Donald J Trump speaks at a rally in Arizona this evening. Right Side Broadcasting Network is streaming live here.
UPDATE 9:20PM: And here's the Rumble link: <https://rumble.com/v1bxqkb--president-donald-trump-rally-live-in-prescott-city-az-71622.html>
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At American Thinker, Andrea Widburg puts climate change
hysteria -- i.e., the probable next global "emergency" -- in a historical perspective. Here’s
an extract:
Democrats hope Biden uses the climate
to take over and destroy the economy
We've already seen how Biden's
initial attacks on our energy industry, through the executive orders he signed
on his first days in office, have created a rolling economic
disaster. When energy prices skyrocket, all prices skyrocket.
. . .
the only thing separating our
modern era from the pre-modern era is fossil fuel.
When we watch period pieces on TV
or in movie theaters (anything about Jane Austen or the tawdry Bridgerton
series, for example), the pre-modern world looks lovely: it's all pastoral
vistas; politely curtseying maids; abundant food; and brilliantly colored,
gorgeous clothes.
In fact, the past was nothing like
that. The 1% experienced those
benefits. The rest of the people lived
horrible, short lives.
Everything that needed to be done
had only four energy sources to make it happen: human energy, animal energy,
limited water energy, and equally limited wind energy. The reason for slavery was that human energy
was the easiest to obtain and exploit, which is why slavery has been a dominant
factor in human history for all but the last 200 years.
. . .
It was only by the mid-19th
century, as fossil fuel began shaping a new middle class, that an increasing
number of people began to have abundant food and clothes, even if they weren't
as pretty as those seen in a Hollywood movie. And it was only after
WWII, in an era of abundant fossil fuel, that we finally had a world of plenty
that saw more people than at any other time in history live long, comfortable
lives.
This is what Biden plans to end
with a stroke of a pen. . . .
Read the full column here.
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A favorite and familiar line from The
Usual Suspects (photo of Kevin Spacey above): “The greatest trick
the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” JD Rucker
adapts that line for his column at FreedomFirstNetwork from a few days ago titled “The Greatest Trick the
Globalists Ever Pulled Was Making Us Think the Biden-Harris Regime Is Failing.”
Mr Rucker doesn’t deny that our political betters (Biden, Kamala, cabinet appointees, et
al) are incompetent. His point is
that they are performing according to plan;
the globalists behind the throne are hiding behind incompetent
puppets. In short:
What we consider to be abysmal
failures on most fronts are actually successes in the eyes of the globalist
elites. Whether you believe these are simply powerful evil men doing what
powerful evil men do or if you believe there is a demonic element in which
powers and principalities are pulling the strings, the current goals are the
same. They want the world in a state of upheaval so they can herd us into the
next phase of their plan.
That next phase for America is to
enter into the Liberal World Order, previously known as Build Back Better, also
called The Great Reset, branded prior as the 4th Industrial Revolution and
known for decades as the New World Order. No matter what they serve as the
phrase du jour, it all amounts to the elites having everything and the masses
having nothing.
Read the rest at FreedomFirstNetwork here.
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I am linking to Jeff Deist’s article at Liberty Loft, because it is about defining terms. The epigraph at the beginning of his article is a quote from George Orwell: "If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
Today, “Political Correctness” is out. “Woke” is in:
Like culture, language is not
property, and it cannot be “owned.” But it can be influenced and steered by
linguistic vandals seeking to topple old understandings and leave us all
overwhelmed and demoralized by the ever-shifting new terminology.
In the quaint, innocent days of
2015, we still called this progressive impulse “political correctness.” I attempted to
define it then:
Political correctness is the
conscious, designed manipulation of language intended to change the way people
speak, write, think, feel, and act, in furtherance of an agenda.
PC is best understood as
propaganda, which is how I suggest we approach it. But unlike propaganda, which
historically has been used by governments to win favor for a particular
campaign or effort, PC is all-encompassing. It seeks nothing less than to mold
us into modern versions of Marx’s un-alienated society man, freed of all his
bourgeois pretensions and humdrum social conventions.
Like all propaganda, PC
fundamentally is a lie. It is about refusing to deal with the underlying nature
of reality, in fact attempting to alter that reality by legislative and social
fiat. A is no longer A.
Today, of course, PC is
obsolete—replaced entirely by the far broader concept of “woke,” which goes
well beyond language.
Woke, whether a slur or not, may
be used very broadly to represent strident left progressive beliefs regarding
race, sex, sexuality, equality, climate change, and the like. Woke demands
ever-changing language, and constantly creates new words while eliminating old
ones. As a result, “cancellation,” de-platforming, and loss of employment or
standing all loom large, giving pause to speakers and writers who must consider
a new woke orthodoxy.
Ultimately, imposed language attempts
to control our actions. . . .
Mr. Deist’s full article, which can serve as a preview of
his forthcoming journal article, is at The Liberty Loft here.
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Just when you thought the New World Order was inevitable, and it was the end of life in America as we know it, along comes Daniel Greenfield at FrontPageMag with some skeptical words of reassurance:
. . . The new world we live in now
is one where Russia is trying to rebuild a Czarist empire, and China, Iran, and
every other power or power that was, is fighting to recreate its glory days.
The patchwork international order
had been a product of the Cold War that Bush and Gorbachev were eagerly bidding
farewell to. Globalism, or the post-Cold War international order based on
trade, human rights and conferences proved to be as much of a joke as the UN,
the WTO, the NGOs and the multilateral organizations that served as its shaky
infrastructure.
Bush envisioned "a world where
the rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle" and "nations
recognize the shared responsibility for freedom and justice" on the brink
of the original Gulf War.
But the only law that ever existed
was the law of force enforced by self-interest or idealism.
. . .
The old world order is the reality
that once the meetings are done and the conferences are over, every country is
all alone. Virtue signaling globalism means that everyone will fly Ukrainian
flags, just as they expressed solidarity with Hong Kong and will hashtag Taiwan
at need.
And then they’ll move on to the
next political outrage, celebrity gossip or trending news.
. . .
A century of tired arguments have
reduced us to the false choice between isolationism and internationalism. But
at the height of our rising power in the 19th century, the United States was
neither. It was not afraid of asserting its ideals, but neither was it foolish
enough to believe that the rest of the world would go along or that we were
obligated to make them all behave. We primarily pursued our own interests and
we were not afraid of a little expansionism either.
Most importantly, we did not see
our place in the world as bound by the rest of the world.
. . .
The American Revolution and the
Constitution ushered in the true new world order not by seeking to control the
world, but by showing the human race what was possible. Every effort to outdo
that order with a new world order has failed. . . .
Mr. Greenfield’s full article is here. I would like to think he’s right.
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It keeps getting worse. Here’s Jim Thompson at Red State on “Medical Schools: The New Church of Woke”:
The effort to turn medical schools into expensive schools of sociology started before 2022. In 2019, the effort for equity and inclusion was being added, ad hoc, to how professors taught medical classes. Nothing grips the mind like informing medical students that systemic racism is to blame for obesity and other medical conditions inherent with a person’s personal and unhealthy choices.
The push to blame everything on
racism hit overdrive in 2020, when George Floyd, an addict loaded on fatal
doses of illegal drugs, died. Medical schools went on strike. Students left
their classrooms and headed to “church” — outdoors, wearing masks and kneeling
with “Black Lives Matter” signs. It’s quickly becoming a traditional
denomination for the left: Photos of medical students kneeling and heads bowed
for protesting too much whiteness in white coats.
Now, there is a concerted effort to
take up the time of medical students with religious indoctrination – a
catechism of systemic racism, anti-racism, equity, diversity and inclusion.
The Association of American Medical
Colleges (AAMC) has released its official Diversity,
Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Competencies for medical students to commit to
memory and practice. No longer is it good enough to be a good doctor; now,
before a student, then resident medical doctor, can ply their trade, they must
be full, card-carrying members of a cult.
. . .
The medical profession has already given itself a black eye
for following the COVID protocols required by the CDC and NIH. It’s getting worse. Read the rest at RedState here.
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