The redistribution of wealth does not affect its creation. – Democrat/Marxist shibboleth
George Rebane
According to its director Dr Rochelle Wolensky, CDC’s new national mask guidance – even vaccinated people should wear masks in regions of high C19 incidence – is based on data from a spike of cases that occurred in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Well, it turns out that the data is a bit more than skewed. The data was compiled subsequent to Bear Week, an annual gathering of thousands of gay men who congregate for socializing, entertainment, and sex. The CDC did not point out Bear Week nor that 85% of the new cases recorded were men. It confirms that the more CDC attempts to inform the public, the more muddled are its messages. (more here)
National Propaganda Radio has finally gone public with a policy that allows its ‘journalists’ to also be political activists and report on their supposedly non-partisan efforts opposing racism and white supremacy while promoting social justice, equity, and the usual leftwing list of progressive policies. Meanwhile, they continue to maintain that they remain a government-funded, non-partisan news and information outlet.
Gymnast Simone Biles’ withdrawal from competing in certain events at the Tokyo Olympics has the media abuzz. Most reports and commentaries celebrate her “courage” for choosing not to compete due to mental issues. This attitude is taken by all in the lamestream media, but also by some conservative talking heads. Some on the Right are being less accommodating about the young lady’s decision, going so far as to view her decision as a national embarrassment. It’s hard to tell how much of the division of sentiments is based on Ms Biles gender – would a similarly disposed male athlete garner equal rations of celebratory courage and embarrassment? I can only imagine the pressures that Biles has been under to perform, and am told how important it is for gymnasts to have their head together in order to safely perform their routines that regularly threaten life and limb. IMHO, her decisions do not call for celebration nor denouncements of embarrassment. In the age of ‘trophies for all’, no one wants to set a precedent of hailing athletes who refuse to compete as expected, a simple expression of disappointment should put such matters to rest.
Taking a knee or other ways of showing disrespect for America when representing our country at the Olympics is an altogether different matter. I have no sympathy for athletes who take their highly partisan and dreadfully misguided political sentiments for exhibition on the world stage. Such acts and expressions are blatantly anti-American, and do nothing but succor our enemies abroad, dispirit their more patriotic fellow athletes, and expand the partisan chasm that already rends our homeland. Keep America’s internal politics in America.
[4aug21 update] Our beloved Union continues flying its true op-ed colors. I am disappointed, not so much in its ongoing tilt to the left, but in its uneven application of the editorial corrections it inserts at the end of contributed commentaries with which it does not agree, and in which it detects an error about which readers need to be notified. This morning’s Union has a piece by devoutly blindered leftwinger Richardt Stormsgaard (here). He ends his piece with –
Much of the Republican Party has edged perilously close to outright authoritarianism. Hundreds of moderate and conservative national security and military members from current and former administrations have warned against this disturbing tendency under Donald Trump. … A majority of Republican voters still support Trump and his attempted coup even though the leading perpetrators of the “Stop the Steal” myth in court have defended their false claims in court documents stating, “No reasonable people would consider these statements believable.” … Despite these damning admissions, a major portion of Republicans is increasing their assaults on our democracy leading up to the next elections. There are disturbing similarities between the USA today and Germany in the early 1930s, including the attacks on the democratic rule, along with the personality traits of Hitler and Trump and their fanatical supporters.
Aside from the fact that it is and always has been the Democrats who attempt to drive the country from a constitutional republic to naked collectivist authoritarianism, Republicans are explicitly impeded from taking that tack because their proposals and policies all inhibit the growth of government and/or actively seek to reduce its size. No authoritarian governance is possible without an ever larger, growing, and intrusive government, exactly the kind that Democrats have always sought to bring about. The Union’s editorialists are unwilling to point out such glaring errors in the op-ed contributions they print.
And celebrated Union cartoonist RL ‘Bob’ Crabb does his part to underline the newpaper’s editorial policy with his latest cartoon, filched and presented below.
This Crabb contribution is an excellent example of soft vitriol against the Right. Note the number of bases in the progressive narrative he covers with these cleverly constituted panels – a master’s touch. And it behooves the rest of us to never forget that this is exactly what they think of us, and given the chance, how they will send us knuckledraggers to be re-ejikated in new institutions that will be built for our benefit. The templates for all this have been operated by the Left all over the world since the turn of the last century.
Bernie Sanders answers ‘Why We Need the $3.5 Trillion Reconciliation Package’. He sidesteps the Democrats’ real answer – the biggest vote buying “package” in the country’s history. Instead, he talks about oodles and oodles of goodies for everyone from the terminally unemployable to illegal aliens invited to continue their surge across our southern border in order to get free everything and citizenship to boot. For our mis-educated youth, the law will establish a Civilian Climate Corps in the hopes they could be taken off the streets and stop murdering each other, and marshalled into more institutionalized settings in which they will work on approved progressive priorities and projects. The last couple of decades have seen Democrats offer different proposals to set up institutions to politicize and propagandize the unemployed and unemployable. The ultimate function of these nascent legions of brown shirts is not a mystery; we can already see them ferreting out ‘white supremacists’ and other undesirable irredeemables across the country.
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