How To Become A "Progressive"

 

Liberals believe tolerance is the highest virtue. That is nonsense. It is not, in fact, a virtue per se at all. But, since liberals conflate tolerance with virtue, they then signal and trumpet their own virtue at being so tolerant. They therefore esteem themselves to be on a higher plain, believe themselves a “more moral” species than the not so tolerant rubes that they look down their noses upon.

This is how the liberal elites, the Karens, come into being. These ‘social activists’ believe in their own superiority and righteousness, even as they tolerate gender confusion, genital mutilation, sex-trafficking, mass fentanyl deaths—and the theft, violence, depravity, and confusion rampant in our streets and stores…among other evils, courtesy of the very policies they support.

How to become a progressive? Tolerate everyone but those who disagree with you. And never accept accountability. There you have it.

The NFL Needs To Freshen Up Its Messaging

 

After having watched another Sunday of NFL games, I must say I am sick and tired of the virtue-signaling the league engages in via the trite sayings in the backs of its end zones and on the backs of its players’ helmets. As younger folks might say, “It’s so yesterday.” It has been going on for several years now, and had its genesis in the wake of the ‘George Floyd was murdered by racist cops hoax.’ (See also, “The Fall Of Minneapolis.”) It is time for it to stop. It is time for healing.

Rhetorical question: has anyone who has ever seen one of these ‘messages’ ever promptly changed their outlook or behavior because of them? Of course not. That’s not the point. That’s not the point of any ‘progressive’ message aimed at us by giant corporations, ‘social justice warriors,’ Democrat politicians-- or their brain-dead sycophants in mainstream media and ‘entertainment.’ The point is to make them appear to be something they are demonstrably not: smarter, better, and more caring than us. Which is ironically self-defeating, as no one who might conceivably be smarter, better, or more caring than us would so shamelessly attempt to parade that ‘fact.’

Most of us have heard of the ‘Seven deadly Sins.’ The NFL has the Seven Approved Messages. Sadly, these messages fly in the face of the first Deadly Sin, pride. And also do not embrace at least the first three of the Seven Heavenly Virtues, which are prudence, justice, and temperance. Is it really prudent to silently lecture everyone who is watching your entertainment product, essentially suggesting that they are all nearly irredeemable racists, bigots, and hate-mongers? Can it logically be considered justice to proclaim “Black Lives Matter” but not the lives of any other group? It is not an example of temperance to continually insult the intelligence—and character—of your customers/fans.

I would love to see some alternatives to “Choose Love,” “End Racism,” “Stop Hate,” “It Takes All of Us,” “Black Lives Matter,” “Inspire Change,” and “Say Their Stories.” I believe many, if not most, NFL fans would like to see some fresher messages, ones that make us think, laugh, or both.

I humbly suggest the following: “Our Bite Mocks Do Fry,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Where’s The Beef?” or “Life Is Tough, Then You Die.”

“Better Red Than Dead” could be a viable message for the less courageous in the league, while “Better Dead Than Red” could be its counterpart.

“You know, you know, the thing,” “I’m With Her,” “Seek Help,” or “Schwing!” would also be fun.

Imagine the possibilities.

 

China, China, China

 

It is quite possible China sent the Wuhan Flu, i.e. COVID-1984, A.K.A. the coronavirus, to America (and the rest of the world) as a kind of test. If so, America (and the rest of the world) failed that test. Then China sent a giant weather/spy balloon across America, surveilling its most sensitive nuclear and other military sites, as another test, to see how we would respond to that preposterous provocation. We failed that test, as well. More recently, military aged Chinese men have been pouring across the U.S. southern border, taking up positions in various parts of the country, to do no one knows what. The best guess, however, is that they are forming sleeper cells and preparing to wreak havoc on the fruited plain. The CCP made us sick, and the US government responded, not by punishing China, but by locking down and stealing the freedoms from its own citizens, ironically in classic Chinese fashion. Then the CCP surveilled us with the weather/spy balloon, many stories tall. This was, literally, a trial balloon. Said balloon slowly, yet meticulously, traversed the length and breadth of the (formerly) United States while the Biden administration fiddled and worried about pronouns… before finally shooting the balloon down over the Atlantic Ocean. Once again, it did not hold the Chinese government responsible. That crisis, like the coronavirus-- and indeed the Chinese balloon itself-- eventually blew over, but not before causing grievous harm to the erstwhile Land of the Free and Home of the Brave…and leading China to believe the U.S. had lost its mojo.

              In the 2024 election just passed (or possibly still going on if you’re talking about certain House races), voters in California and 9 other states could choose to vote for a presidential candidate from the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL). The PSL’s candidate, Claudia De La Cruz, is a founding member and co-executive director of The People’s Forum, which is funded by a Maoist millionaire living in Communist China, and whose Shanghai office faces a red banner that reads ‘Always Follow the Party.’ That is a motto that, ironically, leftists follow religiously, though most, like the CCP, disdain religion.

              Whether at universities or at the ballot box, China hopes to make inroads into the United States…and everywhere else. Speaking of roads, China, via its Belt and Road Initiative, is building infrastructure in countries around the globe, currying favor (and indebtedness), and paving the way for global hegemony. China has invested in countless highways, railroads, bridges, dams, and ports, all with an eye to making China the pre-eminent economic and military power on Earth.

              Progressives, whether in the U.S., Canada, or elsewhere, are quick to excuse any ‘alleged’ Chinese threats to their nations. Indeed, some, like Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, have outright praised China and its Communist government led by Xi Jinping. Trudeau said he admired its “basic dictatorship.” Canada can’t rid itself of this clown fast enough. (I suggest sending him on a slow boat to… you know where.)

Many of us still have not come to terms with the origination of the coronavirus. Many more of us have forgotten about the surveillance balloon and the indignity it inflicted. But the Chinese Communist Party does not forget, does not lose focus, does not waver. (Coincidentally, flocks of drones have been flying over some of America’s most sensitive military sites of late. The Pentagon says there’s just not much it can do about it. Really?)

When the Trump administration takes office, there will be a new sheriff in town. Hopefully, those in it will not have forgotten either.

As Sun-Tzu said, “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

Let’s hope the Trump administration can do just that.

 

 

 

The Fifth Annual Hoax-Of-The-Year Awards

 

It’s hard to believe that a year has passed already—and that Biden hasn’t—but I digress. When there’s a nip in the air and frost on the grass, you know what time it is. That’s right, tradition says it is time for the Fifth Annual Hoax-of-the-Year Awards! And we were blessed (?) with a veritable cornucopia of hoaxes from which to choose this year. So let’s get right to it, shall we?

First off, we have the Universities Are Unbiased Bastions of Higher Learning And Are Greatly Beneficial To Their Students Hoax. This hoax has been unravelling for some time now, but really took a hit this year. When students protesting Israel’s response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 slaughter of more than 1,000 innocent Jews claimed that they were being oppressed as they were occupying campus grounds and harassing and threatening Jewish students, many finally realized that the schools themselves were radicalizing them. And when protesting students further claimed that they were being starved-- and deprived even of the basic human right to change one’s Tampon in a timely manner, many more said to themselves, “enough of this insanity.”

Next, we have the Electric Vehicles (EVs) Will Soon Outnumber Those Powered By Internal Combustion Engines Due To Overwhelming Consumer Demand Hoax. That hoax was truly preposterous from the outset, even more so today.

Another contender emerged mid-year, this being The Chicago White Sox Are A Major League Baseball Team Hoax. Clearly, irrefutably, this was not the case.

Of course, the ubiquitous Trump Is Hitler Hoax reached a fever peak this year, only waning a bit after Hitler Trump won a resounding victory over the not-even-close to Hitler Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

The Trump is Hitler meme may partially explain the next contender, the Harris Is Ahead By Three Points In Iowa Hoax. This hoax was so ridiculous that it caused its progenitor, Ann Selzer, who was responsible for the remarkably inaccurate poll, to quit the business and pursue “other ventures and opportunities.” We wish you well in your next endeavor, Ann. Don’t think you’re going to find work as a Vegas oddsmaker. Just sayin’.

This brings us to the Trump Supporters Are Weird Hoax, a hoax that was weird itself. I mean, have you observed the likes of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Tampon Timmy Walz, Ilhan Omar, Jerry Nadler, Adam Schiff, Maxine Waters, Rachel Levine, and Sam Brinton?

Nextly, we have the President Biden Is As Sharp As The Proverbial Tack Hoax. The June debate debunked that myth, as Biden performed—and appeared—as if he had recently undergone a frontal lobotomy. Incredibly, the self-same people who zestily promulgated that hoax then immediately pivoted to promulgating the Kamala Harris Is The Female Messiah And A Formidable Candidate Hoax. Turns out, that wasn’t the case, either. Who knew? Okay, most of us did… and we were proven right when it became obvious during the 2024 election that she was missing 10-15 million votes that Democrats had allegedly given to Biden in the 2020 farce election.  And, yes, that is another hoax: the Joe Biden Got 81 Million Votes Leading To His Victory In 2020 Hoax. When one analyzes the data, it almost irrefutably proves that Biden was the beneficiary of millions of, shall we say, extralegal ballots. Of course, I’m not saying that the 2020 election was stolen, just that it appears overwhelmingly likely it was filched, pinched, misappropriated, or purloined.

This leads us to The Government Employees Are ‘Public Servants’ Hoax. This has been a preposterous claim for some time now, but has been made abundantly clear to every sentient being over the past year. The founders wanted a government run by citizen-servants who performed their jobs out of a sense of patriotic duty…for a short period of time and little or no pay. Those in today’s government, particularly at the national level, make the notion of ‘public servant’ laughable. Even the phrase should be met with unbridled derision. Many of those in government are there for decades and receive full benefits and 90% of their highest salary upon retirement…for the rest of their lives. In many cases, for taking money from lobbyists or doing next to nothing. Or both. And who pays their inflated salaries? Hard working private citizens that the ‘public servants’ are supposed to represent…and serve. Fauci, Biden, Harris, Clinton, Schiff, the FBI, the DOJ, the NEA, the NIH, the CDC, NPR-- the whole damn lot of them are nothing but parasites and shysters. On their good days. (The same could be said of the WHO, the UN, the WEF, etc.) When they aren’t cozying up to China or taking money from Big Pharma, they are trying to start a war with Russia. When they aren’t lying about their political opponents, they are trying to frame, cancel, or arrest them—and their opponents’ supporters. The primary purpose of government today appears to be to grow government.

While all of these hoaxes—and more—have merit, the last shall be first in this case. The Hoax-of-the-Year for 2025 is: The Government Employees Are ‘Public Servants’ Hoax. And what a hoax it is!

That said, I’m sure you, gentle readers, can think of several hoaxes that I have overlooked.

Remember, the hoax is usually on us. But maybe there will be fewer of them next year. Or maybe not. Happy holidays! Bring on 2025!

 

 

 

Alec Baldwin Says Americans Are Very Uninformed

                       Alec Baldwin, shooting off his mouth during a recent press conference, said: "Americans are very uninformed about reality – what's really going on. With climate change, Ukraine, Israel… You name it, all the biggest topics in the world, Americans have an appetite for a little bit of information."

                       Unlike, say, Alec Baldwin, a faux person who portrays others, such as Donald Trump, for a living. (And he is not even very good at doing that.) But Alec is, of course, a renowned scholar with an enormous appetite for knowledge-- and the truth…right? Mr. Baldwin went on to say, "There are many challenges to face. The environment, the problem of plastic, of permafrost: there are plastic molecules in every corner of the planet. These are the real problems to solve."

                       Plastic and permafrost are the real problems to solve? That’s rich! And only a very rich person would assert something so preposterous. Most Americans believe inflation, the economy, rampant crime, and the rapid loss of our unalienable rights at the hands of a gigantic, monolithic, and utterly out of touch government are far bigger and more pressing concerns. Precisely because they are all too familiar with their reality…and Alec Baldwin is not.

                       I’m sure Alec is aiming to be seen as a caring, informed global citizen, but, shoot, I find his virtue signaling triggering. To many of us it appears he has, once again, gone off half-cocked. He would get a better bang for his buck if he were a bit humbler.

                       Alec Baldwin obviously wishes we all could be as learned, informed, and important as……Alec Baldwin.  But his ‘reasoning’ isn’t bullet-proof, he’s simply engaging in projection.

                       Americans do know one thing, though: we are sick and tired of being under fire from pompous, vacuous actors and entertainers.

 

 

Surprise! Trump Nominees Spark Controversy

 

                  Former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz recently withdrew his name from consideration to be President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general, noting that his “confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition.” And so it begins. In essence, The Swamp already took Round 1, without firing a proverbial shot. Sometimes it appears that you can’t drain The Swamp, The Swamp drains you. In large part because so many RINOs dwell there…and like the swamp level just as it is. “Hell no, we won’t go… we’ll all protect the status quo.” Conservatives can only hope Gaetz isn’t just the first of many dominos to fall. (Yes, I am aware that many believe Gaetz was simply being used as a sacrificial cow to attract attention—and derision—away from Trump and his other nominees.)

                A few of Trump’s cabinet appointees may seem unqualified and unorthodox to many, even unnerving to some. But outsiders are exactly what we need to reboot the country and drain the festering Swamp. It is time for a change, a fresh start. We need to let the sun in, to illuminate the dark and dingy recesses of the Capital City. It is time for merit to supersede skin color and sexual orientation again. Or do we secretly want to keep the status quo, believing it has served us so well in recent years? If the results of the recent election are indicative, the answer is a resounding “no!” Indeed, we are sick and tired of the insulation, the isolation, the closed-mindedness and closed-society mindset of, as P.J. O’Rourke called it/them, our ‘Parliament of Whores.’ We are sick and tired of the intellectual incest and the outright disdain the elites have for those outside of the Washington, D.C.-New York City beltway. It is (past) time for fresh air to be ushered in-- and a new vision, based on timeless principles, to take hold. It is time to dispense with the stifling wokeness that demeans us all and enervates our military.

               No longer should our intelligence agencies be able to target American citizens, patriots, Republicans, and Christians with impunity. Rather, they should once again be tasked with protecting all of us, liberals and progressives included, from real threats, internal or external.

               Those who allegedly “serve” us, must stop the millions of unvetted illegals from pouring across our borders. Our borders, like those of any self-respecting nation, must be secured. Legal, merit-based immigration, of the type that helped make us the most successful nation in history, must once again be the standard. The coming days and weeks will reveal whether we will continue with a sequestered ruling elite that no longer believes we deserve the freedoms the founders bequeathed us, or if the incoming administration will prevail over The Deep State and fully recognize our God-given rights and liberties.

               No doubt, it will be a rocky road ahead for Trump’s prospective cabinet and other appointees/nominees. It may appear to be a figurative bloodbath at times. The far left of the Democrat Party is unreachable. This leaves any remaining sane Democrats, Independents, and RINOs to decide if they will help the country truly move forward by acknowledging the will of the majority and joining with Trump supporters to approve his nominees. As someone once said, this is not a time for summer soldiers and sunshine patriots. It is time for bold action. It is time to rescue our republic. Soon we will know who is truly with us, and who is not, who truly desires to make America great again, and who is only concerned with their own power.

              We threw some of the bums out, but others are still there, hoping to control us in perpetuity. Many-- if not most-- of us want a rebirth, a return to the values and courage of 1776. Sadly, too many are still fighting to keep us trapped in Orwell’s ‘1984.’

              At this critical moment, with confirmation battles ahead-- and the Trump administration about to take the nation’s helm, a little Longfellow seems appropriate:

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O UNION, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

              Godspeed.

 

Giving Thanks Through The Years

 

In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and the Native American Wampanoag people shared an autumn harvest feast that some cite as the first Thanksgiving celebration in the colonies. Others cite a similar celebration in Maine in 1607. In any case, they all gave thanks to a higher power for the bounty, and the colonists to God for their survival.

On October 3^rd, 1863, buoyed by the Union victory at Gettysburg, President Lincoln proclaimed Thursday, November 26^th to be a national day of thanksgiving, a day to be observed every year thereafter, a day to thank God for the chance to preserve the Union.

This Thanksgiving, many are thankful that Donald Trump won the election and, God-willing, will be returning to the White House. And that this aging Republic may live on, at least for a few more years. Contrary to conventional campus ‘wisdom,’ it was not the old values, or inertia, that so threatened it, rather it was so-called “progressivism.” Hyper-progressivism, in fact, A.K.A. wokeness.

Despite the inevitable setbacks, and a couple very questionable cabinet appointees, with Trump’s victory there is now a very real chance that progress, real progress, might be made in the attempt to preserve the Union…and Make America Great Again. It is fitting as we ponder this, to think of all the things that had to be overcome to get us to this point. Smears, lies, lawsuits, lawfare, preposterous fines, past impeachments, and even assassination attempts. It is almost as if, once again, a divine Providence saved our nation.

So, as we prepare to gorge ourselves on turkey and all the fixings, and then plunk down on the couch to watch hours of football, it would behoove us to give thanks for our bounty—and our survival.

We should fill ourselves with gratitude—and Make Thanksgiving Reverent Again.

Wishing you all a blessed Thanksgiving.

How To Become A Progressive

 

Today’s ’liberals’ believe tolerance is the highest virtue. That is nonsense. Tolerance is not, in fact, a virtue per se at all. But, since modern liberals conflate tolerance with virtue, they then signal and trumpet their own virtue at being so tolerant. They therefore esteem themselves at a higher level, believe themselves to be more moral than the not so tolerant folks that they look down their noses upon. This is how the liberal elites are born, and the Karen's who believe in their own superiority and righteousness, even as they tolerate gender confusion, genital mutilation, sex trafficking, mass fentanyl deaths-- and theft, violence, depravity and chaos in our stores and streets, among other evils.

Are you aspiring to be a progressive, but wondering how you can become one?

Follow this simple three-step process: one, believe that tolerance is the highest virtue, far outstripping those of prudence, justice, charity, fortitude, intelligence, competence, work ethic, wisdom, common sense, or compassion. Two: realize that you yourself are remarkably tolerant, and therefore morally superior to everyone else. Three: let everyone else know this. Voilà, you’re a progressive, a liberal, a Democrat! Now go out there and run for office. Godspeed! Oops, sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. Goddess speed? Gaia speed? Karen speed?

Whatever.     

Well, there you have it. You're welcome.

 

 

 

Leftists Vow Not To Spend Any Money In Protest Of Trump's Election

                        This just in: leftists are so outraged that the bulk of the people voted to elect Donald Trump the 47^th president of the United States that they are vowing to tank the economy to spite him. How will they do this, you may ask? Simple, by not spending any money!

                       What, no more pot?! No more subscription renewals to Salon and The Huffington Post? No more tats? What if they have to replace their Prius Hybrid? Or Palestinian flag? Or “In this house” yard sign? What if their son decides he’s a girl? I mean, they have to go through with the “gender-affirming care” in places like California or they will take their lad/lassie away! And that’s costly! And what if they need an abortion…or three?

                       Fiscal responsibility has traditionally not been a feature of progressives and leftists, just as tradition hasn’t.

                       Anyway, I bid them “good luck!”

                       Sucks to be you now, doesn’t it progs and wokesters?

Meathead Wrestles With TDS

 

Maybe Pfizer could concoct a vaccine to prevent the transmission of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). Or at least lesson its symptoms. That would actually benefit people, both here and abroad.

Case in point: filmmaker, producer, and actor Rob Reiner, AKA “Meathead,” recently found himself in the grip of a particularly debilitating bout with TDS.

Not long after Election Day, Reiner tweeted: "I’m finding it very hard to sleep these days. It is 3:15 am. I am laying awake dreading January 20th 2025."

He subsequently added, "I have big decisions to make. For the good of myself, my family, and my country." Really, oh self-important one, what decisions are those? He then noted that, to help him in his gallant attempt to endure the looming Trump administration, he would be focusing his time "on family and work." Um, memo to Meathead: that’s what most of us do all the time. He also revealed that he's in the process of adapting a new script he is "extremely passionate about." (We’re happy for you, but don’t forget about your family.) Let me guess: is it about a son (to be played by Reiner) who has a bigoted father and an apparently clueless mother, both of whom he valiantly strives to enlighten? Am I right? Is it set in Queens?

Meathead then tweeted: “Ellen DeGeneres whom I have known a long time and is a beautiful and caring woman had the right idea. She obviously does not want to be apart of a place that is filled with hate, evil and fascism. Much respect to her for standing up to madness.” Ellen and her main squeeze, Portia de Rossi, have fled to England. Hopefully they won’t become victims of England’s burgeoning Muslim male extremist population which is sexually assaulting and stabbing women at an unprecedented rate. But doing so without hate, and in a non-evil and entirely antifascist way! 

Finally, Meathead tweeted: “I have made the decision to take the next few days to check into a facility for peace and relaxation. No phones, social media, no trolls, just calmness to heal my pain.”

A “facility?” Are there nice white rooms with pleasant administrators wearing white coats?

Perhaps Meathead will like it there. Maybe he’ll even want to stay.

I hope so, for his sake…and ours.