Imagine if the honorable practice of science were hijacked by intellectually dishonest, cynically politicized, creepy profiteers who torture puppies, flirt with mass murder and gain the unearned credibility to turn the previously free world into a dreary, totalitarian nightmare. Oh, we don’t have to imagine. It’s actually happening. #ArrestFauci
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
NOTE: We, and talking heads and people who should know better, continually refer to our country as a democracy. Such talk would have the Founders turning over in their graves. We are not a democracy, or at least not intended to be one. We are a constitutional republic with strictly enumerated powers (Article 1, Section 8). A/D.
Today throughout the Western world the only expression permitted to white people is expression of their guilt. Their function is limited to working tirelessly to elevate their racial and cultural enemies. While people everywhere are organized in an act of self-genocide.
And this despite endless warnings. Half a century ago in 1972 Wilmot Robertson showed in his book, The Dispossessed Majority, that majority white expression in art, literature, and culture was so thoroughly banned that the ban is enforced with pre-censorship by white writers and artists themselves.
As for the classics of the culture, “Chaucer and Shakespeare have been cut and blue-penciled. The motion picture of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist had a hard time being released in the US because of the recognizably Jewish traits of Fagin. The masterpiece of American silent films, The Birth of a Nation, can no longer be shown without the presence of picket lines. Mark Twains Huckleberry Finn has been blackwashed and expurgated by liberal-minded watchdog organizations. As for modern classics, Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House, perhaps her greatest novel, is not reprinted as a paperback because a Jewish character is treated unsympathetically, while Henry Miller’s Tropic of Capricorn has been attacked by millionaire novelist Leon Uris as ‘anti-Semitic.’ Even nursery rhymes and Stephen Foster are being rewritten and bowdlerized.”
“Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice has been removed from the curriculum of New York City high schools. . . . ‘The prioresses Tale’ is omitted from editions of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales because it tells of a murder committed by Jews. The Oberammergau passion play, a fixture of European culture since 1634, is under constant attack by Jews . . . a tireless, clandestine literary vendetta is being waged against such towering modern writers, composers and scholars, both American and European, as Eliot, Dreiser, Pound, Toynbee, Henry Adams, D.H. Lawrence, Celine, Roy Campbell, Wyndham Lewis, Knut Hamsun, Franz Lehar and Richard Strauss.” There is, of course no counter vendetta of white artists against those who are erasing Western culture.
Multiculturalism is the weapon that has successfully banned Western literary and cultural achievements, destroyed its monuments, and rewritten its history to serve its racial and cultural enemies. “Diversity” means demonizing white people and replacing their society and culture with those of other races and persuasions. The only remaining career path for white people whether as writers, artists, employers or politicians is service to the elevation of “minorities.” Thus the universal support for non-white racial preferences in university admissions, employment, promotions, and entertainment. No Western politician in office anywhere in the Western world except for Hungary and Poland serves the white ethnicities that once comprised nations and now are submerged in a Tower of Babel. Even the formerly self-assured British are repudiating and dismantling their heritage.
Multiculturalism has stripped the West of unity. That a Tower of Babel can stand up to a united people such as Russia, China, and Iran is nonsense. This is why Washington does everything it can to spread disunity in those nations.
To understand the total failure of multiculturalism, all a person has to do is to look at the artificial boundaries created by Europeans in Africa and the Middle East. Whereas the white minority in South Africa is clearly threatened, the worst conflict is among the black tribes themselves, as the recent violence in South Africa demonstrates. In Nigeria the Igbo could not coexist with the Hausa and Yoruba, seceded and existed as Biafra until conquered and reincorporated into Nigeria in 1970. The genocidal conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 is another example. Here is an account in Wikipedia which I suspect will soon be censored for reflecting doubt on multiculturalism:
“The Rwandan genocide[4] occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War.[5] During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were slaughtered by armed militias. The most widely accepted scholarly estimates are around 500,000 to 800,000 Tutsi deaths.[6] Estimates for the total death toll (including Hutu and Twa victims) are as high as 1,100,000.[3]
In 1990, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel group composed mostly of Tutsi refugees, invaded northern Rwanda from their base in Uganda, initiating the Rwandan Civil War. Neither side was able to gain a decisive advantage in the war, and the Rwandan government led by President Juvénal Habyarimana[7] signed the Arusha Accords with the RPF on 4 August 1993. Many historians argue that genocide against the Tutsi had been planned for a few years. However, Habyarimana’s assassination on 6 April 1994 created a power vacuum and ended peace accords. Genocidal killings began the following day when soldiers, police, and militia executed key Tutsi and moderate Hutu military and political leaders.
The scale and brutality of the genocide caused shock worldwide, but no country intervened to forcefully stop the killings.[8] Most of the victims were killed in their own villages or towns, many by their neighbors and fellow villagers. Hutu gangs searched out victims hiding in churches and school buildings. The militia murdered victims with machetes and rifles.[9] Sexual violence was rife, with an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 women raped during the genocide.[10] The RPF quickly resumed the civil war once the genocide started and captured all government territory, ending the genocide and forcing the government and génocidaires into Zaire.”
In the Middle East artificial boundaries encompassing both Shia and Sunni have made Arabs powerless despite their numbers.
The participation of white ethnicities in the erasure of their own culture by submerging themselves in multiculturalism and then dismantling the white culture that “offends” the “preferred minorities,” deprives them of power to resist their demonization, the precursor to genocide. Nothing strikes more fear in a white person than being called “racist” and “anti-semite.” We are witnessing the self-genocide of the white race. White people are erasing themselves. They are their own worst enemies.
For the latest act of white self-flagellation see: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/10/25/cambridge-formerly-a-university-now-an-insane-asylum-rushes-forward-in-erasing-western-literature/
At what point do we start to hold this moronic monster responsible — morally and even legally — for the horrendous damage he is doing to human civilization? He is gleefully and willfully obliterating our individual rights and destroying our lives, our property, our currency, our economic system and our Constitution with an unapologetic gusto never before seen in America. Not just him, but all the people he answers to, and all the citizens who actually still support him — will they be held accountable?
Biden may not look as scary as Hitler or Stalin, but his actions, and the actions of his lawless, executive order-driven regime, will lead to the exact same results, or even worse. And we are only 9 months into this nightmare. Look at the empty shelves in your stores, something never before seen in this nation, and don’t say you weren’t warned.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
Bunker Hill, crossing the Delaware, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Industrial Revolution, Gettysburg, the Wright Brothers’ flight, the invention of electricity, the highest rise in the standard of living in all of human history, a day of infamy, D-Day, victory in the Cold War without firing a shot, “Let’s Roll” on 9/11, the Information Revolution, the Trump resurgence … dear God, please tell me that it won’t all end with THIS.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis has released a new flag on social media. It reads: “Don’t Tread on Florida.”
What’s great about DeSantis: He goes on the offensive against DemCom tyranny. He actually uses the power of government to stop the power of government.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
Sheer chaos and anarchy on the border? Afghanistan—the most humiliating defeat in recent U.S. military history? A labor-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves emptying out? The worst inflation in 30 years that seems soon ready to match Carter-era levels? Gas hitting $5 a gallon with winter heating fuels soaring? Free-for-all looting in the major cities without consequences? Joe Biden’s policies and Biden himself diving in the polls?
Never in recent American history has any administration birthed such disasters in its first nine months.
Yet most Americans are arguing not over the sheer chaos and disasters of the Biden administration, but rather how could such sheer pre-civilizational calamity occur in modern America? Were these disasters a result of historic incompetency? Or mean-spirited nihilism? Or a deliberate effort to create the necessary turbulence to birth a new American revolution? Or a bit of all three?
Start instead with the idea that what most Americans see as sheer ruin is not what the left-wing puppeteers (who are pulling the strings of the Biden marionette) see. Our catastrophes are their minor glitches. For them bad polling is mostly a public relations problem of an occasional uncooperative media. Otherwise, a few broken eggs are always necessary to create the perfect socialist omelet.
The Left now controlling Washington believes that the U.S. border is a mere construct. Every impoverished person has a birthright to cross into America illegally. The 2 million who are scheduled to enter this fiscal year alone is a wonderful, if occasionally sloppy, event.
Sheer chaos and anarchy on the border? Afghanistan—the most humiliating defeat in recent U.S. military history? A labor-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves emptying out? The worst inflation in 30 years that seems soon ready to match Carter-era levels? Gas hitting $5 a gallon with winter heating fuels soaring? Free-for-all looting in the major cities without consequences? Joe Biden’s policies and Biden himself diving in the polls?
Never in recent American history has any administration birthed such disasters in its first nine months.
Yet most Americans are arguing not over the sheer chaos and disasters of the Biden administration, but rather how could such sheer pre-civilizational calamity occur in modern America? Were these disasters a result of historic incompetency? Or mean-spirited nihilism? Or a deliberate effort to create the necessary turbulence to birth a new American revolution? Or a bit of all three?
Start instead with the idea that what most Americans see as sheer ruin is not what the left-wing puppeteers (who are pulling the strings of the Biden marionette) see. Our catastrophes are their minor glitches. For them bad polling is mostly a public relations problem of an occasional uncooperative media. Otherwise, a few broken eggs are always necessary to create the perfect socialist omelet.
The Left now controlling Washington believes that the U.S. border is a mere construct. Every impoverished person has a birthright to cross into America illegally. The 2 million who are scheduled to enter this fiscal year alone is a wonderful, if occasionally sloppy, event.
Our border calamity is their celebration of humanity and a long-overdue recalibration of ossified American demography, one that will properly warp the Electoral College to provide the necessary election result. If you believe that a culturally imperialistic America needs to be taken down a notch overseas, then the flight from Afghanistan is “impressive” and a “success”— by how quickly and efficiently we skedaddled.
Why worry about a lost $1 billion embassy, a $300 million refit of the Bagram airbase, or $80 billion lost in military hardware and training? Empty shelves? Boohoo.
Grasping, upper-middle-class consumers are angry that the working classes are not willing to risk COVID infection to supply them with their accustomed holiday trinkets.
So, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg intoned that the shortages mean only that the consumer class has to wait a wee bit—until Christmas Eve—to splurge on gifts.
Who worries about a little inflation? Under new monetary theory, printing dollars brings prosperity. Or as White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain put it in a retweet, inflation is a mere “high class problem” of the Peloton elite.
Only those with money worry their ill-begotten pile shrinks. But the majority without money will eventually rejoice that it is everywhere now”—finally and properly “spread,” as former president and now multimillionaire Barack Obama once promised.
As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez swore, gas and oil are going to be gone anyway in 10 years. So, if Joe Biden slashes over 2 million barrels a day in U.S. oil production, what’s wrong with that?
Didn’t Steven Chu, Obama’s energy secretary, long ago brag that when we hit $8 to $10 a gallon, we’d approach European levels of proper fuel usage? Why whine about paying over $100 to fill up, when the planet more quickly cools?
Did not Americans learn “critical legal theory” and “critical race theory”? Or as the architect of the “1619 Project” reminded us, destroying or taking someone’s property is no big deal. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey shrugged off torched downtown buildings; such torched stuff, he said, is mere “bricks and mortar.”
It is only a crime to “steal” over $500 of needed merchandise from a Walgreens in San Francisco, because the rich who make such absurd laws never have to steal goods from a pharmacy shelf.
If racists wish to point out that African American male youths are disproportionately represented in the latest crime wave, then maybe America should be learning not to create the conditions that force them to break the law.
In sum, we are on a left-wing roller coaster headed to a socialist nirvana.
Most Americans believe it is instead an out-of-control “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride” nightmare with incompetents at the wheel. But the architects of such “hope and change” shrug that the occasional disturbing news that the media sometimes accidentally leaks out is merely the cost of an equitable America. One man’s anarchy is another’s road to justice.
Keep that mentality in mind and the absurdities that are mouthed by Biden, Klain, press secretary Jen Psaki, Homeland “Security” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Pete Buttigieg, or the ravings of the Squad make perfect sense.
They are merely trying to explain to us dummies that what we think is purgatory is actually the new paradise—a promised land that, once we are properly programmed and educated, we too will welcome and thank them for our deliverance.
Victor Davis Hanson
As I have repeatedly emphasized, in order to achieve a genuinely free society, it is necessary to dismantle or abolish infringements on liberty. If all we do is reform infringements on liberty, we have done nothing to achieve liberty. All that we have done, at best, is improve our lives as serfs. That’s because reform is not freedom. Reform is reform.
Obviously, making the case for liberty to people is much more challenging than making the case for reform. Since reform leaves the infringement intact, people feel more comfortable with it because it doesn’t entail a fundamental change in what they are accustomed to. Moreover, the arguments for dismantling or abolition are fundamentally different than the arguments for reform. (See my recent article “Don’t Reform the IRS. Abolish It Instead.”)
A good example of this phenomenon is a recent article in the American Thinker entitled “An End to Tax Withholding” by Lloyd Billingsley. In his article, Billingsley criticizes the federal withholding tax. He provides readers with an interesting history of the withholding tax. It came into existence as an emergency wartime funding measure in World War II and then became a permanent part of the government’s income-tax system. He also points out that the idea, ironically enough, originated with libertarian economist Milton Friedman.
So, what does Billingsley advocate? He settles for calling for an end to the federal withholding tax. He says, “ Long before the pandemic, the federal government was too large, too intrusive, and too destructive of freedom. Freedom is seldom lost all at once, and once lost, it is difficult to recover.”
But ending the withholding tax does nothing to restore genuine freedom to the American people. After all, such a proposal doesn’t relieve people of having to pay the income tax. It just delays the payment of the tax.
In order to achieve a genuinely free society, it is necessary to abolish the income tax itself. Obviously, the arguments for doing that are different from the arguments calling for a repeal of withholding. With income-tax reform, the income tax stays in place. With income-tax abolition, the income tax is eradicated.
Freedom entails the right to keep everything you earn. Your income belongs to you — all of it. None of it belongs to the government.
When government wields the power to take any percentage of your income it wishes, you become a serf. You exist to serve the state. Oh sure, sometimes the state is kind and lets you keep more of your income. Other times it’s not so kind and leaves you with less. But make no mistake about it: When government is determining the percentage, you are on an allowance.
That’s not a free society. That’s a serfdom society.
The problem, of course, is that most everyone has been indoctrinated into thinking that the income tax, along with the welfare state-warfare-regulatory state it funds, is freedom. That’s why many Americans really do believe it when they sing, “Thank God I’m an American because at least I know I’m free.”
Our American ancestors understood that freedom necessarily entails an income-tax-free society. That’s why America lived without income taxation and an IRS (and a welfare-warfare-regulatory state) for more than 100 years.
Statists lament that an income-tax free society would produce massive disparities of wealth, but they are simply succumbing to the grave sins of envy and covetousness. They also fail to recognize that when people are free to accumulate unlimited amounts of wealth, everyone benefits from rising standards of living, especially the poor. Income taxation destroys massive amounts of capital, which is a key to rising standards of living. In the process, it ensures greater poverty.
Let’s leave reform to conservatives. Let us libertarians continue leading America to freedom and prosperity by raising people’s vision to a higher level — to the level of genuine liberty.
Jacob Hornberger
Government has become a criminal enterprise. It enriches sociopaths, looters and moochers. And nobody else.
A meme asks: “Why doesn’t Biden require jabs to get a welfare check? Or food stamps? Why is it only required for those who work and contribute to society?”
Excellent question. It’s probably the same reason illegal immigrants — whisked into the country without regard for existing immigration laws — are not required to get the jabs. If you’re considered a sure-thing to be a DemCom voter, you’re OK. It’s everyone else who’s on trial here.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
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