Happy New Year to everyone. Here’s to getting back to “normal” this year and the end of the fear porn being hoisted upon us. Take care of yourselves and help those incapable of taking care of themselves. In this way, we will rid ourselves of the “influence” of the “do-gooders” in government.
The Culture
As Seen on Twitter
Very true:
The Death of the Experts & the Media/Governmental Complex
From the beginning of the COVID pandemic, there were various people from the Trump side and middle clamoring for the experts, government and media to examine the potential for the virus to have escaped from the lab in Wuhan. Those championing the need to examine this possibilities were derided by the media, Democratic politicians as well as the experts in the establishment as being crazy, anti-science, conspiracy theorists, etc. Fast forward a year and a Trump loss in the election and suddenly the experts, the media, and Democrats are suggesting it is “possible” that the lab leak “theory” is actually what happened.
Today, I see another of the many articles suddenly appearing in the media about this. One by Thomas Frank at Yahoo News https://news.yahoo.com/wuhan-lab-leak-hypothesis-true-102749505.html really caught my eye. As I read it, it really conveyed what most conservatives and libertarians have been saying about the media, the experts, and government. Mr. Franks own writing gets to the heart of the problems facing the liberals and the worldviews: the lack of critical thinking by the media and the left, their inability to believe that Trump might be right, Trump isn’t as stupid as they all believe, socialist/communist governments never lie, and experts would never hide facts that might be inconvenient for them.
With respect to COVID and Wuhan, there was ample data to suggest the lab leak as a cause of the virus rather than it hopping from animal to human and a deep dive of the facts was warranted. However, just like the Russia hoax perpetrated by Hillary and her shills within the media and government, the liberals were too blind in their faith of “experts”, government, “intelligence” officials, etc. to see the data, especially if Trump was saying it. Once again, it looks like Trump will prevail on the matter.
For an entertaining walk through their revelation/epiphany, I suggest you read the whole thing.
Bongino Has the Goods on the Media and their war on the Police
On Friday’s Bongino Rumble podcast, Dan has the original body cam footage of the tragic shooting of Adam Toledo. He compares it to the one shown by CBS, and it is interesting that CBS appears to have cropped out the footage of a brief glimpse of Toledo holding a gun. Dan does an excellent job of explaining the incident from an officer’s perspective.
In the same episode, Dan takes on how a cop could mistake his taser from his handgun. Dan discusses the Force Science article on the matter https://www.forcescience.org/2021/04/unintended-a-theory-of-taser-weapon-confusion/. Dan also brings a real world example of this for those of us in our 40s or older can relate to.
I encourage you to go to Rumble and watch this episode https://rumble.com/vfqapt-ep.-1501-what-theyre-not-telling-you-about-the-recent-police-shootings-the-.html.
Papa John’s Founder & Former CEO Vindicated?
You may recall the that Papa John’s Pizza founder and former CEO John Schnatter was forced out in 2018 after it was reported that he used the N-word on a phone call. It was the WOKE cultures first real scalp of any significance. Tyler O’Neil has a column today at PJ Media that goes through the sordid affair and presents facts that should cause all to pause before reacting to the cancel culture. Be sure to read the whole thing.
Sports – Where the women are women and the men are too?
One of President Biden’s actions during his first week in office was one forcing women to play against biological men.
Breitbart.com has an article where former NFL player Marcellus Wiley called for a separate category for transgender sports. https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/01/31/former-nfl-player-calls-for-separate-transgender-sports-category-after-biden-executive-order/
I’m sorry, but men and women are different. I know that it goes against the current culture to say such things, but we are. So, if physical males who believe they are females want to play sports, I think Mr. Wiley might be on to something. Either “man up” and go against another man, or create your own league and let similar situated physical males join you.
Red Flag Laws
Is there anything more anti-USA than red flag laws? Our US Constitution’s Bill of Rights specifically prohibits this type of law. As Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com provides in his article:
Judge Andrew Napolitano, has phrased it thusly:
… Red flag laws are unconstitutional. The presumption of innocence and the due process requirement of demonstrable fault as a precondition to any punishment or sanction together prohibit the loss of liberty on the basis of what might happen in the future.
In America, we do not punish a person or deprive anyone of liberty on the basis of a fear of what the person might do.
…The government can no more interfere with Second Amendment rights than it can infringe upon any other rights. If this were not so, then no liberty — speech, press, religion, association, self-defense, privacy, travel, property ownership — would be safe from the reach of a fearful majority.
That’s why we have a Constitution.
– SOURCE
Does anything else need to be said?
Mass Shootings and the Gun Grab
You know it is going to happen every time there is a mass shooting (other than gang related mass shootings which you never hear about from the legacy media). The anti-2nd Amendment crowd (usually Democrats) say we must pass new gun laws to stop this. Well, here is a fact: you will never be able to stop this.
Ella Wilcox’ quote: “There is no chance, no destiney, no fate, that can circumvent hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” I first heard that quote at a time management seminar in 1987, and it has stuck with me ever since.
Is new gun control legislation going to change the situation? No. Why do you say that? Because nothing will stop someone determined to do such a terrible act. Look at all of the data available on these situations and you find common themes:
- They are likely to occur in a gun free zone.
- The perp usually stops upon encountering any resistance.
However, if your a politician or a liberal, never let facts get in the way., or as Rahm Emanuel would say, you should never let a good crisis go to waste. Here, the immediate reaction is to enact legislation that limit the freedom of the law abiding. Is that going to help reduce/stop this? No.
Next, we’re told that it is the invective speech of the president that is causing this type of reaction. Really? So, what about the hateful, bigoted and racist words spewed through the mouths of Democrats? Or, how about the horrible lyrics in today’s music, the isolating effects of social media, or the violence perpetrated in video games and virtual reality simulators? Well, since they are all leftist or left-leaning industries, they can’t be the cause of any of this.
You can’t have it both ways. If spoken words are in fact what is causing this, what does additional gun control legislation do for that? Nothing, but you see, that is really not the point of this. The point of this is to disarm the citizenry. That is the ultimate objective here, and the one thing we have learned, is that the leftist never stop pushing towards their goal.
TCA
Trump the Twitter Strategist
The one thing I have learned about the Trump presidency is that he appears to really understand human nature. He anticipates reactions, uses incorrect statements to drive people to examine and expose something they really didn’t want known, and remarkably, gets it right most of the time.
The latest dust up with the Congressional Squad (as Rush Limbaugh refers to the four congresswomen as) is a prime example. While there are many conservatives who think he got this wrong, including such stalwarts as Ed Driscall and John Hinderaker of Powerlineblog.com, I think he got it completely right.
First, he is forcing the Democrat party to circle their wagons around the Squad and their far left views and ideas. With their very low approval ratings, this further pushes the Democrats to the left where they are now being defined by these people.
Second, he knowingly (I believe) says/implies they are all from other countries and should go back to them if they don’t like it here. Those comments will cause the leftist “fact checkers” and other non-politicals to check it and see. What they will find as they search for these things is the Squad being behind foreign locations/countries (Palestine is not a country but merely a made up location in Israel). I believe this will further alienate the voters from these progressives.
I must admit. I was afraid of a Trump presidency, Trump tweets, etc., but as I have stood back and watched, it seems to be going according to his strategy.
I promise. It was the bots. RRRight!
