Unpacking Toxic Masculinity

By Tom Budds

Editor's Note:  This is a commentary in Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors.  If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free. RK 

The American left and their fellow-traveler media have been on a mission to pejoratively mischaracterize all conservative men for political purposes. They have successfully exaggerated typical male traits calling them "toxic" linking this adjective with masculinity. "Toxic masculinity" has become part of the American lexicon, but does it exist without exaggerations?

The exhibition of male traits is being viewed as insanely dangerous to health and life! "Real Men" with shaved heads, thick mustaches, long sideburns, coiffed and unkempt beards abound everywhere. Camo caps embroidered with Old Glory, or renditions of wildlife prey, lions and tigers and bears; oh my!

These "dangerous men" are seen at scale at rodeos, ice hockey rinks, Bass Pro Shops, Sportsmen's Warehouses, or most anywhere you can buy rifles, shotguns, pistols, or other mechanisms to slay deer, bear, wild pigs, or defeat large-mouth bass, salmon, or marlin at sea. Tattooed men with multi-pocketed camouflage shirts and pants, dark reflective sunglasses, and boots with bison leather laces to pass through the labyrinth of steel forged eyelets to cinch-up their steel-toed boots before they stalk their prey of choice in the wild brush.

These most "male" of men can be observed most every weekend retrieving a four-step ladder from their man-cave necessary to reach the door handle of their Super-Heavy-Duty-Diesel. Four-wheelers raised so far off the ground a person walking a parking lot could unintentionally bump their head on the under bottom of their personal "monster truck"! You can always tell the sightly insecure of this breed by the trailer hitch attachment resembling part of a bull's anatomy.

This particular "talisman" isn't seen very often as it must be removed to attach your double-axel BBQ trailer for tailgating at pro and college football stadiums, from sea to shining sea. These are the trailers with multiple grills, each able to accommodate a side of beef. The ones with smokestacks reminiscent of the old steam locomotives on the "Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe". It’s hard to get a real good look at these trailers as they travel the highways. 

They only appear intermittently because of their HUGE American flag sitting atop a 20' steel pole rising magnificently from the stake pocket of the pickup bed. It flutters defiantly in the 70+ mph speed generated wind accompanied by other distractions of "masculinity” like tailgating, horn honking, and highway "fist" gestures all the way to their favorite teams parking lot.

Wearing camouflage clothing and their blood-stained aprons standing amongst the billowing smoke, these most "male" of men is difficult to see as they rustle up the grub at their oak-fired grills, grub often slain, trophied, skinned, and butchered with their own hands. The conflagration creates an eerie effect only given context when the intermittent beer can is tossed from one "brother-to-another" as it reflects a flash of sunlight as it arcs like a football; a final play; the “Hail Mary" thrown to win the game; how "manly I feel.

The time to eat comes soon, not just a plate but a “side" of ribs, mere rib-eyes are replaced with "tomahawks" so raw and rare they ooze goblets of bright red blood down the consumer’s forearms making one wonder why they went to the effort to trailer the BBQ at all? Yeah, these are the "men" the media refers to as "toxic" with "toxic masculinity"; but once again it's all FAKE NEWS! "Toxic masculinity" does exist, but none of the foregoing captures what constitutes the true "Toxic Male".

"Toxic masculinity" is when fathers abandon their daughters and sons to the immoral whims of "educators", online and other sexuality groomers all championing dirty schoolbooks, sexualized sex-ed curriculum. They're toxic when they sit-by silently as the so-called "do no harm" medical community and educational "professionals” conspire to butcher their children chemically and surgically.

Toxic masculinity is exhibited by their inaction or being indifferent when boys are indecently exposing themselves in their daughters' locker and restrooms. Letting teachers, school boards, and librarians with broken moral compasses steal their parental rights. Toxic men aren't defined because they flock to hunting and sporting events, or monster truck rallies, they are better defined by the things they don’t "flock" to. 

Why aren't these "men" applying their primal passion flocking to local school and state educational board meetings and the board of education wearing their camo holding monster-truck rallies to save their kids? Where’s the million "man" march or "truck-in" demanding publisher’s, educators, et al, clean up the "literature" forced on their "minor" children or be arrested? Real men protect their families; they don't abandon their daughters and sons to secular perversion.

Masculinity becomes toxic when men cease individually and collectively being Godly serving humbly with willing minds. Masculinity isn't looking and acting tough, it's meeting men's responsibility to nurture, cherish, and protect their family, their wife, and children, all children. It becomes "toxic" when "men" choose to remain merely "male" shirking their moral responsibilities. The well-being of our families and our country demand a collection of Godly men.

"Start the children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old, they will not turn from it." - Proverbs 22:6. Seems too many "men" today weren't started off on the way they should have gone. Seems too many do not understand the way they should be going.

It's way past time for dads everywhere to take pause and apply the hunting and sports team scenarios to their own families. They should know that, while they hunt in the denizens of animals, fish in the sea, and tailgate at sporting venues, other men are hunting their little daughters and sons in the school yards, libraries, classrooms, and chatrooms for their own salaciously grotesque perversions.

Real men have "vocation" to protect their children and families first before "avocation". Those who don't are the true toxic males suffering self-inflicted “toxic masculinity” and aren't real "men" at all!

Read Katie Porter: A California Karen for Governor? by Arthur Schaper.

There is NO Dealmaking with Islamists, No Matter How ‘Artful’

By Tom Budds 

Editor's Note:  This is a commentary in Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors.  . If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free. RK 

 I support Israel's complete and total defeat of the Islamist culture of death that seeks the annihilation of the Judeo-Christian "Enlightenment" of the West, but are the broken hearts of Israel's hostage families being successfully exploited by the "Intifada" apparatus extending the war and its casualties? Haven't "negotiations" proven to be a cascade of Islamist lies, further exacerbated with loose talk of "Nobel Prizes"?

The "hostage" protests in Israel deserve some clear-eyed discussion as it relates to war fighting, the "costs" to be paid for victory, and by whom. Innocent hostages and their families everywhere deserve our best efforts for rescue, but what constitutes best efforts and priority when faced with issues of hostage taking while engaged in kinetic hostilities?

Communist influenced protests during the Vietnam War accomplished what the enemy couldn’t, breaking America's determination for victory. America's restraint of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu's strategic war plan seems to be snatching defeat from a swift victory.

President Trump stated no more endless wars proving the point with the swift defeat of ISIS. Where has that quick decisive victory strategy and no negotiating with terrorists’ policy gone? Suddenly, talk of Nobel Prizes seems to be influencing hostage negotiation tactics, putting Israel’s military juggernaut on hold while soldier in harm's way keep dying.

It's also fair to ask whether you want your son or daughter dying for the "rescue" of hostage 'remains', or are they more safely collected following victory? How many "neighbors' kids must die attempting the rescue of the remaining rather than minimizing all loss of life with a swift victory?

Bibi Netanyahu has been unable to proceed to a swift and decisive victory because of leftists protests and an unwise attempt to apply "The Art of the Deal" to barbarian devils. In subscribing to this war fighting template, terrorists will no longer have to commit suicide flying into buildings when they can merely seize America and Israel hostages and watch the leftists of the world demand surrender of all Western values for their return.

On July 7, 1944, Jewish leaders and others begged the War Department to bomb the rail lines leading to Auschwitz; they were denied. On the subject, General Eisenhower said, the best way to save the Jews was to win the war...the way to save the loss of more Allied lives was to win the war. A friend of mine opined, "you don't have to drown an enemy, just hold his head underwater long enough to make your point."

That seems to be a reasonable consideration in the "enlightened" West, but not applicable to the Islamists' culture of death; they require drowning! I say, turn Israel’s 'Juggernaut of Lions" loose to secure the 'Noblest' of prizes VICTORY over evil in the Middle East!

Working for the Los Angeles LA Sheriff, I supervised the Asian Organized Crime Unit, solving multiple serial murders and supervising 16 ransom kidnappings, safely rescuing all victims. Proud President Donald Trump supporter.

Tim Kaine: Senator or Slaugh?

By Tom Budds

Editor's Note:  This is a commentary in Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors.  If you wish to get the full edition, E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free. RK 

Senator Tim Kaine asserts that unalienable rights come from the government not our Creator. His assertion is antithetical to our nation's founding, raising questions about his assumption of office. Did he perjure himself when swearing his oath now requiring Congressional and Judicial review for his removal from office?

Tim Kaine was sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden January 3rd, 2013; he swore to, ..."support and defend the Constitution"... The question arises can it be successfully argued at the Supreme Court that the Declaration of Independence is “inherently" part of the Constitution therefore making its content, belief in a Creator as source of rights, binding on oath takers? Such a judicial finding would be a "watershed" decision to return our government to its moral foundations. It would have significant legal and political consequences, including negating all previous votes on legislative issues, possibly changing outcomes. All politicians could be reviewed for similar "disqualifying" oaths cleaning up the swamp once and for all.

The Constitution requires all those elected to take an oath of office. They cannot assume their position and perform their official duties if they refuse the oath. They can be removed for violation of the 14th Amendment's "disqualification clause," or by Congressional impeachment.

Should the Declaration of Independence be found to be an "inherent" part of the Constitution, all electees would have to swear their acknowledgment that rights come from our Creator and therefore, forms the basis for all our country's laws. It is well documented that this was the intention of our Founding Fathers that all government officers must hold this one core fundamental truth as the linchpin of all things in our new American nation.

Should the Supreme Court take such a decision, we the people could then demand all elected officials, federal, state, and local, reaffirm their oaths considering the Supreme Court's finding that incorporates the words of the Declaration of Independence.

Regarding Tim Kaine, stereotypically, the Irish are generally seen as grafted to Christianity. They have been killing each other in Ireland for generations over who is closest to the Creator, Protestants or Catholics. However, Irishman Kaine's comments during a recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing seem to have him more aligned with Irish mythology than Christ.

His words and deeds seem more reminiscent of Celtic folklore creatures called "Sluagh". These mythical monsters from Ireland are claimed to be restless souls that were not considered acceptable for heaven or hell permitted only to wander the countryside on their own for eternity; sound like our Senator from Virginia?

We pray that Tim Kaine and all our nation's elected stop "wandering of the countryside" by making the true source of our unalienable rights and liberty, their companion...for the sake of our nation and more importantly their eternal souls.

America’s ‘Neverland’ needs an American ‘peter pan’ solution

By Tom Budds

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In the 1904 fictional tale of Peter Pan, the "lost boys" were children who decided "never to grow up.” Reprised in 2023, the play added "lost girls." These children having gone unclaimed for seven days, were banished to "Neverland," where Peter protected them from "Hook" and his band of pirates aboard the "Jolly Roger." An American "Neverland" has been created, but its’s the antithesis of the land animated by Disney and written about by Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie. In America's "Neverland", the children aren't lost, they are being hidden by a cadre of deep state "pirates” but undergoing evils even the fictional "Hook" never contemplated.

Three hundred thousand boys and girls were illegally brought into America by our government intentionally banished to an American "Neverland" of forced labor and sex slavery many now unclaimed for four years. Unlike Peter in the story, there have been a few minor heroes coming to save our modern-day victims of daily sexual abuse. To the contrary, there have been no million-man or mom marches, or outcries from our nation's pulpits. Bishops are even suing the federal government for three billion "pieces of silver," for their part in moving kids and others through their Catholic NGOs (non-government agency).

Enforcement agencies purposely did not fingerprint, photograph, or have DNA taken for future repatriation with parents or family making it nearly impossible to locate these kids now sold into forced child labor and sex slavery. The growth of these soulless activities wouldn’t happen if there were no demand! In fact, it was inevitable given that the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA has become the CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CENTER OF THE WORLD.

The assault on God's children has taken root on United States soil. The sexualizing of our children through pornographic "school" books, online groomers, perverted teachers and librarians, medical professionals enriching themselves by manufacturing an epidemic of gender dysphoria culminating in irreparable surgeries and psychological damages; suicides. Most egregiously, are American pulpits who either remain silent or engage in the perversion too.

There is a valiant governmental all-hands-on-deck effort underway to find, rescue, and repatriate these kids, but they need our assistance, beginning with all God-fearing Americans to report what they see in their neighborhoods. This is how the team of detectives I supervised was able to rescue several sexually enslaved girls from a house in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Several people saw suspicious activity, but let it go unreported for months, until one decided to call the police. One day after that call the girls were rescued. Multiple "rapes" and other sexual assaults could have been prevented with an earlier call.

I suggest that the Trump Administration create a "Peter Pan" path to citizenship for illegals who help find these "lost boys and girls" hidden by Pirate Biden in his American "Neverland." As children are rescued from "Joe's Jolly Roger," so too can cooperating illegals, who display moral character by reporting enslaved children, be fast-tracked to citizenship.