An immediate $1,000 per month to everyone who is being affected by the coronavirus panic. Some will say that this is welfare, but isn’t this actually the point of government, and of taxes? To protect the welfare of the public in the event of a pandemic? It seems crazy not to consider it.
Very few individuals with the inner steel of Chelsea Manning have ever walked this earth. We live in what could best be referred to as the Age of Towering Vanities, an age where character and principle are as foreign as they are on Uranus. The social media mob, taking the form of Plato’s troglodyte monster, rules the roost of public opinion on culture, politics, art, and morals. And as mob rules usually go, it vulgarizes everything it touches. Within this milieu, morality and character become non-existent yet outrage is ubiquitous. In this environment, derelict parents neglect their duty to raise their kids, giving them phones instead. The mob becomes mother and father of a new generation.
Amid this decayed moral apocalypse walks Chelsea Manning, a rare individual who made a conscious decision to do something right, regardless of the personal cost. Her leak of the atrocities committed by American soldiers in Iraq got her several years of torture under Obama. The torture consisted of months of continuous sleep deprivation, forced nudity, and other degradations committed by mindless goose-steppers who follow orders without question. She was released, but later was compelled to testify against Wikileaks. Her character being what it is, she refused, and for that was tossed in jail again for a year. She could’ve taken the easy way out at any time by agreeing to testify. She refused, and apparently would rather kill herself than compromise her values. Following her suicide attempt, the presiding judge granted her release. Again, she is free. Here’s to the hope that she finds peace and safety out of the reach of the filth of the Political Class.
Rather than clamor endlessly for saviors and messiahs to lead us out of the desert, it would be better to search within ourselves for even a shadow of the courage exhibited by Manning, who faced the abyssal imperial war machine head on, and standing alone, refused to blink, and refused to budge.
“Reputation is what others think of you. Character is what you are.”
“These are the days that try the stoutest burlap in which cats were ever bagged.”
-Walter G. Fuller, The Freeman
What’s the point of even running a Democratic candidate if this is what you come up with?
It’s a little hard to believe that the Democratic establishment would, in the end, pick someone like Joe Biden as their champion to finally take down Trump. Really? The guy that can barely string together a sentence without blurting out a sexist/racist gaff? The guy that has to put his hands on every little girl within reach? The guy who used his political influence to strong-arm a foreign prosecutor into not looking into his drug addict son’s shady dealings? The guy that lies about pretty much everything about his past?
They might as well have not even held a primary and just given Trump his second term. Biden will be eaten alive by Trump, and Trump will enjoy doing it.
One thing is certain: the debates between Trump and Biden will be high comedy. Trump will toy with his opponent, making him appear a complete fool, humiliating the confused Biden on live television. Biden is famous for his quick temper, so will he try to fight Trump on live TV? It’s going to be good.
I remain in awe that after four years of scheming to oust Trump from office, of endless anti-Trump raving, Biden is who they came up with. A worse candidate than Hillary, something I didn’t think possible, will now run against Trump, and with results similar to the 2016 election.
Behold the true character of the Democratic Establishment’s candidate of choice:
We shouldn’t wonder why people would support Bernie Sanders. 500,000 American citizens getting what amounts to a colossal crap sandwich from the medical establishment in this country, and we think that they’ll quietly take it? The answer isn’t “medicare for all”, which would do nothing but further skyrocket prices, doubling the number of bankruptcies. The solution is a complete demolition of the medical cartel and the laws that create the artificial scarcity that in turn forces up these prices.
Florida cop, and coward of a man, arrests 6-year old girl.
Get these people out of range of children, and if your school absolutely needs security, hire from a private firm. A private contractor won’t bring all the baggage that a cop carries with them. They can’t make arrests, they can’t beat up kids and then cower behind “qualified immunity”, and they aren’t mindlessly worshiped by society at large. They patrol and monitor the school for crazy people seeking to harm the kids. They don’t interfere with the daily operation of the school. They are a simple protection against the nutjobs that occasionally pop up. Cops in schools have been a disaster. Get them out.
Probably the most annoying personality defect that one could possibly have is being hopelessly ignorant of a subject, yet having a very loud and self-assured opinion on it. These people are utterly cemented in their baseless opinion, and nothing that could be said would change their mind. Of course, everyone should believe whatever they want to believe. The problem arises when these throngs of the self-assured ignorant begin promoting public policy that will have a direct effect on others. These people almost always and everywhere have an anti-liberty public policy stance. They are constantly advocating for greater restrictions of liberty, and criticizing any movement in the direction of less control over our daily lives. They also appear to consciously allocate time out of their day to police the opinions of others, point out the errors of their ways, but all the while remain utterly immune to counterarguments. Despite their self-admiration, they also remain the most gullible to government propaganda, becoming veritable receptacles for the Establishment narrative. Although they believe their opinions to be purely their own, they are the unwitting, walking avatars of government talking points.
A great example of this is on display in a recent column at Enid News & Eagle, where writer David Christy strings together a series of non sequiturs in a rambling attempt to warn and chastise the reader about falling vaccination rates. Christy refers to vaccine critics as the “weakest link”, seemingly blaming them in advance for the inevitable (in his mind) resurgence of a multitude of infectious diseases.
The point he is apparently attempting to make is that society’s failure to learn from the past will inevitably lead to the same mistakes being made, which is the same unoriginal point that has already been made thousands of times before, and predictably made by people who know very little actual history. But it’s an important point, although one that could easily be turned against Christy’s own argument.
He then approaches the real target of his article: the dreaded anti-vaxxers. He appears upset that greater numbers of people are questioning the safety and efficacy of this injectable pharmaceutical product. Why don’t they just shut up and get their shots? Civilization is at risk! I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Christy has probably never heard of the 1986 National Vaccine Injury Compensation Act, or of the $4.5 billion paid out in vaccine injury settlements. I doubt he knows that if he is injured from a vaccine, he can’t sue the manufacturer. Instead he goes to “vaccine court” and pleads his case to a “special master”. The process takes years, and few receive a payout.
He apparently thinks that vaccines saved us from tuberculosis, cholera, typhoid fever, malaria, and others. No, they didn’t. The sanitation movement in the United States saved us. Clean water, plumbing, and soap saved us, and are still saving us today. John Leal and George Warren Fuller are forgotten today, but were primarily responsible for the rapid decline of infectious disease in this country. Leal was a physician and water treatment expert who devised a method of public water treatment through chlorination, and lobbied the New Jersey government endlessly until it implemented his method. Fuller designed the treatment facility. The implementation of this method marked the turning point in the war against infectious disease. Not vaccines. Smallpox, stubbornly infecting thousands despite high vaccination rates, also plummeted once the process of water chlorination became routinely practiced throughout the country. Christy knows none of this I’m sure.
A painful diatribe to read, Christy drags in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust to bolster his argument that a right-wing fascist government could again arise, lest we learn the mistakes that led to Nazi Germany. Does he realize that fascism can arise in more than one way, and that a society in the grips of fear could backpedal directly into the type of fascist totalitarianism that Christy ostensibly fears.
Christy’s entire piece appears to be nothing more than an attempt to satisfy some inner impulse to chide society at large for failings that he perceives will lead to world-ending catastrophe. What he doesn’t realize is he is engaging in just the sort of behavior that could inadvertently lead to just such a catastrophe that he seeks to avert, because the fear he is peddling is far more dangerous than the apparitions he sees on the horizon.
What we truly have to fear is the transformation of the voting public into a fear-enveloped mob, cowering before the myriad phantoms that the Political Class conjures up in order to Pied Piper the public into consenting to various authoritarian measures.
What we have to fear is truly fear itself, due to the destructive power that that fear can have on our liberty and safety. Fascism arises out of sufficiently politicized fear. Fear reverts the mind of a person back to an animal. Mass fear transforms the populace into a seething emotional mob that can be coaxed into supporting all manner of legislative atrocities. It’s this baseless fear that we must resist, fear that Christy insists we give in to.