Monday, November 14, 2022

So, Trump, I've been wanting to talk to you.

Very often I am addressing moderate friends on this blog, people who might lean left, but who often agree (even if it galls them) conservatives. Today I address my Republican and conservative friends, who are licking their wounds. As I write this, post-Election Day, there is a chance they can still win the majority in the House of Representatives, but I have reasons to be pessimistic. Since Day, when they had a huge lead, Democrats have won most of the late counted contests and almost all of them left are in New York or California. They certainly did not get the “red wave” they felt they were sailing on.

Well, my R-con friends. I’m afraid I’m going to do an “I told you so.” Feel free to tune out. But, as when I upset my D-lib friends, it is too important to be honest with you.

Three topics. First, explaining why you were so wrong about the election (which isn’t even decided yet, but certainly no “red wave”). Then thanking Trump and saying good-bye to Trump.

Elections

When it comes to elections, at least since say 2004 or so, when the Ds really began turning hard left (Kerry then Obama were known among Ds to be amongst the most liberal in their party), R-cons have been delusional about elections. I even count 2016, when most of them I knew were shocked Trump won.

The first thing you must learn is to stop saying that the polls are all wrong. Yes, you can’t rely completely on them, but the more established ones are more often somewhat close (they can only take a small sample) than farther off. Sure, sometimes one or more is way off, but that is not the norm and outliers are normal. And, yes, sometimes there may be a left-wing bias, but these companies have reputations they want to uphold. Even when I would tell my R-con friends that a poll is by a right leaning organization, they often stick to their belief it is tainted if it doesn’t tally with their own beliefs. Maybe it is just wishful thinking because they have been getting their heads handed to them so often.

The second thing what R-cons must learn is to stop thinking rationality matters with Democrats. Everyone thinks their own thoughts are rational and common sense. This is an old argument, but I stick with David Hume that reason is the slave of the passions. People vote for those they think are on the same side as them or the based on party for the same reason. Some of the smartest, nicest people I know have what seems to me unrealistic views, completely irrational, and they cannot confront or acknowledge that it is the case – again, even when they cannot articulate reasons. But my point is, stop thinking you can beat the D-libs by explaining yourselves better or getting them to acknowledge certain things make no sense. It would be nice and I’m not saying you can’t appeal to some of them that way. But, you can point out everything that is wrong with their leadership and they will say – Trump! or They are trying to take away democracy/our rights, and so forth. Sure, you can say –See how irrational they are -- the Dobbs case didn’t take away rights, it restored the decision to the States for the people therein to determine. They don’t care. They will repeat Trump! or They are trying to take away democracy/our rights. It may be annoying, but it also works. A single word that excites people is more powerful than the best written political tract.

The fact that Kathy Hochul could say in a debate (which she only consented to because Zeldin was gaining on her) that she didn’t know why Zeldin was so concerned with crime when crime is her constituents’ biggest concern, and, the fact that Fetterman (Pa. D-Senate), a man who is still recovering (if he ever does) from a severe stroke and cannot possibly perform his tasks in the Senate – could handily win, means that people are not voting with their heads, but with their feelings. They literally would not care if they were guilty of rape or molestation or grossly incompetent, impaired, what have you. They care they are on their side. And you should vote that way too. After all, Biden can be seen on video putting his hands all over women, even girls, can be legitimately accused of sexually accosting a staffer, can lie so much that at least once he has admitted it, can have oodles of evidence against him that he sold his vice presidential office in accord with his son Hunter, and still be voted president.

The third thing that R-cons must do is stop thinking just because there are some women or Hispanics or blacks who have seen the light, that they are coming over in droves to their side. They aren’t. I hope they are making strides among those groups, and they should keep telling them the truth, but it is still few of them.

The fourth thing the R-cons must learn is that they are not helping themselves enough. I get it. They like their lives and don’t want to give them up. They are financially succeeding. But they have succeeded too well and it has sapped their willingness to sacrifice and scrape for their own freedom. A few quotes that might inspire (though I’m not optimistic):

“[I]t is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”


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Bertrand Russell

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“When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won’t do to get it, or what he doesn’t believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn’t believe in freedom.”

 

Malcolm X

 

I’m not advocating violence or for you to give up your stuff because we haven’t lost all our freedoms yet. What you could do is boycott though. I urge it more and more to my friends, even though I know it is self-righteous, annoying and I am not perfect in it. I know you can’t boycott everything. I know it doesn’t make you a Nazi if you go to the best bakery in town and it’s owned by a Nazi. I know we can have relationships with companies that make it difficult to part with as they have a hold on us (as me with Google, which owns this blog platform and my phone and has 15 or so years of my emails, etc. – I wish I knew how to fix that – feel free to give advice). I know there are some industries where all the companies are woke and it would cripple you in some way not to do business with them. I know some of the evilest companies simply make the best products. I know your kids and grandkids watch Disney. You don’t have to boycott everything. Pick ten companies and do that. Your life will actually benefit from giving it up. I’m not giving you a list but you know who they are and can if you want to. I don’t use Amazon for gifts or books, I don’t watch tv or movies on my own (harder in groups if you don’t want to run out of rooms), I don’t drink Coke anymore, I am not going to DisneyWorld with my family and stopped shopping at many stores. I do support that guy with the pillow (I can’t remember his name), a local pizzeria that stupid up to anti-Trump cancellation and Goya Beans, and so on. And most important, you can stop watching tv and going to movies as these companies are among the worst.

Because if we don’t do something about the efforts of the left to bully and control us and they gain more power, the fight will be brought to us – or some form of slavery.

The fifth thing will be hardest to sell to many supporters across America – we have to give up Trump. First, let me praise him for what he’s done and what he has suffered for us, and then ask him to leave, with, of course, a proper explanation.

Thank you, President Trump. You were fearless in calling out a corrupt and morally bankrupt media, you unleashed our forces to defeat ISIS*, you economically competed with China and you kept Russia, China and Noko at bay**. Thanks for pointing out the dangers of tik tok (which even a few Ds are waking up to). Thank you for your efforts to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide, for not pretending that Iran would comply with its no-nukes agreement, for being not only a friend to probably our best ally, Israel, not only by keeping America’s promise to make Jerusalem its capital, and also for the Abraham Accord normalization agreements, for which you deserved the Nobel Prize in a sane world. Thank you for standing up to our NATO allies and demanding they pay their fair share, for standing up to our EU allies and pointing out that they were buying gas from the country we protect them from – Russia (we see the results of that weakness by the EU and Biden).

Thank you for what you did for the economy before Covid-19 did everything we know about and for telling us it was time to go back to work before Biden took over with his unconstitutional mandates and vicious rhetoric. Thank you for deregulation effort, for making college fairer for young men and not having decisions made about these kids’ lives based on gender (Biden has, of course, reversed due process again), for cancelling Obama’s sellout of the Cuban people, leading the world diplomacy against Maduro (to whom Biden has gone begging to) and recognizing Juan Guaido. Thanks for dropping out of the Paris Agreement which does nothing to help the environment (as other countries have a free hand, even if anthropocentric global warming is real, and we reduce carbon emissions anyway) and was economically appalling (once again, which Biden brought us back into). Thank you for trying to build a wall (I wasn’t a big fan, but given what Biden has done to the border and has now is continuing to build after destroying our border with his policies – you should be thanked). Thanks for rebuilding our military, getting rid of the hateful CRT culture there (both brought about by Obama and undone by Biden), reducing deaths in Afghanistan to close to nil, establishing a space force, pushing cyber-security, supporting law enforcement against the anarchy-like and anti-democracy efforts of the left to destroy policing in America (which they’ve accomplished in some blue cities).

Perhaps most of all, thanks for showing the way to those in the second generation that is not afraid to call out the media and fight the radical party, like DeSantis, Abbott, Kari Lake, Kristy Noem (I think) and others.

And so much more – this is not an attempt to be comprehensive, but, just to show how much you did. And not that I agreed with every single policy. I didn’t. I didn’t even support you when you first ran. But I can recognize what a great job you did against the fiercest resistance (their word) by the left than we’ve ever seen in this country, the worst opposition any president has faced since Lincoln. In fact, even now, it is so difficult for their opposition to give you credit for anything.

*Yes, knuckleheads, I know they still exist in a small way. So do Nazis. But ISIS has no land or pseudo-state anymore and is greatly, almost entirely diminished.

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Bad things happened soon after Biden got elected. China started doing intimidating flights over Taiwanese airspace almost immediately, and shortly thereafter Putin started the build up on the Ukraine border. More Noko missiles have been tested just this year than in Trump’s 4 years.

My other point is, So Now please go.

If that doesn’t make sense to you, let’s remember that you are your own worst enemy. You have a biiiiig mouth and a poison tweeting finger. When things are going smoothly we can count on you to make it worse by saying something at least annoying, incredibly stupid or offensive. Yes, they exaggerate your mistakes, are hypocrites and play games. But, you play right into it. It doesn’t negate what you accomplished, but it makes it harder to be re-elected. You didn’t do any favors for yourself with 1/6 either, though the committee is a joke and you did not send marauders to invade the capitol. Pretty clear you were an obstinate, bitter jerk though while cops were busy fighting. I know you offered the National Guard to the city but the left and D.C. are far worse than you are.

Plus, though maybe all presidents, but at least a lot, are self-absorbed, narcissistic or ambitious, most people, even your supporters believe you are at or near the pinnacle. And it has led to political problems with your own party. Who would want to be your VP now? Certainly not Mike Pence. I can’t imagine anyone with presidential aspirations signing up. I guess Mike Pompeo (who would be a good candidate himself though) might, but maybe not. Or maybe Marjorie Taylor Green would, but she’d be a liability. I guess you can always find an unknown or wannabe who has enough ambition.

Worse than that, you haven’t changed since the 2016 campaign. You’ve already attacked DeSantis, who is the choice of most conservatives I personally know. Perhaps he is just who he is, but I think he learned from you many things. Still, he is much better suited for a political office than you and seems to be just as tough and dedicated to helping people and prevent harm as you were. It’s like trading in a great looking spouse for another great looking spouse with a better personality.

Why do you attack DeSantis? Well, it’s your way, for one thing. And, you are also rightfully scared of what an increasingly fascist opposition wants to do to you – put you in jail. I think you’d be better off making up with DeSantis and hoping he helps you out, certainly on the federal level.

I understand, it’s not fair. Though I don’t think you got more votes than Biden, the opposition did cheat, violating the laws in many states to increase voting, the FBI apparently using social media to cut you off from the public, Wisconsin refusing to hear your claims and not the Green Party’s either (if they ran, you would have won Wisconsin). All the lies and the impeachments, all the while they treat Biden with kid gloves, refuse to investigate the Hunter Biden matter, and so on. Yes, the media is beyond awful – they are despicable, and I will back you 100% against virtually any Democrat in the country if you are the nominee. But, I’m sorry, by attacking DeSantis, you lost my and many other people’s sympathy, even if you tepidly endorsed him on the last day. Most conservatives I know do not want you to run. That may or may not be the case throughout the country, the I think it will be if he declares.

And, let’s face it. You are not up to it. You couldn’t beat Biden, someone who almost comically lies, says bizarre things and was already cognitively declining. Why? One reason. The people who hate you, really hate you. Come on.

I do not want you to go away mad. I want you to say you are not running, but will support a great candidate.  But, you really need to go now.

Do it because you really do want to Make America be Great Again.

Who's the authoritarian?

 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. . . ."

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“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”.

Naomi Wolf, former liberal writer

I know just how she feels. People who I know who watch or listen to CNN, The Times or MSNBC simply have no idea what has been going on and even doubt things that have absolutely happened. They think it is just conspiracy theories or fake news. It is nigh impossible to persuade anyone of anything when they are primed in the other direction and they are lied to every day from sources they believe.

But, still, I will try. We have to keep trying, even if we just tell our spouses and children.

Last month in my post I mentioned a young English professional traveler I listened to on a podcast, who was in Russia at the beginning of the war with Ukraine. He was able to travel for a while, occasionally pulled over on his bicycle a few time by the police and fined (after the cops took selfies with him), and finally arrested and held for three months before his release. Apparently, he is not so good a catch as Griner. In any event, I mention him again because he said that the saddest part of his trip before he was arrested was learning that the people, even non-Russians who he thought would be more cynical, believed all the propaganda coming out of their government.

And all I could think was, well, that sounds familiar.

I know lots of people who agree with me, but it seems to me that the majority of people in America have been swayed or completely convinced by the onslaught of anti-Trump rhetoric by the mainstream or legacy media and big tech’s censorship, that somehow - even if Biden is an idiot, or cognitively deficient or just grossly incompetent, he’s better than that “authoritarian” Trump. Or put another way, that Donald Trump is an authoritarian and, equally amazing to me, that Biden is not. And the Ds are doing everything they can to play this up. Biden made a speech on November 4th where he almost entirely focused on the threat of “MAGA.” Apparently, he doesn’t think this raises the threat of violence, although this has been happening since before Trump was elected. This is part of mainstream Democrat rhetoric now and there is no push back from their party. Pam Keith, a D running for congress, in 2020 openly called for “open season” on Trump and his administration. Was she arrested? No. Even investigated? I don’t know, but I do not believe so from what I can see. In North Dakota, Calyer Ellingson, only 18, was run down and killed by Shannon Brandt, age 41, because Ellingson was a conservative. Perhaps Brandt is crazy – but remember the national outcry and attack on Trump when it happened in Charlottesville. Then, even idiot Rs jumped on the bandwagon of saying it can only be the fault of the right. We all know Nancy Pelosi’s husband was just attacked. I wrote about this a few weeks ago – and it looks also like a crazy person who believed conspiracy theories on both sides – not that you will read or hear that in the mainstream media.  Read the Naomi Wolf quote again. Until you open yourself up to that, you will not believe what I am about to tell you.

I have my two routines when a friend tells me that Trump is authoritarian or the like, which I usually cut short these days, but they make the point which I have little hope will make a small impact on the listener - such is the power of partisanship it can only be small. One is going through what Trump accomplished and asking them as to each one, if that’s what they didn’t like.  You know, “Is it that you don’t like the peace treaties he brokered between Israel and neighbors?” (which used to be good for a Nobel until Trump’s name was submitted)? Is it taking the handcuffs off our military so they could destroy ISIS in Iraq and Syria as he said he would do that bothers you? Was it low unemployment for minorities, promoting decriminalizing homosexuality throughout the world, and so on. They, of course, answer no, no, no to all of them. It’s just, you know, he’s an authoritarian.

The second routine is asking them to tell me what he did that they did not like or thought was authoritarian without using adjectives (egotistic, arrogant, lying and my favorite, authoritarian – because they aren’t facts). Other than one woman who became incensed, and stormed away, most people I talk to about it can come up with nothing. In fact, they almost immediately resort to more adjectives – sometimes the same adjectives. Another, one of the smartest fellows I know said he was “allowed” to just have adjectives and he didn’t need to have facts to back it up, which was contrary to him previously saying to me that he liked data. When they say “authoritarian” or “power-hungry” and I ask them for examples, excluding 1/6 (because they thought he was authoritarian since even before he was in office and Jan. 6 was days before he was out of office, they literally can’t). None. Not one of them can and I guess I’ve asked perhaps a dozen people.

So, at risk of offending those who can’t bear to hear anything positive about Trump (“I don’t want to talk about it” after they’ve excoriated him) and negative about Biden, let’s review the evidence on whether Trump is authoritarian. I can’t prove to you a negative, that Trump was not authoritarian, because there are very few negatives you can prove, particularly if they end with an opinion. So, I’ll just ask you - what did he do that was authoritarian? Leave aside that you think he summoned a mob to take over the government (because, surely, a bunch of unarmed bikers would accomplish that) because you were always told and thought he was for four years and that happened with two weeks left to his term.  I will deal with 1/6 separately another day as it will make this post too long, but his role is ridiculously overstated. But I can tell you this before I show you how authoritarian Biden actually is: You tell me what part of this you factually disagree with:

Trump and his administration made no presidential decree or push for any law which favored some Americans over other because of superficial characteristics like race, religion, sex; didn’t try to force his particular cultural values on anyone; obeyed judicial decrees even when they were ridiculous; didn’t try to destroy any American industries; didn’t try to proselytize new cultural norms; didn’t try to divide the country (you cannot blame the “resistance” on him); didn’t nominate or hire based on superficial characteristics; he didn’t use violence to put down resistance (even in Portland, he sent federal troops to protect federal property and workers, but didn’t attack the rioters and in Seattle had troops only on standby); didn’t try to make non-law enforcement federal agencies, like the IRS, into gun-wielding enforcers; didn’t pretend PTA moms and dads were terrorists because they disagreed with him; didn’t try to stack the rules against male college students but made harassment charges fair for everyone; didn’t try to harm women competing in sports by forcing them to compete with men; didn’t try to stifle free speech or religion; didn’t try to force little girls to share bathrooms with boys; he didn’t try to pack the courts or otherwise turn us into a one-party country; didn’t set forth an anti-American or anti-white race agenda; didn’t free up vandals to destroy federal monuments; didn’t do what he could to allow for the dissolving of the border; didn’t harass journalists, and so on. And didn’t create federal mandates destroying people’s lives because they didn’t want to put a fairly untested “vaccine” into their arms. These are all things the left, and even Joe Biden’s administration did.

If you think any of the above isn’t true, please give me facts, not adjectives. The only aggressive thing he did, and it was clearly reluctantly, was direct GE, which can certainly fend for itself, to make ventilators, because at the time, that’s what the so-called science of the CDC and FDA told us was the answer to serious COVID cases (as so often – wrong again).

Now, let’s look at Biden. And if you don’t know any of the below or will not believe something is true, read the Naomi Wolf quote again).

Here we go. Biden and/or his administration have. . .

Oil and gas. Starting his second day in office Biden attempted to damage America’s oil and gas industry based on the supposed science of anthropogenic global warming (“AGW”), something of course no one can prove (I’m still agnostic about it) which the left nevertheless declares proven (just like the vaccine). Certainty, a non-starter in actual science, is also a left-wing specialty these days. Around 2018, during Trump’s term, we became energy independent, the first time in about 70 years, exporting more than we imported. Now, in the Biden era, we’ve quickly become energy dependent again. Let’s start with the Keystone Pipeline extension coming from Canada. Obama rejected it. Trump, fast-tracked it. Biden shut it down on his second day in office by presidential decree. Recently Biden said there would be no more drilling while he’s president. I’m going to assume that he either meant on federal land, which he has some say over, or just doesn’t understand.

During his campaign Biden repeatedly said he opposed fracking, then in a debate with Trump, claimed he never said it. It was just one more lie for Biden who has made a career out of them. With a fully obeisant left-wing media, which would not even report on Hunter’s infamous laptop, pretending it was Russian disinformation, few called him on it. In his first two weeks in office, he issued to orders pausing new gas and oil leases on federal lands, including, of course, fracking. Not congress and the president, just Biden. It was initially stayed by a district court judge, but unfortunately an appeals court reinstated the presidential order for the time being.

I say unfortunately, because you know the state we are in because of it - gas prices have sky-rocketed ahead of inflation and our emergency reserves depleted by our same hero. Even though we are in a proxy-war with Russia, we are beholden to buy its oil. We had to go begging to our enemy, Venezuela, to pump more. And Biden, who was heavy-handed with our difficult but usual ally, Saudi Arabia, and in begging mode with our enemy, Iran, had to go hat-in-hand to the Saudis to ask for more production, and now is threatening them because OPEC, for its own purposes, is cutting production. Please explain that to me, my left-wing or leaning friends, how this makes any sense? Let’s just say that anthropogenic global warming is real. Then why are we asking other countries to pump more when we can do it? Of course, none of it makes sense. It’s just Biden pushing the narrative, not by law, where congress legislates and the president passes them, but by using his presidential powers (and those at least are powers he has) to harm us to push the left-wing narrative. If you don’t believe it is harming us, go fill up your car.

And, unless you watch or read the legacy media you probably fear – you don’t even know that there is a great diesel oil shortage coming – that heats your home, runs trucks, machinery, etc. We should all be scared. What’s the White House plan? Nothing the WH spokesperson recently said.

Gender

"Those who deny the biological differences between a man and a woman are not only erasing women as a category of people, they’re denying the existence of objective reality, and the ‘truth’ becomes whatever those in power want it to be.”

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“There is no space for freedom of speech, there is no space for independent thought. It is conform or be canceled.”

Tulsi Gabbard, former Democrat

Biden’s and the left’s war on boys and girls is hard to believe. Most people, maybe everyone I know, has empathy for men or women who think they were born in the wrong body. What they do not have sympathy for is the assault on boys and girls, including erasing that term in many public schools, even teaching secondary and college kids that there are multiple genders, the nouveau craziness of having people say their preferred pronouns, the insistence that men can have babies and other inanities. But most of all, it’s allowing men in girls bathrooms because they say they are woman. Worse, of course, is the secretive “transforming,” drugging kids with puberty blockers or even performing surgery, without parental permission. I don’t even know how it can possibly be legal to do that to a child with a parent’s permission. For goodness sake, a women recently had her son removed from her home because she got him a tattoo at age 10. Sex change on children is Mengelian. There was a time when the thought of transforming a child into another sex would be a plot in a horror movie.

What has this to do with Biden? It should be nothing, but even far worse than Obama, he wants to use the presidency, like so many, he says he would be the president for everyone, to radicalize our country. His decree sets a policy that includes things that sound nice in the abstract, but are ominous, because we all know or should know – if we pay any attention and read media outside of those protecting the left and original documents, to the best they are available.

The policies which U.S. agencies have been ordered to enforce include: Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports.  Adults should be able to earn a living and pursue a vocation knowing that they will not be fired, demoted, or mistreated because of whom they go home to or because how they dress does not conform to sex-based stereotypes.” And sure enough, as predicted by many, the USDA, a few months later declared it would enforce the decree. That means, of course, threatening school lunches, though they did not say it directly. And that’s exactly what happened – is still happening. After a lawsuit by religious schools, the USDA has only backed down against them, in August this year. But, all other schools are still targeted – meaning, they have to let boys and even men (who work in school) in girls’ bathrooms, make girls share locker rooms with boys. Any who do not comply are deemed to have harassed the transgender child (I recently in Vermont, an entire girls’ team has been thrown out of their own locker room and only the transgender child may use it (Girls Volleyball Team Banned From Their Own Locker Room Over Complaint About Transgender Student | The Daily Wire – hard if not impossible to find on liberal media).

Of course, as I have pointed out many times, despite the pretense, the left could care less about the plight of the poor – even minorities. Because who are they targeting with student lunches? The meals of rich or middle-class kids? No, poor kids who need the assistance are the one’s who get free lunches. You don’t think this will start happening again soon, now that some red-states have outlawed this monstrous behavior?  

Are you not shocked that the many red-state attorney generals have found it necessary to write Merritt Garland, probably the most leftist federal AG we’ve ever had to ask him not to act on the request of the American Medical Association and other groups to literally – not kidding, please look it up –investigate and prosecute those who question what they are doing to children in the name of “gender affirming care?” Why would they even think this necessary? What Attorney General in America – our America – would ever consider that as a possibility, given the first amendment. Why? Because they’ve already have seen it almost happen with parents of little girls forced to share bathrooms with boys and men, including one father whose daughter was raped who was dragged from a PTA meeting. Not that I’m John the Baptist, but I’ve been screaming into the wilderness here for years that fascism is already here. Merrick Garland is our Himmler. Take a look at the memo. 2021-11-16-JDJ-to-Garland-re-completeness-of-testimony.pdf (house.gov).

Abortion – In June this year, the Supreme Court, after almost 50 years, did what made sense, ended one of the worst decisions by the Court, Roe v. Wade, retuning the power to the states to make up their own laws about a domestic issue, the legality of abortion up to the states. Remember, even Ruth Ginsberg said it was badly decided. Personally, I think the Supreme Court could have said that fetuses (aka “unborn babies”) had a constitutional right to live, which they have just this week turned down from hearing in another case. But, they said nothing like that. Despite the lies of politicians about the decision, claiming it ended abortion – obviously, the Dobbs decision did not.

What was Biden’s initial go to when he was confronted with the Dobbs decision? He said he didn’t have a lot of legal authority to declare a public health emergency (ironically, whatever he did for the health emergency would result in many babies deaths) and then said he was considering it. If the Ds control both houses, it is a pretty sure thing they will try. They’ve already tried for legislation, that didn’t succeed initially, to make abortion legal everywhere. They will try again and again.

Debt

Biden has no right to simply declare which debt will be paid and which will not. There was an emergency rule under COVID to allow debt relief, but it is the height of hypocrisy for the government to declare his relief plan of up to $20,000 for some college debt is because of COVID. It was to garner votes. Fortunately, for the moment, a lower federal court judge has halted it. It is quite possible that a Supreme Court could overturn the stay (the Appeals Court has affirmed it). Of course, judges don’t usually say whether they think something is authoritarian – but, it sure doesn’t seem like the rule of law applied.

Local zoning laws

The left has long been desirous of ending state rights that keep the federal government out of our lives. Of course, state rights have been disintegrating for centuries and there is little left of it. But, zoning laws, things like how big your property can be and where you can do business, have always been left to the states. As far as I’m aware, there are no federal zoning laws.

But, Biden doesn’t want that. He, who lives in 6,850 sq. ft house on 4 lakefront acres in Delaware (he also has a beach house) wants to make a federal law, likely unconstitutional, which will limit you and your children to far less. A WH fact sheet advised that he wanted to do away with local zoning – yes, the federal government will take control, and things like minimum sized plots (in other words, good-bye to beautiful neighborhoods). How much do you want to bet their will be a cut-out for those in congress and other wealthy folk?

You don’t think ending state and local “exclusionary” zoning and making the feds in charge is authoritarian? This is exactly the kind of thing the constitution was created to prevent.

It has come to nothing, but the authoritarian has wanted to do it.

The Vaccine mandates

During the pandemic, we were subject to all kinds of Biden mandates. He made a national speech calling it a pandemic of the unvaccinated and told the country it was alright to be angry at the unvaccinated. Thankfully, the courts finally got rid of most of them (they continue to coerce the medical profession). Though there was some red state bullying too, particularly at the beginning, that’s at the state level, and it was the blue states where it was worst.

Again, why do I call these mandates authoritarian? Two reasons. First, there have never been federal vaccine requirements. Everyone made a big deal about a Massachusetts case from 1903 which upheld required vaccines. Arguably, at a local level, it is legal and reasonable, if the consequences are great enough. The authoritarian government orders people to inject themselves with foreign substances which have been barely tested and which more and more evidence is showing has more risks than health benefits. Some judges have ruled against them.  E.g., Judge tosses NYC vaccine mandate, orders workers' backpay (nypost.com). The only shame is that the Supreme Court, ending an aggressive Biden mandate on businesses, let it stand for physicians and other health care workers. Supreme Court blocks nationwide vaccine and testing mandate for large businesses | CNN Politics because of the precedent of letting Medicare regulating health care.

Pushing the woke agenda

After Trump learned of Obama era rules pushing critical race theory and other woke ideology on federal employees, including the military, he ended it. No surprise, Biden started it again. While China cleans our clock developing its military capabilities, we are teaching our soldiers a new religion (See, John McWhorter’s wonderful book, Woke Racism). Biden also reversed Trump's reversal of Obama's rules on judging harassment at schools, basically starving male students of due process rights. You can't expect anything else once you ignore the nonsense about Trump and realize that Biden is determined to take away basic rights.

Another example of this agenda was the attack on the federal officers defending our border, accusing them of whipping refugees on horseback, something that not only didn’t happen – the photographer who shot the picture said no one was whipped – but was well known to the Alejandro Mayorkas on the first day to be false. Didn't stop from pretending it was true, saying it was horrific and that our history had not yet turned that page. It ended only recently, only after a year just the way it started, with the acknowledgement that the photographer had said no one was whipped and he had never seen that.

The Big Lie

The Big Lie was not that Trump won the election, it is that it is the Rs who are a threat to democracy. If you don’t believe that, explain to me why the Ds are the party that wants to end the filibuster in the Senate (so that they can win every vote), end the electoral college (so they can win every presidential election based on California’s population), pack the Supreme Court with liberal judges so that they can win every case, do away completely with voter ID and have weeks long voting with unsecured write-in voting predominating. I don’t think you can convincingly. 

I recently wrote on all the lies, and there have been so many more since then. Just for example, we’ve learned that despite the suspension of the horse-back division of our Border Protection, they suspended and castigated those men for supposedly whipping refugees, they knew from day 1 it wasn’t so. Didn’t matter, the narrative was too good to pass up. We’ve had in the past, some in the last few weeks, Biden saying things like that his son, who died of cancer (not Hunter) died in Iraq in the armed services, that his wife escaped when their house burned down (it was a small kitchen fire – nothing burned down), that he desegrated churches and was raised in a black church, that the driver who killed his wife and children was drunk, that when he took over gas was $5 a gallon, that he boosted social security by a record amount. Even media onboard with the anti-Trump, progressive narrative like the NYTimes has called him out on some of these. They seem never ending. Keep telling yourself Trump lied. Sure he did. One, most politicians do. Two, Trumps couldn’t hold a candle to Biden, who never stops.

Intimidation tactics

Of course there are examples of right-wing violence, but it is eschewed by the mainstream right-wing. Democrats either back the violent left-wing extremists like antifa or they ignore them. It has been a left-wing staple for a long-time now, but increasingly, while right wing violence decreases. Just since Trump ran for president in 2016 we have seen assaults and attempts to shut down his rallies during his campaign, the harassment of and even attacks on Republican leaders in public, the murders of police officers, the legal assaults on officers doing their jobs, the leaking of the Dobbs draft opinion, the attempt to murder Justice Kavanaugh and planned murder of other conservative justices, the Biden administrations refusals to stop the harassment of the justices in their homes - even though it is a crime to do so. 

The FBI and DOJ

So sad what the FBI has become under Biden (and even before, in joining the resistance) that it will be a full post coming up. A police state is already here. I know, you haven’t heard about this, right. Sigh. But, it’s terrifying and you really should be scared.

Big show biz finish

I literally can’t keep up myself with this administration’s lies and malfeasance. But, I can’t go on forever here (please don't say - it already has), with thanks to anyone who has even gotten this far. It’s hard to read this stuff without wanting to believe otherwise, and that’s without going over the strong-arm tactics of the so-called Department of Justice, the January 6th murder of Ashlee Babbitt and the kangaroo court known as the January 6th committee, that wouldn't even let Republicans put their chosen members on it - unheard of in congress.

Let me finish then with a few more words from Tulsi Gabbard. I’m actually haven’t been a big Gabbard supporter. Although there have been things I’ve admired about her, I have always been a hawk, believing we need the biggest most powerful military in the world by far and to support countries like Ukraine, and she is almost the opposite. That’s important to me too. But otherwise, Gabbard was shunned by the left and has finally left the Democrat Party because of what they have become, not unlike James Webb before her, after he was so severely criticized because he had the temerity to say All Lives Matter during a presidential primary debate. Unlike, me, Gabbard doesn't use the word fascist. At least not yet. That’s fine. But she understands the leaders in that party are anti-freedom, what I would call fascist. She recently said:

“And because they don't believe in freedom, and because they are, you know, the party is led by fanatical ideologues, they are actively trying to undermine those God-given rights that are enshrined in our Constitution. They're actively seeking to undermine our freedom of speech. They want to control what we say and what we think. They are attacking our religious liberty. They cannot handle it, when people dare to speak out. Or even question, question the things they're trying to employees on us as a society, and the way they foment fear. You see this cancel woke culture. They try to silence anyone who dares to disagree, or anyone who dares to expose the insecurity -- their insecurity, and the weakness in their arguments and narratives. And for a whole host of reasons, and you can go and read my statement on Substack, or listen to -- you know, I spoke about this in detail. On the Tulsi Gabbard Show. But it really all comes down to freedom. And I can no longer be associated with today's Democratic Party, that is so actively anti-freedom.”

Biden said he was here to “restore the soul of the nation.” Instead he is a fraud, leading an authoritarian party.  

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 . . . .