June 19, 2023
At long last - an answer to a burning and controversial question!
Al Moscowitz
I just learned something new. That's one of the most wonderful things about Facebook.
I have discovered the long-sought-aft
"How much wood would a Woodchuck chuck, if a Woodchuck could chuck wood?"
It turns out that the average woodchuck can chuck wood at a rate of 20.0855369 cubic inches per day. This is based on a sample size of 42 Woodchucks chucking wood over a 42-week period.
There's a lot of "nerd" in this post - good luck finding it all.
Gotta love those Whistlepigs...
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Anheuser Busch had a management problem in not immediately recognizing that the low level brand manager was out of her mind and altogether likely to create a p.r. disaster for the company if given free rein. A lot of corporations in America being hyper large as they are, are mismanaged in this way but their scale masks the errors most of the time.
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Anheuser Busch had a management problem in not immediately recognizing that the low level brand manager was out of her mind and altogether likely to create a p.r. disaster for the company if given free rein. A lot of corporations in America being hyper large as they are, are mismanaged in this way but their scale masks the errors most of the time.
A couple of points here:
Anheuser Busch was known as "gay friendly" for decades and has been a heavy promoter of all things sexually deviant. This wasn't new. But they didn't go quite so public with their advertising before now. It was just acknowledging what they had always been about.
Second, my brother works for A-B and he told me before this broke that Bud Lite sales were dropping faster than Bill Clinton's trousers in a motel room. A-B no doubt figured it was worth taking this shot now; buy good will with the wokeratti.
He also said they thought it would blow over after a week or two. They knew there would be trouble but didn't foresee the amount of trouble. History was on their side too; companies have pulled this kind of thing for years on America and prosperity returned quickly.
I don't think A-B Inbev understood that since they are now a Belgian company, just part of a huge international conglomerate, the public would be ready to dump them for other brews. There are plenty of good beers out there, and ones less likely to insult their customer base.
I would remind everyone that transgendered people are just .5% of the population https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227946/and thus do not make up a demographic that can support anything but a specialty item. Even the gay community is at most 7.2% https://www.statista.com/statistics/719674/american-adults-who-identify-as-homosexual-bisexual-or-transgender/ and that is probably a huge oversampling. It used to be just 3.5% as late as 2012. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/percentage-lgbtq-adults-us-doubled-decade-gallup-finds-rcna16556 It seems likely that much of this is observational bias; or the Wilder Effect; people telling pollsters what they want to hear.
So going for the trannnie market is a huge mistake. But they think it is "building for the future" as they think young people are all on board with cross-dressers.
There is no economic value to promoting this, despite what Mark Cuban says. https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2023/06/14/mark-cuban-calls-going-woke-good-business-and-conservatives-and-fellow-shark-kevin-oleary-bite-back/
America is now starting to fight back against this tail-wags-dog philosophy. And well it should.
Transgenderism (a misnomer; they are transsexuals, or more accurately cross-dressers) are mentally ill. There is no other way to describe it. It's like claiming you are Napoleon; you will be put in the Haha Hotel if you walk around dressed like the Emperor and tell everyone you rule France. But if you say "I'm a pretty, pretty girl" when in fact you are a 46 year old truck driver you are nuts.
And the puberty blockers and surgery do not help with this delusion. In fact, there is solid science showing trans "therapy" makes things worse. See
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043071/
and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4339405/
So corporations are now advertising the the insane? What is next; adult baby bottles and rectal thermometers for those with Infantilism? Maybe AB can promote nipples on their beer bottles for an easy drinking infantilist? Maybe they can give a free shovel to every necrophile who buys a case of Bud Lite? How about they brew a special beer that mixes well with, well, what copraphiles like to dine on?
Where does this insanity end?
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June 18, 2023
"Army considers scrapping ranks including Guardsman and Rifleman because they are too masculine in move to make regiments more inclusive."
It is headlines like this that cements the idea in my mind that our fight is not between Democrats or Republicans or conservatives and progressives. The real battle is between those of us who want to live in the real world and those who simply want to destroy it.
In contemporary politics, economics, and science, there is a neo-Epicureanis
Epicurus was an atomic materialist, following in the steps of
Democritus. His materialism led him to a general attack on superstition
and divine intervention. This neo-Epicureanis
For example, if the world is just a physical machine grinding out automaton after automaton according to established laws, then there is no room (or need) for qualitative concepts like love and charity. These concepts would be as indefinite hatred and rape – and therefore, love and charity could never be judged superior or more desirable - but because we, as humans, understand the difference, there must be some other grounding of those concepts, something beyond just atoms bouncing off each other.
Marx’s dialectical materialism refused that man’s gods, myths and intimations were evidence of supernatural influence – and that forms the basis for gaps in his theories that cannot be explained through his rhetoric, so Marxists just ignore them.
Andrew Klavan, the American essayist, video satirist and a conservative commentator, noted:
"Materialist fascism and Communism slaughtered more people in a single
generation than all the crusades, pogroms, and inquisitions since the
year zero. But logic too is on scripture’s side. As Genesis repeatedly
intimates, the human quest to seize the moral high ground from God—to
force the advent of our imagined utopias—brings us constantly into
conflict with the good life we so desperately desire. Those who put
their faith in princes inevitably end up rationalizing and imitating
the ugly actions of their idols. And as for Marx’s ‘ruthless criticism
of all that exists,’ note how Critical Theory always starts out
identifying a problem—racism,
Contemporary "Faucian science” is also most certainly Epicurean in nature. Yesterday, Jerry "The Zipper” Nadler claimed, despite all the peer reviewed data, that not masking toddlers during the pandemic was child abuse.
I still remember running into my first atheist "scientist” way back in college, some forty-odd years ago. We locked horns in a debate (required to pass an elective speech and debate class). He brought stacks of notecards (we didn’t really have the Internet back then) that included immaculately prepared cites for his positions regarding the origin of mankind, all based on physics and advanced mathematics. He believed that matter just did what it did because it was matter and it had to follow the laws of physics. I ended the debate when challenged him with this:
"Your claims appear to be based on the concept that chaos creates order out of chaos because there are laws. This argument seems circular to me, so please cite from any source you choose who or what created the laws of physics – not who discovered or revealed any certain law, but from whence it originated.”
The debate jury decided in my favor because they found my challenge to be entirely relevant to his argument and my opponent had no answer – but that’s always the endpoint of any debate with an Epicurean. They can never take the debate to the endpoint, mostly because they don’t think they need to. It’s science, you see, and science explains everything – even when it doesn’t.
To understand what it means to be human, there must be the supernatural, and that supernatural is God.
Spencer Klavan, Andrew’s son, and a brilliant classicist intellect in his own right, tells us in his book "How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises" to:
"Seek the people who want to live in reality, and you may find yourself side by side with hunters and environmentalis
Seems like really good advice.
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On April 20th 1914 John D. Rockefeller Jnr, the richest man in America,became the most hated man in America. On that day, 15 women and children were burned alive in a tent city of striking miners during a clash between Rockefeller’s agents and the National Guard on one side, and the miners and their families on the other side.
This was the Ludlow Massacre, and it was the birth of modern public relations and modern philanthropy.
Rockefeller was already an unpopular and controversial figure. His fortune, said by some to have made him in relative terms the richest American in history, had been built on the back of Standard Oil (founded by his father, John D. Rockefeller Snr) establishing a vast monopoly by perfecting techniques to ruthlessly drive competitors out of existence. At the companies height, rivals were offered a simple choice-sell out, or be crushed by any means.
The
monopoly became so enormous, and it’s practices so notorious, that it
helped prompt the creation of the Sherman Act in 1890, the first
antitrust law. In 1911 this was followed by a federal judicial ruling
that Standard Oil should be broken up into 34 separate entities, and in
1914 further anti-trust laws followed, designed to prevent such an
enormous and anti-competitiv
The Ludlow Massacre though was a turning point. Previous glowering resentment turned into outright detestation. The old Rockefeller attitude, a bullish contempt for criticism or the opinions of insignificant peons, was not going to work. Rockefeller Jnr would be forced to deviate from his father’s direct approach. Songs about the Massacre were composed and became bestsellers, the Rockefeller name had become shorthand for greed and corruption and the worst excesses of capitalism. Rockefeller Jnr could not simply bully or bribe a whole nation into silence.
But fortunately for him, a solution already existed. It’s not true to say that Rockefeller Jnr’s philanthropy began after the Massacre. The Rockefeller Foundation had been established in 1913, the year before, and Rockefeller had already supplied some significant bequests elsewhere. This was standard practice for the enormously rich, especially those like Rockefeller (a Baptist) who professed strong Christian beliefs. What was novel about the Rockefeller Foundation after Ludlow was the way it was used to rescue a ruined reputation.
Philanthropy would be the means to restore the Rockefeller name and erase the memory of 15 victims of Rockefeller’s power. And this redemption would be achieved by another innovation-the art of deliberately manipulating public opinion to the benefit of a company, plutocrat or organisation through control of a media narrative and a relentless barrage of positive stories using specific psychological triggers.
The two most important founders of public relations as a business and discipline, the Freud and Jung of the confluence of psychology and media that is public relations, were Ivy Lee and Edward Bernays. Lee was the inventor of the ‘two-way street’ approach, advising his clients that it was as important to listen to the public as it was to talk to them. This is why embattled politicians today still endlessly repeat that they, like Frasier Crane, are listening. It is also why focus groups became such important parts of the political process.
Rockefeller
Jnr hired Lee to save his reputation, and that’s exactly what Lee did.
It was Lee who told Rockefeller not just to express sympathy to the
miners, but to visit the survivors and families affected, to be filmed
doing so, and to offer every support to them. Rockefeller Jnr was by
inclination something of a recluse, and uncomfortable with the public.
Lee reversed that, and probably came up with gimmicks like the way
Rockefeller suddenly always had money in his pockets to distribute to
the crowd, and especially kids. Small gestures like these, perhaps
obviously manipulative today, were nevertheless enormously effective
when combined with a paid, relentlessly positive press and the larger
scale generosity of massive charitable donations. Rockefeller Jnr
gradually went from hated personification
If the transition were merely from a bad reputation to a good one, effecting one family, the whole of the above would be fairly trivial. But it is much more than that. It is the point at which the psychological conditioning of the public becomes a deliberate science, thanks to the birth of PR. It is the point at which doing good becomes the disguising claim of every extension of selfish power. And it is the point at which the most powerful means of circumventing anti monopoly laws also comes into its own. The charitable Foundation.
What modern philanthropy gives the modern monopolist is ANOTHER route to monopoly, one that on the surface can’t be questioned, one that legally has more freedom of action and far fewer restraints than a company. A charitable Foundation isn’t subject to the same taxes as a company. A charitable Foundation doesn’t have shareholders and isn’t bound by the same laws and restrictions as a company. A charitable Foundation can’t be subject to a hostile takeover from a rival. A charitable Foundation preserves wealth and power in the control of a monopolist and his direct heirs without that power and wealth ever being diluted by rival claims or by inheritance taxes. And a charitable Foundation allows investment in the form of donation, bribery in the form of endowment, and raw political power disguised by alleged benevolence.
Bill Gates as CEO, founder and primary shareholder of Microsoft wielded enormous power and influence. But it was subject to constraints. It could be threatened by antitrust monopoly laws. He was subject to the oversight to some extent of other shareholders. Bill Gates as founder and one of only three real decision makers at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has no oversight. Nothing constrains him. He can use the Foundation to build networks of patronage and influence that Microsoft could not build.
Both Rockefeller and Gates combined saving reputation with extending influence. Both acquired a charitable golden cloak over their far shadier business dealings. And Gates even more than Rockefeller before him has inextricably linked his personal power and fortune with a supposed giving benevolence that only ever seems to increase his power and fortune. It’s 20 years since Gates declared that he was going to use the Foundation to give away all his wealth. The Foundation has given out billions, but Bill’s wealth has doubled in the same period.
And the Foundation has
seized control of global health, vaccine, and increasingly food
policies more than any other body (including governments) on the
planet. It’s even suborned to itself OTHER unaccountable bodies like
the World Health Organisation. A private company could not purchase the
WHO. A private Foundation can ‘give’ so generously to the WHO that it
controls who is the head of the WHO and what policies the WHO tells
governments to follow. During Covid the WHO largely acted as agents of
Bill Gates and the policies he advocates, all of which ‘coincidentally
And the US, the UK and most of the countries of the globe are about to hand full control over any pandemic situation, including repeats or worse of all the insane measures during covid, including too the ability to declare a pandemic with even less proof than existed for covid, to the World Health Organisation. To give it carte blanche to impose anything it wishes, and all nations must obey. Whilst it is funded more by Bill Gates than by any of the nation states obeying it except the US.
Just as transnational bodies supplanting governments builds a tyranny, so too does the use of charitable Foundations to avoid anti-monopoly laws and to build networks of influence disguised as good deeds. The Foundation owned and run and managed by one person or one family is inherently less accountable even than the worst government or the worst private company. If we look at all the worst measures and worst policies governments are today backing, we can see a countless myriad of philanthropic Foundations, politicised charities and partisan NGOs working towards the same purposes and pushing in the same direction. These ‘monopolies of giving’ are more widespread and more powerful than Standard Oil once was.
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This is what will finally rein in this transgenderism insanity.
18-Yr-Old Sues CA Hospital For Removing Her Breasts When She Was Just 13 -- Thought She Was Transgender
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"The most sophisticated appeal to emotion to grace the world of academic ethics comes from bioethicist Leon Kass, and is known as the "wisdom of repugnance." Appealing to a naturalistic account of morality, whereby nature itself is imbued with moral value, Kass argued that disgust is a good moral indicator."
A FB friend pointed out the theory of "wisdom of repugnance" or wisdom of revulsion. The theory is that morality has a natural foundation and source. I assume it is tied to self preservation. Yucky, nasty, filthy, slimy are reviled by children and adults alike. The dark perverse PTB pushing the bizarre nasty agenda in our faces, day after day and devoting a full month to it, seem to believe they can overcome this natural revulsion. They won't. Don't mess with Mother Nature.
I've often used that argument. Homosexuality has always been a source of disgust in almost every culture, and for a good reason. People understand it is unnatural, wrong, that there is something that just isn't right about it. Even homosexuals understand that - they embrace the term queer, which means odd or abnormal. Liberalism is queer, and it embraces every degenerate impulse in the human condition because it is essentially heterodox, rebellious and seeks the overthrow of society.
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June 17, 2023
The Devil went down to Georgia - he was looking for an election to steal!
EXPLOSIVE: Halderman Report Released in Georgia – Confirms VOTES CAN BE ALTERED Through Defective Dominion Voting Machines – Raffensperger Hid This From Public – Garland Favorito Weighs In
The Devil went down to Georgia looking for an election to steal
He was in a bind because Biden was behind
and everyone knew he was a heel
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Republicans and Republicans ONLY received letters full of suspicious white powder in the mail in Kansas.
This is an act of terrorism. Where is the Department of Homeland Security? The incident is being investigated by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, which is NOT a part of the FBI. Now whyis that?
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With friends like these...
What is the point of electing Republicans if they are going to legislate like Democrats?
This turncoat Nevada Governor needs to be kicked out of the state GOP. And primaried out of office.
If we lose the state? So be it. There cmes a point where you must take a stand. It has been our fear of losing control that has led us to this disaster we are now in. We voted for people just because they had R's behind their names. We cannot afford to do that any longer. There MUST be litmus tests - multiple. And there must be punishment.
Let's work to kick this jerk out of office!
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Biden is funding Palestinian terrorists in open violation of law and the will of Congress.
If the GOP refuses to impeach Biden they will become nothing but a lost party on the ashheap of history. Like the Know-Nothings, or the Whigs, they will wither away.
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So Screwless Joe and Donald Trump are in a dead heat in the liberal battleground state of Michigan, according to a poll by EPIC-MRA.
Meanwhile Trump is spanking Biden like a naughty little girl nationally, running ahead of Captain Peachfuzz by 6 points in a new Harvard CAPS-Harris poll.
It's early yet and I would say Biden has yet to start campaigning, but he hasn't campaigned at all since announcing he was running in 2019 or whenever.
The trick the media and polling have used of late is to get our side overconfident then steal the election from under us. They used to disspirit our side with poll numbers that suddenly tightened at the end of the race, but now they give us inflated numbers showing a big victory coming them it simply deos not happen. That is intentional, to get the Democrats out and get the Republicans to not bother.
I don't think we have any idea of what will happen this election. it will probably be chaos, a circus unlike any we have ever seen. I would imagine we will have a third party run by someone - maybe Robert Kennedy Jr. He would draw votes away from both candidates, but perhaps more from Trump as the GOP RINO wing will all vote Kennedy.
Mark my words; their will be signs and wonders in the Heavens, Earthquakes and hurricanes, cats and dogs living together, it will be chaos. And when it is over, when the dust finally settles, the Democrats will have triumphed. It was planned from the beginning.
We'll probably be fighting the last two elections and never see their scheme.
I know I am not a cheery sort, but I am realistic. They will steal this thing if they can't win it legitimately. They will not allow us to go back to Trump, or even to move the country back just five years in terms of culture and politics. This IS the New World Order; better get your mind right son!
Gulags are not going to be far behind. Just ask the J6 protesters about that.
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Brian Kilmeade -never a real Trump fan is pointing out how CNN and MSNBC are saying "WE won't cover a liar".
(My intent here is to also say that FOX is being VERY fair in their reporting--and are still VERY Conservative)
These DNC dominated stations who enjoyed the viewership DJT brought them in 2015 through 2020--now say they won't show him at all. (CNN got heat from their staff for having DJT's Town Hall).
So Kilmeade asks: "So you won't cover his candidacy and IF he wins by some chance--not cover anything he does?
"Are we at FOX the only ones that would? That would be pure anarchy!", said Kilmeade.
I agree--although
This is a nightmarish scenario.
So they won't cover a "known liar" eh? Are they talking about Joe Biden? https://www.dailynews.com/2023/02/01/president-joe-bidens-endless-stream-of-lies/ Or did Biden's son actually die in Iraq? Did they mean these lies. https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/3850219-the-seven-biggest-lies-biden-told-this-week/
Maybe they mean Hillary Clinton? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-who-tells-dreadful-lies/2016/09/19/cd38412e-7e6a-11e6-9070-5c4905bf40dc_story.html
Or was it Kamala Harris? https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/media-ignore-kamala-harriss-lies/
You can check so very many Democrats; Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, etc. But TRUMP is the liar? If they are going to apply this standard then they have to stop covering the entire political system.
And most of all they have to shut down as they are the biggest of all liars in the world today. Anyone remember the "Russian Collusion" lie? The claim Trump called KKK members good people? Maybe they should lead by example and stop operations. If they don't want to cover lies....
I've always found Kilmead to be an intellectual lightweight and inside-the-belt
This will drive the establishment of new media.
I don't think it will be possible though, for the media to stop doing Trump, especially as they have a mental disorder that makes them obsessed with Mr. Trump, plus it brings out their crazies, meaning their numbers go up, plus how do they destroy Trump if they don't cover him?
Trump can attract people better without the daily drumbeat of negativity. I earnestly hope they do what they are threatening! The public will see it for what it is.
But they are playing to their core audience, right? Well, isn't their playing to their "core" audience working to our benefit here? They can't beat Trump without defining him and if they refuse to allow him access the public will probably know that is what they are doing. They will just lose credibility.
But I doubt they will do this; they are deranged over Mr. Trump, who lives rent free in their heads. Like trying to get a Nazi to date a Jewish girl. I don't see it happening.
This shows the media is TERRIFIED of Trump and will do anything they can to stop him from running. I think every action they've taken up until now illustrates this fear perfectly.
Rush Limbaugh used to say you can tell whom the media is afraid of by how angry they sound towards that person, and he was right. The hatred of Trump is beyond any sort of normal thing. It's a desperate hatred, the kind you hold for an existential threat. They clearly don't fear DeSantis in the same way, nor any other Republican. It's part of why I'm supporting Trump. That and he TRIED to keep his promises, and he listened to what we wanted and worked for it. And he exposed the corruption in Washington that has been growing and metastasizing for decades. He also has shown Amrica just how corrupt the media remains.
Oh, Kilmead told Trump to "learn to lose". Spoken like a true Republican! Guys like Kilmead are so very GOOD at losing!
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It's really getting interesting.
Nightmare for Biden! Robert Kennedy Jr pushes ahead of President in stunning new poll
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IF we are getting punked Biden will remain in the race and we'll get a nasty surprise come election day. But if this is accurate then they will force Biden out. I doubt Kennedy will be teir pick though; he's calling attention to things that they want hidden. Or he'll just flip once in office.
I think we'll know by Labor Day at latest.
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Trump’s lawyers. They’ve got no security clearance. If they’re shown the "600 classified documents containing nuclear secrets and other national security matters”…well, those can’t possibly be national security matters.
How can anyone even pretend that "justice” might possibly be served under these circumstances? Never mind the problem with evidence tampering.
That’s why spies are usually caught +red handed+ as they try to pass on +specific documents+, rather than waving generic accusations that there were possibly sensitive documents under tons of newspaper clippings in their basement.
I’m sure millions are ok that Chelsea Manning got pardoned but Assange is still in jail. This doesn’t mean it’s just. It simply means that they place arguments by authorities above any sense or conscience.
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And as we speak the prosecution is arguing for Trump to be banned from sharing anything in the documents out of "fear he will spill secrets". In reality it is to gag Trump so as not to expose the ludicrous nature of what this prosecution is doing.
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Seems the narrative about more forest fires is just plain wrong:
Ross McKitrick: The truth about forest fires goes up in climate-change smoke
We're told we should listen to the science, but the science on forest fires is that they peaked in the 1980s
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect....
You may be hearing this term lately. I thought a concise explanation would be helpful for those not familiar.
People with 'low ability' overestimate their knowledge in a specific area. Essentially, these folks do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence. The combination of poor self-awareness and low cognitive ability leads to them engaging in erroneous forms of thinking and judging.
The effect was named after two Cornell University psychologists, David Dunning, PhD, and Justin Kruger, PhD. They coined the term in a paper on their observations of this behavior in 1999.
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That is what the "self-esteem" movement of the eighties was all about - puffing up these "low ability" types so as to make them even more ignorant and incapable of learning because of the arrogance instilled in them. The result? Good little ignorant foot soldiers in the Progressive revolution.
Now we have young people with egos the size of air craft carriers and capabilities more comparable with Huck Finn's river raft. And these people are now moving into positions of authority over us in government and other institutions.
My brother has been a professor of history for decades and he sees this in academia all the time. People with scant ability going on to full professorships not because of what they knew or their capabilities but because of what they espoused. A woman who promotes feminist lesbian issues is going to advance no matter how weak she actually is in research or her knowledge base.
A society can only survive so long with such mediocrities at the helm. The transmission of culture breaks down and the society crumbles under it's own weight. That is especially true in a multicultural society as most Western societies are now. Too many people pulling in opposite directions. What is needed is for institutions to reinforce the love of the dominant culture and to transmit it. And that is exactly what these puffed-up dimwits fail to do.
That is, of course, by design. The Progressive Left wants to remake the West in their own disfigured image. To do that they must first erase all vestiges of our culture and replace it with some Frankensteinian abomination. That's what we are seeing with things like the 1619 Project, which was a lie from the first word in "Nikole Hannah-Jones' thesis. It was intended to twist history to suit a more radical interpretation and thus suppress our loyalty and devotion to the culture which has given us so very much.
I don't know if NHJ is one of the Dunning-Kruger kids or a clever manipulator. I suspect the former and she was just amplified by the radicals in Academia who were smart enough to see the value - and by the New York Times and others.
But it's clear we are being taken over by these dopes and they are in increasing positions of power in our society. Just look at Kamala Harris. Or Joe Biden (who was admittedly a mediocrity well before the self-esteem movement but was useful to special interests and corrupt tot he core.)
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June 16, 2023
Scientists create a Frankenembryo.
While they were meddling with mice, a multi-institutional team of researchers, led by Chinese reproductive engineer Zhen Lu at the State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience in Shanghai, reportedly generated synthetic embryos using monkey embryonic stem cells, then successfully initiated pregnancies in monkeys via a process resembling in vitro fertilization.
Rather than abandon
rodents to retread Lu's monkey business, Żernicka-Goetz and Hanna
endeavored to tinker with the world's top primate.
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The claim that Dominion made the firing of Tucker Carlson a condition of their settlement with Fox News deserves to be looked at more. Carlson's role in the Dominion allegations is that he REFUSED to put people making the allegations against Dominion on his program, because they would not provide him with any evidence to support the allegations.
So if Dominion did ask for the firing of Carlson, it had nothing to do with the allegations against them. The only other reason for them to make such a request is that they don't agree with his political views. And for a company that makes voting machines to get involved in partisan politics would show very poor judgement on their part.
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Along with the growth of internationalism and the fixed idea that nation states had failed and that nationalism was inherently evil, World War Two provided an impetus to another development that would be key to the growth of modern tyrannies.
For if the State had failed in a moral sense through nationalism, it
needed now to assert a new moral purpose. Pride in identity and the
protection of specific peoples was now associated with Nazism. What,
then, was the nation state really for? What was its purpose, it’s
raison d‘etre, and it’s excuse for the exercise of tax raising powers
and all the other functions the State had assumed?
The answer, of
course, the new moral purpose, was the Welfare State, formerly adopted
in Britain through the creation of the NHS in 1948. The NHS would
balloon into one of the most expensive and bloated bureaucracies on the
planet, and would accompany vast expenditure with mixed or even
declining results in terms of fulfilling its alleged purpose of
providing efficient and life saving healthcare. Britain’s NHS offered
socialism in action, and the field of action was the most emotive one
there is, that of life,birth, and death. It would also be the part of
the welfare system that few would ever dare challenge, given that it’s
remit was saving lives. The increasingly obvious fact that the NHS for
many people provided a worse medical care system than what went before
is one that many British citizens are still emotionally unable to face.
Welfare, though, was also more than just ‘free’ healthcare.
Welfare was also provision of payments to the unemployed, and payments
to the injured, and support to the disabled, the crippled and the
blind. It was government subsuming the functions of charity, and the
duties once largely undertaken not by the largesse of the State but by
the munificence of individual benefactors and the administrative
support of the Church.
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