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1/16/22 - Money from Washington Fueling Spread of Universal Basic Income Idea

Money from Washington Fueling Spread of Universal Basic Income Idea
 
  • The Left’s UBI idea has been around for a long time, but the latest wrinkle is funding it with federal COVID relief funds.  I’ve seen UBI pop up in a couple of localities recently, but I couldn’t figure out where the money was coming from.  Now we know: “A pilot program that will give monthly cash assistance to select low-income residents is in development in Fairfax County (VA). While eligibility criteria, payment amounts, and other details are still being determined, the county has allocated $1.5 million to the effort from its American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds....”   A new bit of rhetoric is greasing the skids for UBI - the Left wants us to stop focusing on the ‘dignity of work’ and start romanticizing the ‘dignity of the workers’.  Yes, the world owes everyone a living regardless of the choices they make and even if they refuse to work.  (I just heard this idea expressed in so many words in a Marxist video.)   Advocates swear UBI will not destroy the work ethic, but will instead free people to be all they can be.  That might be true in a handful of exceptional cases but, it seems to me, human nature will produce far more laziness and sloth if UBI takes hold.  I confess I was slow on the uptake here.  COVID relief money has been misused by schools to build athletic facilities instead of improving their air filtration systems, but I didn’t realize what other mischief was afoot.  Moral of the Story: if money is pouring out of Washington, you can be sure there is leftist funny business going on, no matter how the idea was sold or what the money is supposedly for.
 
Satanic Clubs
 
  • The Satanic Temple started an After School Satan Club for elementary school children in Belleville, IL.  The activities center on arts & crafts but will migrate to critical thinking and ‘getting kids to think for themselves’. Sounds harmless enough, right?  The problem is things are not as they seem.  ‘Critical thinking’ now means ‘criticize everything and tear everything down until nothing’s left’.  If that sounds like Marxist-derived critical theory, that’s because it is.  Don’t forget: Saul Alinsky spoke glowingly of Lucifer as the “first radical” in Rules for Radicals.  As you can see, the club is nothing more than an indoctrination center bent on dialectical negation of traditional values and founding principles.  (The Hegelian dialectic is the setting in motion of contrary ideas in multiple iterative cycles until there is nothing left of the original ideas.)  Another problem is that the satanic forces are joined at the hip with the Planned Parenthood abortion business.  The Satanic Temple has filed multiple lawsuits in overturn pro-life laws in several states, claiming that abortion is a religious right and a sacred ritual.  So when they start a club to teach kids to make lanyards, don’t take them at face value.
 
Democratic Socialists of America
 
  • A number of DSA members have been elected to political office in New York.  They have established a beachhead and are ramping up.  Their “Tax the Rich” campaign resulted in the biggest tax increase in New York in a hundred years.  They continue to work on defunding the police.  But they are also putting their weight behind labor strife, tenant struggles, and other local causes.  “The offices of NYC-DSA’s elected officials are also becoming hubs for organizing in their districts.”  They also have their sights set on single payer and building up from city council seats to win mayoral races and the Governor’s mansion. 
 
Debt
 
  • Some leftists are taking the cancelation of student loans idea and running with it.  Why not wipe out all debt, if it becomes ‘too burdensome’.  The ancients held debt forgiveness ‘jubilees’ and so should we, the argument goes. 
 
Gun Rights
 
  • “Secure storage” is the gun control lobby’s cause du jour [Moms Demand Action mailing, 1/10/22].  Who could be against gun safety and protecting kids?  The problem is the gun control lobby will never stop until the Second Amendment and gun rights are completely obliterated.  They take one salami slice at a time, until background checks become universal registries and confiscation.  They want all my freedom so I’m not willing to give them ANY of it.  Not when that’s the game they’re playing.  Massachusetts requires guns be locked away.  California, Connecticut, and New York have gun locking restrictions in some circumstances.   Look for secure storage legislation in other states this year.


1/9/22 - Control Mobility, Control the People

Control Mobility, Control the People
UK Inches Closer To Eliminating Private Car Ownership
 
  • Where this is headed: self-driving cars only available to high Social Crediteers and private vehicles only to the elite among those. The rest of us will be climbing onto the Diversity Buses if these people get their way.
  • From Six Cultish Things Globalist Elites Want You to Look Forward To in 2022—and Beyond!:
    “once you get rid of your car, you’ve limited your mobility, which means you’ve limited your freedom. Controlling the environment and the mobility of people is another standard practice of cults.  The goal here is scarcity and control over your mobility, which always add up to social control.”  Enter: the carbon tax - “The goal here is scarcity and control over your mobility, which always add up to social control.”  (more here on mind reading, digital IDs, etc.)
 
Abortion Subterfuge
   
Forced Organ ‘Donation’
 
  • First, they’ll withdraw life-sustaining treatment, then extract your organs.  Make no mistake, the Left wants to kill you for your organs, just like the Chinese are doing today with prisoners of conscience.  The Left will dress it up in fancy terms, like “presumed consent” and “medical futility” (‘you’re costing the state too much and we don’t think your life is worth anything, anyway’).  Details here.  There is an organization fighting the preliminary stages of all this (assisted suicide and euthanasia) -join the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.