The UV shooting was a signal we should not ignore.

People have many views and observations on mass shooters and targeted violence. Very few of them have well thought out views or perception. 

Most liberals blame inanimate objects like guns for violence. This speaks to their core belief that people must be controlled by a powerful and intrusive government because they lack the judgement to make moral choices, and cannot be trusted with guns, knives or baseball bats. Only the police should have these, but they conversely state the police cannot be trusted and should be de-funded and abolished. Thus the liberals as a group lack any credibility on most issues. 

  The liberal's assertion that people lack judgement and self control is wrong, and oddly, the mechanism of mass shootings put the lie to this. White males comprise the bulk of mass shooters and the UVA shooter was black, an anomaly. "Whites are tight asses" is a comment on the way the vast majority of white men are raised; they are taught to suppress their emotions. Black men are not. Black men do not have a high tolerance for frustration. They "blow off" their frustrations at a much lower level than whites. Their level of violence is at a much more person to person level generally, only when the mob mentality/pack violence instinct is aroused. as in a riot situation, do they act at a mass violence level.

Mass shooters are men (sic) who have reached the end of their metaphorical rope. They have reached a point where, like the UVA shooter, they are ready to die and to take others with them. Rarely do blacks reach this level of wide scale violence precisely because their culture does not teach self restraint. White men live with suppressed rage from a very young age and it is a powerful, if unconscious motivator of their emotions and actions in most of their lives. 

Blacks have a low threshold for disregard of the law and social conventions; white do not. Whites experience a real inner struggle to express their emotions, and especially in dealing with violent tendencies. In blacks, violence is a part of interpersonal interactions on a near daily level. For whites, violence is built up and much more generalized than it is routinely interpersonal. 

Yes, obviously there are exceptions to this, and yes there tends to be a spectrum of this behavior. That is not the point. Lets not get distracted. 

For us to understand the real life impact of the expression of violence, we must acknowledge the reality of the social level expressed on an individual level and how it is affected by social/cultural factors. 

The very meaning of equity is that some groups, usually blacks, are not expected to obey the law. Woke merely formalizes this previously unspoken understanding. Rather than actually dealing with the intrinsic problems in black communities (crime, violence, single parent families, generational welfare, generalized disregard for law and social behavior, misogyny, worship of antisocial figures, etc) and correcting them, we, as a society, are being told to allow ourselves to be forced into a formalized double standard of behavioral and meritocratic expectations. 

The inherent unfairness of this is "excused' by the fact that some blacks were slaves. This ignores the fact that some Irish and some Chinese and a lot of Indigenous people were too. Woke and PC politics ignore this fact, and the inferred insult to all blacks inherent in the system. If you are black, the woke culture admits that you can't behave like a civilized human being, nor can you compete intellectually and academically against Asians or Whites. 

If this doesn't make you angry, I am truly surprised and even more, disappointed.  

 

Democrats are finally waking up to the dangers of Woke

Everyone wants to protect their children, even the most extreme liberal parents at least have the sense to protect their kids. Democrats are turning on the party's woke and LGBTQ leanings and worried about the dangers of the DNCs focus on Illegal aliens and Woke/LGBTQ agendas in schools. "We as parents are concerned that our party is more worried about immigrants than about our kids. "  CRT has even some black parents cringing. The LGBTQ programs in schools is really troubling to parents. " These kids are being shown things they never would have thought of on their own. Schools don't want to listen to parents, and that has to stop." 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/face-the-nation-focus-groups-parents-sound-off-woke-culture-overtaking-us-education 

When did schools begin to think that parents didn't and shouldn't care what their kids are being exposed to? It started with Hillary Clinton. 

https://thefederalist.com/2015/04/16/hillary-clinton-praises-common-core-says-education-is-a-non-family-enterprise/

At the time I recalled thinking how much it reminded me of the educational propaganda of the Nazis in 1930s Germany. Of course, the enlightened liberals ate it up. We're paying for it now. Our educational performance compared with other industrialized countries has fallen consistently since then. It was about this time the Democrats encouraged their followers to emote, not think. Mainstream media downplayed the problems and the fact that our kids were not being educated, despite college deans complaints about widespread illiteracy among High School grads. The response to this was the rise of "literacy and good grammar is racist!" Then Math became racist, etc,etc.

This idea of lowering the bar rather than correcting the problems has become a mantra among the left and it's unintended consequences have come back to haunt them, and rightly so. Liberal policies have adversely affected education, industry, the economy and our military readiness. The damage to our country from LGBTQ agendas they swore they didn't have, by the way, is markedly more disturbing and will adversely affect us far into the future. When there are no set moral rules, there is always an opportunity for evil people to exploit that. When did it become a "good idea" (per Barack Obama) for men to use girl's bathrooms? Even with the intense suppression of reporting the rapes, sexual assault, fondling and other amoral behavior by our beloved liberal MSM, as well as liberal parents fearing being cancelled, this occurred often enough that it could no longer be completely ignored. The media never did admit openly that Obama's idea was wrong and dangerous. The girls affected have been shamed into silence, but the scars are there, for the rest of their lives. 

There has long been a disparity in the treatment of conservatives and liberals when crimes or mistakes have been committed. Liberals like Maxine Waters openly admonished her followers to physically assault the families of Republicans, not a peep from Congress, the media on the DNC. Trump was impeached twice and falsely accused of exactly what Biden actually did, and then bragged about. It has gotten that bad. 

Finally. the unintended consequences of giving the left carte blanche have impacted us negatively to such an extent that even the dizziest unicorn sniffer has to sit up and take notice. I hope this realization translates to the ballot box this election. We don't have much time left before we become the Third World police state the left seems to want. There is no coming back from that. 

Democrats Actually Believe Their Social Control Agenda is more important than the well being of children.

 

 

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/smug-jon-stewart-is-latest-reminder-how-so-called-experts-arent-always-right

Leftist talking head Jon Stewart is one of those morally flexible and ethically relativistic liberals who can have very different and quite contradictory positions on concrete issues depending on the political spin of the situation.  For example, when the AMA came on strong about masking, he got behind that. Then we found out that all the masking and mandated closure of business, shutting down society, destroying the economy had a whopping 2% impact on mortality. Whoops!

No liberal dislikes social control, except when it means blacks have to be equally accountable under the law. Society needs to be controlled and violence is bad, except when it happens to a conservative, eg, when House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) was shot by a liberal Democrat at a Congressional baseball game. That's different, see? 

Now the AMA wants to force parents to accept sex change surgery on their kids if a school official thinks they are trans. That's science, right? But Math is racist so you can't teach it because some kids, maybe minority kids, might not do as well as "privileged" kids, and rather than doing expensive tutoring and making teachers do their jobs, its far more "woke" to dismiss math altogether. "Climate Science" whatever that is, is however, incontrovertible as it fits the almighty narrative. 

Genetics cannot be true because it firmly proves that gender/ sex is genetically determined and cannot be changed like the dresses the gender challenged wear pretending to be women. But Genetics is right when it is used to promote one of the interpretations of Darwins Theory of Evolution. Confused? That means you are using rational analysis and logic, two more enemies of wokeness. You might be a racist/bigot/homophobe/nazi/white supremacist if you use objective and rational thought instead of sniffing unicorn farts and pissing rainbows.

Democrats once again show their lack of honesty or integrity. They lie, that is what they do.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-competitive-house-races-flip-flop-criminal-justice-provisions-once-championed

 

With the upcoming elections looking dismal for the Democrats, some of them are feeling heat for their more radical leftist positions and support of really bad ideas like de-fund the police, Green radical programs, support of aggressive LGBTQ programs aimed at grooming young children into "gender fluidity" and attacks on the Bill of Rights in the name of "Wokeness" and "Equity". 

 

Lets look at the last two issues. Woke means that one is sensitive to and in synch with the Black agendas like making Black the only official minority. This means that Latinos, Asians, Jews and other ethnic minorities can't horn in on free stuff that should only go to urban black ghettos. This is beginning to butt up against the burgeoning illegal alien population who came here specifically promised to them by the Obama/Biden administration, and tacitly supported by the Biden/Harris administration. Woke also means that whites have to give up the things they worked for and earned so that the Black minority members can take those things they did not work for nor did they earn them, because they are Black. It also means that everyone other than blacks must obey the law, and be punished to the extreme for an breach of those laws, while the liberal DAs release any black perps back onto the streets, delay their trials, and finally drop charges for lack of evidence, as any witnesses have disappeared thanks to the black criminals being released back onto the streets and being able to deal with said witnesses. Nice system, if you're black. 

Equity is equally skewed to benefit the Blacks. Equality means that everyone ideally has an equal chance to work hard and earn a better life, and one rises in proportion to their merit, talent and work ethic. Equity means that everyone other than blacks have to follow that model, while blacks don't have to work to get into college, good jobs, etc. They get to cut ahead of everyone else because they are black. They are not subject to the meritocracy everyone else works under, generally because they are not expected to work. Again, great system if you are black. 

The LGBTQ agenda has two main forks. One is the destruction of the traditional family. This means that there is no foundation for teaching moral and responsible behavior and hedonism is the order of the day. The other is the brainwashing of children to believe that what they have between their legs is not necessarily what sex they are, and as such, they are much easier prey for adult LGBTQ predators. 

Since any decent person reading the above is probably horrified by the prospect of normalizing any of this perverted and unnatural ideology, and resents the unnecessary favoritism to the Blacks ( including blacks who work their asses off and are held to be "too white" for doing so), it follows that the majority of people (who are, no matter what color, just trying to get through today, and the day after and the day after that) find this situation wrong, evil, perverted and indecent. There is really no way to be rational and support the woke agendae. 

Since these Democrat politicians actively supported these truly evil and dysfunctional ideologies, along with the corrosive Green agenda, they are truly hoping that we, the voters will conveniently forget their past support of the woke agendas and continue to vote them into office. That this is an insult to our intelligence is evident to any rational person, but most progressive Democrats are rationality challenged as well as reality challenged, they will continue to vote for these disgusting flip-flops. I hope you are not one of them.

Our country is in deep trouble, and I hope not too damaged to recover if we do vote a conservative government in this fall. We need to learn from our mistakes and remember the damage these progressives have done to our society. We need to stop liberalism in its tracks and never, ever let these depraved and amoral leftists into any position of power again.

Well, the Left is Doing it Again, Rewriting history. and that poorly. "The Woman King" is a lie, poorly done, and pretty shabby.

'The Woman King' Has the Black Community Boycotting It for Lies Both In and Out of the Movie

 The Woman King makes heroes/ heroines of the most brutal slavers in Africa. Yes, the truth is, Blacks sold Blacks to the slavers. That sad little fact is grit in the eyes of the Left who insist on blaming Whites, and only Whites for slavery. In fact, the only slavery officially still practiced is in Africa by Islamic Blacks. Sorry that reality happened to you. Slavery originated in  and is still a part of life in Africa. Spin though you will, that is the reality. 

"In the end, this is an absolutely perfect example of Hollywood going to extremes to push a lie in the name of social justice. This tribe’s status as noble freedom fighters is about as realistic as their film’s Rotten Tomato score. Moreover, they are willing to glorify African slave traders just because they had female soldiers, making it clear that one of the worst sins in human history is forgivable so long as you have the right skin color and genitals."

Hollywood is really slow in getting the message that Woke is just not interesting or entertaining, in fact it can be and usually is rigid, preachy and staid. When woke was a new thing, it was shiny and interesting, but like cotton candy, sweet, with no real substance, nice for a try once or twice, but a steady diet is pretty repulsive. Political Correctness, by its very own rigidity and intense anger at everything and everybody, is even at its best, off putting. Social outrage burns bright but burns out everyone who lives in its pallid flames. It does nothing positive, and those who cling to it eventually lose contact with the real world. Look at what political correctness has done to Tolkien's world in the near parody of Lord of the Rings, Rings of Power. This pathetic farse turns a prequel to the greatest fantasy epic ever written into a dull, PC/woke yawn fest with none of the rich philosophical background that Tolkien gave his story. Sad when presented with a real gem, you turn it into sewage. That is Hollywood today. 

In reality, most whites are not white supremacists, and white privilege is a false construct used to justify what is simply reverse prejudice and racism. Eventually that glaring fact dawns on even the most PC among us. Most blacks detest violence and racism, and they don't want anything to do with woke, Like most whites, most blacks want to live and let live, and just get through the day, take care of their families and live a decent life. PC/Woke denies this fact, and denies any such normalcy to those who adhere to its tenants. We are, as a society, violence and activism fatigued, and the sooner the blood sucking social parasites who make movies today realize that fact, the sooner someone will start making decent movies again. 

A word about spending other people's money. It's theft, especially when it ignores Constitutional Law

https://fb.watch/fEbNLXt46v/

Rand Paul gave a truly enlightening speech about how Congress spends our money. Yours and mine. The Democrats are especially adept at doing this, and they want to do more. If you look at what they spend it on, you probably will get a little queasy.  Disclaimer, date and wording from Heritage Foundation article, so my own personal interpretation is not involved. Just trying to be objective, unlike most of my liberal acquaintances. 

$25 Million for “Anti-discrimination and Bias Training” at HHS

$200 Million for Presidio Trust, aka “Pelosi’s Park” 

Welfare for Journalists: While the bill contains many tax hikes, it also opens loopholes for some politically favored groups. One of these, Section 138517, would give a tax credit toward “compensation for local news journalists.”

$1.25 Billion for Activists, Bureaucrats to Go After Landlords: Congress wants to fund anti-property activists and regulatory enforcers to the tune of $1.25 billion, including erecting legal hurdles for property owners merely trying to defend their rights in court against delinquent tenants.

$4.5 Billion for Federal Housing Plan Takeover: The bill seeks to impose a federal takeover of housing policy, both through the construction of massive amounts of public housing and by strong-arming local governments into changing zoning rules.

$26.5 Billion for Left-Wing Transportation Programs: The package already moves federal transportation policy solidly to the left, including many new programs relating to “social justice” and “climate.” One of the reasons why some moderate Republicans supported the bill was that President Joe Biden promised not to include more transportation funding in the Democrat-only $3.5 trillion social spending bill, since that would mean the bipartisan negotiations were not a true give-and-take. However, Sections 110002 through 110012 of the partisan bill contain a total of $26.5 billion for rail, slush funds, and Green New Deal transportation programs. So Biden is double dipping anyway, and Green means left wing activism, not public interest.

Extra Funding for Bureaucrats, Ad Campaigns: The legislation contains trillions of dollars’ worth of new benefit programs. Normally, the price of a program is understood to include the cost of paying the government employees who administer it, along with any necessary public awareness activity. Yet this bill is littered with at least $13.3 billion in additional funding specifically for federal bureaucrats and billions more for ad campaigns, on top of the trillions in program costs. This highlights the true socialist nature of the bill, which is to get as many people as possible dependent on as many government programs as possible, so that the politicians who support those big-government programs can remain in power.

There are a lot more, but the point is made. Democrats think they have carte blanche to fund public programs they like. That is absolutely not true. The Constitution states that there are specific things Congress is permitted to spend public fund on, and these kind of left wing political agendas are not included. Nor is it the right of Congress to send tax money overseas to buy "allies" or to fund businesses that they personally benefit from. Our not-so-beloved "president" is well known for this kind of behavior while in Congress and now. He has personally benefited from illegal business activities by his son, and the evidence sits on a laptop guarded against public scrutiny by the DOJ. 

I can only hope that we, as a people, take back control of our taxes and elect fiscally responsible individuals to Congress this year. The liberal hacks now inhabiting our capitol have got to go away, hopefully forever. 

 

Democrats can't spin the inflation rates. Biden is doing a lot worse than Trump did.

 

US Inflation Rises

US inflation rose 8.3% year-over-year in August, a 0.1% increase over July after analysts predicted inflation would fall slightly. The growth is primarily driven by price increases in shelter (+0.7%), food (+0.8%), and medical care (+0.8%). The food index, rising 11.4% year-over-year, presents the highest increase since May 1979. Sharp declines in gas prices (-10.6%) and energy (-5%) helped to offset the increases. See data in charts here.   The consumer price index is a proxy for inflation that tracks the price of a basket of goods and services. Higher inflation means consumers can buy fewer goods with each dollar they spend (see 101). The core consumer price index, which removes volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.6% last month or 6.3% year-over-year. Analysts expect the Federal Reserve to continue aggressively raising interest rates, with a meeting scheduled next week.   US stock markets saw the largest one-day losses since June 11, 2020, with the Nasdaq down 5.2% at close, the S&P 500 down 4.3%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 3.9%.