$20 "Happy" Meals?

 

Not too many years ago, liberals were complaining that the inexpensive prices for fast food were leading to poor people having bad diets. Recently, liberals demanded that fast food workers have a much higher minimum wage, and now they are blaming fast food outlets for rapidly rising prices. They can't have it both ways. This rapidly rising idiocy is making me nauseous.

California fast food outlets have already laid off numerous employees and cut back hours for others. That was as predictable as the sun setting in the west. They have no choice. Decisions/actions/policies have consequences. So do elections.

Typical liberal idiot: “Pay fast food workers higher wages! Hey, why are burgers so expensive?!”  

                                                    

The Language Of Liberty

“The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.”-- Thomas Jefferson

 

Indeed. Communication is our greatest distinguishing asset as a species. It is our essence. Thought leads to words, which naturally lead to speaking and writing. Yet words lead to thought. Try thinking without using words. Is it even possible? In any case, without these pillars of the human condition we are but large crustaceans with opposable thumbs.

Yet today, conservatives are routinely prevented from speaking, especially on college campuses, those erstwhile bastions of higher education and competing ideas. No one is allowed to freely and openly challenge the prevailing (leftist) dogma, whether it be pertaining to COVID-19 vaccines, global warming/climate change, the integrity of the 2020 presidential election, the alleged existence of dozens upon dozens of genders, or a host of other topics. Social media outlets will block, censor, shadow ban, demonetize, or outright permanently kick you off their platforms should you run afoul of the Thought Police. President Trump did just that, and he was kicked off. This is anything but healthy for a supposedly free republic. It is, in fact, a death knell for democracy.

Freedom of speech is Constitutionally protected via the First Amendment. It was placed first out of the original Ten Amendments (27 now) because it is so essential to a free society and an individual. (In my opinion, the Second Amendment was placed there as the best guarantor of the First Amendment—and all those to follow.)

              The First Amendment is under furious assault. The Second Amendment is, too. There are those on The Left who would like to throw out the entire Bill of Rights and the Constitution along with it. If government, “the elites,” and those in organizations like the World Economic Forum can water down, abridge, or repeal our First and Second Amendment rights, there is clearly no right they intend to leave intact. (A recent survey conducted by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity found that an incredible 47% of elites believe the U.S. government allows its citizens too much freedom! A large majority of them would like to impose “strict rationing of meat, gas, and electricity”…and would ban the use of gas-powered vehicles.)

Whether in spoken or written form, words can be powerful. They can move us, motivate us, inspire us. And they can inspire thought, which can lead us to change our minds—or question what we have been told.

This is why The New Totalitarians of The Left, also known as today’s Democratic Party, are so afraid of them. Those who hold positions of power—and low character—know that their arguments are weak and their policies detrimental to all but themselves. It is, therefore, essential to shut them up.

Though they may temporarily succeed in making it a Hell here on Earth, they will eventually have to deal with the Grantor of the unalienable rights they stole from us.

 

The Last Democratic Election

 

It is one thing to be one of the dumbest people ever to trod the earth. When world-class disingenuousness and projection is added to the idiocy, the result is truly breathtaking. And repulsive. Vice President Kamala Harris is the latest to simultaneously exhibit all three traits. Harris recently appeared on a podcast I’d never heard of, titled “I’ve Had It,” during which she agreed with the hosts that the upcoming 2024 presidential election could be the last democratic election ever held in the United States.

This could in fact be the case, but what the Venn diagram-loving moron didn’t say is that this would be because her administration—and her party-- won’t allow them any longer.

In fact, 2016 might have been the last democratic election the United States will ever see, as since then Democrats have done everything possible-- including attempting to jail their leading political opponent and disenfranchise non-leftist American voters—to force permanent one-party rule on the republic. Just to be sure of their primacy, they also bribed and coerced the giant social media companies to act in their favor-- and threatened to eliminate the filibuster, pack the court, and grant statehood to Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. And don’t forget the perpetually open southern border.

I’ve had it…with Democrats’ lying, gaslighting, projection, virtue signaling, bullying, coercion, threats, disdain for the Constitution/opponents/rule of law, ruinous policies…and rampant amorality.

Letter To An Undecided Voter

 

A Letter To An Undecided Voter:

You say you’re not going to vote for Trump? You say you’re tired of the drama? You say you aren’t fond of the mean tweets and ungracious comments?

Drama, huh? Are you tired of your president being incapable of cogent thought and fluid speech? Are you tired of the “Big Guy’s” softer than warm butter stance on China? Are you tired of rampant inflation and high taxes? The Strategic Oil Reserve being drawn down needlessly? Are you tired of open borders and 100,000 deaths a year from fentanyl overdoses? Are you tired of human and sex-trafficking? Are you tired of illegal aliens migrants newcomers committing crimes and flooding our cities? Are you tired of rampant crime? Are you tired of trains derailing, plane parts falling off, and bridges collapsing? Are you tired of some groups being feted and others mocked on the basis of their skin color and religious affiliation? Are you tired of freakishly-adorned high level nuclear officials stealing other people’s dresses at airports around the country? Are you tired of people who hold traditional views being prevented from speaking and chased off campuses? Are you tired of being told what kind of stove and automobile you will be allowed to buy in the near future? Are you tired of being told what kind of food (hint: bugs) you will be allowed to eat? Are you tired of elites telling us that we will soon own nothing and be happy?

Are you tired of the government treating migrants better than American citizens? Better than Veterans? Are you tired of endless wars? Are you tired of the party in power attempting to imprison its political opponents?

Is this the America you remember and can be proud of? Is this all now considered “calm” and “normal?” Is any of the aforementioned “drama?” Is any of it “mean,” disgusting, or “ungracious?”

Are you better off than you were pre-pandemic, say in 2019? More hopeful?

Who are you going to vote for again?

 

"Death To America" Chants Ring Out...In America?

 

Chants of “Death to America” broke out at an Al Quds Day Rally in Dearborn, Michigan recently, as can be heard in a social media video. An activist named Tarek Bazzi spoke to the crowd, inciting it by repeating Malcolm X’s claim that America is “one of the rottenest countries that has ever existed on this Earth.

A local Imam named Usama Abdhulagani also spoke, telling the gathering that “Israel is ISIS, they are Nazis, they are fascists.” As if averring that Israelis are Nazis isn’t insane enough, they are also ISIS, too?

The Daily Caller, which has been following the story, noted that it contacted Michigan Democrats to ask if they condemned the chant, with a number of them replying in the affirmative. However, despite repeated requests for a statement of condemnation, The Daily Caller said that others, including Rep. Debbie Dingell, Rep. Haley Stevens, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Sen. Gary Peters, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib refused to share their stance on the matter, while Gov. Whitmer did not respond to a request for comment.

If “Death to America” isn’t hate speech, what would be? Is it not verbal “violence?” It certainly could be seen as inciting violence. And multiple Democrat state representatives—and the governor—declined to condemn it?!

If the Democrat Party keeps moving in the same direction and with the same speed that it has in the past several years-- and the country’s demographics keep changing apace-- by 2032 or 2036, Democratic candidates themselves may be chanting “Death to America” on the campaign trail.

Whether even that would be enough to rouse a sleeping—and ever-changing—populace to throw them out is, as they say, problematic.

 

 

Reflections

 

Reflections:

*Colleges and universities are just vast mis-education camps, indoctrination factories. Soon, those who don’t go to college will likely have to attend re-education camps. The Land of the Free has become Indoctrination Nation. Tragic.

*Thomas Jefferson, the author of The Declaration of Independence, once proclaimed: “I have sworn, on the altar of God, eternal hostility to all forms of tyranny over the minds of man.” Today, the Democrat Party is effectively stating: “We have sworn, on the altar of political correctness/Gaia, eternal hostility to all those that question our beliefs, desires, and decrees.”

*The Mainstream Media: “We are fact-free news! Now with extra bias!”

*Democrats plan to let criminals out of jail to vote for them is not new. They’ve been doing that since at least 1864. In fact, that year they plotted a jail break of Confederate prisoners!

*Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers recently vetoed a bill that would have banned “transgender women” from participating on female school sports teams. He did so claiming it would “threaten the safety and dignity of LGBTQ Wisconsinites.” That is preposterous. Not passing the bill, however, demonstrably threatens the safety of Wisconsin schoolgirls. The most effective way to advance an evil agenda is to accuse one’s opponents of being evil.

*Though Title IX prohibits educational institutions from discriminating on the basis of sex, Quinnipiac University School of Law is offering a scholarship open only to women and LGBTQ+ students. Wonder if the school would consider offering athletic scholarships to women and LGBTQ+ students only? Let’s hear it for inclusion!

*So-called “comedian” Michael Ian Black says he may leave the U.S. even if Donald Trump loses the upcoming presidential election, because, he says, the country has “let so many of us down.” We’ll help you pack.

*”Trump Openly Complains About Being Thrown in Jail in Unhinged Rant Against Court Cases” read the MEDIAite headline. The nerve of that guy, complaining about his political opposition attempting to jail him on…ahem, trumped up charges! The article noted that Trump characterized the charges against him as “so unfair,” stating that those are “the petulant words one typically hears from a tired or hungry toddler.” The article itself was filled with untruths and biased blather one might normally expect to hear from a small child. In short, it was an unhinged rant.

*Rutgers University is going to hold separate graduation ceremonies for LGBTQ+ and illegal immigrant students. Why not then break it down even further…to gays only, lesbians only, bisexuals only, illegal immigrants from El Salvador only, illegal immigrants from Venezuela only, etc., etc., graduation ceremonies? Everything about this is wrong, from separating students by sexual orientation to allowing illegal immigrants (whose education has been paid for in part by American taxpayers) to graduate. Disgusting.

 

 

Obama, "Biden Doctrine" Fundamentally Transforming America

 

President Obama often spoke of the “fundamental transformation” of America. What the (former?) president didn’t explicitly state, and what some still fail to understand, is that the Democratic Party has been fundamentally transformed in recent years…in large part due to his efforts. It, in turn, has fundamentally transformed the United States. And not for the better. Obviously.

JFK and Truman, like them or despise them, wouldn’t recognize it. In fact, they would disdain—and mock-- today’s Democratic Party, as it would them. It has morphed from a party ostensibly for working people into one of, by, and for elites-- nationally and globally. (Okay, it has always advanced policies detrimental to Black people, but in most other important respects it has changed.) The party that spawned the Truman Doctrine, the policy of providing aid to countries threatened by Communism and totalitarianism, has now been given over to the Biden Doctrine, the policy of badgering our closest allies (such as Israel) and giving aid, succor, cash, and billions in top-shelf military hardware to those who despise us (such as Iran, the Afghani Taliban, and Hamas.) This is the strangest doctrine imaginable, and an existential threat to national security. And yet, the party still holds the power in Washington, D.C.

The Biden Doctrine, even if unstated, is also at odds with JFK’s promise to the world that the United States would “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty.” Today, the Democratic Party is hell bent…on extinguishing the freedom and liberty of its political opponents here at home, as well as that of a large percentage of American citizens. Quite the difference.

Speaking of citizens, the Biden Doctrine actively dismisses them in favor of illegal aliens undocumented migrants “newcomers,” using citizens’ tax dollars to pay for healthcare, hotel stays, credit card accounts, cell phones, and such like, for those who break the law by entering our country without going thru the application and naturalization process. That is truly stupefying. Not only is the “Great Replacement Theory” a fact, but American citizens are paying to negate their future votes if not functionally erase themselves entirely.

That’s quite a doctrine, one unlike any that proceeded it in Western history.

If Biden wins re-election this November, his doctrine will have somehow prevailed…and the formerly United States will be fundamentally transformed.

Permanently.

 

 

Representative Suggests Black Americans Shouldn't Pay Taxes

 

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, suggested during an appearance on a recent “Black Lawyers Podcast” that Black Americans should be exempt from paying taxes as a form of reparations. That would be a good gig if you could get it, although she does admit that many Blacks do not currently pay taxes due to lower incomes.

Crockett, no relation to Davy, also said that Blacks are owed “for the labor that was stolen and killed and all the other things.” I’m not sure what “and killed and all the other things” means, but whatever.

I must admit this is a unique proposal, though it is somewhat mindful of one I rather satirically suggested that Democrats might put forth nearly a decade ago. 

What’s next? Will, say, California or Minnesota soon enact legislation that would exempt all Peoples of Color (POC) from paying income taxes? If so, they could become a “POC Sanctuary.” (Which would add to the long list of people and actions for which they are a sanctuary.) Perhaps New York or Illinois will announce that henceforth they will no longer burden the LGBTQ Community with sales taxes. Can’t wait to see how they’d attempt to implement that policy! Maybe Indigenous folks and Pacific Islanders should be exempt from paying estate taxes? The possibilities are endless, though the results would be the same: a more divided, amoral and impoverished America.

I strongly doubt, however, that any government will sign off on anything that could reduce its revenue. At this point, it’s more likely it will simply double the tax rate for white people or Christians. (Quadruple the tax rate for white Christians?)

Oddly, the mainstream media never talks about how taxes “disproportionately” affect the wealthy. And rarely is the fact brought up, at least in a positive light, that no one in states like South Dakota, Texas, and Florida pays income taxes. Now that is equity.

And then there are illegal aliens, who don’t pay taxes, but do get benefits, making them possibly the only group in history to have representation without taxation!

 

 

 

 

Progressives Are Unbalanced

 

Perspective? Balance? Reason? Fairness?

Not so much, at least when one is speaking of today’s so-called progressives.

Hypocrisy? Gaslighting? Projection? Shamelessness?

In spades!

They are still attempting to put former President Donald Trump in prison for allegedly overpricing his real estate, a victimless non-crime—and something that nearly everyone does at some level at one time or another. Yet many of the same people forced the experimental mRNA vaccines on us, and locked down the world, creating endless victims and countless dead, and have not been held to account in any way whatsoever. (The ones who didn’t have the power to mandate the jabs or lock down others cheered on those who did.) They have not been held to account for perpetrating The Crime of the Century, perhaps the greatest, most ubiquitous, and most destructive crime ever committed!

Misgender someone? They'll throw the book at you! Your policies and mandates kill thousands, ruin the livelihoods of millions, and steal the liberty of perhaps billions? Que Sera Sera, whatever will be will be. No problem. No consequences.

Yet progressives incessantly tout the virtues of “fairness” and “equity.” How can this be, you ask? (Okay, I asked that.)

It can be because they are self-hating, virtue-signaling liars… a truly preposterous and repulsive combination.

As The Kinks wrote (and sang), “It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world.”

  

Mandatory Journalism Course Says Many Questions Are Microaggressions

 

According to The College Fix, a mandatory journalism course at Arizona State University, titled “Diversity and Civility at Cronkite,” instructs students that asking questions such as “Where are you from?” and “Where were you born?” are racial microaggressions.

The school’s Cronkite School of Journalism online description notes that it places a strong emphasis on the “importance of diversity, inclusion, equity and civility.” I guess. But I doubt famed journalist Walter Cronkite-- from whom the school took its name-- would approve. ASU has added another letter on to the currently ubiquitous DEI, and also had the “E” and “I” swap positions, so that we now have DIEC. Too bad. If it had touted the “importance of diversity, inclusion, civility, and equity,” the acronym would’ve been DICE. Much better.

Preposterously, even the statement, “I think the most qualified person should get the job” is considered a microaggression at ASU’s CSJ. And some of us thought “journalism” couldn’t get any worse!

So, like everything else, asking questions is now racist. There is an upside, however: it makes doing “journalism” much easier and less time consuming!

And it fits with the times. If I tell you I’m a woman, I’m a woman. If I tell you I’m a journalist, I’m a journalist. No questions asked.