I heard a female podcaster, of Latin descent, say she refers to immigrants as citizens, "because they contribute" to our culture and society. Fair enough, I respect her freedom to express her "feelings" just as I respect those who hate Israel to say so. I don't have to agree with people to grant them the freedom of speech. In those instances, when folks make comments about their "feelings" it is appropriate to remain on the sideline. It will accomplish nothing to attempt to inject rational thinking where emotions are ruling the conversation. Modern society has grown accustomed to accepting emotional reasoning as admissible facts when we talk to each other about sensitive issues like citizenship, voting rights, property rights, and right to life. The neo "common sense" is that everyone has their own definitions. That we must respect their sensitivities because causing discomfort is no less offensive then physical violence. To tell a person who identifies as "nonbinary" that they are confused and their are only two genders, is no less caustic than calling a black person a "ni**er". According to Laura Wamsley at NPR, " Gender dysphoria is a diagnosis listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Some argue that such a diagnosis inappropriately pathologizes gender incongruence, while others contend that a diagnosis makes it easier for transgender people to access necessary medical treatment." "If I was introducing myself to someone, I would say, 'I'm Rodrigo. I use 'him' pronouns. What about you?' " says Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, deputy executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. "It may feel awkward at first, but eventually it just becomes another one of those get-to-know-you questions." OK, but isn't that just a little narcissistic? Why is your sexual identity any more important than the color of your eyes? Or your preference for real butter over margarine? Some guys prefer boxers over briefs, and some women prefer to go braless. So what? Why do all of the rest of us have to conform to your standards? I could get upset if another man suggests I need to grow some gonads. I have seen guys start a fight over what could be considered an insult to their manhood. But when that happens most reasonable people consider the fight impulse as selfish and immature. We admonish them for being violent and brutish. Either they grow up or we avoid them, isolate them, and shame them. Hypersensitivity is a cultural anomaly. Or maybe I should say it used to be. Currently it is becoming the New Normal. Sensitivity over self imposed identity is out of control. After thousands of years of fighting over religion, caste, or any number of cultural rituals, mankind has decided to fight over the single most unifying element of human existence, sex! Instead of marveling about how sexual attraction between men and women reduces us to silly and childish joy, we have chosen to pitch men and women against each other. We have invented armies of "others" to march into battle with anyone that refuses to join ranks and abandon historic gender definitions and traditions. It is not enough to accept that some people suffer confusion, confrontation and a sense of abandonment over their sexuality. Now we have to redefine all of our language, our traditions, our relationships and how we communicate. We have to place those who "believe" they are different, into the center of the world of concerns. Their needs and "feelings" must come first! That is how children act. They demand to be put at the head of the line. They want what they want, and if denied, they scream. They cry, they have a tantrum. Clearly, the LGBTQ+ community has learned how effective that behavior is. In some parts of our country there is an invasion of illegal immigrants, who have learned the same tactics, and as they waltz into the Greatest Country On Earth, unencumbered by any form of scrutiny, they mimic the tactics of the sexual identity pirates. The Gender Pirates scream "Let us love who we want!" The illegal immigrants scream "Our lives matter!" It is one special interest after another hijacking the culture and undermining traditional values. The fabric that has held our nation together for nearly 250 years is being stretched to it's limits. When citizenship was recognized as a privilege, as a status of respect and responsibility, it served to build a culture of unity and progress. As it has deteriorated into nothing more than occupancy, to a commodity of little or no distinguishable value, the country descends into chaos. Immigration activists suggest those who have successfully trespassed should be honored with the right to vote, because they are working and contributing to society. But the facts betray that claim: A 2022 report by the Center For Immigration Studies notes "A hefty 59 percent of households headed by either a green card holder or an illegal alien are on welfare…" In 1968 students rioted at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. They were protesting the War In Vietnam and the way both parties were determined to keep feeding young Americans to the jungles of Vietnam and they were in support of the anti-war candidate Robert Kennedy running against the establishment candidate Hubert Humphrey. The drum beat was "We have to stop the Communists from taking over all of South-East Asia". We had to support South Vietnam to stop the "Domino Effect" which would lead to the Russian communists from militarizing and dominating Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand and potentially Laos. This was all very reminiscent of the motives for our involvement in the Korean War. In 1965, Lyndon Johnson was escalating his commitments, pouring more money and equipment into the Vietnam war which had been going on for a year, and by 1968 it was simply a grim and directionless mess. Nixon was promising to end it if he was to be elected, but the students weren't buying it. They were convinced the war was nothing more than a way to build the strength of the American economy, to feed the Military Industrial Complex, and to project American hegemony around the world. After conceding a stand off in Korea, and signing a treaty to stop fighting, it looked like the US was just relocating their battlefield. And the draft age people were the victims of wars that had no exit strategy. Nixon finally gave in and ordered our soldiers out of Vietnam. The North Vietnamese communist forces took over, nothing terrible happened in the region. In fact, over the last half century, Vietnam and the surrounding countries have become major traders to the US, creating an upsurge in the median income to their citizens. After 14 years we moved the battlefield to the Middle East. And we created a new bogeyman called Islamic Fundamentalism. We decided that the area was of vital importance because it provided the world with energy supplies and the threat of Russian-backed, radical theological terrorists dominating the whole area of Syria, Iraq and Iran was a threat to our national security. So once again we stepped in to change the dynamic. We went after the perceived weakest link, Saddam Hussein. We were convinced (or at least inclined) to believe he was developing nuclear weapons, and that gave us the moral authority to declare war on Iraq. Once we destroyed his military, and most of Iraq's infrastructure, and we discovered there were no weapons of mass destruction there, we moved the battlefield again. Each time, we walked away without the enemy conceding defeat after spending billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives. On to Afghanistan. And now Ukraine. And the theme remains the same. Let me cut to the chase: There is an unmistakable pattern here…We are not really in these battlefronts to win anything. We are there to create demand for new and better weapons that also cost enormous amounts of money, provide good paying jobs, and make us look like a formidable force around the world. We are playing politics with human lives, with the fortunes of relatively small and insignificant countries, while creating vast amounts of wealth. We haven't won a war since WWII and it should be obvious, we aren't really trying to win. It is the process that provides us what we want. For the United States of America, war is simply real estate development. We bulldoze the old order, spend billions of taxpayer dollars to annihilate any resistance, then pay ourselves to rebuild a new, much more US dependent economy. We get trade partners, natural resource supplies, and a government that stands with us when we go do the same thing to the next part of the world that is vulnerable to the "Communist Domino Effect". We do this with the one thing no one can interfere with: The power to print US dollars. Which we then hand out as "foreign aid" but is actually invested in weapons we build, then laundered by the victims of "Russian aggression" and eventually finds its way back to the US economy, spent with our massive foreign service contractors, to rebuild the now war torn country. It is really just another Mafia-style shakedown scheme. Are you tired of the constant polling and angst over the question of "Who can beat Joe Biden" in the upcoming 2024 Presidential election? I find it demeaning that journalists are even asking that question. But I am apparently still in the minority of folks that contend Joe Biden didn't really win the 2020 election. Either way, if we accept the outcome as presented to us by the lame-stream media, it nevertheless showed Donald Trump garnered 11 million more votes than he got in his victory in 2016. He increased his support among both females and minorities. The polls show he has steadily increased his support among Republicans since Joe took office. Biden supposedly collected 81 million votes from, well, who knows where? Thin air. Supposedly, he out-performed Hillary Clinton by 15 million votes. And he did it without breaking a sweat, campaigning from his cellar in Maryland. He never conducted any rallies and seldom spoke before major constituencies like labor unions or women's groups. He is, by that measure, a masterful political animal. Now we watch helplessly as Joe undermines all of the progress achieved during Trump's four year administration. The world is in chaos, as are our inner cities. We are in another endless war cycle in Ukraine, after walking out on Iraq and Afghanistan, leaving the victorious Taliban billions of advanced military equipment and technology. The dollar is near collapse as the dominant financial instrument in worldwide trade, so the Biden administration has elected to print more money and send it overseas. The resulting inflation has undermined the housing segment, and locked an entire generation of first-time homebuyers out of the market. After suffering through two years of the manmade Pandemic, what's left of our manufacturing sector is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. According to the Institute for Supply Management Report on Business, manufacturing activity has contracted for ten consecutive months. In 2015 Vice President Joe Biden said “An unrelenting stream of immigration — will make white people a minority in the United States…That’s a source of our strength.” Now, because he has effectively thrown open the Southern border ( border encounters are up 348% in 2023) we are in the clutches of drug and human smuggling cartels, sending poison into our communities and swamping the workforce with uneducated, desperate workers. Recent estimates are that America will lose over 100K citizens to illegal drug overdoses this year alone. Major cities are awash with homeless, drug riddled people that have no hope, no future and nothing to contribute. And the scourge of human sex trafficking is growing all across the world. According to the Biden White House, "We're getting stronger every day!" But the Human Development Index, a United Nations report designed to measure the human condition based on three metrics: Length of life, knowledge and standard of living, shows America has dropped to 21st in the world, behind Ireland, Belgium and Iceland! We watch the nightly news repeat the mantra that "Everything is improving" as though we are too stupid to see that it is not. And the United States is not alone. There is a growing unease around the world that our leaders are running out of excuses. People are waking up to how abusive and unreliable major transnational media operations really are. They celebrate absurd ideas like George Soros World Economic Forum's narrative "You vill own nothink, und be happy!" Indications are that America is moving away from every principle under which the Republican Party was established, and our Constitutional Republic is on the verge of collapse. The real question journalists should be asking is why are Republicans floating all of these uncompetitive candidates at all? It is so obviously just a charade. When you have the bases loaded in a tie game, in the bottom of the ninth and Babe Ruth scheduled to bat, why would you even consider a pinch hitter? I have no MBA in foreign affairs or experience in domestic intelligence operations. I haven't served on any political or private industry committees or boards. I am just like you, a citizen that is interested in the everyday goings on in my world. I watch and I listen and then I try to put the puzzle together and come up with an As the World Turns theory. Then I write the Days of Our Lives script as I see it. I post a blog, or submit an Op Ed. I talk to groups and among my friends and relatives. Recently, the story lines have become very serious and threatening to the continuation of the series itself. The idea that I can express my concerns publicly without recrimination was for most of my life just an accepted fact. I live in America, the Land of the Free. But others like me, most with a much wider audience, are being told to back off. Too stop promoting "Conspiracy Theories" that our Republic is under assault. They are being "Fact Checked" or shadow banned on social media platforms. Some have been threatened by their employers, or their unions. We all have had to be careful about what we say in any group meetings, family or otherwise. Some have to show proof of vaccinations to stay employed. I can't help but be reminded of the days of the Cold War and how the media portrayed the Soviet Union. Where neighbors snitched on neighbors who questioned authority. Where the Government kept lists of potential traitors to the Motherland. I am not widely read enough to be on that type of list. But a "Terrorist Watch List" across the popular media platforms does exist. We are all being monitored by algorithms and what we say is being logged, every minute of every hour of every day. That is what is different now than just a few years ago. Big Brother is in The House, and his name is Google. We have developed an alternate language so we can talk about issues in generic terms. We express our anger with Big Tech because they spy on us. Or how we are mistreated by Mainstream Media, or Big Pharma. Joe Biden demonizes MAGA Republicans as though they were, as the Nazis referred to Jews, just "Vermin". And his supporters cheer, as did the German population just before the Holocaust. It is getting pretty scary for anyone on the right side of the aisle politically. I think about what has occurred just since January 2020:
When I look back at my blogs ( I have a decade in archive at TurnRightAtLost.com ) I see I have been right more often than not. I have a skill for "Seeing Patterns" and based on those, I make assumptions. Here are some I wrote about in the past:
I was right about all of those issues. I knew immediately on the morning of November 4th, 2020, that the overnight reversal of Trump's enormous lead was nefarious. It mimicked the trends we have seen in California, where the presumed winning candidates and initiatives would rack up huge leads in early returns, then suddenly be reversed while we slept. Trump was too popular to be beaten legitimately by a snarky old political hack like Joe Biden. A man who had been caught plagiarizing speeches, lying about his educational record, the deaths of his first wife and his oldest son and raising a family of deviates. No way! It's now been almost three years and I am proving to be right about that too. I had a Department of Defense Computer Intelligence Specialist in my living room on January 6th as the events on the Capitol Steps unfolded on TV. He and I watched the rioting, the impact grenades and flares sent into the crowd by the Capitol Police, the beatings and handcuffs, the screaming and the gunfire that wounded Ashley Babbitt (who would later die of her wounds). We were in shock. I turned to him and asked outright, "Did our military intelligence know that the election was corrupted?" He said, "Yes sir, they did" I couldn't believe I heard him admit that! "Why have they let this get to this point? Aren't they concerned that we may be getting into a civil war?" "Do you know anything about Google, sir?" "Actually, I do." "They are more powerful than Russia or China, sir. Our Government is indebted to them because they run the information systems, sir. If you can, I would advise you to be well armed, and be aware that we may well see a civil war in our future." I have written about Google extensively, and I was privileged to meet Dr. Robert Epstein, who predicted that Google would influence the 2020 election, swinging it away from the disruptor Donald Trump. Both he and the soldier from the DOD were 100% on the money! I wrote about that too, but only after the fact in my book "f'd: For Your Own Good".. Now I am making some other more frightening predictions, of which I hope I am not right! I am predicting (September, 2023) that Biden will be martyred. How? I am not sure, but he has too much baggage to be the nominee for 2024. The only way he can avoid total political destruction is to leave the stage, and so I predict they will give him the Ticket To Paradise. I am also predicting that Trump will not be re-elected. Why? Because he was never DEFEATED. He was never legally removed. There are currently multiple lawsuits pending that will decertify several state election results, and effectively do what Trump requested Mike Pence do on January 6th, 2021: Review the electoral votes of many battleground states that showed enormous voting trend anomalies in the electronic tallies late in the morning hours of November 4th, 2020 and beyond. When those suits reveal the degree of corruption in the election process, it will allow Trump to reveal his Game Plan: The Art of The Appeal. But we still have to deal with Google. Which is the symbolic God Of Intelligence in 2023. Remember Mao Zedong murdered the Intellectual Class because he saw them as THE threat to Communist Utopia. Then Stalin murdered ANYONE that opposed his Marxist Revolution. Then came Pol Pot, Ceausescu, Castro, Kim and on and on…all drunk with power. We should know by now, "Power corrupts; Absolute power corrupts absolutely". And we should be fully aware that all of those depotic tyrannical regimes slaughtered over 200 million innocent people. They showed no remorse or empathy for ANY of those human souls. To Marxists, The Ends Justifies The Means. It's them or us. Them or 4 trillion people. Who is going to win the War Of Attrition? Since every weapon on Earth, every means of exchanging information, of keeping the trains running on time depends on computer systems… Remember Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of Arthur C. Clarks short story called 2001: A Space Odyssey? When the lone surviving astronaut named Dave, is confronted with the rogue computer (HAL) holding his life in his virtual hands? Dave: Hello, HAL, do you read me? Do you read me, HAL? HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you. Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. Dave: What's the problem? HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. Dave: What are you talking about, HAL? HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. Dave: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL. Dave is us. HAL is Google, telling us that The Mission is too important for us to interfere with. And we are pretending we don't know what the FrankenMedia (Big Tech/Big Pharma/Military Industrial Complex) is talking about. We can't believe the folks that run the entire backbone of human society would jeopardize the future of mankind. Or would they? We built this Monster, and now we are losing control of it. If I am right again, well, we'll see, won't we… There is a sensation millions of people crave. It is something innate and indigenous to their soul. It rests inside their cerebellum, waiting for any opportunity to burst out with joy. It is also something that never dies. It is passed along from generation to generation, like the sexual urge. It resides in beings from both genders, but seems overwhelmingly strong in males. It is the need to ride. It doesn't really matter what the vehicle is…it can be a horse, a surfboard, a wave, or sliding down a mountain on skis or a board or even a sled. It can be a waterski, or skateboard, or a motorcycle. For some it is an airplane, or a sailboat. It is the ride that is the compelling need. It is the sense that you are getting the wind in your face, a rush from the danger, or just something for free. Cave paintings from hundreds of thousands of years ago show people riding on sky chariots. Before the wheel was invented, man rode elephants, and used currents and wind to ride the ocean. I would bet many of your fondest memories are of some thrilling moment riding something scary: A roller coaster, a pair of water skis, or a tricycle. It starts with childhood, but it grows as we mature and often becomes an obsession. Cowboys and Cowgirls spend most of their lives around their horses. Motorcyclists often go to their graves riding their "hogs". Recently we have invented a new vehicle called the internet. It has generated a new pathological dependency called Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD). When a person cannot avoid spending huge amounts of time "surfing" the 'net', it can cause all sorts of other social and personality conflicts. Surfing the net is not a ride. The difference is clear: The other kinds of obsessions have to do with the outdoors and nature. The freedom of being excited by "riding" the wind, the snow, or the water, is unlike hiding in a room and becoming absorbed by some amorphous electronic stimulation. The results are diametrically opposed: Riding a motorcycle or a surfboard creates a collision between nature and the rider. Surfing the net or getting stimulation from a video game is 100% self absorbed. The fundamental element of interacting with nature is missing. Many boomers swear by "Natural Highs". We seek them and when we find them we design our lives around them. They have given birth to enormously successful businesses that serve collateral needs for clothing, equipment, facilities or entertainment. Extreme Sports has grown exponentially as the technology of "Riding" explodes. Now there is windsurfing, hang gliding, bungy jumping, wakeboarding, even rocketing into space, all with specialized equipment and supporting associations and publications. Though video gamers will claim the "High" they get is just as fulfilling and challenging as extreme sports, they know in their hearts they still need that testosterone rush that can only come from facing certain death while going over the falls trying to catch a ten foot high wave. My point is, healthy individuals who seek thrills and tranquility by riding their motorcycle or their surfboard are evidence that mankind has an innate desire to challenge nature. Sitting in front of a personal electronic device, fiddling with a control device or driving a golf ball into a video screen will never substitute for the need to express total and complete freedom from fear and control. The Ride will always be the elixir for that unexplainable need. |
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