The Left Hijacks Language to Promote the Unspeakable

By Rich Kozlovich

Editor's Note:  I originally published this on August 18, 2013.  RK

Over the years I have marveled at the ability of the left to hijack language in order to promote the most contemptible things, such as abortion, always disguised as rights supporting individual liberty.  As you watch or hear the news, read articles in the newspapers, magazines or on-line, the terms used to describe the abortionists and anti-abortionists are pro-choice and pro-life.  Both misnomers! Those terms do not represent what they really stand for.  

The left is so hot to promote ‘choice’ but what choices are acceptable to the left.  My friend Dave Dietz sent a Peanuts cartoon to me today showing Lucy and Linus having a conversation with Lucy self-righteously stating she is “pro-choice”.  Linus asks as series of questions.

Can I choose to smoke?

Lucy says no because it’s bad for your health. 

Can I choose a large soda?

No, that’s bad for your health!

Can I choose to own a gun?

No, that’s not safe for children!

Can I choose incandescent bulbs?

No, that’s not good for the planet!

Can I choose Low-cost coal?

No, that’s not good for the planet!

Can I choose to honor God?

No, that’s offensive!

Finally Linus asks - So what can I choose?

Lucy answers - An abortion!

Pro-choice isn’t about choice, it’s about deception.  Those who support the phrase are deliberately misleading the public into believing they are for individual rights when in reality they support the murder of innocent unborn children; they are not pro-choice they are “pro-abortion”.   But “pro-choice” sounds so much better than “pro-abortion”, or “embryocide”, “infanticide” or just plain “murder”.   How can this be construed in the minds of any moral rational people as anything less than a crime against humanity?

As for the term pro-life, that is also a misnomer, and it is used by the left to vilify the morality of those who hold that position.   The left is constantly throwing up the idea that “pro-life” people are hypocrites because they also typically support the death penalty. 

First of all the so-called pro-life people are not pro-life, they are anti-abortion.  They have no problem with the execution of those who have committed unspeakable crimes; criminals who have been given a chance to prove their innocence over and over again.  Executing those guilty of terrible crimes is not murder….it’s justice; and it’s justice because they are not innocent. What they support is execution of the guilty, not the murder of the innocent.   Innocent ones who have no say, no trial, no appeal, nor have committed any crime for which they should suffer the death penalty.

I don’t know where this picture came from but it is truly disturbing.  This is what we all looked like at 12 weeks in the womb.  The wanton destruction of this child’s life is legal in all fifty states.   Tell me why you don’t think this is a person deserving the love, care  and protection of a moral society!

 

There is only one reason to support aborting innocent life. You don’t believe its murder! There is only one reason to be against aborting innocent life. You believe its murder! If killing the innocent unborn is murder then it’s murder…… always. It isn’t murder on Monday and an option on Tuesday because of unpleasant circumstances.

I have said this in the past and I will repeat it here. In ancient times pagans murdered their newborn children for economic and political reasons by throwing them alive into burning pits as sacrifices to appease their gods.

Today we are murdering our unborn children for economic and political reasons to prove we have no God. Our minds are so clouded with secular liberalism that we can’t see reality clearly.  Society has accepted an unstable philosophy for which we have abandoned traditional values. A concept where nothing is right and nothing is wrong. A value system that isn’t much more that the latest philosophical flavor of the day, which may change tomorrow, leaving untold damage to humanity in its wake. Then we wonder why society is getting so out of control, especially among the young.

Once again, we need to properly define the problem. Traditional wisdom is based on values that have stood the test of time, and are foundational to a stable society. Conventional wisdom is merely what people have chosen to believe right now based on immediate expediency. There is no historical or moral foundation to conventional wisdom, and generally is based on warping traditional values.  Once that happens how long can a society stand?

The Democrat's Palatine Hill, and The Seven Hills of Rome

Government can be defined in two words.  Corruption and Compromise.  Corruption on it's worst days, and compromise on its best days. 

 

By Rich Kozlovich

 

 

Palatine Hill?  What's the significance of that?   Of the Seven Hills of Rome, the Palatine Hill, was the center most, and is considered to be the most ancient parts of Rome.  It's also where the wealthy, privileged, and powerful built their palaces, surrounded by six hills filled with the lesser classes.

 

Think of Washington DC as America's Palatine Hill, and the center of America's administrative state, filled with the ideological "palaces" of the elite, powerful, and privileged, surrounded by lesser mortals whose views are dismissed .... arrogantly. 

On December 2014 Thomas Sowell published one of his many outstanding, "Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene", saying:

When the political left wants to help the black community, they usually want to help the worst elements in that community -- thugs they portray as martyrs, for example -- without the slightest regard for the negative effect this can have on the lives of the majority of decent black people.....

 

If anyone in the mainstream media is at a loss for what New Year's resolution to make, try this: Stop "spinning" or censoring stories about race, and try telling the plain truth, if only for the novelty of it.....

 

There are few modest talents so richly rewarded -- especially in politics and the media -- as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights........ 

 

Has anyone asked the question, "How could so many people across the country spend so much time at night marching, rioting and looting, if they had to get up and go to work the next morning?"........ 

 

Republicans complain when Democrats call them racists. But when have you ever heard a Republican counterattack? You don't win by protesting your innocence or whining about the unfairness of the charge. Yet when have you heard a Republican reply by saying, "You're a lying demagogue without a speck of evidence. Put up or shut up!"...

That was ten years ago, and things have changed.  For the left, all things are either racist, or Islamophobic, but this administration, conservatives, and the alternate media aren't letting that slide.  They're attacking!  What must really be driving the left crazy, especially the media, is that conservatives don't care what they think or what they're saying.  They're either attacking the left and humiliating them, or worse yet, laughingly at them with a "no one cares what you say attitude" because you're certifiably nuts.   

After 2008 the track was cleared for total big government tyranny with the election of Obama. The Democrats were always able to hide who they really were with the support of the Pravda media, and get elected via voter fraud, but it was clear where Obama was taking the nation, and if Hillary had been elected, it might have even been worse. After Biden it was impossible to claim otherwise, and they’re not even trying to hide the tyranny they wish to impose on the nation…. not to mention bankruptcy.

Here’s where I’m going with this. They have no bench. Not one of those who could be the nominee in 2028 can ever portray themselves as anything but far left tyrants who would destroy the Constitution, including former VP candidate Tim Walz, who unlike the rest of them is incapable of hiding the fact he's nuts.  Josh Shapiro was their best bet, but, now there’s a murder case in his state in which he may be implicated. A case where a woman was stabbed 20 times, once in the back, and it was called suicide. And he was their best bet?

As for the 2026 midterms, if the administration goes after all the states for their voter fraud issues, I’m convinced the House Democrats will lose massively, and it’s possible the Republicans can get 60 seats in the Senate. But the nationwide criminal network for voter fraud must be crushed, and as many as possible end up in jail for it…. a massive RICO investigation is warranted, and things are changing at the grass roots, and seemingly among a significant number of young people who are moving to the right.  This last election drove home how the Democrats made a "hot mess" of just about everything, and are clinging to their "hot mess" because to change would mean telling the world they're wrong on everything they support, and become conservatives.  They would have to become the kind of people they hate and despise beyond reason.  They won't change because they can't change, they can only be crushed.  These are the hills the Democrats will die on.

After reading what I've listed here I think it's incumbent on everyone to ask, and answer, two questions, especially after Trump's address to Congress.  Do these people sound and act sane, and if not, does treason qualify as a mental disorder?  As for sane, here's one of their heroes who thinks Trump is actively trying to destroy the nation because he hates America.  I think that answers the sanity part at any rate.

ANTISEMITISM

 

And With That Number, the Democrats Are the Party of Antisemitism and Hamas - Either I missed the polling, or one was never done. It’s likely the former; sorry, folks, I’ve been enjoying the winning and return to normalcy under Donald Trump that I missed this shocking, though also unsurprising poll regarding the Democrats’ attitudes toward the State of Israel. The party was once a bastion for Israeli support, but that’s changed since the “woke” zombies took over. All I can say is that’s a lot of Democrats who hate Jews. Also, the donkey party is now the one which supports Hamas, antisemitism, and let’s say it—neo-Nazism. ......

 

Hollywood Hates Jews - “I’ve had someone say to me, ‘Let’s not forget what Hollywood is made up of. Be careful,’”  Guy Pearce told a Jewish writer at Vanity Fair in response to a question about his attacks on Israel.  In an industry where talent has been cancelled for the most minor perceived offenses against political correctness, Pearce’s remarks went unnoticed and he was rewarded with an Oscar nomination for playing an antisemite on screen in The Brutalist and in real life. Contrast that with the backlash against ‘Karla Sofia’ Gascon, starring in Emilia Perez, the Oscar frontrunner, over old Spanish-language tweets speaking out against Black Lives Matter and Islam, which he has already apologized for several times..........

 

Israel again incurs the world’s ‘outrage’ - One of the things that’s a hallmark of a world without a moral compass is that it’s lost touch with reality. We see that in America with the insistence that sex is a mental construct, not a biological reality, a fantasy that’s led to child mutilation, adult mutilation, women raped in prisons, and a general unleashing of immoral insanity across America’s institutions. Germany’s unhinged Jew hatred also led it to the madness of genocide and a destructive belief that it could use its military to conquer the world.......

DELUSION

The Bottomless Pit of Leftist Liberal Hatred -  Democrat Jasmine Crockett from Texas is "rooting" for Mexico and Canada in sports because Donald Trump is president, and she despises Donald Trump. Actually, she hates Donald Trump because she hates America. So she can't.................

Democrats swear to swear - Once a politician crosses the nuclear threshold, their equally TDS afflicted followers, who can never be satisfied only temporarily mollified, will never allow them to back down.........  

Tampon Tim Claims America Was Stolen by “Fascists” and “Nazis” - Former vice presidential candidate and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was caught claiming that America is being stolen by “fascists and Nazis,” according to an alleged recording of his statements. Walz defended the Democratic Party’s loud protests against President Donald Trump and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) overseer Elon Musk by stating that his party wants to protect the U.S. from so-called “Nazis,” according to a recording obtained by Alpha News. The outlet claimed to have received the recording from Republican Minnesota State Sen. Nate Wesenberg, who said the remarks were made at a Minnesota Nurses Association event......

Former Cackling Kamala Comms Director Thinks Andrew Cuomo Would Be a Good Presidential Candidate in 2028 - Jamal Simmons, who served as communications director for former vice president Kamala Harris, is now pitching disgraced ex-New York governor Andrew Cuomo as a top Democratic contender for the White House in 2028........

Nobody likes Brandon -Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago is getting a quick lesson on performance approval polls. It turns out that lousy mayors and governors get bad approval numbers. Here is the story: In January 2023, shortly before the February Chicago mayoral elections, former Mayor Lori Lightfoot had a dismal 22% approval rating. Current Mayor Brandon Johnson’s approval has now sunk even lower, to only 6.6% in the latest poll, as issues such as rising crime concern residents of the Windy City. In the latest poll from M3 Strategies, which surveyed 696 likely Chicago voters Feb. 20-21, 67% said that crime was one of the top three issues facing Chicago, followed by high taxes at 54% and inflation at 41%.  Who knew that voters concerned about crime, high taxes, and inflation would say "thumbs down" when talking about their mayor?.............

Carville: Trump 'Collapse' Is Already Underway - During an appearance on Thursday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” long-time Democrat strategist and media commentator James Carville declared the collapse of President Donald Trump to be underway already. Carville, who predicted former Vice President Kamala Harris would be elected to the presidency last November, cited polling and urged Democrats to “just sit back” and let the so-called “collapse” take place.............

Clooney: ‘No Rules Count Anymore’ Under Trump - Actor and Democrat activist George Clooney recently lamented that “no rules count anymore” under President Trump. Speaking with the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, Clooney said that Americans have fallen for made up narratives divorced from facts.......

Dem Rep Reveals the Party's Grand Plan to Defeat Donald Trump -  Democrats could quickly turn things around if they focus on job creation, fairer trade deals, and not being weirdos. They may be past the point of no return, as they claim the work that President Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency are doing is unpopular—it’s not. Now, we talk of oligarchies and other messages that are still clearly aimed for the elitist wing of the party. .........

Easy to be stupid - Leftists have traditionally clung to at least some degree of power by making it really easy to be stupid. Why bother going to the trouble of taking care of yourself when there’s usually some kind of “social” program that can better do that for you? Back during the “Great” Recession of 2008, Nancy Pelosi expressed the epitome of this kind of thinking: “For every dollar we spend on increased unemployment benefits, the economy expands by $1.25.” Really? Were that anywhere close to true, we’d all be better off by just staying home, watching TV, and guzzling beer. Oh, yeah… who’s going to produce the TV shows and brew the beer?.......

 

Hakeem Jeffries Had Yet Another Bad Sunday Show Appearance -  As we covered at the time last week, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) certainly floundered during his Sunday show appearance on ABC News' "This Week" during his interview with Jonathan Karl. Jeffries kept ranting about prices, even when confronted by Karl about President Donald Trump's high approval ratings. Another Sunday, and another Sunday show appearance has gone by, with Jeffries once more being confronted about approval ratings, this time for members of his own party......

Same Ol' Situation, Same Ol' Democrat Party - believe one of the reasons why these leftists come up with this tomfoolery is to hide their history, which is one of slavery, secession, segregation, and socialism. None of these S-words have had any positive benefit on the Black community and America as a whole. The Democrat party has been and continues to be, a party that is focused on the two forms of enslavement—physical and economic. It is a party that embraces a principle of totalitarian control over the lives of the individual, something antithetical to the American experiment of self-governance and individual sovereignty. I mean, who else would reject the ideals of natural rights theory and see it as a threat? And if you really want to laugh, watch the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, then-Senator Joe Biden, question SCOTUS nominee Clarence Thomas on Natural Rights Theory.

This is the Left Mark Lewis - We know that, in principle, theory, and dogma, the Left, the modern Democratic Party, is a Marxist, anti-traditional American, anti-God, amoral movement.  It’s not just politics; it is an entire worldview.  In this article, I’m not going to explain the philosophic underpinnings of Leftism (I’ve done that in countless articles before); I intend to list some specific and very clear examples of what Leftism has produced—in word and deed.  This is the Left.  This is what they actually do and say........

 

Are some Trump voters really already tired of winning? - Sadly, many folks actually do get tired of winning. Or, more accurately in this case, many simply get exhausted by the rapid pace of change that President Trump has brought to the otherwise bloated, stale, entrenched, and corrupt government. Many voted for “hope and change” in the guise of Barack Hussein Obama, and never had a problem with him weaponizing nearly every federal government agency against his political opponents, because he did so surreptitiously, behind the scenes, hiding this from the citizens he supposedly served. Trump, on the other hand, and his right-hand-man Elon Musk, have been in-your-face transparent. This blitzkrieg push for efficiency and transparency is exactly what the country needs, yet has left some folks feeling overwhelmed. And it has, predictably, led to Democrats, Deep Staters, and mainstream media outlets alike going ballistic and — in some cases -- threatening violence and civil war against the administration.

 

Naive Liberals - We do not live in an entirely peaceful or civilized world.  Conservatives realize that fact and wish to prepare for the worst by strengthening our military, shoring up the value of our currency, and ensuring economic prosperity.  In contrast, liberals live in a fantasy land, in which everyone is presumed to be “nice” and no other nation wishes to harm us......

Democrats in the Wilderness - The Democrat party appears determined to spend the next 40 years wandering in the wilderness. There have been no fruitful reflections leading to productive responses to the drubbing Democrats took in the 2024 national elections. The few Cassandras who think some change in course is required are considered by Democrat elitists to be dinosaurs worthy of disdain.......

The Soul of the Democrats - As Japan’s defeat during World War II became obvious, many of its soldiers performed harakiri -- a ritual suicide by disembowelment using a sword -- as an honorable alternative to surrendering. Perhaps one of the most notable moments of a U.S. presidential candidate performing political harakiri occurred in March 2004.   Explaining his vote in support of $87 billion for our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Democrat candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass) responded, "I actually voted in favor of the $87 billion before I voted against it." His words famously became reduced to “I was for it before I was against it.” Critics had a field day with this, accusing Kerry of wanting to have it both ways in trying to be everything to everybody. The flip-flop effectively derailed his campaign......

 

Democrats fecklessly continue to sabotage themselves - Democrats are hysterical over Trump’s response to Zelensky’s bad manners and decision to scuttle the rare earth minerals deal he had agreed to sign.  They claimed, instantly, that Trump was responsible for the blow-up, but that is nonsense.  Trump reacted to Zelensky’s insolent eye-rolling and constant interruptions like a normal person; like a good parent to a rude and incorrigible child.  He did not let Zelensky get away with his overt disrespect in the White House.......

 

LeftSpeak - Leftist newspeak and wordsmithing have evolved to the point that a new English-to- LeftSpeak dictionary need-be established should any communication between the left and traditional English speakers be salvaged.  For starters:  Democracy:  Government by a permanent, unelected, leftist bureaucracy.– Fascism: Any leadership not subservient to the progressive deep state. – Constitutional crisis: Anything said or done by the Trump Administration.– Existential threat: Any challenge to the progressive agenda......(and much more)

DOGE

Clinton Foundation’s USAID Fraud: Billions of US Tax Dollars Are Missing From Haiti Relief Projects -  There are those that say all government aid is a scam in one way or another, and so far the revelations surrounding USAID are proving those people right daily.  Democrats and the establishment media, in a bid to muddy the waters and save face, continue to claim that there was never any fraud at USAID and that the Trump Administration is simply labeling projects they “disagree with” as suspect.  Of course, spending American tax dollars on projects the public never asked for............

Democrats defend the indefensible - In less than a month after his triumphant return to the White House, President Donald Trump has turned the Washington, D.C. establishment on its head. We have never seen a new administration act with such gusto while delivering on so many campaign promises in such a short period of time. So far, Trump has effectively sealed the Southern border; deported thousands of illegal immigrants with criminal records; eliminated Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in the federal government; protected female athletes from competing against males; unleashed the American energy sector; and exposed just how rotten and corrupt the federal bureaucracy has become.............

 

This Article Only Makes These Whiny Federal Workers Look Worse-The Department of Government Efficiency and Elon Musk will continue to be attacked by the media, but it will do no good. Americans support their work in uprooting government waste and potential fraud. They want the DC workforce slashed. Yes, Democrats, this is what we voted for; you just weren’t paying attention.............The latest Axios article tries to drum up sympathy for these people facing layoffs, but it won’t move the needle. It will only elicit feelings of schadenfreude or anger: millions of people have endured job loss and anxiety associated with it. Government employment was never meant to be permanent or protected (via Axios):

 

Democrats Won’t Fund Government Unless Trump Stops Overriding Congress - Representative Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) said Democrats will not vote to fund the government unless President Donald Trump stops overriding Congress spending. Auchincloss said, “Checks and balances, the separation of powers is going to be the dominant theme of this first year of Donald Trump’s presidency — the presidency. Article 2 is in a boxing match with Congress. Article 1 and the court’s Article 3 over our ability to prevent an imperial presidency. The Supreme Court has, at least here, held its own in round one. Round two is going to be Congress and the presidency boxing over appropriations. Congress has claim on the power of the purse. Speaker Mike Johnson is definitely not a prize fighter. And so Democrats are going to have to step up and insist that to fund the government this spring the president needs to respect the fact that one, he cannot use emergency powers to spend money that we did not appropriate. And number two, he  has to appropriate the funds that we have called for. That is the power of the purse. That is not up for debate.”........

 

Is DOGE negativity being overhyped by the Dems? - AMAC Newsline columnist Andrew Shirley pointed out an interesting bit of forgotten history about Bill Clinton’s reduction of the federal workforce.  It seems Bill Clinton made even more extreme cuts to the federal workforce during his second term in office than has the Trump/Musk DOGE team.  This history has apparently been conveniently forgotten, or purposely buried, by the mainstream media so they can continually b...last anyone and everyone connected with DOGE like it’s causing an end of the world disaster.

 

Hakeem Jeffries Was Asked to Provide Evidence of GOP Cuts to Medicaid and His Answer Was a Train Wreck - House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries has the same problem many a Democrat has right now: he can deliver the talking points, but when pressed, he collapses into a mumbling mess. It was a marvel to witness. The New York Democrat was doing his part, trying to gin up fear about the budget reconciliation process, which cleared its first big hurdle this week. Speaker Mike Johnson got all but one of the defecting Republicans back on board, which was enough to pass the resolution with a 217-213 vote. We still have a ways to go, but this was a huge win. Yet, Democrats insist that Medicaid will be cut. ......

ECONOMICS

Axios: Wrong (again) on Trump tax cuts -So much misinformation.  Hard-left Axios  has taken on the Trump/Republican tax cuts, and as usual, it either misses the point or wittingly presents falsehoods to its readership in service to its DNC masters............In years past, we might have expected, and certainly experienced, the typical response, but as we’ve seen with Trump 47, the  typical response  has been thrown out the window. Axios knows, or should know, that lower tax  rates, as instituted by Trump 45, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, and John F. Kennedy increased (not decreased) federal revenues.   Lower tax  rates  stimulate investment and growth (GDP).   Revenue is the result of Rates x Investment x Growth.  .......

The radical left is boycotting companies abandoning leftist insanity - Today might be a great day to go shopping. If you’ve already been to Walmart, Target, or other major retailers, you might have noticed that the people there looked...well, normal. No blue hair. No nose rings. No giant holes in their earlobes. No tattoos. No “Free Palestine” t-shirts. No bearded men in dresses and heels. It might have looked strangely like shopping in 1985, at the height of Reagan’s America....

 

Liberal Celebs Push “Economic Blackout” to Tank Economy - The “we love this country so much we want to destroy it” crowd is back at it. An effort to encourage U.S. consumers to participate in a day of protest by not spending money Friday has picked up momentum online, with thousands of people across social media saying they plan to take part in the “economic blackout.” Started roughly a month ago by John Schwarz, a Chicago-area meditation and mindfulness educator, the idea has taken off on social media, where searches for the term surface hundreds of posts of people sharing screenshots of infographics and encouraging others to participate in the protest. Google’s search data shows queries for “economic blackout” have surged in recent days........

 

Harris Faulkner Asks Democrat Contributor What Ideas Democrats Have to “Improve the Economy” -  Fox News host Harris Faulkner suggested to Democratic contributor Leslie Marshall on Tuesday that the Democrats had not offered any ideas to make the economy better, even as they criticized President Donald Trump.  Some congressional Democrats have plans to bring egg cartons highlighting the increased price of eggs, noisemakers or signs opposing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to Trump’s Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress. After Faulkner asked Marshall about the reported antics, she then brought up whether Democrats had any proposals to address the economy.

“What should Democrats be doing? I mean, I understand the guest situation, but they have a lot of media today,”..... “All day long there are those of us in the media business that are talking to anybody who wants to come up to the microphones and get the story before the president speaks. Why no positive messaging from Democrats?”......

• Hate-filled Democrats to come armed with eggs to Trump's address to Congress, vowing to disrupt it

GENDER

 

The (Trans) Ladies Doth Protest Too Much"Daily Dose of Reason"Why all the violence for "transgender" rights? The men who dress like women and want to be called the gender they prefer to be called on the whim of the moment surely are a violent bunch. Latest example: Iowa yesterday,...........

 

GOP Congress: Let’s protect women’s ‘Gaines’ in sports -Democrats wear white to presidential speeches to show “support for women,” but vote against women’s interests. Let’s show them how it’s really done tonight, and dress up for Riley Gaines when President Trump addresses Congress....

 

 Democrats Choose Fake Women Over Real Women—Again -  The Democratic Party has once again shown us exactly where their priorities lie—and it's not with protecting women and girls. On Monday, Senate Democrats banded together to block a common-sense bill to keep biological males from invading women's sports.  The Republican-led Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act fell short of the 60 votes needed to overcome the Democrats' filibuster. Every single Democrat who voted opposed the bill. Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.) didn't even bother to show up. Apparently, protecting girls and women from having to compete against biological males with inherent physical advantages isn't important enough for Democrats to support.......

 

Senate Dems Unanimously Vote to Keep Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports - A U.S. Senate bill to prevent men from participating in women’s sports failed to overcome the 60-vote threshold needed to pass the filibuster on Monday night.  The bill came down to a strict 51-45 vote along party lines, with Democrat Sens. Elissa Slotkin (MI) and Peter Welch (VT) abstaining. Per Fox News:............

Your ‘inseminated person’ should know - They are crazy up in Wisconsin, especially at the Governor’s office.  What are they smoking or putting in their coffee?  Your guess is as good as mine, but the governor is proposing a change to how we refer to “mom,” having decided that “inseminated person” is a better descriptor.  I couldn’t believe this story and had to read it twice to make sure it was true. On the other side, here comes Doug Schoen, a sane Democrat who probably sends his mother a card purchased in the Mother’s Day section at your favorite store, has a message for the Democrats.  This is the story:....

Donald Trump takes down Maine's Governor - Donald Trump is unlike any previous politician. He’s certainly unlike any previous President. Politicians, particularly at the highest levels, normally keep hard realities and words behind closed doors. Quizzed later, they characterize such confrontations as “frank and productive exchanges.” Riiiight. This has been so partly to support the idea that politicians are uniformly wise and benevolent statesmen, people whose only concern is the welfare of their constituents. They’re beings of superior intellect and morality, above the failings of lesser beings, perfect in form, style, function and intention..............

 

A majority of Democrats believe there are more than two sexes -poll - A survey by Quinnipiac, taken Feb. 13-17, revealed that 96% of Republicans agree with President Trump’s executive order affirming that there are only two sexes, while an astounding and depressing 77% of Democrats oppose the order, apparently believing there to be God-knows-how-many different sexes. Only 14% of Democrats support the order. 59% of independents support the order.

 

Maine Needs A New State Slogan - Maine is one of those delusional states that refuses to get out of its own way. The state slogan is Dīrigō, which is Latin for "I direct" or "I lead," based on its once being the only state to hold its elections in September.  Those days have long passed, and Maine, based on recent decisions within the state, needs to adopt a more realistic slogan. Something closer to the truth would be ignorantia, meaning ignorance and want of knowledge, or more appropriately, inscitia, meaning ignorance, folly, inexperience, incompetence, incompetency, and want of skill. Maine, you see, is one of those states that has evolved into a state of an alternative reality. ..............

Ousted Kennedy Center President Defends Drag Queen Performances Following Trump Criticism - The recently-fired head of the Kennedy Center has defended the federally-funded institution’s decision to put on drag queen performances — including shows aimed at minors — following President Donald Trump’s promise to rid the organization of wokeness and restore its former glory......

Judge Spars with DOJ Atty over Pronouns at Trans Military Ban Hearing - A U.S. District Judge sparred with an attorney representing the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday over the use of pronouns pertaining to President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people in the military.....

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers Supports Bill Replacing ‘Mother’ with ‘Inseminated Person’ -  Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) supported a Democrat Senate bill that would replace the word “mother” with the word “inseminated person,” and replace the word “husband” with the word “spouse.”.

It Appears Democrats Have Finally Picked a Hill to Die On - Democrats are doubling down on left-wing gender ideology despite their viewpoints being increasingly unpopular with the average American. The vast majority of Americans support reversing the Biden administration’s extreme approach to transgender issues, including barring biological males from participating in women’s sports. But Democratic lawmakers, including those representing congressional districts President Donald Trump won in November, are continuing to push left-wing stances on transgender issues that are seemingly at odds with their own voters...........“Every Democrat who voted against keeping biological males out of girls’ sports is showing the American people that they care more about bowing to the radical left than protecting young women,” Congressional Leadership Fund spokeswoman Maureen O’Toole told the DCNF.

After This Vote, the Dems Show They Really Haven't Learned Anything From Their 2024 Loss - It’s pretty simple: men shouldn’t be playing in women’s sports. The Left can say that trans women are women all day—it doesn’t negate the fact that they’re dudes. It’s science fiction. It’s also veered into a bizarre cult-like obsession. It didn’t take long for this issue to become virtually 80/20 in support of keeping males out of these competitions. We won’t uproot societal order to cater to a small minority; they will have to deal with it.....

 

IMMIGRATION

Birthright citizenship and Democrat hypocrisy  - Congress passed the 14^th Amendment on June 13, 1866, more than a year after the Civil War ended. It then required three-fourths of our states to ratify it. This occurred on July 9, 1868, with South Carolina being the 28^th state. Most everyone (except those who prefer white robes and hoods) agreed that the 14^th Amendment was the right thing to do to help our nation heal after the bloody Civil War. Doing more than giving former slaves citizenship, its impact is still felt today. The 14^th Amendment: .......

Clyburn: Woke and DEI Are Substitutes for N-Word - On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said Gen. CQ Brown was removed as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff due to his race and responded to pushback that other officials who are white were dismissed by stating that Brown got called “woke” and “DEI” and “they are substituting these acronyms for the n-word. So, why would you apply the term woke to Gen. Brown? What does that mean?” Clyburn began by saying,” I believe that everybody knows what an outstanding soldier Gen. Brown is and has been, for many, many years. He has a 40-year career in the military. Nobody has found any fault with him. Because of his skin color, he has been declared DEI or woke.”..........

 Van Jones: Brown Was Fired Due to ‘Slander that He’s Woke and DEI’ - On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” CNN Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser Van Jones said that the only reason he can find to dismiss Gen. CQ Brown as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is “this slander that he’s woke and DEI. Well, if you are the head of a military that is multiracial and multicultural and you want it to be cohesive, you need to have policies in place to help that happen.”.....

“DEI Isn’t for Us”: Black-Owned Businesses Say Diversity Policies Don’t Work - Some black-owned businesses are blowing the whistle on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, telling Reuters that the initiatives have not been effective in helping out black people and other minority business owners. Black business owners are now saying that they have not benefited much from diversity efforts intended to help them, and are largely unfazed by the Trump administration rolling back DEI programs nationwide, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The report comes amid President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to crack down on DEI initiatives in the U.S., including in universities and across the federal government.............

The radical left is boycotting companies abandoning leftist insanity - Today might be a great day to go shopping. If you’ve already been to Walmart, Target, or other major retailers, you might have noticed that the people there looked...well, normal. No blue hair. No nose rings. No giant holes in their earlobes. No tattoos. No “Free Palestine” t-shirts. No bearded men in dresses and heels. It might have looked strangely like shopping in 1985, at the height of Reagan’s America.......

E pluribus, infirmitas? - I always do a mental double-take when someone says, “Diversity is our strength.”  Perhaps it depends on context.  Our military, for instance, includes men and women of various races and religions, yet their training emphasizes conformity to ensure unity and effectiveness.  Historically, the most stable societies share customs, language, and cultural norms — at least enough to function cohesively.  Differences exist, of course, but when they become too extreme or numerous, friction often follows, sometimes escalating into civil unrest.  Tensions between Asians and African-Americans in certain U.S. jurisdictions illustrate this dynamic........

The Democrats These Last 75 Years -The Kennedy years are often called Camelot. However, it was not quite the romance. The long Cold War had begun; a failed attempt to put Castro out of business at the Bay of Pigs was planned during the Eisenhower administration but was reluctantly carried out by Kennedy. JFK was hesitant only because he didn't want the world to know what was already common knowledge: the United States was planning and carrying out a coup in Cuba. Later, the Cuban Missile Crisis was a contest to see who would blink first.............

Dumping Donkeys: How America ‘Divorced’ the Democrat Party - Here’s a hypothetical that, oh, pretty much everyone can relate to: You’ve just shut the door on a tumultuous, chaotic, messy relationship. (Doesn’t have to be a romantic relationship: Could be an intense, demanding friendship or even trauma-bonding in the workplace.) It was one of those exhausting situations where your brain, heart, and soul felt like punching bags..........

LIES 

Susan Rice misleads Americans again - Susan Rice was the UN Ambassador and behind the scenes Democrat/socialist/communist (D/s/c) whisperer who blatantly lied about the Benghazi attack. She claimed the murder of multiple Americans was just a protest over a video that got out of hand. Rice was quickly forced to admit she made a harmless little mistake and didn’t mean to mislead anyone. As the BBC noted at the time “Republicans were unconvinced.” So was anyone with a functional BS detector. Americans weren’t buying her lies then any more than they are now.....

The viral lie of how censorship is a ‘vaccine’ to freedom of speech - “Freedom of speech is a virus. Censorship is the vaccine.” This chilling mantra, echoed in the corridors of power throughout Europe and the UK, has become the unspoken creed of a globalist left eager to maintain control. It serves as a seductive soundbite for those who fear the chaos of open discourse—a justification for silencing dissent under the guise of protecting the public. But beneath its clinical facade lies a profound betrayal of the principles that shaped the modern world. If freedom of speech falters, it won’t be an isolated casualty; it will drag down every other right with it...........

 

Sky High Lies: Cuck Schumer Says Trump Is Crashing Planes to Further Enrich Billionaires - Senator Chuck Schumer touched down in the Senate today to spread more lies about FAA cuts. Schumer is trying to link Trump to recent plane crashes. He says crashing planes puts more money in billionaires’ pockets. No, it’s not supposed to make sense. It’s just Democrat desperation..........

RACE 

Van Jones: Brown Was Fired Due to ‘Slander that He’s Woke and DEI’ - On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” CNN Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser Van Jones said that the only reason he can find to dismiss Gen. CQ Brown as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is “this slander that he’s woke and DEI. Well, if you are the head of a military that is multiracial and multicultural and you want it to be cohesive, you need to have policies in place to help that happen.”.....

Clyburn: Brown Was Fired Along with White Officials Because He's Black - On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said Gen. CQ Brown was removed as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff due to his race and responded to pushback that other officials who are white were dismissed by stating that Brown got called “woke” and “DEI” and “they are substituting these acronyms for the n-word. So, why would you apply the term woke to Gen. Brown? What does that mean?” Clyburn began by saying,” I believe that everybody knows what an outstanding soldier Gen. Brown is and has been, for many, many years. He has a 40-year career in the military. Nobody has found any fault with him. Because of his skin color, he has been declared DEI or woke.”.......

 

 REPUBLICANS AND RINO'S

 

‘Grinding the Democrats Down’: Sen. Markwayne Mullin on Trump’s Cabinet and the GOP Game Plan - The following is an edited transcript of an interview between Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley and U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) on a Sunday edition of Morning Wire. So far, President Trump is batting a thousand on confirmations for his cabinet secretary nominees. Just this week Kash Patel was confirmed as Director of the FBI while Labor Secretary Linda Chavez-DeRemer seems to have secured the support of the Senate. This is the fastest pace since 2001. Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin joined Morning Wire to discuss Trump’s cabinet nominees, the Senate’s strategic approach to the confirmation process, and the significance of the GOP’s “Big Tent” strategy in uniting diverse political factions within the Republican Party...........

 

 Why Republicans’ Old Tricks Aren’t Working On Trump This Time -  Donald Trump has spent eight years in and around Washington. Though he has persuaded a fair number of congressional Republicans to adopt a new tune, he has had a harder time getting them to change the lyrics. They still did much of what they wanted, even as they picked up a few new slogans. Lukewarm Republicans clung to the Bush-era policies Trump specifically ran against, but most learned to dress up their views in pro-Trump language and gestures.

 

Trump’s common sense revolution: Transformation and revelation -  Trump’s common sense revolution is transforming the Republican Party.  By transforming the Republican Party into the party of common sense, Trump is making it the natural home of any American voter who cares about America.  But what he is accomplishing does not stop there.   His revolution has also brought about an astonishing revelation.  With Trump’s help, more and more Americans are realizing that the Democrat party is the party that rejects common sense — and with it the American idea...... 

 

Diversity Without Accomplishment is Philosophy Without Form and Incompetence Without Consequence.

By Robin Itzler

Editor's Note:  This is one of the commentaries selected from Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors. Any cartoons appearing will have been added by me.  If you wish to get the full edition,  E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free.  RK

Diversity Hire Retires: 

Kim Goodwin of ABC News In 2021, Kim Goodwin was named president of ABC News. Of course, the big story was that Goodwin was the first black person to lead a major network news division. She recently announced her retirement. Of course, there was no mention of the many missteps that took place under her leadership. Goodwin sent out an email to ABC News employees announcing her pending departure. 

Could this have been what she shared? (This is satire for those who don't get it)

Dear Employees, 

I am announcing that I will no longer serve as president of ABC News. Given this prestigious position primarily since I check two boxes - woman and black - it took a few years for everyone to admit that I needed to check another box: ability.

Thank you for your support. Obviously, I expect ABC to replace me with another person who checks at least two boxes. It does not matter what those boxes are as long as they are checked. For example, trans midget or blind bisexual.

Thank you for all your support throughout my tenure and now I will write a book that won't sell.

Sincerely,

Kim Goodwin 

DEI Isn't Dying, It's Just Being Renamed!  

There are many states that passed laws getting rid of university DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) departments. Following passage of the law, education bureaucrats promptly got rid of their DEI department. Conservatives congratulated themselves on another win. Wrong! All these departments did was change their names. Anything that had “DEI” was erased and replaced with a new department name. 

1. OKLAHOMA: Oklahoma University’s DEI is now Division of Access and Opportunity. 
2. TEXAS: Diversity Equity and Inclusion is now called “Belonging, Community Engagement and Student Development.” 
3. UTAH: Replaced Diversity, Equity and Inclusion department with Office of Institutional Engagement and Effectiveness

As Daniel Greenfield noted in his article, Will DEI By Any Other Name Smell as Sweet?, saying:

Conservative states have started cracking down on DEI offices at publicly funded colleges, and so the University of Iowa now calls its DEI office the “Division of Access, Opportunity and Diversity” while the University of Oklahoma renamed its racism stronghold the “Division of Access and Opportunity.’ At the University of Tennessee, it’s the “Division of Access and Engagement” while at Louisiana State University it was more awkwardly renamed to the “Division of Engagement, Civil Rights & Title IX”. Utah Valley University’s DEI office adopted the meaninglessly bland title of the “Office of Institutional Engagement and Effectiveness.”

Much like changing DEI to IDE, liberals playing mad libs with buzzwords like “access’”, “engagement” and “opportunity” will just mean more of the same under a different name.

 

Climate and the Corruption of Language

By Tom Harris

My interview is now free at Conservatives need to reject climate hysteria and the hyperbolic language of the left - Rebel News. Rebel News is becoming more and more significant in recent years and now has 1.6 million subscribers on YouTube, for example. Contrast that with, say, the Ottawa Citizen, the primary newspaper in the nation’s capital, which has less than a tenth as many subscribers.

Comments welcome indeed as this is a topic I am writing widely about. Here are my two most recent articles on the topic for America Out Loud (50,000 readers per article is typical there): 

• Fueling the Fire: The Conservative Climate Language Trap - America Out Loud News
• Fueling the Fire: The Conservative Climate Language Trap Pt2 - America Out Loud News

Last week I interviewed leading conservative commentator and analyst (and former policy aid to then Prime Minister Stephen Harper) Joseph Ben-Ami about the problem of conservatives and others in Canada and the US who support reliable energy using the language of climate alarmism. You can hear that interview at:

• Why Are Conservatives Using Language That Promotes the Climate Scare? - America Out Loud News

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Wordplay Won’t Change Economic Reality

If the administration and their amen corner in the Washington press corps keep insisting the economy is just fine, they will annihilate what little credibility they have left. 

By Chuck Warren July 28, 2022 

On January 21, 2008, the first day of the final year of George W. Bush’s presidency, the Associated Press predicted a recession just as the presidential election was heating up. The story defined recession “as an outright contraction of economic activity and employment lasting at least six months.” 

In June 2019, as another heated presidential race was just getting underway, Politico reported “Manufacturing as measured by the Federal Reserve has declined for two straight quarters, the technical definition of recession.” 

In 2008, the AP got it right. In 2019, Politico got it wrong because it had manipulated the definition of a recession to fit a political purpose. A recession is not the decline of manufacturing but of all economic output. The United States was not in a recession that year. ...........To Read More...

 

 Democrat Logic: Reduce Inflation with More Inflation! - August 3, 2022 By John Green -What could be dumber than spending $433B that we don't have during an inflation crisis? Raising taxes by $739B during a recession, that's what.  Could anything be less economically sound than doing either of those two things?Yup!The Dems are about to give us a real demonstration of cluelessness.They're about to do both of those things together — having the most negative impact on the economy achievable by mere mortal men.And they're going to do it while Americans are screaming that the economy is our biggest concern right now.  So are the Democrats.............The Dems are beyond excited about having a bunch more of our money to spend on their socialist schemes.   Politico is even giddy, celebrating that Biden is back.................

 

Thought For the Day

Almond milk was going to save the planet. There were predictions that the almond milk market would be worth $13 billion which is pretty good for something that requires enough sweetener to destroy your teeth just to taste moderately palatable. But almond milk isn't milk since, even in a woke biological paradigm where men can be women and bees can be fish, you still can't milk a tree. And almond milk isn't almonds either, because it's only about 2% almonds. What is almond milk really: it’s sugar and thirty other ways of saying sugar without actually using the ‘s’ word. -  Daniel Greenfield

Blast From the Past: Obama’s Words on ISIS Sound Good, Until You Think About Them

By Thomas Sowell November 24, 2015

https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/11/obama-isis-rhetoric-other-plausible-falsehoods/

It is amazing how many different ways the same thing can be said, creating totally different impressions. For example, when President Barack Obama says that defeating ISIS is going to take a long time, how is that different from saying that he is going to do very little, very slowly? It is saying the same thing in different words.

Defenders of the administration’s policies may cite how many aerial sorties have been flown by American planes against ISIS. There have been thousands of these sorties, which sounds very impressive. But what is less impressive — and more indicative — is that, in most of those sorties, the planes have not fired a single shot or dropped a single bomb.

Why? Because the rules of engagement are so restrictive that in most circumstances there is little that the pilot is allowed to do, unless circumstances are just right, which they seldom are in any war.

Moreover, the thousands of sorties being flown are still a small fraction of the number of sorties flown in the same amount of time during the Iraq war, when American leaders were serious about getting the war won.

Politics produces lots of words that can mean very different things, if you stop and think about them. But politicians depend on the fact that many people don’t bother to stop and think about them.

We often hear that various problems within the black community are “a legacy of slavery.” That phrase is in widespread use among people who believe in the kinds of welfare-state programs that began to dominate government policies in the 1960s.............To Read More....

The Diversity Bureaucracy

Aaron Sibarium Daniel Kennelly October 25, 2021 @ City Journal

Aaron Sibarium is a writer and associate editor at the Washington Free Beacon, where his reporting has uncovered the inner workings of the diversity bureaucracy at colleges, elite prep schools, and cultural institutions. He recently spoke with City Journal associate editor Daniel Kennelly about his latest story, which revealed how administrators at Yale Law School appeared to threaten a student with official sanction over an email he sent inviting students to a social event.

Many law professors, including some from Yale Law itself, have criticized the school’s handling of this case. Why do you think this episode has prompted such pushback?

I think it’s a couple of things. The published audio of the student’s meeting with Yale administrators makes it very difficult to deny the facts. Often in these sorts of cases people will debate what was really said, but in this case, you can hear it for yourself, eliminating much of the ambiguity that we’ve seen in other “cancel culture” cases.

The facts themselves are also damning. Whether or not the school literally meant to threaten the student’s admission to the bar, it’s clear that it overreacted to an anodyne email. It’s also clear that Yale has made the incident at least in part about the student’s membership in the Federalist Society. Here you have Yale diversity bureaucrats on tape essentially saying that the Federalist Society is racist.

Your latest update to the story notes that there’s been a backlash to the backlash at Yale Law, with an Asian-American student group issuing a statement denouncing as “offensively racist” Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus’s evocation of “Maoist reeducation camps” to criticize Yale Law’s response—this despite the fact that two other student groups issued statements about the incident approvingly citing Maoist intellectual Paulo Freire. Are we sure this isn’t satire?

It sounds too good to be true, but it really happened. Freire did call Mao’s Cultural Revolution “the most genial solution” to “oppressive pedagogy.” He was praising the Cultural Revolution as late as 1974, by which point it had killed millions in China. This is the guy that the Dred Scott Society and Marina Edwards, president of the Black Law Students Association, praised as an exemplary intellectual who shows us how to have “critical dialogue.”

You were a student and Yale Daily News staffer in 2015, when a group of undergraduates ignited a similar firestorm over Erika Christakis’s email suggesting that Yale’s diversity bureaucracy didn’t need to impose heavy-handed rules about appropriate Halloween costumes. How have things changed since then?

My sense is that things have gotten a bit worse, though as this incident indicates, probably more so at Yale Law than at other parts of the university. But 2015 was an inflection point. It’s hard to get much worse than encircling and arguably physically threatening a professor [Erika’s husband and fellow professor Nicholas Christakis] because he believes in free speech and doesn’t think that there needs to be an entire bureaucracy dedicated to policing Halloween costumes. The real change is that what happened at Yale in 2015 has now happened at many other elite institutions.

Why should we care what goes on within the confines of a private school’s diversity bureaucracy? How is this representative of broader trends?

Well, part of the reason why these incidents have spread is that the people who staff other elite institutions all come from places like Yale. The constellation of elite American civil society has become similar in its cultural mores to what Yale was in 2015.

Without giving away any scoops, what are you working on next?

I’m working on a broader structural analysis of what happened at Yale and how it was in part motivated by the diversity bureaucracy, which was itself spurred on by the logic of harassment law.

What are you reading?

Inventing Equal Opportunity, by Frank Dobbin, and The Ironies of Affirmative Action, by John David Skrentny. In different ways, both books look at the origins of civil rights policy and affirmative action policy in government and law and how they gradually expanded their ambit to become something quite different from what their framers intended, or at least what the public understood those intentions to be. Both books show how much of what we describe as cultural mania in fact has roots in concrete bureaucratic and legal structures, which suggests that simply complaining about “how crazy college kids are these days” isn’t enough. You have to change the underlying incentive structure that produces, with almost iron-clad certainty, those crazy college kids.

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