“This is why political correctness, or Cultural Marxism,… lends itself so fashionably to easy labels. Transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, racist, bigoted, Uncle Tom, white privilege, mansplaining. All of these are slapped on people with “politically incorrect” opinions in an attempt to silence you. Hate speech is inextricably tied to political correctness, or Cultural Marxism, and that creates intellectual conformity — or intellectual authoritarianism. And that’s where you start to see things like “safe spaces” or “trigger warnings” or speakers banned from campus, or people with unpopular opinions banned from social media.” — Steven Crowder http://libertytree.ca/quotes/Steven.Crowder.Quote.49F8
[The few times I was aware of Crowder at all I wasn’t that impressed. This quote however is a very good one. This technique of the Cultural Marxists has been absolutely devastating to those who value freedom. They essentially have “won” the debate. If you disagree with them, you instantly become a ‘hater’ or a ‘denier’. Reason goes out the window. They wouldn’t be able to do this without their echo chamber, the media. But when you have everyone repeating the company line it makes people nervous to go against the tide. Most people are beaten into submission. Their takeover of academia and the media was brilliant. Hollywood. The power of propaganda is overwhelming.]
“Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.” — Plato (429-347 BC) Greek philosopher
He weren’t no dummy. He’s also proof that what our founders knew 200 years ago, he knew 2,000 years ago, and that we promptly forgot. Democracy (The form of government deriving from the Greek terms “demos” and “kratien” or “kratos”) ‘the people to rule’, or power of the people. Mob rule. It seemed really relevant when mobs of looters are roaming the streets. People knew we were a Republic up through the 1920’s. People forget though that the Bolshevik revolution wasn’t confined to Russia. It hit here first in our school system, where they could teach succeeding generations we were this sweet sounding word “democracy”. Thereby instead of having limited government, all we now needed was 51 percent, and anything was possible.
You’d never know it from listening to “news” radio WHO 1040 am, but there’s a primary today. I have no idea what the important issues or races are. The media today has no concept of conveying information. All they are concerned about is revenue. The only interesting race I was able to glean for today was Iowa’s 4th District (we used to have 7). Steve King against Randy Feenstra (above) and a gaggle of others. The others will split the vote enough so King slips in. Their 1%, 3%, 1% and 2% (7%) will be what Feenstra loses by. Democrats have the chance of a lifetime to switch parties for a day and take out King in June instead of losing to him in November, but they’re too stupid. So instead we’ll have King for another 20 years. If there’s enough “mo” to overthrow King I’d be surprised. And a lot of it will be because what used to be the ‘engine’ of conservative politics in Iowa, WHO radio, ran out of gas. Nobody knew about the race.
[The idiocy of party politics was thrust into my face in 2002 when Bill Salier ran to unseat ultra-liberal Tom Harkin. Salier first had to beat Representative Greg Ganske. You knew a conventional establishment candidate like Ganske would get wiped out in the general, and he did. In situations like that you need a guerilla candidate. Someone with charisma, momentum. But on primary night the party zombies turned out and pulled the establishment lever. That’s all they know. They’re just zombies. They don’t think. The only chance Feenstra has is the Blue Bloods are sick of King. The top has abandoned King, we’ll see if the base does.] (6/5/20 update: King lost.)
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[Their site crashed from all the new visitors! Freedoms last online hope crashed just when it was taking off. I hope they don’t lose their new guests. 5/29/20 update: Torba seems really pumped about the new traffic. Their site was down for about a week getting new servers. In that time President Trump’s feud with Twitter has really escalated. This is a very serious issue. I don’t begin to understand how he and other conservatives choose to fight this war. If he and the majority of well known conservatives would just leave Twitter, that platform would die on the vine. What planet are they from that they think they can expect rational behavior out of liberals? Don’t get it, haven’t got it, never will understand this. Liberals are irrational psychopaths but they are very good streetfighters. They are not interested in playing fair. They are not interested in having a “debate“. They are interested in winning. That is all.]
This video by KCCI – TV was uploaded 11/14/18. I believe I heard the officer say the area was 58th and Aspen (in West Des Moines) at one point. Its a fascinating look at an incident in your own backyard, especially as it took place a year and a half before the Ahmaud Arbery case in Georgia. Cops, who often confuse themselves with God, think that they have the right to demand a citizen “show his papers”. Swear to God they’ve opened fire on a person because the ‘report’ said “he had a gun”.
A report can say a lot of things. In fact the Des Moines cops had an interesting interaction with this very TV station, KCCI. Approximately 10 years ago the station manager after the 10 pm newscast called to report loud bangs and breaking glass outside their station. A cameraman (Spencer Vaughn) went outside to wait for police, who drove up and opened fire at him. Luckily, being police, they missed.
The unfortunate thing about the incident in the video involving West Des Moines Police and ‘walking man’, is it doesn’t look like they got their ass sued off.
[Thanks to the Waterloo Courier for having the article on the station incident, ‘Police mistakenly fire at Des Moines TV cameraman‘, 10/14/10. Not to mention spouse beater Officer Cody Grimes back on the force??]
The Bell Curve boiled down is represented by this map. It displays historical average Intelligent Quotient by race and region across the globe. Since the IQ Test was developed over 100 years ago, the amount of variance has been negligible. Many “answers” have been given for the obvious differences in native intelligence. Nutrition, environment, language structure and many others. All I know is this map represents areas of dysfunction very well.
This is a map of poverty. Ignorance. Susceptibility to authoritarian regimes. Bloody religions. Stagnant societies. Reduced life spans. Stunted cultural developments. Every malady known to man is represented in direct correlation to this IQ map. There is one aberration; China. The idea that their average IQ would be 105 is incomprehensible to me. They strike me as a backwards, evil society. Other than China its a perfect roadmap.
In Africa you have grass huts and in South America you have wood huts. No surprise. You look at the 3 areas of the globe that have a functioning society (America, Europe, Australia), and there is no surprise, they were started by civilized white men. Every “stereotype” is reinforced by this map. My theory is twofold. You can’t address a problem until you acknowledge it. And secondly, truth is not your enemy, lies are. I will go to my grave believing that ‘ugly truth’ is better than pretty little lies.
The question that occurred to me as I took a last look at the map is, “Are the red, brown and beige areas capable of self-government?” They haven’t been up to this point.
People don’t wantto see disaster coming. In the opening months of WW II American author Agnes Newton Keith (played by Claudette Colbert) along with her 4 year old son and husband are swept up into the horror of Japanese prison camps in Borneo (the title is in reference to all 3 of them surviving). She had a month or so after Pearl Harbor before the Japs took over Borneo. A month to think, “I wonder if we should get the hell out of here?” In the film they don’t even seriously consider evacuating the women and children. They have this bizarre attitude so many people do in the face of disaster. They think that somehow their determination, guts, perseverance, courage or something will decide how events turnout.
You’ll see this time and again with hurricanes, or forest fires, or flooding, or urban unrest or military incursions. People don’t want to face reality. They don’t want to see events in the clear light of day. They think, “Oh that humongous forest fire will go around our house because of my guts and determination!” No…. that forest fire is going to do exactly what it wants to do. In the film it was incomprehensible that Mrs. Newton and her son should stay in Borneo 1 week after Pearl Harbor. Everyone knew this was war, in fact it was the last time Congress ever declared war. Tensions had been worsening with Japan for years, and in the final months before conflict it was so thick you could cut it with a knife.
A blind man could see war was coming. The same thing happened in Europe. Many, many Jews saw what was coming, they left. Other Jews with access to the same information stayed. How is this possible? Why did people with the same information see that it was imperative to leave at all costs? And the other group thought, “Oh we’ll ride it out with guts and determination!” What poppycock! Its the same lack of logic when people say, “Oh I don’t believe in hell.” Or, “I don’t believe in God.” What you ‘believe’ is irrelevant, what ‘is‘ is what matters.
This movie caused me to see the ridiculousness of the situation in America with this pandemic. I promptly put that thought into a post on Facebook. Which immediately got me banned. “Americans are too stupid to see the seriousness of the situation. Whitmer, Newsom, Cuomo, the idiot in Virginia, are simply the vanguard of a totalitarian regime taking over America. They could be removed now, but Americans will wait too long, until they can no longer be removed.” What I was saying is that if you wish to get rid of these wannabe Hitler’s, you had better do it now before they get anymore power.
This is like September 2, 1939, the day after Hitler’s army invaded Poland. Or December 8, 1941, the day after Pearl. If you didn’t see it before, there’s no missing it now. Its here. There’s no more ignoring the signs. This is America’s warning. Whitmer, Newsom, Cuomo, Fauci, these little tyrants are only going to get worse. They’re only going to gather more power. More leverage over you, more control over you. You don’t “get back” freedom. You fight for it, or you lose it. You fight them now, or you won’t have the means to fight later.
Judges are out of control, Governors are out of control, Congress is out of control. This is it. Showtime! They are printing money out of thin air. They are making ‘rules’ out of thin air. They are telling healthy people they have to quarantine. They are denying people life saving Hydroxychloroquine and zinc treatment. The last means of returning the government to the people (that doesn’t involve gunpowder) is a Convention of the States or a Constitutional Convention. There is no other way. 30 years ago a book was written called, ‘Don’t Shoot the Bastards Yet’. Using the nuclear clock analogy, it is 3 minutes till midnight.
These changes must happen or this country is finished:
“I would like to call upon America to be more careful with its trust and prevent those who because of short-sightedness and still others out of self-interest, from falsely using the struggle for peace and for social justice to lead you down a false road. Because they are trying to weaken you; they are trying to disarm your strong and magnificent country in the face of this fearful threat. I call upon you: ordinary working men of America, do not let yourselves become weak.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn (June 30, 1975)
“The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principles.” — Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi
“As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant, of the people.” — Jeffrey R. Snyder – A Nation of Cowards
“My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.” — Margaret Mead – Cultural anthropologist and author
“Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.” — Norman Mailer
“The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.” — Andrew Jackson
“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can make for us or spare us.” — Marcel Proust
“The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.” — John Kenneth Galbraith
“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” – Laurie Halse Anderson
“We have men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.” –Omar Bradley – Armistice Day speech 1948
Some people think its a celebration of Karl Marx’s birthday May 5, 1818. Given Mexico’s version of socialism is to rob from the poor to give to the rich, I can see that. Then I read it was about the Mexican Army’s victory over the French in 1862 at Puebla (though they did turn around and lose, and France installed its puppet Maximillian anyway).
I love the way TCM celebrates it! Its as delicious as May 5, 2015 when then candidate Donald Trump ate a taco salad at Trump Towers while giving his online Cinco de Mayo Twitter message. The only thing missing was a sombrero. No, TCM on May 5th discovers Mexican movies like they discover black movies on Martin Luther King Day. Hardly condescending at all.
I couldn’t believe the good fortune of having Cinco de Mayo fall on Taco Tuesday! What were the chances? ¡Ay, caramba! TCM is playing ‘Sombrero!‘ – 1953, not to be patronizing at all. Now their travelogue is ‘Historic Mexico City‘. The feature following is: ‘Viva Villa!‘ Next up was ‘The Robin Hood of Eldorado‘. Now its ‘The Fugitive‘ – 1947, with Frito bandito Henry Fonda as a “revolutionary priest fleeing a central American dictatorship”. You couldn’t write this script.
No I thought to properly celebrate Cinco de Mayo would involve celebrating the endemic corruption of the Mexican government, owned and operated for the elite. The drug cartels who buy their safety and longevity from the corrupt government. A culture that celebrates animal abuse (bulls, fighting cocks and dogs). The cultural Catholics that tolerate a machismo rape culture. A celebration of the ignorance and sloth that seems a permanent fixture of Mexico.
I guess in the end what gets celebrated the most on Cinco de Mayo is drinking. Something they are particularly good at.
“Magic Dirt Theory. The idea that where a person lives determines their behavior, when in reality it’s the people who live in a given location that determine if said location is safe or not. Liberals sure believe in the magic dirt theory–they think that if they move DeShawn out of the ghetto and into the rich white suburbs, he’ll suddenly be a good student and make something of himself.”
MDT (Magic Dirt Theory) is on both the micro and the macro levels. Urban sociologists used it as justification for busing as an example in the late 60s and early 70s (and beyond). Operating on the idea that if you take Tyrone out of the ghetto, you will then be taking the ghetto out of Tyrone. Yeah. On a global scale, the globalists feel that the only place on the globe that can support a functioning society is the United States of America. Therefore the entire contents of the globe must be brought here.
Yeah. One of the things that will drive you crazy about liberals is the glaring contradictions. There are countries like Saudi Arabia, China, South Korea and Japan that do not take any immigrants to become citizens. They will take guest workers for a year or so, but there is absolutely no transition to citizenship. Yet America takes in more immigrants than the rest of the world combined. Top that off with ungodly amounts of illegal immigration, and you have White Replacement Theory.
WRT being the idea that since you core group of freedom lovers won’t vote the “right” way (i.e. Trump), we’ll bring in people who will. Hitler had the same idea, “It doesn’t matter what you think, we have your children.” (only he said it in German) But getting back to MDT, Mexico is a prime example. It is so rich in natural resources, good climate, located between two continents, ports on two oceans, yet for the masses they might as well not exist. If ever there was a country for the 1%.
America acts as a pressure relief valve. Revolution never boils over because the ones with any gumption just go north. If we had a border, that would force things to come to a head in Mexico City. But as the wealthy in both countries benefit from the status quo, it will never change. Liberals don’t help. They don’t demand change in Mexico City, they just demand we keep the border open. They demand illegals get the same benefits as Americans.
The idea that Mexicans should damn well stay in their own country and make a go of it there, never occurs to them. They like oppression. The oppressed need a nanny state. In the end, we just end up importing dysfunction.
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