Monday, March 9, 2020

California Is a Cruel Medieval State

Victor Davis Hanson

The Golden State has become a cruel and unusual place because callousness and narcissism were redefined as caring and compassion.


     "One way of understanding California is simply to invert traditional morality. What for centuries would be considered selfish, callous, and greedy is now recalibrated as caring, empathetic, and generous. The current ethos of evaluating someone by his or her superficial appearance—gender or race—has returned to the premodern values of 19th-century California when race and gender calibrated careers. We don’t pay medieval priests for indulgences of our past and ongoing sin, but we do tweet out displays of our goodness as the penance price of acting amoral.
     "A paradox ensues that Californians both have a high, indeed smug, view of themselves and yet do a lot of damage to their fellow human beings. Their haughtiness is based largely on the reality that Silicon Valley, sandwiched between Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley, became the birthplace of the global computer, internet, social media, and a high-tech revolution. For progressives who deprecate the capitalist lifestyle, having a lot of money still allows one to say one thing and live out the opposite.
     "The state’s multi-trillion-dollar companies have hired tens of thousands of seven-figure, mid-level executives and computer experts who assume that life in the California coastal corridor is a birthright paradise.
     "The resulting tax revenue bonanza to the state allows one-party-rule to rid California of the old bothersome Reagan-Deukmejian-Wilson working- and middle-classes by embracing not-in-my-backyard zoning, identity politics, anal-retentive regulations, steep tax rates, utopian green agendas, open borders, and decriminalization of things that used to be felony offenses.
     "Indeed, the bigger and wealthier California became, the more the rich sought to privatize their lives and to give up on public services, the more the middle classes left the state, the more the poor from Mexico and Latin America crossed the southern border illegally, the more its schools deteriorated, and the more its infrastructure ossified and became decrepit, from century-old power transmission towers to pot-holed and jammed highways." . . .  More...

CNN “Religion Commentator” Edward Beck Slanders Christians: Throws the Body of Christ Under a Bus

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"Have you ever had someone tell a lie about you? It’s a pretty helpless feeling.”
So begins a chapter on “Slander” by CNN Religion Commentator “Father” Edward Beck in his book Soul Provider: Spiritual Steps to Limitless Love. He continues:
You can dispute the lie, but once it is uttered, it cannot be taken back. It takes on a life of its own. Even if shown to be untrue, the lie exists in memory, at times destroying reputations and lives. Perhaps this is why slander has been seen as such a major offense by religious traditions.
Adamant that “no good can come from slander,” Beck next describes the disturbing root of slander and the necessary resolve to combat this “world of unrighteousness” (James 3:6):
Whether we torch a reputation for our own purposes or we find ourselves maligned for the sake of someone else’s designs, there is no good that comes from slanderRooted in insecurity and detached from reality, slander begins as words uttered and ends in lives destroyed. The surest way to prevent that destruction is to imprison malicious words with utmost diligence…” . . .

Obama's FBI let terrorists go who then killed Americans


"Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit reported, "New Study Finds FBI Dropped Investigations on Terrorists Behind: Ft. Hood, Pulse Nightclub, Garland and Boston Marathon Islamist Attacks."

"He cited a new Inspector General's report, "Audit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Efforts to Identify Homegrown Violent Extremists through Counterterrorism Assessments."

"The FBI investigated and decided 6 Islamic terrorists posed no threat. They are:

  • Nidal Hasan, who later killed 14 people and wound 31 more at Fort Hood.
  • Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who later killed 3 people and injured 249 more in the Boston Marathon.
  • Elton Simpson, who later killed a guard but failed in his attempted attack on a Draw Mohammad exhibition in Garland, Texas.
  • Omar Mateen, who later killed 49 gay people at Orlando Pulse Nightclub.
  • Ahmad Rahami, who later injured 31 people in bombings in New York and New Jersey.
  • Esteban Santiago, who later killed 5 people and injured 6 more at Ft. Lauderdale Airport.
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Ugly Americans a destructive force for this nation (Updating)



"Lookatme!" Megan Rapinoe and her "endless spew of self-righteous drivel" . . . " Perhaps she really is “iconic” if your political and personal views align perfectly with Rapinoe’s. Surely, though even her allies must cringe occasionally at her antics, and pretending she is some unifying figure of diversity, rather than a polarizing loudmouth, particularly grates."
The Guardian loves her, hates Trump, but which one would you want beside your son's flag-draped casket?


https://www.usapoliticstoday.org/kamala-harris-money-funneling/"Sunday’s BET Awards saw rappers calling police murderers and California Congresswoman Maxine Waters and California Senator Kamala Harris were applauded and praised as social justice “superheroes.” Harris once asked, "someone who is about to become the head of one of the largest intelligence services in the world if they believe in climate change." Blaze TV’s Deneen Borelli has something to say about Louis Farrakhan, Kamala Harris, and Al Sharpton. They are toxic and dangerous.

Senator Mazie Hirono. . . “Of course it helps that there are women on that committee, but you know what? I expect the men in this country and the men in this committee … to demand an FBI investigation,” Hirono said. “But really, guess who’s perpetuating all of these kinds of actions? It’s the men in this country! And I just want to say to the men in this country — just shut up and step up! Do the right thing for a change.” . . .


Chuck Schumer is a thug  . . . "Speaking in defense of “fundamental rights,” Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer — who recently voted against legislation that would protect infants who survive botched abortions — stood atop the steps of the Supreme Court and said the following to a crowd of rabid supporters of legal abortion: 
I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have unleashed the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions

Rashida Tlaib on Abortion: ‘Maybe You Shouldn’t Want to Have Sex With Me’   " . . . as Dorothy Parker reminds us, “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” And your hate-filled personality makes you ugly." . . .
How's this for ugly? New House Democrat Rashida Tlaib: 'We're gonna impeach the motherf****r    . . . "Or as Shakespeare wrote in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, “I am sick when I do look on thee “ . . .
“@RashidaTlaib retweets a vicious lie steeped in centuries-old accusations used to demonize Jews, then says nothing when it’s disproven,” he asserted. “An apology is overdue.”



California Gov. Signs Law Outlawing Suspending Students For Unruly Behavior  "California students who disrupt their classrooms can no longer be suspended for their unruly behavior, thanks to a new law Governor Gavin Newsom endorsed on Monday.
"Senate Bill 419, which will go into effect on July 1, 2020, will make it permanently illegal for charter and public schools to suspend defiant and disruptive fourth- and fifth-grade students, The Sacramento Bee reported." . . .

. . . "AOC is a puppet congresswoman with dangerous handlers including Saikat Chakrabarti, and the mastermind behind it all – Cenk Uygur. This video is packed full of evidence, and anyone who has followed AOC can easily make these connections. Her staff has an extremely socialist agenda." . . .




Pelosi And Her Democrats: ‘Let Us Prey’    "When Nancy Pelosi ripped up Trump’s State of the Union speech last week, the truth came out:  She hates him.  So do the Democrats. We’re not stupid.  
. . . "We lost something, too.  News about Pelosi shredding Trump’s “manifesto of mistruths” overshadowed all the warm feelings that America could have enjoyed had the momentum of the evening’s most moving moments lingered into the next day.  Pelosi poisoned those moments and dragged the country down an uglier path. " . . .



Robert de Niro wants to see a ‘bag of s—t’ thrown in Donald Trump’s face
. . . "The “Irishman” actor told Moore about his gross fantasy when their conversation turned to de Niro’s previous statement that he wanted to punch Trump in the face.
“ 'It would kind of feel good to punch him — not hurt him — but just punch him in the face,” Moore told de Niro."

Do this on Jimmy Fallon's show, Bobby, and maybe someday he will apologize for 'humanizing you".


. . . The flip-flops go beyond a series of social issues or stands from his Massachusetts days — he is a serial flip-flopper. Immigration, healthcare, the stimulus, flat taxes, the recent Ohio initiatives — the propensity to change his positions appears to be part and parcel of who Mitt Romney is as a person." . . .  The Hill, 2011

Become a Democrat, Mitt, and get it over with.

Alyssa Milano and Michelle Wolf; the state of American culture and thought.





 And so on, and so on and...      Tunnel Wall home page. 

The mind and the character of Joe Biden

In fact, we’d have to wonder: Could his VP choice be Hillary Clinton? While her ego would normally preclude her from playing second fiddle to Biden, the opportunity could be irresistible if she’s in on the scheme and knows he’ll be removed and she’ll end up top dog.  Selwyn Duke
From the King of photosnark
Would a victorious Joe Biden be removed for mental incapacitation?
Note here that Biden has had two cranial aneurysms that required surgery. Not only can these conditions cause brain damage, but Biden was told before the second procedure that he had only a 35 to 50 percent chance of emerging from it “completely normal.” Add to this that he’s now 77 years old and, well, do the math.
The establishment begins the task of building up Joe Biden  . . . "Let’s talk for a moment now about Biden’s indecent moments. This discussion does not address his political miscalculations. It examines only those times in which Biden behaved in ways that most people would say were the antithesis of decency." . . .
Joe Biden is a man who has experienced true tragedies in his life, but being on the receiving end of life's hard knocks does not automatically mean that you are a decent person. Biden's record shows him to be a vicious, dishonest, corrupt, and sleazy man.
Media fact-checks an obviously humorous Trump campaign video about Biden  "On Saturday, while speaking in Kansas City, Joe Biden got himself tangled up in a sea of words and finally managed to cough up the phrase, “We can only re-elect Donald Trump.” Anyone watching the video understands that Biden was attacking Trump, not endorsing him. What made the video compulsively watchable was that it was yet another example of the scramble that is the 77-year-old Biden’s decompensating brain." . . .
. . . Here’s some representative outrage from CNN: . . .

Source: American Thinker

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