Drag queens are men dressed as clownish caricatures of women performing burlesque. It is about sex and sexuality. But progressives keep saying it ain’t so despite the costumes and the behavior; let them prance about appropriating female stereotypes in front of children.

We’re not sexualizing children, they say, which is to say they are lying.

Yes, it is an alternative lifestyle, but so is bondage, drug culture, hard-core pornography, self-mutilation, and helping Democrat campaigns, none of which are healthy.

Projecting that upon children too young to even understand is cruel and unusual punishment. But Princeton, the university, has decided to teach Drag as an elective.

 

The program is offered through the school’s Gender + Sexuality Resource Center and is open to all undergraduate and graduate students interested in the world of drag, according to the center’s Instagram page.

Throughout the 2023-24 school year, enrolled participants will cover an array of topics, including the history of drag, “Sewing 101,” choreography, face painting, photoshoots and other topics, according to the program’s registration form.

 

The Sexuality Resource Center. Not Performance Studies, Theater Arts, or even Stage Management.

Princeton didn’t even have acting classes in its curricula until the addition of Drag University. But it has a center for sexuality, which is an interesting twist. As a culture, Westerners are increasingly opposed to physical sex. I’ve heard people who trapped themselves on the gender spectrum refer to it as disgusting. Win for team Depop. Make them obsessed with sex (gender), make it meaningless, and watch them abandon it.

I’m not entirely sure that’s a bad thing. If you are that easily misled, perhaps excluding yourself from the gene pool is a collective good. But it is still social engineering at its finest, so we must object. Princeton is teaching Drag to students who are paying 83,000.00 per year. What’s next? Ivy League Drag teams performing for honors.

And how long before this area of study expands to include recruiting minors, or is that already part of the program?

 

 

HT | PJ Media

 

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Daniel Jupp speaks about his new book on Bill Gates (Gates of Hell: Why Bill Gates Is the Most Dangerous Man in the World); Ed M. commented that at times “malice and stupidity merge”; the court ruling against Trump in NY; the Menendez indictment; the relaxing of the dress code in the Senate for Fetterman; what happened to the fighter plane in South Carolina? Biden marching with striking UAW; will the government shut down (and should there be a more realistic word for this? h/t Mike P.)

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Where will their minds be in 4 more years? Nashua, very much like Washington, seems to have an age problem with leadership.

Perhaps Nashua should enact an Ordinance with a mayoral mandatory retirement age of 70. Mayor Donchess is mentally slipping, like his Corporation Counsel, Steve Bolton. He seems to be unable to remember where is tucking money in the City budget building in hidden line items to stash away cash. We all know how it goes; you get older, and you put things in places you just can’t remember.

He claimed in a recent BOA meeting that the FY2022 Audit (yes, 2022, and it is September 2023) has been completed. He is imagining the presence of the Auditor in his finance meeting in 2023 to present the FY2022 Audit. The Mayor chairs that Committee. But it did not happen. A slipping mind.

He has forgotten he signed a $7.1 Million Loan in 2020 between the City of Nashua and a public Corporation formed to construct and operate the Nashua Arts Center. He forgot to record the Loan on the City Financials. Yikes! The Mayor is conflating this Loan with the money spent on the Arts Center. Citizens did not know about this Loan because it was never recorded as part of the $21 million of bond proceeds obtained to construct the Center.

Now is remembering the Loan he signed to be a Lease Agreement. He did sign a Lease Agreement so taxpayers could pay rent to an Art Center that we bought by bonding with our tax dollars. But, he also signed a Loan for $7.1 Million while taxpayers pay the bond debt.

Mayor Donchess is a lifelong Attorney who appears confused. Is it age or has he been in politics too long? Let’s eliminate the age factor and retire Mayor Donchess permanently.

To the Nashua Democratic Party of “youth” – find leaders who don’t have one foot on the banana peel and another in the grave.

 

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Who: Free Talk Live’s Ian Freeman faces years in prison, NHexit.com and friends to protest. If you’re against both Federal overstep and violent revolution…you’re invited.
What: Demonstration, sentencing, possible “camera disobedience” and arrests.
Where: Outside Federal Courthouse / 55 Pleasant St. / Concord, NH
When: 8:30a.m. Mon Oct 2, 2023 – His final sentencing is scheduled for 90 minutes later in the same building.
Why: The occupiers of New Hampshire have prosecuted the local talk show host for Bitcoin-related “crimes” which are arguably victimless and arguably not even crimes. They forbid filming the sentencing process and recently arrested State Rep Jason Gerhard for trying to do so. More activists are expected (though not certain) to challenge the recording ban Oct. 2 and risk arrest.

Background/Details/Updates:
https://forum.shiresociety.com/t/join-nhexit-com-to-protest-fed-prosecution-of-crypto-six-oct-2-concord-nh/13646

Dave Ridley
NHexit.com

After very little thought, I renamed this recurring topic. My dog is still white and with us, but he is a lab, and since this is a pseudo-sciency observational update (fisking) sort of thing, LAB works. White Dog Research is now White Lab Research, and we just saw the first tick of Autumn.

Wednesday. One tick. That’s it. We had not seen any after a light spring, but I wondered when we’d see them again. Not if, but when. They are like out-of-state Democrat voters. They are inevitable.

Today is Saturday, and we’ve not seen any since, but it’s early. I expect to find more.

The other thing we’ve not seen much of this year is wackadoodle Climate Cultists posing as journalists ranting about an explosion of blood-sucking parasites. There are always a few out there (blood-sucking parasite journalists), but this year, they were distracted—all the flooding in June, arson (wildfires) in July – which was a boiling, record-setting (not really) month for heat.

Hurricane season has been more active, but not in the way the Cult likes it. The number of storms is up, but they have not been kind enough to trash the eastern seaboard with the regularity you get from too much bran in your climate colon. They keep losing steam and drifting north, losing power until they are just windy cloudbursts. It’s a thing, but not the eye-catching storm chasing devastation that gets people to stop trying to keep up with the Kardashians if you know what I mean.

The Latest season of Batchelor in Paradise is starting tonight, and with the writers’ strike over, the blood-sucking ticks in the Climate Cult will need something massive to distract us from our, um, distractions. There is some small hope. We’ve got tropical storm twins mucking about southeast of the Sargasso Sea. Phillipe and Rina. Phillipe is packing a bit more punch for now, but they are scheduled for a rendevous (nowhere near us) and to wander uselessly across the middle of the Atlantic.

Behind them, the storm conveyor running off the west coast of Africa continues to churn out potential, but it has been doing that for months, and with October looming, the odds of a nice CAT 5 killer storm have waned. No plague of ticks in New England. One landfall hurricane. Maybe we’ll have a cold, snowy winter this year. It has been a while, so we’re due, and if there’s one thing we know about the global threat of anthropogenic warming (AGW), it also results in cooling.

And I have yet to see any cult stenographers blame the dearth of ticks or lack of hurricane landfalls on AGW, but history tells us this is true. An irrefutable hypothesis is justified by all circumstances, or the money laundering operation could suffer.

 

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GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy joined TikTok in September, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to do so. As expected, Ramaswamy was swiftly criticized by many within his own party, culminating with the fireworks at Wednesday night’s debate.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley lit into Vivek for using the app. “Every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber. This is infuriating because TikTok is one of the most dangerous social media apps we could have,” she said. It’s worth noting that TikTok is so “dangerous” that Haley’s own daughter uses the app.

Other prominent Republicans have even called for a full TikTok ban. Sen. Josh Hawley assailed the app with particular fervor back in March.

I get it. There are legitimate concerns over the app. The Chinese Communist Party may be spying on us or stealing our information from the Chinese-engineered and –owned app, and they should be held accountable with a solution that ensures the privacy of American users. There is a laundry list of issues with China, from COVID-19’s origins to unfair trade practices, but while President Xi Jinping grows closer to Russian President Vladimir Putin and threatens to invade Taiwan, our presidential candidates are sitting here scared of an app called TikTok.

China isn’t doing anything with TikTok that American tech companies aren’t also doing. It’s naïve to think Mark Zuckerberg isn’t farming your personal details to send you specified ads on Facebook or Instagram right now. And Amazon knows what you want before you want it. Thanks, Jeff Bezos.

Ramaswamy, who has risen to prominence as the millennial candidate, announced his TikTok debut with a post on Twitter. “Kids under age 16 shouldn’t be using it, but the fact is that many young voters are & we’re not going to change this country without winning,” he wrote. “We can’t just talk about the importance of the GOP ‘reaching young voters’ while hiding in our own echo chambers.”

This truth couldn’t be more evident. I traveled to Iowa with the Ramaswamy campaign in July for my TikTok channel. We filmed an MTV “Cribs”-style bus tour and discussed American patriotism, family, and more. The posts racked up millions of views on my page, 80 percent of which came from the coveted 18-34 demographic.

Ramaswamy taking the plunge to join TikTok is a strategic move that more GOP candidates should adopt if they want to be competitive against Democrats in 2024, as a Gen-Z TikTok journalist (don’t laugh) with over 150 million views on the platform. I can tell you that many young voters don’t even know who some of the candidates are. Young people aren’t turning on the TV to watch a debate or a town hall. They’re scrolling through TikTok. In fact, only nine percent of daily traditional TV viewers are Gen Z. On my TikTok channel, I receive thousands of comments from young Americans who say I am their favorite news source.

I am hopeful that Ramaswamy’s decision to join TikTok will inspire the other candidates, but I’m not expecting all of them to come around overnight. While I was covering the first Republican debate in Milwaukee in August, a communications director for one of the GOP candidates told me he would not even open TikTok on his phone.

Get on TikTok; reach young people. That’s the name of the game. And if you get a few targeted ads that hit too close to home, that’s just the cost of doing business. The reality is you can’t fight the CCP from the sidelines while Democrats are in control of the White House and Senate, so come up with a plan to build a broad coalition, including young people, to take the reins of government and handle the CCP accordingly in January of 2025.

Tucker Carlson wasted no time embracing new media after his controversial firing from Fox News. Tucker brings in more viewers on Twitter than any other cable news show. His first episode alone garnered 85 million views in the first day. Tucker joined TikTok in August.

By the end of 2023, 54.4 percent of all Americans will no longer pay for a traditional cable TV service. That statistic should concern GOP candidates and party leadership, who have buried their heads in the sand for far too long. But it’s better to be late to a party than stay at home wondering what could have been.

The pros outweigh the potential cons when it comes to TikTok adoption. Republicans are slowly embracing new media, but are way behind the Democrats in terms of youth outreach. The DNC already has its Army of Influencers – that’s literally what they’re called – working overtime. Public FEC data has already revealed that the DNC is paying Palette Management a whopping $210,000. Palette manages Harry Sisson, the 20-year-old tasked with making Biden seem cool to Gen Z. You’ve probably seen him screaming into his phone about how hunky Joe looks in his swim trunks on some Delaware beach while the world burns.

Ramaswamy saying yes to new media has brought real results for his campaign. Three months ago, barely anyone knew his name or how to pronounce it. Today, he’s a major player for the highest office in the land. The GOP should be using TikTok to speak to young people directly. It’s not rocket science. Communicate with young people on an app they already use. Tell young people what solutions you offer to their main issues. Pull that off, and they just might join your coalition.

Link Lauren is an independent journalist and content creator. He covers politics and culture on his TikTok channel @itsLinkLauren.

 

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In the first 260 days of  2023, the Oakland Police received 10,547 stolen vehicle reports. That’s 40.56 reports every day (Jan 1-Sep 17). If that trend continues, assuming it does not trend up, that would be 14,806 motor vehicle thefts in one year. Go Democrats!

Nothing says we suck on crime like murder and violent crime, but without looking, I think Oakland has claimed the crown when it comes to vehicle break-ins and author theft.

“It’s astounding, it’s really hard to believe,” said Lori Chudacoff, whose husband was carjacked in Oakland this weekend.

“That’s insane. I didn’t realize it was that bad,” said Oakland resident Jennifer Prakit, who had her car stolen Saturday morning.

“While the number is pretty staggering, I wish I could say that I was truly surprised or am truly surprised for that matter because of the lack of leadership in Oakland city government and the lack of accountability,” said Oakland resident Eugene Kopman. “My car was parked at the Coliseum BART. I took my son to a baseball game last Sunday and I came back — the car was gone.”

Officers say there are more stolen vehicles than reported car break-ins, which number 10,335 to date. Officers said most people don’t report break-ins any more.

 

The other city by the bay is like a giant Carvana Vending Machine, except the car owners and insurance companies pay, and the vehicle “recipient” gets a free ride, and there’s lots of broken glass.

 

“It’s astounding, it’s really hard to believe,” said Lori Chudacoff, whose husband was carjacked in Oakland this weekend.

“That’s insane. I didn’t realize it was that bad,” said Oakland resident Jennifer Prakit, who had her car stolen Saturday morning.

 

What seems harder to believe is that while folks seem disenfranchised with Oakland’s “leadership,” they don’t seem inclined to do anything about it. The city’s last Republican mayor served in the 1960s. The City Council is all Demcorats, and that appears to have been the trend for decades as well.

You voted for this, even after the BLM/Antifa riots.

In 2021, Oakland Democrats cut the city police budget by 18 million, redirecting the spending (they’d never dream of giving that back) to “The Department of Violence Prevention with the intention of improving public safety.” I’m guessing they weren’t focused on auto hijacking, break-ins, or theft, or those should have declined.

It also looks like the police budget had already grown significantly since 2019 before they cut the 18 million, meaning they still had more money, so what’s the problem? Perception.

Democrats quickly embraced the police brutality narratives peddled by Black Lives Matter. They put targets on every cop’s back while making it clear they didn’t have their back. Following the Summer of Love, 83 officers left Oakland City service, and they continue to shed officers.

 

According to OPD’s latest staffing report, of the 83 officers who left last year, 45 resigned and 35 of those went to work for another police agency, while 18 officers retired and seven took a disability retirement.

 

And despite the eighteen-million dollar Department of Violence Prevention budget, homicides continue to climb.

 

“Killings on Monday and Tuesday represented the 100th and 101st deaths investigated as homicides by Oakland police this year (2023).”

“..in 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic, homicides investigated by Oakland police jumped to 109 — part of a national trend that saw a spike in violent crime in cities across the country. That trend continued in 2021, when police responded to 134 homicides in Oakland — the most since 2006, when 148 people died here.

 

Every life lost is tragic, but what I find curious is how no one seems to know why. The Mercury News headline linked above 9/27/23 is “Oakland hits triple-digit homicides for third straight year, leaving officials grasping for answers” (emphasis, mine).

The usual suspects are blaming gun violence. “California Attorney General Rob Bonta — a former Alameda County state assembly member — called the killings “unacceptable” and decried gun violence as “a disease unique in the world to America.”

Really? California has some of the strictest anti-gun laws in the nation, which, as Hoodline.com notes, “Fail to Curb Firearm Violence in Oakland and Stockton: Study“

 

Despite possessing some of the strictest gun laws in the United States, California’s Legislature continues to propose and approve multiple bills aimed at addressing the prevalence of guns. In June, Governor Gavin Newsom proposed a constitutional amendment to enshrine gun safety measures nationally; however, the persistence of gun violence in the state raises questions about their implementation and enforcement, as reported by CBS Bay Area.

California has taken various steps to combat gun violence, such as restricting minors from buying and possessing firearms, prohibiting the possession or transfer of ghost guns, and launching the California Firearm Violence Research Center and the Office of Gun Violence Prevention to study the nature of gun violence and devise prevention strategies.

 

The problem with violence isn’t guns. It’s the same problem with robbery, rape, burglary, and auto theft. It is decades of derelict Democrat rule. If you want to be anti-crime, you have to be anti-Democrat, and there’s no way around that.

 

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California and other states (and many nations) have enacted laws to regulate “ethical” treatment of animals in agriculture. This trend accompanies modern jurisprudence shielding domestic pets and criminalizing animal cruelty. Advocates for animal welfare legislation, such as PETA, invoke claims of “animal rights” — but these same groups call for boycotts on products made from these animals.

To erase meat, milk, bacon, leather, and honey from human use is to eliminate (rather than ethically regulate) the animal husbandry that gives life to these creatures. This is a strange way to address the “rights” of these animals — raising questions not about the morality of farmers, who mostly strive to take good care of their livestock, but of the moral reasoning of animal rights activists.

Animal Thinking

There is a philosophical question about animal awareness implicit in this debate. How, for instance, do humans know that dolphins are not chatting at some very high level of communication? Border collies easily learn hundreds of words, as do crows. Are animals aware of death and suffering, and does that awareness impact the view of their “rights”?

PETA sidesteps this question with accustomed irony, appealing to end the existence of animals by exploiting not merely claimed but often nonexistent suffering and assertions of cognate awareness. Says PETA: “We believe that every creature with a will to live has a right to live free from pain and suffering.”

It is bizarre that PETA would assign a right “to live free from pain and suffering” to creatures only “with a will to live.” What of the animals PETA wants to put forever out of a job by eliminating the industries of which they are the core, or the dogs and cats PETA so efficiently euthanizes humanely – do they not have “a will to live”? A similar circular argument is heard by abortion proponents who assert that “terminated” babies are spared a life of hardship. But don’t they have as much will to live as a cow in a field, or a sow suckling her shoats in the shade?

Ayn Rand argued that ethical treatment of others – including animals – depended on awareness of life and death and the values that arise from that consciousness. The Atlas Society (named for Rand’s classic Atlas Shrugged) related:

“As Ayn Rand argued, value depends on the existence of a being that faces the alternative of continued existence or the end of existence — and a being that must act to continue in existence. Values, then, are those things that are required for the being’s continued life. Therefore, a value is always a value for some reason (it is required for life) and to some organism (the being acting in the face of the alternative of life or death) … Humans are the only organisms that are capable of volitional rationality and, as such, are the only organisms capable of morality. And while animals certainly face the alternative of life or death and thus pursue value, they do not react to this alternative by choosing what actions to take and what values to pursue to maintain their lives. They do not and cannot pursue moral values.”

Bovine Philosophizing?

This is visible in cows, who spend most of their lives seeking forage, then gacking up cud to masticate while contemplating the view. What are they thinking?

As ruminants, bovines have four stomach chambers. When they are not churning green gunk around in their bellies and chomping mouths (while multi-tasking with manure distribution and methane flatulence/burpation), they are likely taking a snooze. But what are they thinking?

Cows are not contemplating their endless struggle against that dark night we humans see as death. Cows will look past the electric or barbed-wire fence for greener pastures but don’t dream of a pastoral afterlife on the other side of their own mortality. They don’t even look past one meal to the next, or even past chew to chew.

Animal Souls

C.S. Lewis pondered the idea of animal spirituality in his tome The Problem of Pain, suggesting domesticated animals might accompany humans to heaven. G.K. Chesterton dodged the issue – in accustomed fashion – by hitting it straight and bluntly head-on:

“Mr. G.K. Chesterton after stating frankly that the subject is one of the many questions on which he is content to be an agnostic, says: – ‘About one thing I am quite clear, that it is perfectly right that the two ideas of the immortal man and the immortal mongoose should be treated as quite distinct. The second is simply a speculation about the mystery of nature that lies around us; the first is a practical question affecting the common conscience of a man and the consequences of his own action.’”

Some Closing Ruminations on Ruminants These lambs are not suffering

 

A cud-grinding heifer may see her image in a window and reflect on her rumination – perhaps ruminating upon her reflection. We will never know, but we know she is alive. She is also tended by a human steward without whom she would quickly perish with assured pain and suffering. Unaware, the heifer is not a slave to the human, nor is the human slaving away to maintain water, food, healthcare, clean bedding, and sanitation for her bovine charges a slave to her cows. It is a symbiosis, ancient and bountiful.

PETA and its army of anarchic animal activists speculate about the mystery of the rights and consciousness of dolphins, cows, and coyotes. But a rational being would ask how killing creatures – man or beast – in the name of being humane is humane. Only humans are asking this question, which much concerns “the common conscience of a man and the consequences of his own action.”

 

John Klar is an Attorney, farmer, and author. Mostly farmer… And Regular Contributor to GraniteGrok and VermontGrok.

 

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The folks ranting about Book Banning settled on that becasue it stimulates a deeply held American belief that they abhor. Free Speech. They want nothing to do with it. Just ask Facebook, pre-Musk, Twitter, and other Big Tech effluent. Banning is their “business as usual.”

They even got the FBI, CIA (IRS, FDA, CDC), and others to help ban words in digital print. “Limiting” is part of the foundation of Democrat Socialism, as is lying. Banning and censoring are their lab meat and wormy non-GMO potatoes. So is censoring people like this guy waving the truth in their faces.

 

A Cumberland, Maine, Town Council meeting became heated Tuesday evening when a parent [Scott Jordan] confronted the Councilors with sexually explicit images from the book “Gender Queer” which is in the town’s school libraries.

 

You can see a clip of the confrontation below, which is … disturbing and amusing (content warning). I wish it were the school board, but Scott Jordan has been trying, like many parents and taxpayers in New Hampshire, to get the attention of the people in charge, including law enforcement. There’s a reason why we don’t expose children to porn, which is enshrined in local, state, and federal statutes that no one seems inclined to enforce.

 

As Jordan lifted up the images from “Gender Queer” for the Town Council to see, one Councilor, Robert Vail, yelled at Jordan to put them down because they were too “inappropriate” for the public Town Council meeting.

“Mr. Jordan — do not — put that right down! Put that right down! That is inappropriate material for a forum,” Vail demanded as Jordan repeated that “this is in our schools,” while holding up the images.

“Mr. Jordan — and you are now sharing it publicly with everyone that has an internet connection,” Chair Mark Segrist told Jordan.

“This is a forum that is open to all people of all age groups — that is inappropriate material to bring to this forum,” Vail said. “And if you have a problem with that, I’ll ask you to leave.”

 

If Gender Queer is too inappropriate for a town council meeting, how is it appropriate for school libraries?

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— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) September 27, 2023

 

 

“You’re ok with this? And you’re telling me not to show it to our community — but our school says it’s okay to have for our kids?” Jordan asked the Town Council.

 

It is a necessary evil, but not one you can publish as an ad in the paper or on local television. Obscenity laws prohibit that. But leave it on a shelf in a library where any kid of any age can access it, and efforts to remove it are labeled book banning.

Where is the newscaster reporting live on how they can’t show you the page from the book (some parent wants removed) in the school library because it violates public obscenity laws? They can’t read the text for the same reason. And does that mean town councils, school boards, newspapers, and reporters covering these events have banned it, too? From public notice, yes!

If you handed that out to kids on the corner, they’d be arrested and forced onto the sexual predator watchlist. Maybe that’s the litmus test. Supporters of keeping books like Gender Queer (or any of the other books they are defending) in school libraries should stand on a busy random street corner and hand copies of the drawings and pictures in these books to children in support of keeping those books in the schools.

Hand out pages of descriptive text promoting adult-child sex, illegal drug use, self-harm, and rape.

If you are proud of what you feel compelled to expose children to, get out there and do it. Expose them to it on the street corners of America. You know better than their parents, so get to work.

One note of caution. You’ll probably be arrested and labeled a child sex predator, which begs the question: why aren’t you also that when you do the same thing in schools and libraries?

 

 

HT | The Maine Wire

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Back in 2010, Diane Ravitch, an Education Historian, wrote an article exposing the 21st-Century-Skills movement in public education. In her article, A Century of Skills Movement, she explains where this need to redesign public education from a liberal arts model to a workforce training model originated.

Public education is currently being redesigned into a model that was once promoted in 1911 by Ellwood P. Cubberley while working as dean of the education school at Stanford. Cubberley warned that it was dangerous for society to educate boys—and even girls—without reference to vocational ends.   He went on to say, “Whatever they learned, he insisted, should be relevant to their future lives and work. He thought it foolish to saturate them with “a mass of knowledge that can have little application for the lives which most of them must inevitably lead.”

In other words, literacy was not the goal; a trained individual was.

Remember when we used to say knowledge was power? What happened to that? What happened to a focus on literacy in the core academic subjects?

Ravitch explained how, in 1916, the federal government issued a report on black students. The report authored by Thomas Jesse Jones scoffed at an education that did not have relevance to the lives of black students. Jones wanted students to learn by doing. 

 

It was not knowledge of the printed page that black students needed, wrote Jones, but “knowledge of gardening, small farming, and the simple industries required in farming communities.” Jones admired schools that were teaching black students how to sew, cook, garden, milk cows, lay bricks, harvest crops, and raise poultry. This was a prescription for locking the South’s African American population into menial roles for the foreseeable future. As Jones acknowledged in his report, the parents of black children wanted them to have an academic education, but he thought he knew better.

 

One might say that this attitude is clearly racist since this kind of dumbing down of education was aimed at black students. Remember, this was 1916, not long after the landmark case Plessy vs. Ferguson was decided in 1896. (Separate but Equal)

After that came other fads like the Project Method of education in the 20s and 30s, where students were encouraged to build on projects that interested them. This would engage students in… decision-making, critical thinking, and cooperative group learning, all were integral parts of the activity movement.  Much of the learning became more personalized, and core classes were merged together. Science, Social Studies, and English became interdisciplinary.

Parents began to see that their children weren’t learning the basics, “But there were occasional parent protests. In Roslyn, New York, parents were incensed because their children couldn’t read but spent an entire day baking nut bread. The Roslyn superintendent assured them that baking nut bread was an excellent way to learn mathematics.” 

This approach to educating, or rather dumbing down education for black children, began to extend to public schools that educated white children, too.

In 1990, the same dumbed-down approach to education was given a new name, 21st Century Skills. This was the standards-based education model that wouldn’t go away. Ravitch goes on to say that when she was working at the U.S. Department of Education, “ I recall hearing the director of SCANS say that students didn’t need to know anything about the Civil War or how to write a book report; these were obsolete kinds of knowledge and skills.”

You can see the pattern of elitist education reformers. Their goal was not to provide an excellent quality public education for students but instead dumb it down for those who did not have the means to attend elite private schools. The same racist attitude was now being employed, and targeted towards all children in public schools.

This is the model that Bill Gates has desperately tried to saddle our public schools with while his children attend private elite schools.

In New Hampshire, we call this Competency-Based Education. CBE requires all teachers at every grade level to replace academic instruction with skills-based learning. It’s sold as a way for children not just to learn academic content but to be able to “do something.”

Some of this sounds good; after all, who doesn’t want their children to be able to find a job after completing high school? But is public education just about finding a job? Or is it about what C.S. Lewis describes as a way to preserve civilization? While we are dumbing down public education to this standards-based model, we know that children are losing time learning the academic content.

Just this past session, there was a Bill aimed towards Civics education. Several teachers in our public schools testified that they are shocked by what students do not know when it comes to Civics.

Knowledge is constantly downplayed by many people involved in public education in New Hampshire. I’ve heard State Representatives like Mel Myler say that kids do not need knowledge because they can now look up information on the internet. You will hear that same attitude from the people who are bringing your kid’s Social and Emotional Learning into the classroom:

 

This is a recipe for illiteracy. 

The Heritage Foundation reported on the Standards Based movement back in 2001. This is different from a two-year vocational education. Competency Based Education starts in kindergarten and goes all the way through 12th grade.

 

Research shows that education oriented to specific workplace skills and job training produces graduates who are less versatile and unable to change occupations without substantial retraining. By contrast, graduates of a rigorous liberal arts education can readily learn new skills and adjust to new jobs. There is lifelong value in gaining knowledge of history, literature, science, mathematics, and the arts far beyond the world of work. The most important purpose of schools is to educate Americans to be vigilant guardians of their freedom and to be able to take advantage of the social and economic opportunities that a free society affords.

 

You can see that the standards-based education model doesn’t elevate learning in our public schools. Parents who want a better education have been finding other ways to make sure their children do not fall victim to this fad. Those who are stuck in this model may be denied a future that could have been very different for them had they been given the knowledge to access top colleges. As the culture continues to crumble around us, illiteracy does not help society.

C.S. Lewis made the case for a quality academic education through the Liberal Arts model by saying,

 

The ability to rule ourselves frees us from the tyranny of our appetites, and the liberal arts disciplines this self-rule. In other words, this sort of education teaches us to be most fully human and, thereby, to fulfill our human duties, both public and private.

Lewis contrasts liberal arts education with what he calls “vocational training,” the sort that prepares one for employment. Such training, he writes, “aims at making not a good man but a good banker, a good electrician, . . . or a good surgeon.” Lewis does admit the importance of such training–for we cannot do without bankers and electricians and surgeons–but the danger, as he sees it, is the pursuit of training at the expense of education. “If education is beaten by training, civilization dies,” he writes, for “the lesson of history” is that “civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost.” It is the liberal arts, not vocational training, that preserves civilization by producing reasonable men and responsible citizens.

 

This isn’t progress. This is the deliberate dumbing down of public education in America. It used to be aimed at black children. Now, it is aimed at all children in public schools.

 

 

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On September 19, I testified before a House subcommittee on the impacts of Bidenomics – yet it was clear that half the committee members weren’t even listening. That’s disturbing because our lawmakers have played a huge role in making the typical American family about $7,000 poorer in just two and a half years.

Instead of acknowledging the data I presented, the Democrats on the subcommittee only regurgitated their talking points and resorted to espousing falsehoods about the state of the economy. Even if half our leaders won’t listen to the facts, hopefully, the American people will, so here’s the truth about Bidenomics.

Under President Joe Biden, the government has spent, borrowed, and created trillions of dollars, and that caused the highest inflation in four decades. This inflation is a real tax on the American people because it transfers wealth from the people to the government. And the size of that transfer has been staggering. (RELATED: EJ ANTONI: Biden Loves Vacations. His Economic Policies Mean Most Americans Can’t Afford One)

The average American worker today loses more of his hourly earnings through the hidden tax of inflation than in federal income taxes. That means inflation under Mr. Biden has effectively doubled the average American’s federal income tax liability. Nominal pay keeps going up, but real (inflation-adjusted) pay has gone down.

The typical American family with two parents working and with average weekly earnings has seen their weekly pay increase $230 under Biden, but those larger paychecks buy about $100 less. The result is an annual decrease in purchasing power of about $5,100

Similarly, net household wealth is at a record high today, but only before adjusting for inflation. In real terms, net household wealth is roughly flat since the end of 2020. That means nearly all the trillions of dollars in additional net household wealth have been confiscated by the government under this president through the hidden tax of inflation.

That’s how the government has been financing its massive deficits for the last three years.

To combat the inflation that it helped cause, the Federal Reserve has increased interest rates, which have compounded the pain for Americans. Borrowing costs have risen dramatically and are now about $1,800 higher annually for the typical American family. Coupled with their loss in purchasing power, this leaves a family about $7,000 poorer than when Mr. Biden took office.

Yet many people are even worse off than that. If you’re trying to buy a home today, the monthly mortgage payment on a median-price home has more than doubled under Mr. Biden. Homeownership affordability is at one of its lowest levels on record, and less than half of American households can qualify for a mortgage. And many who qualify still can’t afford the payments.

 

 

The impact of Bidenomics on federal finances has been just as bad, with interest on the federal debt rising at the fastest pace on record. In less than a decade, interest payments will crowd out more than half of existing government spending.

While the Democrats on the subcommittee refused to listen to any facts I presented, nothing I said was about politics but policy. President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, signed welfare reform and multiple balanced budgets. And the 12 years of low inflation that preceded Mr. Biden were overseen by both a Republican and a Democrat. (RELATED: KATIE WALSH SHIELDS: America Can’t Afford Bidenomics)

The laws of supply and demand are purely apolitical, with both Democrats and Republicans being subjected to them. The sooner today’s Democrats—and some Republicans—realize this, the sooner they can acknowledge the factual outcomes of Bidenomics and hopefully change course.

But if the conduct of the Democrats on the subcommittee before which I testified is any indication, we shouldn’t hold our breath.

E.J. Antoni is a public finance economist at The Heritage Foundation and a senior fellow at Committee to Unleash Prosperity.

 

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In a country that is supposed to be color-blind and all-inclusive, why is it necessary to specify the race and gender of the person needed for a particular position? If a private organization used such a practice, they would be sued for civil rights violations. So why is it okay for our Government to do the same?

The trend was started by Joe Biden when he was to appoint a replacement for Justice Breyer in 2022. Biden had expressed his parameters during the 2020 campaign. He promised if he had to replace a sitting Justice, he would choose a Black Woman to take the spot. Biden was not concerned with nominating the best available person. He needed to appease two voting blocks by his choice. The President made this terrible decision and should have been challenged in court. It was not, and a new precedent has been set.

The precedent is being played out in California. When Senator Barbara Feinstein, who was one of the oldest Senators, went ill last year, Gavin Newsom was faced with the possibility of naming a successor to Feinstein’s seat she had held since 1992. Newsom put some caveats on his choice. Like Biden’s choice, the replacement would be a Black Woman, but she could not be an announced candidate for the seat, nor could she run for the position. These stipulations made the choice a filler and a lame duck from day one. A new Senator will be elected in 2024. He spoke about his decision on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where moderator Chuck Todd said, “it would be essentially a caretaker—an African American woman?” Newsom will satisfy two boxes, race and gender, but only for fifteen months.

So, the Democrats have redefined, illegally, I might add, the parameters for the qualifications for a job. When we have worked hard to make equal opportunity the rule, Democrats have reintroduced gender and race. To take the Democrat thinking a step further, a new ballot would no longer specify R, D, or I for a candidate’s party affiliation. We would now have W, Bl, or Br for white, black, or brown. We would also need M, F, or T for male, female, or trans. And we should probably add S, G, or O for straight, gay, or other. It is amazing, no, it is hypocritical that the Party that claims to be all-inclusive needs to apply labels to everyone and define the specific attributes needed for a candidate.

Ketanji Brown Jackson was not impressive in her nomination hearings, and her tenure has been nondescript, but for the Left, she is Black and a Woman, so everything else would be gravy. We must remember that she could not define a woman during her nomination hearings.

In the case of Feinstein’s successor, there is still a chance to have a Black Woman. Two Democratic U.S. representatives, Katie Porter of Irvine and Adam Schiff of Los Angeles, entered the race prior to Feinstein announcing her retirement. A third, Barbara Lee of Oakland, declared her campaign on February 21. Lee is a Black Woman but is considered a long shot. A good situation for the Right is for Schiff to lose the seat he has yearned for and simultaneously give up his House seat. MSNBC probably has his contract ready

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A group calling itself “Armed Queers Salt Lake City” was supposed to speak Wednesday night at the University of Utah (U of U?). They sell themselves as a socialist LGBTQ organization dedicated to self-defense, filling “a void in “anti-fascist organizing.”

Related: Democrat Socialists Admit Violence is Intrinsic to their Political Philosophy

Leftist Hispanic student group Mecha is hosting the event. The group started to fill a void in “anti-fascist organizing” and to combat the campus Young Americans for Freedom chapter.

“I got involved in Mecha because I was tired of not seeing any leftist organizing or anti-fascist organizing on campus,” education chair Gabriel Merida told the student newspaper.

“The club puts a large focus on action in order to bring about genuine change, especially following the presence of the Young America’s Foundation on campus,” The Daily Utah Chronicle reported.

Boiled down, the Armed Queers are claiming that there needs to be an armed radical socialist, communist faction to defeat fascism. No more property rights, no personal rights, complete control of the media, the public, the internet, everything, and (by the way) no private ownership of firearms.

 

 

 

Communist regimes are likewise not known for their tolerance of free association, protest, religion, or the “LGBTQ community.” There can be no god or master but a government with all the guns, which – knowingly or not – is the Armed Queers’ solution to fascism.

Dopes.

On the spectrum of liberty, where The Constitutional Republic offers the most ordered liberty and Communism just order and no liberty, Fascism is communism’s right hand and several football field lengths of government interference to the political left of where we are in America today.

Perhaps I’ve just been looking for an excuse to once again make this point, but it seems to me that the Armed Queers have let the Marxist cat out of the state-owned bag. They’ve broken the illusion of the fourth wall. For all the talk about anti-fascism, what’s better about their alternative? Nothing. It is worse. A fact that is no less true for groups like Antifa, which was founded to attract German Fascists into the Communist fold.

Neither Antifa nor Armed Queers is fighting for more freedom. They are fighting for less. Their agenda demands you sacrifice all of your property and rights to the State. While I may be stretching when I say they’ve broken the fourth wall of anti-fascism, the Hammer and Sickle “Q” in their poster tells a different story when leveraged against their stated commitment to fill a void in “anti-fascist organizing.

You should have less. Be Less. Do Less. Support our cause!

At least they are training in the use of firearms. If the real commies take over, they are going to need them to protect themselves from the monster they helped create, looking to feast upon their rebellious spirits. The Marxist paradise brooks no dissent, and the dissenters who got them there are often the first up against the wall. That’s a lesson from the history you were convinced needed to be reimagined becasue it was racist.

If you survive that purge, be sure to let us know how you feel about being colonialized by Communism. Wait, sorry. That’ll get you arrested, jailed, or just disappeared.

 

 

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Fox News is TRASH. It is NOT center-right. It is NOT center. It is NOT even center-left. It’s the UniParty’s mouthpiece. It’s role is to help foster the ILLUSION that the GOP is the opposition. It’s where Republicans go to talk tough before returning to the House or Senate to vote to continue fully funding the very government they just told Hannity is the problem.

Here is one of the moderators of the second Fox debate praising Hillary as AMAZING. She has no business moderating a GOP debate … which the second Fox debate, like the first Fox debate was NOT. In both “debates” the issues of importance to actual GOP voters were excluded … obviously intentionally. Fox truly is Faux.

Just a week before the GOP debate, Fox's Dana Perino hosted a panel at the Clinton Foundation gala and introduced "the amazing Secretary Hillary Clinton"

Full details here: https://t.co/MeWVxMv85h pic.twitter.com/MMCCBTSEmw

— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) September 28, 2023

 

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Facebook’s partisan electoral Death Star, to paraphrase Emperor Palpatine in Return of the Jedi, is fully funded and operational. But over at ‘X’ (still pronounced “Twitter”), they are showing more signs that they are serious about defending free speech.

Yes, I’ve heard stories about how X is not living up to their promise, but things have gotten X-ponentially better, and this can’t hurt their pro-free-speech image makeover.

 

Oh you mean the “Election Integrity” Team that was undermining election integrity? Yeah, they’re gone.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 27, 2023

 

Half gone. What are the other half up to, and how many are there? And, more importantly, are they there to add context to both sides, especially the plethora of left-Wing Election lies?

I’ve no issue with some stooge adding context or their interpretation of it to anything. That’s what a blog’s user comments section does. The other thing it does is create movement. Once you publish something, it typically has a shelf life, especially in the internet age. One day is an eternity. Yes, you can always revisit whatever it is for context, but when someone adds on, you’ve resuscitated it. Given not just readers but the author the option of kicking that can again and again.

It’s Alive!

Perhaps it gets picked up nationally and goes wide, and now all sorts of people with every manner of opinion can pig pile on, providing more context. Partisans, self-proclaimed non-partisans, experts, ignoramuses, rapscallions, scallywags, miscreants, and scoundrels. Everything an open internet has to offer, good or bad.

That’s free speech.

If you can remain civil and refrain from too many “colorful metaphors,” a wealth of information can unravel alongside the garbage, all of which we, as free-thinking individuals, are meant to sift for value—the free market of ideas.

Twitter of Eld was inclined to add context, but they’d often shadowban you or, without preamble, shutter your account. Dissenters griping about X’s slow progress need to remember that. Twitter was (much like America today) a toxic progressive “superfund site” in need of profound cultural and political environmental cleanup. That’s not something you do in a day, a week, or even a year. And it’ll never be what you’d like, no matter what you think that might be, but it will still be Twitter, no matter what we’re supposed to call it.

And this latest move strikes me as another step in the right direction.

 

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We are in! A week late from the original start date but we now have access to the course. A day after posting my article “WTF OMG”, asking why the course had not started on the scheduled date, I got a follow notification on Instagram from the one and only James O'Keefe himself! A promising start.

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Coming to you from the late, great state of Calexico the Republican Party held its second installment of seven people all competing for the least popular job in America.  The scenic environs of the Ronald Reagan Library, where a replica of Air Force One hung as if in a perpetual state of about-to-crash, symbolic of both the party and nation’s economy, set the stage for that evening’s backyard valley brawl.

Fox News hosts included Dana Perino, who is rumored to be the love child of Barbie and Mike Pence, alongside Stuart Varney there to represent the Anglo-American Establishment who will ultimately decide who wins.  Varney emceed the event and got off to a shaky start as he introduced Ilia Calderon of Univision, a Spanish-speaking anchor there to translate the evening’s dialogue for most of California.

The frenemy combatants were introduced by polling popularity with Ron Desantis occupying center stage as the first runner-up to eventual winner Donald Trump, followed by linguistic magician Vivek Ramaswamy and alpha-female Nikki Haley.  The remaining also-ran-their-mouths included New Jersey Governor Christ Christie, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, former Vice President Mike Pence, and that guy Doug from North Dakota.

The questions came fast and furious, just like the candidate’s ability to not answer them directly or in a meaningful way.  Tim Scott set a land speed record for changing the subject to the border crisis faster than a Venezuelan crossing the Rio Grande.  The unanimity among the candidates for the need to stop the influx of illegal immigrants was met with a smattering of applause by the mostly legal audience members with the camera awkwardly panning to Senorita Calderon for an uncomfortably long time as she avoided translating the answers.

Turning to the topic of parental rights as it relates to the recent trend of castrating one’s child to make them more popular at school, the candidates were asked whether or not they would push for a federal ban on the ghastly trend.  The seemingly obvious answer of “What a stupid question Dana, of course, I would” was difficult to verbalize as the field of hopefuls seemed more concerned with delivering their rehearsed epic talking points building to a crescendo with Tim Scott holding court for a solid seven-minute rendition of “God Bless America,” after which there was hardly a dry eye in the place.  We later learned this was due to smoke coming from forest fires just outside the building.

This segued nicely into a brief discussion over climate change which none of the candidates seemed comfortable addressing in front of the crowd of climate believers, save for Doug who reminded the audience of his war on EVs in the state of North Dakota where the roads are littered with abandoned Priuses that couldn’t make it from the state’s lone charging station back to their destination.

The war in America’s recently adopted fifty-first state of Ukraine was discussed at some length, with most of the candidates lamenting the high cost of laundering money for the Biden family and Ukranian oligarchs.  However, Scott, ever the optimist, reminded everyone that the money was a loan to the NATO countries with an interest rate just north of nine percent, which would be paid back once we had a president with the cojones to collect it, namely Donald Trump.

Friendly fire was a running theme throughout the evening as super-duper-uber Christian Mike Pence avoided invoking his tight relationship with the Almighty, instead honing his righteous indignation on Ramaswamy, whom he has grown fond of reminding the audience would need “on-the-job training.”  In a hilarious exchange, Ramaswamy off-handedly referred to Pence as “Vice President Flanders” and then launched into an impassioned reminder of why we need to restore American values.

Still stinging from his slights one debate earlier, Nikki Haley couldn’t help stating, “After listening to you, Vivek, we all get dumber,” which led to Ramaswamy’s plea to the other “bought and paid for” candidates to “avoid personal attacks.”   Pence seized the opportune moment by reminding Ramaswamy, “You made your bed, and now you get to lie in it, Apu.”  The reference was lost on all but the few undercover Democrats in the audience who immediately requested he be canceled from all social media for violating community standards, only to find out he’s not on any.

Not to be outdone, Governor Christie put the Donald Trump flavored cherry on top by reminding the audience his nemesis was not there, not because of his insurmountable lead nor for being under indictment, but that the deep state bandit was “afraid” of answering for his multi-trillion dollar deficit spending.  Employing the dramatic pause he and his public relations team had been perfecting, Christie then launched the scud missile of all puns, pointing out Mr. Trump’s ducking the confrontation so he’s going to be called “Donald Duck.”  The pregnant-looking Christie sustained an even more pregnant pause, waiting for the multi-lingual crowd to break out in the universal language of laughter only to be disappointed as his attempt at a takedown saw a seventeen-point jump in Trump’s approval rating, putting him at one hundred and eleven percent.

Following the evening melee, embattled Governor Gavin Newsom was seen backstage, where he was fresh off his first starring role in a major motion picture.  The new release American Psycho 2: San Fran-psycho is expected to hit theaters next month, where the governor will be playing himself.

An exit poll was taken from the studio audience asking, “After this evening’s debate, which candidate do you favor to win the presidency?” Not surprisingly, the results came back:

• 3% for Chat GPT
• 27% for Donald Trump
• 70% for El Donaldo Trumpo

 

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The roof of a business is often an overlooked and underappreciated aspect of the overall infrastructure. However, it plays a critical role in protecting your investment, employees, and customers. Neglecting the maintenance and inspection of your business’s roof can lead to costly consequences. If you aren’t convinced that you need to prioritize regular inspections and maintenance of your commercial roof, let this article show you otherwise.

Protection of Assets

Your business location, whether it’s an office, warehouse, or retail space, likely houses valuable assets. A well-maintained roof ensures that these assets are protected from the elements. Water leaks caused by a damaged roof can lead to extensive damage to equipment, inventory, and structural components, resulting in costly repairs or replacements.

Employee Comfort and Productivity

A leaky roof can lead to uncomfortable working conditions because it can cause mold growth, which affects the structural integrity of the building and poses health risks to your employees. Uncomfortable workspaces can decrease productivity and employee morale, which can, in turn, impact your bottom line.

Customer Perception

Your business’s physical appearance plays a significant role in attracting and retaining customers. A well-maintained roof signals professionalism and attention to detail, instilling confidence in potential clients. Conversely, a deteriorating or damaged roof can give the impression of neglect and discourage customers from doing business with you.

Compliance and Safety

Depending on your location and industry, there may be specific regulations and safety standards that govern the condition of commercial roofs. Neglecting these requirements can lead to fines and legal issues. Regular roof inspections and maintenance can help ensure your business complies with local and industry-specific regulations. If you get a roofing company to analyze your roof and then repair it or install a new one to meet these safety standards, you can retain peace of mind that fines and legal issues won’t hit your business.

Energy Efficiency

An efficient roof system can contribute to energy savings. Proper insulation and ventilation in your commercial roof can help regulate indoor temperatures, reducing the need for excessive heating or cooling. This, in turn, lowers your energy bills, improving your business’s financial sustainability.

Long-Term Cost Savings

Regular roof inspections and maintenance may seem like an additional expense that you could avoid, but they can save you significant money in the long run. Addressing minor issues early prevents them from developing into major, costly problems that require extensive repairs or even roof replacement.

Extended Roof Lifespan

A well-maintained roof can have a significantly longer lifespan. This means fewer disruptions, fewer expenses, and a better return on your initial roofing investment. In contrast, a neglected roof is more likely to fail prematurely, requiring a costly and unplanned replacement.

Insurance Benefits

Many insurance policies require that you maintain your commercial roof to a certain standard. Failing to do so might lead to claim denials in case of damage or accidents. By keeping your roof in good condition, you ensure that your coverage remains valid and reliable.

Prevent Emergency Situations

Roof problems have a tendency to become emergencies at the most inconvenient times. Regular inspections can identify any issues before they become urgent repairs, allowing you to schedule experts to come in at your convenience rather than in response to a crisis.

In conclusion, looking after your business’s roof is not just a matter of aesthetics; it’s a fundamental aspect of protecting your investment, providing a safe building, and maintaining a great reputation. By taking proactive measures to care for your roof, you’re safeguarding your business’s future and financial well-being.

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To all those who are sending in memes, thank you!  Keep them coming please, as it helps me gather weaponry to fight the Left.  Please do share this post, and if you share an individual meme, consider mentioning you saw it on the Grok!

Speaking of, from this week, the Wednesday Edition.

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

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I do have to wonder if Pfizer starts it’s meetings with “Pfizer, Pfizer, uber alles” or just a few quick “Heil Bourla” salutes before getting to the agendas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I know I’ve used this before, but… there’s a scene in the original movie Planet of the Apes where Taylor (Charlton Heston) is about to set off into the Forbidden Zone to explore and learn.  Dr. Zaius warns him ominously, “You may not like what you find”.  All these useful idiots wanting full communism thinking it will lead to a life of leisure and self-fulfillment.  They won’t like what they get either.  To wit:

 

 

 

 

Like George Zimmerman, the “white hispanic”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I do not begrudge people getting wealthier.  At all.  I’d like to be one of them.  But this kind of chart arouses enormous envy, especially envy at those that are perceived to have gained that wealth at the expense of others.  Envy that gets people dragged from their oak-paneled offices and homes and strung up.

 

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Pick of the Post:

 

A tie between two categories.

 

 

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How does anyone with three brain cells that talk with each other look at the above and not say “Wait, what happened here”?

And:

 

 

I listen to talk radio as I can, and many tout the idea of buying “physical gold” – as opposed to pieces of paper saying they represent gold held somewhere – and the above always comes to mind.  Congrats.  You’ve plonked down serious coin for actual gold, and then the above happens again.  And those companies have your name and address to which they sent the gold.  Or, potentially, silver, platinum, etc., as well.  Do not doubt that under federal threat, those bits of information, along with your entire purchase history, will be in federal hands faster than two shakes of a lamb’s tail.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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While not so much a contender for the nomination, Tim Scott is anchored somewhere between three and five percent in most presidential primary polls; Scott’s favorability has been above those with significantly more polling support, at least until Wednesday night.

I did not watch the debate; I don’t watch debates, but I listen and read after the fact. Tim Scott went all-in on supporting Ukraine in the latest Debate circus, which, I have to think, could put a dent in his favorability and his polling.

 

“90% of the resources that we send over to Ukraine is guaranteed, it’s a loan,” Scott said. “90% of the money that we send over there is loaned. Well, we could talk about this. But at the end of the day, 90% of the money that we send over there is actually in the form of a loan.”

“It’s not actually being paid by Ukraine, It’s paid by the NATO, our NATO allies,” he said. “I will say, let’s debate, the fact that our national vital interest is in degrading the Russian military. By degrading the Russian military, we actually keep our homeland safer, we keep our troops at home. And we all understand Article 5 of NATO.”

“So at the end of the day, when you think about the fact, if you want to keep American troops at home, an attack on NATO territory, would bring us and our troops in,” he continued. “By degrading the Russian military, we reduce if not eliminate, an attack on NATO territory.”

 

Is Tim Scott just prepping the narrative battlefield? We all know that in the unlikely event of a Republican victory in 2024, Ukraine will be like The Vaccine. When Trump was president, Democrats swore they’d never get that ‘cuz Trump. The moment Biden won office, they were ready to deny other people their natural rights if they refused it. Ukraine, under a Republican president, will transition to a quagmire, A waste of valuable resources putting our children and their children’s children into generational debt.

At present, the money pit known as Ukraine is the righteous war against tyranny, as if selling our progeny’s labors before they are born is not a form of slavery. From neocons to progressive swamp rats, they can’t say enough good things about it. And here is Tim Scott telling us we are investing in a proxy war with Russia, and the return will be great.

My opinion of the man has waned a bit.

Is he leveraging his favorability to try and peel a few voters his way from Neocon RINOs like Christie, Haley, and Pence?

He’s not talking to Trump supporters, and Ramaswamy isn’t exactly a fan of the Ukraine entanglement. Vivek’s plan is to “let Russia keep what it seized in Ukraine and restore economic relations with the West in exchange for some other “major concessions.” Those include an end to Moscow’s partnership with Beijing, the removal of nuclear weapons from Kaliningrad, and the return to compliance with the New START treaty on nuclear weapons.”

I’m too tired to believe the billions passed through Congress and Biden’s Oval Office are on loan. The only way we see any “Ukraine money” returned is if it is extracted from the bank accounts of the Biden Crime Family.

It is also unconvincing that what is going on there should be sustained to deplete the Russian Military. If it comes to that, what’s to stop Putin from lobbing a few nukes around to deplete the rest of us of everything on or off the battlefield? The threat of retaliation? If his military is finished, what’s he got to lose – just Russia? His head is too big to let that happen. He’ll never be the guy who lost the mother country without taking the rest of us with it.

And yeah, it was his invasion. There should be a price, but not one paid by our grandchildren in continued debt service to a defaulted and unimpressive America.

Perhaps Tim Scott made other points that could help him shine, but defending the bottomless money pit in Ukraine won’t get him out of the top of the bottom.

But it might push him down to the bottom of the bottom.

As I write this, there’s no new polling out, so we’ll have to wait and see.

 

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