Saturday, December 24, 2022

While I'm Still At The Keyboard...

...I feel compelled to acknowledge the day...which is actually tomorrow.  Christmas is upon me and I am to endure it not only alone, but asleep until it's time to get up for work.  Yes.  I must work on Christmas once again.  My lovely wife is back in Illinois for the holy holidays, and as a part-timer, I believe I could have bowed out of work to be with her and the family, too.  Yet, it seemed a bad time to put the company in a position of not finding someone to take my place, because who the hell would want to on Christmas?  So in the spirit of the season, I made no such fuss.  With any luck, and that might have gone out the window with so many assholes of the GOP voting to pass this gargantuan $1.7 trillion dollar spend-athon, I hope to be fully retired this time next year.  I hope.  I hope.  It's not my greatest hope in life, but right now, it ranks very high on the list.  I would likely be retired already if not for the many shit-for-brain Trump-haters who rejected him in the 2020 election.  But such is life, somehow, and here I am.  

But despite not even having my favorite version of "A Christmas Carol In Prose, Being A Ghost Story of Christmas" (1951's "Scrooge" w/Alastair Sim in the title role...also released as "A Christmas Carol") to watch, I'm not totally humbugged by my situation.  It's still Christmas, after all.  The tree's up and lit wonderfully, I've a glass of wine with my Christmas Eve frozen dinner and Bob the cat and I may still go a caroling.

Merry Christmas.  God bless us everyone.

What Integrity Actually Looks Like

While reading other things, I stumbled upon these two articles from a couple of weeks ago:

https://www.newsweek.com/republican-told-gay-son-against-same-sex-marriage-bill-1765723

https://www.newsweek.com/republican-lawmaker-vicky-hartzler-missouri-called-out-gay-nephew-anti-lgbtq-speech-1766090

As regards this issue, we have two examples, in these cases Republicans, of what integrity looks like.  A father of a "gay" son, and an aunt of a "gay" nephew who both, despite their familial attachments, voted morally on the fraudulent "Respect For Marriage Act".  These two people are to be applauded for their decision, which showed a real sense of righteousness as regards this vile issue.  Unlike those like Rob Portman and Dick Cheney, they did not eject their principles and morals upon learning of the disorder of their son and nephew.  At least as far as the GOP father goes, his love for his son has not diminished, as he attended the perv's "wedding".  Now, I would not attend such a mockery of the institution simply because my child is the one pretending to marry someone of the same sex.  A good Christian parent...or one who strives to be a good Christian parent...doesn't enable his child's immorality and disorder.  He stands firmly against it in love.

In the case of Hartzler, however, we see her nephew totally lacking in integrity which, at the very least for someone like him, would be an expression of tolerance for his aunt's opposing opinion of his choice of perversion.  Instead, the creep attacks her and mocks her for crying as she encouraged her colleagues to oppose the bill.  Typical.

In the case of Thompson, it's very likely he simply didn't like the bill as written, but would have otherwise supported the corruption of marriage, as he is said to have "welcomed" his son's "spouse" into the family.  While I wouldn't go out of my way to attack my "gay" child's "spouse"...were I to have one...,neither could I "welcome" the person into my family.  But for others to believe they're doing right by such a response, each must deal as each sees fit.  But as for me and my house, we will strive to serve the Lord, not the fashion of the day.  And certainly not this perverse fashion, that's for sure.

It's tough to support a child who indulges in wrongdoing.  It's tougher still to oppose one's child openly and publicly on immoral issues too many support because the culture seems to demand it.  I'm not sure how Alan Keyes-like these two are in their position on the issue, but to the extent they acted as they did on this farce of an Act, I'm calling it a display of integrity, which one rarely, if ever, sees from the left. 

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Very Little "Actual" Wrongdoing By Trump: Sidebar

 Below are five parts of a series looking at Dan's list of "actual wrongdoing" by Donald Trump.  As I sought details for many of the points, I came upon a link to the very list Dan is using.  I hadn't perused the entirety of it, but found that it contains a great deal of what one can read in the five posts of mine which respond to them.  

What this means is that Dan didn't do jack shit to confirm any of it is true.  As so many are not actual examples of wrongdoing, it validates what I've known about Dan for a long time.  He doesn't care about truth and honesty where it concerns those of the right.  What's important to "grace-embracers" like Dan is the spreading of negative claims about those he hates.  If it's negative, Dan takes it for granted that it is a fact.  I believe this is called "bearing false witness".  What's more, Dan copy/pasting this list is a clear example of "gossip"...another evil Dan pretends to find personally objectionable.

I also want to acknowledge that of the very many from the "Dan lying" column, there may be some which actual Christians might find to be more true than not...at least as far as being an example of wrongdoing.  I would then argue such disagreement is over that which is not truly harmful to anyone but the tender sensibilities of fake Christians in Louisville who need to believe a man far better than they, like Donald Trump, is evil incarnate.  If we're going to dredge up examples of wrongdoing to support a premise of "corruption" or "unfitness" in a president, I would insist something more substantial should be identified, such as Biden's connection to foreign businesses from which he took money, Tony Bobulinski's testimony affirming Biden's corruption, Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified documents and her role in creating false dossiers about Trump, and of course the many scandals of Barack Obama (https://wentworthreport.com/2020/02/17/the-corruption-of-barack-obama/).  Liars like Dan do nothing to address any of that, preferring instead to repeat whatever he hears about Trump which he believes he can turn around as fact as if he did the heavy lifting of researching any of it.  The list presented over the previous five posts is testament to that.  But apparently that's what "embracing grace" looks like.  Contemptible.

And by the way, the list, which continues in subsequent comments, comes from a site Dan found.  I found what may be the very one called anobjectivepointofview.com.  There are a total of 228 points, so as you can see, I've not even hit half of them.  But here's the punchline at the end, 

" I did not write this. I wish I did, but I didn’t. I received it in my inbox. Author unknown. "

Who ever runs this site, like Dan, didn't do jack to research any of it, but only copy/pasted it like Dan did. This is how the left works. Liars all. Dan's the worst of them with whom I engage with any regularity. Disgusting people.


Monday, December 19, 2022

Very Little "Actual" Wrongdoing By Trump, part 5.

 Truth=7/Dan lying=65

64.  "spent an obscene amount of time playing golf after criticizing Barack Obama for playing (far less) golf while president"

While I can give Dan a point for lying about "an obscene amount of time" because Dan isn't the arbiter of such things, I'll simply give the Truth column another point because Trump did play gold a lot after criticizing Obama.  Now, given Obama looks like a dork when he's doing "athletic" things, it's hard to insist he was actually playing golf as much as insulting the game.  But more importantly, while Trump golfed as much as he did, he still managed to do far, far more good for the nation than Obumble did in twice the time.  And therein lies the real truth of it.  Obama deserved criticism for playing golf as much as he did because he was sucking at being president.  Trump was doing a good job.

Truth=8/Dan lying=65

65.  "falsely claimed that he won the 2016 popular vote"

No...that's an opinion.  Just because published totals conflict with his opinion doesn't mean the opinion is "false".  Given the very real likelihood of illegal votes, and how the Democrat Party provides room for them to be cast, an honest count may very well have confirmed Trump's opinion.  Dems cheat.  We know this.  Trump knows it, too.  It is not wrongdoing to promote one's opinion, even if that opinion can be proven false, which this one never was.  Ever.

Truth=8/Dan lying=66

66.  "called the Muslim mayor of London a “stone cold loser,”

Ah.  Yet another "insult" to pad Dan's list.  Thus, another point on the "Dan lying" side of the ledger for doing so.  Of course, Sadiq Khan is a loser of a mayor in the same way Eric Adams is proving to be, in the same way Lori Lightfoot has proven to be and in the same way other leftist mayors have proven to be (Pete Buttigieg) specifically here with regard to crime and terrorism.  He had the gall to suggest citizens of big cities ought to simply get used to terrorism.  Yeah.  The jerk's a loser.  Telling the truth is never wrongdoing.

Truth=8/Dan lying=67

67.  "falsely claimed that he turned down being Time’s Man of the Year"

 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-vs-time-magazine-disputes-president-s-person-year-claims-n823861

As the link indicates, he likely was under consideration for the "honor".  But how can one "falsely claim" to have turned it down.  It doesn't have to be true that he was tapped for him to turn down the possibility.  This is another barrel-scraping attempt by Dan deserving of the "lying" side, as I don't see how his turning down even that which might not have been offered rates as "wrongdoing".

Truth=8/Dan lying=68

68.  "considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller on several occasions"

Within his authority, and as such not wrongdoing.

https://www.heritage.org/the-constitution/commentary/trump-has-the-constitutional-authority-fire-mueller-heres-why

Truth=8/Dan lying=69

69.  "mocked wearing face masks to guard against transmitting COVID"

Given how ineffective wearing masks are for preventing the transmission of any virus, this hardly constitutes wrongdoing.  Wrongdoing would be forcing people to wear the damned things, which still goes on in some places.  What's more, it's another bit of padding as it's just another insult at worst.

Truth=8/Dan lying=70.

70.  "locked Congress out of its constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials
by hiring acting ones"

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/20/trumps-staffing-struggle-unfilled-jobs-100991

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/mar/16/donald-trump/why-trump-appointments-have-lagged-behind-other-pr/

This one seems true, but not a matter of wrongdoing given the trouble Trump had getting his nominees approved by Congress.  I'm giving it an "undecided".  That makes three so far.

Undecided.

71.  "used a racist dog whistle by calling COVID the “China virus,”"

The lie here is that naming a virus after its country of origin is used to demonize Trump as a racist.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/13/17-diseases-named-after-places-or-people/

Truth=8/Dan lying=71

72.  "hired and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually convicted of federal offenses including his campaign manager and national security adviser"

Of course the issue here is whether or not Trump knew anyone he hired or with whom he associated was "shady" as well as whether or not their alleged shadiness was a reason they were hired to allowed to remain an associate.  Dan lists this as if the worst is true without knowing one way or the other if it is.  What's more, he regards the people based on how they were treated by his own kind, as opposed to whether or not their actions were "shady".  

Truth=8/Dan lying=72

73.  "pardoned several of his shady associates"

Pardoning anyone because they were convicted on shady, partisan grounds is not at all wrongdoing.  Pretending it is is.

Truth=8/Dan lying=73

74.  "has promised to pardon the racist insurrectionists"

I was unaware that BLM people were involved in any insurrections.  WAIT!!  Of course they were!  All through the summer of 2020 and then some!  I'm surprised Dan regards this as wrongdoing.

Truth=8/Dan lying=74

75.  "gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two congressman who amplified his batshit crazy conspiracy theories"

Obama gave the award to Oprah Winfrey, Bruce Springsteen and notable moron Joe Biden, who supported Obama and left-wing lies.  Talk about "batshit crazy"!!!  There is no limitations on whom a president can award this medal.  Thus, there is no wrongdoing just because some asshat lefty says so.

Truth=8/Dan lying=76

76.  "got into telephone fight with the leader of Australia(!)"

So what?  A heated exchange is wrongdoing now?

Truth=8/Dan lying=77

77.  "had a Secretary of State who called him a moron"

https://people.com/politics/secretary-of-state-rex-tillerson-president-trump-moron/

First, it now appears Dan wants to insist that Trump being insulted is wrongdoing by Trump.  Secondly, Tillerson did not confirm it happened.  Thirdly, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a press briefing that Tillerson did not call Trump a “moron.” And Fourth, lefties want to insist that despite Tillerson choosing not to dignify the story with a response, by such refusal, Tillerson is admitting it happened.  The left will lie about everything.

Truth=8/Dan lying=78

78.  "forced his press secretary to claim without merit that his was the largest inauguration crowd in history"

Ah...a lefty favorite!!!  CROWD SIZE!!!  But I found nothing which states anyone was forced to make a claim known to be false.  Padding the list!

Truth=8/Dan lying=79

79.   "botched the COVID vaccine rollout"

It didn't "roll out" until after Biden was "elected".  That there was anything available which could even loosely be called a  COVID "vaccine" can hardly be called "botched" when Trump's detractors insisted nothing could be developed for years.  

Truth=8/Dan lying=80

80.  "tweeted so much dangerous propaganda that Twitter eventually banned him"

Just a lie.  He was banned because he's Donald Trump and the leftists running Twitter hate him like Dan does.

Truth=8/Dan lying=81

81.  "charged the Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties..."

I've dealt with this issue recently and as I've again researched the issue, I find two problems which are as yet insurmountable:

a)  As is so common, leftist accusations against center-right figures...especially Trump...are regarded as true simply by the existence of the accusation.  In this case, a lefty made the accusation, a host of lefty media repeat it verbatim and searching the issue via lefty-controlled search engines provides only more lefty news outlets repeating the same crap.

b)  There are details for which I've yet to find resolution.  Namely, the scant response to the charges by Team Trump.  Thus far, I've seen only Eric Trump's response wherein he claims the prices mentioned are not for single rooms, but for all the rooms provided.  In the many lefty articles, I've not seen anything which speaks to the prices referring to individual rooms...such as, $4 billion dollars per night for one room for one Secret Service agent.  

So long as I continue to find nothing more about this story, I cannot in good faith grade this as true or false.  I can't believe the lefties, but I've heard no details from the Trumpers and no one seems to want to ask and provide.  Thus, this must remain:

Undecided.  I believe that's four of them.

This ends the second comment listing "wrongdoings".  The score as it stands:  Truth=8/Dan lying=81/undecided=4


Thursday, December 15, 2022

Very Little "Actual" Wrongdoing By Trump, part 4.

So on I go with Dan's nonsensical attempt to "prove" Trump is a worse person than Dan is himself.  The score is now Truth=5/Dan lying=46.

45.  "forced his Cabinet members to praise him publicly like some cult leader"

A laughable lie, and one promoted by numerous lefty sites.  The actual video of this "force" shows no force at all, but simply letting those in his cabinet to speak about what was being done.

Truth=5/Dan lying=47

46.  "believed he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize"

 How this ranks as "actual wrongdoing" I'll never know.  Of course he did broker peace deals, so...

"Christian Tybring-Gjedde told Fox News on Wednesday: "For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other peace prize nominees."

Adding that he was not a big Trump supporter, he added. "The committee should look at the facts and judge him on the facts - not on the way he behaves sometimes.""

Truth=5/Dan lying=48

47.  "berated and belittled his hand-picked Attorney General"

Not wrongdoing if one believes one's criticism is justified.  But lefties will portray such criticisms by Trump as "berating" and "belittling" in order to demonize.  

Truth=5/Dan lying=49

48.  "suggested the US should buy Greenland"

More barrel scraping, and stupidly so.  How is this "wrongdoing"?

Truth=5/Dan lying=50

49.  "colluded with Mitch McConnell to push through federal judges and two Supreme Court justices after supporting efforts to prevent his predecessor from appointing judges"

Nominating and then working to see approved a president's judicial choices is not "wrongdoing" in any sense. 

Truth=5/Dan lying=51

50.  " repeatedly called the media “enemies of the people,""

Telling the truth isn't "wrongdoing"

Truth=5/Dan lying=52

51.  "claimed that if we tested fewer people for COVID we’d have fewer cases"

A silly thing to say given we'd still have the same number of cases regardless, but hardly "wrongdoing" to say such a thing.  Barrel-scraping again.

Truth=5/Dan lying=53

52.  "violated the emoluments clause"

Not in any way, shape or form.  A common, but stupid lefty premise.

Truth=5/Dan lying=54

53.  "thought that Nambia was a country"

Leave it to lying lefties to insist a mispronunciation is "wrongdoing".  Does Danny-boy believe Obama engaged in wrongdoing by claiming to have visited 57 states?

Truth=5/Dan lying=55

54.  "told Bob Woodward in private that the coronavirus was a big deal but then
downplayed it in public"

 https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/factchecking_biden_did_trump_lie_to_the_american_people_about_covid.html

Truth=5/Dan lying=56

55.  "called his exceedingly faithful vice president a “p---y” for following the Constitution"

More accurately, ""You can either go down in history as a patriot," two people familiar with conversation quoted Trump as saying, "or you can go down in history as a pussy.""

Having a potty mouth is wrongdoing.  Misrepresenting what Trump said is lying.

Truth=6/Dan lying=57

56.  "nearly got us into a war with Iran after threatening them by tweet"

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-iran-s-rouhani-never-ever-threaten-united-states-again-n893566

I don't regard standing up to assholes as "wrongdoing" even if doing so leads to the assholes declaring war on us.  Iran is already our enemy and enemies are always at war, otherwise they wouldn't be enemies.

Truth=7/Dan lying=58

57.  " nominated a corrupt head of the EPA"

The left's hatred of Scott Pruitt is almost as deranged as their hatred of Trump:

https://thefederalist.com/2018/04/04/scott-pruitt-is-trumps-biggest-asset-thats-why-the-left-wants-him-gone/

Truth=7/Dan lying=59

58.  "nominated a corrupt head of HHS"

Accused of that which so many in Congress do constantly, but is only corruption when a Trump official does it.

https://thefederalist.com/2017/01/18/deny-tom-price-confirmation-keep-standard-for-democrats/

Truth=7/Dan lying=60

59.  "nominated a corrupt head of the Interior Department"

Clearly the pattern here is Dan is parroting the allegations put forth by leftists who hate anything related to Trump.  Whether or not there is anything to the allegations is not the point, but merely, as is their way, the left simply accuses and the resulting problems for whomever is accused becomes difficult to overcome.  Dan has no proof of corruption by any of these people, but Dan merely needs to pad his list.

Truth=7/Dan lying=61

60.  "nominated a corrupt head of the USDA"

See above.  One is not corrupt because the left says one is.  Dan doesn't care because...you know..."embrace grace".  POS.  

As if that wasn't enough, how can Dan prove Trump nominated anyone with full knowledge they were proven to be corrupt?  Is he supposed to take the word of lying leftists?  I don't think so.

Truth=7/Dan lying=62

61.  "praised dictators and authoritarians around the world while criticizing allies"

A perversion of reality ignoring context.  

Truth=7/Dan lying=63

62.  "refused to allow the presidential transition to begin"

Truth=7/Dan lying=64

63.  "insulted war hero John McCain – even after his death"

Ah..."insults".  How many "insults" are required to pad this list?  What difference does it make if the "victim" of an "insult" is dead or alive?  The list would be smaller simply by saying Trump insulted people.  Thus, Dan lies to pad the list.  I won't give another "truth" because Dan listed another victim.  I will add another lie because Dan's hatred compels him to engage in his own actual wrongdoing.

Truth=7/Dan lying=65

That's it for today.  


Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Very Little "Actual" Wrongdoing By Trump, part 3.

Moving right along, with the score Truth=3/Dan lying=34:

33.  "pushed through massive tax cuts for the wealthiest"

Proven false already.

Truth=3/Dan lying=35

34.  " but balked at helping working Americans"

Far more working Americans as a result of Trump's policies than at any time since the 1960's, along with higher wages, lower prices on consumer goods (especially compared with now thanks to Trump-haters like Dan), etc..  A complete lie so typical of Dan and his kind.

Truth=3/Dan lying=36

35.   "incited anti-lockdown protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic"

 Aside from the fact that such protests were actually incited by protesters being locked down by Dem policies, I don't see how supporting such righteous protests can possibly be considered "wrongdoing".  There was far more justification than for any of the BLM/Antifa protests based on lies and falsehoods incited by leftists.

Truth=3/Dan lying=37

36.   " withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords"

God bless Trump for this great move!!  I'm giving this one two marks in the lie column for Dan suggesting the deal was a good idea in the first place.  Returning to it is wrongdoing.  Pulling us out of it was not.

Truth=3/Dan lying=39

37.  "withdrew the US from the Iranian nuclear deal"

I'm giving this one two marks in the lie column for Dan suggesting the deal was a good idea in the first place.  Thus, withdrawing from it can't be "wrongdoing".  Returning to it is.

Truth-3/Dan lying=41

 38.  " withdrew the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership"

 Even Dan's party hated this crap-sandwich.  I guess they're guilty of wrongdoing, too!  I think Dan's just listing anything Trump did as an example of wrongdoing, which is a lie all by itself.

Truth=3/Dan lying=42 

39.  "insulted his own Cabinet members on Twitter"

 Apparently only Dan and the left can insult right-wingers.  Trump insulted all sorts of people and one can call that "wrongdoing".  But like myself, name-calling with an explanation justifying it is different, and that's pretty much what Trump does.  Nonetheless, despite the disingenuous addition of this point, I agree it's true that it is wrong to insult.  I'll give it to him.

 Truth=4/Dan lying=42

40.  " pushed the leader of Montenegro out of the way during a photo op"

Much ado about nothing.  But haters exaggerated the situation as they always to in order to further demonize Trump.  Bad optics, but no real wrongdoing.  Can also be suggested the dude inadvertently walked in front of Trump at the last minute. 

Yet, instead of being insulted, he took the opportunity to thank Trump for supporting Montenegro's membership in NATO. The small former Yugoslav republic is slated to become NATO's 29th member next month.

And in any case, Markovic said, "it is natural that the president of the United States is in the front row."

Undecided.

41.  "failed to reiterate US commitment to defending NATO allies"

 This Dan once again exposing his dishonesty.  This was a case of Trump being asked about our commitment at a time when he was pushing NATO allies to fulfill their commitment.  

Truth=4/Dan lying=43

42.  " called Haiti and African nations “shithole” countries"

OK.  While Dan is quite cool with rationalizing his own use of profane and vulgar language...even comparing himself to the Lord to do so...it is reasonable to regard Trump's use of such language as "wrongdoing".  As such I will add to the truth column.  At the same time, Dan suggests Trump was wrong to disparage the countries in question, as if they are not worthy of disparagement, given the risk and expense people assume to flee them to come here.  So Dan lies while saying something true.  Quite a skill leftists have.

Truth=5/Dan lying=44

43.  "called the city of Baltimore the “worst in the nation,""

Opinion can't be regarded as wrongdoing, especially in the context of degraded American cities like Baltimore.  Maybe it's not the "worst", but one's criteria must be laid out before pretending saying it is represents "wrongdoing".

Truth=5/Dan lying=45

44.  " claimed that he single handedly brought back the phrase “Merry Christmas”"

Yeah...he needs to be executed for this one!  Jeez!  If Dan's scraping the barrel already to find wrongdoing, one can only imagine what's coming next! 

Truth=5/Dan lying=46

OK.  Three posts to respond to one comment full of Dan's delusional hatred.  As he said at the end of this one, "But wait. There's more..."


Saturday, December 10, 2022

Very Little "Actual" Wrongdoing By Trump, part 2.

The score as it stands:  Truth=1/Dan lying=22.  Let us continue  (keep in mind this is about "actual wrongdoing".  Thus, when Dan lies, it's about whether or not his point is a legit case of "actual wrongdoing" or not):

21.  "increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion"

Actually, it's more like $7 trillion, but what's a trillion here or there in this day and age, right?  Well, one more trillion makes Trump seem worse than he is, as if $7 trillion isn't bad enough.  But enough of that.  I give this one a "true" but with a caveat:  His promise of debt reduction was based on two terms.  He was robbed of the second one.  Also, the pandemic added about $4 trillion to Trump's previous total.  Still too much for my taste.  So despite the fact that he, along with Congress, spent money like a drunken Democrat, one must pump the brakes when considering what his intentions were for a second term.  Now we'll likely never know and we can't know if any of it would've reduced the debt like he promised to do.  Regardless of his otherwise stellar record of promise keeping, and my great distaste for his spending, I give this a mark on the truth side.  (Oh yeah...I consider spending my money an actual wrongdoing.)

Truth=2/Dan lying=22

22.  "had three of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history"

This is only "wrongdoing" if one believes trade deficits are a problem.  In this Trump is wrong.  But being wrong isn't the same as "wrongdoing".  

Truth=2/Dan lying=23 

23.  "called veterans and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers"

Four people, including big Trump fan John Bolton, were there where Trump was said by "anonymous sources" to have made the above charges and insist Trump never said any such thing.  Therefore, we have a "he said/she said" situation with no absolute confirmation one way or another.  The lie here, then, is Dan insisting it happened in order to add to his list of Trumps "actual wrongdoings".  Nonetheless, despite that being good enough to go in the lie column, I'm going to grade this as "undecided".

Undecided

24.  "coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering of a US-based journalist"

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-donald-j-trump-standing-saudi-arabia/

Truth=2/Dan lying=24

25.  "refused to concede the 2020 election"

Truth=2/Dan lying=25

26.  "in 2022, STILL refusing to concede the 2020 election"

Truth=2/Dan lying=26

27.  "is calling to overturn the Constitution to reinstate him STILL"

https://thenewamerican.com/did-trump-really-call-for-the-termination-of-the-constitution/

This is two lies.  The first, that Trump actually called for the overturning of the Constitution, and secondly that Trump's actual words in any way constitute wrongdoing because it's based on his acknowledgement of the fraudulence which cost him the 2020 election.

Truth=2/Dan lying=28

28.  "hired his unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House"

 Not "wrongdoing" even if they were indeed unqualified.  He can believe differently.  That's not "wrongdoing".  Dan saying it is is.

Truth=2/Dan lying=29

29.  "walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl"

This one is just stupid. 

Truth=2/Dan lying=30

30.  "called neo-Nazis “very fine people"

I almost want to give this two in the lie column.  Can a neo-nazi be a very fine person despite holding nazi positions?  Well, Dan believes homosexuals, lesbians, transsexuals, and cross-dressing men twerking in front of small children are “very fine people", so why not?  If the sexual perverts Dan defends can be “very fine people" despite their perversions, why not neo-nazis?  Do they not love their children?  Do they not give to causes in which they believe and help out those they regard as needy?  So even if he actually said this, it would not constitute "wrongdoing" unless he was promoting the tenets of "neo-nazism".  Two lies.

Truth=2/Dan lying=32

31.  "suggested that people should inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID"

This is another two-fer.  First, he didn't say this, so that's a lie.  What he did say, in his clumsy manner, was related to medical reality regarding the use of disinfectants internally to treat disease.

Truth=2/Dan lying=34

32.  "abandoned our allies the Kurds to Turkey"

 https://www.startribune.com/the-kurds-are-not-our-allies-but-turkey-is/564064442/

As the above link informs, Turkey is our ally, not the Kurds.  But the wrongdoing is not in leaving the area and thus the Kurds to deal with Turkey, but collateral concerns...meaning the manner in which Trump did it.  I'm giving this to the truth column, despite the partisan but uninformed false description of the Kurds as our allies.  At the worst, we left two "allies" to settle the differences between them on their own.

Truth=3/Dan lying=34

That's gonna be it for now.  There's quite a bit more left of the first comment before I move the rest.  So far, it's looking really bad for Dan as he's exposed himself as the liar we know him to be.  

I have to point out, if readers haven't gathered it already, I've added to the lies column points for stating what has been demonstrated to be false, such as the bleach thing, in addition to whether or not wrongdoing by Trump was perpetrated.  I simply can't allow Dan to continue promoting proven lies. 


Friday, December 09, 2022

Very Little "Actual" Wrongdoing By Trump, part 1.

In the comments section of a recent post at Craig's blog (http://jsmmds.blogspot.com/2022/11/youd-think.html), Dan spoke of "volumes of Trump's actual wrongdoing", to which I responded, ""Volumes"??? How about just a page, Danny-boy? Maybe even a paragraph from a page."  "Danny-boy" responded with an extremely long list of that which he thinks qualifies as "volumes of actual wrongdoing".  A quick scan (which is all I've given it) suggests that there's not all that much "actual" wrongdoing.  I could be mistaken, but I don't think so.  So what I will do now is go through each one to determine the truth of the claim.  It should be kept in mind that all of which follows is based on the claim of "actual" wrongdoing.

But a few points:  

I don't know if I will bother going through them all in fact.  I suspect there will be redundancies.  I hope to keep track of truths, lies and whether or not the "wrongdoing" took place during his presidency or had any effect on his ability to govern.  Not sure how that will look on the page, so we'll just have to see how things go.  Let's begin:

1.  "President Trump wasn’t that bad...other than when he incited an insurrection against the government,"

Wow!  Right off the bat Dan lies...twice!!  Trump not only "incited" nothing against the government, there was no "insurrection".  It was a just protest that got out of hand.  Liars on the left intentionally use the term "insurrection" so as to tie Trump to it in order to deny him any ability to run for re-election.  What Trump "incited" was peaceful protest.

Truth=0/Dan lying=2

2.  "mismanaged a pandemic that killed a million Americans"

It's a lie to say that Trump mismanaged what was a novel virus when in fact he marshaled the private sector to work with his administration to provide PPEs, develop a vaccine and close off travel to and from the country of COVID's origin.  To pretend he mismanaged requires drawing a specific line from any policy of his to deaths which resulted from it.  Indeed, there's been far more "mismanagement" from Fauci and various Dem governors than by Trump.

Truth=0/Dan lying=3

3.  "separated children from their families,"

Aside from Trump continuing a policy set forth by his predecessor, the impotent Barack Obama, the separation of children from their parents is a consequence of parental criminality, in this case, illegally crossing our border.  Thus, for children to be separated from their parents upon suspicion alone of a crime being perpetrated is not at all "wrongdoing" in any sense of the term.

Truth=0/Dan lying=4

4.  "lost those children in the bureaucracy,"

https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-fact-check-no-trump-didnt-separate-1500-james-barrett

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/illegal-immigrant-cages-bus-for-babies-lost-children/

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-didnt-lose-1500-immigrants/

Note:  I am not going to guarantee proof or evidence of any of my responses where I don't feel like doing so.  Why should I?  Dan's list is long and provides no evidence of any kind for any of it.  But should I feel like doing so I will completely at my own discretion and on my own volition.  

In any case, we see again that not only is Dan's claim false, it ignores a far worse example of what he claimed about Trump.  Also, as he tied it to the previous point, it counts as two lies since the "lost" kids weren't "separated" from their families or parents by any faction of our government.  Thus...

Truth=0/Dan lying=6

5.  "tear-gassed peaceful protesters on Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church"

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/09/ig-report-exonerates-trump-did-not-tear-gas-peaceful-protesters-to-clear-park-for-bible-photo-op/

Truth=0/Dan lying=7

6.  "tried to block all Muslims from entering the country"

While it is cool to say this is "wrong", the intention behind it was to protect Americans and came after yet another islam-inspired mass shooting.  Thus, I can grant a half point to truth here, given that many would disagree with a total ban on muslims, me not being among them.  I demand more serious vetting of all immigrants and visitors to the country, ESPECIALLY from muslim majority countries where American hatred is rampant.

Truth=.5/Dan lying=7

7.   "got impeached,
got impeached again"

I put these two together because he chose to add them separately, my point being that getting impeached is not "wrongdoing".  It's the consequence of possible wrongdoing, but not wrongdoing itself.  What's more, Trump was acquitted both times.  What's more, he did nothing wrong in the first impeachment, and in the second, he wasn't even president regardless of the false charge of inciting an "insurrection".  Thus, I could justly regard this as four lies instead of just two, but we'll let it go and see what comes down the pike.

Truth=.5/Dan lying=9

8.  "had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history"

This is a case of lefties playing with numbers again.  It is well known that the unemployment rate was at its lowest since the early 1960's.  How can one's jobs record be the worst ever with such a great stat?  What's more, even with the harm the COVID situation caused to the job market, mostly due to the policies of Dem governors rather than from Trump, the recovery was beginning before the 2020 election.  Also, when some wish to pretend Obama was doing great things economically, his own people admitted most of the jobs created during his failed presidency were part-time, government, low paying temp jobs.  Biden has been simply the beneficiary of people going back to work after the needless shutdowns.  In any case, unless Dan can point to policies intended to destroy jobs, it's ludicrous to regard a jobs record as "actual wrongdoing" so...

Truth=.5/Dan lying=10

9.  "pressured Ukraine to dig dirt on Joe Biden"

This is just a lie.  Period.

https://www.libertynation.com/transcript-of-trump-call-to-zelenksy-wheres-the-dirt/

Truth=.5/Dan lying=11

10.  "fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia"

This is just stupid, given the fact there never was any ties between Trump and Russia which should have elicited an investigation and those who initiated that investigation damned well knew it the whole time.

Truth=.5/Dan lying=12

11.  "bragged about firing the FBI director on TV"

Dan desperately needs this to be "wrongdoing".  It is not.  Reporting a move he made to fire a guy who never deserved the position in the first place is only wrong in that it took as long as it did to realize the guy was a cretin.

Truth=.5/Dan lying=13

12.  "took Vladimir Putin’s word over the US intelligence community"

Except that he had legit reason to doubt the word of US intel leaders:

https://nypost.com/2020/08/11/trump-reluctant-to-trust-us-intelligence-because-of-comey-brennan/

So while it wasn't a good expression of his true beliefs, it wasn't "wrongdoing".  It was an indictment of what he called "bad cops"...the very type Dan loves.  Nonetheless, I'm going to give this one another half point for the optics, while giving Dan lying another point for pretending he meant something nefarious.

Truth=1/Dan lying=14

13.  "diverted military funding to build his wall"

 What is the purpose of the military if not to defend us against foreign invaders?  The Supreme Court agreed and found his use of the funds to be appropriate.  And while legit separation of powers arguments can be made in opposition to the move, the move itself was on behalf of the American people against the constant invasion of illegals and the many illegal activities which result.  That's only "wrongdoing" in the minds of Trump-haters, when the entirety of Congress should have been granting expenditures to secure our border, but wasn't.

Truth=1/Dan lying=15

14.  "caused the longest government shutdown in US history,"

The wrongdoing is by the Congress for failing to support his efforts to secure our border...unless Dan's referring to something different.  In any case, the point remains.  Is a difference between the executive branch and the legislative resulting in shutdown automatically the fault of the executive branch?  Can that be said without an examination of what led to the shutdown?  No.  Dan only seeks to portray this as "actual wrongdoing" because Trump was involved.  

Truth=1/Dan lying=16

15.  " called Black Lives Matter a “symbol of hate"

Speaking the truth is never "wrongdoing".

Truth=1/Dan lying=17

16.  "lied nearly 30,000 times"

Dan couldn't list 30 actual lies Trump told as president about his work as president.  He simply parrots what the liars at the Washington Post say, because liars stick together, especially when hating on Trump.

Truth=1/Dan lying=18

17.  "banned transgender people from serving in the military"

Not "wrongdoing" at all.  It's logical and necessary for unit cohesion to stop using the military as an experiment in social perversion.  Trump gets high marks for this move, as it is actually just and righteous.  Only pervs like Dan regard denying pervs to be a bad thing.

Truth=1/Dan lying=19

18.  "ejected reporters from the White House briefing room who asked tough questions"

That's just funny.

Truth=1/Dan lying=20

19.  "vetoed the defense funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers"

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/06/30/trump-vows-to-veto-defense-bill-if-it-renames-u-s-bases-named-for-confederate-figures/

Truth=1/Dan lying=21

20.  "refused to release his tax returns"

Given there is no law or righteous reason to demand that any politician MUST present tax returns for public scrutiny, to call this "wrongdoing" is simply partisan crapola and thus another lie.

Truth=1/Dan lying=22

OK.  I'm going to leave it there for now, as there is so much left to review in just Dan's first comment listing nonsensical examples of "wrongdoing"...actual or otherwise, but mostly the latter.  I'll continue later.

Don't Have A Title For This One

I'm currently in the process of putting together a response to a list of "actual wrongdoing" Dan attributes to Donald Trump...a far better man than the moron Dan regarded (and likely still regards) as a better option for the 2020 presidential election.  (Yeah...he's that blatantly stupid) Given the number of "wrongdoings", it may take me another day or so (if I can get to it properly before Sunday morning), or possibly a few days longer.  In any case, I'll get to it.  But for now, something else came up.

I'm no fan of Alex Jones.  By that I mean I don't listen to his show, never did except for a brief period back in, I think, 2010 when someone suggested I give him a listen.  I wasn't impressed by anything he was saying, mostly similar stuff most every conservative was saying (I'm just referring to what I actually heard), and nothing particularly outrageous or notable.  As most people know, he was "strung up" for saying that the Sandy Hook school shooting was some kind of hoax or something, and "inciting" people to threaten surviving family members.  To my knowledge, no one has produced any audio or video tape of Jones suggesting anyone should seek out these people and threaten to harm them or to perpetrate any harm upon them.  I'm not even sure he spoke about the families at all as if they were guilty of some illegal or unethical activity, but only that there's reason to question whether or not the shooting took place.  

When I heard that he had these doubts, I couldn't believe it.  It was a truly moronic suggestion in my mind but I never paid it much mind.  Again, not a fan.  Lefties say stupid shit all the time and I don't comment on every utterance of stupidity they spew.  It wasn't particularly surprising that someone on the right, or said to be on the right, would say something stupid now and then.  It happens.  

But then the families accused him of causing people to make threats and causing all other manner of distress.  Now, I found this amazing as I can't imagine I would waste any time worrying about stupid things someone might say when the important thing is I lost a loved one and know how it happened.  Who cares if some radio guy has a theory?  (As it happens, I found a site which gave a list of reasons why anyone would take the position on Sandy Hook which Jones took.  I haven't scrutinized it.)

So, to cut to the chase, Jones was judged in court to be responsible for the duress suffered by these people to the tune of, I believe, something like $200 million.  Pardon me if the number is off, but I heard it was huge.  Enough to bring back any of the dead?  I don't believe so.  

Now, due to Elon Musk's take-over of Twitter, we're seeing all manner of info proving how information was Trabued...I mean...cancelled, shadow-banned and other forms of speech suppression on behalf of our Democrat-led government.  Watching some saved episodes of Tucker Carlson (while I binge on Yellowstone...I'm pretty much hooked and not sure if I actually like the show), Fearless host, Jason Whitlock proposed something extraordinary.  He cited the wife of David Dorn, murdered during the peaceful protests of 2020 and the owners of businesses destroyed as just as worthy of a massive judgement against these various social media platforms, as well as the government entities who worked with them, to suppress truth and promote lies...such as the racist cops murdering innocent black people myth.  People died because info regarding COVID was suppressed when it conflicted with the Fauci crap.  They, too, deserve redress.  What's more, unlike the families of Sandy Hook victims, who were not actually harmed by the stupid opinion of Alex Jones, thousands (at the utmost least) of people died as a direct result of leftist lies.  Those leftists need to be held accountable.  

The left cannot survive truth.  It is anathema to them.  But by suppressing it, cancelling it...by denying conflicting opinions which can be discussed and examined for truth or error...people have been severely harmed.  The nation has been horribly harmed by the suppression of information just to protect an abject moron who went on to become our president, and that harm continues.  Jones was screwed for his stupidity.  Too many on the left have been profiting by theirs.  And the nation suffers.  God help us and save us from the left.

Monday, November 28, 2022

What Up, Dan?

I've notice changes in your on-line presence.  I hope it's not due to serious problems in your personal life.  Your profile connected to your name when it appears in comments does not go to what used to be for years.  It suggests you've just joined Blogger.  What's the deal?  Again, I hope it's nothing serious.

Friday, November 25, 2022

Thank Who? A Slightly Belated Thanksgiving Post.

I don't personally find it hard to be grateful, even during periods when I'm less than joyful.  The Mrs. and I having recently moved to a warmer climate state, a number of factors have dampened my enthusiasm.  For example, it was intended that I would retire, working only for something to do and to get a little "beer and ammo money".  But fools refused to vote for Trump and the thriving economy resulting from his tax and regulatory policies is now in the toilet because of the senile buffoon illegitimately ensconced in the Big Chair.  Yet despite the inflation inflicted upon us by this inept and unfit sniffing old codger, I remain thankful we made the move (of course, given I fled Illinois, where morons rule and the cost of living is even more expensive, how could I not be?).  

We miss the fam, but we're enjoying having each other to ourselves, while also thankful that our youngest, freshly married two months ago, is still planning to join us down here.  The wife is digging her job, while I'm digging not having to work more than a few days a week while still earning well.  And given our ages, we're in pretty good health...my excess 20-30 pounds notwithstanding.  So given the state of the nation, the world, the culture and other considerations, we're still very much thankful to our Lord for the many blessings we have no trouble recognizing every day.  (I could do without the cat, but he makes her happy, so...)

Two US Presidents saw fit to acknowledge we owe a great deal of thanks to Someone in particular:

New York, 3 October 1789

By the President of the United States of America. a Proclamation.

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor—and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be—That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks—for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation—for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war—for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed—for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted—for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.

and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions—to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually—to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed—to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord—To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us—and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand at the City of New-York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

 

Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863

By the President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

But for the last few years this day has rolled around, I can't help but wonder about all those who do not believe.  Few people consider the object of commemoration when federal holidays come about.  They're just paid days off and a time to party.  But this day is different than the others.  Atheists still have Santa, even if they don't have Christ, so they still can feel the "Christmas spirit".  But to whom are they giving thanks on Thanksgiving?  

If one believes all good things have been solely the result of one's own efforts, I would think every day is a day to give thanks to one's self.  But what of all those with whom such a person would spend the day feasting and watching football?  Does such a person expect gratitude from the rest?  How does that work?  Perhaps they just ignore the reason for the day and enjoy as they would any other party.  I've been at a gathering where, for the sake of teaching the kids, all around the table would take turns mentioning something for which they are thankful.  I think that's when the question first hit me...thankful to whom?  I don't recall if that was part of the exercise, though it certainly should have been if it wasn't.  But what of those who don't believe?  To whom do they give thanks for all the good things in their lives? 

George and Abe saw fit to set aside a time for giving thanks to Almighty God.  In this day and age, with faith constantly under attack, I'm surprised they still allow Thanksgiving to exist as a federal holiday, what with all that separation of church and state crap so many like to spew.  I know from Whom all my blessings flow.  It is to Him I give thanks.

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Historically Oppressed? So What...?

The title of this post refers to one of Dan's most favorite banalities:  HISTORICALLY OPPRESSED!!!  He uses this trite expression in his defense of inane positions and support for those unworthy of the support Dan believes is deserved.  The three main demographics upon whom Dan bestows this label of sorrow are black people, women and the LGBT community.  

It's not as if these groups have not been mistreated throughout history.  Women were chattel long before any particular race was.  Blacks, of course, suffered greatly in American history as well.  The LGBT community?  Not as much as they and their enablers would have us believe, but yes, they have also been mistreated, though their behavior invited it from those who regarded their behavior as the abnormal perversion it is.  (Not at all a justification, but a reality which makes a significant difference which in turn puts them in a unique category.)

The problem with referencing history, however, is that Dan does this to stifle legitimate arguments, positions and opinions with regard to specific issues which arise in our society and culture:

1.  Prostitutes and loose women can't be criticized because women were historically oppressed. 

When Dan sought to disparage Trump on the basis of allegations from women against him, Dan was incensed in his usual pearl-clutching manner that I would scrutinize any of those allegations in any way.  Two of those on the list of "abused" women were Stormy Daniels and another woman whose name I don't feel like looking up again.  Both of these women I referred to as "whores" and "sluts" because they both traded their bodies for money (which makes them whores), and they both insisted they had affairs with Trump (which makes them sluts).  Despite the adjectives being completely accurate and thus appropriate labels, Dan sought to scold me as having insulted all women for calling a couple of whores/sluts whores and sluts...because women have been historically oppressed.

2.  When conversations regarding issue within the black community arise, and they deal with criminality, low academic outcomes, out-of-wedlock births and other negative issues, any attempt to deal with the actual reasons will compel Dan to once again speak of how blacks have been historically oppressed.

3.  And of course, Dan's most favored nation...the LGBT community...can never be discussed truthfully regarding their disorders and immoral behaviors and their demands for special privileges with again hearing Dan whine about how historically oppressed they've been.

But the issue here, and it's reflected in the second question of the title, is what does having been historically oppressed have to do with anything regarding whatever the current issue on the table is.  Since the recent shooting at the Club Q is in the news, I'll focus on the perv community.  And with that, the question is, what does any past oppression have to do with the fact that these people are disordered and immoral?  One can beat up a perv every day of the week and the fact remains the perv is perverted.  

So let's remove the daily beatings from the equation and what's left is the issue the liars...like Dan...wish to avoid.  More to the point, Dan uses the "historically oppressed" angle to stifle discussion of that which matters...of that which is on the table.  The focus is in one direction only...on the pervs and how sad it is they take heat as a result of the revulsion good people have of their perversions.  Dan brought up at Craig's some "sad" news of a "beloved transgendered" friend of his being denied Thanksgiving dinner with the folks.  "Do you know the harm that causes?"  No regard for the harm suffered by the folks knowing their kid turned out to be a perv and actively manifests it.  No.  All opinions and beliefs are to be made subordinate to the whims and whining of the disordered because they were historically oppressed.  

Well, I don't care how oppressed they were in the past when we're speaking to their behaviors in the present.  Bad behaviors have no justification and nothing a segment of society endured in the past factors into the perpetration of those bad behaviors.  It doesn't make the bad behaviors OK, nor does it justify overlooking those behaviors, enabling them, promoting them or refusing to speak truthfully about them.  

What's more, I don't need to hear a thing about past oppression if I encounter oppression taking place now, and given my own beliefs about how folks should be treated, I oppose all unjust treatment of anyone.  Thus, there's really no significance to it and to mention "historical oppression" is just a cheap and dishonest ploy to demonize ("oppress") good people who oppose that which people like Dan embrace, promote and/or enable.

Thursday, November 10, 2022

When Morons Vote

I may take a couple or more posts to deal with the midterms elections.  One of the most moronic outcomes was the re-election of Democrat morons governors.  For example, my former home of IL re-elected JB Prickster who had already announced, and had analyzed by intelligent people, an act which will aid and abet criminals, called, "the SAFE-T Act"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asVws3Ef9XI)(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC_qdm501LM).  It's a horror.  Then in Michigan, voters rejected a bright woman of character, Tudor Dixon in favor of retaining Gretchen Whitless (https://michiganrisingaction.org/2022/08/01/governor-gretchen-whitmer-is-failing-michiganders/) so that they can be locked down again at a moment's notice should anyone get the sniffles.  It's a horror.  And of course there's Kathy Hochul. (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11394505/NY-Governor-Hochul-slammed-woke-MSNBC-anchor-NYCs-control-crime-wave.html)  She's just a horror.  (SIDE BAR:  As regards the last link above, it shows murder and shooting victim rates are down.  Is it the result of better law enforcement, poor ability to murder and/or hit one's target or a target poor environment due to fewer people venturing out where their lives are more at risk?)

So the sad troll feo tried posting this below in celebration of his stupidity and that of fellow New Yorkers who apparently want more crime, cost and emigrants so they can pay all the taxes themselves:

Oh. And we New Yorkers voted to protect our city from White Supremacists like you. All amendment proposals passed.

1. Ballot Question #1: Add a Statement of Values to Guide Government This proposal would amend the New York City Charter to: Add a preamble, which would be an introductory statement of values and vision aspiring toward “a just and equitable city for all” New Yorkers; and Include in the preamble a statement that the City must strive to remedy “past and continuing harms and to reconstruct, revise, and reimagine our foundations, structures, institutions, and laws to promote justice and equity for all New Yorkers.”

2. Ballot Question #2: Establish a Racial Equity Office, Plan, and Commission This proposal would amend the City Charter to: Require citywide and agency-specific Racial Equity Plans every two years. The plans would include intended strategies and goals to improve racial equity and to reduce or eliminate racial disparities; Establish an Office of Racial Equity and appoint a Chief Equity Officer to advance racial equity and coordinate the City’s racial equity planning process. The Office would support City agencies in improving access to City services and programs for those people and communities who have been negatively affected by previous policies or actions, and collect and report data related to equity; and Establish a Commission on Racial Equity, appointed by City elected officials. In making appointments to this Commission, elected officials would be required to consider appointees who are representative of or have experience advocating for a diverse range of communities. The Commission would identify and propose priorities to inform the racial equity planning process and review agency and citywide Racial Equity Plans.

3. Ballot Question #3: Measure the True Cost of Living This proposal would amend the City Charter to: Require the City to create a “true cost of living” measure to track the actual cost in New York City of meeting essential needs, including housing, food, childcare, transportation, and other necessary costs, and without considering public, private, or informal assistance, in order to inform programmatic and policy decisions; and Require the City government to report annually on the “true cost of living” measure.

Apparently, feo, being a self-loathing, white-guilted race-hustler thinks he knows a white supremacist when he sees one.  Obviously, he's a moron because there's nothing he could ever find among almost 15 years of blogging anything among my comments which suggests racism on my part.  But like a good little lefty, he regards everyone not as ideologically stupid as he is as a racist.  It's what lefties do.  They see "white supremacists" everywhere.   So rather than protect their fellow citizens, particularly lower income black citizens who are disproportionately victims of violent crime, they choose to protect themselves against a myth of their own making with the above laughably impotent amendments to their city charter.  Let's look at each briefly:

1.  The chief concern of this point and the next is "equity" (https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/political-correctness/equity-when-the-left-goes-too-far/) which at its heart for the left is simply equal outcomes or, the notion that lack of good outcome is somehow based on some form or prejudice or discrimination.  It never means a given failure is a failure through that failure's failure to strive for excellence or is limited by physical or mental challenges.  Equity, to the left, means "white man bad".  This is true because rarely (I'm being generously open-minded here) do we ever see anyone defend a white guy as being a victim of a lack of equity.  Thus, it's a racist concept because of how the racist lefties have perverted the term.  So the problem is in just how they will determine a failure to achieve or succeed is the result of some lack of equity?  So far, they simply assert it.  Point one doesn't provide any hints.  

2.  This point suggests part of whatever that plan is begins with a commission to provide plans to ensure "racial" equity, demonstrating the racism of the plan and the people who came up with this crap sandwich.  You'll note as you read through it that it's difficult to imagine that subjectivity won't play a major role in the implementation and enforcement of any "racial equity" plan.  What guarantee will there be to prevent and punish frivolous claims one is a victim?  As has been the case thus far, every charge of racism or "white supremacist"...and feo's the perfect example of this grievous slander...will require those charged to prove their innocence.  The accusation will be proof of guilt.  That's how it works with the left.  

3.  This point is government interference codified into law.  They'll tally what they believe the cost of living has become and then provide that to activists who'll seek to force employers to raise wages and benefits to accommodate that cost.  Not only will they not do a damned thing to teach and encourage people to live within their means while the costs is what it is at the time of implementation, they likely will never allow those wages and benefits to be reduced to reflect any positive change in the cost of living...that is, should things get less expensive.  What a great way to compel more businesses to flee the city!!  

Frankly, I can't see how any of these three reflect Constitutional principles which can't lead to their being struck down by a state or federal court, particularly the last one.  The second will likely increase the case load as every attempt to punish an entity for a perceived lack of equity will potentially wind up in court.  

So here we have a people...the citizens of New York City...doubling down on stupidity with these nonsensical amendments the City Idiot feo regards as reason for celebration and feeling superior to better people he falsely regards as "white supremacists".  Electing Hochul should have been enough to prove what morons New Yorkers are.  But they couldn't help themselves.  

Well, good luck to you New York (city AND state).  You deserve the suffering which will now increase.  You clearly wanted more of it.

Thursday, November 03, 2022

Since Dan Won't Give Assurance...

 This post is in response to petulant questions posed to me by Dan in the comments section of the following post of his:

http://throughthesewoods.blogspot.com/2022/10/trying-to-answer-misunderstandings-and.html

The reason I'm doing it here is because Dan refused to assure me he's allow me the freedom to respond in my own way, as I do for him here at my blog.  He believes that because he allowed some comments of mine, which he says, basically, because I followed his rules, then I should not demand that assurance.  But I know better than to take his word for such things.   One false step and all the time I took to respond will be made a waste when he deletes for reasons no one can hope to follow.  

That's enough background.  Here we go:

It begins with this:

"Before you say anything else, PROVE this claim objectively or admit you can't. Support your claims/answer the questions in bold. Don't comment otherwise.

 Marshal...

Given Scripture's teaching about eternal punishment...even allowing for the fact you reject that teaching as you do so many others...it's clear God's opinion of sin is severe and more so than yours or you wouldn't defend so much of it so openly and happily.

? PROVE IT."

This is my response: 

 I have proven it many times in past discussions, and really, it's proven again in the very quote he wants me to prove.  Scripture teaches of eternal punishment.  That clearly suggests (at the utter least) that God's opinion of sin is severe and more so than Dan's.  Dan thinks eternal punishment is unjust for what he refers to as "minor" or "trivial" sins.  God simply deals in sin and is willing to allow that some will perish, even though He desires that none should.  

He goes on as follows:

"I know there are passages that speak of eternal punishment. There are also passages that speak of God not being willing any to punish. What is your PROOF, objective, demonstrable PROOF, that God thinks the every day "I took the last cookie even though I knew my wife wanted it" sins are worthy of eternal punishment, in God's opinion?

PROVE IT."

This is my response:

I've never made the case that God thinks "every day" sins...and here Dan is again referring to what he labels "minor" or "trivial" sins... are worthy of eternal punishment.  My position is that God isn't basing His sense of justice on any such ranking of the seriousness of sinful behaviors.  And while Dan demands proof that God wouldn't condemn on such a basis, he provides absolutely no proof that there's any specific line separating "minor" or "trivial" sins from "major" or "really bad" sins.  For my part, I insist my job is to avoid sinful behaviors of all kinds without regard to how someone like Dan might categorize them, because I know from Scripture that God abhors sin.  It's not a behavior which condemns us, it's our sin nature.

Dan said:

"This is an intentional distortion of the point.

Prove it, liar. What it is, is me making clear what my position is."

Of course, I stated my point and thus his words clearly distorted it as I go on to say in the next part he reprinted:

"Marshal...

Only you are suggesting the possibility of "some secret notions of sin and justice". To say God's ways are not our ways and we can't know God's ways as He does is not a suggestion there are secret notions of sin and justice.

So, what DO you mean that God's ways aren't our ways? Do you think we CAN reasonably understand morality and justice issues?"

This is my response:

The first sentence of mine he quoted speak tot he distortion mentioned prior.  More details of my point can be found by scrolling above (I had about a half-dozen comments in a row).  But his emboldened questions are nonsensical.  The concept of God's ways not being like ours is not a new or mysterious concept.  In the context of this discussion, Dan can't understand how there can be eternal punishment for anyone for any reason.  Personally, I don't even need to know why God has chosen to act as He does, but only that I have a duty to abide His Will, which is very clearly revealed to us in Scripture.  As to Dan's second question in bold, it's not a question about which he's truly concerned.  Dan seeks to promote ambiguity in which one can rationalize behaviors which aren't ambiguously prohibited.  He also seeks to impose upon God a human level of moral/justice understanding.  That is, if we don't have civil penalties for "minor" or "trivial" sins, by golly God mustn't concern Himself with them, either.  We're all imperfect humans.  We try to live by codes of morality and justice as we understand them and as we prefer them to be, with other cultures on earth having distinctly different codes by which they rule themselves.  God, however, is perfect and His "understanding" of morality and justice is not like ours.  Thus, if He is more offended by sin than we are, it is justice if He punishes those stained by sin more than the likes of a Dan Trabue would prefer.   Boo-hoo Dan Trabue.

Moving on:

"Marshal...

"I tolerate these people in order to help them. I do not, will not and let them know that they must never again indulge their bad behaviors if they're truly seeking help."

Not an effective method for dealing with some of these sins/failings. Addicts and racists don't respond well to ultimatums. I'm interested in reform, not judgmentalism"

This is my response:

There is no reform while bad behaviors continue.  There is no reform without having first judged a person who engages in bad behavior.  What the hell?  And addict isn't reforming if he's still using.  A racist isn't reforming if he's still a Democrat.

Dan said...

"D. None of us can objectively authoritatively prove our understandings of justice and morality. Not Marshal. Not me.

Marshal responded...

D. This doesn't make sense. Do you mean we can't prove our understandings are correct? I don't agree.

I mean PRECISELY that your opinions about justice and morality are opinions that you can NOT prove objectively."

This is my response:

Ah...the old, "I call myself a Christian but I don't know if I can trust what Scripture says about morality because I don't really have faith" line.  I regard Scripture as inerrant.  God's Will, as regards human behavior, is clearly revealed to us in Scripture.  Only lefties pretend there's ambiguity enough to rationalize behaviors they indulge or enable in others.  But to insist that clearly revealed Will of God is not proof is absurd.  Of course it is.  Scripture is the testimony of those who were servants of God or witnesses to their deeds.  It's proof of what morality and justice looks like.  

Dan said,

"You can't PROVE objectively that God is opposed to gay guys marrying."

This is my response:

Of course I can and have repeatedly over the years.  It begins with Lev 18:22 and, frankly, can end there given your inability to prove your self-serving opinion of it.  That verse prohibits the commission of a particular behavior.  It provides no context or scenario in which it might be indulged and not still be considered detestable by God.  As Neil Simpson's well known response states:

---100% of the verses addressing homosexual behavior denounce it as sin in the strongest possible terms.

---100% of the verses referencing God's ideal for marriage involve one man and one woman.

---100% of the verses referencing parenting involve moms and dads with unique roles (or at least a set of male and female parents guiding the children).

---0% of 31,173 Bible verses refer to homosexual behavior in a positive or even benign way or even hint at the acceptability of homosexual unions.

This is objective proof that God is opposed to SSM.  There is no early Christian apologists promoting or enabling the behavior in any way regardless of the context or scenario in which it might take place.  

In the meantime, Dan as NEVER provided so much as a hint of evidence to the contrary, and all attempts he's put forth require wild speculation based on his preference that God is not opposed.

Dan said:

"You can't PROVE objectively that we are saved literally by Jesus' blood to "cover" or "pay for" our sins."

This is my response:

Of course I can and have repeatedly over the years.  Indeed, there are a variety of ways we can show through Scripture that this is true.  I believe Dan expects and demands that there must be a stockpile of vials filled with Christ's blood in order for this to be true.  But of course, the salient point is that it is Christ's death on the cross which paid our sin debt, and thus to say we're washed clean by His blood shed on that cross is a metaphorical explanation of that most necessary sacrifice on our behalf.  It's basic Christianity 101 which any serious and prayerful student of Scripture knows.

Dan said:

"You can't PROVE objectively that transgender folks are "sinning.""

 This is my response:

Well of course I can and have every time the subject arose.  The problem here for Dan is that unlike actual Christians, he requires more than one verse or mention of a commandment of God to acknowledge the sinfulness of a behavior.  Indeed, he's taken a mocking tone for daring to present the one verse which makes this obvious.  But if mere cross-dressing is prohibited, how much more so is mutilating one's body so as to appear to be a member of the opposite sex?  His objection is absurd.  

Now, there is one caveat to this, which is that so many of such people are mentally disordered.  One has to be to believe amputating body parts will bring one joy and happiness.  I would hope mental cases aren't judged in the same way as those who simply find pleasure in indulging in prohibited behaviors.  I leave that to God, but will voice the truth when given the opportunity.  Some simply aren't aware of the truth.  Dan is and rejects it so as to appear more holy to those who most need to hear the unvarnished and unequivocal Word of God.

Dan said:

"You can't PROVE objectively that ANY of your opinions about what God thinks about moral questions are objectively correct. NOT ONE."

This is my response:

The three previous points completely destroy this claim.  What's more, all my opinions are totally grounded in and informed by Scripture...even those which I had already held prior to Biblical study (just lucky, I guess).  But again, for Dan to so insist this nonsense requires that he not take Scripture seriously.  He'll worry what non-Christians believe or that actual Christians might struggle to persuade non-Christians like him the truth of Scriptural teachings.  I don't know, but that he doesn't believe in Scripture when it's not convenient to do so...which is quite often.

Dan said:

"These are human traditions and beliefs that are not provable.

Do you admit that reality?"

This is my response:

It's not "reality" but your wish that it be so.  This "human tradition" trope is one you pull out when you have no actual argument in defense of your defenseless preferences.  You want and need to believe that because "humans" have a "tradition" that the "tradition" in question is somehow unBiblical because you desperately need it to be so.  There's not a single Christian tradition...I refer here to both actual Christians as well as those like yourself...which are not in some way informed by Scripture.  All are "human" so this "human tradition" mantra is crap and meaningless.  It's just a form of derision for that which you cannot intelligently oppose for lack of evidence, data or support of the level you demand of every opponent with whom you disagree.

 Dan said:

" If you THINK you can prove it objectively, do so. OR, admit you can't."

This is my response:

Clearly I've proven every claim I've made with regard to the morality of behaviors.  What we lack is Dan's body of evidences, proofs, data and support for his alternative positions.  Proof is only required by him of those who disagree with him.  He does not feel he is obliged to prove a thing he believes or wishes was true. 

It goes on....

""Do you agree that none of us - not even conservatives like you - have a perfect understanding of justice and morality?"

Marshal didn't answer, saying instead...

A foolish and irrelevant question. Perfection isn't required. And the real issue isn't a matter of perfect understanding anyway, but understanding what is clear and unequivocal.

Answer the question, directly. Given your non-answer, I suspect that you are willing to admit, "NO, conservatives don't have a perfect understanding of Justice and morality."

AM I RIGHT? ANSWER THE QUESTION PUT TO YOU.
"

This is my response:

Dan believes he's scoring points here.  Even his snippet of my response clearly demonstrates that I did answer his moronic question.  I don't know how many times I must refer to humanity as imperfect in order to prevent his need to ask such questions.  If I've continued to describe humanity as imperfect, then on what basis would this question be intelligent?  My answer is as direct as it needs to be if the questioner was an honest person.  I could also have answered in this way:  Conservatives have a far better understanding of justice and morality than any "progressive Christian" ever will.  But that's an entirely different debate for another time.

Dan goes on:

"Marshal...

"what is clear and unequivocal..."

According TO WHO?

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS PUT TO YOU, directly. Clearly. With no vague non-answers.
"

I always answer directly.  I don't deal in "vague 'non-answers'".   But according to whom?  According to honest people who don't pretend God's Will is vague and difficult to understand in order to continue indulging or enabling that which is prohibited but personally pleasing.  And example of that which is clear and unequivocal are any verses beginning with "Thou shalt not..."

Dan asks:

"
"Do you agree that we all, generally, CAN have a reasonable understanding of Justice and morality?"

Marshal responded without answering...

This suggests you're as reasonable as I am. You're not.

ANSWER THE QUESTION PUT TO YOU. Do you agree that humanity can and does have a reasonable understanding of morality and justice, even if it's imperfect?"

This is my response:

My answer was as direct as it needed to be.  Dan is unreasonable.  I would imagine there are quite a few among "humanity" who are less so and some that are only more so by small degrees.  Dan is a "diversity is our strength" guy, ignoring the diversity which clearly exists among those in this country with regard to crime in the streets alone.  The understanding of morality and justice among Dan's favored political party is vastly unreasonable and superior to mine alone, much less the conservative portion of "humanity" in this country.  Now consider Communist China/N. Korea.  How many citizens in those countries believe as their leaders do?  What about muslim majority nations?  Some will throw Dan's lesbians off roofs with their hands bound behind them because of their understanding of morality and justice. 

That's about where I'm going to leave it.  Dan goes on a bit further with his usual crap...pretending I'm "conflating hunches with God's Word".  Like I said...crap.  "Conflating hunches" is what Dan says when he's unable to prove his opposing opinion is Scriptural and unwilling to try.  He just wants those who oppose his enabling of immorality to concede they might be wrong, while never doing jack shit to support the possibility he could possibly be right.  

I've never failed to support my positions.  I've referenced Scripture and have been accused of "speaking for God" when repeating what Scripture says God has said.  I've never said anything which God has NOT said.  Dan does all the time.  Dan proves nothing, supports nothing, provides no evidence, proofs, facts or data.  He then dares to suggest HE'S the adult in an adult conversation. 

Now I have to decide if I'm going to bother to attempt to post this at his blog. 

Friday, October 28, 2022

A Particular Real Threat To The Nation

 And no, this doesn't include MAGA Republicans or "right-wing extremism"...as if that's a thing.  

No.  This is about something more obvious to most Americans, and particularly Americans in especially seedy areas around the country.  Crime, and what we should be doing about it.

For far too long, the crime situation in this country has worsened, and I don't think it would be difficult to show it's worsened at a greater rate since Our Doddering Moron In Chief was illegitimately installed to be Head Party Puppet of the Democratic Party.  Democrats have a history of enabling unlawful behaviors of all sorts and actual criminal behavior is not excluded.  In their never ending attempt to grab and secure political power, they've put the law-abiding at serious risk through their racist pandering for votes.  Indeed, most of their bullshit push for Criminal Justice Reform/Prison Reform is nothing more than lowering expectations of those for whom higher/stricter expectations are required if one has the least bit of common sense.  It's difficult to figure on where to begin with this issue, since there is so much wrong in our country today due to those anti-American leftists, so I'm just going to shotgun some ideas for improving life for the law-abiding and in doing so, some of the problems caused by Dem pandering will be exposed along the way.  So, in no particular order:

1.  It seems every State's District Attorney or top prosecutor whose campaign was funded or supported by George Soros is a piece of shit.  Those like George Gascon in LA, Kim Foxx of Cook County, IL...these bastards need to be fired immediately, if not also prosecuted for the deaths which occurred by virtue of their lax law enforcement.  

2.  Any municipality or state which raised the amount of the value of that which assholes will steal and not be charged as a felony needs to be reversed and that amount should be lower than it was prior.  Stealing is not "victimless" or any other such lefty crap.  If a punk lifts a candy bar, he should be arrested, charged, convicted and sentenced in some way...even if it's just one more item on his rap sheet.  We now have groups of assholes flooding into stores to lift whatever they can carry and split, emptying shelves and little is done to find and prosecute these kids.  That has to stop.

I would also not be opposed to shop owners literally opening fire on these gangs and too damned bad should one of the thieves die on the spot.  When their relatives or friends whine the kid shouldn't have died for stealing a purse, they should be ignored and possibly held accountable for not raising their kids better.  

3.  Gun control laws need to be erased, except for the obvious cases of convicted criminals and insane people being denied the right to possess in any way a firearm of any type.  Indeed, they should be denied the "right" to carry any weapon of any kind, and any cop should have discretion as to whether an item in their possession is kept for the purpose of being a weapon.  

The law-abiding should not be deprived of their right to arm up.  Yeah...once in a while a law-abiding person might abuse that right, unjustly shooting another.  That's a trade off worth taking given how many assholes use firearms with criminal intent regardless of the fact they are supposed to be denied the right to own or carry them.  The rare case of an unjust or accidental shooting is not argument for gun control laws and given the rampant rise in violent crime, I much prefer the average law-abiding citizen live while his oppressor dies for his troubles.  

4.  Actually a part of the above, I have always had a problem with "common sense" gun control, as that's just asshole-speak for "infringing" on the right to keep and bear.  Registering, permitting...all of that are forms of infringement.  The 2nd simply protects the right.  Anyone who believes these types of regulations are not infringements or acceptable forms of it are assholes, too.  Here's how it should work:

In this age of technology, there should be a national data-base accessible to any licensed firearms dealer, as well as by all branches of law-enforcement.  The only people on this data-base should be convicted criminals and those certified as mentally incompetent to trust with dangerous weapons.  Period.  If one goes to purchase a firearm and one's name does not show up in the data-base, that person gets to purchase the gun and no official record of his ownership should be kept in any way.  So long as this person remains a law-abiding citizen, there's no reason any branch of government should be privy to his ownership.  To have any gun control means the very entity against whom the 2nd is meant to defend is calling the shots.  That's stupid.  But as every government entity has as its first responsibility to protect the people, denying weapons to criminals and crazies should be their only concern when it comes to guns.

5.  Support law-enforcement.  If we have good people in government, those departments of law-enforcement under their authority should also be comprised of good people willing to do the job of enforcing the law as it is meant to be done.  I don't think it'll ever be possible to pay them what their lives are worth...since their lives are always on the line...but I think most take pride in doing the job well and they should never be made out to be the bad guy any time some thug dies in their custody due to his combative actions.  Cops should be well armed, well trained and never required to do anything which is itself unlawful or unconstitutional, as we've been seeing with the FBI lately.  

The only people who want to defund the cops in any way are criminals, their enablers and race-hustlers.  People in the worst parts of town are generally trapped their by a variety of reasons and circumstances in their lives and they don't want to duck bullets or have their little kids killed by stray ones.  They don't want their women and girls raped.  They don't want to be mugged.  They don't want their kids dying from crappy drugs.  If the cops are well supported by the governments who employ them, the people will feel more confident that the cops support them.  

6.  Re-instate "qualified immunity".  Yeah...some cops might abuse this policy.  But I don't care for putting good people at risk because of assholes abusing their liberties.  Cops need to be considered innocent until proven guilty just as the law is supposed to treat everyone, and qualified immunity serves that end.  Split second decisions can go wrong and once in a while tragedy happens.  Unless a cop in such a situation can be proven to have been negligent or incompetent or criminal to an extent that someone died unjustly as a result, the cop should be presumed to have acted honorably.

Typically, the person who died wrongfully was still doing something which attracted the attention of the cops, and then responded to that attention in a combative manner.  It is almost outside of reality that an actual innocent person was killed by a cop for no reason. 

7.  Always treat criminals as criminals.  The onus is on them to work toward removing the stigma their own actions brought upon them.  Thus, prisons should never be pleasant in any way.  I don't mean we should go out of our way to make them dangerous to inmates, but no pleasantries should be available while doing time, especially for the more violent and repetitive criminals.  There should be nothing about prison or jails which would suggest anything less than discomfort, suffering and punishment for the crimes which led to one's incarceration.  Make the concept of "easy time" a fiction.  To wit:

--Overcrowding should not be a great concern.  If we haven't space to house all who break our laws, then sleeping ten to a cell is the criminal's problem, not ours.  

--"Pandemics" should never have been a reason for early release.  Again, no one forced a criminal to break the law.

--No television except for closed-circuit used for educational purposes, where one has proven themselves worthy of inclusion in educational efforts.

--Nothing in the libraries...should one exist at all...but educational books, religious books, classic literature and the like.  No porn, or anything remotely pornographic.  Of course, not many can actually read, so...

--No body-building options of any kind should be available.  Ever.  If some cons choose to prey upon weaker cons, they should be punished more severely to an extent which would preclude them from doing so again, and others from taking their place.

7b.  This one comes up occasionally and it drives me nuts.  When a person is convicted of a crime and sentence is passed, they are said to be "paying their debt to society".  Some think it is money well spent to offer criminals training for jobs while in prison.  Supposedly the recidivism rate of such people is better if they have training for a job when they're released.  That may be so.  I don't much care.  They can always be thrown back in jail if they return to a life of crime.  But let's assume that belief is based on actual fact.  Not one of those imprisoned...those born in this country...were denied a free education through high school.  They are not deserving of that which the law-abiding pay to get.  Thus, if they avail themselves of training while in prison, their paychecks must be garnished until that extra debt is paid.  If this results in any cons rejecting the option of training, so be it.  But I doubt it will if they believe their problem is a lack of training.  

8.  End "no cash bail" and raise bail for repeat offenders, violent crimes and the like.  If one can't afford bail or a good lawyer, try not breaking the law.

9.  Body cams were pushed by those who bought the "police brutality" and "racist cop" narratives.  They've more often than not shown bad behavior on the part of those detained by cops and as such, cops taking no shit should never be regarded as unjust brutality.  Their lives and health are more important than the assholes who choose to be combative.  Obeying lawful directives by cops would have prevented so many deaths race-hustling assholes portray as police brutality.  


At this point, it should be clear:  punks, thugs and assholes do not deserve considerations they are now getting.  It is this nonsensical, mostly racially motivated policy which has led to our current crime problem.  The law-abiding should not have to live in fear.  Assholes should.  They should fear repercussions because the repercussions are intentionally severe enough to dissuade assholes from continuing their asshole behavior, and to encourage potential assholes to avoid manifestations of their assholery.  Let's move on...

10.  Homeless camps need to be outlawed.  The homeless are responsible for a certain degree of crime and their presence results in a drop in property values and business.  No one should have to walk through such areas to go to work or to patronize local businesses.  This seems unChristian, but enabling whatever these people rather than mandating they get treatment for whatever their problem is is less so.  Most are nut cases and they need to be institutionalized...for their own good and for the good of the community which is threatened by their presence.

11.  Close the f**king border.  We are NOT in any way obliged to allow anyone into the country.  Our government is obliged to put us first and our protection and safety is our government's prime directive.  Trump was making progress on resolving the issues which led to illegal entry, through both the building of the wall as well as agreements with our foreign neighbors.  He, unlike the Democratic Party and too many in the GOP, actually put America first.  Biden reversed it all and the flood of illegals has been a horror to our nation.

 We should be deporting ALL illegals.  If someone can come up with a better way for true refugees from danger to appeal for entry, do so.  Everyone else gets booted out immediately upon exposure.  

For years...certainly before the Biden presidency led to record amounts of illegals invading our nation...the number "11 million" was commonly bandied about.  Many, including some conservatives like Michael Medved, would lament that we can't round up all 11 million and send them back over the border.  That's always been bullshit.  We don't address the issue as if it's all or none.  We don't address the issue by creating a new "pathway to citizenship" as if there already isn't one.  What we do is seek to identify as many as we can...constantly and with extreme prejudice...and send them back over the border. (What Mexico does with them I don't care.)  Each and every time we come across an illegal, that person must be placed under arrest and detained until transport can be brought forth to send them over.  If possible, we must confiscate their property, all of which is obtained illegally by virtue of their illegal presence in this country.  The more we do these things, the more the world will learn illegal entry won't be tolerated and the amnesty no longer exists.  Maybe a reward for exposing invaders would help.  

Some people sent back will be otherwise decent folk, no doubt.  That is, decent aside from the fact they broke our laws and crapped on our sovereignty.  That's too bad.  Again.  We have a path.  Get in line or don't come.  We need to know who's coming in and have some way to know who to deny.  We can't do that when our borders aren't secure.

12.  More often than not, law enforcement knows who the worst assholes are.  They know who the leaders of various gangs and criminal organizations are, as well as their soldiers.  We as a society must declare war on these people, and by that I'm not being hyperbolic.  I mean an actual war, destroying as many of these people as possible until the remnants throw up their hands in unconditional surrender.   I can't say this enough:  I don't care about the suffering of the bad guys.  If we have them dead to rights, them being dead isn't at all a bad thing for the sake of the rest of us.  And I don't mind if this is done under the table, taking out assholes in a covert manner which can mean less money spent in court.  It's time the assholes live in fear.  One can call this fantasy...one can say this will never happen.  It needs to.

13.  In that same vein, I wouldn't be opposed to covert ops in dealing with the cartels.  When speaking of assholes, they are among the worst in the world.  Tales of decapitated victims along the streets of Mexican towns are not make-believe.  Certainly there are good people in Mexico who would welcome such aid.   Perhaps the government would be more likely to do their jobs if they had such backing.  I don't know.  I don't know how bad and widespread the corruption is.  I'm sure the truly corrupt in government are well known and thus they are targets, too. 

 

This is really a partial list.  I could easily go on, and will likely add to this list.  Again, the goal here is the safety of the law-abiding.  That takes great priority over the "rights" of the criminals.  If one wishes to regard any of this as unAmerican or unChristian, such a person needs to explain where were the true Americans and Christians in our governments when this crap could have been nipped in the bud?  Governments...especially ours...are created to benefit the people.  Our government needs to get to it.

ATTENTION!!  I've added things to this post and very possibly will again.