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On the eve of The Jewish New Year and being the cynic and pessimist I am, I fervently hope in The New Year I will be wrong. The odds do not favor it but then there is always hope. Stay well, be safe and productive.
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Let us never lose sight of truth . . . . regardless of the toxins spewed hourly by politicians and their media supporters/apologists. Or dismiss the resistance he endured every step of the way from the swamp rats. the 'public servants of DC'.
I have many questions of those who cast their vote for Joe Biden because they 'disliked' Donald J. Trump:
· Did you dislike that Trump made cruelty to animals a felony?
· Did you dislike he raised billions to stop the opioid crisis? Perhaps you feel offended that he destroyed ISIS, killed terrorists, including the leader of ISIS and the Iranian General responsible for thousands of American deaths, all without going to war?
· Did you dislike the fact that the media and democrats, Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Cuomo and Jim Acosta said we’d be in World War III by now with North Korea and their prophecies did not come to pass?
· Did you dislike Trump because under his leadership we became energy independent and an exporter rather than importer of oil, no longer relying on the Middle East for our petroleum needs?
· Did you dislike the fact that gasoline at the pump was roughly $1.60-$1.70 per gallon and today is now $4.26 per gallon?
· Did you dislike him because he wanted to build a wall to keep criminals, drugs and 2.0 million illegal aliens from coming into our country?
· Did you dislike him because he just slashed the price for medications in some cases by 50%, which is driving big Pharma nuts?
· Perhaps you dislike that he signed a law ending the gag-order on pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving options on prescriptions?
· Is your dislike for President Trump because he signed the Save Our Seas Act, which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic and garbage from the ocean?
· Did you dislike that he signed a bill for airports to provide breast-feeding stations for nursing moms?
· How about the fact that he signed the biggest wilderness protection and conservation bill in a decade, designating 375,000 acres as protected land, was that why you disliked him?
· Did you dislike that he loves America and puts Americans first?
· Did you dislike that he made a gay man the ambassador to Germany and then asked him to clean up national security and un-classify as much of it as possible for transparency?
· Did you dislike that he’s kept almost every campaign promise (with zero support from Congress who worked against him daily!) plus 100 more promises because Washington was much more broken than he or any of us thought?
· Did you dislike like that he works for free, donating his entire $400,000 salary per year to different charities?
· Did you feel that he did this for four years because he was “showboating?”
· Do you dislike that he’s done more for the black community than every other President?
· Do you dislike that he listened to senator Scott and passed Invest in Opportunity Zones to help minorities?
· Did you dislike that he passed prison reform, which gives people a second chance and has made quite a huge difference for the black communities?
· Do you dislike that he passed VA reforms to benefit the very people who served our country and defend our freedom?
· Did you dislike that he’s winning and signing new trade deals that benefit Americans, instead of costing us more?
· Did you dislike him because, unlike all the Presidents who came before him, he recognized Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel, relocated the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv there and then proceeded to negotiate four peace accords between Israel and Arab Nations when many in the media were predicting there would be war? Was that why you disliked him?
· Did you dislike that he loves his flag and his country?
· Did you dislike that he calls out and has shown time and time again that the mainstream media in our country has become corrupt and incompetent, twisting the truth to control and mislead the people and he is trying to protect us from this?
· Did you dislike that he has been a President totally committed to ending wars and bringing our troops home?
· Perhaps you dislike the stern way he spoke publicly to NATO allies to step up and pay their commitments to defense rather than expecting America to do it for them, something we have done for over seventy-five years?
· Did you dislike that he has made a commitment to end child-trafficking and crimes against humanity and has made 1000’s of arrests already?
· Perhaps you dislike he’s brought home over 40 Americans held captive, the last one from Iran?
· Did you dislike that he’s proven he was right about the Deep State, and he was indeed spied on before, during and after he became President…yet no one has yet faced justice?
· Perhaps you dislike that he was wealthy… a Billionaire… before he ran for President and now is worth at least 1/3 less... because he loves America?
· Do you dislike that he respects cops, veterans, ICE & First Responders?
· Did you dislike that he does not sell out America to other countries to achieve great wealth, like the leaders prior to him have done?
Could it be possible that the ones who sell out America to line their pockets own the media and Hollywood and hate him so much for trying to expose them and hate him for putting the American people first that they try to manipulate our thinking and control the information we get to try to cultivate hatred for him?
These people benefit when you hate the man trying to stop them... so they won’t have to give up the wealth they have gotten and continue to get thru mass taxation, illegal arms sales, graft, and control. Wouldn’t you at least want to research these possibilities? There is ample evidence to justify an independent review of both Obama and Biden and possibly others.
Could 75 million Americans who cast their vote for Trump already know the truth... that he has done more for blacks in the last 20 years than our last 5 Presidents put together and is actually not a racist and never has been one… but you believe he is because it has been drilled into your head by a corrupt and paid for media, and yet you’ve never researched his accomplishments? You can start by watching those daily briefings he did during the lockdown (all online) and then watching the coverage on the Mainstream Media and how they twisted it.
Do you really believe the President encouraged America to inject bleach? Did you research the effects of UV light which is used to disinfect school busses and medical equipment and is also being used as a treatment for bacteria and respiratory infections? They want you to believe he is stupid because if you figure out that he isn’t, they will lose billions of dollars and all their control.
I know... it’s hard to let go of what you believed to be true for most of your life. You are not alone. But your blind hatred of this man who literally tried to save us from the far left, radical Socialists is going to be detrimental to our country if you continue to support their hatred. They are teaching hatred and separation to our children in schools today and even to our families! You are not allowed to agree with “part” of their agenda and think for yourself. You must accept their full belief system, or name-calling and insults ensue. This is not informed debate. It is not reason. This is the very definition of tyranny! All or nothing!
They despise law and order. Just look around you. Trump supported law and order, not looting, rioting and chaos, because we are a nation of laws, and when you respect the law, you are safe and can live in a civilized society. Trump stood for unity and America first. Is that why you disliked him? Yes, he is crass and tough minded. He is a Chief Executive Officer of a thriving company, used to getting things done. He does not suffer fools and demands performance. He is a leader.
Can you say the same thing about Joe Biden after witnessing his lost seven months in office? Recall the words of President Barack Hussein Obama,” Never underestimate the ability of Joe Biden to F&*%k things up.”
You will be amazed at how much more peace comes into your life when you turn off the fake news and tune into what America stands for, where we focus on what unites us, not what divides us.
The media has despised Trump from day one. Impeachment was on the table before he even took the oath of office in January 2017. They said impeach the “motherfuc#^*r”, and then turn around and say his rhetoric is bad? He was never given a chance, yet he’s done more in 4 years than any president with zero help from the media or democrats. Results don’t lie.
The media and democrats consistently complained about Trump “Mismanaging the Covid Crisis.” Nothing could be further from the truth. The man was a rock, and his leadership kept the nation from the abyss. He promised a vaccine before the end of 2020. They said it could not be done. He proved them wrong once again. Doses of the vaccine were delivered in mid-December 2020! He built hospitals in NYC at the Javits Center and in Central Pak and California, sent retrofitted Navy Hospital Ships to NYC and California, all of which went unused. Trump initiated Operation Warp Speed that produced PPE and therapeutics in record time along with thousands of ventilators, far more than we needed, and which are now being sent all over the world. And the overall death rate from Covid stood at less than one percent!
How dare this man, the President of the United States, care so much about the American people and our Country. How dare he stand at attention and salute our Flag, support our troops, honor our veterans, put God back into our lives, protect the unborn, give people second chances and take seriously his oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. How dare this man show up at 2:00 AM at Dover Air Force Base to welcome home hostages held in foreign lands and the remains of our fallen soldiers.
How dare this man develop and implement plans and programs to create the greatest most prosperous economy and standard of living in the history of mankind. How dare he reduce unemployment to 3.4% and achieve the lowest unemployment for Black, Asian, and Hispanic communities in fifty years! You would think this man was trying to do things rather than speak eloquently and act “Presidential” and “Cool” about such things. How dare he!
One would think President Trump was trying to provide leadership. How crass. The audacity of this man.
You would think he is trying to be a leader!
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Or do you dislike Trump because he is a prototype of the image we have of a brash, New York high testosterone, New York narcissistic male and you prefer a weak "nebish" who has been on the wrong side of major decisions since birth and deep down has consistently demonstrated he is an insecure racist politician?
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Male creativity:
female creativity overdone.
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Let's hear from Christian Whiton.
Timing Biden's Exit
Joe Manchin knows failure when he smells it
By Christian Whiton
As the tide of war turned decisively against Imperial Japan in 1944, the powers that be needed someone to fill an ignominious interim and then leave. They installed YoshijirÅ Umezuas as the final Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff. A year later, Emperor Hirohito sent him to be one of two Japanese to endure the supreme humiliation of signing the instrument of unconditional surrender to the victorious barbarians aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. He was then shunted off to the reserves, followed in short order by Sugamo Prison as a war criminal and death from rectal cancer. In just two years, he had gone from leader of one of the world’s most formidable fighting forces to an intentionally forgotten nobody dying of cancer of the ass.
As his presidency collapses around him, Joe Biden should consider Umezuas and whether he can avoid the entirety of his ignominious fate. If Biden doubts what the future holds, he need only consider his vice president, whose image may soon adorn the side of milk cartons as a missing person, wisely trying to separate herself from any more of the administration’s failures. An even greater signal came from Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), who has imperiled what is left of the Democrats’ legislative agenda. Last week, Manchin took to the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal to announce he would not support throwing several trillion dollars more on the nation’s credit card, at least not without a compelling reason. He wrote:
I, for one, won’t support a $3.5 trillion bill, or anywhere near that level of additional spending, without greater clarity about why Congress chooses to ignore the serious effects inflation and debt have on existing government programs.
Manchin noted that we cannot know what crises lay ahead, and might want to have some financial reserve left for the inevitable rainy day. He further observed: “An overheating economy has imposed a costly ‘inflation tax’ on every middle- and working-class American.”—a criticism that takes direct aim at the reckless monetary policy being run by Biden and his Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell (another winner appointed to high office by Donald Trump).
In a Senate evenly divided between the two parties, Manchin’s defection well in advance of when Congress returns to consider more blowout spending must come as a shock. It wouldn’t have happened if Biden’s popularity and standing hadn’t cratered, and is indicative of the magnitude of the crisis. While Manchin has differed from other Democrats’ on cultural issues, getting a West Virginia Democrat to support more federal spending usually isn’t hard. Furthermore, Manchin does not face reelection until 2024, which is long after voters usually would remember an objectionable vote over spending.
What Manchin knows is that Biden isn’t likely to last until 2024. The 78-year-old president cannot recover from disasters of this year, and will lose more altitude as the economy stalls from his mismanagement of the pandemic and the coming shock of tax hikes Democrats will insert into the 2022 budget they will pass this fall. The Afghanistan crisis isn’t going away either. The fight for power and survival post-Biden starts now, not in 2023 or 2024.
Congressional Democrats, who are the real power in the Biden-Harris administration, want Biden to stick around through next year’s midterm elections, in which Democrats are likely to lose the House of Representatives to Republicans. Then, tarred by humiliation abroad, Obama-style economic stagnation at home, and defeat for his party the polls, Biden can be pushed from the stage. Harris could take office in the hope that a fresh president and a year of doing presidential things would position her better for 2024. Alternatively, the untalented Harris may also be given the boot from the 2024 ticket, but in today’s racialist Democrat Party, that can only be achieved if another black woman takes her place. Keep an eye on Stacey Abrams, who last year was the de facto boss of Georgia.
Biden can limit this historic humiliation by leaving office sooner. Some 78-year-olds have surprising degrees of stamina and mental strength, but Biden is not one of them. He could wait for a decent interval after the Afghanistan fiasco and depart early in the new year, citing the strains of the job. However this outcome seems unlikely. Those who prop up Biden, much like the geriatric Soviet leaders who preceded Mikhail Gorbachev, don’t want to lose their grip on power, and certainly don’t want reform. These people range from Biden’s own cruel family to his White House senior staff, who will never again have such power, to congressional radicals, who are setting the Washington agenda independently of the weakened presidency to a degree unseen since the post-Watergate era.
That likely pushes Biden’s departure to early 2023, after the reality of a partially or completely Republican-run Congress sinks in, should one be elected. If that happens, the Democrats’ agenda will be mostly dead, and all of the Biden-Harris administration’s executive actions will come under withering congressional scrutiny. Why stick around? Harris’s ability at that point to salvage the 2024 presidential contest at least into the margin of election fraud is highly doubtful. It seems America is set to chalk up yet another failed presidency among the many of recent decades.
What about the Senate?
Showing again how good he is at missing the point, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made headlines by rejecting the notion that Congress would impeach Joe Biden for wrecking American power globally through incompetence in Afghanistan. No duh, Mitch. Math is hard but not that hard. McConnell thought he was being very clever by pivoting to invite voters angry at Biden to provide McConnell once again with more undeserved power by winning midterm elections. That outcome probably won’t get us a border wall, less spending, the deportation of illegal aliens, or taking the fight to wokeistas across our society, but it will get McConnell a bigger office and spotlight. The phrase “happy as a pig in shit” comes to mind.
It is unclear if Senate Republicans understand the degree to which McConnell is hated among many rank-and-file Republicans and most Republican activists. Those who win elections for Republicans on the ground do not merely see McConnell as a disappointment or tale of woe; they actually hate his guts. Furthermore, polls show that McConnell is detested by more than just activists, with net disapproval greater than any other major political figure of either party. The 79-year-old, who has been the top Senate Republican for fifteen years, may be a significant drag on Republicans taking control of the Senate through a net gain of one or more seats in next year’s elections.
Wherever the balance of power between parties settles after the elections, McConnell will find himself in a Republican caucus that is more activist, with fewer squish members who talk tough at home and vote the right way on engineered votes that don’t affect the real world, but who basically just attend things in Washington, DC. The fictional Colorado governor in South Park’s Season Nine could be modeled on them: “I just wanted a big house and lots of respect. I didn’t want this kind of responsibility.”
Recent years have seen new blood like Tennessee’s two Republican senators, Bill Hagerty and Marsha Blackburn, both of whom replaced country club Republicans, join activists from the Tea Party classes of 2010 and 2012. Rick Scott of Florida is another star. Activist Republicans have a solid shot at replacing retiring Republicans in states like Ohio and North Carolina and unseating squish Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. In Wisconsin, incumbent Republican Senator Ron Johnson could prove through reelection that the way to win in swing states is by standing on principle, fighting the Left unapologetically, and energizing activists. In 2020, nice guy Cory Gardner tried the alternative in Colorado and got creamed.
One wild card is California, which holds a recall election on September 14. Recent polls have incumbent Democrat Gavin Newsom with an edge, but accurately polling an unusual, off-year recall election during a pandemic is far from easy. If Larry Elder, a black conservative intellectual with populist skill, succeeds Newsom, it would be the biggest political earthquake in California since tax-limiting Prop 13 passed in 1978. It is the clearest choice between Right and Left in California since Barbara “Don’t Call Me Ma’am” Boxer prevailed over Bruce Herschensohn in 1992. An Elder victory would also instantly make him a candidate for the presidency in 2024; in fact, even a close loss would put him in contention. If he were to win, there is a strong chance he could appoint a Republican to succeed Senator Dianne Feinstein, the 88-year-old liberal who is harder to find than Vice President Harris, fueling speculation about her health.
Another Californian putting steel on target is Robert O’Brien, the former National Security Advisor. I hosted O’Brien at an event at the Center for the National Interest. We covered numerous topics from Afghanistan to China to the semiconductor wars. In response to a question about a hyper-woke, anti-US statement put out by Secretary of State Tony Blinken, O’Brien said: “That sounds like something our POWs used to have to read in self-denunciation at the Hanoi Hilton.” Between O’Brien and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Republicans have themselves the extreme rarity of national security figures who aren’t trying to be Henry Kissinger.
We’re at the point of the bubble cycle where the only thing that seems to matter is Fed policy. Profits, unemployment, consumer sentiment, and prices matter some, but investors and commentators seem overwhelmingly seized with how long the Fed will keep feeding us the drug of loose money. And rightly so: reckless government policy has crowded out the regular functioning of finance. Thus, last week’s news that new jobs came in much lower than expected and a lower unemployment rate indicates people have permanently left the workforce was greeted with relief by markets. In the long term, it foretells a return to Obama-Biden stagnation, but in the near term it implies the Fed will further delay any real tightening of monetary policy. (The media can echo the government lie about inflation not biting, but they weren’t fooling an angry lady whom a friend saw vocally blaming Biden for starkly higher meat prices at Costco.)
Still twisting in the wind is the architect of the greatest dollar printing exercise in history, the aforementioned Trump-installed Jerome Powell. He reminds us of Janet Reno, who in Bill Clinton’s second term was the last cabinet secretary to be told she could remain in office. Bubba’s White House was wisely extracting a promise from her never to appoint another independent counsel for any reason whatsoever (too bad Trump used morons instead of Bubba’s personnel people). Reno reluctantly acquiesced. With Powell, there is no hesitance: while he was astutely independent of the Trump White House, even shaving a point off of GDP in 2019 to give the Democrats a fighting chance, he is an eager lieutenant to all who might give him orders under the new regime. It may not work: Biden needs his progressive base and that base doesn’t like white men.
Separately, the Biden’s charm and “America is back” diplomacy are still failing to work on another target: OPEC and its larger OPEC+ grouping. With prices for regular-grade gas surging to $4.40 per gallon in California (more expensive than even Hawaii, which has no production and only one small refinery), Biden’s energy people are feeling some heat to do something. OPEC politely declined to alter its plan to increase production by 400,000 barrels-per-day each month. Biden officials released 1.5 million barrels from the national reserve—a minor blip for a country that consumes 18 million barrels on any given day. Biden officials also opened 80 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico to drilling to comply with a court order stopping the government from halting the leases. But in announcing the decision, the Interior Department added ominously: “additional analysis of climate change may be a significant consideration in the Department’s decisions regarding oil and gas leasing programs in the future.” Will this hostility deter investors? Probably.
It is perhaps in this spirit that North Korea has restarted its plutonium-producing reactor at Yongbyon. This is the same reactor that was supposedly disabled permanently when Condi Rice and Chris Hill paid North Korea to put on a big show of blowing up a cooling tower. The tower was irrelevant to operating the reactor, which was restarted the year later. (At the State Department at the time, one of Christiane Amanpour’s producers at pointless CNN was irritated at my skepticism of the North Korean move: “But Christiane has been there and seen the dismantled equipment.” I doubted Christiane’s knowledge of rector design, even though she is Iranian.) It has become one of a few reliable options for Pyongyang when it wants attention, the others being nuclear tests, missile tests, or conventional military provocations of South Korea.
This step seems like a pretty obvious reaction to Biden weakness. In addition to the fiasco in Afghanistan, Biden has gone thought at least six rounds of begging the Iranians to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal that heavily favors Tehran. Pyongyang logically asks if sanctions relief and payola is flowing for the mullahs, why not get in on the action?
The reactor restart is mostly irrelevant from a strategic standpoint. One reason we all love the isotope plutonium-239, one of just two paths to a nuclear weapon, is that it has a half-life of more than 24,000 years. Once you have enough, you can quit making it, because it lasts forever. That is why the USA shut down its last reactor used primarily for plutonium production at Hanford in early 1987, before anyone thought the Cold War would soon end.
But don’t expect Biden officials merely to yawn at the development and move on. Instead, the temptation to engage in talks with North Korea may be too great. They are still befuddled that Trump was more successful than any post-Cold War president in dealing with North Korea. In fact, Biden officials have been trying to engage North Korea since the beginning of the administration, but Pyongyang has ignored the requests. Likely reeling from coronavirus, North Korea probably wanted to put some more chips on its side of the table before beginning negotiations. Diplomacy ahoy!
Meanwhile, Japan, which will select a new Prime Minister on September 29, is doing something the USA has not seriously done despite decades of promises: increase the real quantity of military power in the Western Pacific. According to the South China Morning Post, Japan is likely to increase its defense spending again to nearly $50 billion. While this is still in line with long-standing unofficial practice of spending just one percent or so of GDP on defense, it will lead to more high-tech fighter planes, warships, and satellites deterring China—something the USA, with its bloated $750 billion defense budget and expertise in sucking at counter-insurgency in backwaters, never seems to produce. Biden told the nation that the U.S. collapse in Afghanistan would pave the way to focusing on threats like China, but this is almost certainly untrue: the Obama-Biden administration promised the same after Biden orchestrated a failed withdrawal from Iraq in 2010 that paved the way for ISIS to emerge, and the Pacific ended up with a few new ballyhooed pieces of junk like the Littoral Combat Ship, as more capable platforms were quietly retired or scrubbed.
We complain that NATO members seldom meet the two percent of GDP they promised to spend on defense, but one wonders what the post-modern wimps of Old Europe would do with their military if they spent two or five or event ten percent of GDP. Buy fancier uniforms and zero-emission tanks? Japan at one percent produces more real-word effect, and there are quiet discussions in Tokyo about rising above that tradition one-percent level.
Mediocrity of the week
When we think of mediocrities, we just can’t quit Mark Milley, the top uniformed solider and another winner hired by Donald Trump. With the heat on in Washington for the Army brass’s epic fail at the one thing they’re supposed to know how to do, Milley headed to Germany, headquarters of U.S. European Command and for some reason Africa Command. Before the recent unpleasantness, Milley was there in July to talk up yet another near-irrelevance, Atlantic Command, saying: “It is the mission of this command to fight the battle of the Atlantic” and allow shipments to reach Europe in a war. This refutes that adage that militaries prepare to fight the last war, since that was actually several wars ago. But in selecting priorities, our Congress and military can only ever choose “all of the above.” Today’s military does things poorly, but it does a lot of them.
This time in Germany, Milley made the bold prediction that Afghanistan would descend into civil war and soon play host to al Qaeda. Note that Milley’s opinions don’t just originate in his brilliant mind, but are informed by our $80 billion-per-year intelligence bureaucracy. You should take Milley’s prediction as potentially good news: it almost certainly means that there will not be a civil war in Afghanistan and that al Qaeda will not reemerge there. Milley is a strong contrarian indicator. Indeed, he has helped ensure the Taliban gets unitary control of Afghanistan by providing them with an air force and billions of dollars’ worth of other materiel. Sure, enough, the Wall Street Journal reports today that the Taliban may have conquered the last pockets of resistance in the country. Milley the unifier!
Casa Bonita
If you watch South Park or have visited Denver with kids, you probably know about Casa Bonita, the Mexican restaurant with an indoor cliff diving show and little flags you raise when you want a waiter. The pandemic has hit the restaurant hard, which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. Now, South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, who made an entire episode about the restaurant, have come to the rescue, telling Colorado’s governor they plan to buy the place. An article reporting the news said a recent $900 million deal with ViacomCBS for six more seasons of South Park has given the two f—k you money to spend. Actually, they’ve had that at least since inking a $500 million deal to rent their library to HBO in 2019. South Park fans will have to make due with only a modest number of episodes per year, but can be grateful that Casa Bonita lives on indefinitely. The Viacom deal also requires them to produce 14 features for its Paramount+ streaming property.
Have a great week.
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Sent to me by a friend and fellow memo reader.
He is a conservative and attacks his own for valid reasons:
A blatantly true essay…. To bad for US!
You want to know the real reason why the left is making incredible inroads into all areas of life despite the fact they have unlikable, unbelievable positions? Because they are doers. Our side may have better looking people, but that translates into we are more likely to lounge around watching political talk shows and whine. We’re the side known for having long policy conferences sitting around criticizing the problems in society. We have all these stars on our side who entertain us. Turn on right-wing TV and you feel like you’re looking at models. We have the best memes. We’re standing on street corners waving Trump signs and bragging about having the largest rallies.
In contrast, the left is out walking, knocking on doors recruiting voters, hanging out in nursing homes bringing cookies to the staff pretending they care about old people in order to get their votes. They’re doing opposition research behind the scenes. While we’re frothing at the mouth saying outrageous things to raise money and attract attention, they’re secretly watching long hours of our conferences and campaign rallies collecting our careless mistakes. One frustrated congressman told me that while he was speaking at a two hour meeting to a group of 100 activists, those 100 activists could have been out knocking on doors; 200 hours of work they could have accomplished.
The left is out there making our feeble-minded conservatives representative of the rest of us while we’re stuck reacting and trying to defend them. I have a lefty friend who brings up outrageous things that people on the right do before I’ve even heard of the person or their actions. He’ll say, “Your side is causing people to die,” or “Your side believes all these conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact,” or “Your side advocates for violence,” getting the spin out there and setting the narrative before we even know what’s going on. We gullibly fall for it, and end up spending all of our time defending the mistakes by little known or attention getting conservatives.
Yes, it’s true that what they said is free speech. But it’s a red herring. I don’t have all the answers, because yes we need to defend all free speech or they will come after the rest of us, and they already are canceling the rest of us for things that clearly weren’t merely careless or egotistical; the left canceled me last year using forgery. But always being on the defensive is not going to win the political debate, the left figured this out years ago with Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
We wring our hands when we hear about another company turning against the right. It seems like we’re being driven out of all areas of society. But it’s actually not as bad as it seems, the left is forcing these changes; people aren’t actually all becoming leftists. As I wrote in July, despite the false rhetoric, Republicans are becoming the party of young people while Democrats the party of elderly. The left isn’t running corporations, they are engaging in targeted attacks to force the corporations to do what they want. Jesse Jackson popularized the tactics of shaking down corporations to support his agenda years ago, now it’s become mainstream on the left.
The instant the Supreme Court ruled that it was not stopping Texas’s heartbeat abortion law from going into effect, a handful of radical left-wing activists paid their social media troll factories to start bombarding relevant corporations with threats. Sure enough, a few caved. Lyft and Uber said they would pay the legal fees of drivers sued under the law. Go Daddy — where I used to be a corporate attorney — kicked off a site set up by Texas Right to Life to report those in violation of the law. Go Daddy isn’t run by monsters, they just couldn’t withstand the threats from a handful of paid trolls who have all the time in the world sitting around in their parents’ basements on George Soros money harassing the right.
The left makes up these disaster scenarios involving the right which have nothing to do with reality. They say we are trying to turn the country back to a previous era which was horrible for minorities and women but it’s not true. I addressed this fallacy in 2017. They say they are scared about what horrible things the right would do, but it’s an Orwellian argument; the left is doing horrible things to the right, stamping us out of society which has become so prevalent there’s now a phrase for it, cancel culture.
Anne Applebaum, a left-leaning writer at The Atlantic, wrote an article recently exposing the cancel culture in academia, proudly declaring that it’s not the left going after the right, because most of the professors she interviewed were middle of the road to leftist. Well the reason for this is because conservatives were driven out of academia long before the phrase cancel culture emerged! There are none left to attack, so the left is naturally imploding on itself. You can’t create a political philosophy based on promoting one group in society over another, because it goes contrary to human nature. We’re all created differently as individuals, we don’t fall solely into groups.
Now, it’s true that many of us are only in politics for entertainment, we view it as a hobby, so naturally we are going to be drawn to armchair quarterback positions watching political talk shows and yelling at the TV. And others aren’t wired to do the boring, routine work of walking door to door or painstakingly watching every minute of a boring Democratic convention and then bombarding companies with fake emails and tweets. Because most of us have high ethical standards as Christians, we shy away from bombarding companies with anonymous messages claiming to be black gay females.
It’s OK to rant. But some of this we can start doing. If you’re not going to take the steps necessary to stop the left, then don’t expect the needle to move.
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What Radical Islam and the Woke Have In Common
You’d think that Islamist extremists and leftist radicals would have nothing in common. But noted human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali has good reason to believe this is no longer the case. She explains in this eye-opening video. Click here to watch.
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