“On core issues like censorship — the word ‘liberal’ means freedom, and it came from freedom of speech. It’s about freedom of discourse and debate, the free flow of information. And now, the Democratic Party is not only censoring people from the White House, censoring political dissent from the White House; but it’s enveloped in this entire woke culture, which is about canceling people rather than engaging them in discourse and having no boundaries on the kind of things that we’re allowed to talk about. Let’s talk about everything.”

RFK Jr. is an old school Democrat. In the Democratic party of today, there is no room for free speech. In the unlikely event he wins his party’s nomination for President, they will eat him alive, as they did Trump. Today’s “liberals” are savage totalitarians who will stop at absolutely nothing to impose their will on everyone. In all honesty, many who vote Democratic agree with them, not with RFK, Jr.

Then, in a story from Breitbart just this morning:

Facebook-owned Instagram is preventing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is competing with President Joe Biden in the Democrat primary, from setting up an official campaign account, according to the candidate.

“When we use our TeamKennedy email address to set up Instagram accounts we get an automatic 180-day ban,” said the Democrat candidate on Twitter. “Can anyone guess why that’s happening?”

“To silence a major political candidate is profoundly undemocratic. Social media is the modern equivalent of the town square. How can democracy function if only some candidates have access to it?”

And the band plays on.

Sometimes the symbolism is the reality. This once great nation is so screwed. We’re paying for the generations-long error of letting the government grow way beyond its base. It could still be reversed, perhaps, but the majority are too ignorant, or too afraid, to tackle the problem head-on. So we’re falling.

“Biden got confused at multiple points, not knowing which way to go or where to sit. At another point, he claimed that he once applied to the academy himself. No record exists of any such application, though he has previously claimed that he received an appointment. That also has never been substantiated.

The president wasn’t done making news, though. Later in the ceremony, he got up to walk off the stage and took a massive fall, leaving Secret Service members scrambling to help him. Consider this a fair warning that the video is painful to watch.” [from Red State, 6-1-23]

When your elderly relative falls, it may mean asisted living is necessary. And surely they’re not fit to be the U.S. President.

Speaking of America’s fall …

Raising the debt limit is an open confession by Congress that they NEVER intend to lower the debt.

Why not cut government 25 percent now and pay down the debt with the savings? Start with the FBI, CDC, NPR, DEA, BATF, EPA, IRS, Dept. of Education, Dept. of Engery, Dept. of Commerce?

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

New data shows that teachers are more likely to abuse kids than Catholic Priests, shining light on a disturbing growing trend in public schools.

As sexual abuse by teachers continues to rise, parents and students grow more concerned about the health and well-being of their families. The public education system has embraced grooming techniques that normalize sexual behavior and sexuality in children as young as pre-school. Middle schoolers are now avidly taught about masturbation in class, while pornographic books remain in some public schools for the sake of “diversity & inclusion.” It’s enough to make anyone wonder if this material is truly appropriate for children, and whether public schools are working to educate based on the best interests of the children. And now, it has been confirmed that public school teachers are 100 times more likely to abuse kids than Catholic priests.

In truth, this comparison is based on an aged 2004 report from the Department of Education, and as child sexual abuse in schools has reportedly increased since these findings were released, one may conclude that the incidence is even more likely. In 2011 Texas recorded that teacher sexual misconduct cases went up 27%. In Alabama complaints and investigations tripled. By 2019 the Arizona Department of Education’s investigative unit chief pleaded with the Governor’s Victims of Child Sex Abuse task force claiming that his team is “drowning” in cases.

Many have noted that easy access to students’ personal lives has perpetuated this, thanks to social media and constant internet use. In 2020 The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported the highest number of suspected child sexual exploitation tips through their CyberTipline. The debate over whether minors should be allowed on social media at all has continued on for years, but despite these dangers, many individuals — students and parents included — often vilify Catholic priests when discussing the sensitive subject of pedophilia and child sexual abuse while completely ignoring the ongoing child sexual abuse convictions against public school staff.

The Catholic church has suffered for its lack of transparency and refusal to take full action against priests who harm children. It is common rhetoric to declare that Catholicism is full of pedophiles, and it is true that there have been some shockingly horrific cases, but if parents are going to protect their children they must guide them to beware all dangers, and they are far more likely to experience sexual abuse from a teacher or other school staff member than by a Catholic priest. So why is the public not decrying teachers as pedophiles?

abuse Considering this, 10% (roughly 4.5 million children) of public school students have experienced some form of sexual misconduct by the time they graduate high school, yet of the 77.4 million Catholics in the United States, .01% reported claims of child sexual abuse (10,667 children). It has also been studied and concluded that about 4.4% of all clerics were known to sexually abuse children between 1946 and 2014, yet it is estimated that roughly 5% of men are pedophiles and those numbers do not even take into account the incidence of female sexual predators at all. These numbers make a harsh case against public school employees.

In truth, child sexual abuse is a serious issue no matter who commits it, but as many admit, “prevention is key.” The best way to prevent child sexual abuse is by protecting children from predators and teaching them to protect themselves. Knowing that public school teachers are far more likely to sexually abuse students, parents must ask themselves, once again, is the public education system is really worth the risk?

Jessica Marie Baumgarter

“I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution; I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of it’s constitution; I mean an additional article taking from the federal government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or any thing else a legal tender. I know that to pay all proper expenses within the year would, in case of war, be hard on us … but not so hard as ten wars instead of one … for wars would be reduced in that proportion.”

— Thomas Jefferson

As his first act, Chick-fil-A’s new VP of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Erick McReynolds has revised company vocab guidelines, requiring white employees to move away from simple phrases like “my pleasure” and instead use preferred equitable language such as, “my privilege.”

VP McReynolds said of the change, “Chick-fil-A restaurants have long been recognized as a place where people know they will be treated well. So in the interest of fixing something that isn’t broken, we now require our privileged employees to express how they use their privilege to be allies to minorities by serving them great-tasting chicken sandwiches.”

“We are committed to ensuring mutual respect,” he continued. “We will do this by humiliating white people as often as possible.”

Sources say white employees will also be required to kneel respectfully and raise their fists in the air whenever a black person enters the store. They will also be required to punch themselves in the face when asked.

McReynolds is reportedly surprised by the drama kicked up in the wake of his announcement. “I’ve been the Executive Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion since 2020. I’m a VP now, but we’ve always been headed in this direction.”

“Check your privilege. Jeez.”

At publishing time, Chick-fil-A had also hired a graphic designer to create a cool new pride logo for the company.

Babylon Bee

The better members of the Republican Party, including Rand Paul, oppose the debt deal between Biden and McCarthy. Yes, it’s a loser for the Republicans, because it relies on promises of future Congresses and Presidents (seriously?) to keep reducing spending. Seriously??

You could have predicted this. You can’t negotiate with evil. I call the Democrats evil because they are totalitarians — in theory, and increasingly, in practice. Do I have to provide the proof again? Mask mandates, experimental vax mandates, use of social media to impose censorship, threats of gun confiscation and deadlines on the use of fossil fuels necessary for the survival of the middle class and civilization as we know it. I call all of this (and much, much more) evil.

Ayn Rand was the only one who appeared to get this point: When you negotiate with evil, you benefit only the evil side, not the good side. Evil, you see, is irrational and stupid, by its very nature. It cannot survive five seconds without some sort of concession from the good side. This is true whether we’re talking government, politics or any other arena of human life where morality is in play.

By negotiating with the Bidenistas and other terrorists occupying our government, the Republicans conceded that the unconscionable things Democratic Communists have been doing are acceptable — to a point. There is NO point where censorship is acceptable. There is NO point where bankrupting the country is acceptable. There is NO basis whatsoever for shutting down the economy and saying you have a right to do so again any time you feel like it. There is NO basis for nearly anything the Democratic Party has done for the last century or more, but this has become especially true in the escalation toward a totalitarian state we have witnessed — here in America — for the last 3 years or so.

Would you accept half a concentration camp? Or only a third of a gulag? Or the murder of 100 innocent citizens instead of a thousand? Or merely one million instead of ten million? This is the game you’re playing when you start negotiating with evil.

Making a deal with the Devil gets you more of the Devil. It’s as simple as that. It’s a law of logic and nature that is never going to change. The good or the not-so-bad guys have failed to figure it out. That’s why we’re on our way to the greatest evil that America has ever seen, and (if not stopped) the greatest evil in all of human history.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Pat Conroy, writing in “The Prince of Tides” about the 21st Century — thinking (mistakenly) he was writing of the 20th:

“Patrick Flaherty was the perfect manifestation of the modern American man. I listened in amazement as he began to speak, anesthetized by his heroic, unblemishable command of every cliche in the language. His tongue was a hermitage for banality. Every movement he made and every word was buttery with condescension. He was the quintessential organization man and all his i’s were dottted and all his sentences were diagrammed by a portentous vacuity. Clean and supple and lacking in all vestiges of compassion, Patrick Flaherty stood before us as an eyesore on our aberrant, hallucinating century. His voice flooded the gymnasium with a whole lottery of statistics. It was a coppery, inanimate voice and all the words seemed dusted with bright and deadly notes of silica. In silence, we listened as he explained how our town was going to be moved house by house and brick by brick.”

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… “Soon they will turn our beautiful town into a place dedicated to the destruction of the universe. And I have not heard a single man or woman from this town say ‘No.’ I keep asking myself, ‘How many sheep can one town produce?’ I keep asking myself, ‘Where are the lions? Where are they sleeping?’

Since the announcement by the federal government that they were going to steal my town, I’ve done what any Southerner would do: I’ve turned to the Bible for solace and strength. I’ve tried to find in the Bible some message that would give me comfort during this time of distress. I’ve looked to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah to see if I could find some comparison between those two wicked cities and Colleton. Now, I admit to you I found nothing. Colleton is a town of gardens and pleasure boats and church bells on Sunday. It is not evil in any way that I can judge evil. Its only fault that I can see is that it produced people who didn’t love her enough, people who would sell her to strangers for thirty pieces of silver. So I kept reading the Bible, hoping to find a message from God that would grant me succor during the wrath of the Philistines. Because, if I don’t try to save the one town in the world I truly love, then I want God to turn me into a pillar of salt because I did not look back. I would rather be a lifeless pillar of salt in Colleton than a Judas Iscariot covered with gold and the blood of his hometown anywhere else in the world.”