Tuesday, December 20, 2022

It Just Keeps Getting Uglier and More Damning

"Left-wing investigative journalist Lee Fang has pretty much no friends anywhere on the right, but does have a number of exposes under his belt. Still don’t expect that to buy him any favors or credibility with the MSM, who have made their bed on treating Twitter Files as a non-event. He’s the latest to post the info being released by Elon Musk from within the company." - RS

Here's Fang’s Twitter Files thread unrolled for easy reading: 

 TWITTER FILES: PART 8 

Saturday, December 17, 2022

It's Time To Check In With Myra For Some Holiday Cheer And Wisdom


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Friday, December 16, 2022

Middle Finger Symphony Theater

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Thursday, December 15, 2022

Your Official Big Ass Mid-Week Open Thread

Your Beloved Blog Editrix Turns Things Over To You, The Reader.
So Don Your Blogging Thongs, Share Ye Links and Bicker.
As Always, Keep All Weapons In Plain Sight and Use the Coasters.  

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Drag Queens are the Democrats’ New Mascot

Inviting a drag queen to celebrate respect for marriage is like dancing about architecture, to borrow a phrase. Yet here we are:
Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act flanked by Kamala Harris, Jill Biden, and gay drag queen story hour performer Marti Cummings.
Cummings is the symptom, not the disease. There are always fringe people out on, well, the fringes. Although we didn’t use to invite them to the White House to celebrate what might be humanity’s oldest institution. It’s niche entertainment, to say the least. In fact, there’s been such a rush to normalize this particular fetish — even make it “family-friendly” — that actual pedos are being glamourized.

Why the sudden and very official respect? 

It has nothing to do with gay rights. It has a lot to do with putting women in their place. The Left is waging a war on women, on genuine femininity and all of its unique strengths. And they do it, in part, by raising up obnoxious (and often just plain noxious) pantomime females as “real” women.

Progressive women take the abuse, too, because they’ve been conditioned to believe that they deserve it. There’s enough battered spouse syndrome going on here to turn that 90-minute Farrah Fawcett TV movie into the next Yellowstone.  Arguably worse, the Left has purposely conflated a mental health issue — gender dysphoria — with a civil rights struggle. That makes a mockery of natural rights, which is exactly their goal. And why else would they have no objection to biological men playing women's sports?

If rights consist of whatever crazy notion you have in the moment, or whatever reality your mental issue causes you to deny, then there are no rights. 

 It sounds crazy, but it’s sinister as actual Hell. - Stephen Green

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Secular humanism has no moral bottom. Absent a core of absolutes of right and wrong, anything can be rationalized. Absent some divine origin for those absolutes, they cannot be absolutes.

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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Or Maybe They're Just Paranoid and Wrong About It All.


Felix Dzerzhinsky is remembered as the architect of the Soviet police state and intelligence services.  While totalitarians (and wanna-be totalitarians) invariably rule by fear and violence, Dzerzhinsky had the vision to go farther, to co-opt those opponents he could not find or destroy by direct means. He created an entirely false opposition underground (the “Trust”). Exiles and domestic opponents of the new Soviet regime thought they were working together in secret when in fact every word, every plan was known (and sometimes planted or directed) by Dzerzhinsky himself. The regime controlled its opposition.

Some have come to believe something like 'The Trust' is already operational in the USA. The permanent (actual) ruling authoritarians allow the appearance of opposition solely to let the masses think they have a say, to out potentially dangerous opponents, and to direct opposition energies into harmless activity that does not really interfere with the rulers.

The GOP presidential wins in the last 40 years have occasionally been bothersome but never a mortal threat to the rulers’ goals. The growth of government, the vision of technocratic rule, and the ideal of an unaccountable elite move forward regardless of electoral outcomes.

One recent glimpse at ‘that man behind the curtain’ is that “experts” who endorse broad government action on climate or COVID suffer no consequences for being spectacularly and harmfully wrong nor for viciously squelching the real scientists. No “journalists” who reached embarrassing depths of sycophancy with the obviously bogus Steele dossier, the very real Hunter Biden laptop, and the absurdly mendacious St. Anthony Fauci have been fired for professional incompetence. Some got Pulitzers.

The rulers endorse infanticide rather than some 14- or 15-week limit on abortion, not out of some airy notion of women’s rights (which easily disappeared when transgender became au courant), but solely to make the point that traditional values and morality cannot be allowed to intrude on policymaking. The rulers’ hostility to the first two amendments in the Bill of Rights is not just to silence and disarm opponents but to establish the idea that there are no inherent rights, only permissions, and privileges issued by the state.

The ruling party actively cheered the 2016 nomination of DJT on the theory he would be the most beatable. That he actually won was a significant but temporary setback for the rulers. Like some primitive life form responding to a painful stimulus, the permanent party not only successfully reorganized its front group as the anti-Trump party, but its media has conditioned American suburbanites to viscerally reject the MAGA caricature (depressingly often with help from Donald Trump himself).

All other issues about policy or candidate quality have been pushed aside. There is only anti-MAGA. In the new political order, voters will be able (a) to endorse the rulers by voting Democratic, (b) vote for more conventional Republican candidates who will pretend or fail to oppose the rulers, or (c) vent with pre-selected MAGA candidates who will increasingly have no real chance (especially given the dubious new voting systems in place). Our rulers thus magnanimously let us feel good about our wide menu of futile choices. Some Democrats will even be allowed to criticize members of the ultra-wealthy Davoisie in a bit of old-time social justice theater.

Our political debates and labels are deliberately distorted such that “the right” (or what passes for it) is somehow close to fascism, whereas “the left” is seen to be motivated by the nobler residue of good intentions behind socialism. In fact, fascism is just another path for totalitarians when economic class warfare is politically ineffective.

The inexorable blob of media, academia, bureaucracy, and low-IQ groupthink seems like some destructive volcanic sludge rolling downhill to wipe out the real and the free, a threat organized and unleashed by some crazed evil committee of Bond villains. 

Or maybe they're just paranoid and wrong about all this.

Monday, December 12, 2022

The Left's Hair on Fire Over Threat to Expose St. Fauci and Covid Deceptions

"OH IT IS COMING. BIGTIME" - Musk on Twitter Files Exposé on Covid.

RC- The Twitter Files have the Democrats circling the wagons and  losing their minds. The effort to revise history, gaslight, ridicule, and bully everyone into thinking this is a big NOTHING is failing utterly, despite the coordinated, concerted collusion of the press — ESPECIALLY CNN — and they are in a full-time panic. And it has only just begun.

So far the Twitter Files has exposed Big Tech, and not just Twitter, working hand-in-hand with Democrats, with the unelected, overwhelming liberal bureaucracy, the corrupt FBI, the Biden campaign, and the media to quash dissent, crush Republicans, alter elections, and as Obama put it, “fundamentally transform” the United State to conform to their radical anti-God anti-American anti-capitalist anti-freedom worldview.

And one of the biggest ways they got away with it was propaganda and silencing dissent. And one of the biggest parts of that was big tech. And of course, Dr. Anthony Evil Fauci.

And you KNOW they have the receipts now. And Elon Musk is going to release them.

This is an information revolution people.

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For those without a Tweeter account, here is the summation from the latest tweeter file dump. I inserted a hot link to the complete thread. 
38. Outside the United States, Twitter’s decision to ban Trump raised alarms, including with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Prime Minister Angela Merkel, and Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. 
39. Macron told an audience he didn’t “want to live in a democracy where the key decisions” were made by private players. “I want it to be decided by a law voted by your representative, or by regulation, governance, democratically discussed and approved by democratic leaders.” 
40. Merkel’s spokesperson called Twitter’s decision to ban Trump from its platform “problematic” and added that the freedom of opinion is of “elementary significance.”

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny criticized the ban as “an unacceptable act of censorship.” 
41. Whether you agree with Navalny and Macron or the executives at Twitter, we hope this latest installment of #TheTwitterFiles gave you insight into that unprecedented decision. 
42. From the outset, our goal in investigating this story was to discover and document the steps leading up to the banning of Trump and to put that choice into context. 
43. Ultimately, the concerns about Twitter’s efforts to censor news about Hunter Biden’s laptop, blacklist disfavored views, and ban a president aren’t about the past choices of executives in a social media company. 
44. They’re about the power of a handful of people at a private company to influence the public discourse and democracy. 
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