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Another Dead Terrorist: So What?

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Cynthia Farahat on Facebook, 8/1/22:

The head of Al-Qaeda Ayman Al-Zawahiri was killed by a U.S. drone strike today. While the world is a better place that this savage is gone, he will be replaced by a worse terrorist.

This reminds me of the drone strike which killed Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in 2016, who was for working with the Afghan government, and was subsequently replaced with a much worse monster, Hibatullah Akhundzada.

While Al-Zawahiri’s killing is good news, unless there is a broad plan to eradicate Al-Qaeda (which there isn’t) this is basically a regime change with a worse terrorist who will lead Al-Qaeda on a path more similar to Islamic State and Jama’at Al-Tawhid wal-Jihad.

Tough Love can Resolve a Crisis in Confidence

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A website visitor asks, “I’m hoping you can help out with my 27-year-old son. He was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) back in high school, and nothing has been the same since. He’s just an older version of the kid he was in high school. He started college, but dropped out. He doesn’t hold a job for very long, either. He doesn’t abuse alcohol or drugs, and I don’t think he’s depressed, because he has a girlfriend (who is about as unambitious as he is). He hangs out with friends and isn’t particularly gloomy.

“The problem is that he’s living with us, and it’s a glaring reminder that he’s not getting on with his life. If he were living with us to pursue college, that would be one thing. But he’s going nowhere. Friends have suggested that we kick him out of the house and give him notice that living at home has an expiration date! But what if we push him out and he becomes depressed? Maybe it’s better to stick with the trouble we know?”

Dear Reader, there is a glaring contradiction in what you’re saying. On the one hand, you want your son to believe in himself. You want him to develop and demonstrate the confidence required to move out and become more ambitious. At the same time, you don’t have the confidence that he can do it. That’s the contradiction. And I’ll bet your son sees it too. You cannot GIVE him confidence. He has to foster that within himself. However, by acting as if you don’t trust him to cope with living on his own, you’re implying that you don’t believe in him, either. I’m not blaming you for his problem, but I am holding you responsible for making it worse.

The only solution here is to decide on a date when you will require him to exit. I have some friends who did this with their 18/20-year-old kids. They lived in a big house, and the family relations were actually pretty good. As a result, it was tempting for the kids to stay even when they were no longer kids. The parents wished to go back to traveling and doing other things they had been involved in twenty years before. So what did they do? They put the house on the market! That drove the message home really fast. I’m not suggesting you sell your house if you don’t want to, but I use the example to show how important it is to SHOW your son, and not merely tell him, that you mean it. You and your husband may have to get creative.

I realize you might not follow what I’m advising. It’s too much trouble, and it’s too frightening. There might be a scene. I get all that. You’re probably a peaceful and reasonable person, and you don’t want to spend your days engaged in drama. But there’s a drama occurring under your roof right now. It’s a crisis of confidence and self-respect in your son. You told me as much in your note.

You don’t really have a choice about conflict. Take your pick. Either postpone the inevitable, or confront it now and get it over with. And by the way, don’t focus on the ridiculous (and increasingly disproven) ADHD label. Your son manages to focus on his priorities. He manages to pay attention enough to find and sustain a girlfriend and a circle of friends. He has the capacity. He’s just not utilizing it when it comes to holding a job or planning on a place to live. And he doesn’t really need to as long as you continue to enable his casual lifestyle. Chances are good his “diagnosis” of the mythical ADHD gave him tacit permission to be a slacker.

Tell him you believe in him, then SHOW him you believe in him by putting an expiration date on his already prolonged childhood under your roof. Everyone, especially your son, will be better for it.

Michael J. Hurd, Life’s a Beach

The Fatal, Faulty Premise of the Green Agenda

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The green fascists we used to call “environmentalists” are counting on a faulty premise, in getting you to go along with them.

What they’re counting on is your love of life as we’ve known it. They’re counting on you to LOVE post-industrialized civilization — with airplane travel, private car ownership, comfortable homes with heat and ac, and all the rest.

In their narrative, they tell you: “You’re going to lose all this if you don’t do what we say.” When they say, “The planet is in danger,” they mean for you to understand it as: “My life, as I’ve known it, is in danger. My children won’t have the life I had.”

Not surprisingly, this rallies a lot of people to their cause — a plurality, by my estimation.

But it’s a faulty premise. Their prescription for preserving and saving life as we know it? Look around you. It’s just the beginning. Impossibly high gas prices. Impossibly high inflation. Unending government taxes which will take away what little wealth the diminishing middle class can keep. (Elite Communists like Mark Zuckerberg are not worried about taxes). Government regulations that make it impossible to trade, do business or survive (especially a small business, which most businesses are). Electric cars that don’t work as advertised — that cannot work as advertised, especially on a diminishing power grid — and that virtually nobody can afford or ever will be able to afford. Windmills and solar power that would already dominate the market if they worked enough to sustain power for the civilization we have built.

In short: In order to be motivated to go along with Biden, the Democrats, the cultural elites and everyone else on the green agenda, you must love life as you know it and wish to preserve it, for yourself and your children. Yet in order to preserve that life, we must systematically destroy it.

It’s insane, even on its own terms. Yet here we are, with rising gas prices and an economy unable to sustain itself. And the green fascists are just getting started.

Green fascism is a lot like COVID fascism. In order to stay healthy and free, COVID fascists claim, you must surrender 100 percent of your freedom, 100 percent of your self-determination medically and otherwise, and simply do what you’re told. You’re to listen to authorities, but ONLY to authorities the government deems acceptable.

If you’re to be free, you must be a slave. If you’re to survive in a comfortable, 21st Century lifestyle — you will have to give that lifestyle up, and return to a time where you may not own your own car (as the World Economic Forum now calls for), will not be able to afford gas or fuel, and will not be able to enjoy life anything like people knew it even back in the 1950s.

Madness beyond description.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

The Death of Cultural Dignity

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I attack ideas, I don’t attack people — and some very good people have some very bad ideas.”

— the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

True, but we are sadly way past this stage. Feelings now rule, not ideas, and dissension is for all practical purposes against the law.

Today’s cultural elites are now insane radicals. They don’t have any respect for differences of opinion. They don’t even have tolerance. From the drooling, half-demented Biden to the savage miscreants on the streets shrieking about abortion and freebies, the kind of dignity and perspective implied by Scalia’s statement is dead. Including on the Supreme Court.

People have free will, and dignity and civility can return. But not before a sweeping cultural change (rooted in psychology and philosophy) that will go beyond the boundaries of any single (rigged) election.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

What Actually IS an Insurrection?

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The definition of an insurrection is a rise against government authority or a revolt. An example of an insurrection is a rebel protest against a dictatorship. An organized opposition to an authority; a mutiny; a rebellion.”

Wasn’t the American Revolution an insurrection, by this definition?

Even if the events manufactured or exaggerated regarding January 6, 2021 really happened, what was being rebelled against, and why? Is a rebellion always and automatically a BAD thing — even if it’s in opposition to tyranny?

Why is it NOT an insurrection to engage in Antifa or BLM violence, while it IS an insurrection even to show up at the Capitol and object to election results for which there is extensive evidence of fraud?

At what point do we start to view our present government as tyrannical? Or is there no point? Can it do whatever it wishes to us whenever it feels like it — and then call anyone who objects an “insurrectionist” even though they are the ones ignoring the Bill of Rights the American government was supposed to uphold?

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Republican Liz Cheney Spearheads Democrat Attempt to Indict President Trump for Insurrection

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Insouciant Wyoming Republicans sent Liz Cheney to Congress to help the Democrats destroy the Republican Party by building a case out of thin air that President Donald Trump organized a coup to keep himself in power.

The charge that Trump planned a coup has never made any sense whatsoever, because President Trump authorized 20,000 National Guard soldiers to protect the Capitol during the January 6 rally for Trump, which was held at the Washington Monument, not at the Capitol. If Trump had organized a coup plot, why would he authorize troops to be on hand to put it down?

This obvious question has never been asked by the Democrats and whore media. Instead, Republican US Representative Liz Cheney has made big deal out of denying that President Trump issued an order to deploy the National Guard to protect the Capitol.

There is a huge difference between “authorizing” troops and an “order to deploy” troops, and Liz Cheney cleverly obfuscates the difference. It is unconstitutional for a president to deploy the US military domestically. A president can authorize the use of troops, but deployment requires a request, in the case of the District of Columbia by the mayor. The Democrat mayor following the Democrat game plan refused to make the request.

By pretending that Trump claims to have issued an order to deploy troops to protect the Capitol, a power the president does not have, Liz Cheney achieves her aim of presenting Trump as a liar, while obscuring the fact that if Trump planned a coup, he would not authorize the use of troops and put that authorization in the hands of Democrats so that they could put down his coup. The fact that the Democrats did not accept Trump’s offer proves that they knew that there was no planned coup or insurrection.

If the Democrats actually knew of a planned coup and rejected the authorized troops, the Democrats are guilty of complicity in the coup by rejecting National Guard deployment.

The idea that a few unarmed people, even if they were acting on their own and not guided by federal agents, could cause an insurrection by walking around in the Capitol and taking selfies of themselves sitting in Nancy Pelosi’s chair is mindless. How is it possible that the Democrats have been able to perpetuate such a fantasy in hearings month after month reported assiduously by the whore media and actually convince people of such a fantasy? Yet American citizens have been arrested for insurrection, held in solitary confinement, framed, and convicted by all-Democrat-juries of participating in an insurrection and committed to prison. The Republican Party has done nothing to stop this outrage. Hows can Republicans be seen as leaders when they turn their backs on their own supporters?

Why is Republican Liz Cheney helping Democrats demonize and discredit a Republican President? What is wrong with Wyoming Republicans that they stupidly elected Liz Cheney to Congress?

The scary part is that it is the Democrats who are conducting a coup, and the Republicans are too weak to do anything about it. The US lacks an objective media to blow the whistle and wake up the insouciant American population. The CIA, the FBI, and the US Department of Justice (sic) are all part of the Democrat’s coup. The presstitutes are driving the coup. If Americans fall for it, they will find themselves under Democrat dictatorship. Executive orders will replace legislation, courts will be shunted aside, and the greatest crime will be to believe in the values of the Founding Fathers.