Friday, February 16, 2024

How Progressive Policies are Designed for Civilizational Suicide

  John D. O'Connor › American Greatness

Evidence now clearly establishes that moderate liberals should face reality and reject the policies of the progressive vanguard, leading them to civilizational suicide.  

"We all understand, in the timeless words of the poet Robert Burns, that the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Most Americans are accustomed to assessing the various failed initiatives of our country’s leaders as well-intended actions that turned out badly. The Vietnam, Afghan, and Iraq wars, the 2008 financial meltdown, and the COVID pandemic overreaction, all in hindsight, can be viewed as simply the unfolding of human stupidity in the contingency of time.

"In accordance, it is understandable that many are inclined to believe that our country’s current serious problems are, once again, merely the failed result of well-intentioned policies. But what if, we ask, seemingly fumbled programs were intended to be the initial throes of civilizational suicide? What if apparent missteps were actually directed at the purposeful destruction of a prosperous, free, safe, and secure society?

"As we examine the policies pushed by the Biden administration progressives regarding climate, national security, crime, and the border, we can rationally conclude that they are being purposely implemented to render our society unsuccessful, not successful, in its traditional aims, causing what could be the ultimate destruction of a thriving, liberal enlightenment society.

"Let us begin with escalating climate mandates, now reaching gas stoves and tires, seeking the total elimination of fossil fuels. Because our mainstream media, more out of reflexive conformity than malevolence, constantly amplify climate alarmism, most Americans believe climate programs are designed in good faith to protect us from planetary disasters. Climate subsidies are aimed, they are led to believe, at increasing prosperity through good “green” jobs in emerging “green” industries, all part of the supposedly improved “Bidenomics” economy, however counterintuitive many think them to be.

"When Biden, immediately upon assuming office, stopped issuing new drilling leases, canceled the Keystone Pipeline, and issued EPA regulations effectively shutting down multiple power plants in the near future, was he, however idealistically, trying to wean our country off of fossil fuels in favor of clean, “renewable” energy? If so, what could be wrong with that?

"If the administration had calculated that lost energy from stifling fossil fuel sources could actually be replaced, these initiatives, even if overly optimistic, could be viewed as well-intended.

"However, within the climate camp, it has been well known that fossil fuels, which power 82% of world energy needs, cannot conceivably be replaced by renewable energy to any substantial degree." . . .

MS Society DEFENDS staff who sacked 90-year-old volunteer because she 'asked what pronouns meant' despite furious backlash | Daily Mail Online

. . ."Itkoff was let go via email after a representative at the company asked her began to start using pronouns on her email signature, but she did not know what it meant according to an interview she conducted with Libs of TikTok.

" 'I had seen it on a couple of letters that had come in after the person's name. But I didn't know what it meant,' the senior said.

" 'Because it sounds like you are labeling for females, not males, if you are just putting in she/her.' 

" 'A few days later, she received an email accusing her of violating the MS Society's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion guidelines." . . .

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Trump Georgia Case: DA Willis Loses Temper, Receives Warning From Judge in Explosive Testimony

 Trump Georgia Case: DA Willis Loses Temper, Receives Warning From Judge in Explosive Testimony (legalinsurrection.com)

"Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis lost her temper on the stand as she faces allegations of financially benefiting from hiring Nathan Wade as special prosecutor in the case against former President Donald Trump and others.

"Trump’s co-defendant, Michael Roman, said Willis should be disqualified. It’s called a conflict of interest.

"Willis’s body language said it all before she took the stand: rage, nervousness, and trembling.

"Willis sparred with defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant from the start, leading Judge Scott McAfee to call for a five-minute recess.

"The testimony took a major turn when Willis’s former friend said Wade and Willis began their relationship in 2019 and not 2022. See, if it began in 2022, it wouldn’t seem as suspicious because Willis charged Trump in 2021.

"But 2019…that is something else. Willis and Wade also didn’t disclose their relationship:

Roman alleged in court filings last month that Willis should be disqualified from the case, claiming that she financially benefited from hiring Wade because of their personal relationship, and said she had “some choice words” about Roman’s motion, calling some of the allegations “dishonest” and “extremely offensive.” At one point, Willis held up a printed copy of the allegations against her in both hands and turned to the judge yelling, “this is a lie!”

Willis also called defense attorney Ashleigh Merchant’s interests “contrary to democracy.”. . .

Biden's plan to give Palestinians a state is a mess in the making

The Palestinians' leadership is corrupt. It has always placed self-aggrandizement before its people and the Palestinians, themselves, have generally failed themselves because they were always driven by a false narrative they came to believe and which worked, i.e.. victimhood. 


 Richard Berkowitz - American Thinker   "There is a report floating around which asserts Biden is about to shove establishment of a Palestinian state down Israel's throat. 

"According to the Washington Post:
 
The Biden administration and a small group of Middle East partners are rushing to complete a detailed, comprehensive plan for long-term peace between Israel and Palestinians, including a firm timeline for the establishment of a Palestinian state, that could be announced as early as the next several weeks.
 
The urgency of the effort is tied directly to a proposed pause in the fighting and release of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas that is being negotiated by the United States, Qatar and Egypt.
 
An initial cease-fire, projected to be at least six weeks, would provide time to make the plan public, recruit additional support and take the initial steps toward its implementation, including the formation of an interim Palestinian government, according to U.S. and Arab officials.
 "The reason is not clear to me, but, in view of "Uncle Joe's" sinking poll numbers and his well-known moral corruption, it must have something to do with his desire to save his re-election. 

"Uncle Joe" has been loyal to Israel until "Bibi's" war lasted too long for our president's political tolerance so it has come time to pull the Persian tug out from under Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu since the latter intends to complete his goal of reducing the risk of a third Holocaust.

"There is no love lost between Bibi and Biden, nor was there any lost between Obama and Bibi." . . .

Nova Music Festival Survivor Speaks Out

 International Fellowship of Christians and Jews®


"Natalie Sanandaji speaks out about the Nova music festival and how she and her friend kept running for over two hours, which ended up saving their lives on October 7. Natalie explains how important it is for her to tell her story so the world knows and can connect to her experiences, reports Arutz Sheva:
 She explained that “It’s important for me to tell the story because I want people to see a face to this story. When the whole world is dehumanizing Jews and acting like this massacre was a form of resilience to ‘free Palestine,’ I feel that maybe putting a face to the story will show them how human this story is. Because if they’re just reading about this story in an article, if they’re just seeing someone on the news talk about it who wasn’t there, I don’t think they’re gonna feel as emotional about it. I don’t think they’re gonna feel connected to it.” “I hope that when they see my face, when they see that there’s a face to this story, that they’ll feel more connected to it. And maybe they’ll change their mind about how they feel about everything that happened on October 7. “If we let them take our joy away, the joy of living, then we’ve let them win. And we’re not gonna let them win. Of course we’re gonna dance again,” she concluded.

April Ryan: Jean-Pierre is Race-Based 'Foolishness'

 Mediaite     "Long-time White House correspondent April Ryan called out criticism of White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as racialized “foolishness” from a “white male-dominated space” — that is, the press briefing room.

"Writing for the New York Times, Michael Grynbaum reported on the current and unique arrangement of press secretaries in the Biden Administration, given Admiral John Kirby’s recent promotion and increased presence during briefings on behalf of President Joe Biden.

"As the first Black and openly gay press secretary, Jean-Pierre cuts a historical figure in the briefing room, filling the rather big shoes of the well-received Jen Psaki, who moved to MSNBC. As with nearly all new press secretaries, Jean-Pierre’s tenure did not start without criticism but was reasonable and partisan.

"Grynbaum thoughtfully lists some of the critiques — namely an over-reliance on prepared talking points in her briefing notebook and that “some reporters grumbled that she occasionally seemed out of the loop,” among other things. Kirby, on the other hand, has received praise, perhaps in part owing to the focused area of his role, national security, and foreign affairs.

"Ryan, a columnist for The Grio, flatly claimed that Jean-Pierre’s standard for judging her is by nature racialized. Grybaum writes:  . . .Full article here.

A plurality of Americans think Biden's doing more to divide the nation.

 . . ."But as usual, he managed to stand up in one of America’s most violent cities and accept no responsibility for the homicides or crime and instead blame Donald Trump and that MAGA crowd."  Human Events
AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

More Americans Say Biden Is Dividing the Country Rather Than Unifying It, Poll Finds (newsweek.com)   . . ."An overwhelming 92 percent of Republicans surveyed said Biden was dividing the nation, while 84 percent of Democrats said he was doing more to bring the country together. Half of independents, a key voting bloc that has been souring on Biden, responded that he was dividing the nation.
"Biden repeatedly called for unity on the campaign trail, in his victory speech and in his inaugural address. Just last week, the president made another appeal for harmony as he delivered remarks on the one-year anniversary of the deadly U.S. Capitol riot.". . .

Opinion | America Has Split, and It’s Now in ‘Very Dangerous Territory’ - The New York Times (nytimes.com)      . . ."McCoy and Press studied 52 countries “where democracies reached pernicious levels of polarization.” Of those, “twenty-six — fully half of the cases — experienced a downgrading of their democratic rating.” Quite strikingly, the two continue, “the United States is the only advanced Western democracy to have faced such intense polarization for such an extended period. The United States is in uncharted and very dangerous territory.” . . .

More Americans Say Biden Is Dividing the Country   "Biden has not just appeased the extreme left of his party by canceling pipelines and erasing the southern border, he has become its cheerleader while eviscerating everyone who voted against him in the 2020 presidential election as white supremacists, racists, and domestic terrorists. On Thursday, he continued that smear campaign during a speech in Philadelphia, where the murder rate has already hit 361 for the year and threatens to attain an all-time high, set last year. Biden’s speech was supposed to be about democracy but it turned out to be another rant about those “MAGA Republicans” whom Biden has scapegoated for all the crimes and ills besetting the country.

"If President Trump had stood before a blood-red background with military figures at attention, the media would have been apoplectic over the Nazi symbolism and the police state imagery. But Biden was allowed to use it without comment. I didn’t count the number of times he said MAGA, or how many times it sounded like maggot or mega, but it certainly dominated his speech." . . .

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Report: Obama's CIA Had Foreign Allies Spying on 26 Members of the Trump Team –

  Twitchy   "Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag report that President Barack Obama's CIA wasn't just illegally spying on Carter Page — they say the CIA enlisted help from allied nations to spy on 26 Trump advisors, triggering the "Russian collusion" hoax."

. . ."The new information fills many gaps in our understanding of the Russia collusion hoax and is supported by testimony already in the public record.

"Until now, the official story has been that the FBI’s investigation began after Australian intelligence officials told US officials that a Trump aide had boasted to an Australian diplomat that Russia had damning material about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton." . . 

‘Uncle Leo Defense’ Works For Biden in Special Counsel Report: No Charges For An “Elderly Man With a Poor Memory”

 Devout Catholic Joe Biden Gives Up Cognitive Tests For Lent | Babylon Bee

. . ."No president in the history of the country has loved his faith more than President Joe Biden," White House Spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told the press. "His commitment to giving up cognitive tests for the next 40 days, and perhaps even forever, shows how deeply devoted he is to his religion and to the people of the United States." . . .



Comment to this post: "This just gets worse and worse. And I remember when Robert Mueller found no grounds to charge Trump in the Russia collusion investigation the media went nuts saying that Trump wasn’t absolved of anything and that the Mueller report didn’t clear him. Now they take a similar investigation and claim that Biden was cleared of any wrongdoing. Biden said the same. No, he wasn’t cleared. In fact the report clearly states that he willfully retained classified documents. The only thing Hur did was decline to charge him."

"Hur’s findings in his investigation into Biden having top-secret documents are proof that Biden is in serious mental decline and not fit to be the leader of any country.

"However the liberal media, instead of throwing brickbats at Hur, should be sending him bouquets for getting Biden off the hook of facing potential charges."

How will Hur's excuse play in Peoria? - Silvio Canto, Jr.   "It turns out that Joe Biden had a lot of boxes full of papers from his days as vice president and senator. It's true that you can collect a lot of papers over a 50-year career.  We understand that.  However, Biden had a lot of papers that he was not supposed to have.  We learned that in Robert Hur’s report.  In fact, Biden has a lot of explaining to do, as Julie Kelly wrote:" . . .

. . ."It turns out that Joe Biden had a lot of boxes full of papers from his days as vice president and senator. It's true that you can collect a lot of papers over a 50-year career.  We understand that.  However, Biden had a lot of papers that he was not supposed to have.  We learned that in Robert Hur’s report.  In fact, Biden has a lot of explaining to do, as Julie Kelly wrote:" . . .


Rob Reiner makes it clear that leftists are coming for Christianity

  Andrea Widburg - American Thinker  

Fourth, because both men are leftists first and religious…well, not at all, no matter what they call themselves, their goal, as with all leftists, is to change what it means to be religious. 

  "During the Super Bowl, a very well-funded group ran an ad showing conservatives abasing themselves before leftist victim classes, with the tagline “He gets us,” with the “He” referring to Jesus. The message was clear: Whatever traditionalists say about Christ’s teachings is wrong. Leftists are morally and doctrinally correct, and it’s time for Christianity to get with the program. That’s not the only assault 2024 has on traditional Christian beliefs. Rob Reiner has a movie coming out challenging so-called “Christian Nationalism” and substituting leftism in its place.

"Four things to get out of the way before I get to the meat of this post.

"First, before he was politicized, Rob Reiner directed some wonderful movies, most notably The Princess Bride and This Is Spinal Tap. Others are fond of When Harry Met Sally… and Misery. By 1995, though, with The American President, Reiner stopped being concerned with his artistic vision, which was lovely and started becoming politicized. It went downhill after that.

" 'Second, the interview, which runs in Newsweek, is kind of incoherent because it’s not really an interview. Instead, it’s an insider conversation between two leftists who are less interested in informing people and more interested in proselytizing their utter dislike for Christians who believe in the Gospels as written and hating on Trump." . . . 

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

The Story Of Shani Louk Ends! The German-Israeli Woman Paraded Naked By Hamas Is Confirmed Dead

 


On 7 October 2023, during the Re'im music festival massacreShani Nicole Louk (Hebrewשני ניקול לוק), a 22-year-old German-Israeli tattoo artist and influencer, was killed. Shortly after the attack, a video circulated showing her body paraded through the streets of Gaza by Hamas militants in the back of a pickup truck. Described by security experts and commentators as Hamas's social media propaganda, it became one of the first viral videos of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. The globally-seen[1] images turned into a visual emblem of militants' conduct toward civilians in the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.[a][3][4]

Attention was also brought to Louk's case through the campaign of her family, which began with her mother Ricarda saying that she had received information that Louk was alive and in a Gaza hospital. She appealed to the German government and received responses from top-ranking German officials. German authorities considered Louk to be among their nationals taken hostage during the war.[5] At the end of the month, Israel confirmed Louk's death based on the discovery of a skull fragment on a road leading out of the festival grounds, suggesting that she was killed during the attack.[6]. . .

. . ."Hours later that day, a video emerged showing Louk's body,[28][29][c][d] partially clothed, with a significant head injury and blood-matted hair, being paraded in the streets of Gaza City by Hamas militants in the back of a pickup truck; they were exclaiming "Allahu Akbar", and were joined in the cheers by the people in the crowd surrounding the vehicle, some of whom spat on the body.[33][22][34][35] The video went viral,[36][37][3] becoming one of the first viral videos of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war.[36] It was released in a wave of videos of Hamas members parading hostages and bodies.[38][39][40] Photographs were also taken and circulated on the internet,[29] including a photograph of the pickup returning to Gaza Strip, taken by an Associated Press photojournalist.[41]" . . .


Terrorism expert expresses shock over ‘venom’ of pro-Hamas protesters


 Terrorism expert expresses shock over ‘venom’ of pro-Hamas protesters (msn.com)

"Former presidential envoy and terrorism expert Marshall Billingslea has expressed his horror at the “venom” and “vitriol” of pro-Hamas protesters across the world. Some protesters have applauded Hamas for the atrocities committed on October 7, where around 1,200 Israelis were murdered.
Mr Billingslea said the “hate-filled reaction” witnessed in the past few months wasn’t seen even after 9/11. “I would say many of our democracies have a real problem on their hands if this is the kind of reaction that kind of attack provokes,” he told Sky News host Erin Molan. “Here in the United States we are quite concerned and the FBI is quite concerned about the potential for terrorist attacks here as well.”


Masoud has ties to Within Our Lifetime Palestine, an activist group that regularly calls for an intifada and the destruction of Israel at rallies in New York, and urged the targeting of Jewish groups in the city, including by handing out maps of Jewish organization locations at a protest. 

 The foot is a supreme Arab insult

Her Problems Continue To Multiply’: CNN Legal Analyst Says Fani Willis May Have Ruined Trump Case

The Daily Caller

"CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said Tuesday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis may have destroyed her election interference case against former President Donald Trump.

Willis appointed her romantic partner Nathan Wade as special prosecutor in the case, which a Trump co-defendant alleges is a conflict of interest because of benefits she received based on their relationship. Judge Scott McAfee will consider a motion Thursday to disqualify Willis based on the allegations.

Willis and Wade may get removed from the case, possibly putting an end to it, Honig told host Dana Bash on CNN’s “Inside Politics.”

. . .“Yesterday, there was a hearing, a zoom hearing that we were able to see where the DA‘s office said, ‘Judge, you should just throw this out. There‘s not even a need to hold a hearing.’ Well, the judge said, ‘I disagree. There‘s some serious disputed facts here. Therefore, we‘re going to have a hearing on Thursday.’ That‘s going to be really interesting to watch, but that is going to be a really problematic proceeding for the DA,” Honig said." . . .