Posts Tagged ‘culture wars’

Under the Fedora: New Rules, Old Rules, New Risks, No Risks and Walking Away

Posted: September 14, 2023 by datechguy in Blame Biden Administration, crime, culture, medicine
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The left is shocked SHOCKED that the House should open up an impeachment inquiry without a house vote.

This is of course how Trump was treated.

Once again the left acts and is shocked SHOCKED that the tables are turned.

Of course given the polling for Biden it might be a welcome development to ease him out.

It appears parts of the Susanna Gibson story are being suppressed on twitter.

But not the endorsement of the former democrat governor and her membership in mom’s demand action has not been suppressed. Of course given her side business her membership in “Mom’s Demand Action” gets an entirely new meaning.

Perhaps like Bill Clinton the left can put her up for mother of the year.

Apparently the St. Louis Children’s hospital has decided that due to a new Missouri law the risk / reward business of puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to minors has shifted to the point where they now decline to do such things.

I suspect that as laws change and lawsuits progress this type of decision will be more common.

Alas the gravy train might have ended but there are still plenty of kids whose lives have been ruined to keep psychologists in clover for decades

The risk reward ratio however has also shifted in DC and New York at least for kids and crimes.

The decision not to go after juvenile crime has had rather nasty consequences, both in DC and NY for the citizens, but not yet to the point where it’s has had political consequences for those who have decided to go soft.

They have other priorities, unexpectedly of course.

Finally Mitt Romney has announced he will not run for re-election to the US senate thus avoiding an embarrassing loss for his senate seat in the primary.

I’ve never forgotten that Romney inaction as MA gov was instrumental in killing a state vote on gay marriage when the Massachusetts SC by one vote began the slippery slope that got us where we are, however he was also quietly active in the Scott Brown campaign which really launched the Tea Party as a successful group.

His despicable enabling of the left’s attempts to destroy Trump has caused many to say they regret their vote for him in 2012. I don’t regret mine in the least, because the alternative was Barack Obama whose third term under Joe Biden has been even worse than his first two.

The Feast of The Passion of John the Baptist Playing Out Daily in America Against an Army of Woke Herodians

Posted: August 29, 2023 by datechguy in catholic, catholic devotions, culture, Uncomfortable Truths
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Today is the feast day of the passion of St. John the Baptist.

As a rule the Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of saints on the day they die. John the Baptist is the only saint where this is not the case, like Mary and Christ himself both his birth day and the day of his death (or in Mary’s case the Feast of the Assumption) are feast days of the Church. We celebrate St. John the Baptist’s birth in June and his death today.

It’s very fitting to ponder the feast of the beheading of John the Baptist because he was slaughtered for the same crime that many in America are now being punished for: Telling the truth.

You see John called out Herod for marrying his brother’s wife while he was still alive. This was a pretty good deal for Herodias as it gave her power and position and she never forgave John for publicly calling Herod out. Meanwhile even though Herod imprisoned John he not only didn’t kill him, but would go to the dungeons and listen to him. He didn’t have the courage to release him, nor did he have the courage to repent and give up his elicit marriage but he understood John was right.

So when Herod in front of his entire court made a injudicious promise to give Herodias’ daughter anything she the daughter at her mother’s prompting demanded on a platter the head of John the Baptist and Herod knowing it was wrong but not having the wisdom of Abe Lincoln who said: “Bad promises are better broken than kept.”, promptly had him executed and the head delivered to the girl who gave it to her mother.

Put simply John was executed for publicly saying aloud the truth that threatened the power of Herodias and Herod went along because he feared for his public reputation more than he honored truth.

This is America today.

We have not reach the “promptly executed” point in the US but if things don’t change it’s only a matter of time.

You see when we say basic truths like:

  • No amount of surgery can make a man a woman
  • A child is not competent to make life altering decisions about themselves
  • It’s a good idea to jail people who rob and loot and support police when they enforce the law
  • People should enter the country legally and the federal government should enforce the law
  • Children should not be sexualized
  • If you make it easier to cheat in elections they can’t be trusted
  • The government should not be used to jail their political enemies
  • If you’re going to give billions of dollars to someone they should be accountable
  • Drugs that have already been approved for people are safe to use vs COVID

We find an army of woke Herodias’ outraged not because those statements are false but because those statements challenge their delusions or their profits or their power bases and that army of woke Herodians put pressure on an army of Herod who they have granted their political, financial or even in some cases sexual favors to in their quest to get what they want.

Thus many institutions or pols, or business knowing that those making those statements are right but fearful of the wrath of the army of woke Herodians buckle. but not all.

There are still some who either because they still retain some backbone or fear the masses of the people more than the army of woke Herodians (who are actually much smaller then they appear) decide to reject them and side with the people and each time they it strikes fear in the hearts of the woke Herodians because they know their power is dependent on the fear of their Herods and the indifference of the masses.

There are John the Baptists out there. Tucker Carlson who faced the wrath of the woke Herodians but thrived despite it, Riley Gaines who refuses to bend the knee to Transgender Inc. Joe Rogan who talked openly about ivermectin to be used in Covid cases, Ron DeSantis who didn’t give in to either the COVID hysteria or the Disney/woke crowd on sexualizing children and yes Donald Trump as well who refused to bend the knee even as he is treated like an enemy of the state for being an enemy of dishonest elections.

I’m sure when the tyranny falls as all eventually do, first slowly and then all at once, millions will suddenly declare that they were with us just as many Frenchmen declared they were with the resistance as soon as the Germans were gone but till then who do you wish emulate? John the Baptist who spoke truth aloud and is remembered by two feasts of the church or Herodians who would with Herod would eventually die in exile?

Choose wisely.

Update: Tucker Carlson nails it:

The Least Popular but most Necessary Song for 2023: “Suck it Up”

Posted: August 5, 2023 by datechguy in culture, fun
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If you want to understand the difference between the traditional culture of the American right and the culture of grievance that rules today of the left consider this song:

♫ I went to my Grandfather and told him I was mad
My parents make up stupid rules and they don't understand
The man from the old country said "Son don't you be a chump"
If things aren't just the way you want you've gotta suck it up!" ♫

♫ Suck it up!  Suck it up!
You do not realize your own good luck ♫

♫ So when things aren't how you want em, and you think your young life sucks
Don't whine and complain or act insane you just go suck it up
Don't whine and complain or act insane you just go suck it up ♫

♫ I was talking to my Father, said work is kinda sad
My boss constantly leans on me and the money it is bad ♫

♫ My father he just grinned at me said: "Welcome to the club.  
until the day you're filthy rich you gotta suck it up" ♫

♫ Suck it up, suck it up
Your work is how your family gets their grub ♫

♫ So if when work is not the greatest and you fell like you're just  fucked
Don't whine and complain or act insane you just go suck it up
Don't whine and complain or act insane you just go suck it up ♫

♫I sat down with my brothers and said" I'm all depressed
My wife won't lay a hand on me and all my kids are pests" ♫

♫ My brothers they all grinned at me like men who heard enough. 
"All families have their problems so a man must suck it up."
Suck it up, Suck it up
You're not the only guy who is hard up" ♫

 ♫ So when family becomes a burden that's when you must man up
Don't whine and complain or act insane you just go suck it up
Don't whine and complain or act insane you just go suck it up ♫

♫ I said to Fr. Robert "I want some sympathy"
"When bad stuff happens to me no one ever shows pity" ♫

♫ My pastor with a kindly look said "Remember well my son
When Christ was hanged upon the cross he choose to suck it up" ♫

♫ Suck it up, Suck it up
The world it is designed to trip you up ♫

 ♫ ”When suffering when you should not you're are like the holy one
Don't whine and complain do it Christ's way you just go suck it up
Don't whine and complain or act insane you just.. go.. suck... it... up ♫

♫ Suck it up. ♫

I suspect this song would be very popular with my parents and grandparents generation but the very concept of it would cause the college students of today to reach for emotional support stuffed animals.

If you need to know how the tune is paced and have a strong stomach here is how it is supposed to sound.

WARNING!: Taylor Swift I’m not.

And So The Selling of the Draft Begins

Posted: August 3, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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For a very long time I’ve been warning that the policies of this administration (and the Obama admin) would lead to a peacetime draft.

Well while some might question if we’re in “peacetime” or not we’re finally seeing it being discussed publicly.

Today, the military needs only about 160,000 youth from an eligible population of 30 million to meet its recruitment needs. But after two decades of war — both of which ended unsuccessfully — and low unemployment, many experts believe the all-volunteer force has reached a breaking point. And American confidence in its military is at a low.

The fastest and most effective way to resolve this recruiting crisis is to change how we recruit.

Instead of an “either an all-volunteer force or a fully conscripted force” model, I propose a both-and solution.

We should have our military recruiters sign up new troops for 11 months out of the year, and then have the Selective Service draft the delta between the military’s needs and the total number recruited.

The most interesting about this article to me personally is it twists a point concerning the military that I made almost 20 years ago at Instapundit the very first time leftists called me a Nazi:

While the all-volunteer force had the effect of lowering discipline problems and professionalizing the force, it also created a vast gap between American citizens and those who serve — effectively creating a military warrior caste that now appears more like a multi-generational family business than an organization that represents the true makeup of our democratic republic

emphasis mine

Seriously? The people who have been volunteering for decades and fought when others stayed home are the problem? Well if the goal is a strong military that can stop China then I guess it is.

Kurt Schlichter sums the reality up as to why people have not been joining:

Let’s look at the attitude of the military towards the people who they want to enlist. Many are white males who know which bathroom to use, but if you’re a white male who knows which bathroom to use, you’re an extremist and a racist and an enemy and you’re going to get passed over for promotions and assignments for people based not on anything that you did, and not because of merit, but purely because of your race, sex, and normality. “Come, join an organization that actively hates you!” is not much of a sales pitch. 

I can see how this might put a damper on recruiting from military families (Funny how Col Plenzer the author of the piece never mentions this as a possible cause of the numbers falling short.) On the bright side for Col Joe this might decrease the number of those icky military Caste people there.

Kurt Closes thus:

Here is the hard reality. If you choose to join this military, you’re putting your lives in the hands of people who, at the highest level, don’t care about you at best and hate you at worst and are grossly corrupt and grossly incompetent. When you die, likely because of their utter failure to adequately perform their duties at even the most basic level of proficiency, your families going to get shafted and you’ll be forgotten or disrespected. And if you think this makes me happy to write, you’re dumb or dishonest enough to be a modern general or admiral.

The real question is this:

You can have an elite fighting force of motivated volunteers or a draft army lead by woke leaders, you can’t have both. The Biden/Obama admin has demonstrated most emphatically it does not want the former

The only question is: Are they doing this because of ideology, because of payment or both.

I’m betting both.

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