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Starting off here by appealing for people to give to help Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.  Helping each other is part of what makes this world bearable.  In my case, I am driven to it by Tikkun Olam – the Jewish commandment to “Heal the world”.  I’ve given.  I personally recommend the Salvation Army because they have low overhead and do great work.

 (Family just got back, so with apologies, no essay this week.)

What We Believe Part 3

THIS is America.  People helping people.  I don't know what country

these Leftists live in, but I don't want to be there:

DailyWire - Houston Is The Best Of America. Berkeley Is The Worst. Here's Why.

and

Common Cents - In one sentence this man captures the Spirit of Texas

** And also related to the picture:

Heavy - The Cajun Navy: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
** And yet, what are people doing to those who come to save them?

Knuckledraggin - Ungrateful bastards

** Shooting at people trying to help you?  Fine.  Drown.  Or die of thirst / hunger / exposure.  America doesn't need vermin like you.

PJ Media - The Left Turns on Christopher Columbus, Repeating KKK ‘Black Legend’ Myth

** They want all of Western Civilization.  Don’t ever doubt it.  Spot-on related:
NSW News - Vandals deface Hyde Park statues in Australia Day protest
** And defending Christopher Columbus, long a target of the Left’s Ministry of Truth:
AmericanPowerBlog - Italian Americans Rally to Keep Christopher Columbus Statue (VIDEO)
** Channeling my “Inner Viking”: it would sure be delicious schadenfreude to see some “made men” contributing to the disappearing of some Antifa people.  Supporting my conviction that this Antifa thing is to destroy Western Civilization:
Liberty’s Torch - What Will It Take?
** Quote:
The monuments under attack are, of course, only symptomatic in the larger scheme of things. The Left’s whole effort is aimed at detaching the young from the history of these United States, especially its founding principles, its seminal struggles, and the words and characters of those who articulated them.

The “Antifa” and “Black Bloc” thugs attacking peaceable patriotic gatherings have the same end in view. There’s no way to separate a people from its history if they’re allowed to talk about it, or any element of it...especially the Founders’ emphasis on freedom of expression.

** And related to that:
LegalInsurrection - Journalist amid Antifa Berkeley Riots: “Police have completely disappeared … People getting beaten up”
** They were chanting "No Trump, no Wall, no USA at all."  Here are their roots:

Denver Post - He claimed he was stabbed for looking like a “neo-Nazi.” Now police say he bought the knife himself.

** That guy who “was stabbed for looking like a neo-Nazi”… apparently made it up.  Scumbag.

LegalInsurrection - Egypt-themed fraternity party sacrificed on altar of “cultural appropriation”
** The goal is to so terrify and intimidate nobody ever speaks or does anything not within the constraints the Left has created.  Related:
DailyWire - Police Show Up When Conservative Nebraska Student Places Her Table Outside Of 'Free Speech Zone'
** No Leftist group will ever have to contend with this.  More:
Director Blue - IS THERE A FIRST AMENDMENT OR NOT? Time for the Federal Government to Crush Antifa
** Quote:
Freedom of Assembly is the first and most important right of the Bill of Rights. Today it is being denied in cities like Berkeley and Portland where local left-wing governments have contrived to deny rally permits while giving the masked thugs of their leftist Antifa allies a blank check to assault those whose views they oppose.

In Berkeley, Boston and San Francisco, the First Amendment doesn’t exist anymore.

American Lookout - LIBERAL PUBLICATION: African-American Charles Barkley Is A “Black White Supremacist”
** Get back on the plantation, boy!

Hot Air - Girls as young as 12 turn to prostitution to survive Venezuela’s socialist nightmare
** And yet there are people who think Socialism, having failed time and time and time and time and time again, is a good idea.  Here’s why politicians love Socialism:

Hot Air - Looks like Italians are largely fed up with the flood of refugees
** I read an internet comment and agree: "Nobody goes from zero to jackboot like the Europeans".  I’m predicting very bad things in Europe, and not far in the future.  My Inner Viking speaks: Turn the boats back; tow them back to Africa with a warning - with a window to give time for word to spread: After Oct. 1, boats coming across will be missiled and the survivors strafed.

New Hampshire Review - Why are Ammunition Prices Dropping?

** I finally got around to actually organizing my stock; have a lot more than I thought.  And still not enough.  Every time I hear a Leftist speak, I buy more.  And I’ve got to pay more attention to local gun shows…

A joke seen on the internet; likely invented but no less true – or applicable – for that:

Q: Why do the Lithuanians oil their flower beds?

A: To keep their guns from rusting.

City Journal - Liberals, Shipwrecked
** A book review; looks interesting.  Definitely worth reading, and a quote:
This rejection of the very idea of an impartial dialogue is, Lilla believes, how the noble legacy of “large classes of people—African-Americans, women—seeking to redress major historical wrongs by mobilizing and then working through our political institutions” gave way, by the 1980s, to “a pseudo-politics of self-regard and increasingly narrow and exclusionary self-definition.” Inherent in it is identitarians’ “disdain” for the “ordinary democratic politics” of “engaging with and persuading people unlike themselves” in favor of “delivering sermons to the unwashed from a raised pulpit.”

and a little later, the Gold Nugget of Truth:

Seen in this light, identity politics is not a problem for Democrats but a solution to the deeper problem that liberalism doesn’t believe in itself.

Why is this important?  Because the Left is hollow; it only has power from its followers because they are perpetually angry.  They have no arguments, they have no case, they have raw, seething grievances.  If the Left had a center; fundamental principles from which to base policies and argumentation, they’d use them.  They don’t.  “The purpose of power is power” said a character in Orwell’s 1984.  That’s what it’s about – not principles, not anything else.  Power.  And if the movers-and-shakers succeed in defeating the Right, they will then sunder each Leftist group.  Divide and conquer – it’s what they do.

Gay Patriot - How fake is CNN? At least this fake

** The author makes the #fakenews point, but IMHO misses the larger picture: The willingness of Leftists, not just Left organizations like the Communist News Network, to lie, but the willingness of individual Leftists to lie in the service of The Faith.  This is the danger we on the Right are STILL not grasping: they will lie, openly, brazenly about what they plan, and what they are doing.

Free Beacon - Average Transgender Soldier Unable to Deploy for 238 Days
** I know a couple of M-to-F transgenders; worked with one for a couple of years.  Overall, nice people – just “regular folks” IMHO.  But one, I happened to have glanced, had a veritable pharmacy of prescription medications in her (and yes, I refer to both as “her”) purse.  The other had to take a couple of weeks off for surgery to “correct things” from prior surgeries.  What this transgenders-in-the-military move was, was simple: create a “right” out of thin air to have the US taxpayer pay for these peoples’ medical treatment, knowing that if a Republican came to power the reversal of that could be used as another divide and conquer move to create (see the City Journal entry, above) more anger to fuel the Left’s shock troops.  (And if it stood had Killary been elected, it would have served the other desired-by-the-Left role of weakening America: diverting military money from guns, bombs, and general readiness, and demoralized those soldiers still remaining.)  Related:
The Federalist - Dear Trans Lobby: The Military Is Not A Social Experiment
** Quote:
In such a scenario (and this Iraq veteran’s tweet storm is an example), a man shouldn’t be confused about his identity, have divided loyalties, or be ridden with anguish, guilt, stigma or hatred for country or a cause he is fighting for. Military is no place for feelings. You don’t question, reason, or argue about whether the causes of the war are just, you fight for your country, to win. If one isn’t sure about his sex, how can he be sure of his loyalty about which country, organization, or ideology to fight for?
>> The military has two purposes:
1. Kill people and blow sh*t up
2. Threaten other people with #1 so they don’t mess with us
ANYTHING THAT WEAKENS THE ABILITY TO DO THE ABOVE IS NOT RELEVANT TO THE MILITARY!!!!!

Althouse - Are you watching the TV news about Hurricane Harvey hitting Texas?
** Quote:
Please give me credit if I've said it first: They're less worried about Harvey hurting Texas than they are delighted that at the prospect of Harvey hurting Trump.
>> Everything – everything – is looked at as a tool to divide, conquer, and create anger to keep people from uniting (as far as the Left’s enemies are concerned), and thinking (as far as the various interest factions supporting the Left).  Look at every single thing the Left does through that filter and what they do makes perfect sense.

90 Miles - Proof Of Donald Trumps Feelings Towards Minorities!!
** Funny how Donald Trump only became a RAAAAAACIST!!!!! when he stood in the path of the Left’s juggernaut.

It Ain’t Holy Water - Highlights of Alt-Left / AntiFa Violence at Berkeley 'Rally Against Hate...

** Just feel the love and tolerance.  Not.

Townhall - How The Left Gets Away With Unlawful Discrimination

** Quote:
Two examples being the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. Two far-left "newspapers" which were put up for sale in the last decade and bought for a fraction of their peak value by ultra-wealthy liberal investors.

Two newspapers which now daily use their hundreds of politically-correct, liberal-group-think hires to attack President Trump, Republicans and conservatives.

To be clear, the last thing I would want is for conservative investors to purchase those newspapers — or any media outlet — and turn them into conservative propaganda rags. I don't want to read "conservative" bias in news copy any more than I want to read "liberal" bias in news copy. I just want honest news.

>> Two comments:
1. Yes; as instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds advocates, we Conservatives need to buy some of these information-purveyors and start getting our perspective out into the mainstream.
2. I don’t want propaganda, but we NEED to shatter the uniformity of left-left-left that people intake.

L’NITZAKHON!  (To Victory!)

Good Morning

Enjoy Your Sunday

Sandy Beach, Cohasset, Massachusetts

Linkfest

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(I need a life… sigh!  Family home soon, so making hay while they're away.  These will slow down considerably after September 1.)

What We Believe, Part 2: The Problem with Elitism

LegalInsurrection - Poland to EU: No Muslim Refugees
** This is what it looks like when a country puts its own citizens and national interests first.  Related to immigration:
90 Miles - ILLEGAL ALIEN RE-ARRESTED ONLY THREE DAYS AFTER HE WAS DEPORTED
** Don’t forget what the Left’s illegal-philia is really about (shameless capitalism – picture is from a mug with this design):

Jerusalem Post - Living with History
** Quote: “Children tear down the things they disagree with, but as grownups, that is a luxury we just cannot afford. Learning to live with history is a basic part of the human experience, and if we are becoming unable to do that, our society has much bigger problems than a few confederate statues or an upsetting flag. Our collective history is told through pain and joy, through victories and heartbreaking loss, and if we cannot keep all of it, we will end up with something much worse than nothing at all.”
>> Observant.  The Leftists are children, having a tantrum that others – i.e., those to the right of Stalin – aren’t acceding to their every whim.  It’s I want, I want, I want.  Related:

American Thinker - Christopher Columbus Gets the Sledgehammer

** The Confederacy issue is just an excuse; the real target is all of Western Civilization.  Because if that can be torn down, the Marxist Dialectic says – with “scientific confidence” – that a resulting Socialist Utopia will then arise.  These people are missionaries, with the same zeal and confidence in their beliefs as Islamic Jihadists.  More:

HotAir - New plan: let’s get rid of monuments to Columbus and… Grant?

** Quote:
“As I said, a nasty piece of business. But after all this time, do you dig up his bones and ship him out? We’ve lived to see interesting times indeed.”
>> What Grant did to Jews was a nasty piece of work.  But these people are as fanatical as the students in Mao’s Cultural Revolution, determined to scour their society (and change human nature) and expunge anything considered “impure”.  Millions died.
and
Truth Revolt - Minority Students Claim Thomas Jefferson’s Statue is ‘Emblem of White Supremacy’
** Like I keep saying, this is nothing to do with the Confederacy, and everything to do with an Orwellian purge of history.

No Pasaran - "Is Trump personally racist?" asks the NYT; "The few African-Americans in his inner circle respond with an emphatic No"
** He’s an eeeeevil racist bigot because he’s not a Democrat.  Related:
Campus Reform - Clemson prof: 'All Republicans are racist scum'
** Quote:
“All trump supporters, nay, all Republicans, are racist scum,” Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing Bart Knijnenburg wrote in a recent Facebook post.

“All republicans? Yes,” he confirmed in the comments section. “Your complacency made this happen. Pick a side: denounce your affiliation, or admit you're a racist.”

and
Pirate’s Cove - CNN: If You’re White And Voted For Trump, You’re A White Supremacist Or Something
and
Canada Free Press - Here's a list of weapons anti-Trump rioters used to assault Phoenix police
** Quote:
“By the way, according to Howard Dean, if you’re going to vote Republican in the 2018 mid-terms, consider yourself a racist, buddy. See how this works? Violence is fine if racists are present. All Republicans are racist. Bring your own weapons.”
>> The “Othering” of Republicans.  And one more on that:
Weasel Zippers - BLM Co-Founder Compares Trump To Hitler: He Is ‘Literally The Epitome Of Evil’

LegalInsurrection - The Pepper Ball Shot Heard Round the Internet

** Is it too much to hope this is a case for the Darwin Awards?  Somewhat related:
Bayou Renaissance Man - Doofus Of The Day #972
** The problem is these people vote.  (Total non sequitur: 972 is the telephone country code for Israel.)

American Thinker – Solar Superstorms and the US Electric Grid
** Our nation (and civilization) is sustained by electric power.  If it goes, we’re in trouble.

Lights Out! The Chaos When Our Grid Goes Down | Bill Whittle

LidBlog - Democrats: The Party of Racism
** Expecting moral consistency and intellectual honesty from a Democrat is like expecting fidelity and abstinence from a hooker.  Related:
American Thinker - What about monuments that honor Nazi-lovers?
** Alinsky's Rule Four: Make the enemy live up to their own rules.  That works both ways...

Zero Hedge - New Climate Study Throws Wrench In Global Warming Debate: "Our New Technical Paper... Will Likely Be Ignored"

** I wrote about why I moved from being a Warmist to a skeptic here:
Right Way – Climate Unscience

Truth Revolt - UN Force Says ‘NoEvidence’ of Weapons Smuggling in Lebanon… While Hezbollah Boasts AboutStockpile
** We’re still in this cesspool?

Daily Signal - Here Are Some Key Ways the Mainstream Media Distorts the Truth
** They have an agenda; distortion, even outright lying, are permitted.  For example, Windows rotates my power-saver screen.  The latest one had something like “Only 6%-or-so of women study STEM subjects…”  OK, interesting, but what’s missing?  What’s the male percentage?  And it would also be informative to know what percentage of those starting in STEM made it through for both sexes.  But informing is not the agenda – propagandizing is.  Alarming people is.  (When confronted with virtually any statistic, from anyone, my first inclination is to ask “So, what are they not telling me?”)

Truth Revolt - SHOCK VIDEO: Student Knocks Out Teacher with One Punch
** “Wilding”.  The kid kept hitting the teacher’s head after he was out cold.  Related to education:
Christian New Wire - First-Grader Sent to the Principal's Office for 'Misgendering'
** The words "tar" and "feathers" comes to mind regarding the people who try and indoctrinate this into kids.

Spero Forum - Indictment: Election worker in Democrat county in North Carolina
** More of that vote fraud that the Left insists doesn’t exist.  And if it exists, it doesn’t make a difference.  “Come on, you can trust us!”  More:
Washington Times - Study supports Trump: 5.7 million noncitizens may have cast illegal votes

Small Dead Animals - WrongThought Detected

** You must become just another brick in the wall.  Related:
Big League Politics - VIDEO: Gays For Trump Leader Assaulted As Police Stand Down
** You will think correct thoughts or else.  But there’s a secondary consequence: if Right-leaning people start to understand the police will not protect them, they will start coming armed.  And perhaps that’s the wheels-within-wheels plan.  If Right-leaning people come armed, and are attacked, and defend themselves, that will become the 24/7 screamfest about how Conservatives are dangerous.  Remember, the Left has had decades to plan this.  Exactly related:
Gateway Pundit - Alt-Left Leader Vows to ‘Crush Skulls’ at Conservative Prayer Rally with Nail-Embedded Bat
** $1 bet: This guy carries through, gets a nice double-tap to the chest, dies… and it’ll be the victim that’s blamed 24/7 by the enemedia with gun control legislation queued up within hours.  (Because you know they've already gotten it written!  A few word changes here and there to throw in the still-cooling bodies... and it's ready to try and push through.)  More:
American Thinker - Does the Left Know Something's Coming Involving Guns?
** Quote:
“The obvious next step in the string of events being put into effect by the left is a confrontation involving guns.  They seem to want, indeed, to have foreknowledge, that someone at one of these events will use a gun, perhaps one of their own pretending to be an opponent, or maybe a bystander will be threatened and will protect himself and those with him.  Regardless, the purge of the Second Amendment will take off as never before.  Imagine the hysterical, unhinged screaming that an Alt-Right lunatic finally proved all the leftists right and took a shot.  What happened won't matter.  Truth will be rejected.  The narrative will be everything.”
>> Does it count as “paranoia” if others see it too?

Weasel Zippers - Sanctuary City Fails To Cooperate with ICE, Releases Illegal Alien Who Then Kills HIs Girlfriend
** Channeling my “Inner Viking”… is it too much to ask that this start happening to the people who want these catch-and-release illegal-philia policies? Same question applies here:
Jihad Watch - UK: Muslim migrant murdered man after Home Office repeatedly failed to deport him
** These two incidents remind me of this quote:

Woodsterman - I Still Have A Ton Of Libtard Stuff
** Just funny.  Closing out on a lighter note.

L’NITZAKHON!  (To Victory!)

Rule 5 Saturday LinkOrama

Pew Pew Pew Pew!
Proof Positive - Friday Night Babe - Stephany Jacobsen

Political Clown Parade - Flowing Curves Of Beauty

By Other Means - Tuesday Tap, Rack, and Bang

Evi L. Bloggerlady - Harvey's Peggy Dow Update: Hurricane Harvey Upgraded?

Ninety Miles From Tyranny - Hot Pick, Girls With Guns and Morning Mistress

Grouchy Old Cripple - Saturday Boobage

Not so Angry Mike - Happy Humpday

The Feral Irishman - Friday Femme Fatale

The Daley Gator - Daley Babe

Diogenes Middle Finger News - A Good Monday Morning and Fishnet Friday

Theo Spark - SaraUnderwood in Santorini Greece

Your Crazy Uncle Bubba - Perfect earrings for fishing

American Power - Nina Agdal, Hannah Jeter, Robyn Lawley, Kate Bock, and Mia Kang (VIDEO)

Woodsterman - Rule 5 Woodsterman Style

The Other McCain - Rule 5 Sunday

The Pirates Cove - If All You See ...

GOODSTUFF's CYBER WORLD - GOODSTUFFs BLOGGING MAGAZINE

Friday Babe

Cameron Rorrison

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(My thanks to Dave in PB, who not only expressed enough confidence in me to post my essays, but gave me access to post directly.)

What We Believe, Part 1: Small Government and Free Enterprise.

Twitchy - Shock headline makes shock poll even more shocking: Nazis are (apparently) everywhere

** I think, based on reading this IN-DEPTH analysis, that there are probably as many people who think Elvis is alive or that aliens built the pyramids.

Jihad Watch - ProPublica,which got Jihad Watch dropped from PayPal, never tried to verify SPLC’s claimsof “hate”

** In Communist countries a mere accusation was enough to get you sent to the east to "count trees".  Our domestic enemy has learned well.

Neocon - Internet free speech threatened

** Quote: "This should make your blood run cold."

>> Yes, it does.

Sultan Knish - Black Nationalist Statues Must Fall

** Yes.  If the Left had intellectual honesty or moral consistency.  (pause)  BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Director Blue -  That Evil, Lying President Trump

** Ooooooh, that'll leave a mark!

Pacific Pundit - CNN Keith Boykin calls Alveda King ‘token right-wing black woman’

** Hey, how'd she get away - get back on the plantation, girl!

Faustas Blog - Idiots on the lose: ‘Woke’ Millennials Hilariously Say They’d Prefer Venezuela’s Food Lines Over America’s Income Inequality

** Someone opened a bag of idiots.  Fine, ship 'em there.  No return ticket.

Daily Signal - The New York Times Continues Its Tradition of Whitewashing Communism

** There's a reason I call them the New York Times-Traitor.  Related:

Truth Revolt - Malkin: The Red York Times: First in Fake News

** Yes, the “fishwrap of record”.  If they had an ounce of decency they’d set the Ukraine genocide story straight, and return the Pulitzer Prize.  IF.

The Federalist - Democratic Former Senator Finally Says What Left Is Thinking: All Republicans Are Nazis

** The "Othering" is afoot.  You cannot herd people into camps until you've come to believe that you are doing a good thing by ridding the world of the evil [fill in the blank].  Related:

Truth Revolt - College Republican Threatened After Asking Muslim Student Association to Condemn Barcelona Terrorism

** First off, they ask Republicans to condemn the KKK, but asking Muslims to condemn terrorism is too much like intellectual and moral consistency.  But notice something else, this snippet quote by someone threatening the authors of the request: “... u inhuman rats”.  Saul Alinsky said that the enemy must be painted as evil.  Then you can rationalize anything you do to them.  Clearly that “Othering” is working…

MSN - Democrats long for Obama's return

** Quote: "Brent Budowsky, a former Democratic aide and columnist for The Hill, said ... 'America faces an enormous political crisis and it is unconscionable how little Obama and other former top officials have done to help Democrats since Trump began his ugly abuses of power.'"

>> Doubtless said with a straight face.  Incredible.

I Support Israel - Watch: Tourist is shocked when he finds out how Muslim migrants treat Sweden

** I'm shocked anyone is shocked.  But then, this is a perfect example of Rules 1 and 2:

1. It doesn't matter what's true, it's what you can get people to believe.

2. By controlling the information flow, you control what people believe.

The enemedia in both America and Europe are all-in with the Islamic takeover; the SM giants are too.  They are working overtime to keep the truth about the Islamic invasion from the public.

Jihad Watch - Muslim boy from U.S. in Islamic State video calls Trump “puppet of the Jews,” vows jihad massacres in U.S.

** A ten-year old boy, and his seven-year-old “comrade” are being taught combat skills.  Meanwhile, generation snowflake can’t handle it when their smartphone won’t connect to the internet or their latte isn’t made with organic soy milk.  We’re screwed.

Spero News - Star Parker: Confederacy dedicated to idea that blacks were not human beings

** I actually agree with the concept that Confederate monuments could be disturbing.  I can see and grasp that point of view, and think that a public debate is called-for; what’s not called-for is mob action.  And in general I’ve liked Star Parker and what she has to say.  Where I depart from her in this article is this statement, quote: “Please give the American people credit for being able to understand the difference between Washington and Jefferson, and leaders of the confederacy such as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.”

>> The problem, as I see it, is that they don’t see the difference.  Today’s youth is, increasingly, hostile to the entirety of what America is, because they’ve been raised to see America, specifically, and Western Civilization, in general, as the greatest of evils.  Three examples:

The Federalist - Vandals Are Destroying Monuments Because They’ve Been Taught To Hate America

and

The Hill - Dershowitz: Antifa 'trying to tear down America'

and

Truth Revolt - After Charlottesville, UK Leftists Want to Tear Down Admiral Nelson’s Column

** Quote:

As the Left’s campaign to destroy Confederate monuments gathers pace in the US, the leftists in Britain too want to “tear down monuments to the supporters of slavery” in the country. The left-wing activists are taking aim at Nelson’s Column, built in the memory of the famous nineteenth-century naval commander Admiral Horatio Nelson, located at Trafalgar Square in central London.

Writing for the U.K.’s liberal newspaper The Guardian, Afua Hirsch, who is spearheading this campaign, called the famous son of Britain and arguably the history’s finest naval hero a “white supremacist” and an enabler of the “transatlantic slave trade.”

British politician Nigel Farage slammed The Guardian for propagating this leftist lunacy. “Shocking that The Guardian are encouraging this. The left really do hate Britain,” Farage said.

Orwell's 1984 was meant to be a warning, not a manual!

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”    ― George Orwell

Truth Revolt - NBC News Still Stunned, Still Analyzing How Hillary Lost

** I’ve been debating (but am giving up the fight) with a Leftard who said, essentially, that all Republicans are “racist bigots”.  Don’t these people grasp this is why Trump won?  Because people like me, who don’t have a bigoted bone in their body, are tired of being so smeared simply because we don’t agree with them.

Top of the News

Trump's Arizona Rally
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Democrat IT Staffers on Intel Committee May Have Sold Classified Intel To Pakistan and Russia - IOTWreport

Lauren Southern on Removal of Confederate Statues (VIDEO) - American Power

David Cole: “Events like Unite the Right are nothing but a whole lotta bad road” - Five Feet of Fury

Antifa Is The Heart Of The Left - 90 Miles From Tyranny

Is The DNC Really Begging for Money Because Trump Hasn't Built The Border Wall?? - Diogenes Middle Finger News

Quote du jour - Proof Positive

Hannity talks to former U.N. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton and Lt. Col. Oliver North on Afghanistan - Adrienne's Corner

We Live In Incredibly Stupid Times - Political Clown Parade

How Can There Be "Right Wing Extremists" If the Right Believes in Individual Liberty and Freedom, OR Why the Left-Center-Right Paradigm Is a Myth - AoSHQ

In The Mailbox: 08.22.17 - The Other McCain

MSNBC’s Race Baiting Goes Beyond Full Libtard - The Last Tradition

Bummer: Young Conservationists Realize Their Degrees Are Worthless - The Pirates Cove

AMERICA STANDS ON THE EDGE OF A KNIFE

- Guest Blogger Nitzakhon

AMERICA STANDS ON THE EDGE OF A KNIFE

In the wake of Charlottesville and the seemingly-overnight eruption of violence, the tearing down of statues, the ramped-up burning of American flags, and what feels like an explosion of both anti-police and person-to-person violence, and even more dangerous rhetoric, I will open by quoting a good friend of mine who opined many months prior to any of this: “America has not been this divided since the Civil War”. He is a student of history and an all-around pretty sharp guy and is, I fear, right.

TAKE THE RED PILL

As I said in my introductory essay, I was born in the Peoples’ Republic of Massachusetts. I grew up in a very Leftist household; my parents were staunch in their beliefs until they passed. I, somehow, diverted rightward – I think in large part because of my first That’s weird… moment – defined as a moment when I was exposed to information that contradicted what I “knew”, forcing me, if I claimed the title of a thinking person, to investigate the subject further (in reflection, I was starting to veer off even in high school when, after an anti-nuclear power screed in the school newspaper, I wrote a counter letter praising nuclear energy). A few years ago, having moved substantially rightward, I stumbled upon and was shocked by the must-buy, must-read, must-keep book Liberal Fascism.

It was a similar mind-expansion when, more recently, I found a couple of Bill Whittle videos about Democrats and Republicans, specifically A Voters’ Guide to Republicans and Pin the Tale on the Donkey: Democrats' Horrible Racist Past | Bill Whittle. Two more related videos reprising these points from Prager University are Who Are the Racists: Conservatives or Liberals? and The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party. In watching the latter again, I learned that of the nine SCOTUS justices that voted for the infamous Dredd Scott decision, the seven that voted for it were Democrats, the two that voted against were Republicans.

“Progressive” Democrat Woodrow Wilson screened and hyped the KKK-promoting movie Birth of a Nation, which led to the KKK’s resurgence (it having almost vanished); Wilson subsequently made comments that would make today’s SJWs faint where they stood (bolding added):

A delegation of black professionals led by Monroe Trotter, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard and Boston newspaper editor, appeared at the White House to protest the new policies. But Wilson treated them rudely and declared that “segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.”

Democrat Harry Truman’s comment would, likewise, have SJWs needing coloring books in their safe spaces with milk and cookies:

I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a n*gger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America.

These are not aberrations from the Left. In this eye-opening 40 minute video, Leftist Fascism | Dinesh D'Souza and Stefan Molyneux they discuss the close ideological connection between Democrats and Fascists (remember, the eugenics laws that led to mass sterilizations of “undesirables”, i.e., non-white women, were favored by the socialist Left). I’ve ordered several copies of D’Souza’s new book, The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left; I will read and keep one and give the others away, including one to my local library. Same for his earlier works, Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party, and one inspired by his being a political prisoner, Stealing America: What My Experience with Criminal Gangs Taught Me about Obama, Hillary, and the Democratic Party. (Might I suggest you do the same for your local library; these three, plus Liberal Fascism, would be great additions to any community library!)

AND VIOLENT THE LEFT IS!

Antifa has gone from a few people to crowds, and all sporting for a fight. You don’t carry clubs, rocks, and bags of urine and feces to participate in a peaceful counterdemonstration. You don’t drag people from their cars and beat them, or pepper spray them when they’re giving an interview. Students at campuses harass and intimidate teachers, e.g., the infamous events at Evergreen College; they even pursue those who they merely believe were Trump supporters.

At least, you can’t do these things and then claim with even a scintilla of honesty that you’re non-violent. Another voice, Melanie Philips, said in How totalitarianism is winning in the west (bolding added):

For Beinart warns that the left is lurching into totalitarianism and violence. “Antifa” purport to be anti-fascist. But they define as fascist anyone they disagree with including mainstream conservatives. Hence their violent suppression of commentators and scholars such as the conservative columnist Ann Coulter, the Breitbart controversialist Milo Yiannopoulos and the political scientist Charles Murray.

So watch this video, The Violent Left EXPOSED! These are people who have “othered” anyone not of themselves. Just look at how readily they are willing to attack anyone not of their opinion, or use force against people who, in some cases, are walking down the street. Or stab a guy with a haircut you think marks them as a racist. Or attack someone simply for holding the American flag. Or a person wearing a Trump political hat. Or attempt to evict a tenant because they hold the “wrong” view and threaten to dox them if they resist.

But this is natural: Socialism in all its forms depends on violence. Even taxes today are based on violence, for while most people are perfectly willing to pay for things like police, fire departments, road maintenance and public infrastructure, a court system, etc. – all things permitted by the Constitution – to go beyond that is to compel people to give to Caesar more than Caesar is due. And the only way to accept doing that is that it must be done, ultimately, by the implicit threat of men with guns.

If you are willing to use force to steal, and no Leftist should ever pretend that when you have to use force – even implied – to take, it’s not stealing… then you have made the concession that it is acceptable to use force for other things. And to do so with the conviction that you are doing a good thing.

THE OTHERING

In every genocide the groundwork must be laid – to “other” the opponents. The other side must be painted as the enemy of what is “good”; recall Krauthammer’s Law:

Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

When you have convinced yourself that you are good and noble and an “enlightened being” because you believe A, it is not a far leap at all to then convince yourself – as Krauthammer observed – that someone who does not believe A is evil. When faced with Conservatives-in-general, whom they not only believe are evil based on beliefs but now see as associated and allied with Nazism, one of the worst of all evils ever, the stain smears over and all Conservatives now fall under the umbrella of needing-to-be-fought-to-the-death. Such evil people, at least as the Left perceives them, can easily be diminished from being people to lesser beings not worthy of life. For example, from Why not just kill all conservatives? (bolding added):

According to the liberals in Congress, conservatives are not human beings. They are a scourge. Therefore, it makes perfect sense to just eliminate them forever.

This is not me deciding this. I am just listening to their own words.

One Florida Congressman decided to take over the role of leading bigoted lunatic in Florida now that Robert Wexler is leaving. His words were inspiring to anybody who found warmth in hatred.

“People who watch Fox News are collaborators with the enemies of America.”

“Enemies of America”; a sitting Congressman actually said this about people who watch a news channel which he doesn’t like. Is it any wonder that, for example, 30 GOP Congressmen Have Been Attacked or Threatened Since May? And let’s not forget the actual shooting of Republican Congressmen.

Weapons are being brought by Antifa to events; it’s one thing to carry a gun discretely – heck, I carry CCW when I can… at least a pocket knife when I can’t carry more. But these are being brought with the expectations they will be used, and are being used, against those whom are considered evil (bolding added):

Nor do they see a distinction between someone attending a speech by an extreme right-winger and someone engaged in violence against the left. As one prominent antifa thug said of those on the other side of the political spectrum, “their existence itself is violent and dangerous, so I don’t think using force or violence to oppose them is unethical.”

Read that thought again: Conservatives’ existence itself is dangerous. Their patron saint Socialist Saul Alinksy said “There can be no conversation between the organizer and his opponents. The latter must be depicted as being evil.”

Dangers, especially those perceived as mortal dangers coming from those who are viewed as irredeemably evil, are to be attacked and eliminated. And understand – this is critical – this view did not spring up overnight, or from a vacuum. The intentional drip-drip-drip poison into these minds has been going on a long time.

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE FLAGS AND MONUMENTS…

There’s a very famous poem by Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller:

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—

Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

I was reminded of that when I read this:

Where does this Cultural Cleansing end? The answer is it doesn’t! The fact is that if these monuments go, not one piece of our history is safe. Not a single shred is safe, not one! No battlefield is safe, not any name of any street highway, park, school, building, flag, no re-enactment of any battle.

The Founders? Not only are they not safe, they are next. Old Glory? Next! The national anthem? Next! How about singing God Bless America, or America the Beautiful? You think they are safe? Are you demented, or just stupid? Do you not yet grasp how evil the Cultural Stalinists are?

How about books deemed to be too sympathetic to the Confederate cause? Or even books that dare to explore the numerous causes of the War Between the States? How soon until we hold mass book burnings? How soon until all military graves are targeted? The Lincoln Memorial? Given his statements about slavery, and Black people? It must go, as will Washington’s and Jefferson’s.

They will not stop. They cannot stop. The fanaticism has been engaged. Just look at the chanting; it’s done, specifically, to prevent thought and rile up.

A LOGICAL PROGRESSION

No, not people next. They already burn flags, and have for decades. Now they’ve moved on to statues and monuments. Next it will be documents; books, papers, and so on; they’re already after websites. But then, yes, it will be people – and not onesie-twosie; these fanatics want purity. Remember this comment by Larry Grathwohl who went undercover with Obama’s “some guy in the neighborhood” group, the Weathermen?

They also believed that their immediate responsibility would be to protect against what they called the “counter-revolution.” And they felt that this counter-revolution could best be guarded against by creating and establishing re-education in the [American] Southwest, where we would take all of the people who needed to be re-educated into the new way of thinking and teach them how things were going to be.

I asked, “Well, what is going to happen to those people that we can’t re-educate, that are diehard capitalists?” And the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated that they’d have to eliminate 25 million people in these re-education centers. And when I say “eliminate,” I mean kill 25 million people.

I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of whom have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.

And they were dead serious.

The Left has had decades of practice with intimidating and then eliminating their enemies – whether real or perceived. Lenin and Stalin’s purges, Mao’s “Cultural Revolution”, Pol Pot’s killing fields, Hitler’s “Final Solution”. The list goes on and on; go through The Black Book of Communism for an eye-opening but gut-wrenching read – and then ask yourself Why Isn’t Communism as Hated as Nazism? Shudder when you realize Antifa people fly the communist flag… why their flag is based on the German Communist flag?

LADY GALADRIEL’S WARNING

In the first Lord of the Rings movie Lady Galadriel states “The quest stands upon the edge of a knife…”. I look at America and I fear in my soul that we are in a similar situation.

There are powerful forces that would love nothing more than to take America down; but it’s not just America, it’s the entirety of Western Civilization. They’ve been planning this for a long time. They’ve been working towards it for a long time. And since the societal chaos that would then result – at least, per the Marxist Dialectic – in a great Socialist Utopia is seemingly within grasp in their lifetimes, my bet is they’ll go for the brass ring.

Prep. Arm up. Find allies – even an ally that agrees with you 80% is better than a Communist wannabe who wants to see you dead; put aside petty differences because survival is at stake. There are politically conservative Jews, and Catholics, and Muslims, and Hindus, and so on. Conservatism spans across from whitest-white to darkest-black. There are gay Conservatives, and lots of women Conservatives. Have bad feelings towards anyone like that? GET OVER IT. PUT THOSE FEELINGS ASIDE. The Left understands that if we group based on that 80% criteria, if we set aside our few differences to unite against them, they will lose. And so they practice divide and conquer, setting racial groups against each other, dividing the sexes, hyping intolerance of gays, splitting based on religion… they want us fractured.

Not for nothing does the Klingon proverb “Only fools fight in a burning house” ring true despite being from science fiction. The Left has a LONG GAME (e.g., they have intentionally taken over education). Because even if this calms down this time – IF – it’s about to get very, very dangerous.

Be safe. Be aware. And KYPD. The Left is perilously close to crossing the Rubicon, a point from where there is no going back. Their modern Brownshirts are ready for action; IMHO they’ll soon graduate to real killings; they’re already working on bombs and learning how to fight hand-to-hand and use guns. There’s an answer to that. Or, as I cited in Prophecy from Star Trek’s “Omega Glory”:

“We do not talk with Kohms. They are only for killing.”

Don’t start it. Be prepared to finish it.

L’Nitzakhon! (To victory!)