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George Rebane

The puzzle continues.  About three years ago our cities were empty of indigents’ tents lining the streets and freeway underpasses.  What happened?  Where did all these people and their encampments come from?  If the numbers haven’t increased, then where did all of them live?  And if they have increased, what government policies or private sector factors increased their numbers so that now they dominate the downtowns of major cities across the land.  The only common denominator is the that those urban cesspools are and have been under Democrat administrations.

The Big Question still stands about Bumblebrain's accomplishments.  Can anyone name JUST ONE thing that he's done right since he took office?  That now seems to be a question on more minds as we watch the Virginia governor election returns.

[3nov21 update] Liberal Minds on Display #1 – Unless ‘Critical Race Theory’ is explicitly listed in a school’s curriculum, liberals and their lamestream will deny that any such subject matter is taught in that school.  The same goes for so many other hidden and denied leftwing initiatives and activities, such as ‘socialism’, the existence of which is denied in governance unless every facet of its definition is implemented.  They know that the surest (only?) route to successfully introducing their ideology is through subterfuge.

Liberal Minds on Display #2 – What really makes my heart heavy and continues my eternal lament for our beloved country is that our land is full of Double Dummy Districts populated by voters so desperately ignorant that they keep voting for the same Democrat Tammany Hall look-alikes who continue to screw, blue, and tattoo them.  And they don’t have a clue.

Socialist legislation on parade.  The Dems have to hold the ‘reconciliation bill’ hostage to the concurrent passage with the bi-partisan infrastructure bill because they, as all good socialists, know that voting separately on their outrageously priced ‘human infrastructure’ bamboozle would give it a snow ball’s chance in hell of passing.  Their only hope is that their constituencies continue  intellectually dense as ever, so that no one knows what is the real reason for the hold-up.  And can you believe that in light of that, Team Pelosi and Bumblebrain are comfortable to continue the lie that it is the Republicans who hold up passage of the bill to repair our highways, bridges, internet, etc?

[6nov21 update]  A big hit to Virginia voters, and their kindred spirits across the land voting on rolling back everything from CRT, to vaccine mandates, to defunding police departments.  This is but a glimmer of hope on the sanity of the nation’s electorate pulling back from the progressive/communist policies cliff – nevertheless, all such glimmers enjoy a heartfelt welcome.  When the dust settles, we must remember that such one election does not necessarily assure a nation’s future.

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109 responses to “Ruminations – 2nov21 (updated 6nov21)”

  1. Walt Avatar

    Biden’s accomplishments? Surely you jest!! A question that has been asked, and NEVER answered. There is more evidence the Sasquatch is real.
    Biden has claimed be have been in fights with straight razors. Yet not one scare as evidence.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-recounts-bizarre-razor-and-chain-showdown-with-bad-dude-gang-leader-cornpop

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  2. Walt Avatar

    BB calls it for Youngkin
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/02/democrats-outraged-glenn-youngkin-defeats-mcauliffe-bllshit-crt-narrative-unchecked/
    “Democrats were outraged Republican Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin defeated candidate Terry McAuliffe in Virginia’s gubernatorial election Tuesday.”

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  3. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Bumblebrain.
    first response: “Ladies and gentlemen please give it up for the leader of the free world”
    https://twitter.com/cwt_news/status/1455786639389872132

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    There really is a lot to love about Our Modern World.
    https://twitter.com/cwt_news/status/1454822307428544517

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  5. Walt Avatar

    OK… Biden’s accomplishments,, Trashed the economy. Mission accomplished. Reversed just about everything Trump did that was great. Mission accomplished.
    Single Handedly made us dependant on foreign oil…. AGAIN..
    Now gives the Arabs a reacharound in the hopes they will pump more oil.. WHY should they??!! The money is flowing back in.
    Control the energy, control the people. Gas,, now 5$ F**k’n bucks at some stations! Wait till the battery tax gets established.

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  6. Walt Avatar

    When all else has failed, just play the race card.
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/11/03/jackson-lee-va-was-about-parental-issues-and-racism-raised-its-ugly-head-not-going-to-tie-result-to-democrats/
    “On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said the Virginia gubernatorial election “was about local issues. Those were about parental issues. And unfortunately, racism raised its ugly head and the Republican candidate used it very aptly.” And she isn’t going to tie the result in Virginia “to Democrats or anything we did here in Washington.””

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  7. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Wait till the battery tax gets established.”
    For disposal or for EV usage?
    In terms of the latter, here’s my bet:
    . Smog stations will never go away although they are nearly useless already. Too much financial clout and the bureaucracy is too strong. Expect it to morph into a safety inspection.
    . You’ll eventually get a per-mile tax in addition to car registration. Maybe it’ll be part of the safety inspection. While they’re at it, they’ll download all the position data from the last year or two.
    . Police will have easy access to car data recorders which will have more and more information by statute. This may well include cockpit audio recording, eye tracking, all control input.
    Not that electrification is strictly required, but the move to EVs (inevitable in my mind) is an absolutely wonderful time to slam through a whole bunch of State surveillance measures. It’s for the children.

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  8. George Rebane Avatar

    Scenes 726am – Agreed and more. The state will have the ability to remotely disable your EV and/or control its speed and area access. For ‘safety’ and ‘traffic control/congestion’ your EV will be enabled only during certain hours depending on your employment and social status. Favored classes will become more favored than ever.

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Soros Spent $500k+ Towards Defeating Austin’s “Refund the Police” Proposal
    https://bongino.com/soros-spent-500k-towards-defeating-austins-refund-the-police-proposal

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  10. Walt Avatar

    Scenes. We already pay a Batt. “fee” for disposal upon purchase..(for cars and trucks)
    Elec. cars owners are already deadbeats for road taxes.
    I was hearing on the radio a day or two ago where a millage tax may be in the works. 5 cents a mile? SCREW YOU!! I drive 100 miles a day to and from work as it is.

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    More solid proof that creepy grampa joe is not running the show –
    The White House on Thursday said President Biden is “perfectly comfortable” with the Department of Justice (DOJ) settling with illegal migrants separated from their families under the Trump administration.
    White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made the comment in response to Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy after Biden Wednesday told Doocy that reports of his administration offering up to $450,000 to illegal migrants are “garbage” and “not gonna happen.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wh-biden-perfectly-comfortable-with-doj-settling-with-illegal-migrants-separated-at-border
    😉

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don B @ 7:12 pm
    In case you missed it a few days ago…..Liberal Minds on Display #5:
    ‘Thanks for ruining my wedding’: Tearful bride pleads with anti-Kyrsten Sinema protesters to leave her wedding where the controversial senator was officiating
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10148043/Bride-mom-plead-anti-Sinema-protesters-leave-venue-senator-officiated-nuptials.html
    Manchin has it easy. If they follow him into the bathroom, Joe can suddenly turn around in surprise and piss on them. Sinema has no such weapon. Just shows the world that there is no place to low that the Dems will not go.
    Whenever I hear about protestors following a Senator into the restroom or protestors disrupting the wedding day of an innocent couple on their day of bliss, I think Democrat.

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Looks like creepy grampa joe does not like the frogs –
    Kamala Harris to address migrant, refugee issues during Paris visit
    Harris is expected to call for stronger borders for Libya — as she continues to receive criticism about security issues along the U.S.-Mexico border
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-migrants-refugees-paris-libya-mexico-border
    😉

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Manchin just got reelected and the dems see the vote pattern in NJ more worrying than the VA sweep. DRILL BABY DRILL –
    We agree basically on the climate bill that basically uses technology not just eliminating certain fuels, but technology to use them cleaner so the world will use them cleaner because the world is using more fossil than ever before.”
    Manchin then turned the conversation to China explaining that the country has 3,000 coal fire plants compared to 500 in the United States.
    “My environmental friends will make you believe…that the 500 are polluting the whole world,” Manchin said. “They’re just not being accurate.”
    Manchin’s pushback against the environmental wing in his party comes the day after he spoke to Fox News’ Bret Baier on “Special Report,” called for more drilling, and disagreed with President Biden blaming OPEC for the high gas prices plaguing the nation.
    “I say that we can basically do more for ourself,” Manchin said. “We’ve been energy independent for the first time in 67 years. Why can’t we do more? Why can’t we produce more? We’ve got plenty of natural gas. My state beautiful state of West Virginia has an ocean of natural gas under it. If they will just let us build a pipeline we can get the product to market.”
    Manchin added, “And why don’t we do more drilling and why don’t we do more basically production in the United States? I’m not depending on OPEC. I’m not depending on other countries for my energy anymore. We know how to do it. We have the technology. We should be relying on ourselves.”
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/manchin-rejects-democrats-apos-approach-191813933.html
    😉

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    CRT is akin to socialism. The Dems say the are not socialists because they can find an example where the exact socialist definition does not apply. Same with CRT. They say it is not being taught in schools, but that is a crock. All the new teachers in teachers school are taught to think CRT. People have eyeballs and do not like what is being taught to their children. The Youngkin campaign made it about intersectionality, an aspect without which CRT cannot exist. I see it all under the banner of equity and if group equity is not achieved, it is solely due to ‘systemic’ racism and no other possible reason exists. No wonder the left hates individual liberties and great achievements of Western Civilization. The evil White Man is to blame for all the ills of society. It takes discrimination to fight discrimination. And it takes tyranny, not freedom, to toe the CRT line
    ‘America’s story is at stake in the fight over critical race theory.’
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/americas-story-is-at-stake-in-the-fight-over-critical-race-theory

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Bill Tozer
    CRT is akin to socialism. The Dems say the are not socialists because they can find an example where the exact socialist definition does not apply. Same with CRT. They say it is not being taught in schools, but that is a crock. All the new teachers in teachers school are taught to think CRT. People have eyeballs and do not like what is being taught to their children. The Youngkin campaign made it about intersectionality, an aspect without which CRT cannot exist. I see it all under the banner of equity and if group equity is not achieved, it is solely due to ‘systemic’ racism and no other possible reason exists. No wonder the left hates individual liberties and great achievements of Western Civilization. The evil White Man is to blame for all the ills of society. It takes discrimination to fight discrimination. And it takes tyranny, not freedom, to toe the CRT line
    ‘America’s story is at stake in the fight over critical race theory.’
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/americas-story-is-at-stake-in-the-fight-over-critical-race-theory

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Sorry about the double post.
    THE HIVE DOES CRT
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/the-hive-does-crt.php
    ———————————
    MARYLAND COUNTY TEACHES THERE’S A “DOUBLE PANDEMIC” OF COVID AND RACISM
    “If race-hustling leftists and their allies on school boards and at organs like the Washington Post want to defend teaching students that America is an incorrigibly racist country that’s experiencing an outbreak racism comparable to the Covid pandemic, they should make that case to the public. Instead, they hide behind the misleading claim that CRT is taught only in graduate schools and “is not taught in [fill in name of state] public schools.”
    As we can see from what’s going on in Montgomery County and in many other jurisdictions, a form of CRT is being taught in public schools. Stated differently, and more to the point, “Whites are racists theory” is being taught to American school children.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/maryland-county-teaches-theres-a-double-pandemic-of-covid-and-racism.php

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    But will anyone actually hear about with the propaganda ministry’s lockdown on all of this? –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/11/05/blue-state-blues-john-durham-found-the-first-evidence-of-russia-collusion-and-hillarys-team-did-it/
    😉

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    RE: Liberal Minds on Display #1 – Unless ‘Critical Race Theory’ is explicitly listed in a school’s curriculum, liberals and their lamestream will deny that any such subject matter is taught in that school. The same goes for so many other hidden and denied leftwing initiatives and activities,—Dr. G J Rebane
    ——
    ‘Why Won’t The Left Admit Schools Teach Critical Theory And Defend It On The Merits?’
    Democrats and the corporate press obviously agree with the tenets of critical race theory. But instead of defending it, they pretend it doesn’t exist
    “If people are confused about what critical race theory is, why not explain what it really is? Why argue that its attendant ideas and policy prescriptions are correct and desirable, and make the case for why they will make America a better, more peaceful, and just society?
    Leftists won’t do that because they know that most Americans find the ideas at the heart of critical race theory repulsive, and rightly so.
    This is also why the left never openly debates the merits of, say, mass illegal immigration, which they obviously support. Instead, they pretend to oppose it, or argue that the border isn’t really in crisis. Same with the Black Lives Matter riots last summer, the effects of pandemic lockdowns, the dangers of transgender ideology and bathroom policies. Whatever the issue, they pretend the thing they support isn’t even real, then call their opponents racists and bigots for insisting that it is.
    The bad news for the left is that this tactic obviously isn’t working. So I look forward to frank, open, and honest debates about teaching racial hierarchies in elementary school, the merits of totally open borders, and a rich discourse on why urban rioting for racial justice is a public good.
    Just kidding. The media assures me none of that’s even real.“
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/05/why-wont-the-left-admit-schools-teach-critical-theory-and-defend-it-on-the-merits/

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  20. George Rebane Avatar

    BillT 1007am – Apropos to your post Mr Tozer, we note the absolute silence of our liberal readers on such matters. Me thinks that confirms they are part of the conspiracy to bamboozle their fellow travelers with more pronounced inter-aural deficits.

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  21. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Just kidding. The media assures me none of that’s even real.”
    It isn’t, but mostly due to a linguistic trick. Mr. Frisch makes the same argument, so there’s even a local variant. The media, of course, isn’t smart enough to know the difference, but they’ve been told what to say in any case. The funny thing is that ‘CRT’ and it’s relatives are a wonderful way to acquire power, but only to the extent that they are allowed to.
    John McWhorter talks about it a fair amount (being a linguist and all, that makes sense).
    https://www.booksmartstudios.org/p/lexicon-valley-the-morphing-of-critical
    https://www.booksmartstudios.org/p/why-we-cant-agree-on-what-critical
    …plus a bunch of interviews.
    If you want to pretend that CRT doesn’t exist in K-12, it’s fairly easy to take the exactness tack of Feynman chatting about magnetism or a lawyer discussing a contract. Being built on a platform of sand in the first place (like most handwaving sociology constructs) doesn’t help CRT a bit of course.

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  22. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Filing this here under the Left brains addendumbs…
    Has anyone else had a convulsion reading Berkheimer today?
    “Some parents are claiming that they should have final control on what is taught in the schools “because they are our kids.”
    That’s a false argument that needs to be ignored. Parents have the option of sending their children to private schools at their own expense if that is what they desire.
    The purpose of a public school education is not to teach what parents want their kids to be taught. The purpose is to teach what society needs them to learn. The client of the public school is not the parent, but the entire
    community”
    It’s as if Tuesday’s farce in Virginny never happened.

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Darrell Berkheimer
    I just got as far as this:
    “And it’s all because many Republican leaders, minions of the Donald Trump cult, have used their rhetoric to spawn thug-like threats to public servants across the nation.”
    I’m surprised he doesn’t work in the word ‘vile’ along with ‘thug’.
    It’s all so tiresome.

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  24. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Does any reader here know if DBerkheimer have any kids/grandkids?
    How does George square this guy with his friendly take on Don Rogers?

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  25. Scott O Avatar

    scenes 6:05 – hilarious!
    “…have used their rhetoric to spawn thug-like threats to public servants across the nation.”
    Ya mean like ‘all cops are bastards’?
    I’m sure Darrell didn’t like that either, but he was too busy with his own sound check to complain.

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  26. Calvin Robert Thompson Avatar
    Calvin Robert Thompson

    conservative minds on display: Tucker Carlson, “I never really figured out what critical race theory is.” I guess he speaks for all of you as well, but whatever it is, it’s got to be bad, right?

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  27. Walt Avatar

    Well Calvin, Teachers telling white kids they are oppressors just because they are white is a good thing?
    Demanding newborn children (at the age of six weeks) be instructed in CRT
    https://www.baconsrebellion.com/wp/virginia-to-teach-critical-race-theory-to-newborns/
    So.. Have YOU apologized publicly for your whiteness?(assuming your of the evil pale face)
    I work with plenty of minorities daily. Even THEY call BS on CRT.
    My sister in law’s kids are of mixed race. Care to be take that on?
    Or are you going to like all the rest of the drive by posters and drop a stink bomb and run never to be heard from again?

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  28. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    I swear George…..you get the worst quality of troll…..Calvin Robert Thomas….CRT.
    It’s as bad as suffering through another Frisch screed…..blah, blah, blah!

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  29. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: “Bumblebrain’s Accomplishments”
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10172959/Camilla-stopped-talking-hearing-President-break-wind-chat-Cop26-summit.html
    “He is supposed to be committed to reducing emissions – but when President Joe Biden produced a little natural gas of his own at the COP26 summit, it was audible enough to make the Duchess of Cornwall blush.
    An informed source has told The Mail on Sunday that Camilla was taken aback to hear Biden break wind as they made polite small talk at the global climate change gathering in Glasgow last week.
    ‘It was long and loud and impossible to ignore,’ the source said. ‘Camilla hasn’t stopped talking about it.’”
    This would explain a lot.

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  30. Walt Avatar

    Great catch Fish.
    Someone needs to remind “CRT” that racism is owned by the DEMS.
    Party of the Klan, Party of the skinheads. Party of ANTIFA
    Save your self imposed guilt trip of oppression for your own kind “CRT”.
    BTW “CRT” who wrote the first anti gun laws aimed at minorities? DEMOCRATS. Who organized to fight those racist laws? The NRA.
    Yet you DEMS claim to be looking out for minority “freedoms “.
    Tough times there “CRT”,, they are ditching the LIB plantations in droves.
    “Biden”-: If you don’t vote for ME, you ain’t BLACK”

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  31. George Rebane Avatar

    Gentlemen, gentlemen – Be kind to Mr CRT and welcome his drive-by comments, for after all, is not he and his ilk our own raison d’etre?

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  32. Scott O Avatar

    Calvin 7:36 – “conservative minds on display: Tucker Carlson, “I never really figured out what critical race theory is.”
    Calvin lifted this from a left wing web site.
    It’s the best he can do.
    He’s at least showing some basic typing skills.

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  33. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Tucker Carlson, “I never really figured out what critical race theory is.”
    I figure that it’s a fair statement by Carlson. Critical Race Theory moved from the word salad of philosophical thinkers, founding documents and all, to a more general melange of craziness and raw power grabs. Hard to pin down but you know it when you see it and the public needed a moniker for what is obviously a destructive thing.
    The word went out to paint it’s critics as “not knowing what CRT is, har har” giving it the slipperiness you see in Antifa (which doesn’t exist either). The opponents of the brave new world are merely stupid brutes after all and need to be controlled through social, financial, and government pressure.
    I suppose to some extent it’s all like the Leftist approach to climate coolingwarming. Destroy the existing infrastructure, either culture or energy production, and some new and wonderful thing will spew forth from the genius of the people. The end result is always the brutal politics of the prison yard as the power free-for-all erupts but maybe this time it will be different. When the power is consolidated, there’s always the rest of the world to tend to.

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  34. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Just what is critical race theory and what’s it doing in a nice field like education?”
    Indeed!
    “Critical race theory (CRT) first emerged as a counterlegal scholarship to the positivistand liberal legal discourse of civil rights. This scholarly tradition argues against the slow pace of racial reform in the United States. Critical race theory begins with the notion that racism is normal in American society. It departs from mainstream legal scholarship by sometimes employing storytelling. It critiques liberalism and argues that Whites have been the primary beneficiaries of civil rights legislation.Since schooling in the USA purports to prepare citizens, CRT looks at how citizenship and race might interact. Critical race theory’s usefulness in understanding education inequity is in its infancy. It requires a critique of some of the civil rights era’s most cherished legal victories and educationalreform movements, such as multiculturalism.”
    Gloria Ladson-Billings (1998) Just what is critical race theory and what’s it doing in a nice field like education?, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 11:1, 7-24, DOI: 10.1080/095183998236863

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  35. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Whether or not Education is a “nice field” is an exercise left to the reader.

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    from Ladson-Billings essay:
    “We may have to defend a radical approach to democracy that seriously undermines the privilege of those who have so skillfully carved that privilege into the foundation of the nation.”
    and there you have it in a nutshell.
    You know, when it all boils down to a street fight over limited resources, I can accept and understand the ongoing battles. What I’m sick of are Blue Mob flagellants moping around with angry-sad sermons.

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  37. Walt Avatar

    Like I thought. “CRT” TROLL never to be heard from again.
    Does he now “identify” as a Black? Looking for affirmative action special treatment?

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Not exactly on topic, but not for the Sandbox either. Goes here as a placeholder.
    ‘Academia’s Identity Crisis’
    https://quillette.com/2021/11/05/academias-identity-crisis/

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  39. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Regarding CRT’s comment on CRT, I’ve been reading postmodernist drivel for a couple of years to get a handle on CRT and it ain’t easy wading through that much BS.
    Marx 1.0 is Workers of the world Untie! (the dyslexic version)
    Marx 2.0 is Leninism
    Marx 3.0 is Stalinism
    Marx 4.0 is Critical Theory/Cultural Marxism

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The unhappy angry mob. By all means, don’t stand in their way. More self destructive rhetoric and policies will only lead to more unhappiness and more anger….and their constant state of turmoil, tension, frustration, and chaos.
    Best to stand back, keep the life boat tied down, and watch them implode. Give them nine miles of pavement and a long rope. They can’t blame themselves, right?
    ‘Democrats Are Right To Be Scared About Losing The Parent Vote’
    It’s an existential threat to Democrats if parents shift to the Republican Party — and that is already happening, in Virginia and beyond.
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/05/democrats-are-right-to-be-scared-about-losing-the-parent-vote/
    Come on Lefties, keep standing between Momma Bear and her cubs. Good strategy for unification, roflmao.

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  41. Walt Avatar

    And just down the road. LIB minds on display.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-teacher-quiz-question-conservatives-high-school
    “The quiz question asked students in a social science class at Whitney High School in Rocklin, a city located about 20 miles from Sacramento, to identify “a group of complete idiots.” The possible answers were given in a multiple-choice format as: “A) KKK; B) all of Florida; C) Fox news; D) Texans.””
    (E) A person that votes Democrat;

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    RE: [6nov21 update] “A big hit to Virginia voters, and their kindred spirits across the land voting on rolling back everything from CRT, to vaccine mandates, to defunding police departments. This is but a glimmer of hope on the sanity of the nation’s electorate pulling back from the progressive/communist policies cliff – nevertheless, all such glimmers enjoy a heartfelt welcome. When the dust settles, we must remember that such one election does not necessarily assure a nation’s future.”—Dr. G J Rebane
    Yes, it is only one little election. Not even a mid-term nor nation vote. Things can and do turn on a dime.. May we never boast like the Lefties do in victory. I certainly have enjoyed watching the Lefties proclaim the Death of the Republican Party decade after decade. Dust bin of history, consigned to a regional party of Southern racists.
    Thus we must not be like them. It is unwise to take one’s armor off before the battle begins. Winning a battle but losing a war (and country) are the real stakes in play. However, I will still enjoy any rays of sunshine between stormy times.
    ‘Virginia Secedes From Biden’s Party’
    https://buchanan.org/blog/virginia-secedes-from-bidens-party-158712

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  43. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    BillT@9:49
    That’s an excellent essay. Good find.
    “The ability of the elite to remake American society is limited in general, thanks to the mechanics of mass democracy and the inherent separateness of elite society.”
    A thing that pushes elite control to the margins are the occasions when monopolies occur for whatever reason. Modern social media, the Honorable East India Company, the Catholic Church in various times and places, megabanks, single points of control/failure on the internet. Ibram Kendi can spew out some nonsense and your ability to use VISA can disappear.
    Perhaps the primary lesson is that the avoidance of crazy people is built atop a truly free market and financial/communication independence.

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  44. George Rebane Avatar

    Gregory 1011am – An excellent summary of Marxism’s evolution over the years. And we must also remember that if Marxism’s current version does not serve, then its acolytes are always ready to revert to the previous version for some added traction.

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  45. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Marx 5.0 can hopefully be left for a resurrection of a very bad idea in the very distant future.
    In the meantime, we have a M4.0 mess on our hands.

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  46. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Get woke go broke #6300863930 –
    Marvel’s woketard Eternals opened to a disappointing $71 million. The predictions had been anywhere from $75 to $85 million
    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/11/07/nolte-marvels-woketard-eternals-stumbles-with-71-million-opening/
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