The Daily Skirmish
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7/28/21 - Wildfires and Climate Change - Again
Today, I take direct aim at another phony narrative of the Left - climate change. If you’re the average person, not terribly well-informed, listening to radio or TV, you’ve probably been sucked in by the wall-to-wall gratuitous insertion of the phrase ‘climate change’ into news stories and weather reports. I’m hearing it more and more often, now, but it doesn’t make it true. You’re being manipulated to believe in a fairy tale by people who stand to benefit by your naiveté. You don’t want to get a reputation for being naïve, do you? Then listen up.
NPR is among the guilty for chanting ‘climate change’ at every opportunity. Yesterday, they blamed the wildfires in the West on climate change. More frequent fires, more acreage burned, and the idea it’s getting worse - it’s all due to climate change, NPR said. But it just ain’t so. Instead of climate change, 30 years of disastrous government policies are to blame. The fires are occurring on public land, not privately managed forests. The unnecessary devastation is attributable to the government’s failure to clear out dead trees and excess vegetation, not climate change.
Similarly, the damage from the recent floods in Germany was more severe than it needed to be because of the failure of some local governmental authorities to prepare. Some ordered evacuations when the warning came, but others did not, so 160 people are dead. Did climate change do this? No, the number of heavy rainfall days per year for the whole of Germany has hardly changed since 1951.
It might be an article of faith on the Left and believed by casual listeners who haven’t really thought about it, but there is no established relationship between human-caused climate change and extreme weather events. The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - the IPCC - has pushed the climate change narrative about as much as anybody, but even they had to admit hurricanes were no more frequent than they were a hundred years ago, as of 2013. Data from the IPCC and NOAA -the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - also show tornadoes, droughts, and floods have not increased, either.
In fact, natural disasters have become far less deadly: “The International Disaster Database, reports that the number of people killed by natural disasters has declined by over 80 percent, from almost 550,000 per year to less than 100,000 per year.”
If I’ve made any dent in your thinking at all, you have to ask yourself how else the climate doomsayers are manipulating you. Polar bears? Rising sea levels? Disappearing coral reefs? The claims these are due to climate change are all bunk. Researchers have just concluded that ordinary weather patterns, not climate change, account for the spike in hurricanes in recent years. The spike is no different from prior spikes in the 1880s and 1940s, and hurricanes are not more powerful than in the past. As for coral reefs, the coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia is at a record high with no serious bleaching detected. You can manipulate schoolkids into going on climate strikes and carrying signs saying ‘coral over coal’, but you can’t look them in the eye and tell them you are being truthful. Climate scientist Michael Mann just lost his case in court because he could not show a blog post was lying when it said the data for his famous ‘hockey stick’ graph was manipulated.
Manipulation. Deceit. Hiding emails. The point is not that the Left is lying to you about climate change - which they are - but that they are betraying your trust like a lover who cheats on you. The purveyors of the phony climate change narrative are not worth listening to unless, of course, you secretly like being manipulated and abused. And if you’re just a casual observer who can’t be bothered to get informed on these matters, the least you could do is shut up about climate change and stop sending your money to places like the Sierra Club. They are laughing all the way to the bank, at your expense.
7/27/21 - Mandatory Russian Roulette
This whole vaccine thing is turning authoritarian and bears watching. California, New York City, and the federal Department of Veterans Affairs announced COVID vaccine mandates and testing requirements for public employees. Houston Methodist Hospital fired or accepted resignations from over 150 workers who refused to get vaccinated. Hundreds of bars in San Francisco will require proof of vaccination or a negative test before you can order a drink. Then there’s the trash-talk: the White House says unvaccinated people are responsible for the uptick in COVID cases. California Governor Gavin Newsom didn’t hold back. He said unvaccinated people are like drunk drivers, a danger to themselves and others. Wasn’t he the guy who got caught in a restaurant not wearing a mask? Sure, I believe everything HE says.
I have used one number consistently throughout my commentary on this subject - the official CDC number for the percentage of emergency room visits nationwide represented by COVID-19-like illnesses. That number was 4 percent when things were bad a year ago. It was down to slightly above 3 percent at the end of October when there was a lot of dishonest hype in the news before the election about hospitals being overwhelmed. It spiked to 8.7 percent around the first of the year. Then it declined to a low of 0.7 percent. It is 2.5 percent as of 5 days ago, roughly the same as it was in February. So don’t tell me the sky is falling; it’s not true.
There’s another number I’ve used consistently, the official CDC statistic for the number of Americans dying after receiving a COVID vaccine. It now totals 11,405 including deaths from heart attacks and blood clots, according to official CDC numbers for adverse reactions. OpenVAERS I haven’t seen one single commentator or public health official speak to this fact. They never even mention it, or the percentage of emergency room visits. They ignore these facts, which tells me they’re lying and I’m not going to listen to them.
We’re still seeing stories about public health officials cooking the books and inflating the number of COVID cases. The most recent was about the CDC quietly revoking emergency authorization for the PCR test because it can’t distinguish between COVID and the flu. That means the COVID numbers have been inflated all along with cases of the flu.
My trust in public health officials has been further eroded by their constant flip-flops in the advice they give: don’t wear a mask, do wear a mask, wear three masks, don’t wear a mask if you’re vaccinated, do wear a mask if you are. And you want me to take these pompous jerks seriously? Our public health officials either don’t know what they’re doing or they’re political animals who are lying through their teeth. Either way, I don’t trust them. I’m going to use my own judgment and encourage everyone to do the same. Speaking of politics, the Democrat-controlled Justice Department just dropped the investigations of four governors for COVID deaths in nursing homes. The fact that all four governors are Democrat? - how convenient.
Finally, all of this is still an experiment. The COVID vaccines are still only authorized for experimental use. Remember, this is not a regular vaccine. It messes with your genetics. Who know what the long term effects will be? It remains an experiment; there are no longitudinal studies. Well, my government doesn’t get to experiment on me. If you find that odd, I would refer you to the notorious Tuskegee syphilis study in which U.S. public health officials used black men as guinea pigs to observe the effects of untreated syphilis. The trusting study participants were told they were receiving free healthcare when they were not. And now we’re being told we’re receiving a vaccine when it’s actually something else.
Folks, the next COVID variants are already lined up. Lambda and Epsilon will follow Delta. This pandemic will never end, either because it’s a wicked disease or wicked authoritarians will never let it go. The question as I see it is whether we are going to follow the science, or continue to play politics with the result we never get back to normal. How many lockdowns are you willing to put up with?
7/26/21 - New Front in Islam’s War on Free Expression
Last week, a pro-Islamic pressure group joined Democrat lawmakers in calling for the State Department to appoint a Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Global Islamophobia. The lawmakers included congressional Representatives Ilhan Omar and Andre Carson who are both Muslim. The pressure group was CAIR - the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR is Hamas in America and an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial. The State Department designated Hamas a terrorist organization in 1997. The envoy would “go on the offensive against the international and interconnected problem of anti-Muslim bigotry.”
Critics warn such an envoy would expand the Islam’s war on free speech. They worry the envoy would “crack down on honest discussion of how Islamic jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and oppression.”
The critics are right to worry. Here’s what the future of a special envoy could look like:
Just to our north, a Canadian Muslim group also demanded a special envoy to deal with Islamophobia. The group wants the government to investigate suspected Islamophobes inside Canada’s national security agencies, which sounds like a witch hunt to me. They also want to indoctrinate school children and make it easier to prosecute hate crimes.
A German government advisory board recommended criminalizing criticism of Islam and curbing freedom of the press in the process.
Last month, a Dutch court upheld the conviction of politician Geert Wilders for insulting Moroccans at a campaign rally in 2014. Wilders called the prosecution a restriction on free speech. The ruling casts doubt on whether people in the Netherlands have any right left to criticize Islam, jihad violence, mass Islamic immigration, or the Islamization of their country.
The Nigerian Senate passed a bill proposing 10 years in prison for using hate speech to ‘stir up religious hatred’. This bill could easily be used to criminalize any truthful discussion of standard Islamic doctrine such as jihad violence. The Quran commands Muslims to “strike terror in the hearts of the Unbelievers.” No one - especially the Washington establishment - wants to talk about that but, unfortunately for Islam, it is the unalterable word of Allah and cannot be changed. But for the Islamic doctrine of jihad, the nearly 40,000 Islamic terrorist attacks by Muslims since 9/11 would not have occurred. The mission of a special envoy would include stifling legitimate criticisms of Islamic doctrines such as the ones I am making now. Islam is waging a war on free expression and using ‘Islamophobia’ as cover for taking away your freedom to speak your mind and tell the truth.
One last point: The chill a special envoy would place on free speech would not be limited to the United States. The proposal would put the power of the U.S. government behind efforts to bully other countries, not just about what speech they allow, but into changing their policies. The U.S. could withhold foreign aid or even impose sanctions unless other countries stop resisting mass Islamic immigration and allow Islamization to obliterate their national identities. Tell me why this is a good idea, again?
Islam is the only doctrine that demands special treatment like this. Tell me why we are all just supposed to shut up and bow down to Islam. I want our elected representatives and the Washington establishment to explain it to me.
7/23/21 - The American Left’s Vainglorious Attempt at Thought Control
The Soviet Union tried to control everyone’s thoughts, but the whole kit and caboodle went kaput after 75 years. There were two main newspapers, Pravda and Izvestia, which were supposed to be "the truth" and "the news”. They were anything but. Today we explore some of the ways the authoritarian Left is attempting thought control in America.
One technique is the Big Lie, as in tell a lie loud enough and often enough it becomes the truth. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Joe Biden ran on a platform of boosting funds for law enforcement and the Republicans spent decades trying to defund the police. Nice try, but Joe Biden called the police the enemy and proposed redirecting police funding elsewhere. As for Republicans trying to defund the police, what planet is Jen Psaki from? At least House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn admitted the ‘defund the police’ narrative is costing Democrats lots of votes. Another Big Lie is the assertion by Joy Reid and others critical race theory is not being taught in schools. One small problem: the teachers union recently adopted a plan to spend big bucks to oppose attempts to ban critical race theory in schools and teachers rallied in 22 cities to support CRT. Another Big Lie is being told by Democrats who now say they were never against voter ID when they are on record saying they were.
Thought control can’t work unless the thoughts one wishes to impose are ubiquitous. Sometimes, it seems the American Left has succeeded in this. You can hardly turn around these days without bumping into left-wing ideas. Think your library is neutral territory? Think again. The American Librarian Association says you’re not a librarian unless you’re a social justice warrior engaging in ‘critical librarianship’. And they’re serious about it. You can get fired if you don’t toe the line. And to think I used to work for those creeps. As actor Jon Voight has noted, left-wing ideas come at you from the media, the schools, and universities. If you don’t espouse the Left’s party line, Big Tech will cancel you and you won’t get a job in Hollywood. One small recent example from the media: fourteen-year-old Zaila Avant-garde recently won the National Spelling Bee. NPR loves pointing out the fact she’s a minority - that fits the Left’s narrative - but NPR won’t tell you she’s being homeschooled. You’re not allowed to know that because you might get your own ideas and leave the government indoctrination centers AKA the public schools. We have to control the information you receive, you see. Another recent example: Wikipedia’s co-founder recently warned the online encyclopedia is more one-sided than ever and its information sources are now almost exclusively globalist and progressive, i.e., left-wing. So, there are still some dissenting voices left, which is good news. As long as there is a single contrary voice remaining, thought control can’t work.
Speaking of indoctrination in education, a Roosevelt University professor recently got caught bragging about she beats “social justice” ideology into students “all day, every day.” A colleague joined in, describing how he turned a public budgeting class into indoctrination sessions on social justice and collectivism. These two serve on the local school board. The Left OWNS public education, which makes homeschooling more attractive by the day. The Howard Zinn Education Project has students role-play how to design a better reparations bill to replace weak reparations bills circulating in Congress. In this exercise, there is no debate about whether reparations should be paid in the first place.
One last technique to cap thing off for today: The Left loves to erase history so you don’t know who you are, where you came from, or what you stand for. The latest example is the New Jersey school district that voted to remove the names of all religious and secular holidays from the school calendar. The calendar now refers to those days as ‘Day Off'. But if they really want to be ‘inclusive’ and ‘equitable’, they should issue Mao jackets to all the students and only refer to them by number. It’s that old saying: if you don’t know what you stand for, you’ll fall for anything, even the globalist, progressivist garbage coming at us from every direction these days. No dissenting voices, please.
Folks, we can’t just drift without a foundation. We don’t want to find out the hard way we only have 75 years before we go kaput, do we?
7/22/21 - The Electoral College is Good, But It Won’t Save Us
NPR held a one-sided roundtable discussion on the Electoral College in June which tied the Electoral College to the Left’s phony voter suppression narrative. I asked a national group on the professional Right for a rebuttal, but got no response. It’s not the first time I’ve asked a group with fancy offices and paid staff on the political Right to respond directly to what the Left is saying. And it’s not the first time I’ve gotten no response. Maybe I should start naming names. This most recent instance further convinces me, if the country is to be saved, it’s the grassroots Right that will have to do it. The professional Right is not up to the job.
The commentators in the NPR roundtable showed an appalling lack of understanding of our governmental system. They lamented over and over that democracy is not functioning well in America saying, for example, two Republicans have become president in the last 20 years because of the pesky Electoral College despite not winning the popular vote. They also criticized features of the system that protect the rights of political minorities, like the filibuster rule in the Senate. They also bemoaned the fact that the Electoral College gives more weight to voters in small states than to voters in big cities.
There’s only one problem: we don’t have a democracy; we have a Republic. Both feature representative government, but democracy descends into mob rule while a Republic protects political minorities and individuals from the tyranny of the majority. The filibuster is meant to protect the rights of the political minority. The Electoral College deliberately overweights small states. The small states demanded overrepresentation and they were given it in the Senate, for example, where every state has two senators regardless of population and, also, in the Electoral College. Without these inducements, the small states would not have joined the Union and we wouldn’t have a country. So the commentators can yack all day long about how voters in Wyoming have more voting power than voters in California but the solution to that is simple: If it’s that important to you, put your money where your mouth is and move to Wyoming. Otherwise, I can reasonably assume you aren’t all that upset about it and there’s no reason to take you seriously.
The commentators went on to say, under the Electoral College, outcomes in presidential elections could depend on a relative handful of votes in a few random states and, further, small manipulations by the mean old Republicans to change election laws in their favor could have big consequences. They said the Republicans are engaging in voter suppression and passing ballot restrictions in some states. The problem here is the voter suppression narrative is completely bogus. Take voter ID, for example. Lots of Democrats are out there saying voter ID is racist, the new Jim Crow, and intended to deny minorities the right to vote. We know this is completely bogus because Stacey Abrams finally admitted voter ID laws are not inherently racist and some other Democrats are denying they ever said it was. Moreover, many people have observed that it’s still easier to vote in states where Republicans have passed new election integrity laws than in Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware.
The commentators can call election integrity laws ‘manipulations’ that will rig the Electoral College but, here again, they misunderstand how the Electoral College works. The Electoral College makes it harder to steal elections. Cheaters would have to corrupt electors in 50 different places. Also, they would have to predict which state’s electoral votes would be decisive in any given election, but that’s next to impossible. In a democracy, cheaters could steal votes in one place, say, Chicago, and change the outcome for the entire country. Without being able to predict which random states will be decisive or where rigging the system would need to be done, the Electoral College makes it harder to steal elections, not easier as the commentators suggest.
The commentators do make one good point: some Republicans are starting to rely on the Electoral College to produce presidential victories instead of doing the hard work of appealing to more voters. I agree. I’m an equal opportunity critic. The Republican Party, like the professional Right, needs to do a better job. Also, the grassroots Right hasn’t been doing what it needs to do to maintain the Republic for at least 50 years. The entire political Right needs to up its game, because the Left is on the march and they think they are close to finishing us off. So, to my friends on the Right, I say it’s time to get better organized and work more effectively together, folks.
7/21/21 - It’s Time to Poke the Woke Pentagon
The Pentagon just won’t stick to its knitting. The social justice warriors there continue to place wokitude over war-fighting, but now there’s something you can do about it.
In Congressional testimony, top brass has defended the now-admitted teaching of critical race theory on the grounds it’s just being taught in service academy classrooms and college students should know all kinds of theories. They are lying. They are way beyond the classroom with this stuff. In addition to what we knew about forced ‘privilege walks’ and other incidents outside the classroom before, we more recently learned troops at Ft. Bliss were forced to wear IDs showing their race and social class during diversity training. Why not yellow six-pointed stars, that’s my question. We also learned Defense Department schools are helping students in gender transitions without parental knowledge or consent. The Navy forced personnel to march behind a rainbow U.S. flag, pictures show. The contractor hired to investigate white supremacy in military ranks has ties to the anarch0-communists of Antifa and the self-admitted “trained Marxists” of Black Lives Matter and is on record saying any opposition to Antifa is extremist.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is ignoring social science research showing diversity training fails to reach positive outcomes, as well as literature showing diversity training actually PROMOTES prejudice. They have also been mugged by reality and now admit nearly half of female soldiers can’t pass the Army’s genderless physical fitness test. The Army is considering a return to separate fitness standards for men and women, but this is heresy given the new orthodoxy at the Pentagon so we’ll see if it actually happens. I’m not holding my breath. A congressionally commissioned report said the Navy is outstanding at diversity training, but found that the Navy is neglecting ship-handling, combat readiness, and is otherwise unfit for war due to the political correctness of top brass. Military leaders are now dodging questions about critical race theory and whistleblower complaints about wokitude being forced on the troops.
The Pentagon is under pressure from Democrats in Congress to hurry up and report already on what it is doing to root out white supremacists in the ranks. Maybe congressional Democrats can’t get enough of this stuff, but if wokitude in the military rubs you the wrong way, get off the couch and so something about it. The Senate is marking up the defense authorization bill this week. Senator Tom Cotton and Congressman Dan Bishop have introduced bills to stop racist training in the military (S. 968 / H.R. 3134). The bills prohibit the Armed Services from teaching that any race is superior or inferior to another. Urge your congressional representative to attach the measure to the NDAA authorization bill so we can get the Pentagon back on track and doing what it is supposed to be doing.
7/20/21 - The Left’s Phony Diversity Narrative Will Make You Crazy
The Left is all about making up phony narratives. It’s most successful narrative is the diversity narrative. It’s sucked in a lot of people. Before you get sucked in, you should consider just how crazy and unhinged you can become if you live and breathe the diversity narrative 24/7.
Today’s news brought the story J.K. Rowling has received hundreds of threats of rape, assault, and assassination from transgender rights activists. Her crime? Pointing out the obvious fact men cannot menstruate. “I wish you a very nice pipebomb in mailbox,” one tweet said.
Two days ago, a Virginia PTA vice-president resigned after being caught on video saying “let them die” at a rally against opponents of critical race theory in schools. She was there in support of transgender rights and said, “Let’s deny this off-key band of people that are anti-education, anti-teacher, anti-equity, anti-history.... Let them die.”
Here are some other recent examples of just how crazy the Left’s phony diversity narrative has made people:
A black English professor made news by saying whites should be imprisoned and gassed in the coming race war.
Yale invited a New York psychiatrist, an Indian-American, to speak about how white people are psychopaths. She talked about “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body, and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step.” White people “suck you dry,” she went on to say. “There are no good apples out there. White people make my blood boil.”
Then there was the black supremacist in Tulsa who said the “time will come when there’s a rat-a-tat-tat… black Americans will kill everything white in sight.” And the black Texas A&M professor who called for whites to be killed. And my all-time favorite, the time I heard Louis Farrakhan on the radio saying all “white people are snakes and devils.”
Let’s suppose you like the Left’s diversity narrative. You like separate college dorms for blacks on campus, biological males in women’s bathrooms, and making whites take ‘privilege walks’. Just be forewarned you can make yourself very sick if you go too far down the rabbit hole and live and breathe this stuff 24/7. If you start having fantasies about gassing people with a bounce in your step, please seek professional help. There is hope. It’s only the Left is making you crazy.
7/19/21 - Far-Left Crazy Kook Perfect for the Biden Administration
Ordinarily, a nomination for the Bureau of Land Management would only draw yawns, but Joe Biden’s nomination of Tracy Stone-Manning to head up the agency deserves a closer look because it speaks volumes about this administration and the nature of the people in power in Washington at the moment.
She admitted in federal court in 1993 that she edited, retyped, and mailed an anonymous warning letter on behalf of an eco- terrorist who was eventually sent to prison for tree-spiking in Idaho. The letter said the terrorist had driven 500 pounds of 8-to-10 inch spikes into trees in the forest. The letter called officials profane names and bastards. A retired Forest Service criminal investigator said she exhibited "vulgar, antagonistic, and extremely anti-government" behavior during the investigation.
She said she sent the letter to protect forest workers who could be maimed or killed by tree-spiking, but critics say her proper course of action was to turn the terrorist in to law enforcement, not help him carry out his crimes by concealing his identity. This involved her in an activity that could have led to injury or death, calling her judgment seriously into question, critics say.
Senator Barrasso was more blunt: “Tracy Stone-Manning covered up for those eco-terrorists, setting back the investigation by years, and she only cooperated with authorities when she was caught,” Barrasso said. “She then lied to the Senate Committee about the incident,” Barrasso added. “There is no way that she should direct an agency that oversees almost 65 million acres of forest.” She told the Committee she had never been the target of a criminal investigation, but failed to mention she could have been charged with criminal conspiracy had it not been for an immunity deal, or that a federal grand jury had subpoenaed her for handwriting and hair samples. She also denied to the Committee she had any personal knowledge of tree-spiking activities in her lifetime. The retired investigator said she knew about the eco-terrorist’s plans in advance and agreed in advance to send the letter.
She joined the radical environmental group Earth First! in graduate school and went on to a senior post with the National Wildlife Federation. While in graduate school, she edited an Earth First! newsletter that called for violence against government officials, the newsletter calling them “pigdogs” who must be “rubbed out”. Last year, she asked her university to restrict access to her master’s thesis which urged the creation of population control propaganda to help the environment. In the thesis, she called overpopulation the root of all environmental problems and urged people not to have more than one or two children. “When we have children, the planet feels it more,” she wrote. One of her suggested ads showed a child along with the caption, ““Can you find the environmental hazard in this photo?” This puts her at least in sympathy with the radical depopulationist movement, the left kook fringe of the left kook fringe which believes the earth will be a whole lot better off when there aren’t any people on it.
The critics are wrong, though. I say this person is perfect for the far-Left Biden administration. What are a few deaths from tree-spiking when you’re trying to save the planet? There’s a higher morality here, and Tracy Stone-Manning is a perfect standard-bearer for the Left’s all-time favorite excuse for criminality and immorality: the ends justify the means and, if you can’t see that, you’re deplorable. Moreover, she fits right in with the Biden’s administration recent National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. The Strategy claims to address all forms of domestic terrorism, including environmental terrorism (p. 9), but everybody knows the Biden administration couldn’t care less about left-wing violence and is making up a big story about white supremacists being the only domestic terrorists worth discussing. If the Antifa anarcho-communists riot in the streets in Portland for a hundred straight nights, no biggie. In fact, left-wing politicians will applaud and Kamala Harris might even put up their bail money. So it makes perfect sense for Tracy Stone-Manning to be nominated to run the Bureau of Land Management for Joe Biden. She’ll fit right in.
7/16/21 - Sound the Alarm: Sneaky Dems Put Pathway to Citizenship in Reconciliation Bill
Betcha didn’t hear about this:
The White House said it supports a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens in the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill and said it would do “whatever is needed” to get the budget measure passed. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said this in a briefing and I only heard it by accident on C-SPAN while flipping through radio channels this morning. The question was asked, the answer took all of five seconds, then it was ‘next question, move along, nothing to see here.’ I see a couple of nerdy news outlets that cover Capitol Hill have had the story for a few days [Roll Call, The Hill] but, other than that, it’s been a media blackout on the news. Everyone is being very quiet about it.
Why do you suppose that is? Because the Democrats and their lackeys in the media know that the grassroots has rallied and stopped comprehensive immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship in the past. So the Democrats have become more devious and hope to sneak this one by the American people before they even notice. They admit they are doing this because they don’t have the votes to get a pathway to citizenship past a filibuster in the Senate.
The left-wing Center for American Progress had the story two weeks ago. Where was the Republican Party? Where were the Republican staffers on Capitol Hill? Where was the House Freedom Caucus, and senators like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee? The politicians fell down on the job. So did the professional Right, the Washington pressure groups and think tanks that ask for money from the grassroots four times a week. None of them have even mentioned this, as far as I’m aware, and I get a lot of newsletters. I have often said, if the country is to be saved, it’s up to us, the grassroots Right.
This can still be fought and there is hope a pathway to citizenship for millions of new Democrat voters can still be prevented, but it’s an uphill fight. Reconciliation bills only take 51 votes to pass in the Senate. The Vice-President can cast the 51st tie-breaking vote, so we have our work cut out for us, but the Senate Parliamentarian could still decide a pathway to citizenship is irrelevant or incidental to what reconciliation bills are supposed to be about - revenue, spending, and the federal debt limit. The current Parliamentarian issued a restrictive ruling before, keeping a federal minimum wage out of a previous reconciliation bill. The Byrd Rule prohibits extraneous matters from being included in reconciliation bills. Senators can raise a point of order to enforce the Byrd Rule. It’s up to us to make sure they do. The reconciliation bill includes $126 billion to create a pathway to citizenship for certain categories of illegal aliens. It doesn’t sound plausible to me that simply changing citizenship rules would cost that kind of money but, regardless of the amount, it could still be argued the expenditures are incidental to the policy change.
And policy change is the key point. The Senate is split 50-50. The Democrats have no mandate but they are trying to ram through wrenching major changes, anyway - changes like a federal takeover of elections, and massive new social spending like free community college and universal child care. You can’t really blame them. Elections have consequences and we are seeing those consequences - like a pathway to citizenship - play out. The grassroots Right and the professional Right have not done what is necessary to maintain the Republic for the last 50 years. We’d better start, because time is running out.
I’m sounding the alarm because the politicians and professional Right have not. If a pathway to citizenship is granted, we will eventually have millions of new voters who will largely vote Democrat. If we can’t convince them otherwise, it will be that much harder to hang on to limited government, individual rights, our freedom, and the Republic. If you don’t relish the prospect of one-party rule like they have in Cuba, get off the couch and do something.
7/15/21 - Put Your Faith in Government and You Will Be Disappointed
The Supreme Court may have upheld Obamacare for a third time, but that doesn’t mean it’s the right direction or good for the country. There is a steady stream of bad news about Obamacare that generally gets ignored, but I’m going to keep documenting it all because I want to be able to remind everyone Obamacare remains a disaster every time the Democrats propose another big government program. In fact, they’re at it again already with their $3.5 trillion social spending bill - more free healthcare, free community college, universal child care, and on and on and on. Spending like drunken sailors is a problem in itself but, if enacted, each one of these programs will end up poorly run and hurting somebody, just like Obamacare. If the Democrats get what they want on their so-called ‘infrastructure’ bill, there will be more train wrecks in our future.
How do I know? Because past is prologue. Here are the latest train wrecks in Obamacare:
The subsidies have gotten bigger, so we know the cost to the nation will be going up. The biggest carrier in Maryland is seeking a 7.9 percent increase in Obamacare premiums, much higher than inflation. Obamacare regulations are hurting small insurers and driving consolidation in the insurance market. Small insurers have more variability in their claims experience, so it’s easier for them to run afoul of Obamacare’s rules limiting administrative expenses as a percent of revenue. Parents are supposed to be able to keep their children on Obamacare until age 26, but they’re finding out they can’t if the children are not dependents in the eyes of the IRS. It’s not supposed to be this way, but the program is poorly run, and it is.
Meanwhile, more people are waking up and recognizing long-standing problems with Obamacare. Obamacare restricts consumer choice, limits access to the best doctors and hospitals, and makes people more dependent on government. The number of insurers is down and premiums have doubled. Obamacare did not reduce medical bankruptcies the way they promised. You would have expected a sharp decrease in 2014 when Obamacare took effect, but it didn’t happen. Likewise, they claimed thousands of people were dying every year from lack of insurance but Obamacare didn’t lower the death rate, data shows. They claimed Obamacare would lower overall healthcare costs, but that didn’t happen, either. They also claim Obamacare is a great success in getting people to sign up. Actually, enrollment is only about half of what they expected and they have to throw in Medicaid expansion to inflate the numbers to make Obamacare look good. Obamacare remains such a bad deal - high premiums, high deductibles, narrow networks - that millions have bailed out in favor of alternatives like short-term plans that don’t have Obamacare’s complications or defects. The latest poll shows barely a majority of Americans support Obamacare. 54 percent? - that’s the best you can do after ten years? Time to try something else.
And it’s time to take a closer look at the new programs Democrats are proposing. Free community college will hurt historically black colleges and universities. Universal child care will mean the government will start indoctrinating your kids at an earlier age. More free healthcare when we can’t even pay for the government healthcare programs we have now is a bad idea. All this stuff might sound great, but think about it long enough and you will realize the government can’t put a soft pillow under absolutely everybody for absolutely everything, nor should we want it to if we have any self-respect left.
7/14/21 - Let the Border Games Begin!
More fun and games at the border. In today’s news, we learned three out of four illegal aliens caught and released at the border later fail to turn themselves into ICE, according to members of Congress and official ICE numbers. Perfect! But let’s do better. How about this - I encourage the Biden administration to make sure NOBODY shows up to ICE by registering them as Democrat voters on the spot and promising them a $100 gift card if they appear at the voting booth.
Why stop there? The Democrats should hold a contest for the dirtiest kid held in Biden cages at unaccompanied alien minor shelters, where the contractors have no experience and clean underwear is in short supply. The Biden administration is diverting $860 million in COVID relief funds to spend on new underwear. This is OK, even though it wasn’t OK for Donald Trump to repurpose Pentagon funds to build the wall. So the solution is simple - Joe Biden is talking about building part of the wall, so have the kids build it.
Speaking of kids in cages, Kamala Harris blames Trump for that. There’s only one problem: everybody knows Obama built those cages and the Biden administration is holding seven times as many kids as the Trump administration did. I hear the classic 1944 movie ‘Gaslight’ is being remade - remember, where the husband was trying to convince the wife she was going crazy? The remake will feature Kamala Harris in the starring role. They wanted Joe Biden, but he couldn’t remember his lines.
More than a million illegal aliens have been arrested at the border since October, including almost 7,000 with prior criminal convictions and 542 percent more sex offenders. You know, the Olympics are coming up. They should make illegal border crossing an Olympic event. Oh, I forgot - what flag would they fly for the winners at the medals ceremony?
The Biden administration is ending a program that allowed border agents to quickly return illegal crossers back over the border. I’m sorry, but this doesn’t go far enough. I won’t be satisfied until there’s a program that allows illegal aliens to send border agents back across the border. By the way, the policy change, which may take effect July 31st, means that illegal alien families will no longer be expelled. Why don’t they just cut to the chase and order every American citizen out of the country by July 31st to make way for newcomers? They should hold a contest to name this new operation. I think they should call it ‘Conquest’.
Meanwhile, we’re learning that the Mexican cartels are making out like bandits from all this new activity at the border under the Biden administration. Nobody comes across the border without the authorization of the cartels and, presumably, paying them a fee. In fact, the way I hear the story, the fees have gone way up, given all the new demand since Biden took over. Since the anarchists and Rashida Tlaib’s among us want to defund the police and abolish all prisons, there’s a money-making opportunity here. The Biden administration should legalize the cartel border-crossing fees, tax them to pay for the Green New Deal, and unionize the cartel workers so they can pay forced union dues into Democrat campaign coffers. Hmm, maybe I shouldn’t give them any ideas.
Finally, the Biden administration is ending a program that helped victims of crimes committed by illegal aliens, you know, the regular Americans who have been raped, shot, and hit by drunk drivers who are here illegally. Actually, I’m all for this because I hear the money spent on the program will now go to teaching critical race theory and other Marxist claptrap to unsuspecting school kids. Systemic racism trainers will make oodles of money teaching people to hate their country. It’s time for Joe Biden to start thinking about his legacy, and I can’t think of a better place to start.
7/13/21 - An Engineered Nation of Sex Addicts
Let’s talk about sex. You might think it’s for fun. Or you might think it’s for procreation and the bonding of family units. But you would be wrong in either case. To the Left, sex is an instrument to destroy society and usher in the revolution.
Consider these recent news stories: A summer camp for girls in Virginia is partnering with the left-wing abortion giant Planned Parenthood to teach girls as young as 12 that’s it’s normal to watch pornography and masturbate. The program also delves into sexual orientation, transgenderism, and STDs. In a training video, a young boy asks, “Is it weird that I don’t feel like a boy?” There are cartoons of naked kids, close-ups of genitalia, and discussions of pregnancies, presumably - since it’s Planned Parenthood - what to do with one you don’t want. Kids who participate get a $100 gift card and are turned loose on the world as ‘peer educators’. Like Marx said, it’s not philosophy unless it’s action. Boy, this doesn’t sound like any summer camp I went to.
Seven- and eight-year-olds in Greenwich, Connecticut schools were reportedly shown a video of a man with an erection standing next to a scared little girl. The video was part of a program to teach youngsters how to deal with various kinds of fear. Socially engineering young minds must be a whole lot more fun than teaching multiplication tables. But it’s normal to show videos of adult private parts to seven-year-olds, right? Times have changed, and not for the better, as we’ll see in a moment. But don’t miss a key aspect of this story - it’s public schools, a favorite playground of the Left, that is doing everything they can to sexualize the nation’s youth.
In previous commentaries, I’ve mentioned how it’s pretty well known at this point that Planned Parenthood pushes sex education on kids to drum up more abortion business. If you think that’s a debatable point, let me know.
Do you think all these things are happening by accident? I humbly submit to you they are happening by design. An early communist Georgi Lukacs, who was the education minister in the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, had a program he called “Cultural Terrorism”. The program consisted of explicit how-to sex education for kids, vilification of Christianity, encouraging women to abandon marriage for a life of sexual pleasure, and other means by which to deliberately destroy old values to usher in revolutionary values. There’s a direct line from Lukacs to the communist goals reprinted in the Congressional Record in 1963 to destroy the family, get control of schools, and push pornography, obscenity, degeneracy, homosexuality, and promiscuity. It’s one thing to say the Victorians were too uptight about sex and there will always be gay people, but it’s quite another not to recognize that we as an entire nation have been manipulated by the Left’s consciously contrived sexual revolution. This is not the Decline of the West; it’s the West being deliberately pushed off a cliff.
Before you dismiss all that out of hand, you should know about a book published in 1934 that studied 80 civilizations and found that none survived after loosening their sexual mores. The author wrote, "The whole of human history does not contain a single instance of a group becoming civilized unless it has been absolutely monogamous, nor is there any example of a group retaining its culture after it has adopted less rigorous customs." A more recent book criticizes the Left’s sexual revolution and makes the points that sex alone does not lead to human satisfaction, and political communities cannot entirely give themselves over to base instincts or they will no longer be able to produce people capable of shouldering the responsibilities of citizenship or living in freedom.
Morality aside, there are enormous practical reasons not to be manipulated or buy into the entire Left program of sexual licentiousness. As the books I cited show, there is only virtue or there is destruction. That is true for individuals and for societies. Factor that into your personal behavior the next time you are tempted by another aspect of the sexual revolution or by someone telling you that you can have sex without consequence. The Left has politicized sex, like it has infected everything else. What you think are private sex acts are actually political acts because the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution.
7/12/21 - Michael Moore Tells Big Fat Lies
Last Friday, commentators on a left-wing radio station were talking about how great government-run healthcare is in Cuba. [Latino Media Collective, 7/9/21 at 20:30 - 23:25] They said it was wonderful Castro nationalized the pharmacies, making medicine available to everyone. They talked about how healthcare goes out to the people with public clinics and a well-designed system that reaches virtually everyone in the island nation. They said Cubans have an enormous amount of trust in government healthcare and even claimed to know people who say Cuban healthcare is better than what they can get in Miami.
But then the weekend brought the news that thousands of Cubans took to the streets to protest against the communist regime and how it’s handling healthcare in the COVID pandemic. So here’s my question: If everything the commentators said were true and government healthcare is so great, why are thousands of people in the streets protesting against it in Cuba?
There are reports Cuban hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID cases and the government system is collapsing under the weight, especially in one northern province. Observers report there is no oxygen, no beds, and no basic medicine. Despite the human agony, the communist authorities will not allow humanitarian relief into the country to treat coronavirus patients.
How can all this be when the commentators told us government-run healthcare is wonderful in Cuba? Filmmaker Michael Moore told us that, too, in his 2007 movie ‘Sicko’. What he didn’t tell us was that he only visited and filmed the healthcare facilities for the elites. %
Today, I take direct aim at another phony narrative of the Left - climate change. If you’re the average person, not terribly well-informed, listening to radio or TV, you’ve probably been sucked in by the wall-to-wall gratuitous insertion of the phrase ‘climate change’ into news stories and weather reports. I’m hearing it more and more often, now, but it doesn’t make it true. You’re being manipulated to believe in a fairy tale by people who stand to benefit by your naiveté. You don’t want to get a reputation for being naïve, do you? Then listen up.
NPR is among the guilty for chanting ‘climate change’ at every opportunity. Yesterday, they blamed the wildfires in the West on climate change. More frequent fires, more acreage burned, and the idea it’s getting worse - it’s all due to climate change, NPR said. But it just ain’t so. Instead of climate change, 30 years of disastrous government policies are to blame. The fires are occurring on public land, not privately managed forests. The unnecessary devastation is attributable to the government’s failure to clear out dead trees and excess vegetation, not climate change.
Similarly, the damage from the recent floods in Germany was more severe than it needed to be because of the failure of some local governmental authorities to prepare. Some ordered evacuations when the warning came, but others did not, so 160 people are dead. Did climate change do this? No, the number of heavy rainfall days per year for the whole of Germany has hardly changed since 1951.
It might be an article of faith on the Left and believed by casual listeners who haven’t really thought about it, but there is no established relationship between human-caused climate change and extreme weather events. The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - the IPCC - has pushed the climate change narrative about as much as anybody, but even they had to admit hurricanes were no more frequent than they were a hundred years ago, as of 2013. Data from the IPCC and NOAA -the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - also show tornadoes, droughts, and floods have not increased, either.
In fact, natural disasters have become far less deadly: “The International Disaster Database, reports that the number of people killed by natural disasters has declined by over 80 percent, from almost 550,000 per year to less than 100,000 per year.”
If I’ve made any dent in your thinking at all, you have to ask yourself how else the climate doomsayers are manipulating you. Polar bears? Rising sea levels? Disappearing coral reefs? The claims these are due to climate change are all bunk. Researchers have just concluded that ordinary weather patterns, not climate change, account for the spike in hurricanes in recent years. The spike is no different from prior spikes in the 1880s and 1940s, and hurricanes are not more powerful than in the past. As for coral reefs, the coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia is at a record high with no serious bleaching detected. You can manipulate schoolkids into going on climate strikes and carrying signs saying ‘coral over coal’, but you can’t look them in the eye and tell them you are being truthful. Climate scientist Michael Mann just lost his case in court because he could not show a blog post was lying when it said the data for his famous ‘hockey stick’ graph was manipulated.
Manipulation. Deceit. Hiding emails. The point is not that the Left is lying to you about climate change - which they are - but that they are betraying your trust like a lover who cheats on you. The purveyors of the phony climate change narrative are not worth listening to unless, of course, you secretly like being manipulated and abused. And if you’re just a casual observer who can’t be bothered to get informed on these matters, the least you could do is shut up about climate change and stop sending your money to places like the Sierra Club. They are laughing all the way to the bank, at your expense.
7/27/21 - Mandatory Russian Roulette
This whole vaccine thing is turning authoritarian and bears watching. California, New York City, and the federal Department of Veterans Affairs announced COVID vaccine mandates and testing requirements for public employees. Houston Methodist Hospital fired or accepted resignations from over 150 workers who refused to get vaccinated. Hundreds of bars in San Francisco will require proof of vaccination or a negative test before you can order a drink. Then there’s the trash-talk: the White House says unvaccinated people are responsible for the uptick in COVID cases. California Governor Gavin Newsom didn’t hold back. He said unvaccinated people are like drunk drivers, a danger to themselves and others. Wasn’t he the guy who got caught in a restaurant not wearing a mask? Sure, I believe everything HE says.
I have used one number consistently throughout my commentary on this subject - the official CDC number for the percentage of emergency room visits nationwide represented by COVID-19-like illnesses. That number was 4 percent when things were bad a year ago. It was down to slightly above 3 percent at the end of October when there was a lot of dishonest hype in the news before the election about hospitals being overwhelmed. It spiked to 8.7 percent around the first of the year. Then it declined to a low of 0.7 percent. It is 2.5 percent as of 5 days ago, roughly the same as it was in February. So don’t tell me the sky is falling; it’s not true.
There’s another number I’ve used consistently, the official CDC statistic for the number of Americans dying after receiving a COVID vaccine. It now totals 11,405 including deaths from heart attacks and blood clots, according to official CDC numbers for adverse reactions. OpenVAERS I haven’t seen one single commentator or public health official speak to this fact. They never even mention it, or the percentage of emergency room visits. They ignore these facts, which tells me they’re lying and I’m not going to listen to them.
We’re still seeing stories about public health officials cooking the books and inflating the number of COVID cases. The most recent was about the CDC quietly revoking emergency authorization for the PCR test because it can’t distinguish between COVID and the flu. That means the COVID numbers have been inflated all along with cases of the flu.
My trust in public health officials has been further eroded by their constant flip-flops in the advice they give: don’t wear a mask, do wear a mask, wear three masks, don’t wear a mask if you’re vaccinated, do wear a mask if you are. And you want me to take these pompous jerks seriously? Our public health officials either don’t know what they’re doing or they’re political animals who are lying through their teeth. Either way, I don’t trust them. I’m going to use my own judgment and encourage everyone to do the same. Speaking of politics, the Democrat-controlled Justice Department just dropped the investigations of four governors for COVID deaths in nursing homes. The fact that all four governors are Democrat? - how convenient.
Finally, all of this is still an experiment. The COVID vaccines are still only authorized for experimental use. Remember, this is not a regular vaccine. It messes with your genetics. Who know what the long term effects will be? It remains an experiment; there are no longitudinal studies. Well, my government doesn’t get to experiment on me. If you find that odd, I would refer you to the notorious Tuskegee syphilis study in which U.S. public health officials used black men as guinea pigs to observe the effects of untreated syphilis. The trusting study participants were told they were receiving free healthcare when they were not. And now we’re being told we’re receiving a vaccine when it’s actually something else.
Folks, the next COVID variants are already lined up. Lambda and Epsilon will follow Delta. This pandemic will never end, either because it’s a wicked disease or wicked authoritarians will never let it go. The question as I see it is whether we are going to follow the science, or continue to play politics with the result we never get back to normal. How many lockdowns are you willing to put up with?
7/26/21 - New Front in Islam’s War on Free Expression
Last week, a pro-Islamic pressure group joined Democrat lawmakers in calling for the State Department to appoint a Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Global Islamophobia. The lawmakers included congressional Representatives Ilhan Omar and Andre Carson who are both Muslim. The pressure group was CAIR - the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR is Hamas in America and an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial. The State Department designated Hamas a terrorist organization in 1997. The envoy would “go on the offensive against the international and interconnected problem of anti-Muslim bigotry.”
Critics warn such an envoy would expand the Islam’s war on free speech. They worry the envoy would “crack down on honest discussion of how Islamic jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and oppression.”
The critics are right to worry. Here’s what the future of a special envoy could look like:
Just to our north, a Canadian Muslim group also demanded a special envoy to deal with Islamophobia. The group wants the government to investigate suspected Islamophobes inside Canada’s national security agencies, which sounds like a witch hunt to me. They also want to indoctrinate school children and make it easier to prosecute hate crimes.
A German government advisory board recommended criminalizing criticism of Islam and curbing freedom of the press in the process.
Last month, a Dutch court upheld the conviction of politician Geert Wilders for insulting Moroccans at a campaign rally in 2014. Wilders called the prosecution a restriction on free speech. The ruling casts doubt on whether people in the Netherlands have any right left to criticize Islam, jihad violence, mass Islamic immigration, or the Islamization of their country.
The Nigerian Senate passed a bill proposing 10 years in prison for using hate speech to ‘stir up religious hatred’. This bill could easily be used to criminalize any truthful discussion of standard Islamic doctrine such as jihad violence. The Quran commands Muslims to “strike terror in the hearts of the Unbelievers.” No one - especially the Washington establishment - wants to talk about that but, unfortunately for Islam, it is the unalterable word of Allah and cannot be changed. But for the Islamic doctrine of jihad, the nearly 40,000 Islamic terrorist attacks by Muslims since 9/11 would not have occurred. The mission of a special envoy would include stifling legitimate criticisms of Islamic doctrines such as the ones I am making now. Islam is waging a war on free expression and using ‘Islamophobia’ as cover for taking away your freedom to speak your mind and tell the truth.
One last point: The chill a special envoy would place on free speech would not be limited to the United States. The proposal would put the power of the U.S. government behind efforts to bully other countries, not just about what speech they allow, but into changing their policies. The U.S. could withhold foreign aid or even impose sanctions unless other countries stop resisting mass Islamic immigration and allow Islamization to obliterate their national identities. Tell me why this is a good idea, again?
Islam is the only doctrine that demands special treatment like this. Tell me why we are all just supposed to shut up and bow down to Islam. I want our elected representatives and the Washington establishment to explain it to me.
7/23/21 - The American Left’s Vainglorious Attempt at Thought Control
The Soviet Union tried to control everyone’s thoughts, but the whole kit and caboodle went kaput after 75 years. There were two main newspapers, Pravda and Izvestia, which were supposed to be "the truth" and "the news”. They were anything but. Today we explore some of the ways the authoritarian Left is attempting thought control in America.
One technique is the Big Lie, as in tell a lie loud enough and often enough it becomes the truth. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Joe Biden ran on a platform of boosting funds for law enforcement and the Republicans spent decades trying to defund the police. Nice try, but Joe Biden called the police the enemy and proposed redirecting police funding elsewhere. As for Republicans trying to defund the police, what planet is Jen Psaki from? At least House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn admitted the ‘defund the police’ narrative is costing Democrats lots of votes. Another Big Lie is the assertion by Joy Reid and others critical race theory is not being taught in schools. One small problem: the teachers union recently adopted a plan to spend big bucks to oppose attempts to ban critical race theory in schools and teachers rallied in 22 cities to support CRT. Another Big Lie is being told by Democrats who now say they were never against voter ID when they are on record saying they were.
Thought control can’t work unless the thoughts one wishes to impose are ubiquitous. Sometimes, it seems the American Left has succeeded in this. You can hardly turn around these days without bumping into left-wing ideas. Think your library is neutral territory? Think again. The American Librarian Association says you’re not a librarian unless you’re a social justice warrior engaging in ‘critical librarianship’. And they’re serious about it. You can get fired if you don’t toe the line. And to think I used to work for those creeps. As actor Jon Voight has noted, left-wing ideas come at you from the media, the schools, and universities. If you don’t espouse the Left’s party line, Big Tech will cancel you and you won’t get a job in Hollywood. One small recent example from the media: fourteen-year-old Zaila Avant-garde recently won the National Spelling Bee. NPR loves pointing out the fact she’s a minority - that fits the Left’s narrative - but NPR won’t tell you she’s being homeschooled. You’re not allowed to know that because you might get your own ideas and leave the government indoctrination centers AKA the public schools. We have to control the information you receive, you see. Another recent example: Wikipedia’s co-founder recently warned the online encyclopedia is more one-sided than ever and its information sources are now almost exclusively globalist and progressive, i.e., left-wing. So, there are still some dissenting voices left, which is good news. As long as there is a single contrary voice remaining, thought control can’t work.
Speaking of indoctrination in education, a Roosevelt University professor recently got caught bragging about she beats “social justice” ideology into students “all day, every day.” A colleague joined in, describing how he turned a public budgeting class into indoctrination sessions on social justice and collectivism. These two serve on the local school board. The Left OWNS public education, which makes homeschooling more attractive by the day. The Howard Zinn Education Project has students role-play how to design a better reparations bill to replace weak reparations bills circulating in Congress. In this exercise, there is no debate about whether reparations should be paid in the first place.
One last technique to cap thing off for today: The Left loves to erase history so you don’t know who you are, where you came from, or what you stand for. The latest example is the New Jersey school district that voted to remove the names of all religious and secular holidays from the school calendar. The calendar now refers to those days as ‘Day Off'. But if they really want to be ‘inclusive’ and ‘equitable’, they should issue Mao jackets to all the students and only refer to them by number. It’s that old saying: if you don’t know what you stand for, you’ll fall for anything, even the globalist, progressivist garbage coming at us from every direction these days. No dissenting voices, please.
Folks, we can’t just drift without a foundation. We don’t want to find out the hard way we only have 75 years before we go kaput, do we?
7/22/21 - The Electoral College is Good, But It Won’t Save Us
NPR held a one-sided roundtable discussion on the Electoral College in June which tied the Electoral College to the Left’s phony voter suppression narrative. I asked a national group on the professional Right for a rebuttal, but got no response. It’s not the first time I’ve asked a group with fancy offices and paid staff on the political Right to respond directly to what the Left is saying. And it’s not the first time I’ve gotten no response. Maybe I should start naming names. This most recent instance further convinces me, if the country is to be saved, it’s the grassroots Right that will have to do it. The professional Right is not up to the job.
The commentators in the NPR roundtable showed an appalling lack of understanding of our governmental system. They lamented over and over that democracy is not functioning well in America saying, for example, two Republicans have become president in the last 20 years because of the pesky Electoral College despite not winning the popular vote. They also criticized features of the system that protect the rights of political minorities, like the filibuster rule in the Senate. They also bemoaned the fact that the Electoral College gives more weight to voters in small states than to voters in big cities.
There’s only one problem: we don’t have a democracy; we have a Republic. Both feature representative government, but democracy descends into mob rule while a Republic protects political minorities and individuals from the tyranny of the majority. The filibuster is meant to protect the rights of the political minority. The Electoral College deliberately overweights small states. The small states demanded overrepresentation and they were given it in the Senate, for example, where every state has two senators regardless of population and, also, in the Electoral College. Without these inducements, the small states would not have joined the Union and we wouldn’t have a country. So the commentators can yack all day long about how voters in Wyoming have more voting power than voters in California but the solution to that is simple: If it’s that important to you, put your money where your mouth is and move to Wyoming. Otherwise, I can reasonably assume you aren’t all that upset about it and there’s no reason to take you seriously.
The commentators went on to say, under the Electoral College, outcomes in presidential elections could depend on a relative handful of votes in a few random states and, further, small manipulations by the mean old Republicans to change election laws in their favor could have big consequences. They said the Republicans are engaging in voter suppression and passing ballot restrictions in some states. The problem here is the voter suppression narrative is completely bogus. Take voter ID, for example. Lots of Democrats are out there saying voter ID is racist, the new Jim Crow, and intended to deny minorities the right to vote. We know this is completely bogus because Stacey Abrams finally admitted voter ID laws are not inherently racist and some other Democrats are denying they ever said it was. Moreover, many people have observed that it’s still easier to vote in states where Republicans have passed new election integrity laws than in Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware.
The commentators can call election integrity laws ‘manipulations’ that will rig the Electoral College but, here again, they misunderstand how the Electoral College works. The Electoral College makes it harder to steal elections. Cheaters would have to corrupt electors in 50 different places. Also, they would have to predict which state’s electoral votes would be decisive in any given election, but that’s next to impossible. In a democracy, cheaters could steal votes in one place, say, Chicago, and change the outcome for the entire country. Without being able to predict which random states will be decisive or where rigging the system would need to be done, the Electoral College makes it harder to steal elections, not easier as the commentators suggest.
The commentators do make one good point: some Republicans are starting to rely on the Electoral College to produce presidential victories instead of doing the hard work of appealing to more voters. I agree. I’m an equal opportunity critic. The Republican Party, like the professional Right, needs to do a better job. Also, the grassroots Right hasn’t been doing what it needs to do to maintain the Republic for at least 50 years. The entire political Right needs to up its game, because the Left is on the march and they think they are close to finishing us off. So, to my friends on the Right, I say it’s time to get better organized and work more effectively together, folks.
7/21/21 - It’s Time to Poke the Woke Pentagon
The Pentagon just won’t stick to its knitting. The social justice warriors there continue to place wokitude over war-fighting, but now there’s something you can do about it.
In Congressional testimony, top brass has defended the now-admitted teaching of critical race theory on the grounds it’s just being taught in service academy classrooms and college students should know all kinds of theories. They are lying. They are way beyond the classroom with this stuff. In addition to what we knew about forced ‘privilege walks’ and other incidents outside the classroom before, we more recently learned troops at Ft. Bliss were forced to wear IDs showing their race and social class during diversity training. Why not yellow six-pointed stars, that’s my question. We also learned Defense Department schools are helping students in gender transitions without parental knowledge or consent. The Navy forced personnel to march behind a rainbow U.S. flag, pictures show. The contractor hired to investigate white supremacy in military ranks has ties to the anarch0-communists of Antifa and the self-admitted “trained Marxists” of Black Lives Matter and is on record saying any opposition to Antifa is extremist.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is ignoring social science research showing diversity training fails to reach positive outcomes, as well as literature showing diversity training actually PROMOTES prejudice. They have also been mugged by reality and now admit nearly half of female soldiers can’t pass the Army’s genderless physical fitness test. The Army is considering a return to separate fitness standards for men and women, but this is heresy given the new orthodoxy at the Pentagon so we’ll see if it actually happens. I’m not holding my breath. A congressionally commissioned report said the Navy is outstanding at diversity training, but found that the Navy is neglecting ship-handling, combat readiness, and is otherwise unfit for war due to the political correctness of top brass. Military leaders are now dodging questions about critical race theory and whistleblower complaints about wokitude being forced on the troops.
The Pentagon is under pressure from Democrats in Congress to hurry up and report already on what it is doing to root out white supremacists in the ranks. Maybe congressional Democrats can’t get enough of this stuff, but if wokitude in the military rubs you the wrong way, get off the couch and so something about it. The Senate is marking up the defense authorization bill this week. Senator Tom Cotton and Congressman Dan Bishop have introduced bills to stop racist training in the military (S. 968 / H.R. 3134). The bills prohibit the Armed Services from teaching that any race is superior or inferior to another. Urge your congressional representative to attach the measure to the NDAA authorization bill so we can get the Pentagon back on track and doing what it is supposed to be doing.
7/20/21 - The Left’s Phony Diversity Narrative Will Make You Crazy
The Left is all about making up phony narratives. It’s most successful narrative is the diversity narrative. It’s sucked in a lot of people. Before you get sucked in, you should consider just how crazy and unhinged you can become if you live and breathe the diversity narrative 24/7.
Today’s news brought the story J.K. Rowling has received hundreds of threats of rape, assault, and assassination from transgender rights activists. Her crime? Pointing out the obvious fact men cannot menstruate. “I wish you a very nice pipebomb in mailbox,” one tweet said.
Two days ago, a Virginia PTA vice-president resigned after being caught on video saying “let them die” at a rally against opponents of critical race theory in schools. She was there in support of transgender rights and said, “Let’s deny this off-key band of people that are anti-education, anti-teacher, anti-equity, anti-history.... Let them die.”
Here are some other recent examples of just how crazy the Left’s phony diversity narrative has made people:
A black English professor made news by saying whites should be imprisoned and gassed in the coming race war.
Yale invited a New York psychiatrist, an Indian-American, to speak about how white people are psychopaths. She talked about “unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body, and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step.” White people “suck you dry,” she went on to say. “There are no good apples out there. White people make my blood boil.”
Then there was the black supremacist in Tulsa who said the “time will come when there’s a rat-a-tat-tat… black Americans will kill everything white in sight.” And the black Texas A&M professor who called for whites to be killed. And my all-time favorite, the time I heard Louis Farrakhan on the radio saying all “white people are snakes and devils.”
Let’s suppose you like the Left’s diversity narrative. You like separate college dorms for blacks on campus, biological males in women’s bathrooms, and making whites take ‘privilege walks’. Just be forewarned you can make yourself very sick if you go too far down the rabbit hole and live and breathe this stuff 24/7. If you start having fantasies about gassing people with a bounce in your step, please seek professional help. There is hope. It’s only the Left is making you crazy.
7/19/21 - Far-Left Crazy Kook Perfect for the Biden Administration
Ordinarily, a nomination for the Bureau of Land Management would only draw yawns, but Joe Biden’s nomination of Tracy Stone-Manning to head up the agency deserves a closer look because it speaks volumes about this administration and the nature of the people in power in Washington at the moment.
She admitted in federal court in 1993 that she edited, retyped, and mailed an anonymous warning letter on behalf of an eco- terrorist who was eventually sent to prison for tree-spiking in Idaho. The letter said the terrorist had driven 500 pounds of 8-to-10 inch spikes into trees in the forest. The letter called officials profane names and bastards. A retired Forest Service criminal investigator said she exhibited "vulgar, antagonistic, and extremely anti-government" behavior during the investigation.
She said she sent the letter to protect forest workers who could be maimed or killed by tree-spiking, but critics say her proper course of action was to turn the terrorist in to law enforcement, not help him carry out his crimes by concealing his identity. This involved her in an activity that could have led to injury or death, calling her judgment seriously into question, critics say.
Senator Barrasso was more blunt: “Tracy Stone-Manning covered up for those eco-terrorists, setting back the investigation by years, and she only cooperated with authorities when she was caught,” Barrasso said. “She then lied to the Senate Committee about the incident,” Barrasso added. “There is no way that she should direct an agency that oversees almost 65 million acres of forest.” She told the Committee she had never been the target of a criminal investigation, but failed to mention she could have been charged with criminal conspiracy had it not been for an immunity deal, or that a federal grand jury had subpoenaed her for handwriting and hair samples. She also denied to the Committee she had any personal knowledge of tree-spiking activities in her lifetime. The retired investigator said she knew about the eco-terrorist’s plans in advance and agreed in advance to send the letter.
She joined the radical environmental group Earth First! in graduate school and went on to a senior post with the National Wildlife Federation. While in graduate school, she edited an Earth First! newsletter that called for violence against government officials, the newsletter calling them “pigdogs” who must be “rubbed out”. Last year, she asked her university to restrict access to her master’s thesis which urged the creation of population control propaganda to help the environment. In the thesis, she called overpopulation the root of all environmental problems and urged people not to have more than one or two children. “When we have children, the planet feels it more,” she wrote. One of her suggested ads showed a child along with the caption, ““Can you find the environmental hazard in this photo?” This puts her at least in sympathy with the radical depopulationist movement, the left kook fringe of the left kook fringe which believes the earth will be a whole lot better off when there aren’t any people on it.
The critics are wrong, though. I say this person is perfect for the far-Left Biden administration. What are a few deaths from tree-spiking when you’re trying to save the planet? There’s a higher morality here, and Tracy Stone-Manning is a perfect standard-bearer for the Left’s all-time favorite excuse for criminality and immorality: the ends justify the means and, if you can’t see that, you’re deplorable. Moreover, she fits right in with the Biden’s administration recent National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. The Strategy claims to address all forms of domestic terrorism, including environmental terrorism (p. 9), but everybody knows the Biden administration couldn’t care less about left-wing violence and is making up a big story about white supremacists being the only domestic terrorists worth discussing. If the Antifa anarcho-communists riot in the streets in Portland for a hundred straight nights, no biggie. In fact, left-wing politicians will applaud and Kamala Harris might even put up their bail money. So it makes perfect sense for Tracy Stone-Manning to be nominated to run the Bureau of Land Management for Joe Biden. She’ll fit right in.
7/16/21 - Sound the Alarm: Sneaky Dems Put Pathway to Citizenship in Reconciliation Bill
Betcha didn’t hear about this:
The White House said it supports a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens in the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill and said it would do “whatever is needed” to get the budget measure passed. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said this in a briefing and I only heard it by accident on C-SPAN while flipping through radio channels this morning. The question was asked, the answer took all of five seconds, then it was ‘next question, move along, nothing to see here.’ I see a couple of nerdy news outlets that cover Capitol Hill have had the story for a few days [Roll Call, The Hill] but, other than that, it’s been a media blackout on the news. Everyone is being very quiet about it.
Why do you suppose that is? Because the Democrats and their lackeys in the media know that the grassroots has rallied and stopped comprehensive immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship in the past. So the Democrats have become more devious and hope to sneak this one by the American people before they even notice. They admit they are doing this because they don’t have the votes to get a pathway to citizenship past a filibuster in the Senate.
The left-wing Center for American Progress had the story two weeks ago. Where was the Republican Party? Where were the Republican staffers on Capitol Hill? Where was the House Freedom Caucus, and senators like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee? The politicians fell down on the job. So did the professional Right, the Washington pressure groups and think tanks that ask for money from the grassroots four times a week. None of them have even mentioned this, as far as I’m aware, and I get a lot of newsletters. I have often said, if the country is to be saved, it’s up to us, the grassroots Right.
This can still be fought and there is hope a pathway to citizenship for millions of new Democrat voters can still be prevented, but it’s an uphill fight. Reconciliation bills only take 51 votes to pass in the Senate. The Vice-President can cast the 51st tie-breaking vote, so we have our work cut out for us, but the Senate Parliamentarian could still decide a pathway to citizenship is irrelevant or incidental to what reconciliation bills are supposed to be about - revenue, spending, and the federal debt limit. The current Parliamentarian issued a restrictive ruling before, keeping a federal minimum wage out of a previous reconciliation bill. The Byrd Rule prohibits extraneous matters from being included in reconciliation bills. Senators can raise a point of order to enforce the Byrd Rule. It’s up to us to make sure they do. The reconciliation bill includes $126 billion to create a pathway to citizenship for certain categories of illegal aliens. It doesn’t sound plausible to me that simply changing citizenship rules would cost that kind of money but, regardless of the amount, it could still be argued the expenditures are incidental to the policy change.
And policy change is the key point. The Senate is split 50-50. The Democrats have no mandate but they are trying to ram through wrenching major changes, anyway - changes like a federal takeover of elections, and massive new social spending like free community college and universal child care. You can’t really blame them. Elections have consequences and we are seeing those consequences - like a pathway to citizenship - play out. The grassroots Right and the professional Right have not done what is necessary to maintain the Republic for the last 50 years. We’d better start, because time is running out.
I’m sounding the alarm because the politicians and professional Right have not. If a pathway to citizenship is granted, we will eventually have millions of new voters who will largely vote Democrat. If we can’t convince them otherwise, it will be that much harder to hang on to limited government, individual rights, our freedom, and the Republic. If you don’t relish the prospect of one-party rule like they have in Cuba, get off the couch and do something.
7/15/21 - Put Your Faith in Government and You Will Be Disappointed
The Supreme Court may have upheld Obamacare for a third time, but that doesn’t mean it’s the right direction or good for the country. There is a steady stream of bad news about Obamacare that generally gets ignored, but I’m going to keep documenting it all because I want to be able to remind everyone Obamacare remains a disaster every time the Democrats propose another big government program. In fact, they’re at it again already with their $3.5 trillion social spending bill - more free healthcare, free community college, universal child care, and on and on and on. Spending like drunken sailors is a problem in itself but, if enacted, each one of these programs will end up poorly run and hurting somebody, just like Obamacare. If the Democrats get what they want on their so-called ‘infrastructure’ bill, there will be more train wrecks in our future.
How do I know? Because past is prologue. Here are the latest train wrecks in Obamacare:
The subsidies have gotten bigger, so we know the cost to the nation will be going up. The biggest carrier in Maryland is seeking a 7.9 percent increase in Obamacare premiums, much higher than inflation. Obamacare regulations are hurting small insurers and driving consolidation in the insurance market. Small insurers have more variability in their claims experience, so it’s easier for them to run afoul of Obamacare’s rules limiting administrative expenses as a percent of revenue. Parents are supposed to be able to keep their children on Obamacare until age 26, but they’re finding out they can’t if the children are not dependents in the eyes of the IRS. It’s not supposed to be this way, but the program is poorly run, and it is.
Meanwhile, more people are waking up and recognizing long-standing problems with Obamacare. Obamacare restricts consumer choice, limits access to the best doctors and hospitals, and makes people more dependent on government. The number of insurers is down and premiums have doubled. Obamacare did not reduce medical bankruptcies the way they promised. You would have expected a sharp decrease in 2014 when Obamacare took effect, but it didn’t happen. Likewise, they claimed thousands of people were dying every year from lack of insurance but Obamacare didn’t lower the death rate, data shows. They claimed Obamacare would lower overall healthcare costs, but that didn’t happen, either. They also claim Obamacare is a great success in getting people to sign up. Actually, enrollment is only about half of what they expected and they have to throw in Medicaid expansion to inflate the numbers to make Obamacare look good. Obamacare remains such a bad deal - high premiums, high deductibles, narrow networks - that millions have bailed out in favor of alternatives like short-term plans that don’t have Obamacare’s complications or defects. The latest poll shows barely a majority of Americans support Obamacare. 54 percent? - that’s the best you can do after ten years? Time to try something else.
And it’s time to take a closer look at the new programs Democrats are proposing. Free community college will hurt historically black colleges and universities. Universal child care will mean the government will start indoctrinating your kids at an earlier age. More free healthcare when we can’t even pay for the government healthcare programs we have now is a bad idea. All this stuff might sound great, but think about it long enough and you will realize the government can’t put a soft pillow under absolutely everybody for absolutely everything, nor should we want it to if we have any self-respect left.
7/14/21 - Let the Border Games Begin!
More fun and games at the border. In today’s news, we learned three out of four illegal aliens caught and released at the border later fail to turn themselves into ICE, according to members of Congress and official ICE numbers. Perfect! But let’s do better. How about this - I encourage the Biden administration to make sure NOBODY shows up to ICE by registering them as Democrat voters on the spot and promising them a $100 gift card if they appear at the voting booth.
Why stop there? The Democrats should hold a contest for the dirtiest kid held in Biden cages at unaccompanied alien minor shelters, where the contractors have no experience and clean underwear is in short supply. The Biden administration is diverting $860 million in COVID relief funds to spend on new underwear. This is OK, even though it wasn’t OK for Donald Trump to repurpose Pentagon funds to build the wall. So the solution is simple - Joe Biden is talking about building part of the wall, so have the kids build it.
Speaking of kids in cages, Kamala Harris blames Trump for that. There’s only one problem: everybody knows Obama built those cages and the Biden administration is holding seven times as many kids as the Trump administration did. I hear the classic 1944 movie ‘Gaslight’ is being remade - remember, where the husband was trying to convince the wife she was going crazy? The remake will feature Kamala Harris in the starring role. They wanted Joe Biden, but he couldn’t remember his lines.
More than a million illegal aliens have been arrested at the border since October, including almost 7,000 with prior criminal convictions and 542 percent more sex offenders. You know, the Olympics are coming up. They should make illegal border crossing an Olympic event. Oh, I forgot - what flag would they fly for the winners at the medals ceremony?
The Biden administration is ending a program that allowed border agents to quickly return illegal crossers back over the border. I’m sorry, but this doesn’t go far enough. I won’t be satisfied until there’s a program that allows illegal aliens to send border agents back across the border. By the way, the policy change, which may take effect July 31st, means that illegal alien families will no longer be expelled. Why don’t they just cut to the chase and order every American citizen out of the country by July 31st to make way for newcomers? They should hold a contest to name this new operation. I think they should call it ‘Conquest’.
Meanwhile, we’re learning that the Mexican cartels are making out like bandits from all this new activity at the border under the Biden administration. Nobody comes across the border without the authorization of the cartels and, presumably, paying them a fee. In fact, the way I hear the story, the fees have gone way up, given all the new demand since Biden took over. Since the anarchists and Rashida Tlaib’s among us want to defund the police and abolish all prisons, there’s a money-making opportunity here. The Biden administration should legalize the cartel border-crossing fees, tax them to pay for the Green New Deal, and unionize the cartel workers so they can pay forced union dues into Democrat campaign coffers. Hmm, maybe I shouldn’t give them any ideas.
Finally, the Biden administration is ending a program that helped victims of crimes committed by illegal aliens, you know, the regular Americans who have been raped, shot, and hit by drunk drivers who are here illegally. Actually, I’m all for this because I hear the money spent on the program will now go to teaching critical race theory and other Marxist claptrap to unsuspecting school kids. Systemic racism trainers will make oodles of money teaching people to hate their country. It’s time for Joe Biden to start thinking about his legacy, and I can’t think of a better place to start.
7/13/21 - An Engineered Nation of Sex Addicts
Let’s talk about sex. You might think it’s for fun. Or you might think it’s for procreation and the bonding of family units. But you would be wrong in either case. To the Left, sex is an instrument to destroy society and usher in the revolution.
Consider these recent news stories: A summer camp for girls in Virginia is partnering with the left-wing abortion giant Planned Parenthood to teach girls as young as 12 that’s it’s normal to watch pornography and masturbate. The program also delves into sexual orientation, transgenderism, and STDs. In a training video, a young boy asks, “Is it weird that I don’t feel like a boy?” There are cartoons of naked kids, close-ups of genitalia, and discussions of pregnancies, presumably - since it’s Planned Parenthood - what to do with one you don’t want. Kids who participate get a $100 gift card and are turned loose on the world as ‘peer educators’. Like Marx said, it’s not philosophy unless it’s action. Boy, this doesn’t sound like any summer camp I went to.
Seven- and eight-year-olds in Greenwich, Connecticut schools were reportedly shown a video of a man with an erection standing next to a scared little girl. The video was part of a program to teach youngsters how to deal with various kinds of fear. Socially engineering young minds must be a whole lot more fun than teaching multiplication tables. But it’s normal to show videos of adult private parts to seven-year-olds, right? Times have changed, and not for the better, as we’ll see in a moment. But don’t miss a key aspect of this story - it’s public schools, a favorite playground of the Left, that is doing everything they can to sexualize the nation’s youth.
In previous commentaries, I’ve mentioned how it’s pretty well known at this point that Planned Parenthood pushes sex education on kids to drum up more abortion business. If you think that’s a debatable point, let me know.
Do you think all these things are happening by accident? I humbly submit to you they are happening by design. An early communist Georgi Lukacs, who was the education minister in the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, had a program he called “Cultural Terrorism”. The program consisted of explicit how-to sex education for kids, vilification of Christianity, encouraging women to abandon marriage for a life of sexual pleasure, and other means by which to deliberately destroy old values to usher in revolutionary values. There’s a direct line from Lukacs to the communist goals reprinted in the Congressional Record in 1963 to destroy the family, get control of schools, and push pornography, obscenity, degeneracy, homosexuality, and promiscuity. It’s one thing to say the Victorians were too uptight about sex and there will always be gay people, but it’s quite another not to recognize that we as an entire nation have been manipulated by the Left’s consciously contrived sexual revolution. This is not the Decline of the West; it’s the West being deliberately pushed off a cliff.
Before you dismiss all that out of hand, you should know about a book published in 1934 that studied 80 civilizations and found that none survived after loosening their sexual mores. The author wrote, "The whole of human history does not contain a single instance of a group becoming civilized unless it has been absolutely monogamous, nor is there any example of a group retaining its culture after it has adopted less rigorous customs." A more recent book criticizes the Left’s sexual revolution and makes the points that sex alone does not lead to human satisfaction, and political communities cannot entirely give themselves over to base instincts or they will no longer be able to produce people capable of shouldering the responsibilities of citizenship or living in freedom.
Morality aside, there are enormous practical reasons not to be manipulated or buy into the entire Left program of sexual licentiousness. As the books I cited show, there is only virtue or there is destruction. That is true for individuals and for societies. Factor that into your personal behavior the next time you are tempted by another aspect of the sexual revolution or by someone telling you that you can have sex without consequence. The Left has politicized sex, like it has infected everything else. What you think are private sex acts are actually political acts because the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution.
7/12/21 - Michael Moore Tells Big Fat Lies
Last Friday, commentators on a left-wing radio station were talking about how great government-run healthcare is in Cuba. [Latino Media Collective, 7/9/21 at 20:30 - 23:25] They said it was wonderful Castro nationalized the pharmacies, making medicine available to everyone. They talked about how healthcare goes out to the people with public clinics and a well-designed system that reaches virtually everyone in the island nation. They said Cubans have an enormous amount of trust in government healthcare and even claimed to know people who say Cuban healthcare is better than what they can get in Miami.
But then the weekend brought the news that thousands of Cubans took to the streets to protest against the communist regime and how it’s handling healthcare in the COVID pandemic. So here’s my question: If everything the commentators said were true and government healthcare is so great, why are thousands of people in the streets protesting against it in Cuba?
There are reports Cuban hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID cases and the government system is collapsing under the weight, especially in one northern province. Observers report there is no oxygen, no beds, and no basic medicine. Despite the human agony, the communist authorities will not allow humanitarian relief into the country to treat coronavirus patients.
How can all this be when the commentators told us government-run healthcare is wonderful in Cuba? Filmmaker Michael Moore told us that, too, in his 2007 movie ‘Sicko’. What he didn’t tell us was that he only visited and filmed the healthcare facilities for the elites. %