Sunday, April 16, 2023

A Long Walk around the Block

In this day of contradiction, hypocrisy, astronomical possibilities for good and evil, and the pervasive cluelessness that is all around us….there is not much one can add to the simple reporting of the actual events.  Let us consider:

 

We have all wondered on occasion about how a certain individual could be placed in a position of authority to make such a stupid decision.  We say to ourselves… “What were they thinking?  Look no further for the perfect example:

 

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/04/08/disney-and-nike-go-head-to-head-with-critics/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/heavy-thoughts-about-bud-light.php

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/bud-light-doesnt-seem-to-understand-its-own-consumers/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/anheuser-busch-ceo-apologizes-sort-of/

 

https://nypost.com/2023/04/14/anheuser-busch-exec-offers-flat-apology-following-bud-lights-dylan-mulvaney-backlash/

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-blasts-anheuser-busch-over-statement-on-dylan-mulvaney-partnership

 

We are daily witnessing the continuing annals of climate ridiculousness.  Why can’t the radical left climatistas permit the free market to decide where electric vehicles and applications will work and where they will not?  That method has proven fairly reliable for many, many decades.  Instead, in the vein of their arrogance and conceit, they unilaterally have determined that the whole…entire…universe must switch over to electric vehicles and that change must take place immediately.  Damn the costs!  I am still waiting for that amusing moment when these idiots want to electrify agriculture.  Good luck with that first John Deere 5300 electric tractor.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/04/bidens-draconian-electric-car-mandate/

 

https://reason.com/2023/04/13/the-epas-ban-of-gasoline-powered-cars-will-actually-slow-development-of-electric-cars/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/a-time-for-charging.php

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/electric-vehicles-volt-farce/

 

This green foolishness from the left is no great mystery.  Just follow the money: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/ent-bidens-green-transition-could-spell-financial-chaos-americans-benefit

 

Abortion in America continues to roil our citizenry with uncompromising positions being hardened on both sides of the issue.  The demagoguery that is taking place in this discussion is breathtaking and there is a great deal of intentional distortion and deception occurring.  For some reason…and I suppose it is quite simply clinging to strongly held convictions…a significant portion on either side of the debate simply refuses to give an inch.  I believe we are moving towards a middle ground, but the progress is agonizingly slow.

 

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/national/michael-w-chapman/florida-gov-ron-desantis-signs-pro-life-heartbeat-bill-law

 

https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/10/judges-abortion-pill-opinion-tells-the-truth-about-unborn-humans-and-the-left-cant-stand-it/

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-house-passes-bill-allowing-no-parental-notification-of-runaways-if-child-seeking-abortion-sex-change

 

And while the abortion issue struggles towards consensus, the total absurdity of the transgender issue to setting new records for stupidity.  Why in heaven’s name can we not all simply acknowledge that the fundamental definition of male and female is rightfully determined in a biological context?  Once that determination is made, there is legitimate debate about the width and breadth of personal freedoms revolving around gender preference.  But calling something one thing when it is clearly not that thing…simply because you want it to be that thing…has never been acceptable and it remains so today.  In this arena of policy, we are allowing the tip of the tail to wag the entire dog…and probably the kennel it resides in. Children are not adults.  There are certain decisions whose gravity is sufficient that children should not make them for themselves.  There is a reason that parents exist.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/for-now-supremes-refuse-to-intervene-in-trans-school-sports-ban-case/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/transmania-why-are-democrats-tying-themselves-into-knots-to-please-1-of-the-population

 

And one has to be dull to the extreme not to realize that there is an underlying violent quotient involved in this transgender debate.  When we throw common sense and reason out the door, and sanction depravity as normal…the loonies take the floor.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/06/ruling-class-sides-with-transgender-shooter-who-murdered-6-at-tennessee-christian-school/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/03/manifesto-destiny/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/washington-post-gross-partisan-practice-reporting-alleged-sex-crimes

 

American justice, led by our politicized Department of Justice (DOJ), continues to unwind and devolve at an alarming rate.  The bald-faced and shameless approach taken by our top law enforcement officials does not bode well for the future of law and order in our country.  As I have stated many times before, there are multiple levels of justice in America that are driven by motivations other than the law. 

 

https://reason.com/2023/04/06/trump-commuted-his-sentence-now-the-justice-department-is-going-to-prosecute-him-again/

 

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19539/does-this-compromise-biden

 

https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/hunter-bidens-business-associates-visited-white-house-over-80-times-when

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/04/a-spring-of-leaks/

 

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/j6

 

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/cuffari-secret-service-texts/2023/04/07/id/1115405/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/11/splintered-court-ruling-throws-j6-prosecution-into-chaos/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-didnt-merrick-garland-tell-the-truth-about-the-fbis-guy-fawkes-obsession

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/against-the-tennessee-lie/

 

https://justthenews.com/nation/religion/rep-andy-biggs-and-fbi-whistleblower-slam-bureau-trying-infiltrate-catholicism

 

And nowhere is the biased, politically-weaponized DOJ more revealed than in their obsessive pursuit of former President Donald Trump. 

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/i-swear-im-not-making-this-up/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/07/the-gathering-storm/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-mccarthy-report/the-dueling-lawsuits-edition/

 

The DOJ has become a partisan ray-gun that the Democrats can point at anyone, anytime, for any reason in an attempt to silence, malign, diminish, or destroy them altogether.  The corruption we are today witnessing in the DOJ, coming to fruition from the beginnings of Eric Holder and Barack Obama, is reaching historic levels that truly threaten the very fabric of this nation.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/06/our-french-revolution/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/victor-davis-hanson-were-in-a-revolution.php

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/07/the-point-of-no-return/

 

It bears repeating…we are living in dangerous times and we have a weak and incompetent leader in our country that dramatically heightens the danger.  Joe Biden and the cast of clowns in his Administration have worried about everything but their jobs.  This has left America in a precarious global position of waning influence, little to no credibility, and a total lack of respect. 

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/10/fiddling-america-away/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/12/the-biden-10-step-plan-for-global-chaos/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/turns-out-the-chinese-spy-balloon-was-able-to-collect-intelligence-data.php

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/04/biden-owes-america-answers-on-the-chinese-spy-balloon/

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/leaked-documents-reveal-more-chinese-spy-balloon-operations-report

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/biden-disgracefully-tries-to-memory-hole-his-afghanistan-debacle

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/all-this-talk-of-chaos-i-just-didnt-see-it-pentagon-spokesman-says-administration-proud-of-afghanistan-withdrawal/

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-reporter-blows-up-john-kirby-over-afghanistan-report

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/americans-must-recognize-that-macron-has-chosen-china

 

And that peril exists on our domestic front as well as in the foreign policy stage.  President Biden, his Administration, the liberal-bent Democrat Party and all of their supporters in academia and the mainstream media have fractured the citizenry of this country.  They divide people, they foment hatred and class warfare, and they do this in the name of their self-serving political agenda.

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/05/our-constitutional-doom-loop/

 

https://reason.com/2023/04/12/spat-among-tennessee-lawmakers-illustrates-a-national-urban-rural-divide/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/14/biden-is-even-worse-than-obama/

 

https://reason.com/2023/04/08/proposition-its-time-for-a-national-divorce/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/12/importing-poverty-is-making-america-poor/

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/02/fahrenheit-2023/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/no-to-distributing-kidneys-based-on-race

 

And while this cabal of liberal-leaning elites pushes our nation towards instability, the financial underpinnings of our government continue to wither away.  The tax and spend philosophy of the Democrat party has never been more powerful and it is leading to the fiscal ruination of our federal financial health.

 

https://www.cnsnews.com/article/washington/terence-p-jeffrey/deficit-tops-1-trillion-first-six-months-fy2023

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/cbo-federal-debt-payments-up-41-thanks-to-higher-interest-rates/

 

And how do they spend our money?  Here are a couple of examples.  Please recall that the IRS just recently received $80 billion to essentially double their workforce.  What are their plans for that influx of funding?

 

They are not sure what they want to do with it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2023/02/22/the-irs-misses-its-deadline-for-completing-a-plan-to-spend-80-billion-in-new-money/?sh=25ecc8c01c2f

 

But they definitely don’t want to do “this”: https://reason.com/2023/04/14/auditors-asked-the-irs-to-figure-out-why-so-many-taxpayers-make-mistakes-the-irs-said-no/

 

And we still continue to pour federal tax dollars down this rabbit hole: https://reason.com/2023/04/13/ax-government-funding-for-npr/

 

The criminal neglect of our federal deficit by both national parties is a disgrace.  Another disgrace is the cowardice they both reflect in refusing to address the fiscal viability of our federal retirement and health care programs: https://reason.com/2023/04/07/republicans-and-democrats-refusal-to-reform-social-security-and-medicare-is-political-malpractice/

 

Let us not forget to check in on our American education system…that bastion of practicality and reason:

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/the-daily-chart-the-college-doom-loop.php

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-why-public-schools-should-want-school-choice

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/15/parental-choice-is-proliferating-nationwide/

 

While considering all the concerns and problems we have in America and the world today, it appears that our country’s electorate is still evaluating the prospect of retaining a senile, unprincipled, shallow, and politically-corrupt imbecile as our President.  As I mentioned earlier in this post while addressing the beer brouhaha…What the hell are we thinking?

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/can-the-democrats-structural-advantages-be-overcome.php

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/09/the-painful-reality-of-trump-the-candidate/

 

https://reason.com/2023/04/10/what-freedom-means-to-ron-desantis/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/which-party-is-stronger-going-into-2024.php

 

 

 

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