My latest in PJ Media:
…At last we are seeing on a large scale the bitter fruit of the miseducation and propaganda that has been fed to American schoolchildren since the 1960s. They have been taught to hate their own land and people, hate their own country, culture, and heritage. The latest example of this disinformation is the New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning “1619 Project,” which is the work of a “scholar” named Nikole Hannah-Jones. Hannah-Jones has claimed that “the white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world,” that “Christopher Columbus and those like him were no different then [sic] Hitler,” and “the descendants of these savage people … continue to be bloodsuckers in our communities.”
No wonder the young people who have been fed these evil lies are tearing down statues, and gladdening the black hearts of Iranian ayatollahs. If we are going to survive this barbaric age as a free republic, there will need to be a thorough housecleaning of the educational system from top to bottom, with criticism of the United States and its founding and heroic figures that is fair and correct, and balanced by solid information about how America – because of those same figures — has been a beacon of freedom for the world, a haven for the oppressed, and much more about which every American should be proud and grateful.
This will be a long-term effort. It will not bear fruit right away. Rating America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was An Absolute Disaster is an attempt to make a beginning, to restore historical study to a sane, accurate, patriotic basis. Now is the time for all of us to study and become deeply familiar with American history, for there is no doubt that if we do not know what made America great, we will not be able to make it great again.
There is much more. Read the rest here.
gravenimage says
Iranian Ayatollah Does Victory Lap: Now Even Americans Are Shouting ‘Death to America!’
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Reports of our death are greatly exaggerated…
tim gallagher says
That’s what I thought, gravenimage. More pathetic, over the top, wish fulfilment fantasy garbage from another one of these Iranian clowns. I keep thinking that all these mullahs ever seem to do is rave and rant and throw insults at the USA. That seems to be their whole life’s focus. Totally obsessed creatures. I’d say they do nothing of a useful, constructive nature, which might actually improve Iran. They are a bunch of knuckle dragging throwbacks.
gravenimage says
Exactly, Tim.
As appalling as this rioting and looting has been–as well as official appeasement of it–only a tiny percentage of people here have taken part in this anti-American violence.
This is also almost entirely over–something the Mullahs either have not noticed, or hope others have not.
tim gallagher says
I figured that it would be only a small percentage of people involved, gravenimage, but, of course, it makes for spectacular scenes on news coverage. Iran will fall apart long before the USA, although Iran resembles a pretty chaotic and crazy place (well, maybe just a backward 7th century place, which is the Islamic ideal) all the time anyway. Iran’s leaders are certainly endlessly obsessed with America.
curious george says
gravenimage says
Reports of our death are greatly exaggerated
tim gallagher says
wish fulfilment fantasy garbage from another one of these Iranian clowns.
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Are they?
A Will to Overthrow the United States
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16182/overthrow-the-usa
Horowitz: Republicans won’t even fight for self-defense
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-republicans-wont-even-fight-self-defense/
Republican senators argue over making Juneteenth a federal holiday; consider replacing Columbus Day
https://www.theblaze.com/news/republicans-juneteenth-holiday-columbus-day#new_tab
gravenimage says
I take your point, curious george–these are serious dangers we face.
But this Ayatollah is implying that the majority Americans are trying to destroy America (and replace our civilize democracy with Shari’ah law) which is utter bs.
curious george says
gravenimage,
We agree on many issues, even this one.
This Ayatollah isn’t saying anything we haven’t heard before. He is a demagogue, pure and simple. Nothing new here, that’s been going on for centuries, maybe, since the beginning of time.
I agree; the majority would reject the charge that they are trying to destroy America. However, it seems, that is what the “silent majority” is doing; by their silence, they are aiding and abetting those who would destroy America.
The Coming Collapse of the Republic
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/07/the_coming_collapse_of_the_republic.html
November is just around the corner.
In the last five Presidential elections, the Democrats have done well with the popular vote. I know it’s not the popular vote that matters, at least for now, it’s the Electoral College. However, the popular vote provides some insight into the mindset of the American people.
In the 2016 Presidential election, the popular vote favored Trump’s opponents, Hillary Clinton, Evan McMullin, Gary Johnson, and Jill Stein, by an estimated 9.5 million votes. Clinton’s share was approximately 3.5 million votes.
Hillary lost, in my opinion, due to her arrogance, pride, and overconfidence. Her campaign in states like Michigan and Pennsylvania was lackluster as she assumed these states “were in the bag,” which, to her astonishment, were not.
“Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud.”
Sophocles (496-406 BC)
Do you remember the controversy that took place after the election?
In 2012, Obama won, not as convincingly as in 2008, by approximately 3.5 million votes over his opponents, Mitt Romney and Gary Johnson. In the Electoral College, 332 to 206. This result was a shocker, after four years, in which Obama showed his true colors, the American people still re-elected him.
I remember, during Obama’s first term, listening to many conservative pundits mockingly claim that Obama, like Jimmy Carter, would be a one-term President. Pundit after pundit, pontificating on why Obama won’t be re-elected based on their experience. Well, sadly, they were wrong, and Obama gained an additional four years to fundamentally change America.
In 2008, Obama won handily over John McCain by approximately 9.5 million votes. In the Electoral College, 365 to 171.
In 2004, George W. Bush (the son) beat John Kerry in the popular vote by approximately 3 million votes. However, this election, as the previous one, was full of suspense as it came down to one state, Ohio. With Ohio voting for Bush, he won in the Electoral College 286 to 251.
In 2000, the election came down to one state, Florida, and the “hanging chads” controversy. Al Gore and Ralph Nader took the popular vote by approximately 2.9 million votes. George W. Bush (the son) won the Electoral College by the narrowest of margins, 271 to 266.
And now, up until the COVID-19 manufactured crisis, those same pundits were boasting that Trump, primarily due to the robust economy, would be re-elected, President.
Will he?
gravenimage says
Good questions, curious george. Yes, we can never become over-confident.
Sabri S. says
No they are not. I have been saying on this forum for years that the immoral, white supremacist and zionist-controlled US will FALL, and it will fall hard. From turning boys into girls, acceptance of sexually immoral women, and corrupt politicians who do everything BUT lead and pass legislation to better the lives of citizens. I have personally watched Pelosi and McConnell for over 10 years, and not one of them has put forth any meaningful legislation. Now you have black lives matter, and that movement is willing to go to physical war against you infidels. How can you put any positive spin on this? The whole world thinks the US is a joke. In fact, if a war ever started against the US from Iran or China, virtually no blacks or latinos would fight in defense of the US. Muslim lives matter is next, and Islam will eventually rule in the US, and it will be for the better. This current political, social and systemic racists society currently in place MUST and WILL fall….count on it!!
Giacomo Latta says
And then you woke up.
Mobuyus says
Islamic supremacists like you litter battlefields and it will remain as such until the day no one can remember islam and it’s vile ways. By the way why do you Islamics wear skirts are goats frightened at the sound of zippers or are you guys just gay?
FYI says
We here at JW know one cross-dressing militant white supremacist who would probably love the confederate flag and what it represents and despise BLM.
The ‘prophet’ of islam :muhammed.
The owner,buyer and seller of black African Slaves.
You see, to muhammed black lives didn’t matter.At all.
“And he sold him for TWO of the blacks”
Sahih Muslim 3901
It’s always funny when muslims virtue-signal complaining about racism and white supremacists in the USA:
I mean, isn’t that what the ‘prophet’ muhammed considered himself to be?
Col457 says
For those that have been over there and seen!!
Westman says
Sabri – “if a war ever started against the US from Iran or China, virtually no blacks or latinos would fight in defense of the US.”
Do you think that would really matter? The US is the third most populous nation at about 330 million. Population of Iran is about 80 million. Half of Iran is women who are handicaped by religion to uselessness in war while US women are operating all the weapons of war, including airplanes. Remove all blacks from possible military service and it won’t make a difference. You obviously don’t know hispanics, thinking they would not to war if they thought their families were threatened.
The value of family is the glaring difference between Hispanic and Black men.
You continue to have a very poor grasp of history or you would know that the current situation is following the roaring 1920s and its ending in a “depression”, this time created by an overreaction to a pandemic. There were demonstrations and the like, largely as displacement of the anger and fear of losing financial security – just like today. If you really think all those kids will remain on board with BLM when times get better, you will be disappointed.
Before the beginning of WWII, the US was just as socially fractured, or more so, than today. If Iran attacked the US homeland, like WWII, the nation would come together and more, or less, destroy Iran. Why do you think those “whites”, Irish, Poles, English, Italians, etc became unified? Magic?
If Muslim nations attacked the US, say, every 10 years, it would only create greater unification within the US. So have at it and reap the results.
Lurch says
WOW, my bullshit detector just exploded!- if you don’t like it here I can arrange you a one-way ticket to the 3rd world communist shit hole of your choice.
gravenimage says
The appalling Sabri S. wrote:
No they are not.
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What is this a reference to? Who is not doing what? Of course, Sabri S. as a pious Muslim is incapable of expressing rational thought.
More:
I have been saying on this forum for years that the immoral, white supremacist and zionist-controlled US will FALL, and it will fall hard.
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Well, of course, Sabri S. has *always* hated equality and democracy–note that he does not say how this is “white supremacism”–but then, how could he?
And his saying that the United States allying with civilized Israel means that we are “zionist controlled” is absurd. But then, pious Muslims never believe that Jews should be allowed to live in freedom from the Muslim heel.
More:
From turning boys into girls, acceptance of sexually immoral women, and corrupt politicians who do everything BUT lead and pass legislation to better the lives of citizens.
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By “sexually immoral women”, Sabri S. means women who have the freedom to marry for love. Pious Muslims believe they have the right to mutilate little girls and to force them into marriage–often as little children. *Ugh*.
More:
I have personally watched Pelosi and McConnell for over 10 years, and not one of them has put forth any meaningful legislation.
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Well, *this* is true–certainly regarding Pelosi. But this is not what Sabri S. means. He means that she has not introduced bills imposing the horrors of Shari’ah law on us. Bad dhimmi!
Yet more:
Now you have black lives matter, and that movement is willing to go to physical war against you infidels.
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Now *that* is interesting–“against you infidels”–does Sabri S. believe that BLM is an Islamic group? Certainly, they hate democracy just as he does. BLM was founded by Marxists.
More:
How can you put any positive spin on this? The whole world thinks the US is a joke. In fact, if a war ever started against the US from Iran or China, virtually no blacks or latinos would fight in defense of the US.
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What claptrap. Actually, Blacks and Hispanics are well represented in the US military. The idea that Black and Hispanic Americans want to live under Communism and Shari’ah is absurd. The idea that Iran, especially, could win a war against the United States is ludicrous.
Yet more:
Muslim lives matter is next, and Islam will eventually rule in the US, and it will be for the better. This current political, social and systemic racists society currently in place MUST and WILL fall….count on it!!
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See what Sabri S. means by “Muslim lives mattering”–that Muslims will take over the United States and impose the bloody horrors of Shari’ah law on us–crushing freedom of speech, flogging for taking a sip of alcohol, the amputation of limbs for petty theft, and stoning to death for rape victims.
Then, the idea that Islam is not racist is grotesque–unlike the civilized West, which abolished slavery long since, Islam still enslaves its victims, and Africans most of all. Will Sabri S. condemn Islam for enslaving Black people in Sudan and Mauritania? Of course not–how could he? The “Prophet” Muhammed himself enslaved people, including Black people, and used them as slaves and sex slaves.
And the rest is just masturbatory wishes–the idea that Iran can bring down the United States is absurd.
Alice aw says
United States is the least racist society in the world today because it is a melting pot. Only people such as yourself hate it and divide it, sir!
Why is everyone trying to get in?
william carr says
It is only a small minority that are creating the mayhem and I am sure the vast majority of Americans of both political persuasions are appalled at what is being done and the way that some politicians are cheering them on as well as the misrepresentation by the MSM. The Dems should be wary of giving their support for anarchy it will come back to bite them
curious george says
william carr,
The Coming Collapse of the Republic
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/07/the_coming_collapse_of_the_republic.html
Alice W says
Great pos!!!!
Wellington says
The 1619 Project is akin to Mein Kampf, the Koran and the Communist Manifesto because it singles out a group or groups to be hated, despised, subordinated, even terminated.
The 1619 Project does this with whites. Mein Kampf does it with ethnics, especially Jews. The Koran does it with non-Muslims, who in Islamic law are the equivalent of human waste. And the Communist Manifesto (followed up by Das Kapital as Islam’s Koran is followed up by the hadiths and sira) does it with socio-economic groups, i.e., the upper and middle classes.
All totalitarian ideologies must have a “them” to hate. And all totalitarian ideologies gloss over any wrongs committed by those other than the “them,” an example here is the refusal by those endorsing the 1619 Project to effectively acknowledge that all races were involved in slavery and that the overwhelming reasons why black America, to the extent that it does, still does not fully participate in the American Dream are due to self-inflicted wounds like massive (over 70%) out-of-wedlock births, young black males killing other young black males in huge amounts (the city of Chicago alone annually sees twice as many young black males killed by other young black males than American police kill young black males over the entire nation yearly) and that “killer” of any hope for success, i.e., a victim-oriented mentality.
The 1619 Project could stand as the “Mein Kampf” or the “Koran” or the “Communist Manifesto” of its time. It is a “signature project” of the newest totalitarian ideology to afflict mankind, i.e., Western Leftism.
The 1619 Project must be rejected and ridiculed, just as Nazism, Islam and Marxism must be. Doing otherwise is not only not wise, it is avoidance of the truth—and when the truth is dismissed, nothing good and worthy can prevail. Indeed, avoiding the truth invariably takes mankind backward, often with horrific results.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Much thanks for the detailed analysis of the 1619 Project.
I noticed that the 1619 Project won a “New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize.”
All I can say is that members of the Pulitzer Prize Board must be Leftists – and with that the Pulitzer Prize award has lost all journalistic value, just like the New York Times.
https://www.pulitzer.org/page/administration-prizes
Wellington says
Thanks for the link, James.
I would adamantly assert that the Pulitzer Prize “industry”—and that’s what it is—gave up on its quest for truth and justice about as long ago as the UN did. Perhaps a shade later but not by much. Like the UN, it ages ago outlived its usefulness to the extent that truth matters.
And truth matters a lot but every age, and certainly our age is no exception, one way or another finds a way to make truth an optional “commodity.” Including, most definitely, the Pulitzer Prize Board.
You know, my friend, it is deuce difficult not to get cynical at times in the face of such stupidity, shallowness and hypocrisy. But I think it imperative that while an informed human can, actually should, allow himself (oh, gee is this sexist?) to be skeptical, cynicism must be avoided lest something noble dies inside of us.
As always, I welcome your comments. Your knowledge and wisdom are not held in light esteem, I assure you, by yours truly. Take care, pal.
Brian Ozzy says
Thank you again Wellington. Your comments are always of great interest and as far as I am concerned spot-on and informative.
Westman says
I suspect that when all the social trappings are removed the base human instinct is not survival, rather it is competition. The media, leaders, and business advertising all play upon this instinct; creating images for the best of, and worst of, peoples. The basic message is: You are deficient unless you own this, use this product, have this belief, support us, etc.
Human competiton breeds jealousy and unfilled desires that knaw on the individual. The degree of disparity caused by human differences, thanks to modern instant video communication, has never been more apparent. The Big Lie that is promulgated insists that those differences, in a meritocracy, are simply caused by discrimination when they are actually a function of personal actions and personal abilities.
Education: Everything we ever learned at the university is available, for free, online. When someone wearing $500 in clothes says he can’t get an education because of discrimination is simply covering up how he uses his time. Only a few are without the base intelligence to succeed through consistent effort and that is not a product of discrimination.
It’s difficult for any human to realize there are competitors so far beyond him that he cannot catch up in a lifetime. This is the reality within which we all must find peace.The idea that we should, without his consent, take what one person has and give it to another is the basis of communism, war, and chaos.
Currently it is Whites and Asians that are in the crosshairs of liberals to satisfy the jealousy of minorities. The discrimination against Asians in universities is widely known. Why? They are terrific competitors in education. And if they were gone it would simply be the best competitor society or race that would be under claims of racism.
We are faced with the choice of a meritocracy that will cause anguish for poor competitors or a deep socialism/communism that robs the entire society and has proven to fail everywhere it’s been tried.
Maybe its time for some hybrid that insists that corporations must be good citizens and put the home nation first, or leave. Also require that corporations, by law, consider their impact on society when, “maximizing returns to shareholders”. Another operation could be re-opening public mental institutions and require the homeless to either work, train, or be in the institution – off the streets. There could be temporary housing for families that are simply homeless yet viable.
It seems obvious to me that we must maintain personal freedom while doing a better job of caring for the truly displaced in our society without sacrificing our meritocracy. Under socialism/communism for all, we all lose.
Sabri S. says
Nonsense…Wellington, this is the biggest BS I have seen you write in about 2 years. The only thing akin to Mein Kampf is you and white americans like you. The 1619 movement is a legitimate movement and great idea. It is about time that someone finally recognize the black americans whose free labor built your american society. Your immoral and corrupt american way of life is crumbling by the day, and with each passing month real people welcome this! You can’t blind people with racism, police brutality and systemic oppression for centuries, and then condem them because they can’t see…some wisdom for your tone deaf kind…
FYI says
What about those WHITE supremacist Arabs like your ‘prophet’ muhammed who is recorded as SELLING black Africans into slavery
{Sahih muslim 3901}?
But the islamic mind just cannot grasp Irony.Or Logic.
Irony:Attacking white folks,complaining about white supremacy while your pervert of a ‘prophet’ was the owner,buyer,seller of black African slaves:muhammed was an ARAB version of a WHITE supremacist.
Go and attack your ‘prophet’.
Logic:failing to understand that when you criticise white supremacists{which is correct and OK} you must ALSO be prepared to criticise YOUR own WHITE supremacist ‘prophet’ muhammed as that is what he was.
pot-kettle-black?Do you even understand the concept?
Wisdom: a concept outside the scope of the islamic mind,surely the most primitive of all possible minds which explains why muslim apologists cannot figure things out.
I mean if you cannot figure out by now..
1]The ERRORS in the koran show that it cannot be a ‘perfect’ book.
2]These ERRORs,when you apply allah’s own criterion of koran 4:82 show that the koran,in its imperfections, must come from “other than allah” which means the HOLEY koran is a 100% man made and bogus,plagiarized Arab fantasy book.
It doesn’t come from any god.
Simple reasoning is all it takes:but the PhDs in islamic studies,the muslim ‘scholars’ either cannot figure it out{as they lack the Wisdom necessary to see it} or don’t want to figure it out{as they LOSE all their ‘holy’ man privileges,authority,power and status if muslims SEE ALL THE ERRORS in the koran and all the ‘HOLES’ in the narrative}
If anyone thinks mein kampf is anti-semitic try reading the holey koran..
The Jews are “to be despised and hated” {koran 2:65}..for being Jews and along with Christians {koran 98:6} are ‘the WORST of created beings”:so where does that leave Moses and Jesus Christ then ..as they are JEWISH and in fact ALL BIBLICAL prophets must be ..and allah himself confirms this..
“And verily WE gave the children of Israel the command and the PROPHETHOOD”
koran 45:16
So what sense does it make for allah to insist the prophets must be from the children of Israel and yet in the same book curse the Jews for being Jews?
No sense whatsoever.”allah” is a cognitively dissonant god.
ALL Biblical prophets are JEWISH:they have to be as ‘it is from the Jews that salvation comes”{John 4 v 22}
This is why muhammed cannot possibly be in the Bible{as the koran insists k7:157}as he is NOT QUALIFIED to be in the Bible as he is not from the children of Israel which is-laughably- allah’s OWN criterion of who was entitled to be a prophet.
Such is the lunacy of the ‘holey’ koran!
Westman says
Hit and run Sabri strikes again, unwilling to provide any evidence for Sabri’s repeat of others claims of discrimination.
Let’s start with the first assertion of “recognizing the black Americans whose free labor built your society”. No they did not build America though they made a significant unwilling contribution. You seem to have no grasp of either geography or the developmental history of the US. Slavery was confined to the South. The broad brush that all of White America is racist is a convenient lie to make people like you justfy your hatreds. And it was the majority of “white” Americans who freed the slaves.
The next step of leveling opportunity, motivated by the 1960s civil rights movement, went beyond equality to more than equal; giving preferential hiring and education opportunities to blacks. There were people hired to well-paying positions who couldn’t even describe their responsibilities. Welfare was expanded to give support for educational pursuits and job training. There was no objection to the added taxation to support affirmative action. Every part of American except some sour grapes in the South was on board.
Then we watched as the responsible blacks, the kind of men who stayed with and supported their families while marching with Dr. Martin King, stopped marrying the mothers of their children and the deserted mothers stayed on welfare while their daughters were again abandoned by men and the cycle repeated. Welfare was reformed for this very reason but it was too late to break the cycle. Then came drugs..
Let’s try a little honesty here Sabri – are Muslim men allowed to impregnate Muslim women and then abandon them? Do black men in the NOI get away with doing that? Are you beginning to see that the real problem for blacks in the US is that too many of the males refuse family responsibilities?
Yes, black women are victims, not of racism, they are victims of irresponsible black men.
Today’s blacks are not the same people who lived 150 – 200 years ago. The civil war was in the 1860s. My great grandfather was cheated out property in 1850 – perhaps I should be demanding reparations? Or, maybe I’m responsible to make my own life?
Please come back and offer some precise background for your claims.
Wellington says
Sabri S. Being told by you I write BS is a very good indicator that I have highly likely written something that is quite true. You remind me of the Bizarro World in the Superman comic books of old. In Bizarro World everything was done backwards. Rather as you get everything ass backwards, which is extra fitting considering the ludicrous position Muslims put themselves in to pray to their non-existent deity, i.e., with asses in the air (really, do you have any comprehension how silly a Muslim looks when praying?).
As for my having any “kinship” with Mein Kampf, this is such a stupid and false statement that I would be hard pressed to come up with something more false about me. I despise Nazism. I loathe it. As I do Marxism. And as I do the one major religion which is totalitarian in structure and ideology, as Bertrand Russell noted a hundred years ago in his The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism. That religion is Islam, which the German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, who like Russell was non-religious, though he did admire certain religions, particularly Buddhism, referred to as “that despicable doctrine.”
No need to write anymore to you. It would be a waste of time. Besides, FYI and Westman have already responded to you in very accurate detail. Good-bye for now, confused and ignorant one.
DazzleMe says
Very good response Wellington!!
gravenimage says
The United States *abolished* slavery.
Islam never has. It ran the slave trade in Africa centuries ago and continues to to so. Will Sabri S. say anything about his coreligionists enslaving Black people in Africa today? Don’t hold your breath…
Col457 says
Well said and agreed on.
Hoppla poppla says
You forgot to mention the Tora, Bible, Talmud etc.etc.
gravenimage says
What?
Slavery was mentioned in these books, but not glorified.
Whereas, in Islam the “perfect man” “Prophet” Muhammed was himself a slaver who enslaved his victims, who was a slave trader, who kept slaves, and who raped sex slaves. He is considered a model for all time, which is why slavery continues to this day in Islam.
DazzleMe says
+1
James Lincoln says
Robert Spencer, is feature article states:
“If we are going to survive this barbaric age as a free republic, there will need to be a thorough housecleaning of the educational system from top to bottom…”
Absolutely 100% true.
The problem is, even if the US educational system from “K through Doctorate” were immediately fixed today, it would take years to produce graduates who were not victims of Leftist indoctrination.
I’m not saying that we shouldn’t try to do it, I’m just saying that the effects would not be immediate…
curious george says
James,
“If we are going to survive this barbaric age as a free republic, there will need to be a thorough housecleaning of the educational system from top to bottom…”
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The keyword in this article is “if.” That, unfortunately, is wishful thinking, something like, “If the Queen had testicles, she’d be the King.”
The keyword in this article is “if.” That, unfortunately, is wishful thinking, something like, “If the Queen had testicles, she’d be the King.”
Here we are, almost four years into the Trump Presidency, and the deep state is still in control.
In April 2019, I met a man from Pittsburgh, PA., in the local barbershop. There were maybe, six people in the shop, including the two barbers. This man responded to a report on TV about the healthy economy by saying, “not for long. I think there will be a Black Swan event sometime in 2020 that will cripple the U.S. economy. He continued, the robust economy is the one aspect of the Trump Presidency that even his critics can’t deny, and an economic collapse is an efficient way to take Trump out.”
It appears that this stranger may be correct.
Batten down the hatches, the worst is yet to come.
Wellington says
Agreed, James.
Right now, the American educational system is the weakest link in our American Republic. I vote the Democratic Party the second weakest link, with Nancy Pelosi the “poster girl” here of the rot that has infected the Democratic Party—and the Republican Party the third weakest link because so many Republicans know the truth of things but have no guts. As for the MSM, they are so beyond redemption I can’t even dignify them with a “fourth place finish” here—think Jim Acosta, Rachel Maddow, the editors of The New York Times, Chris Hayes or Fredo Cuomo as examples of how awful most of the media has become.
In any case, said educational system is a disgrace (though the finest in the world just some seventy years ago) and in the forefront of possibly ending the greatest experiment in freedom in the history of mankind. Of course, this educational system is, treated in the aggregate, utterly clueless of all the harm it has done–no self-awareness at all—whether by well meaning Leftists who are “simply” egregiously ignorant (there are a lot of them—I know first hand since I taught with such a crowd for years) or Leftists who are not “merely” ignorant but actively are pursuing the destruction of America as we know it.
Being involved in education for a third of a century, at the high school level for a short while and the college level for a long while, I know for a certainty that your average American has little to no idea what absolute rot is now being put forth in the decrepit and malicious American educational system, from pre-school through graduate school (and the latest idiocy is the 1619 Project, an endeavor in bias and distortion that is exponential).
Oh yeah, the weakest link to be sure. Influence the child and you thereafter “have” the man or woman. So much nonsense and so little time left to correct it.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
To your point regarding leftist indoctrination into the school systems, the current Polish government is trying to hold fast against this – and is meeting resistance.
Polish President Andrzej Duda of the Law and Justice Party (PiS) wants to ban teaching about LGBT issues in Poland’s public schools.
“Parents are responsible for the sexual education of their children,” Duda told a gathering of supporters. “It is not possible for any institutions to interfere in the way parents raise their children.”
The Law and Justice Party (PiS) was also the party that stopped muslim migration cold in its tracks. The Civic platform (PO) party had agreed to except small numbers of muslims but once (PiS) took control in 2015, that decision was quickly reversed so that no muslims were accepted.
The Polish president is up against Warsaw liberal Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski of the Civic Platform (PO) party for a runoff election scheduled for July 12, 2020.
Let’s hope that Pres. Duda wins in the runoff, I know that Pres. Trump is fully behind him as he recently hosted him at the White House.
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Wellington says
I fear the rot of Leftism, James, which includes a great deal of nonsense about sexuality, is not going to go away ever. Leftism actually gets loonier by the year. Perhaps it will collapse from within. Don’t know. Sure hope so.
I do wish the best to Poland, made personal for me because both of my maternal grandparents came from Poland to make a life in America. My Polish grandfather loved America and I was told he was so happy the day be became an American citizen back in 1906, which document my about-to-be wife back in 1999 secretly had beautifully framed as my wedding present from her. It hangs in our living room to this day.
In this document my grandfather had to renounce allegiance to the Czar of Russia (he lived in the part of Poland that Russia occupied due to the three partitions of Poland back in the late 18th century, the last of the three in 1795 insuring that Poland disappeared as an independent country until 1918). No Poland in the 19th century grieved many Poles, including, as I’m sure you know, Frederic Chopin. One can’t really understand Chopin’s extraordinary music without knowing how much Poland meant to him. Though Chopin is buried in Paris, he gave instructions to have his heart removed after his death and taken to Poland. His heart is now in the crypt of the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw.
I remember as a child often visiting my grandfather’s home. In that home he had three framed images. One was of Jesus. The second was of the Pope. And the third was of FDR. My grandfather was a Democrat back in the days when the Democratic Party had not yet lost its collective mind and went loony Far Left. He idolized FDR and thought him the greatest man in the world. Though being a student of the past as I am and thus critical of FDR in several respects, I can nonetheless understand why my grandfather held FDR in such high regard. He was the New York aristocrat who had the common touch extraordinarily so and thus could appeal to the common man. Besides, I’ll give FDR credit for realizing long before most any other American did that we needed to oppose what was arising in Europe and in Japan. I do however subscribe to the historiography that began in the 1980’s that the New Deal actually prolonged the Depression and it was WWII that bailed out FDR economically because it put America back to real work.
One last matter and being a doctor I thought you’d be interested about this. The other day I was at a site which was about all the transgender nonsense going on and one person who commented wrote something I thought very astute. This writer stated that if a corpse of a transgender person, especially in a very decayed state, were to be examined by a competent medical authority, it would via DNA (and I believe any blood samples too that might be present) reveal that that person was the sex they were when born. Fascinating and instructive, perhaps damning too.
Sorry for going on so long. Take care, my friend.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Thank you for sharing the history of your Polish ancestry. Absolutely fascinating – and what a wonderful wedding present from your wife – pure class!
I’m embarrassed to admit that I did not know about Chopin’s ties to Poland. Thanks for the info.
To Chopin’s memory, I’m sharing a short clip of his: “Prelude in A” performed expertly by the master guitarist Andrés Segovia.
I had the distinct privilege of seeing Segovia not once – but twice live when he was in his 80s. He still performed flawlessly.
Years ago, I actually learned one of his less demanding pieces on nylon string classical guitar, J. Duarte: English Suite. It took me an entire summer to figure it out…
Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW9YGk1LOp0
James Lincoln says
Much thanks for the kind words, Wellington.
Walter Sieruk says
How about “Death to that tyrannical and oppressive Islamic regime of Iran” which was build on a foundation lies spoken by that lying deceptive fiend Ayatollah Khomeini.
For what is called the “Iranian Revolution” turned out to be a hoax based on lies . Ayatollah Khomeini before achieving power in Iran in his lying and deceptions presented himself to the Iranian people as if he was someone who would be in power would give freedom to the people of Iran with any tyranny. The reality turned out to be just the opposite.
As explained by a former Muslim as well as a man who took part in this Islamic “revolution “ ,who is now a Christian informs the reader of his book that “Prior to the Revolution no one ever imagined that other political parties would be suppressed under the rule of Ayatollah Khomeini. He had promised that all groups would have freedom to run their own campaigns after the Revolution. He even stated that governing system would be based on the decision of the people via a referendum. He never spoke of a system that would be governed by Islam. He even made clear that mullahs would not take part in any political activities, and that they would only be allowed to teach spirituality… Immediately after the Revolution, mullahs rushed into government offices to occupy the most important political l positions, making it difficult for the interim secular government to function … The mullah’s occupation of position was exactly the opposite to what the Ayatollah Khomeini had promised before the Revolution.”. [1]
In other words, the insincere, disingenuous and outright lying Ayatollah Khomeini made many bogus promise he really had no intention of keeping. His lying deception worked, for he achieved great power in Iran.
Furthermore, of the many heinously evils outcome s of that Islamic “revolution” is the extremely cruel, brutal and demonic misogyny of this hideous Islamic regime. Not only against women but even young girls. As explained by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine…The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [2]
This is as malice -filled and viciously wicked as can possibly be. This, very much, reflects the Wisdom found in the Bible which in Proverbs 15:15. For it reads “All the days of the oppressed are wretched. “ and likewise Proverbs 29:2. Which teaches “When the wicked rule, the people groan. “ [N.I.V.]
[1] ISLAM THE HOUSE I LEFT BEHIND by Daniel Shayesteh . Pages 90, 91
[2] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.
tgusa says
Those people are not Americans. The Iranians are supporting those people because they know that later those non Americans would be very easy to kill. Real Americans are not easy to kill and those Americans would take selfies beside dead Iranian leaders propped up on some wall if that time ever did come. So bring it on loudmouth.
Louis Engelbrecht says
Poisend in their minds in the end will be poisoned in their deeds
OLD GUY says
Must be tuff running victory laps in a cave. These loud mouth ayatollah’s won’t be at the fight, they will be hiding while others do the fighting and dyeing for them. Nothing but hate comes out of their mouths, of course when muslim children are taught nothing but hate for others what can you expect.
Myron J. Poltroonian says
About those “Alleged Americans” Shouting “Death to America. While your headline tickles my funny bone because, “Where would ‘Gallows Humor’ be without the occasional hangin’?”, it’s getting close to the time when they’re going to be meeting the “Backhand of God, up close and personal”.
Marigold says
The Marxists in Russia were only a minority in 1917 graven image but there was also the chaos of the First World War.Now we have the chaos of the Wuhan pandemic and its aftermath however serious that turns out to be.Added to that as Robert says we have a young generation ashamed and ignorant of their culture and history. A situation ripe for revolution I would say. The silent majority of Americans need to wake up quick sharp.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Marigold.