We were on a family vacation in Israel recently, and as many do, we toured Yad Vashem (the Holocaust museum). As we toured the museum, the tour guide described the tactics and processes used by Hitler and his thugs in turning the people of Germany against the Jewish population. At the end of the tour, my wife and I agreed that what the guide described is what is currently being done to conservatives, Christians and any one else who does not tote the line of the left. Seeking to destroy individuals simply because they do not agree with you is the left’s game. They try and convince their followers that the reason they are so miserable is due to conservatives. Personal responsibility – out the window. Every grievance their constituents have is due to conservatives. That’s their message, and given they control the educational system in the U.S., they are able to indoctrinate children in this philosophy at an early age before their reasoning skills are developed. This ensures the minds of the children are warped, and the left’s doctrine become part of the child’s core beliefs. Once established, these core beliefs are difficult to change and set the country down a similar path to Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.
The Culture
Waiting on the world to change
I was listening to XM yesterday, and John Mayer’s song ”Waiting on the World to Change” came on. I’ve heard the song many times, I but never really listened to the words. For some reason, I did today and found a line that puts today’s woke/misinformation world into perspective.
Whether it is COVID, J6, ESG, DE&I or the disinformation crowd, a line in the song nails it and really tells you why free speech is needed.
And when you trust your television what you get is what you got cause when they own the information oh they can bend it all they want
Isn’t that exactly what the Twitter files has shown? How about Tucker Carlson’s release of J6 videos? COVID 19? How about the entire Trump/Russia hoax?
We are failing as a country and it is the government/media symbiote that is the reason. Time to kill all of the alphabet agencies and start fresh.
Apple Doesn’t Fall from the Tree for SBF
ZeroHedge hits ’em again where it hurts.
Nike suspends relationship with Kyrie Irving; Kyrie 8 launch off
ESPN has the headline. above Let’s see, NIKE, the company whose business supports slavery and child labor in China, has a problem with a guy who tweeted about a movie that has anti-Semitic overtones/content and failing to clarify whether he held anti-Semitic beliefs.
As a Jew, I couldn’t care less about what Kyrie believes. He’s allowed to have an opinion and has a right to free speech whether I like it or not.
The only thing I would tell Kyrie is: do your homework. Holding an opinion whose foundation is based upon ”facts” that can be proven false means you’re not an intelligent person. From watching interviews, reading prior articles about you, your position on the COVID vaccine., all suggest you’re a person of intelligence. So Kyrie, do some homework.
Regardless, I support Kyrie’s free speech and even his right to be wrong.
Question to Kyrie: Why Apologize?
The NY Post has an article on the reaction to Kyrie Irving’s tweet of a link to an ant-Semitic movie. According to the Post’s article:
Speaking to reporters for the second time since his promotion of the film, “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America,” Irving refused to say he was sorry, refused to say he doesn’t hold anti-Semitic beliefs, refused to say the Holocaust happened and cast himself as the victim in the entire saga.
As noted in the article, Kyrie refused to apologize at a press conference or disclaim any anti-Semitic views. He finally issued an apology after he was suspended indefinitely by the Nets. But my question is: why apologize?
As a Jew, I want all of those who hold anti-Semitic views to self-identify. I say the same about racists. I would rather you continue your rants and self-identify than issue an apology which no one knows is true or is simply a strategy to remove the focus from yourself and stop the negative financial impacts your statements are causing.
Living in the U.S. and being a free speech advocate, I realize that a lot of speech I won’t like, may cause pain and/or upset some. However, you have a right to it. You have a right to believe what you want to believe. When you continue believing things even when they are proven to be wrong, well, you’re just an idiot and no one cares what you say. Many will howl at that saying many will follow such idiots given they are cultural icons, and I say: ok. That is your right under our Constitution. Do I like it? No, but principles matter and limiting an idiot’s free speech is wrong.
Said differently, I am an actions speak loader than words and sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me guy. While I’m often reminded from my better half that words do hurt, my response is always: they do if you allow them to. To Kyrie, how you act matters much more than what you say, so I’ll watch the walk and make my determination about you and your character.
Can We Fix the Corrupt Federal Government?
That’s a question I have been pondering for a long time. Yeah, we get to vote every couple of years, but regardless of who we vote for or which party controls the legislative and administrative branches, things seem to continue towards total federal control of every aspect of our lives.
The corruption runs deep in the federal government. Between the DoJ, FBI and DHS, the federal government can surveil you even if there is no crime. They simply open up a counter terrorism investigation on you. Now, they will track everything you do looking for a crime.
So, please vote Republican in November, because, as Dan Bongino would say, ”the republicans may not be the solution to all of your problems, but the democrats are definitely the cause.”
Time to End Qualified Immunity for Government Officials
Chris Bray reports on another instance of local governments trampling on its citizen’s 1st Amendment Rights. Between instances like this and the DoJ and FBI’s recent activities in attempts to squelch their political enemies, our republic is truly in danger. There is only one way of dealing with this: end the qualified immunity governmental officials have. Only when individuals in government have to personally suffer the consequences of their illegal actions will some balance be restored.
FBI Raid on Trump’s Residence: More Questions
John Solomon has some surprising information and questions on the recent raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence at Just The News. Read the whole thing.
Washington, D.C. – The world’s corruption capitol
Let’s not forget the past: Then: Florida couple say they recorded Gingrich’s call.
Or, more recently: Unreal: Chuck Schumer Says Intelligence Community May “Get Back At” Trump For Tweet.“Appearing on ‘The Rachel Maddow Show,’ Schumer said, ‘Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you. So, even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he is being really dumb to do this.’”
Now, the New York Times reporters Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin leaked a recording allegedly of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) telling Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) that he would recommend to then-President Donald Trump that he should resign.
Is our government nothing more than bureaucratic hacks that do nothing but spy on Republicans? It certainly seems that way, and it has been going on for decades.
H/T Instapundit and American Thinker
“Climate Change is About Control, Stupid – Not The Environment”
William L. Kovacs has the above titled post at the Watts Up With That blog that hits the nail on the head. You can see the same thing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the whole thing.
From the comments:
I posit that pretty much all we see in the world of ‘politics’ doesn’t have anything to do with actual politics, but everything to do with almost pure differences between two personality types: those who are self-confident and are happy to “live and let live,” contrasted with those who have no self esteem and who feel compelled to validate their miserable existence in their own tiny minds by exerting absolute control over everyone else, on every topic under the sun. The comedian John Cleese quoted psychiatrist Robert Skinner about that, who said “if people can’t control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people’s behavior.” We see it everywhere from them wanting to control our voting behavior on down to what kind of light bulbs we use.
Exactly!