Double Masking

 

                Several leading “health experts” recently began recommending that people wear two facial masks instead of one to protect themselves and others from the various strains of coronavirus now flitting about the fruited plain. “Double masking,” they say, is best achieved by placing a cloth mask over a surgical one. The unavoidable Dr. Fauci himself bestowed his imprimatur on multi-masking in an interview with NBC's "Today” show. Biden’s Chief Medical Advisor told the hosts, "If you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective.” (I’m sure condom manufacturers are happy to hear that.)

              Dr. Jay Varma, Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio's senior adviser on public health, also recently spoke in favor of multiple facial prophylactics. He noted, "If you have the opportunity to wear more than one mask, it is more likely that it's going to be helpful than it's going to be harmful. In fact, myself, I now am starting to wear a surgical mask covered by a fabric mask.” He added, "More is probably better.” Indeed! If “more than one” is better than one, how many is truly enough?

              But wait, there’s more! (Remember, more is better.) Linsey Marr, another expert in virus transmission and a professor at Virginia Tech University to boot, told AARP: "A mask is like an obstacle course for particles to get through. Adding a second mask increases the chance that the particle will be trapped before it gets through." A mask is also an obstacle course for air and oxygen to get through, but breathing is probably overrated anyway. If one has two lungs, why not two masks?

              For that matter, if one wants to be really safe and is a bit of an overachiever, why not wear four masks, doubling the doubling?! That’s gotta be twice, um, four times better than a single mask, right. Maybe more if each mask adds an exponential effect.

              It turns out I am on to something. Dr. Scott Segal-- chair of Anesthesiology at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina-- recently told NBC news that we should consider wearing four face masks at once. We’ve gone from “two weeks to flatten the curve”…to we must all wear masks everywhere we go…to wearing two masks would be better……to “maybe four masks would do the trick.” Is this the new normal?

I hereby propose that football, hockey and basketball players should be mandated to wear at least four masks, as they are at heightened risk of spreading the disease due to extreme physical exertion and consequent heavy breathing.

Better safe than sorry. That way we can all breathe easier. Right?

 

"Nothing I Accept About Myself Can Be Used Against Me!"

 

              I am sadly amused by the sheer number of articles and posts extant attempting to justify one person or group’s behavior while claiming that person or group is unfairly and endlessly discriminated against, a “fact” which is made all the sadder, they tell us, by how remarkably and inspiringly tolerant that person or group is. Immediately prior to smearing everyone with whom they disagree by labeling them as bigoted, close-minded, hateful, intolerant, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, Hitler-loving or all of the above.

              A common theme entering this past holiday season was how members of the LGBTQIA community might deal with family and friends who do not share the same values that they possess. Many of the authors believed they were waxing poetic and channeling Gandhi and Confucius in their maudlin bon mots and self-help references.

              To wit, one post courageously noted that Audre Lorde (a self-described “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet”) once said, “Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.”

  Yes. Quite. “I accept that I am a mass-murderer. I accept that I like to club baby seals over the head. I accept that I sexually harass little girls. I accept that I wish to permanently silence anyone who disagrees with me. I accept that I am better than they are.”

  What idiocy and moral cowardice.

  Don’t get me wrong, I am not equating being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender with a heinous crime. Far from it. But I am pointing out that the left’s absolute self-acceptance, combined with its self-worship…and concurrent desire to marginalize, demonize or eviscerate all differing viewpoints-- and those who possess them—is the primary reason the United States, and the West in general, has lost its identity, its confidence, and its way.

 Those on the left are hyper cognizant of every possible imperfection that may have once plagued their societies but are stupefyingly unaware of those that plague themselves.

 

 

Did Man Cause Climate Change Or Climate Change Cause Man?

 

Climate change, like the Orange Man, is bad say progressives. Funny, I thought progressives welcomed change, disdained the status quo and tolerated new things. I guess when it comes to the climate they are reactionaries.

In any case, climate change is not solely, mostly, or even significantly caused by man. A brief review of some important events in climatological history will help us gain some perspective.

First, there was nothing.

Then there was the “Big Bang,” according to experts. And everything.

That was a pretty big change. The biggest ever. And we didn’t even exist. The Earth was born. The planet’s entire land mass, dubbed “Pangaea,” was connected at first. Eventually, it split up and the now separate continents drifted apart, taking up residence in roughly their current locations. Another big change. We weren’t around then, either.

  Somehow, dinosaurs arrived… and then were made extinct. No Homo Sapiens trod the planet at the time. Ice ages came…and went. Mile thick glacial ice sheets pushed hundreds and thousands of miles farther south in the northern hemisphere, and then retreated due to a rapidly warming Earth. Few humans, and fewer domesticated animals, existed There were no factories and no fossil-fuel-based energy production or consumption.

 Yet all these massive cosmic and planet-wide changes happened.

 

 Ergo, it is simply logically impossible to assert with smug certainty that humans are the cause of most or all of the climate change that may be occurring today. We were, however, apparently the result of the many massive cosmic and global changes that preceded us.

 

              “Man-caused climate change?” Not so much.

 

 Climate change caused man? Maybe.

 

The left blames nearly everything on man-caused climate change. Drought. Floods. Global warming. Global cooling. Poverty, starvation, riots, war, emigration, mud slides, the increase in invasive species, the decline of the bee population, bleaching of coral reefs, and probably skyrocketing college tuition.

 

Using the left’s own “reasoning,” could we also assert that climate change has caused the dramatic increase in the number of men who identify as women and vice-versa? Just as progressives state that global warming causes or includes global cooling (hence the need for the term “climate change”), and that one or the other-- or both simultaneously-- are occurring as a result of man’s activities, there are some men and women who prefer to identify as the opposite gender…or both genders at the same time… or neither gender at all. Or as any of the other 70-some-odd currently recognized “genders.”  

 

 It doesn’t take a rocket-scientist to see that the increase in the numbers of those confused about their gender eerily parallels the purported rise in global temperatures in the last several decades. Coincidence? I think not.

 

 Leftists are all for changing mores, changing genders, changing demographics, technological change, etc., etc. Former President Barack Obama famously touted “change you can believe in,” and “hope and change.” However, they can’t countenance change in the things they can’t control, like the ever-changing climate of planet Earth.

 

              There is a famous passage from the Serenity Prayer:

 

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change; 
courage to change the things I can; 
and wisdom to know the difference.

 

Progressives have this exactly backward. They think they can change the climate. They believe they can determine their own sex. And they will never accept otherwise. But they don’t have the courage to change their minds.

 

Many don’t believe in God, either. Although, ironically, many seem to believe they are God.

 

Clearly, they do not have the wisdom to know the difference.  

 

 

Conservatives The Most Mistreated Minority

 

Conservatives in the United States are now the loneliest-- and most mistreated-- minority in what is rapidly becoming a vast one-party fiefdom. We are treated like a turd in a punch bowl at a dinner party we won’t get invited to.

The ascension of “progressivism” is odd in that there is absolutely nothing progressive about progressivism. It is actually regressive, back to a time before Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Before Locke and Montesquieu, Burke, the Magna Carta, and St. Thomas Aquinas. Real progressivism can be found in those documents—and those thinkers. Natural Law, the idea that everyone is born equal with certain inalienable rights granted by their Creator, changed the world. So did other concepts codified in America’s founding documents by the framers.

Tragically, this priceless blueprint for freedom, gained at such a cost and over many centuries, is now being willfully shunted aside in the name of “multiculturalism,” “political correctness” and “identity politics.” Notice the root word “politics” in the latter two.

Misinformation and “fake news” are everywhere. Hoaxes are the order of the day. In a remarkable historical first, it appears the CIA, DOJ, FBI and other intelligence services and governmental bodies are more intent on bringing down the United States than our enemies /foes /opponents / competitors are. Talk about making things easy for one’s enemies/foes/opponents/competitors.

Modern-day “Mugwumps” have abandoned President Trump, leaving the Republican Party a political version of a “non-viable tissue mass.” They, the Mugwumps 2.0, will regret it. As will the rest of us.

In this pandemic era of COVID-1984, talk of vaccines brings hope to many, which is a good thing.

However, there is no vaccine to prevent stupidity, gullibility, ignorance, bigotry, close-mindedness…or outright evil. Democrats have proven that.

So, welcome back soaring gas prices. Welcome back weakness. Welcome back malaise.

Welcome Back, Carter Era.

 It’s time to Make America Prostrate Again.  

 

 

 

Academics, Publishers, Collude To Ban Books By Members Of Trump Administration

 

Unfortunately, something I predicted recently has already come to pass…much quicker than even I expected. A number of academics and publishing professionals have come together to demand that companies refuse to publish books by Trump administration officials. (At least the ones who still support him.)

Leftist thugs also recently successfully pressured Simon and Schuster into cancelling the publication of Sen. Josh Hawley's (R-Mo.) book after he had the temerity to object to the certification of election results in a couple of key battleground states. 

 

More than 550 members of the publishing industry, including several professors, recently signed a letter averring that “our country is where it is in part because publishing has chased the money and notoriety of some pretty sketchy people.” Ergo, they sniffed, "As members of the writing and publishing community of the United States, we affirm that participation in the administration of Donald Trump must be considered a uniquely mitigating criterion for publishing houses when considering book deals.”

If they were truly worried about “pretty sketchy people” being allowed to write books, they would bemoan the fact that Al Gore, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Kerry, Al Sharpton, and Michael Moore all wrote books the publishing industry gladly published. (As have several serial killers.) But the First Amendment wouldn’t mean much if “pretty sketchy people” were not allowed to speak or write.

The letter writers continued: “Consequently, we believe: No participant in an administration that caged children, performed involuntary surgeries on captive women, and scoffed at science as millions were infected with a deadly virus should be enriched by the almost rote largesse of a big book deal. In that spirit, those who enabled, promulgated, and covered up crimes against the American people should not be enriched through the coffers of publishing.”

“Performed involuntary surgeries on captive women?” That sounds more like China, eggheads. But you don’t care, as you wouldn’t ban books by Chairman Mao or Xi Jinping, and most of your universities are rife with Chinese spies and infiltrators. “Caged children?” See also, Obama administration. “Scoffed at science?” Trump was right about Hydroxychloroquine, UV light’s ability to kill the coronavirus, and several other things science related, while Dr. Fauci, the W.H.O., C.D.C., and other assorted experts kept changing their message to fit a predetermined narrative…behavior that is utterly unscientific.

Tania James was one of those who signed the letter. She is an associate professor at George Mason University, and a novelist who has won awards from the New York Times, NPR, and the San Francisco Chronicle. (Imagine that.) I don’t think these academic and publishing industry insiders should have been permitted to publish their letter. Furthermore, the New York Times has published demonstrably false and hurtful articles such as those on the “1619 Project.” Articles that are nothing less than libelous against the United States and its founders…and which present a clear and present danger to the nation. Many other newspapers have, as well.

I don’t think these “monsters” should be allowed to enrich themselves through the coffers of publishing. Do you?

 

 

AOC Wants To Use Taxpayer Money To "Deradicalize" People En Masse

 

Speaking with supporters during a “virtual” town hall recently, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) blamed rioting at the U.S. Capitol—and most everything else—on white supremacy. She stated: "The white supremacist cause is futile, it's nihilist — it will never be realized. The path forward for all of us is a multiracial democracy that fights for the economic and civil rights of every American." That is stating the obvious. Virtually no one disagrees with that sentiment. Ocasio-Cortez said of the elusive white supremacists, "Their world will never exist. That's why we're seeing violence right now." Note to Ocasio-Cortez: “Their world” hasn’t existed for a great many years, and that has nothing to do with “violence right now.” Quite the opposite. Everyone agrees “Black Lives Matter,” but if one states that “White Lives Matter” too, one is likely to be called a racist hate-monger.

Then the ridiculous Rep. went completely off the rails, saying that taxpayer funds should be used to "deradicalize" those whom she considers to be “white supremacists.” In her mind, “white supremacist” refers to anyone who supports Trump, believes in America’s founding principles, thinks that white lives matter, too…or disagrees with her on a wide range of political issues. Just last week she suggested that the entire Republican Party may be guilty of harboring dreams of white supremacy.

Occasional-Cortex then opined, "We need to double, triple or quadruple…funding for these deradicalization programs en masse.”

That seems wise. Yes, let’s use taxpayers’ own money to tell roughly half of them that they are scum and must be brainwashed/indoctrinated for their own good. Hello, Third Reich. Hello, Soviet Union/Gulag Archipelago. This is the opposite of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and Natural law. This violates property rights…and most every other right long held sacrosanct in this nation.  It is, in fact, the most vile form of tyranny imaginable.

Leftists are brilliant at hurling the words “extremist” and “radical” at those whose only qualification for the epithets are that they disagree with Leftists, usually in that they think things are pretty good as they are.

Here are a few dictionary definitions of “radical:”

ADJECTIVE

1.       (especially of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something.

2.       advocating or based on thorough or complete political or social change; representing or supporting an extreme or progressive section of a political party.

NOUN

1.       a person who advocates thorough or complete political or social reform; a member of a political party or part of a party pursuing such aims.

 

SYNONYMS: revolutionary, progressive, reformer, revisionist, leftist, left-winger, socialist, militant, zealot, extremist, fanatic, diehard, ultra, red.

 

Of whom do you think this is a more accurate description: Trump supporters, strict constructionists, those who believe all lives matter (up to and including those of the unborn), those who disagree with Ocasio-Cortez…or Ocasio-Cortez herself?

 

Progressives are always on the offensive, conservatives always on the defensive. Progressives routinely propose the most preposterously radical plans, such as the Green New Deal, plans that will obviously be enormously detrimental to America and most of its citizens, and then blast those who dare to question them as “radical,” “far-right,” “extremist,” “white supremacists,” “haters,” etc., etc., who must be “deradicalized.” It is a remarkably--and tragically-- sad commentary on our society that they routinely get away with this.

 

 

 

 

 

Playing Card Decks Sexist, Dutch Woman Says

 

              Indy Mellink, a 23-year-old Dutch playing card fan and forensic psychology graduate from Oegstgeest, Netherlands, recently realized that card decks are sexist. This revelation came to her as she was explaining a game to her cousins last summer and ended up asking herself why a king should be worth more than a queen. Why, indeed?!!

              Right then and there she decided it was time to break with the centuries-old tradition of sexual inequality in playing card decks that rank men above women. After much trial and error, she designed a genderless deck in which the images of kings, queens and jacks were replaced with that of gold bars, silver coins, and a bronze shield. Friends and family quickly snapped up the first 50 decks of GSB (Gold, Silver, Bronze) cards, so Mellink had more made and began selling them online. In a matter of months, she sent out around 1,500 of her politically correct card decks, mostly to folks in several European countries and the United States. Game shops have also shown interest, she said.

              Ms. Mellink was actually granted a press interview, during which she remarked, “If we have this hierarchy that the king is worth more than the queen, then this subtle inequality influences people in their daily life because it’s just another way of saying, ‘hey, you’re less important.’  Even subtle inequalities like this do play a big role.”

              Mellink’s invention is wonderful, but there are still so many sexist, racist, bigoted games out there in need of reform. The kids classic, “Candy Land,” proclaims itself “A sweet little game for sweet little folks!” and its box cover depicts a young girl in a dress and a young lad (who would likely be called “master” in the terminology of the time) in a spiffy school uniform type of outfit. Of course, both are white. This is not only sexist and racist, but ageist, as well. Then there is the iconic “Monopoly,” which heartlessly touts a particularly ruthless form of capitalism. Yikes! Moreover, there are a whole slate of war-based board games such as “Battleship,” “Stratego,” and “Risk,” all of them blatantly celebrating battle and an aggressive form of malignant militancy.

              It is past time for these relics of a less enlightened era to be relegated to the ash heap of history. They are regressive, not progressive, and, frankly, are a danger to civilization.

              Mellink’s card deck is a good start. But how about someone making a board game where, say, Heather’s two mommies try to take her to a reading by drag queens, after which she decides she wants to identify as a pan-gendered water buffalo? All along the way, obstacles in the form of bigoted right-wing Christian extremists could pop-up, and they would have to try and avoid them. Now that sounds like a board game in which no one would get bored, but everyone would get educated.

Biden Education Transition Team Leader Big Fan Of CCP System

 

Linda Darling-Hammond, a Stanford University professor and the current president of the California State Board of Education, is heading up Joe Biden’s education transition team. And she is a big fan of the Chinese Communist Party’s state-run education system. The Washington Free Beacon reported that she praised China for its “magical work” in creating a unified and robust teacher-government presence in student life. Well, there is no doubt the government has a robust presence in the life of students. And every other citizen. She is also on record commending China for dramatically increasing public funding of education. That is easy to do when you confiscate most of what the public earns. In a 2017 book she wrote, she proclaimed: "Teachers in China are revered as elders, role models, and those whom parents entrust to shape the future of their children. In the Tao traditions of ritual, the phrase 'heaven-earth-sovereign-parent-teacher' is repeated and becomes ingrained in how people see themselves holistically governed and supported." They certainly are “holistically governed.” “Sovereign” refers to Chinese President Xi Jinping, who does whatever the hell he wants, not to the people, who are anything but “sovereign.”

The CCP routinely sends agents into classrooms to oversee things and snuff out any possible dissemination of western values or “improper” remarks. Oddly enough, that is just what happens in our own schools! Moreover, Xi Jinping has declared that China's systems of higher education must "serve the Communist Party in its management of the country,” and that "adherence to the Party's leadership is essential to the development of higher education in the country." Oddly enough, that is just what happens in our own schools, where students must toe the Democratic Party line and conservative Republicans are universally considered to be enemies of The State! And the similarities don’t end there. In China, anyone who does not strictly adhere to the whims and mandates of the Communist Party is subject to swift punishment. In 2013, for example, a Chinese economist who dared to openly criticize The Party was removed from his position at Peking University in Beijing. Hell, in the U.S., professors get the axe on a daily basis for having the temerity to espouse conservative positions. Reuters reported that Peking University subsequently “established a 24-hour system to monitor public opinion on the internet.” Universities don’t have to go to that trouble in the United States, as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, et. al., do that job for them.

Darling-Hammond has reportedly long been on Harris’ Biden’s short list for Secretary of Education, but she recently removed herself from consideration, vowing that she is committed to staying in The People’s Republic of California, also known as West (East?) Beijing, and working with Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom to achieve their goals for The State.

It appears that the Biden administration and the New Democratic-Socialist Party are committed to replicating the “magical work” the Chicoms have done with their education system. With one exception: you won’t find any talk of social justice warring, the LGBTQIA community or trans rights in a Chinese classroom.

Wasn’t it Confucius who said, “Power corrupts—and absolute power corrupts absolutely?”

Maybe not.

But I know it wasn’t Gavin Newsome, Linda Darling-Hammond…or Eric Swalwell.  

 

 

 

CNN Errs Again

 

            CNN recently made a hilarious mistake when reporting on the Capitol incursion. Its original reporting stated that Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu “grabbed a crowbar” before leaving his office. The network was forced to make a correction to the lengthy article, “How a swift impeachment was born under siege.” It eventually added the following correction: "A previous version of this story misstated that Rep. Ted Lieu [D- Calif.] grabbed a crowbar before leaving his office. He grabbed a ProBar energy bar.”

CNN further clarified things by noting that “Lieu was simply hungry as opposed to the original report that misled readers into thinking he grabbed a crowbar to defend himself." Crowbar, ProBar…same difference, right? What’s the big deal?

What if CNN’s unbiased, stalwart journalists had said that Chuck Schumer brandished a “big dick” instead of a “beef stick?” Would that be so bad? I mean, Sen. Chuckles (D-N.Y.) did recently say that then-President Trump incited an “erection.”

So what if CNN stated that Nancy Pelosi “grabbed a cop by his candle” rather than “a mop by its handle?” Or that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reached for her “Uzi” rather than her “ouzo?”

Does it really matter if “The Most Trusted Name in News” should claim Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “wants war with our allies” when he really said he “wants to warn our allies”…about, say, the heartbreak of Psoriasis?

After all…”This Is CMT.” Oops, we mean CNN.

             

Biden's Party Seeks To Divide And Destroy

 

“Progressives,” i.e. Leftists, tend to get elected by claiming all they care about is justice, meaning other people’s relative power. Special interest groups, segments, sects, whatever. They use these other groups who they believe care mostly about their own power, groups such as women, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders, transvestites, atheists, abortion proponents, etc., to get their own power. Those on The Left care only about power—theirs-- and they obtain and enhance it by utilizing the greed of others while deliberately marginalizing, or “cancelling,” those who may actually care about their country first…a tragic irony indeed.

The Left’s endless quest for power knows no bounds, brooks no dissent, tolerates no questions. Its ends famously justify its means.  It is less charitable to its “enemies” now, after the Capitol incursion, than the Union was to The South after the Civil War saw the death of hundreds of thousands of its citizens. In his Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln said, “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan--  to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.” Today’s Left impeached the president-- again—days before he was leaving office anyway, and is threatening to blacklist, fine, expel, cancel, “deprogram,” “re-educate,” or incarcerate any or all of his 75 million+ supporters. They are casually tossing terms like “cleansing” and “treason” around. By contrast, Grant’s surrender demands of Lee at Appomattox Courthouse essentially stated, “lay down your arms and go home.” No one in the Army of Northern Virginia was even charged with treason.

Today’s Left, like the Southern slaveholders it loves to denigrate, is inherently—and proudly-- evil. While The South was protecting slavery of the body, today’s Left is seeking slavery of the mind, heart, and soul. There were 3,950,528 slaves in the U.S. in 1860. Only a small percentage of white families owned slaves. Today, virtually all conservatives are in danger of being targeted, controlled, silenced, and stripped of their Constitutional rights by The Left. We don’t need a Green New Deal, we need a Second Emancipation Proclamation and/or Declaration of Independence. From Big Tech, Academia, the mainstream media, Hollywood, Big Business, etc.

A little more than a decade before the Civil War began, “The Missouri Compromise of 1850” was passed, an attempt to appease both the North and the South by giving each some of what it wanted. It failed miserably.

Today, a sort of “Misery Compromise of 2021” is taking shape. This “compromise” features Democrats and Blue States telling conservatives and Red States, “We are going to do whatever the hell we want…and you are going to accept it.” 

In one sense, red states today have even less power than the Southern states did prior to the Civil War, due to rapidly changing demographics and the encroachment of a massive federal government, many of whose functionaries are unelected and effectively unaccountable.

No matter what happens this go around, it won’t be the red states that secede from the union. It will be the union that seceded from the red states.

 

Democrats Favorite Year

 

Sometimes you just get on a roll. The Democrats certainly are on one now. They achieved their 2020 vision…and then some.

They used the Chinese Virus to frighten, lock down and intimidate the citizens of the nation they control and yet despise. They cheered on domestic terrorists as they burned and looted city after city for months on end. They even applauded them when they proclaimed and set up “autonomous zones” in several large cities. Then they demonized the tiny fraction of Trump supporters who, in a calamitous error in judgement, broke some windows and took a stroll through the Capitol Building, calling them domestic terrorists. They said it was an insurgency. Really? I mean they were back in their offices a few hours later, itching to impeach the president of the United States.

Insurgency: The organized use of subversion and violence by a group or movement that seeks to over-throw or force change of a governing authority.

That’s funny, that sounds like exactly what the Democrats have been doing for four years now.

Now that the Democrats control the military, too, they used a good chunk of it to protect and defend Joe Biden at his inaugural. And, unconstitutionally, they vetted each of the 26,000 members of the National Guard to make certain there were no radical right-wing extremists who may have been closet Trump supporters and/or believers in government of, by, and for the people in their midst. That is by turns scary and vomit-inducing. Or should be.

Biden issued 17 Executive Orders on his first day in office. Virtually all of them will be bad for America. The Democrats plan to utilize the Second Trump Impeachment Farce Sham Trial to distract Americans while they rapidly ram through an extreme leftist agenda. (Nothing says “healing,” “unity” and “magnanimity” like impeaching a president—again-- after he has already left office.)

Once they have done all this, they will get on with thanking China for making it all possible, thus neatly wrapping things up. Ah, the circle of life.

Conservatives and patriots have born the brunt of a second set of Intolerable Acts, this one forced upon them not by the British, but by their own government; not by the "redcoats," but by those with a blue state mentality. 

The actions of these Democrats cannot be considered anything less than evil by a moral person, regardless of one's ideology.

Yet, Democrats will surely look back on recent events and say, “Those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end…”

And they probably never will.

 

Inauguration Day News Nuggets

*The Biden administration saw to the vetting of the 26,000 national guard troops protecting his inauguration. They wanted to identify and weed out anyone with the wrong political opinions. This is unprecedented, terrifying, and the most un-American action conceivable. I don’t remember 26,000 troops for the Trump inaugural. Or the trump administration vetting them to screen out those with ties to far-left terrorist organizations, like, say, the Obama administration. Conservatives don’t interrogate those who serve to see who watches MSNBC, listens to NPR, eats Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, has friends in Big Tech, or has Slate listed as a favorite website. Maybe they should. In any case, it is too late now.

*Biden chose Rachel Levine for Assistant Health Secretary. Did Bozo the Clown decline the offer? Was The Joker busy? This raises the age-old question: “WTF?” He opts for a Transgender “lady” who ordered nursing homes to accept COVID-infected patients, thereby killing thousands of people in Pennsylvania, while secretly taking her own mom out and ensconcing her in a plush motel suite? This is the self-same “woman” who refused to let GOP election observers do their duty. This is another example of Biden rubbing the noses of his opponents in it…because he can. It is petty. And I would say evil.

*But, Biden’s popularity upon entering the White House is at 57% according to a new Gallup poll. In a totally unrelated poll question, 57% of those same people surveyed have never heard of Venezuela, the Soviet Union or Cuba…and think China is “chill.” Ironically, the same 57% also believe in the tooth fairy, but are proud to be atheists.

 

You Just Might Be A Democrat If...

If you believe it’s okay to kill your own baby in your womb, but that hunting should be banned, you just might be a Democrat.

If you think invasive species are an existential threat to the United States, but that illegal aliens always enrich us with their presence, you just might be a Democrat.

If you think smoking cigarettes should be banned, but smoking marijuana should be legalized, you just might be a Democrat.

If you think the song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” should be kept off the airwaves, yet happily sing Along to “WAP (Wet Ass P*ssy),” you just might be a Democrat.

If you are vehemently against the death penalty for mass murderers, but think there is a Constitutional right to abortion, you just might be a Democrat.

If you think that, during the COVID-19 pandemic, churches should be closed but pot dispensaries and strip clubs should remain open as “essential” entities, you just might be a Democrat.

If you claim to hate racism and then claim that all white people are racists, you just might be a Democrat.

If you believe that female genital mutilation is “just a matter of cultural and religious choice,” but that devout Christians should be forced to pay for other people’s contraception and to make cakes for gay weddings, you just might be a Democrat.

If you believe that an American putting on a sombrero for Halloween is an example of rank appropriation, but that there’s nothing wrong with people around the world wearing Levi’s jeans or listening to blues music, you just might be a Democrat.

If you believe discrimination against minorities is bad, but that discrimination against a majority (that itself will soon be a minority) is okay, you just might be a Democrat.

If you believe that Antifa and Black Lives Matter are benign groups trying to right historical wrongs, but that the Founders were selfish bastards intent on using others to further a white power agenda, you just might be a Democrat.

If you believe that Capitalism is a corrupt economic system designed to oppress the masses, and that Socialism is an altruistic system designed to level the playing field, you almost certainly are a Democrat.

If you used to believe that desegregation was a bad idea, and now believe resegregation—in some instances-- is a good one, you just might be a Democrat.

If you believe rugged individualism is a pathetically outmoded idea…and that group think is a much better option, you just might be a democrat.

If you prefer indoctrination over unbiased instruction and the primacy of feelings over logic, you just might be a Democrat.

If you think the doctrine of “America First” is xenophobic and unfair and subscribe to a doctrine of “Any Other Country First,” you just might be a Democrat.

If you think “misgendering” someone is “violence,” but that burning buildings, broken windows and blood on the faces of Trump supporters are evidence of “a mostly peaceful protest,” you just…might…be…a…Democrat.

If you are still certain that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election but are equally certain that the 2020 election was utterly untainted, you just might be a Democrat.

If you truly believe President Trump is a bigger danger to the world as a whole than Chinese President Xi Jinping is, you just might be a Democrat.

If you believe that Trump is a “bully” but see nothing wrong with conservatives getting mocked, de-platformed, threatened, silenced, slandered, and chased off campuses…you are almost certainly a Democrat.

If you believe wearing a face mask in public is more important than wearing clothes in public, you just may be a Democrat.

If you prefer “virtual” reality to…reality…you just might be a Democrat.

 

 

When Do Words Matter?

 

              Sex and gender don’t matter. Except when they do to progressives. Racism is wrong. Except when it’s practiced by progressives. Anyone can pick their own gender. No big deal. But, have you heard? Kamala Harris is going to be the first female vice-president! And she is a person of color! This is so great! Also, only white people can be racist! Just so you know.

              The left spends an inordinate amount of time attempting to render words meaningless and strip phrases of their meaning. Sex? Abstract concept. Gender? An infinite number from which you get to pick. Cultures? None better, none worse. Truth? No such thing in an absolute sense. You get to pick “your truth” too, just like you get to select your own gender. Abortion? “Women’s health care!” Confiscatory taxation? “Revenue enhancement!” Make America Great Again? Meaningless and misleading in that America was never great, but also racist. Now racist does have a real, concrete meaning. So does “dog-whistle.” And we all know that MAGA is simply a racist dog-whistle!

              “And, while we’re at it,” leftists say, “repeat after me: Black Lives Matter! Antifa is an idea! Mostly peaceful protesters! Love is love! No human is illegal! Women’s rights are human rights! Science is real! Misgendering is violence, meat is murder, but abortion is women’s health care! Orange man bad! There was no election fraud!”

 

 

Colleges Churning Out Leftist Voters

 

The Democratic Party is rapidly becoming a party of elites, a professional-managerial class comprised of those who believe they are smarter than others who haven’t spent years in higher education. College educated voters now vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, far more so than at any other time in American history.

According to the Wall Street Journal’s analysis of the 2020 election, former Vice President Joe Biden carried 84 out of the 100 counties with the largest share of residents holding a bachelor’s degree or greater. The analysis, based upon the United States Census Bureau’s five-year American Community Survey, also shows how rapidly the voting habits of the college educated have changed. In 1980, for example, Republicans won 76 out of those 100 “most educated” counties. Democrats only won 24. But, in the 1990s, Democrats began winning a majority of these counties. And by 2008, Republicans were winning less than one quarter of the counties.

Similarly, a recent Pew Research Center report found that “Democrats increasingly dominate in party identification among white college graduates,” while “Republicans increasingly dominate in party affiliation among white non-college voters.” It noted that Democrats hold an incredible 49-point lead over Republicans among urban Northeasterners.

 

None of this is coincidence or happenstance. The dramatic increase in the number of college-educated persons voting for Democrats began shortly after the colleges switched their primary mission from education and mind-expansion to indoctrination and social justice warring. The college educated tend to be open to any kind of diversity except that of thought, the only kind that really matters. They think monolithically, not as individuals, as they are taught that identity politics and group think are more important than personal autonomy. They tend to be open to almost any type of social or cultural change as they are taught to loathe history and traditional values. They are secular, not religious, woke not logical. And, as is the case with many who think they are “highly educated,” they don’t know how much they don’t know. In contrast to the truly intelligent, who generally realize how little they know, and that each question answered leads to more unanswered—and possibly unanswerable—questions for us mere mortals. So, they march on, robotically, literally and figuratively chanting and repeating their inane mantras, looking down on those who don’t share the views they’ve had injected into them, unaware of how unaware they are. Voting for Democrats in ever increasing numbers.

 

And now the large majority of students entering most of the iconic colleges and universities are much more “progressive” than those of a couple of decades ago. A recent poll found that just 7.4% of incoming Harvard students identified as conservative. Similar percentages can surely be found in many other bastions of higher education around the country.

 

And, if students aren’t predisposed to leftist politics upon entering their chosen school, you can be nearly certain that they will be upon leaving it.  Why do you think that Democrats are so insistent that everyone go to college? Why are they so hell-bent on providing government assistance to do so? And why do they now believe in forgiving student loan debt? Because they are running a perfect—and self-sustaining—scam. Yet another in a long line of them. They are ipso facto manufacturing their own voters. (It is almost mindful of the classic horror movie The Invasion of the Body Snatchers…but in this case it is minds they are snatching. Even more chilling.)

College students have fallen for the bizarre Marxist dogma with which they are being spoon fed. They are neither curious of nor questioning what their elders/teachers are telling them to believe, as was the case in the 1960s. They are not resisting, they are not rebellious, they are meekly complying with the obvious coercion. They are not protesting for free speech and the right to think what they will as individuals, but against those very concepts.

That is not progress, but a sad regression. This is not a renaissance, but a decline. It is not a revolution, but a devolution.

College faculty bestow nearly all of their campaign donations to Democrats, as well, often around 95%. There is now little more autonomy and diversity of thought and action among those on campus as there was among the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. A one-party state is a disaster for all but its rulers. See also: The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Pol Pot’s Cambodia…and modern-day North Korea, China, Cuba and Venezuela.