The hill we will die on -

They own the Democrat Party.

 American Thinker  . . ."Then came the transsexual movement, complete with "drag-queen story hours" for young children.  Some of those children have become the victims of surgical mutilation.  This has occurred in the context of politicians and educators telling us we have no right to know what our children are being taught in school.  We are being threatened with loss of custody of our children if we do not "affirm" their "gender identity," if that identity does not conform with their biological sex.  Recently, during a so-called "pride march," the chanting marchers sang out, "We're coming for your children."  Even if this was chanted supposedly in jest, it was about as funny as joking that they would rape our mothers.  I doubt that all those who chanted this did so merely as a taunt.

"The trans activists claim that their survival is threatened by those of us who oppose their extremism.  As more than one such activist has whined, we wish only to be left alone.  After all, what do we care whom they love, or how?

"But we have reached an inflection point, one in which we can no longer be dissuaded by such whining.  We can no longer tolerate their intolerance.  We need no longer attempt to reason with their unreason.

"As more than one person has commented on this site and others, using various words to express the thought: the trans activists have gone too far this time.  They have underestimated the parenting instinct that most of us have, the instinct to protect our children.  We have become like the sleeping giant, but not merely roused from slumber by an offense.  We have been awakened by a burning house.  We have to get the children to safety, even if at the cost of our own lives." . . .

Jeanine Pirro Slams Kamala Harris: ‘If Anything, She Has Established the Precedent That a Woman Is Incapable Of Being Vice President’

 Jeanine Pirro Slams Kamala Harris: ‘If Anything, She Has Established the Precedent That a Woman Is Incapable Of Being Vice President’ (msn.com)  

 "Jeanine Pirro went beyond the usual bashing of Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday’s edition of The Five, going so far as to claim Harris has set a “precedent” calling into question women’s fitness for the position.

"C0-host Dana Perino noted the prevalence of articles about the veep’s public image.

" 'Judge, one of the things that we get about Kamala Harris is about once a week, there’s a story – maybe it’s every other week – but it is a lot, that they have a new plan and a new makeover and a new plan to rehab her reputation,” Perino said. “And this now two and a half years into the administration and so far [it’s] not working.”

"Pirro responded by underscoring the importance of the abilities of the vice president, given that President Joe Biden is 80 and has announced he is running for reelection next year.

" 'She is literally a heartbeat away from the presidency,” Pirro said before citing a new Fox News poll. “Thirty-nine percent had very negative feelings about her, like, hated her. It’s not just negative with 49, 39, very negative. She has an office with a toxic work environment. People are fighting with each other to get to the exit door.”

"The host then castigated Harris for seemingly making it more difficult for women to ascend to high office.

“ 'This is a woman who was in a position to make it easy for other women behind her to come forward and do the job, where Americans can say, ‘You know, a woman is capable of doing this.'” she continued. “If anything, she has established the precedent that a woman is incapable of being vice president.

"Pirro went on to note Harris’ habit of laughing at odd times." . . .

Never forget Kamala Harris’ cruel lies in the Kavanaugh confirmation fight  "Considering that Biden, while chairing the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas hearings, helped pioneer the transformation of Supreme Court nominations into hyper-politicized, slander-laden circuses, his running mate’s actual record should come as no surprise.

"Harris was a ringleader in the circus surrounding Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination two years ago. Remember that? She may prefer you forget.

"Two years ago today, during his initial hearing, Harris tried to steal the show with a bizarre series of “gotcha” questions asking if he’d ever had a discussion about Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Trump campaign with any employees of the law firm Kasowitz, Benson & Torres.

"Kavanaugh appeared to have no idea what she was talking about, but he was astute to the Democrats’ tactic of setting perjury traps that would lead him into making inconsistent statements that could later be spun as lies.

"Harris’ tactics would not have been permitted in a courtroom. As it turned out, both Kavanaugh and the law firm denied any such conversations, and Harris said nothing more on the subject. A San Francisco Chronicle headline reported: “Kamala Harris’ viral grilling of Kavanaugh ends with a thud.” But she had gotten what she was looking for — a “viral moment” for social media — even though she later would be mocked for pursuing such viral moments indiscriminately." . . .

Former Resident: Why San Francisco is on the brink of losing its unique culture

Former Resident: Why San Francisco is on the brink of losing its unique culture | Jennifer Sey - YouTube

 "She nailed it when she said "SF has become a place of aggressive conformity". If you know anything about being a San Franciscan, you know that this current wave of extreme liberal ideology & cancel culture in no way represents what San Francisco was all about over the course of the last century. This interview really struck a nerve for me. " Comment to this video. '. . .

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The Myth of Biden the Uniter

  It’s Biden who recently said that chasing moderate legislators into bathrooms to pressure them into supporting his agenda was just “part of the process.”

National Review

 . ."Anyway, Biden, a unifer at heart, noted many in media, had largely avoided such charged rhetoric. This, too, is a myth. It’s Biden who recently said that chasing moderate legislators into bathrooms to pressure them into supporting his agenda was just “part of the process.” It’s Biden who said that supporters of voter-ID laws are backing “21st-century Jim Crow.” He’s the one who calls Republicans “authoritarian” and claimed that we’re “facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. That’s not hyperbole, since the Civil War.” It is hyperbole. It is hyperbole most of the time.

"Biden has been a run-of-the-mill hyperpartisan demagogue for a long time. Watch some of his cringeworthy speeches on the Senate floor in the 1980s. Biden has been smearing judicial nominees for decades. When Biden accuses Republicans who disagree with him of “betting against America” or Mitt Romney — Mitt Romney — of wanting to put black Americans “back in chains” he is fueling paranoia, not comity. Biden’s “unity” talk, as it was with his old boss, Barack Obama, is little more than a pseudo-patriotic appeal meant to pressure Republicans into capitulation."

The Babylon Bee Is Fighting For Free Speech — And You Can Help |

 Babylon Bee

"The First Amendment is under constant assault in our nation. At The Babylon Bee, we fight on the front lines, wielding satire and silly jokes as weapons in a fight to preserve free speech in our culture. We've been fighting these battles since our inception. Some of the more notable examples include:

• 'Being accused by The New York Times of "trafficking in misinformation," resulting in us forcing the media giant to publicly issue a correction.
• Standing up and confronting "fact-checkers" from Snopes and USA Today (yes, they "fact-checked" jokes), despite the fact that we are a satire site.
• Filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court to support a humorist who was actually jailed because of a parody website.
• Suing the Attorney General's Office in the state of California to block the enforcement of a law requiring social media companies to regularly report "misinformation, disinformation, extremism, radicalization, and hate speech."
• Refusing to delete a tweet that resulted in our suspension from Twitter, which may or may not have started a chain reaction that led to Elon Musk buying Twitter and restoring multiple accounts that had been labeled "controversial."

"Despite this track record of success, the fight for free speech has only just begun. This year, we had a video sketch pulled from Facebook for "misinformation." Why? Because we made a joke about people who wear masks. In our recent interview with Elon Musk, he told us there is still censorship happening at Twitter, and though he's trying to weed it out, he is being met with resistance within his own company." . . .

Free speech like this: New Study Finds Bizarre Connection Between Being Liberal And Having Giant, Googly Eyes | Babylon Bee

'. . ."I honestly screamed when I flipped over the first picture and saw Hillary's psycho eyes," said assistant Jamie Reynolds. "I flipped to the next picture and screamed again — it looked like Schiff's eyes were bulging off the page. Next was the AOC picture, which I still can't believe is real. We had obviously found something.' "

Carlson added: "If you're looking for the leader of the coup, there he is right there."

 

Carlson Identifies the One Person Most Suited to Replace Joe Biden (townhall.com)

"In his Tuesday night monologue on Twitter, Tucker Carlson exposed how the war for democracy in Ukraine is actually unraveling democracy in the process. 

“We are currently fighting a war for democracy on behalf of a leader who just casually announced he's happy to end democracy and our democracy and supporting leaders have no problem with that,” he said, “in fact, they're strongly for it.” 

"Carlson was referring to President Zelensky’s response to a reporter wondering if elections will be held next year. 

“ 'If we win, there will be an election next year,” the Ukrainian leader said. “Elections should be held in peacetime when there is no war…”

 “ 'That's not just any autocrat, that's our chief ally in the war for democracy,” Carlson pointed out, adding that President Biden just reaffirmed America’s commitment to supporting Ukraine’s “defense and its sovereignty and its territorial integrity.” 

 "You should have seen this coming," Carlson said. "Wars for democracy always cancel democracy in the process - that's why our leaders love them and they all do it - even The Virtuous leaders Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, the British government under Winston Churchill threw an entire opposition party into prison and let them rot for the duration - in some cases with their families. ". . .

Wait for it...

“We don't know obviously this is all just guessing but we do know whoever that is will have to have two essential criteria: he'll have to be as shallow, ruthless, and transactional as Joe Biden is, and he'll need to have flattery skills that are so polished and advanced they'd be considered superior even in the Saudi Royal Court and there's only one man in modern America who fits that description: Gavin Newsom, the  governor of California and perhaps not coincidentally Joe Biden's new closest friend.”

Imploded Titanic submarine seen for first time as pieces recovered up from sea floor

 The Independent | Latest news and features from US, UK and worldwide   

"Debris from the Titan was brought ashore by deep-sea robots on Wednesday as the US Coast Guard continues recovery operations following the sub’s catastrophic implosion.

"The Titan’s wreckage was seen for the first time in pictures after the Coast Guard announced on Thursday (23 Jd on Wednesday that its team had successfully completed off-shore operations and was now in the process of demobilization after ten days of work. The company said a press conference will be held later today.

"The photos shared by the Associated Press showed what appeared to be several pieces covered with white tarps being unloaded from the American ships Sycamore and Horizon Arctic at a port in St John’s, Newfoundland." . . .

The human suffering in our cities is a symptom of deep cultural rot. Here's how I plan to fix it

 Vivek Ramaswamy  

I don’t believe it has to be this way. After traveling the country and speaking with voters, I am more convinced than ever that we don’t have to be a nation in decline. But first, we have to make that choice — a choice to be better, to do better. And it starts with better policies.

"We frequently evoke the ideals of American excellence and exceptionalism. But earlier this week when I visited Kensington, Pennsylvania, what I saw was a third-world reality within our own country. Those needle-ridden streets are the direct consequence of a porous southern border and disastrous domestic policies that pay people to do the opposite of what we want them to do.

We get the leaders we deserve. Such as these.

"What I witnessed revealed to me the profound reality of the double consciousness that permeates our nation — the stark contrast between the grand ideals we champion versus the harsh realities faced by those dwelling in the depths of despair in Kensington. Regrettably, a Kensington can be found in nearly every corner of America.

"If we are only as strong as our weakest link, then Kensington is an unsettling portrait of an America in decline, embodying the antithesis of progress and optimism. This was not a representation of America first; it was a distressing manifestation of what happens when we enact bad policies that put America last.". . .

Why a Secular Jew, Andrew Klavan, Became a Christian

 

Rabbi Michael Barclay

Why a Secular Jew, Andrew Klavan, Became a Christian – Bishop's Encyclopedia of Religion, Society and Philosophy (jamesbishopblog.com)

. . ."Klavan got baptized at the age of fifty. This frightened him given his nominal Jewish background,

“One of my biggest fears confronting baptism—took me five months to work through it—was I didn’t want anyone to think I was turning my back on Jews, trying to escape my Jewish identity. The default mode with some Jews is to assume you’re trying to “pass as gentile” or blend in or that you hate your Jewishness and are joining the enemy. All understandable, because the Jews are the most mistreated group of people on the face of the planet and some of that trouble has come out of Christian sources, which stinks. Oddly, though, accepting Jesus made me feel more Jewish than I ever had, religiously at least. I had no connection to the Old Testament particularly, until I accepted the New.”

"Today Klavan is an outspoken Christian and has since authored a book called The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ (2016)."

Biden Becomes Enraged, Screams In The Face Of Reporters Over Hunter Biden Evidence (Video)

'I remember the fingers': Former neighbor of Biden sexual assault accuser corroborates allegation

  Washington Examiner   "A former neighbor of the woman who accused former Vice President Joe Biden of sexual assault publicly vouched for the accuracy of the allegation.

"Tara Reade recently came forward to allege Biden, when she worked for him as a Senate staff assistant in 1993, pushed her up against the wall and penetrated her with his fingers. Biden's presidential campaign has vehemently denied the allegation.

"In the time since Reade came out with her allegation, her brother and an unnamed friend have backed up her story, saying they were told either about the assault or harassment at the time.

"A former neighbor of Reade's from the 1990s, Lynda LaCasse, corroborated Reade's version of events to Business Insider on Monday.

" 'I remember her saying, here was this person that she was working for, and she idolized him," LaCasse said. "And he kind of put her up against a wall. And he put his hand up her skirt, and he put his fingers inside her. She felt like she was assaulted, and she really didn't feel there was anything she could do."

" 'She was upset. And the more she talked about it, the more she started crying. I remember saying that she needed to file a police report," LaCasse said, before acknowledging that she doesn't "remember all the details," but does "remember the skirt. I remember the fingers."

"LaCasse, a former medical staff coordinator and emergency room clerk, and Reade lived next to one another in 1995 and 1996 in an apartment complex near the beach in Morro Bay, California. LaCasse said Reade confided in her because they had a close connection as they were both mothers and their young daughters would swim in the complex's pool together.

" 'She didn't ask me to [come forward]," LaCasse said. "I volunteered to do that just recently. If this was me, I would want somebody to stand up for me. It takes a lot of guts to do what she's doing.' " . . .

We’ve reached peak racial Stockholm Syndrome

 "When you are used to special treatment, equal treatment feels like discrimination." Comment to this post.

VIDEO: We’ve reached peak racial Stockholm Syndrome - American Thinker  "Stockholm Syndrome describes a captive who has formed a psychological bond with his captors. That term describes perfectly a white man, somewhere in America, who began weeping at the thought that his call to the police about a black man brandishing a weapon and threatening to kill him resulted in the black man’s arrest.

One thing that was clearly on display during the BLM riots in 2020 was that the people most fervently committed to BLM activism were white, especially white women. However, there were some very hysterical white men on the front lines as well, joining their emotional compatriots in screaming at the police. Watching the video below, one must wonder what this particular white man was doing in June 2020:

White guy sobs for getting a black man arrested. The black man was threatening to stab his family to death. pic.twitter.com/COU7HQbzZD

— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) June 27, 2023

. . ."What this blinkered leftist didn’t realize is that the man who was arrested, had he not been arrested, might have gone on to do something horrible, such as murdering or raping someone. After all, both the Talmud and Adam Smith recognized that you must take a stand against evil lest it metastasize. According to the Talmud, “If you are kind to the cruel, you will end up being cruel to the kind.” Adam Smith said much the same: “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”. . .       (Emphasis mine, TD. Wanted to be sure you saw this.)