Victor Davis Hanson and our miseducated youth

...But now, and for the better part of two generations, our proponents of cultural self-loathing, even more irrationally and reality averse, have taught the young to believe that all of our achievements and endeavors are mirages, and our entire history tainted with evil. Nonsense, of course. But the untutored young believe what their elders teach them.

Jared Peterson   "In a just and sensible America, Victor Davis Hanson would be chair of the history department at Harvard, teaching a mandatory and beloved course in the history of Western Civilization, to be followed in undergraduates’ sophomore year by his equally popular year-long course in American history, both of which would be emulated nationwide by most if not all American colleges and universities.  

"These courses would be fact intensive, and unlike the rather hagiographic picture students like this writer received during the 50’s, would not only emphasize the achievements of America and the West, but would honestly and rationally confront their infractions and low points. But the overarching message would be clear: Though imperfect, as are all human endeavors, the creative genius of the West has given humanity the vast majority of what has made the modern world superior materially and, through the Judeo- Christian tradition, preferable morally to much of the past; and America can fairly claim to be the finest model of a nation whose governmental and economic system has produced the most fairness,  prosperity and ordered freedom, for the largest percentage of its people, of any nation in history.

"But alas, this was not to be. Instead, since the seventies we have lost the better part of two generations of badly mis-educated American youth; and the inability of any American institution today to vigorously refute the patent falsehoods about our nation and the West being spewed by the woke left is a direct consequence of that tragic miseducation." . . .

Biden Tells. . .Black College Graduates About How He “desegregated restaurants and movie theaters” During Civil Rights Era*

*Title edited by TD because it looked too MSNBC and CNN-ish in the original form.TD

100%FedUp

"Yesterday, during a commencement speech to a group of black college graduates at South Carolina State, an HSBC, Joe Biden, who can barely read America’s real national anthem from a teleprompter, tried to make himself more relatable by telling the Black students he knows the words to BLM’s “Black National Anthem.” It’s hard to know if Joe is intentionally lying or if his completely fabricated stories from the past are a part of his dementia, but after he lied about knowing the words to an imaginary national anthem, Joe told a really big whopper—one that can be easily refuted.

"Hoping to make himself more relatable to the students, Biden shared a lie with them, “I got started in politics because of the Civil Rights movement,” he said. “I notice some of you are looking—I thought that you were wondering how does he know the Black national anthem? Well, because I sat in a Black church after going to 7 o’clock mass – I’m a practicing Catholic—at 9 o’clock on the east side getting ready to go out and desegregate restaurants and movie theaters.”

"Only Joe could combine a lie with an almost entirely incomprehensible statement." . . .

Gen. Flynn Given 'Green Light' to Sue CNN in Massive Court Win

 Neon Nettle

Case brought by Flynn’s brother John “Jack” Flynn and sister-in-law

"Former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn has been handed a win by a judge enabling his family to sue establishment media network CNN for slandering him and his family as followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

"Only recently, CNN wrote a large check to former Covington High School student Nicholas Sandmann for false reports he sought to belittle a Native American gentleman during a Washington, D.C. protest.

"A federal judge on Thursday allowed a case brought by Flynn’s brother John “Jack” Flynn and sister-in-law Leslie Flynn to proceed against CNN.

"U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods’ ruling says the network aired a report this year entitled “CNN Goes Inside A Gathering of QAnon Followers.' ”. . .

It's good to be king

 

Bookworm Beat

The woke alphabet

Mother FORCES Her Child To Read GayBC's (aka Woke Alphabet)

 Eric Utter  "When I was learning to spell in elementary school, ‘A’ was for apple. 

"Not anymore. Wokeism has escaped from college campuses, matriculated through high schools, and taken over our grade schools, all the way down through kindergarten.

"Now, ‘A’ is for ‘Antifa’ or maybe ‘anogender.’

"The following is a progressive woke version of our alphabet, at least two of which are real examples from an actual grammar school. 

• ‘A’ is for anogender (The completely normal feeling we all have at times of a gender that fades into something else and then goes back to its original state)
• ‘B’ is for bisexual (A completely normal person who is attracted to both boys and girls)
• ‘C’ is for capitalism (An evil economic system designed to oppress minorities and the differently-abled)
• ‘D’ is for Democrat (The American political party that cares about the planet and people’s feelings)
• ‘E’ is for evil (Like Trump and the Republican Party)
• ‘F’ is for Fox News (An illegitimate cable television network that serves the Republican Party)
• ‘G’ is for gay (Gay people are attracted to members of their own sex. Yay gay!)
• ‘H’ is for health (Always wear your mask and get fully vaccinated! Listen to Dr. Fauci!)
• ‘I’ is for intolerance (Intolerance is always bad…unless it is of the unvaccinated and/or Republicans)
• ‘J’ is for justice (Justice is always good…unless it is for the unvaccinated and/or Republicans)
• ‘K’ is for kink (The fondness for abnormal sexual practices. This is completely normal)
• ‘L’ is for lesbian (Females that are attracted to other females. A good thing)
• ‘M’ is for male (Males often oppress females and many possess toxic masculinity. This/they are bad)
• ‘N’ is for nationalism (Love of one’s country. This is a bad thing, especially love of the United States)
• ‘O’ is for oppression (What white people do to people of color and men do to women)
• ‘P’ is for the patriarchy (A system of society in which men totally unjustly hold power over women)
• ‘Q’ is for queer (A gender identity that does not correspond to established ideas of sexuality and gender, especially heterosexual norms. Another word for ‘gay.’)
• ‘R’ is for racist (Someone who discriminates against others because of their race. Also, someone who doesn’t recognize race. Also, someone who claims to not be a racist)
• ‘S’ is for sexist (Someone who discriminates against those who identify as female)
• ‘T’ is for transgender (Denotes a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex. A person who identifies as a member of the opposite sex. A hero)
• ‘U’ is for unsafe (This is how someone who disagrees with you on something makes you feel. Not good)
• ‘V’ is for Vapogender (A gender that sort of feels like smoke; it can be seen on a shallow level but once you go deeper, it disappears and you are left with no gender and only tiny wisps of what you thought it was)
• ‘W’ is for woke (Always being alert to injustice in society, especially racism. We pledge to be woke!)
• ‘X’ is for xenophobia (Prejudice against people from other countries. We don’t like xenophobia!)
• ‘Y’ is for yes we can! (Rid the world of straight, white Christians!)
• ‘Z’ is for zero tolerance (Of straight, white Christians. And other bad things!)

The San Francisco exodus isn’t over, according to new migration data. Here’s where people are moving

Californians are not just going to Texas Ex-Californians disproportionately move to a few states when they decide to leave the Golden State. By net moves, the most popular destination states for ex-Californians during the pandemic were Texas, Arizona, Nevada and Washington. 

 SF Chronicle  "For years, a similar number of people moved out of San Francisco as into it. But that changed during the pandemic. Excluding moves from abroad, over 72,000 more people have moved out of the city than in since the beginning of 2020—a figure that is almost eight times higher than the same period in 2018-2019.

"The Chronicle received an exclusive look at data on California migration patterns from the California Policy Lab, a research group based out of the University of California. The data, called the University of California Consumer Credit Panel, tracks movements of the approximately 90% of Californian adults with active credit information every quarter. It shows the number of Californians that have moved both within counties and to and from other states.

"The data shows that during the pandemic, California had far higher levels of what’s called “negative net domestic migration” compared to the prior two years. That is, the number of Californians leaving the state for other parts of the country has increased, while the number of people moving into the state from the rest of the U.S. has decreased.

"However, this change does not necessarily reflect a “CalExodus,” the hyped-up concept of Californians leaving the state in droves. While move-outs have increased during the pandemic, the steep uptick in domestic out-migration stems mostly from fewer Americans entering California, not more Californians leaving the state." . . .

Biden, world leader and father of the year

NYT Reveals How Ashley Biden's 'Inappropriate Showers With Joe' Diary Made Its Way To Project Veritas  "Ashley Biden's diary - over which Project Veritas was raided by the FBI last month - made its way to the whistleblower organization after Ms. Biden left her belongings at a friend's house, where she was staying after completing a rehab program for addiction, according to the New York Times."

. . . "Veritas declined to publish the diary according to an Oct. 12, 2020 email included in a Project Veritas court filing, with founder James O'Keefe telling his staff that they decided to pull the story because "We have no doubt the document is real," but that the publication of it would be "characterized as a cheap shot."

That said, Veritas did attempt to use it as leverage - emailing Biden and his campaign to let them know that it had obtained a diary that Ms. Biden had "abandoned," and wanted to interview Joe Biden on camera about bombshell allegations.

"Should we not hear from you by Tuesday, October 20, 2020, we will have no choice but to act unilaterally and reserve the right to disclose that you refused our offer to provide answers to the questions raised by your daughter," wrote Veritas' chief legal officer, Jered T. Ede.

Biden's attorneys accused Veritas of threatening them as part of "extortionate effort to secure an interview," and refused to acknowledge whether it was genuine. That said, they told Veritas' Ede that it should be treated as stolen property and that "serious crimes" may have been committed in obtaining it.

California Dreaming Turns Into California Nightmare As Crime Rate Soars

 Political Insider  "As crime in large California cities like San Francisco skyrockets, residents have been forced to rely on their own creativity when it comes to preventing crime.

"One particularly laughable example comes from the Bay Area, where instead of demanding an end to car break-ins, people have begun to leave their car trunks open in order to prevent thieves from breaking windows. 

Amid a spike in vehicle break-ins, some Bay Area car owners have been deliberately leaving their trunks open in an effort to avoid forced entry by thieves. https://t.co/BGwRf33Pc8

— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) December 15, 2021

New Era Of Crime

"The lengths that San Franciscans are resorting to have left their fellow citizens and police incredulous.

"One witness who watched someone leave their vehicle open like this had this to say on social media, “Imagine having to clean out your car and leaving it open in public, just so people won’t break your windows. Oakland we looking sad man.” . . .

Girl swimmers keep your mouths shut!

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Transgender swimmer reportedly brags that winning races is 'so easy I thought I was cruising'  "To hear the transgender lobby tell it, men with innate and unalterable XY chromosomes can nevertheless be turned into XX women through manipulating their hormones and sometimes body-altering surgery, so pay no attention to superior male bone structure, original male hormonal development, or other things that make men uniquely male instead of female.  All a person's sex is comes down to is hormones and a knife.

"That's prompted pretty well the end of women's sports, now that male athletes have come into women's sports and taken the prizes, while university and sports officials enable it in the name of political correctness.

"The biggest and most obvious example is that of University of Pennsylvania swimmer "Lia" Thomas, formerly men's swim champ Will Thomas, who cynically seems to recognize what kind of game is going on.

"According to Breitbart News:" . . .

2019;The Origins of the Transgender Movement  "I've been asked to talk about the origins of transgenderism and how it relates to children and their exploitation. But first, I would like to start with a little story" . . .

The Real War on Women is From the Left

Power Line Blog  "Remember how the left not long ago went on and on and on about the supposed “war on women” from the right? The irony is that according to current leftist dogma, women no longer exist. After all, the Biden Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services is insisting in referring to mothers (once understood as a significant subset of beings known as “women”) as “birthing persons,” because current leftist dogma says men can have babies, too. Which means women no long have anything naturally distinctive about them.

"Christine Rosen dilates this problem wonderfully in the current issue of Commentary in “The New Misogyny.” Key bit:

The misogynistic nature of this revolution has escaped proper scrutiny precisely because it is understood as progressive—as literally better than everything that has come before. And it casts everything that has come before as suspect: All forms of social organization and every idea that denies this movement’s claims have been deemed retrogressive and actively harmful to the forward march of greater rights for all.

This is an audacious form of woman-hatred, especially since it comes in the guise of opening up womanhood, of extending its benefits to all. But by doing so, it becomes nothing less than an assault on what it means to be a woman. And it is not being understood as such by its advocates and their fellow travelers because of a potent combination of two factors: First, people’s fears of being labeled bigots, and second, a genuine and commendable effort to extend compassion and care to a very small minority.

"Which brings me back to the story I’ve commented on before of Lia Thomas, the “woman” swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania who is shattering women’s swim records after having competed for three years as an average male swimmer for Penn. This video shows Thomas’s enormous margin of victory in a recent 1,500 meter swim. It is just over two minutes, but you can scroll to about the 1:15 mark and you’ll see the absurd margin of Thomas’s farcical “win” (Thomas marked helpfully with a red arrow in lane 5)—notice especially long it takes for the second-place finisher to come in:" . . .

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Envoy: Ukraine Recognizes Jerusalem as “one and Only Capital of Israel,” Plans to Open Diplomatic Office

The Thursday’s announcement comes as Israel is deepening diplomatic, security and economic relations with leading Arab states. This week, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett became the first Israeli leader to visit the United Arab Emirates. The UAE is the third Arab state to fully recognize Israel last year as part of the Abraham Accords, an agreement brokered by President Trump [As No feckless Democrat would have done].

Legal Insurrection

Ukrainian President Zelensky: “We know what it’s like not to have our own state. We know what it means to defend one’s own state and land with weapons in hand, at the cost of our own lives.”

"Ukraine recognizes Jerusalem as “the one and only capital of Israel” and plans to open an embassy branch in the Holy City in the coming months, the Ukrainian envoy to Israel announced on Thursday.  

“ 'My country recognizes the one and only capital of Israel, and that is Jerusalem,” Ukrainian Ambassador Yevhen Korniichuk said. Regarding the establishment of a diplomatic mission in Jerusalem, the envoy added that “[a]s soon as I get permission, I will do it immediately.”

"Ambassador “Korniychuk expresses hope embassy branch will be inaugurated next year if security ties expand,” The Times of Israel reported citing the envoy’s remarks.

In October, Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited the former Soviet Republic. Ukrainian President Zelensky is expected to inaugurate the diplomatic office during his reciprocal visits next year. 

"The Jerusalem Post reported the Ukrainian Ambassador statement: " . . .

Antifa not an organization? Come on, man!

 Feared but not respected, may I say? A video of chanting, black-clad,  masked youths faced off with police somewhere and the chants were enlightening; I heard not one slogan that sounded original and unquoted. One wonders, do these youths have any original thoughts or convictions not spoon-fed them by others? TD

Image from Reality Bites by Broc Smith.

Antifa Facts & FAQ's  "Antifa is an anti-fascist political movement that is comprised of many autonomous groups and organizations that support anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian views. With having no structural leadership it will make the organization very difficult to combat. Thus efforts to try and stop the organization will be difficult" . . .