Why Don't Dem Voters Love Their Kids?

These days I'm concerned about those friends and family who continue to vote Democrat.  I wonder about just how much they can truly love their kids and support the party which puts their kids in such danger.  Sure, it's one thing to say "I love my kids".  It's quite another to say so after voting for that which harms them so much and so often.  Let's review:

Immigration

The Idiot-In-Chief has shown a decided rejection of American security.  Like so many moronic lefties, Biden pretends there's some moral obligation on the part of our nation and its government to swing open the doors and let in anyone.  He has cancelled the building of the wall on our border, and denied the use of taxpayer funded materials to complete what his far superior predecessor had begun by states willing to use them...or even to purchase them in order for the rest of the nation to recoup their cost.  

And what has this prohibition done?  It has allowed the constant flow of illegal aliens and invaders over our unguarded borders.  One of the only constant sources of accurate information on the crisis at the border...FoxNews' Bill Melugin...has shown how so many are not only not crossing in order to hand themselves over to border officials as a means to get free stuff, but are purposely seeking to avoid detection by border enforcement officials, to do whatever it is they have in mind, for good or ill.  We've also been apprised of the fact that potential terrorists and known criminals continue to exploit the border situation to an extent most difficult to ascertain, given the problems imposed by Biden's moronic policies, most of which are simply reversals of effective policies implemented by his superior predecessor, Donald Trump.

So what's the effect of this criminality?  Threats to our own people, including our children.  There have been several reports from citizens who live on the border, many of whom have their own families with children, and the heightened degree of security they must employ as their properties are overrun, stolen and homes threatened by aliens and/or their criminal cartel exploiters.  And this isn't limited to only those on the border, in border towns and the like.  Biden is illegally shipping border-crossers of all kinds all over the country to negatively impact life all over, without the consent of the people.  Who could support immigration policies such as these implemented by the Idiot-In-Chief?  How little must one care about one's own children to reject one president who puts them first, in favor of this moron who has no clue?

Law Enforcement

All over America, in every state run by a Democrat governor, in every city run by a Democrat mayor, crime has increased dramatically over the last two years or more.  It began with the lies regarding the deaths of various thugs during confrontations with police, and has been exacerbated by Dem politicians through support for "defunding" and "police reform", as if the problem is the police and not the assholes they're tasked with arresting.  Bail reform has led to scores of murders and other crimes by those who should be cooling their heels in jails awaiting trial for previous criminal activity.  Kids continue to die at the hands of gang-bangers and other criminals because there are fewer cops on the streets and no legal means of protecting one's self without jumping through scores of laws and coughing up more money than most people in the neighborhoods can afford.  How can anyone say they love their kids when they elect Democrats who put this insanity above their welfare?  

Covid

Since the discovery of Fauci's virus, there has been a dramatic restriction of civil liberty by mostly Democrat governors and mayors.  We're seeing a reintroduction of these restrictions now that the Omicron variant is spreading about harming pretty much no one.  And once again, we're seeing kids denied gathering at schools and breathing freely without masks which never protected them in the first place.  The harm these policies have done to kids is now well known, but ignored by the very assholes who instituted them in the first place.  My own granddaughters act as if it's sinful to take off their face diapers.  It breaks my heart to see them act in this way, especially given how unlikely it is for them to be affected by the virus or to transmit it to anyone else.   We KNOW they are among the least threatened by the virus, yet Fauci and other assholes insist they must be injected with drugs about which the long term effects are still unknown, despite their not needing such in the first place.  The negative impact of these policies on the ability of children to learn, to socialize and to develop normally and naturally is beyond well known.  How can anyone say they love their kids and support this lunacy?

Teachers Unions and their indoctrination of lies

From racist crap like CRT to the promotion of LGBT lies and other sexual immorality, our kids are victims of those who are so far left as to be criminal in their purpose.  Those who run education in this country...from K-12 to the university level....have for too long been led by the worst of the worst, the leftist and their Democrat minions.  Our nation for too long has ranked among the worst in every subject at which our kids should be excelling...math, reading, science, history, ENGLISH!!!!...and all to push leftist propaganda.  Who can anyone say they love their kids and support the promotion of this bullshit?

The Military

With the elevation of Stupid (Joe Biden) to the presidency, our military has become an even more egregious social experiment than it was under Stupid's former boss.  Even beginning with allowing women to work aboard ships at sea, as well as other mixing of the sexes, to our current state of affairs with regard to enabling all forms of sexual disorder, our military has been weakened.  Now, added to that, we've got the best of the best being forced out over the rejection of fake "vaccines" the brass insists all must have injected into their bodies.  In the meantime, our enemies...like China...are strengthening their armies in the only way any nation should, by seeking to make them the most effective fighting force in the world.  The military exists to kill our enemies and protect our nation.  The current administration seeks to make them "woke" in every area except where they need to be most awake...the defense of the nation.   This puts everyone, including our kids, in great jeopardy.   Dem voters cannot love their kids if they agree our biggest concern is "white supremacy" in the ranks.  What an absurd suggestion given the military was comprised of all races and creeds, including an islamic asshole who murdered half a dozen others?  

The Economy

While Donald Trump enacted tax and regulatory policies which led to incredible economic growth, as well as unemployment numbers not seen since the 1960s, we are now dealing with inflation we've not seen since the Carter years because of Democrat policy anyone paying attention easily predicted prior to Nov 2020.  Indeed, the warning was loud and constant, yet Dem voters still pretended the worst thing imaginable was another four years of economic growth.  The cost of everything is way the hell up in just eleven short months, and all because of Biden policies.  The impact on kids is obvious.  It costs so much more to have kids...to feed and clothe them.  

This list is really just a general description of the harm to kids resulting from voting for Democrats.  It is not comprehensive, as I don't have that kind of time.  But the point is clear and the evidence more so.  If one cares about one's kids, there is no justification or rationalization for voting Democrat, and there hasn't been in at least a generation...if there ever was at all.  Nothing good comes of it, and few are endangered more than our kids.  What's more, one cannot get a Dem voter to defend their decision to vote Democrat.  And until Dem voters can be disconnected from their false notions, kids will continue to be jeopardized.

The Plague!!!

 Thirteen days ago, I felt the symptoms of what turned out to be the Andromeda Strain...uh...the Bubonic Plague...er...the Black Death...ahem...Covid 19.  Those symptoms were as follows:  headache all the time, fatigue all the time, mild fever most of the time, weakness and an aversion to food.  The latter was the strangest, given my normal fondness for eating.  I didn't lose my sense of taste.  Instead, everything I ate was followed by a foul aftertaste.  I could differentiate between beef, chicken and fish, for example, but it wasn't as enjoyable as it should've been.  I'm still dealing with a bit of that, and I hope that will end soon.  I have fifteen pounds to regain to get back to my overweight self.

In my adult life, I've dealt with Mononucleosis, two bouts of Pneumonia requiring hospitalization at least once, if not both times, and while still a smoker, numerous, almost annual bouts of influenza with bronchitis.  The last time prior to this happiness where I was sick at all, was about seven years ago.  At that time, I went to work each day but one, when I just couldn't drag myself in one more time.  I could barely talk enough to call in at call off, but managed to be understood.  With my schedule at the time, I had about four days to recover, which I did. 

In each of these situations, I can say with certainty that this malady was the least in terms of suffering.  That is to say, were I in need of the income I do not get when illness forces me to stay home, I could have gone to work and gotten the job done.  The coughing would've given me away if I couldn't suppress it.  Like that last illness seven years ago, I would have stayed the hell away from everyone the best I could.  Fortunately, I don't need the money so badly that I needed to put myself through it.  

Since this crap started in the final year of a most beneficial, productive and effective presidential term, we've been forced to pretend this virus is something far worse than it is.  In the earliest days, it was reasonable to treat the virus with great suspicion.  But it wasn't long before we learned the truth.  It wasn't long before we learned that Donald Trump made a most egregious error in calling upon the liar and self-promoter, Anthony Fauci, to head up his Covid task force.  So many should still be alive but for the the medical malpractice of Fauci, the CDC, the NIH and a host of other liars and crooks who've made billions on the deaths of fellow Americans.  Just the interference by these crooks as they denied live-saving therapeutics by which their profits would not increase caused so many to die needlessly.  In the meantime, these liars pretend it was vaccine-hesitancy which threatened the nation.

Basic understanding of herd immunity should have resulted in having all this behind us.  But the liars persisted in lying to the American people, demanding that the only way forward was to inject into the arms of all Americans drugs which not only do not perform as advertised, but actually cause great harm to so many, particularly the young.  They don't care.  They can't cut off all the profits being generated from forcing the nation to comply...or else.

So let's step back.  How did I get this?  It seems likely that I was infected by ten minutes with my brother-in-law.  There's no guarantee it was him.  It could have been 5 or 6 co-workers who all reported being sick about the same time I did.  With my bro, he tested positive and fears he passed it to me.  Unlike my bro, I was never vaxed.  That's right.  I may have been infected by a vaxed person.  HE certainly was!  His wife tested positive as well and she was fully vaxed!  While I was in the middle of this crap, my wife's boss tested positive.  HE was fully vaxed!  Of those 5 or 6 other co-workers, how many were vaxed?  I don't know.  I don't know who tested positive, but I know many co-workers were vaxed. 

So many people forced to comply with company mandates, compelled by the stupidity of Joe Biden who has been defeated in the courts with regard to his mandates.  My daughter was forced to get jabbed or risk her job.  For what?  She worked remotely because of this crap, and they had 70% voluntary compliance already.  30% were no threat to those who allegedly were now protected by their having been jabbed...except they aren't protected at all.  They're far more likely to be spreaders than the non-vaxed, especially those like me who survived the virus!  

That's the most egregious and sad aspect of this crap.  So many in positions of power, be they corporate presidents, political reps or governors or mayors, so many showed they have no balls to stand up to this fascism.  So many who have the resources chose not to do their own due diligence, but instead chose to line up like sheep and follow along.  So many people lost their jobs, their businesses their lives because moral morons dared to condescend and so many willingly allowed themselves to be pushed through the gate toward the shearing.  

There are so many ways to count how we've been lied to by the Fauci types, the Biden types and the Democratic party, and how many who should know better went along.  So many who let us down and continue to do so.

Now I come to the big question:  Am I "anti-vax"?  Well, I'm not pro or anti when it comes to actual vaccines.  There are reasons why rational people are hesitant to inject their small children with so many drugs at one time that have nothing to do with each individual drug as opposed to the forced inoculations of so many at one time.  But at least the vast majority of real vaccines are actual vaccines.  They are drugs formulated with bits of the actual virus to do what natural exposure does within the human body.  These mRNA "vaccines" are not vaccines at all and don't act like vaccines.  They aren't safety tested as actual vaccines have been.  I am opposed to them wholeheartedly, except for those elderly and immune-compromised who have nothing to lose by giving them a try.  Indeed, rushing them to market was for their sakes, not for the mass injection into the arms of all Americans.   But Fauci needs his cash.  Big Pharma needs their cash.  The CDC, FDA and Big Pharma all need to get theirs and to hell with the lives of Americans.  So yeah, I'm "anti-Covid-'vax'".

I'm gonna leave it there.  I've only scraped the surface of all which disgusts me regarding this issue, and the growing contempt I have for those I know who have bought in and for the harm they risk in doing so.  I can't stand it.  I'm so glad I got sick.  I'm so glad I never got the jab. 

Enemy Action VI

With some time on my hands these days, I binged the three part series "Patriot Purge" on FoxNation. This is the series which led to Jonah Goldberg and Stephen F. Hayes to take their leave from FoxNews, pretty much on the basis of the trailer for the series.  They are now, no doubt, among conservatives the low intellect Dan Trabue regards as "rational" conservatives.  I haven't read too much of their arguments against the series, but what I have read was short on evidence, long on assertion.  But then, these two were NeverTrumpers from the beginning, so they're not obliged to prove a thing which might benefit Trump or his supporters.  This is what's become of journalism in today's America, even among some on the right.  To hate on an unsophisticated carnival barker because he's a carnival barker while totally ignoring all the good which he accomplished.  They're opinions can no longer be taken seriously by thoughtful people...that is, conservatives and true people of faith.

But this isn't about Goldberg and Hayes.  It's about the corrupt, leftist media, about whom the low intellect Dan Trabue fancies as heroic.  But throughout the series, clips of the lies told, supported and enabled by the usual suspects of malcontents and morons belie any defense of these people.  One of the most egregious examples, of course, is with regards the death of Brian Sicknick.  Over and over they tried to tie his death to violent actions of Trump supporters, while never engaging in actual journalism to determine what actually happened.  The leftist media shills simply carried on until the facts, uncovered by far better people on the right, made it impossible to continue with that vile narrative.  I don't think any of those asshats even leave their offices, relying on what floats across their smart phones. 

Equally vile is their portrayal of Ashli Babbitt.  They nod in sympathetic agreement with her murderer who claimed his actions...after which he ran away like a bitch, a serious breech in police procedure in every other department but this one, evidently..."saved countless lives".  You can hear people yelling about Michael Byrd pointing his weapon, but nothing indicates Byrd warned anyone of anything.  Why did the leftists in media not uncover this?  Why didn't they do anything?

But that's not enough.  Rosanne Boyland is said to have succumbed to injuries sustained at the hands of Capitol police in a tunnel of the Capitol.  The left reports that she simply "collapsed".  Some reports suggest drug intoxication.  But witnesses insist she was beaten and then they were when they went to render aid to her.  So which is it?  Why are there multiple stories regarding her demise.  Smart money is to protect the narrative of Trump supporters being like the hundreds of thousands of leftist assholes who burned and looted and destroyed cities all across America on behalf of multiple false tales of innocent black dudes harmed by police for absolutely no reason whatsoever.  

I highly recommend "Patriot Purge", as well as many other shows the FoxNation streaming service offers.  Some of the documentaries leave a little to be desired, but I think that's because what they can prove doesn't take up as much space.  But this series is a good one.  It's an example of what reporting is supposed to look like...something FoxNews viewers have long understood.

Enemy Action V

 News of Kyle Rittenhouse being found not guilty on all charges brought against him should have been reason for widespread, unanimous celebration.  To absolutely every sane, honest person of any persuasion paying attention to the case, there was absolute, unequivocal video evidence supporting his plea of self-defense as true, and absolutely nothing whatsoever to contradict that fact.  Justice prevailed.  An innocent was vindicated.  

But from the very beginning of this trial....actually before the events which led to it....the leftist media proved once again, and continuously, the fact they are the enemy of the people.  President Depends expects rational people to believe it's "white supremacy", but really that's nothing compared to the threat to America the leftist press has proven themselves to be.

From the arrest and shooting of thug Jacob Blake, to the aftermath of this trial, the lefty media has lied repeatedly.  Even within the last week or so...and it could've been just yesterday (I didn't mark when it occurred)...it was reported by a lefty outlet, I believe ABC News, that the "protests" in Kenosha (that was a lie, as it was rioting, not peaceful protests) were over the "killing" of Blake.  How does a news outlet get that wrong?

On Tucker Carlson's show, he had two guests who were covering the "protests" (again, a lie as they were riots) from the jump and they attest to the carnage which ensued almost immediately.  Yet the lefty media routinely tried to pretend the violence was secondary to "peaceful" protesting of a vile and overt lie regarding the Blake situation being another case of a black man being a victim of racism, which the media also falsely affirmed as true.

Throughout the trial of Rittenhouse, the media continued to portray him as violent, a racist, a militiaman, illegally possessing a weapon brought across state lines.  All lies intentionally told.  I say "intentionally" because their job is to get the facts straight, and they choose to push the lefty narrative on any story by which such a push favors and benefits the leftist cause...which is harmful to our nation to a very dangerous degree.  The division it stokes alone cannot continue unabated without disastrous consequences for all...even for other leftists.

Now that the trial is over, and their target has been proven innocent, this same group of lying bastards are trying to pretend it will provoke vigilante-ism and black people will be at greater risk because "white supremacists" will be enabled.  More gun control is advocated while bail reform is as well, demonstrating just how stupid these morons are, as well.  

Here's an interesting note:  Glenn Greenwald lives in Brazil.  He states the three largest news outlets reported on this case...just in the last week or so...that the criminal assholes trying to kill Rittenhouse before the kid shot them were black men!  What's more, he attests that other European outlets were reporting the same thing.  Thus, not only is our leftist media lying to people here, but they are the American outlets from which foreign news outlets get their info!!  THEY'RE LYING TO THE WORLD!!!  They're enemies of people world wide!!!!

Of course they aren't the only lefties lying about this case and promoting false presumption.  We hear the same lies, threats and nonsensical concerns from Democrat politicians from the president on down, as well as by the moron lefty actors and athletes.  Haven't any of these idiots actually followed this case?

That's not all the enemies of the people have been saying.  I've seen a collection of reports wherein their "journalists" have been promoting the notion that inflation is a good thing.  All in all, they promote the stupidity of Biden's economic policies as that which will bring about rainbows and candy for all.  At what point do these America haters actually investigate anything?  Where's the concern for truth?  

We need a free press.  We don't need a press which abuses that freedom to purposely lie to the American people.  Those who defend the lefty news outlets are every bit aiding and abetting their criminal behavior because they believe the lies themselves and demand others do as well.  They must be mocked for the liars and morons they truly are for the sake of the good people who will suffer should their moronic lying hurt more people. 

Rittenhouse Case Exposes The Left Even Further

Like all normal, honest Americans concerned with actual Constitutionally protected rights, I was pleased as punch to see Kyle Rittenhouse exonerated of the woefully false charges against him which threatened his freedom for nothing.  There was so much video evidence of what happened that night to render the charges against him laughable lies.  I still don't understand what compelled the prosecutors to even bring the charges against him, and then to compound that stupidity by that crap sandwich of a strategy, fraught with all manner of legal blunders.  I have to wonder if these guys ever actually convicted an actual criminal given their clownish attempts to railroad this clearly innocent kid.  Indeed, if I was actually arrested for actually having committed a crime, I would certainly hope I'd be prosecuted by the likes of these bozos.  I'd really like my chances for acquittal. 

But aside from having two morons fail to find a way to unjustly frame the kid, this trial exposed so much which is frightening about our nation.  

First, KR was indicted for actions which took place during a riot by defenders of a true punk...a criminal...who was justly shot by cops attempting to arrest him.  Jacob Blake is but one more thug true assholes wish to portray as a victim of racism.  And once again, it seems quite clear to me that if one wishes to make a case of innocent people being killed by racists...cops or otherwise...it would behoove one to find a victim who is not a criminal shot and/or killed while doing criminal things.  BLM would have a far better chance of hoodwinking intelligent people if they didn't constantly riot over such people who invited their own suffering by their criminality.  Let's review:

Travon Martin---the impetus for BLM, shot by a neighborhood watch captain he was trying to beat to a pulp.  Here's a kid who would have had a more solid police rap sheet if not for a foolish policy which allowed him to avoid consequences of his punk level criminality.  An impotent president defended this joker.

Michael Brown---the Ferguson dude who robbed a convenience store and thought assaulting a cop was a good idea.  His death due to being an asshole provoked other assholes to riot.

Eric Brown---another low level punk who died resisting arrest.  The punchline here is this moron was resisting arrest for a really stupid misdemeanor.

Rayshard Brooks---died for resisting officers who woke him from his drunken stupor in a Wendy's drive-through lane.  

George Floyd---another with a criminal history who died while in police custody because he was high as a kite with drugs which caused him to behave in an erratic manner forcing the cops to restrain him.

All of the above are examples of people who provoked protests over racism and police brutality, though their fates where the result of their own actions...not those of cops or citizens like George Zimmerman.   With the KR case, we see the same thing.  Three people shot, with two of them dying as a result, because of their actions, not anything the kid had done.  They attacked him.  Rittenhouse didn't attack them.  AND, all three had some degree of criminal behavior in their background.

And just like those listed above, these three chuckleheads have been defended as victims by the leftist media, morons in the entertainment world and various leftist politicians including our current Flatulence-In-Chief.  Just like the cops and Zimmerman in the cases above, the kid has been vilified by all the leftists defending the criminals.  

The left has always been quick to defend the wicked, but this is really getting out of hand.  All of these people are criminals and none of them were shot unjustly.  NONE OF THEM.  (And we can add Ahmaud Arbery, who despite not having as clear video evidence as in the Rittenhouse case, died while assaulting a guy with a gun...a gun he has the right to have and carry openly in his state.)

The Rittenhouse case could not be a more clear example of the moral bankruptcy of the left.  This kid is a freakin' Boy Scout.  Those he shot were the exact opposite.  To hear media people and entertainers smear this kid's character and weep over the deaths of the assholes he shot and killed while defending his life against their attacks is an indictment of just how far gone one half of this country is.  They've been doing it since at least the Trayvon Martin incident.  

I don't know what it will take to get these people to see the light.  They are the reason we're a divided nation.  They wish America to be a place that cannot survive because what they believe has no basis in truth, fact or reason.  It's shocking and disgusting to see how the left responds to these incidents, but there's no understanding it.  It's a level of insanity that couldn't be imagined even fifty years ago.  No one would have thought we'd come to this.  

Here in the blogosphere, we've debated these differences and have gotten nowhere, as the leftist continues to pretend those who abide long-held notions of values and character are somehow now to be regarded...in their fevered imaginings...as bigots, haters, and other nonsense.  Yet, they are the defenders of perversions, immoralities and criminal behaviors.  Perhaps the world truly is in the End Times. 

Dark Clouds Hovering

I've been hearing protestors are so loud they can be heard within the courthouse.  They intend to intimidate the jurors into finding an innocent kid guilty as if doing otherwise is some indication of "white privilege" or whatever crap these lefty race-hustlers are excreting now.  Why they've been allowed to congregate so closely to an official building, which after Jan 6 I'm given to believe is some sort of mortal sin, in order to engage in such intimidation is beyond my understanding.  It's not like Rittenhouse was beating a dude's head against the sidewalk for daring to watch over his community.  It's not like Rittenhouse was resisting arrest while high as a kite.  It's not like Rittenhouse struggled with a cop after strong-arming a convenience store worker.  It's not like Rittenhouse was struggling with cops after being confronted again for illegal cigarette sales.  It's not like Rittenhouse was resisting arrest for assaulting a woman and then going for a knife.  It's not like Rittenhouse was awakened while in a drunken stupor in a Wendy's drive-through lane and then resisted arrest.  No.  It's not like any of these situations where a low-life thug was shot or killed while cops were doing their sworn duty.  This kid was chased by rioting assholes, his life was threatened by them and he defended himself as is his God-given right.  

Now the media Dan defends pretends it would be different if he was a black kid, as if a black kid caught on film running for his life before defending against life-threatening attacks with lethal force would be treated any differently.  These morons seem to think everyone is a lefty.  

I'm for law enforcement and the National Guard repelling any rioters with whatever means their behavior provokes...from water cannons to rubber bullets to live ammunition if necessary.  No fires started, no buildings or other property damaged or stolen, no citizens assaulted.  If they can't truly "protest" PEACEFULLY whatever the hell they think is worthy of "protesting", then whatever results is self-inflicted.  And good riddance!

I hope the jury stands tall against threats made against them.  This is what the world has become...where good people must confront true evil even at the risk to their own persons simply for doing what circumstances require.  I'd hate to be in that position, but I hope I would have the stones to do what's necessary for the sake of law, order and the good of my community and/or nation.  

But this is what leftism has wrought.  They speak of "progressivism" but the reality is they are among the most backward, primitive and carnal people around.  Nothing at all "progressive" about a damned thing they do or hope to do.   They corrupt and despoil everything they touch and the result is MORE racism, MORE suffering, and MORE cultural decay...all from and because of them.  The left is fast becoming the very people God washed away with the Great Flood.  The rest of us must steal ourselves for what lies ahead if nothing is done to stop them.

Dan's Questions Answered In Full

 What follows are responses to questions Dan asked me in the comments section of his Nov 3 offering.  It's rather lengthy, but as he deletes all my comments these days because he hasn't the stones to actually deal with them, I decided to copy and paste them here before I post them there, where he'll no doubt delete them rather than rebut or debunk any of it like a man.  It refers to Jesus saying to the rich young man, an episode appearing in three of the Gospels, there is no one good but God.   It's pretty straightforward and therefore troubling to Dan, who can't seem to provide an alternative explanation for what Jesus meant, because Dan wants to believe he's good (despite his lying, heresies and support for immoral behaviors) and that he knows "good" people so therefore Jesus was wrong or something.  None of has anything to do with the post to which it's attached, but Dan digresses when he thinks he can score points doing so.  Anyway...

 

"Are you even reading what we're writing?"

Yes.  Question 1 answered.

"JESUS refers to people as GOOD."

Not in any of the verses you listed.  That's what I was asking you to provide.

"He commands people to DO GOOD."

Not the same as being good.  It's a goal to which we're to aspire and strive.

"CLEARLY, Jesus believed in Good people."

Even MORE CLEARLY, Jesus said there is no one good but God.  Why, one can actually find a verse where He says just that!

"BEYOND THAT, we can look around us and  see Good people."

BEYOND THAT, we can look around us and see people WE pronounce as "good" people.  We've already covered that.  Still looking for Jesus referring to some specific person as "good".  You don't seem to have such a verse to present.

""Marshal... "Here again, you're doing no more than speaking of how we refer to each other relative to others.  Christ isn't doing that."

"SAYS WHO?"

Says me, based on the fact that it's exactly what you're doing.   

"I GET that YOU PERSONALLY, in your mind, when YOU read  this, YOU INTERPRET this to be Jesus is literally saying that ONLY GOD is Good in ANY WAY and that any people are NOT GOOD."

I'm not "interpreting".  I'm repeating what Scripture records Jesus as having said, which is that there is no one "good" but God.  But your addition to my words "in ANY WAY" seems very much like your lie about Lev 12:22.   

"YOUR are choosing to interpret it woodenly literally, even while you don't do the same for "poor" and other words."

I have the same sound and accurate understanding of this verse as I do every verse in which the word "poor" appears.  Can't say the same for you. 

"You don't gouge out your eyes as Jesus literally commanded." 

Now you're just lying again, because Jesus didn't tell anyone to gouge out their eyes.  EVER!  He merely said it would be better one did rather than sin through them and suffer eternal punishment or hell (whichever was the case in the passage where He mentioned eye-gouging).  Didn't you say you seriously and prayerfully studied Scripture?

"You don't take ALL words literally, but you are CHOOSING to interpret this one literally and literally is the ONLY way YOU personally are guessing is appropriate to interpret it."  

I never said I take ALL words literally.  That's what you want to believe I do.  I said I take Scripture  literally, or the teachings therein.  And again, I'm not "interpreting" this verse.  I'm repeating it.  There's no guess work involved or necessary because it's so crystal clear.  Perhaps it's your guilt over not being a good person that is the problem with your objection.  That I can understand.  None of us are.  It's just that some of us try to be, and you're a heretic.

"But just because YOU PERSONALLY think it doesn't mean that it doesn't mean that no one else's opinions are invalidated by your random, whimsical hunches."

"Whimsical hunches."  That funny as well as pathetically desperate.  My opinions are spot on until someone can persuade me otherwise.  That takes evidence.  Got any?

"Now, I'm done giving you grace."

OK, that's even funnier!  You delete my comments.  Where's the grace in that?  "I'm done giving you grace."  That's a stitch.

"Do you know any good people?"<i>

I know many people I refer to as "good".  Question 2 answered.

"I'm asking you do you know any good people as good is defined in the English language?  Answer the damn question."

I just did. Question 2 asked again and answered again.

"Define Good as you are using it. Give a definition."

That's a demand, not a question.  The issue isn't how I define the word.  The issue is that there is no one good but God, according to Jesus...someone you pretend to follow.

"Does that mean that others who aren't perfectly good can't possibly still be good?"

Compared to some, yes.  But it's only a reference...a means to describe someone's character.  I wouldn't use it to describe you, specifically, but I know plenty of people about whom I would use the word because they're better than most people.  But I believe what Christ says because...well...He's the Son of God.  I want Him to like me.

Question 3 answered.

"And if so, based on what?"

Actually, I'm sure I made this clear several times now, but what the hell...based on comparisons to other people and my understanding of what constitutes a good person generally speaking, though there is really no one good but God.

Question 4 answered.
 
"Your say so?"

Given you're asking me my opinion of people I know, yes.

Question 5 answered.

"Jesus regularly refers to good people..."<i>
Not that you've demonstrated.

"or humans doing good."

Doing good and being good are not the same.  Bad people can do good.  Indeed, given there is no one good but God, that clearly isn't the least bit uncommon.  He wants us to do good.  

"Do you think Jesus was speaking metaphorically in all those places?" 

No.  Question 6 answered.

"Which seems to suggest that any humans defining Good are only using their own made-up definitions.  Is that true for you, as well...or are you an exception?"

Doesn't suggest that in the least.  Everyone has there own ideas of who qualifies for the word.  Consider how many mothers of dead thugs cry about the thug being "a good boy".  And no, I'm not using a made up definition, but applying the actual definition to human beings, none of whom are actually good according to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ...who ought to know.  He is the Son of God, after all.  He's not totally dim.  Question 7 answered.  

"Jesus and other biblical writers referring to Good people or telling people to be good..."

The other biblical writers don't matter given the issue revolves around what Jesus said.  None of the verses you've provided satisfies the one question you're dodging...what did Jesus mean when He said there is no one good but God?  I gave you the only two possibilities (both of which I believe are true).  You think He was "messing" with the rich young man.  And now, you post a bunch of verses which do not provide an example of Him referring to any person as "good".  Fictional people referring to other fictional people as "good and faithful servant" is a specific person Christ Himself is referencing as "good".  Encouraging people to be good, isn't the same as saying anyone is good.  Speaking of how a good person behaves  (should behave, actually) isn't the same as saying some specific person is good.  

"(So, you're saying that God's a liar, Marshal. Got it.)(Or are you saying a man can be "BLAMELESS AND UPRIGHT" but still not Good??!)(The utter arrogance!)"

What's with all the parentheses?  It's not arrogance to speak the truth.  It's arrogance to say a sin isn't a sin, which is what you do.  Here, blameless and upright doesn't mean the same as not being a sinner or one with a sin nature, which a good person can't have.  

Question 8 answered.

Also, there's this: 

Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.  Romans 5:7

This suggests a difference between righteousness and goodness, and thus, one can't be quick to regard "blameless and upright" as the same as "good"...especially since Jesus said there is no one good but God.  

"... and of course, I could go on and on."

Please don't...unless you actually have a verse that will prove your point.  If you do, why didn't you lead with it?  

"Now, about people doing good things, Marshal says, "Encouraging folks to be good or holy doesn't mean they are."

That is what MARSHAL thinks. But Jesus rebukes Marshal's foolishness, saying...

"A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him"

So, who should we believe? Jesus or Marshal?

Marshal or our own eyes?"

Those last three are actually the same question, so I'm going to take the chance of calling them all Question 9 as I answer it now:

Jesus' words there doesn't rebuke me and thus, in this case Himself when He said there is no one good but God.  Once again, He is speaking of what a good man should or does do, not that there is a good man.  That is, if you want to be a good man, there first must be good stored up in you (as opposed to lies, heresies and support for immoral behaviors) in order to be able to bring out good things.

So Dan, you've totally failed yet again, pretending to have a different explanation for the especially clear and direct statement of Christ's, while not providing it at all, and then trying to pretend He meant something different by providing 13 verses which don't do what you said they do (and yet can go on and on).  

Jesus said there is no one good but God.  I know you believe yourself to be on par with God.  You often expect Him to subordinate His will to your liking.  But I choose to believe Jesus because I want Him to like me.  You want Him to change enough for you to like Him.  Good luck with that.

Rambling Musings

 In a recent post, our favorite Louisville leftist moron attacks the character of North Carolina Lt. Governor Mark Robinson for comments he made at a church on the subject of perversion forced upon the school kids of his state (and by extension, the nation).  He called it filth.  He did so because what he was referencing is filth.  Robinson provides a few snippets of the filth in this video response: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7rMmQgBZIQ

Throughout the subsequent comments, Dan tries hard to defend the filth by joining in the unjust attacks on Robinson and the lies that he was attacking members of the LGBT community...those Dan loves referring to as "historically oppressed".  This stands as one of the first problems...lies, really...Dan piles up in his comments, not to mention the post itself.  

The LGBT community and their enablers...of which Dan is one of the latter and possibly the former given his out and proud support...love to demonize anyone who dares object to absolutely anything even remotely related to their agenda.  If you question a homosexual's necktie, then by golly, you're a hater and an oppressor with no regard for the "historically oppressed".  Of course, the reality is that this is untrue.  Just as one can enjoy the music of Elton John or the comedy of Ellen DeGeneres without advocating for their immoral and disordered desires and choices, it is also true that one can criticize those desires and choices without hating those people or wishing them harm.  Few conservatives do, though they seem to demand our hatred by their response to legitimate criticisms and objections.  Robinson was clearly attacking the practice of forcing their sexual habits upon kids in schools under the false guise of "sex education", which is a clinical instruction regarding the human reproductive system, not descriptions of homosexual...or even heterosexual...erotic sexual practices.  Again, check out the video for examples of what, for the activists and Dan Trabue, passes for "sex ed".  To insist they're deviants is being kind, to say nothing of accurate.

But that's not all we learn in the discussion.  At some point, Dan attacks conservatives as being somehow irrational fearful.  He cites a couple of lefty-leaning studies which ignore the nuances related to legitimate concerns regarding things like crime, terrorism, China and the like, while in the meantime, the left screams in terror at the thought of "climate change", "Covid-19" and "white supremacy".  Incredible.

Finally, as Dan hates that I refer to him as an intentional liar, he goes off in all sorts of panty wetting in protest of that which most anyone can see as a legit accusation.

Now, I know that some have suggested that calling him a liar is uncalled for if he truly believes the lies he tells.  But lies are lies, and when shown to be so, one is a liar for continually telling them.  This has been the legend of Dan Trabue, Liar Extraordinaire.   

So I asked a simple question to force him into choosing between truth and lie.  I reference "Caitlyn" Jenner and "Rachel" Levine and asked Dan if these two were men or women.  He said they were women, which is factually a lie and he knows this to be so.  He then whined about having answered directly, but he followed his "direct" answer with all manner of equivocation.  Then he chose to continue focusing on whether or not his answer was direct or not, while the most salient aspect of his answer is that it was an intentional lie.  

Of course, throughout this "discourse" he deleted my responses to his demands...as usual doing so despite my responses meeting his narrow and petulant criteria...and he again has proven himself childish and really not worth the time anymore.  More on that later.

One of his newest and most moronic practices is the constant references to "historically marginalized" people, and of course any criticism of them makes you an "oppressor".  This means if you criticize a low character woman like, say, Stormy Daniels for not only being true whore (one who trades sex for money) but also a slut (in this case, according to her, having sex with a man she knows is married), you are guilty of misogyny.  If you criticize LGBT activists who get schools to use pornographic comic books to teach kids to accept perversion, you're "homophobic".  Whores and homosexuals, you see, are "historically oppressed/marginalized" people.  

But if we look at more obviously oppressed people, say Jews, for example, and speak against them for their irrational support of the anti-Semitic Democratic Party, are you then a Jew-hater?  By Dan's way of thinking, that would be a "yes".

It's, of course, a lie.  Another of which Dan tells intentionally.  To criticize is not to hate, even if hate actually exists behind the critique...which we see when criticism comes from the left.  From most conservatives, hate of the practice, lie or policy is the point, not hate of the person...despite how it seems they really, really want us to hate them..."them" being the left, whose practices, lies and policies rational people do hate.  

A final point is this notion that somehow my descendants will look upon me as some kind of bigot for my Christian beliefs about LGBT people, black people, or whatever else Dan stupidly needs to believe I have wrong in order for him to be right.  If that would happen, then my descendants are just as stupid as Dan, fully given over to idiocy, lies and evil.  I would hate it if that is how my descendants turn out.  So far, it doesn't seem like it'll happen, but one never knows.  When so many are unwilling to step up and do the right thing as citizens of this country, allowing a moron to ascend to the presidency because the incumbent isn't perfect, doing next to nothing in between elections to compel proper behavior by our representatives...well...there's no telling how one's descendants will turn out.  There will come a time when I have no more ability to influence them and they'll be on their own.  I can only pray that God will be important to them in a real way which Dan only pretends is true of himself.  It will only be more difficult for them to do the right thing given the direction of the world right now, thanks to asshats like Dan.  

He's never been worth my time.  So many have written him off and denied him a forum at their blogs.  I won't say I won't continue posting comments at his.  My job is still one where I am left alone with little to do and no ability to do what I'd like (middle of the night when all are asleep and such), so commenting on line is something available to me, should there be a new post somewhere which interests me.  Dan provides because he's a moron always posting stupid crap.  But real "good faith" discourse...something of which he speaks but of which he isn't remotely capable...will only happen here and elsewhere.  Never at Dan's.  It's not how he rolls.  But he's a reflection of the worst of our kind, and seems proud to be so.  As such, he's a source for ideas and little else.

I Just Wish...

Somewhere around thirty years or so ago, I answered an ad for a singer in the Illinois Entertainer.  The band hired me straight off, I'm proud to say.  The drummer, Mike, is the best drummer I've ever seen.  Frankly, so was the lead guitar player, but this is about Mike.  

The band only lasted about a year...kinda typical for bands...but we had a couple gigs and considering the various bands I've fronted, this first was by far the best.  Mike was a big reason for that.  Not long after the band dissolved...kinda typical for bands...I hooked him up with my brother-in-law, and Mike was their drummer for a couple of decades at least, with periodic reassembling after they parted company.  

At one point, back toward the beginning, I got Mike hired where I worked at the time fixing typewriters (those are these things people used to use before computers).  Mike was a good worker.  Back then, getting high was routine...kinda typical for bands...and we'd get a buzz when certain tasks had us working together in the field.  When he was driving, he'd pull out a pair of drumsticks and hammer away at the dashboard at traffic lights (and sometimes while steering with his knee).  The dash was a mess, the vinyl having torn from the abuse.  Needless to say, drumming was always on his mind.

Mike had married his high school sweetheart, and they eventually had two girls. Then they eventually divorced.  Part that was Mike's musical interests, no doubt.  It could also be that Mike was always compulsive and impetuous with his spending.  He'd see, then buy.  I think he was probably always paying something off, as he always had new expensive stuff.  If it was not new drums, it was recording or sound equipment.  In the townhouse he and his second wife bought, the basement was decked out as a studio, where his various bands would play and record, and he'd make some extra bucks helping bands make demo tapes.  I had the pleasure about ten years ago of recording a couple of Christmas songs.  I had hoped many times to get back there to do more songs as well as a few with him, because he's a really good singer as well.

He had a third daughter with this second wife.  The girl was the apple of Mike's eye.  She took to the drums and continued to play as well.  He would often post videos of her in the studio.  She's really good.   

Last year was especially hard for Mike.  As a self-employed painter/decorator, Covid had really hurt his ability to earn.  Then, he suffered a brain aneurysm and needed surgery for that.  He had one helluva long scar across his hair line to remind him of it.  More recently, it was suggested he and the second wife were not getting on all that well, though I don't know that for sure. Then, his third daughter, now 14, revealed to him that she wishes to "transition" and become a boy.  I learned his oldest daughter had already done this.  

It's really a kick in the ass when you learn the hard way of just how despondent and distraught a close friend is.  About two hours ago, while I was still at work, my brother-in-law called me to tell me Mike had hung himself in his garage.  

Shit.

Hear These Black Voices!

 We're told we must listen to black voices.  With that admonition in mind, I wish to present two for your edification.  

The first is North Carolina Lt. Governor Mark Robinson.  This is a man who espouses conservative values on various issues, such as the 2nd Amendment.  Not long ago, when I first became aware of the man, I liked what I heard from him, but then read something that is less than ideal.  We normal people call that "human imperfection", but I don't recall what the problematic position, issue or opinion was, so I'll just leave it there, in order to acknowledge that I don't regard him as perfect and nothing more.  

Recently, Robinson has raised a stink among the deviant class for comments he made regarding the use of certain extremely vile and indoctrinating materials in N. Carolina schools, which seek to normalize the abnormal and perverse.  Oh, the outcry that went out among the activists and enablers of abomination!  He was accused of attacking the pure, noble and angelic homosexual and "transgender" population...those incredibly holy people who are nothing but a blessing to us lowly heterosexuals...especially us knuckle-dragging adherents of God's Will.  

Of course, the truth is that he did no such thing.  His position on these abhorrent masses is no different than any other conservative/conservative Christian, which is, while we acknowledge the disorder and immorality of their beliefs and behaviors, we allow they are still free Americans with the right to pursue their freedom, even if that freedom includes indulging in all manner of perversion and deviancy, which is what they're most interesting in protecting.  We normal people simply don't believe they are entitled to the special rights they've been granted.

But rather than once again going over that debate...a true good (conservative/Christian) versus evil (progressive/fake Christian and atheist) debate...I simply wish to focus on the crux of his opposition.  Robinson spoke out against the inclusion of homosexual/"transgender" filth in classrooms across his state (and of course, across our nation in general, ultimately).  It's bad enough that either of these disorders would be referred to as no different morally than normal human sexuality.  Indeed, that's filth all by itself.  But what Robinson was referencing was absolute porn exposed to school kids as "sex education".  The reality is that the materials are "how-to's" with regard to erotic sexual gratification, not clinical explanations for human procreation, which is the extent of what schools should dare provide to students of any age, from K-12.   What follows is a video he made to respond to the howling of the immoral assholes who dared pretend he was doing anything wrong by his opposition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7rMmQgBZIQ

Our very own defender of counter Christian practices, Dan Trabue, was offered this video at least once...I believe at least twice, actually...and deleted it without comment, without argument, because like the lying activists he cherishes and joins, he prefers to pretend Robinson was doing nothing less than attacking "historically oppressed" people.  Give me a break.  What "oppression" LGBT people have experienced is the result of their choice to indulge their disordered fantasies.  Their enablers and defenders wish to pretend their unholy practices and desires are somehow akin to skin color, sex or ethnicity.  But then, they're hellish liars in defense of their immoral desires.

The next person is one Jason Whitlock.  This man came to my attention really within about the last six to nine months.  Tucker Carlson has had him on numerous times, though I'm not exactly certain that's the only or first place where I saw Whitlock.  (Of course to the leftists morons, the mere fact that JW appeared on Tucker Carlson's show is enough to write him off as an Uncle Tom or worse.  That's how lefties roll, them having no integrity, honesty, class or intelligent argument of any kind on any subject.)  He's spoken on several different subjects, and unlike the "black voices" we're told by "progressives" are so important, Whitlock is not likely to spew the BLM level crapola Lousiville lunatics believe is beyond reproach.  

In any case, Las Vegas Raiders coach (now "former") Jon Gruden spoke badly of a black man in an email to a friend ten years ago.  Those and other emails were caught up in some kind of investigation about some company's dirty deeds of some sort, though they were simply personal emails.  (There's a lesson there...there's nothing "personal" on the internet anymore...if there ever truly was...and certainly not when posted while at work or from/to work related email addresses.)  There were other comments he made, calling someone a "faggot", expressing his displeasure at how Jeff Fisher, while a coach himself, was pressured to draft an open homosexual, despite the player being less than pro-material, and for some topless pics of a cheerleader (don't know where he got those).  But the main thrust of Whitlock's comments were in reference to Gruden's comments about a black dude.  The following contains his perspective on the incident, and particularly on a response by former wide receiver, Randy Moss:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaW59KDA3kY

What really struck me with Whitlock's response was how it mirrors what I've said numerous times in the past in relation to the use of pejoratives, including those of a "racial" nature, i.e., the hated "N" word (horror of horrors!).  Jason truly maintains the tried and true "sticks and stones" position which has been rejected in favor of socially destructive victimhood identity.  

Again, both these fine men are rather new to me.  Thus far, I'm impressed as hell with each of them.  They seem quite clearly to be the type of men of which we need far more in this nation, as opposed to the spineless, panty-wetting "girly men" of the left who have done so much harm to our culture.  Men.  Real men, and in the case of these two, two more "black voices" far more worth listening to than those the vile Dan Trabue prefers.  Indeed, they are black voices black men need to hear.   

Morons like Dan Trabue aren't interested in race, except to exploit it in the way lefties do.  They also do the same with the sexually disordered and immoral.  They can do know wrong which can be pointed out by conservatives, because the point is to defeat conservatives no matter what it takes to do so, and that includes pretending they're being hateful about people when expressing displeasure with behaviors.  That's because lies are important for achieving the "progressive" goal.  That goal evidently is the destruction of our culture.  These two black men aren't having any of it, and God bless them for it.

Note:  The Whitlock piece is from his show and is about 40-45 minutes, but he gets right into that which I reference right from the top.  I haven't listened beyond about 15 minutes of this particular episode. 

Our Butthead In Chief: Part The First

 I've really been wanting to get to this series about our Butthead-In-Chief.  The problem, though, is how many different angles one might take with such an endeavor.  It's a veritable cornucopia of bad.  A defender...assuming any actually exist...would be hard pressed to present any examples of good policy from this guy...or any in his administration.  

So where to begin?  I thought I would start from the beginning, as he immediately began signing all manner of executive orders after being sworn in.  A great deal of them...if not most of them...were simply reversing Trump policies, just because they were Trump policies.  Of those, I heard not one argument from him...or any of his people...regarding why the Trump policies he reversed should have been.  It's seems clear the only reason was that they were Trump policies and thus they must be bad.  The most galling aspect is how this putz acts like he knows they were bad, though he couldn't possibly articulate in just what way.  That's kind of his thing and always has been throughout his dismal career taking up space in the Senate.  He acts like he knows.  Like he's got it all figured out.  Like he's an old hand who has accomplished so much he can condescend to anyone.  I like how Clarence Thomas referred to Biden's act during his confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice.  Biden just babbled about "knowing" because they were both lawyers.  But Biden's a moron and Thomas was stunned that this buffoon was trying to pretend he was knowledgeable while saying nothing to which Thomas could actually respond in a manner which would humor the guy and not look just as stupid doing it.  

But I digress.

So where to begin?  There's so much, but one thing that totally chaps my ass is this use of the IRS to pry into our personal effects.  Biden's proposed legislation would allow the IRS to have more information on bank accounts with more than $600.  If this isn't a breach of the 4th Amendment, I don't know what is.  It's a constant fishing expedition which is akin to presuming guilt of everyone and anyone, looking for wrongdoing on the premise they wish to ensure payment by rich folk.  I would assume most rich folk have accounts a bit larger than $600.  In any case, it seems to me that this is something which should require a warrant after providing evidence of wrongdoing.  

When Trump was president...and really, it is pretty much the case with all Republican presidents...the left whines about authoritarianism and despotism.  But this current administration has proven it is not the least bit interested in American principles such as those laid out in our Constitution.  This is just one more example.  

But this is what comes from voting Democrat.  This is what comes for pretending an effective president isn't deserving of a second term because of tweets and irrelevant, insignificant character flaws which have no real effect on anything.  This is what comes from pretending one's conscience won't allow one to vote for Trump despite the obvious consequence of allowing this moron Biden to become president, as if God is cool with such a conscious decision in the face of such a wealth of evidence that there can be no good to come of it.  It's like allowing a fire to be set in an inhabited building because the firemen party and whore about and suggesting the result is in God's Hands.  Those who refused to vote for Trump have purposely allowed this travesty to wreak havoc on our nation.  This legislation is but one example.  There's so much more that I fear I'll fall behind in recording it all. 

Waiting On The World To Change

 The title of this blog post is taken from one of the worst songs of this century (yeah, I know, it's still early), written and performed by John Mayer back in 2006.  When I first heard it, I found it to be a nice tune.  Then I began listening to the lyrics.  Doing so revealed what crap it is.  I don't know if it reflects Mayer's position or if he's commenting on how others feel.  But the message is crap and shameful.

There have been a number of times when I spoke about the notion that one's refusal to vote for Trump has been no better than complicity in the many sundry consequences we've suffered as a nation since the election was stolen back in November 2020.  To say one's intentions were good, or that one's conscience compelled that decision and thus absolves one from that complicity is an incredibly weak defense.  While God may be satisfied, despite the obvious truth, so plain to see and predict, of harmful result...with only the degree to which that would occur being the only question...the fact remained that harm would indeed befall us and those who denied the one man...flawed as he is...who stood in the way of those dire consequences and would have likely continued improvements for another four years are indeed culpable. 

My repeating that truth is not truly relevant to this post, but I intend to repeat it often and so I did.  The point of this post is the strange position I've seen expressed by two dudes from my FB friends list, who each were bloggers themselves and thus how I came to know of them in the first place.  I like them both, without any doubt.  I find both to be smart, insightful and politically and religiously conservative.  But of course that doesn't mean we're identical and on the subject I'm about to relate, we are in total disagreement. 

With the reality of last November's election and the many examples of fraud and irregularity which are only in doubt by the left, who's only concern was denying Trump a second term and the nation its liberty and rights, and for whom truth and honesty is never sacrosanct, many good people in America are expressing various degrees of disillusionment, disappointment and distress over what it means to our future and that of our progeny.  The integrity of our electoral system is justly regarded as non-existent now by so many.  Again, that's a justified opinion given what transpired during the last presidential campaign.  It's really hard to pretend otherwise.  But my position is that voting is still essential for a free people.  It's an obligation for a government of the people regardless of the many ways leftist forces will seek to rob us of a legitimate outcome...as is their history in this country.  

The sad decision by these two men...and I don't believe they're all that unique...is that because of the criminality of those who so clearly cheated in so many ways...the AZ audit has provided a nice list of findings of "irregularities"...is to refuse to participate in the process of voting.  One of them expressed words to the effect of "until things change", he would not vote for president again (perhaps vote at all, but for president absolutely).  The other fellow pretty much echoes the worthlessness of making the effort given how little has been done to deal with the cheating.

Of course, as I indicated, Arizona's audit is a good step, as it identified a variety of problems uncovered by an analysis of the Maricopa County results.  It would be foolish to presume that county is some kind of outlier, especially since we already know of one or two states who exploited the Covid-19 pandemic to ignore federal and state constitutions to alter election law, which made cheating easier and with that, the elevation of one of the stupidest men in American politics (which is saying something).  

But what of ourselves?  I've argued more than once that voting is the least of our obligations under our form of "government of/by/for the people".  Indeed, some do no more, casting a vote because of a preference for a party they cannot truly defend...either the party or the preference for it.  But even if we are actually paying attention and vetting candidates to the best of our ability, once the vote is cast and we're dealing with whomever had won, our job isn't finished until another two years goes by...assuming voting in the midterms is something one does.  No.  We're supposed to be far more involved than that!

We're seeing examples.  Many school boards are feeling the heat from parents over two particular travesties imposed upon their kids:  masking and other Covid-related nonsense, and the imposition of the falsehoods of Critical Race Theory and/or the 1619 Project.  But, you see, had those parents been more involved with their local school boards, how many districts would be run by moronic leftists harming our kids with their soulless, immoral agendas?  Depends on the character of the parents, no doubt, but at least these two policies would likely never have been imposed.

And that's what's missing on the federal level.  I won't argue against how badly the character of state and federal government has degraded.  I will argue that we the people could have done more to mitigate it, and we now, more than ever, need to step up like actual adults and do whatever we can to force the change which is necessary to stem the tide of stupidity which threatens us all.  Yeah, pray often.  But don't think "it's in God's Hands", when we're meant to do His Will, which means WE are His hands!  If we are truly concerned with His Will being done on earth, we must do His Will, and that doesn't mean doing nothing on a political level. 

We have busy lives.  We have a myriad of concerns monopolizing our attention in the day to day.  But to leave in the hands of politicians our lives...THAT is what we're truly doing when we do nothing but decide whether or not to vote.  It can't be helped as that is what voting is in this country:  Finding the best people to represent and/or lead us, but doing so on the basis of what WE believe is right and just.  And in doing so, we are not merely leaving things in God's Hands, but in theirs as well.  If we continue putting things into the hands of fools, God will likely allow us the consequences of that choice.  And the world upon which we await change will reflect that sorry abdication...as it is doing right now. 

Trump's Biggest Flaw Is...

 ...that he's Trump.  Trump being Trump made it easy for the low intellect lefties to rip on him without acknowledging the many great things he did for the country while still in office.  Being Trump wasn't the negative they need to believe it was, but it was and remains just so hard to truly criticize is work that criticizing the man was the low hanging fruit they needed.  Hell, it wasn't "low hanging".  It was just laying there on the ground!  

No doubt, if Mike Pence had been president and had done all the same things Trump did in that capacity, the loony left would have had a much tougher go of it.  Sure, they'd find something that didn't matter and blow it up.  That's how they roll.  But it would've been much harder to pretend he was the worst, as they falsely pretended was true of Trump. 

Thus far, the best Biden's been able to do are those things Trump implemented which Biden either didn't eliminate or returned to...like the remain in Mexico policy.  Yet, lefties actually expect people to believe he's improving things!  

The left.  Do they ever stop toking?

Our Butthead In Chief: A Series Begins

 It's just about seven and a half months (as I type this) since Joe Biden was installed as president and took the oath of office.  And my, what a difficult time I'm having with this already, as a term I first typed to describe the horror that is his administration is not family friendly.  I will struggle to keep it clean.  

I've been thinking about this post for a while, since before the most recent debacle in Afghanistan which is all his doing alone.  There was quite a bit about which one could write and justifiably criticize, there being so little to praise that such a posting would be about as long as this post is at this point.  It would probably be about his suits or something along that line because I've seen nothing he's done as president that justifies a single vote he received, even if all that was said about Trump was actually true but far worse.  In short, Biden is...well, there again I was about to type a word on the level of profanity which Dan and his troll so easily drop at the blog's of others.  So I'll just leave it as "the worst", as in Biden is thus far in his brief seven and a half months, the absolute worst president in American history, a title he'll surely hold so long as to put Frances Keddie to shame.  

But how to go about it?  There's so many angles and issues which easily and unmistakably illustrate his incompetence, and I don't even have to mention his inability to climb a flight of stairs.  I'm being flippant about a serious topic, certainly, so I'll start with a few foolish arguments given for casting a vote for him and see how long it goes.  This seven months of stupidity can easily fill a book.

1.  He's a moron.  By that I mean his mental competence is more than a little questionable.  When Trump was still early in his term, "experts" weighed in with long-distance psychological diagnoses.  Where are those chuckleheads now?  This dude is either senile or acting like he is, which makes him a liar...which we know he is.  His pronouncements are unreasonable and irrational.  During his campaign for the job, he insulted multiple citizens who asked questions of him and tried to hold his feet to the fire.  Since he got the job, he's continued to act irrationally with reporters and recently insulted millions who remain un-"vaccinated" for reasons he's too stupid to know or understand.

It's weird...one dude says he's reasonable while also insisting he'll need to be pushed to see reason and indeed can be pushed to see reason.  Seems to me a worthy candidate is one who doesn't need any pushing to see reason.  I don't get that incongruity. 

2.  He picked another moron as vice-president.  Kamala Harris was just another box checked, which is the manner in which Biden appointed just about everyone in his cabinet (a great joke on Facebook was "I've seen smarter cabinets at Ikea!").  But her record as California attorney general was horrific.  Because of her, a cop killer didn't get the death penalty.  Because of her, wrongfully convicted people were denied justice.  Because of her, police misconduct went unpunished.  Because of her, bills put forth by the Legislative Black Caucus to mandate body cameras on cops were declined.  I seem to remember people up in arms about police misconduct and here was a top cop who enabled it.  Biden appointed this piece of waste to be his vice.  But then, he appointed a host of incompetents or re-hired those who worked for his former boss, the stumble-bum Obama.  

3.  Biden is clearly a low character dude.  His lies are legendary and to the list are added a number of lies he told regarding his Afghan debacle.  My personal favorite is his attempt to get the Afghani president to lie along with him.  Like every Democrat, he promotes, defends and enables all the social goals of depravity and immorality.  Like every Dem who pretends to be Roman Catholic, he pretends he personally opposes abortion, but won't impose his (*snicker*) "religious beliefs" upon the nation.  What a pip!  He has the bully pulpit and can't encourage loose women to have their babies?  Yeah.  He's a "decent human being".  I find it the height of egregious arrogance for a lefty to speak of human decency yet still vote Democrat.  What a joke.  

4.  Biden is among those morons who believe climate change is an "existential threat".  He "listens to experts".  Yeah.  He does as well about Covid.  The problem is, being a moron, he listens to the wrong "experts".  He listens to those who are down with the leftist cause which requires perverting science to garner support for their vile agenda.  Climate change is a money grab.  It's a sham.  Not that the climate doesn't change, but that there's anything mankind can do of any significance, even if Biden manages to get his Chinese masters to get on board.  Like that's gonna ever happen! 

Whenever a lefty mentions "experts", it means you have to shut up.  It doesn't mean the "experts" referenced are worth a damn or are somehow the best source of info on whatever policy is being shoved down the throats of Americans.  It means they're chumps referencing liars or buffoons.  Biden is one of those chumps, and worse than that, he repeats what he's told as if he knows what he's talking about, in that tone that implies you're the moron.  You're not as smart as he thought you were if you don't agree with him despite him allegedly not being into childish name calling. 

A perfect example of a buffoonish "expert" is Anthony Fauci.  Among Trump's small list of missteps (in only seven months, Biden's tally far exceeds four years of Trump's), hiring Fauci is one of the most miserable.  This is a guy whose lousy track record of performance and "expertise" goes back to the AIDS crisis.  His flip-flopping...written off as natural alterations based on "the science" evolving or being discovered...would be understandable if it didn't happen with such regularity and seemingly based on convenience and whatever pushes whatever the hell their agenda is...which isn't public health.  

But Biden's "experts"...indeed the "experts" often cited by the left, regardless of who leads them at the time...are, as I said, more about moving the agenda forward rather than providing information gleaned from objective, fact-seeking research.  In almost every case (being generous here) their "experts" are not only contradicted by other experts, they're most often made to look foolish when their pronouncements are proven wrong.  The issue of ivermectin, HCQ and other safe drugs to mitigate the effects of Covid-19 is but one example.  Ivermectin alone has many solid studies and examples of actual successes to the degree that the Emergency Use Authorization for the the various "vaccines" should have been rescinded.  Many of those who died could have been saved had the "experts" listened to front line medical people successfully using these other drugs.  The "experts" would not profit.  I wonder if "the Big Guy" gets a cut.

5.  Biden's spending plans are already costing us plenty.  Inflation is a foregone conclusion now and will only worsen if his plans are fully implemented.  We have only Joe Manchin and maybe Kirsten Sinema to prevent that, if they can withstand party pressure.  Lefties like to pretend the Dems do a better job with the economy.  That's rank stupidity.   The numbers don't back that nonsense in the least.  Our only hope is the midterms, where if we can flip the House at least, we can prevent a great deal of Biden's economic destruction if it isn't implemented before we get there.  Again, we need Manchin to hold tight.  It wouldn't hurt of one or two other Dems in the Senate to wake the hell up.  

6.  Another of Biden's incredibly moronic policies...one that sends a tingle up the thighs of low intelligence progressives...is the practice of appointing cabinet members by race, sex or sexual proclivities.  This pandering push to make the administration "look like America" is a destructive one.  The party has long been comprised of factions, which is different than the GOP being comprised of those of every group.  The distinction here is the pandering to the factions.  Each identity group is represented.  What isn't represented is true expertise.  To hire a black dude, for example, does not help if the black dude is not competent.  Condi Rice was competent.  Lloyd Austin is a clown, but he checked off the "black dude" box, so he's now Secretary of Defense, and we're less safe as a result.  We've got a host of other such bad picks based on box checking with none having two brain cells to rub together.  (I guess Joe needs other morons around so he doesn't look so bad)  Then again, did he actually pick them or were they chosen for him and he just pretends it's his choice?  Don't ask him...he'd only lie to you anyway.

7.  Among his selections to fill out his crew are a few from the Obama administration.  This demonstrates he doesn't recognize incompetence in others, and frankly, they're probably running the show, continuing Obama's policies if possible.  Thus, the swamp remains filled with swamp vermin.  

There's a belief that the GOP produces more criminals...more people indicted for something.  Well, as we saw with two Trump impeachment circuses, the Dems are quick to show you the crime if you show them the man.  This is something the GOP needs to learn to do, especially given the clear misbehavior so routinely perpetrated by leftists.  That is, when a Dem clearly does wrong, as Hillary did with classified documents, the GOP needs to go after them and hold them accountable and punish them if punishment is deserved.  Unlike the Dems, they're not likely to need to make shit up in order to put someone away.  They just need to see justice done.  The Dems will find a reason to hang you while the provide reasons they should be hanged.  Dem supporters, being low intelligence lefties, believe whatever they're told, so they think the GOP is more criminal than they are.  But the reality is simply a matter of which party is keen on seeing the other criminalized.  The Dems are always demonizing their opponents because it's easier than debating issues, as they have no good arguments to defend their stupidity.  It will be interesting to see if the GOP will look into the Afghan fiasco should they take the House (and hopefully the Senate as well) in 2022.  If ever there was legit reason for impeachment, there are more than one from that episode.  

8.  "Amtrak" Joe is a liar and playing this role is just another example.  The guy is far richer than a Senator or Vice-President's salary provides.  How did that happen?  We all know.  Ask his coked up son.  The tired trope regarding Trump was that he cared only about himself.  But this crook has made his millions by public service?  Gimme a freakin' break!  He's been in it for himself from the very start.  Coincidentally, I just saw something on TV today which referenced him when he was really young stating his goal in life was to become president.  In and of itself, that isn't a bad goal I suppose.  But to vocalize it doesn't suggest serving the public.  It suggests megalomania, perhaps, or narcissism or entitlement.  I can't think of a policy or bill he promoted that was truly beneficial to anyone.  

9.  Nearly 90 retired generals and admirals called on Biden's guys Milley and Austin to resign.   I haven't checked yet, but their probably among the 124 who signed a letter questioning both the outcome of the 2020 election and Biden's competence to serve as president.  Since the Afghan debacle, we're starting to hear some Dem members of Congress criticize his "leadership" (in referring to Biden, that word can only be used with quotation marks bookending it).  Like his former boss, Barack Obozo, Biden has proven himself a divider.  And he's taking us in a forward direction straight to hell and impotence as a nation.  His approval ratings are falling faster than I've ever seen them fall for a president.  He's doing it in record time!

10.  This putz had a leftist propaganda arm, known as the leftist media, who loved him as they do anyone who's a leftist.  But even now they're beginning to wonder.  He's been less than enamored with them as they begin to ask him about more than his favorite flavor of ice cream.  He's curt, easily angered and insulting to them.  And they're on his side!!!  Trump dealt with the same press corps and only returned fire on the most severe assholes among them...namely Jim Acosta.  Yet, he was constantly open to their questions.  Biden isn't allowed to speak to them, and is incomprehensible when he does.   He doesn't make himself available and why would that be?  What does that say about his opinion of the media?  

Trump was correct that the leftist media is the enemy of the people.  There's mounds of evidence to support that fact, as I've presented several times.  But now Biden is more and more likely to be a target of friendly fire from those insults to journalism.  Chances are he'll never call them enemies of the people.  He'll call them Republicans or some such.  Or he'll avoid them more and more. 

That's about it for now.  I'll be leaving town for some R & R and recon for a new home.  But upon my return, I'll be doing more posts about how we're totally screwed by having this absolute buffoon, this well known buffoon, this buffoon who's incompetence was not only on display for the last 50 years, but was pointed out repeatedly for most of it, and certainly during the campaign for 2020.  I'll detail some of the most serious damage he's already done, damage which will befall us if we can't find a way to prevent it (which is almost impossible until 2022 when we have a chance to take the House and Senate) and I can do that all without even mentioning Afghanistan...though I'll be doing that as well.  Who knows how much worse that will get while I'm gone. 

I'll also be speaking to who's responsible for this abomination of a presidency.  Stay tuned for that. 

What The....????

 Five months ago, I donated blood.  It's something I did regularly for the last several years (I'd have to check my account to see if they note when I began donating where I do).  That last donation was whole blood, because my iron levels were down too low to donate as I usually do...which is what they call "double red cells".  Donating double red cells can only be done ever four months.  But as I donated whole blood that five months ago, I expected I could schedule another donation...regardless of which form...the following month.  

Turns out that wasn't the case.  I couldn't schedule an appointment.  The site insisted I was not eligible.  I called and the location I used could not schedule me, either.  They gave me a phone number.  I called but could not speak with anyone.  I left contact info and got no response.  I did that several times.  I kept at it and the other day, I was given a similar number in my state.  I called, left a message and didn't so much wait as expect I'd simply get no response again.

Today I got a call.  I was told I received an explanation by mail last March.  Don't recall that ever happening, but my wife has a habit of deciding what is or isn't junk mail on my behalf, so who knows?  In any case, the nice lady told me I tested positive for Hepatitis C.  Here's the thing...they re-scanned and found it was a false positive and I don't have Hepatitis C.  So what's the problem?  Why can't I donate?  Because the FDA says so.  Any positive test denies, and apparently that includes false positives.  Apparently it doesn't matter how badly they need blood...and I'm told they especially need Type 0+ double red cells...ANY positive test prohibits donation.  One would think they'd take a sample to test a third time to make sure and then make a determination regarding the accuracy of the original test, which already has one affirmation of a false positive.  But no.  They just leave it as one positive and one negative and pretend it's more likely the subject is positive.  And they wonder why folks don't trust the government.  

I was always pleased and happy to donate.  I had to sit for an hour or more for the entire appointment, but I considered it somewhat of an honor to participate and serve my fellow man in this simply, low effort manner.  I thought it was something everyone should do given how easy it is to be helpful in this way.  And of course, there are lives being saved as a result and for that consequence to result from such low effort is a no-brainer.  Yet now I'm denied the privilege because of a well intended but poorly executed safeguard.  

Government.  What an egregious pain in the ass.

UPDATE:

Got a call from Vitalant.  The nice lady tells me there's some reorganization within the outfit tying together all their loose ends, which would somehow lead to my possible reinstatement as a donor.  I'm told to contact them if I don't get a letter outlining the process by February.  Fingers crossed.

These Times Which Try This Man's Soul

 We just went through a re-bid at work.  This means our schedule was altered severely and we who serve are called to, according to seniority, choose which schedule of horror with which we'd be content to punish ourselves.  

Stop right there.  Yeah.  I'm fortunate to be working.  Not the point and hardly consolation.

I work for a contractor hauling mail for the United States Postal Service.  That right there should be taken as a bad indicator.  The facility where I work is a 24/7/365 operation.  Since I signed on a little over seven years ago, I've been working nights.  I've had the same schedule the whole time in terms of which days I work and which days I don't.  It was a great schedule, as I only worked three days one week, alternating with four days the next.  Needless to say, I enjoyed either a three or four day weekend.  I loved it, despite the fact that my week begins on Sunday night.  I must sleep all during the day to prepare for the job.  Church going has been sporadic ever since, given Saturdays is when everything happens.  

When I started, I worked from 7PM-7AM, and that eventually was changed to 6PM-6AM.  It was always the case where if one completed one's tasks, one can scoot and still get paid for the whole shift.  More recently, my hours had been cut to the extent I averaged about 30 hrs. per week.  I was in heaven.  The money was still sufficient and as I've been getting older (how is this happening!!!!??), my wife was cool with me working less almost as much as I was. 

But now, this type of schedule was eliminated.  Those choices which were four days per week included horrible off days.  My wife works a normal Monday-Friday job like most people.  Saturdays off is essential in order to do things a husband and wife does.  I could not take a day shift which would either have me coming home at 6AM and sleeping half the day away, or worse, having to hit the rack at 7 or 8PM in order to get up Sunday morning for work.  (Yeah.  There's never any Saturday, Sunday weekends available here.)

So I had two criteria in my choosing:

1.  I must have ALL of Saturday off.

2.  I want no more hours than I was putting in. 

I only got #1.  I'm doing five days per week (I'd jump at my original schedule rather than work that many days in a week...if I could, which I couldn't) and doing around 44 hours per.  I have four different schedules in that time.  

I'm old enough to retire.  In fact, I just signed up to begin drawing Social Security benefits.  I'm working until we move in the early spring of 2022.  I did NOT want to work more, especially as we're beginning to effect our plan of attack regarding the move.  Having those long weekends would have been ideal as well as just personally pleasing.  The bigger paychecks from this new schedule will be nice, but I'm still looking at the company job postings for a better deal.  For example, I drive about a half hour to get to work (if I'm doing the speed limit).  But I live close enough to another facility I could almost spit and hit it.  The problem is that's not a 24/7 operation, and most all of their full-time schedules are six days per week.  Even their part time offerings are, but every now and then there's a Monday through Friday option, though it's only around 20-25 hours per week.  With SS, it's absolutely doable.  (Again, the job pays well).  So wish me luck.

The worst aspect of this five day thing is that we're just a few months from the start of PEAK SEASON!!!! ...a time when the PO really shows its grit (*gack*).  They have no grit.  The volume goes up but no one works harder, everything gets clogged up and one can sit waiting with a trailer full of mail for a dock door to open up well beyond one's going home time.  Hey, I can sit in line for hours so long as it's not going home time!  

The facility where I work is possibly the worst Postal processing center in the country.  Those who drive in from far away all hate the place.  I have occasion to deliver and pick up at two other locations which, while having their own issues, do not seem to be anywhere near as much a cluster...you know...as the one at which I work.  It doesn't have to be and shouldn't be, which is easy to see and makes it all the more frustrating.  A lot of  "I ain't bustin' my ass" and "why should I" all over the place.  A lot of attitude.  A lot of stupid people in positions of authority acting as if they're perfect for the job while they do so little, and what they do they do poorly.  I see nothing which seems to be a tough job, yet so many need to be told what to do, regardless of how obvious it is.  If the Postal Service went private, I wouldn't doubt 90% of the people at this place would be out.  

So all in all, it's a really frustrating place to work.  It's like God testing me daily.  And now it's more daily than before.  Can I last?  I just need six more months before I call it quits here to concentrate on moving our worldly goods to warmer, more conservative climes.  This bid could not have come at a worse time.  God give me strength and patience.  (A Lotto win wouldn't hurt, but I never pray for that)

CRT-Criminal Racist Tyranny

 I've been wanting to get to this since Brain-Dead Dan <a href="https://throughthesewoods.blogspot.com/2021/07/learn-about-crt-through-what-is.html">posted this fiction at his blog.</a>  Now that I have a few, I'm going to dive in.  I posted a bit of his drivel in an earlier post, but what I'm going to do now is to address four point he thinks are profound and compelling examples of "the real" CRT.  Before doing so, here's what immediately precedes it:

"While recognizing the evolving and malleable nature of CRT, scholar Khiara Bridges outlines a few key tenets of CRT, including:"

 First, it seems clear that this "scholar" admits the fiction of this "theory".  "Evolving and malleable"?  Yeah...I'm gonna put my money on something "evolving and malleable".  Pardon me for saying so, but I've always been partial to that which is solid and provably true...something for which evidence supports as a reality, or at least more likely reality than not.  Nothing "evolving or malleable" is worth the time of day when it comes to pushing policy or altering existing systems.  But hey...to the leftist, it's whatever emanates from their asses at any given moment.  It's how they roll.  

 

So point number one:

"Recognition that race is not biologically real but is socially constructed and socially significant. It recognizes that science (as demonstrated in the Human Genome Project) refutes the idea of biological racial differences. According to scholars Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, race is the product of social thought and is not connected to biological reality."

Dan gets right to the stupid first thing!  Kudos, Dan, for not wasting time!  I've read at least half a dozen different articles promoting this in my research for this post.  They all have one thing in common:  They don't admit what their own arguments compel the honest reader to acknowledge.  That is, that race is indeed biological.  Indeed, one only need imagine the skeletal remains of any human being and wonder if the race of the subject can be determined by DNA and such.  The answer is, YES!  It can!  Indeed, contrary to the "scholars" above, "Analysis of genomes from around the world establishes that there is a biological basis for race, despite the official statements to the contrary of leading social science organizations." (a quote from one of the <i>other</i> articles I read...I'll produce it if need be in the comments section)  

Then of course there are diseases which are unique to certain races/ethnicities:

"Tay-Sachs disease favors Ashkenazim Jews (of European descent), while cystic fibrosis haunts White people. Latin Americans and African rooted people are particularly vulnerable to type 2 diabetes, 90% and 60 % more than White people. Hypertension plagues Afro-Caribbean descent at a higher rate than other populations."  (from <i>another</i> article I read, which can also be presented if need be)  These are all biological "markers", as it were.  

The reality, and perhaps the point of the race-hustlers pushing CRT, is that racism is the construct.  We conservatives, for example, do not think in terms of race or ethnicity with regard to American citizens.  We strive to treat all people like people and not pretend there's something incredibly special regarding the race or ethnicity of people.  The left, like Brain-Dead Dan and other race-hustlers and enablers of sexual perversion, are totally about "identity politics", and that's all CRT really is.

 

Moving on to point two:

"Acknowledgement that racism is a normal feature of society and is embedded within systems and institutions, like the legal system, that replicate racial inequality. This dismisses the idea that racist incidents are aberrations but instead are manifestations of structural and systemic racism."

This is plain wishful thinking.  If this is true, then it allows the race-hustlers to more easily push their self-serving marxist plans.  But it's something they can't truly prove.  They can't seem to pick out a true example of this fiction.  Which system replicates racial inequality?  They can't say.  They can't draw a line between any outcome and the racist institution which allegedly is at fault.  It's just asserted that "victims" are made so by some unidentified "system" or institution.  Brain-Dead Dan certainly provides no examples.

 

Point three:

" Rejection of popular understandings about racism, such as arguments that confine racism to a few “bad apples.” CRT recognizes that racism is codified in law, embedded in structures, and woven into public policy. CRT rejects claims of meritocracy or “colorblindness.” CRT recognizes that it is the systemic nature of racism that bears primary responsibility for reproducing racial inequality."

This really is no different than point two, except that it suggests it is more widespread than honest people, like Thomas Sowell, would argue.  It defends the lie by asserting racism is systemic, again without offering any example that might prove the point.  

As a side note, it further goes to a point made that proponents of this crap-sandwich regard all whites as racist.  Since this country was founded by white people, their institutions then built by white people and those institutions somehow have racism codified, embedded and woven into public policy, how can anyone not believe they accuse all whites of being racist?  

As to popular understanding, I really don't know what that is these days.  Racism has always been defined as, basically, the notion that those of a given race are inferior simply because of their race.  Now, it's morphed into whatever the race-hustlers need it to be in order to accuse as racist anyone who does not agree with black people or anytime a black person fails to advance in life.  This point three provides the all-purpose excuse for black failure or suffering.  It's evil.  

Point four...a doozy!:

"Recognition of the relevance of people’s everyday lives to scholarship. This includes embracing the lived experiences of people of color, including those preserved through storytelling, and rejecting deficit-informed research that excludes the epistemologies of people of color."

 This might be the most problematic.  While anyone can have a sad story to tell, not everyone is honest about the details of that sad story.  This point echoes Brain-Dead Dan's admonition to "listen to black  people" (unless their brilliant and honest like Thomas Sowell).  The not so subtle implication is that "lived experiences" must be believed as rock-solid truth/fact.  Don't you dare question anything about it.  Yet, the telling will almost certainly provoke questions of all kinds, and in many cases, those questions will be about the validity of the story told.  But we're to simply shut up and take it as truth on the face of it.  No thanks.  I want proof or evidence to back up that story.  

I think the sad truth is that too many black people have negative opinions about many things because of hearing about those "lived experiences".  Almost every story (I'm being generous here with the "almost") we hear of racist, brutal cops killing innocent black dudes are actually cases of assholes resisting arrest.  There are no shortage of videos of blacks recording how they mouthed off to cops, as if the cop was doing anything wrong.  This will be listed among "lived experiences" but clearly, the cop has a different tale to tell.  Other videos are from the cop perspective showing how they acted professionally while being berated and insulted by the person being stopped, and sometimes resulting in the cop being shot.  

"Lived experience" is for story books.  To improve life for all, we need facts and evidence.  If one is a victim of corrupt law enforcement, prove it.  If one is truly innocent of wrongdoing, allow the situation to proceed along a legal path.  Even truly racist cops aren't likely to force an innocent person into criminal response.  

Now, I am willing to concede the extremely unlikely possibility that I've totally misunderstood any of the four "principles" of CRT Brain-Dead Dan listed from his reliable sources.  But that would only mean that Ducky Dan failed to provide clarifying explanation, which he is free to provide in the comments section if has the desire to do so like a man instead of a...I have no confidence he's capable but plenty that he's so racist he'll try to do so in a manner he believes will disparage those of us who see CRT for what it is (see the title of this post).  

There's more I could say about B-D Dan's blog post hailing this detriment to the black community and America in general.  But I'll leave it there and cite more in the comments if need be. This kinda crap bores me to no end.  Too many need racism to exist in order to profit.  None of them do anything truly beneficial for the people about whom they claim to care so deeply.  But the result is that it is now so much more difficult to become one America because of them, and I don't know what it will take to rid ourselves of these con-artists and their stench so that we can.