assault on our absolutely necessary carbon based energy production (then begging our enemies, like Venezuela to sell it to us, not to mention of his depleting and then not refilling our emergency supply); his craven pleading with Iran to enter an agreement at who knows what cost to us, and his relying on Russia – Russia(!!!) to guarantee their compliance (he learned this begging technique from John Kerry); his repeated violation of the constitution (federal vaccine mandates, empowering agencies to do what they have no power to do, his canceling debt owed to banks for certain people, his threats to shut down student lunch programs [punishing who? Poor kids] if they didn’t go along with the gender dysphoria narrative, his changing education policy to punish young women who want to play sports and young men who are accused of harassment, whether they are innocent or not, his working with big tech to stifle speech); his nasty and divisive rhetoric calling Trump’s followers semi-fascist (Why, because the proudly display the flag?) and telling the country is was okay to be angry at people who wouldn’t get vaccinated even though Fauci and Birx and obviously he knew the vaccine didn’t work to stop transmission from the beginning (which, at least, Fauci and Birx have both admitted). Tens of thousands, maybe hundreds in the military and elsewhere, which he can control, have lost their jobs thanks to him due to their refusal to inject themselves with a vaccine which obviously can be (if rarely) deadly and is probably riskier than the virus. I was vaccinated three times on trust – would have been first, but done with it for now until there is a believable, well-tested vaccine.

I have to take a breath. I’m going to skip the fact that there is more actual evidence that he used his VP position for his and his family’s gain than there ever was that Trump was involved with Russia or that he had a quid pro quo with Ukraine if it didn’t help him. Your paper sure doesn't care. The WH sure isn't going to talk about it. You could probably make them if you applied pressure. Hah! I'm pretty sure that won't happen.

The cancel culture, part of wokeness, is a sickness. John McWhorter calls it a new and very irrational religion we must defeat. I loved his book, Woke Racism, but I think the cancel culture is also a form of fascism and he doesn’t take it that far. Fascism infects the entire culture, not just the government.  I have too many negative things to say about cancel culture to even start here, but if you are afraid to speak your mind online, at school or your job, if you can’t flirt with someone at work, or say out loud that George Washington was still a great man (and I fault all the founders for slavery, because they knew it was abhorrent) and all the things you know you used to be able to say or do before free speech was chilled by this cultural phenomena that business and education rolled over for, you are no longer free.

Are you writing about the young man in North Dakota who was run down, his assailant (now free on only $50,000 bail) claiming he was a right-wing extremist (the evidence is that he simply ran him down and not that he was any kind of extremist – as if that would excuse it!!!!)? The kid is dead and he’s out, like they let Darrell Brooks out on $1000 after he abused his domestic abuse and he ran down people in a Christmas parade, killing 5, injuring dozens. $1000. Meanwhile, how much bail was Kyle Rittenhouse given after saving his own life from a child rapist and gun wielding thug? One million, reduced to $100,000. Not $1000, not $50,000. The narrative is so powerful that even judges are affected by it.

“Wake up, Dr. Jones, wake up!” The left seems to hate families and they hate capitalism, two things you are deeply invested in – probably like most everyone at the Times while they publicly give lip service to the mandate. How rich are you, David (probably even richer than millionaire socialists in congress)? How close to your family are you? But, if you read BLM’s major websites, those two, capitalism and family, are on the hit list. Why does no one in the mainstream talk about that (let alone about how the biggest and best funded gang in America pulled off a heist for its leaders – do you write about that?)  

The cities are disgusting, dangerous, murderous places filled with homeless (the poor people who probably trust your side), feces and the smell of pot, with others fleeing or desperate to do so if they only could. Do you ever go through Manhattan on foot or by subway, or does a car take you right to the safety of the Times building? Why are cities like this, David? Here’s a clue. They are almost all D run for a long time now. Even in red states. Do I even have to go into the bail reform laws and the violence and death they’ve engendered – yet, still defended as if they make us all safer? All you need to do is look objectively.

The FBI has been so deluged under leftist activists that it is no longer a credible organization. We now have a whistleblower, Stephen Friend, calling them out and the FBI is trying to silence him. Retired agents, safer, are applauding it (30, according to the NYPost, David – don’t expect it to be a story in the Times). Ever since the Clinton-FBI Russia hoax (Do you still deny that or just ignoring it?) I can’t trust the FBI for anything. It is probably the biggest scandal we’ve ever had politically, but you wouldn’t know it by reading your paper which received Pulitzers for adding to the lies – what are proven lies.

And Attorney General Garland, once a decent man who got his feelings trampled on when the Rs would not let him on the Supreme Court (I disagreed with their method – but it was not illegal, which is why Obama did not push it – and after seeing what he has become, I’m grateful) has become the poster child for American fascism, trying to make parents who do not want their little girls to have to be in locker rooms with males into domestic terrorists. His pursuit of anyone who was even at the Capitol on J6 like the furies, but not prosecuting the murderer of Ashli Babbit who broke every rule of police use of force; his pursuit, like NY’s AG, of Donald Trump, whereas he can look at armored men with masks trying to blowtorch their way into a federal building and say he doesn’t know if they were terrorists because it was nighttime and maybe no one was in the courthouse. Is he kidding? No, he’s dead serious and fixed on the left-wing narrative. Are you kidding, or haven’t you noticed?

And I'm sure even at the NYTimes you did not miss that Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan and his audience that the FBI told them to watch out for Russian disinformation, so they buried the Hunter story on facebook with their algorithms. Go ahead, David, pretend to yourself the FBI didn't do likewise with Twitter and all those other anti-Trump censors too.

We have a two-tiered justice system where participation in the J6 riot is now deemed, along with Charlottesville (where left-wing mobs attacked marchers with permits) the only violence in American history, and only by the right. The left can riot for a year after George Floyd, ignore the thousands of deaths that have been suffered because of them (almost all minorities), watched their cities be destroyed – all for the life of one man. Yes, he was killed, and it was a crime, horrible to watch. How does he, a lifetime criminal, and a violent one at that, get statues, while they vandalize those of Colombus, Gandhi, Washington? There is only one reason. BLM and others on the left could not be happier than when Floyd died because they finally had on tape one of the rare times the police killed a black criminal that could have been easily avoided. It would get no traction but for media cooperation with the narrative that cops are killing blacks. We know, because whites have been killed the same way and nothing has happened.

On J6 at the capitol, only one person was murdered, Babbit, a Trump supporter and it has been exposed as an outright lie that Brian Sicknick, a cop, was killed by rioters. No protester or rioter pulled a gun or a knife on a cop. The media and the left still pretend that J6 and Charlottesville where leftists attacked marchers (who had a permit) and one woman died, are the only violence in our history, ignoring the 550 violent “protests” after Floyd in 2020, Seattle, Portland, and the many attacks on pro-life proponents or just plain Republicans, for no other reason, in America. Just recently an 80-year old pro-life advocate was murdered, a man ran down a young man claiming he was part of a dangerous right-wing extreme group (the evidence doesn’t show anything like that) and pro-life clinics and organizations are regularly bombed or vandalized after Dobbs. That is happening now, not decades ago. I’m not going to provide links for you, David, as you are a professional, but if others reading this want to just look at one list and then check them out - 23 and counting: pro-life organizations firebombed, damaged ahead of court ruling - Metro Voice News. And that was over 3 months ago.

Frankly, David, if you want to know what is going on, all you need to do is read the New York Post (or The Epoch Times, “EP”), and then verify it. It’s not hard. I do it all the time. Unlike the NYTimes and 51 Intelligence chiefs, the Post and EP didn’t pretend that Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation. For crying out loud, we now know for sure Joe Biden lied about not being involved in Hunter’s foreign business (we have two witnesses he is the “big guy” and the message he left for Hunter found on the laptop). What else do you need to wake up? They will only investigate him if whoever is actually running things decides Biden can’t run again.

One of the most perplexing things to my conservative Jewish friends is how so many Jews in America, it seems most, are progressives? Do they not realize how anti-Semitic the left is? Do you? Take a look at Newsweek’s article on anti-Semitic clubs at Berkeley Law School and the new anti-Semitism you mostly ignore. If you are not blind or dumb, why are you using an example of hate crimes being against blacks, when the statistics show that a black is the most likely attacker and Jews the most likely victims? Every year.

As always, I can’t just keep listing things forever as my posts are way too long to begin with. (so I’m repeatedly told). But, if like my friends and family, you doubt that any of these things are true, just ask me and I will be happy to document it for you.

I know how difficult it is to recognize you’ve been wrong politically about so many things because of how you were raised or the overwhelming crush and prohibition of information based on where you live or work. I had to go through it and it was painful and embarrassing. It can be done, but you have to want to know the truth and you have to accept you can be wrong – and, actually care about what happens to our country and yes, even the minorities your party is destroying.

Soon, David, I will be posting on how the media convinced regular people that Trump is authoritarian (though they couldn’t actually name a fact) and Biden somehow isn’t (though literally trying to rule by presidential decree). Stay tuned.

Let’s pretend that I expected David Brooks would read this. Not likely, in reality. It’s just a device to speak once again to my moderate or R friends or casual readers turned leftward, even slightly, who might not realize they are lied to every day. Every day. Have to win people back to reality, one at a time.

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I started this blog in September, 2006. Mostly, it is where I can talk about things that interest me, which I otherwise don't get to do all that much, about some remarkable people who should not be forgotten, philosophy and theories (like Don Foster's on who wrote A Visit From St. Nicholas and my own on whether Santa is mostly derived from a Norse god) and analysis of issues that concern me. Often it is about books. I try to quote accurately and to say when I am paraphrasing (more and more). Sometimes I blow the first name of even very famous people, often entertainers. I'm much better at history, but once in a while I see I have written something I later learned was not true. Sometimes I fix them, sometimes not. My worst mistake was writing that Beethoven went blind, when he actually went deaf. Feel free to point out an error. I either leave in the mistake, or, if I clean it up, the comment pointing it out. From time to time I do clean up grammar in old posts as, over time I have become more conventional in my grammar, and I very often write these when I am falling asleep and just make dumb mistakes. It be nice to have an editor, but . . . .