Tuesday, May 23, 2023



What The Hell Is Wrong With These People?

When Leftism morphs into mental illness

Imagine literally being upset about your state government preventing you from physically removing the genitals from your minor child. It’s difficult to do, I know, because the very idea of butchering the body of a child is foreign to you, but there are a lot of people wildly upset by just that idea. Just as there is a slice of the public, small as it is, demanding Bud Light completely destroys itself in the name of “tolerance.” Then there are the wealthy white liberals who, as if it were a sexual fetish of theirs, demand they and their children, and by extension everyone’s children, be indoctrinated into the idea that they are responsible for things done by people who aren’t them that happened long before they were born. You really have to wonder what the hell is wrong with these people.

I get it, different strokes for different folks. But there are some things I will never understand. I know there are some adults who need to be humiliated sexually in order to enjoy themselves. I don’t really care what grown adults do in the privacy of their own homes, as long as who they do it with is of age and willing. I don’t have to explain their lives to God, they do.

But we aren’t dealing with people who want to keep their fetishes to themselves, we’re dealing with morons and narcissists who demand everyone participate in their manias, and that we be grateful for it. Absolutely not.

Chris Hayes, the MSNBC personality most likely to be mistaken for Rachel Maddow from behind (or front, for that matter), is wildly upset that parents will not be allowed to remove the penises from little boys in the state of Florida. Imagine being upset by that.

“The law DeSantis signed in Florida banning care for trans kids is despicable and a frontal assault on the vaunted ‘parental rights’ he and his ideological cohort have been screaming about for years,” the bowl-cut boob felt compelled to tweet at the world. “In Florida, you no longer get to make healthcare decisions for your own child: Ron DeSantis makes them. It doesn't matter what you think is best for your kids, Ron tells you.”

Chrissy is very upset that parents can’t turn an outie into an innie on a 5-year-old, which tells you something about him. Josef Mengele is looking up from Hell confused, wondering how his wildest dreams have been surpassed by people insisting they’re doing it for the child being mutilated own good.

You wouldn’t know it now, but not that long ago genital mutilation was condemned by both political parties, back when it was done in the Arab world. Then Democrats decided they could raise a little more money by supporting the idea for children in the United States and out came the scissors.

They’d already been supporting their white children being preached to about how their skin color made them guilty for something someone else with that skin color did centuries ago, while weirdly working tirelessly to keep actual guilty people out of prison in the name of “justice.” They empowered unstable “educators” with a sick compulsion to talk about their sex lives coupled with a desperate need for validation for their perverted life choices from children. Honestly, if you need your “throuple” to be cheered by kids or else you feel invalid, seek help or move to a deserted island somewhere, because you shouldn’t be allowed in the same zip code as kids.

Honestly, Jeffrey Epstein’s island is available, and it’s seen its share of sick things. It won’t judge you. Move there. But as long as you’re here, children will be protected from you making life altering decisions on their behalf before they understand the concept or while your Munchausen Syndrome remains undiagnosed.

Just imagine the world the left would love to construct – full of Target’s tucked-back bathing suits and binding tops (at least until they can be permanently disfigured through “gender affirming care”), white people flagellating themselves over what someone who may have looked like them did long ago (while ignoring the African tribes who ran the slave trade and supplied the captives), while black people are told they’ll never get ahead because of what happened centuries ago and taught to fear police (while nearly 10,000 of them are murdered by people who look like they do) and everyone drinks a Bud Light.

I don’t know what Hell is like, but that sure sounds like what would be in the box if they sold a kit to make it here on Earth, doesn’t it? The longer you think about it, the less you concern yourself with trying to figure out what is wrong with these people and the more you commit yourself to making sure they lose in any effort they make to impose their will on anyone.

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Police Arrest Teen for Handing Out Bibles

During the pandemic, we saw an unprecedented amount of tyranny against Christianity. In America, we have the right to gather together to worship God. This is enshrined in our Constitution. So when Democrats tried to shut down churches and tell them that they were no longer allowed to worship in the manner in which the bible prescribes, this caused a lot of controversy and opposition.

One of the most notable instances of this was in California at Grace Community Church where John MacArthur pastors. His church opposed the mandates and that ticked off Gavin Newsom to no end. He was so mad that he even stole their parking lot from them and allegedly had nails put in the parking lot to deter people from going there.

As bad as all of that was, things are a little worse in Canada, even at this very moment because they are arresting people up there.

On Wednesday in Calgary, Alberta, an altercation broke out between the Sava Canada group and pro-transgender counter-protestors during a demonstration. Reportedly, Canadian police arrested a teenager who was handing out bibles during the incident.

According to a report from Rebel News, 16-year-old Josh Alexander was reportedly handcuffed for causing a disturbance and inciting violence after approaching activists during an “International Walkout” event supported by the Liberty Coalition Canada.

“Today I was handcuffed and put in a paddy wagon for offering students bibles on a public sidewalk in Calgary,” Alexander said in a tweet. “I was released and told if I returned, I would be arrested and charged.”

“I continued handing out bibles,” he added. “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.”

Maxime Bernier, leader of the People’s Party of Canada, condemned Canadian authorities in a tweet, accusing law enforcement of displaying a double standard of justice.

“If you burn a church in this country, the police won’t devote any resources to catching you,” Bernier said. “If you hand out bibles on the sidewalk however — or hold a rally to defend fundamental rights in a time of hysteria — you will be arrested and fined immediately. We’re a sick society.”

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Manliness in Modernity

Senator Josh Hawley recently released his book, Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs. In it, the Missouri Republican discusses the plight of modern men in finding their place in the world. His work is meant to encourage and strengthen men. Hawley puts forth a view of masculinity outlined in the Bible and highlights the virtues of masculine strength, sacrificial love, and courage.

Hawley’s stance has inspired backlash from the woke harpies, whose perspective is expressed in a nutshell by Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post. Capehart wrote an excoriation of Senator Hawley back in August, when his book had yet to be published. According to Capehart, Hawley “is selling a vision of masculinity to White America that has much more to do with prejudice than manliness. It’s an old story — but a successful one, and one that’s poised to catch on. Stopping that from happening will require offering an alternative, with better examples of what being a man really means.”

Capehart describes Hawley’s brand of masculinity as men who are “victims [of] competition by women and non-White men in the labor market.”

The alternative that Capehart suggests? He quotes Jason Kander, a former Missouri legislator who wrote a book that touched on the same topic of masculinity but from a Democrat perspective. Kander wrote, “I knew that being a man meant being dependable, taking care of your people, and going where you’re needed.” But Kander’s perspective on that changed via his struggles with PTSD and suicidal thoughts after returning from Afghanistan. Ultimately, Kander’s favored manly virtue is that of vulnerability.

Hawley’s prescription is very similar: “The warrior loves something dearly and passionately more than himself. He loves his wife and children. He loves his nation. He loves God. And that love makes him strong.” But his ultimate virtues are bravery and sacrificial love.

What all of this has to do with whiteness is never explained by Capehart. Men are men regardless of skin color. Men living in the modern world are struggling, and Capehart dismisses that reality.

In our culture, men are called toxic, dangerous, unreliable, and bullies. Even the American Psychological Association essentially describes masculinity as a disease. Men are the sum of all evil. They commit the majority of the crimes, especially violent crimes. It is also generally men who start wars. The leftist worldview sees masculinity as the problem and seeks to feminize them. The feminization of men only leads to weak men. As political pundit Allie Beth Stuckey put it in a video for PragerU, “In a world of wickedness, weak men are nothing more than enablers of wicked men.”

Weak men are hooked on porn and video games, are self-medicating with drugs and alcohol, and are even working out to fight against their overwhelming anxiety or depression. Bad men are raping, killing, dominating, preying on children, stealing, and gaining as much political power as possible. Bad men are permitted to push forward with their evil in our culture because they have convinced weak men that it’s “compassionate” or “speaking for the oppressed.”

Masculinity isn’t the problem; the problem is the moral shaping and the output of aggression, violence, and ambition. The godly masculinity that Hawley promotes calls for aggression to be turned toward heroism, violence toward being a warrior, and ambition toward good leadership and being a society builder.

Hawley isn’t the only man trying to restore good masculinity to its rightful place. Republican Nicholas Freitas, who serves in the Virginia House of Delegates, has an entire Instagram dedicated to these ideas.

The website Art of Manliness is also full of practical male knowledge from fashion to getting a car unstuck from the mud. It’s men supporting men, and it’s particularly useful since many young men don’t have a father to pass on some of this manly knowledge.

We need men of all stripes, but mostly we need good men who can protect, defend, and build a thriving society. It’s just such a society that Hawley is envisioning for us with his book.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/97406-manliness-in-modernity-2023-05-18 ?

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Greece election win for conservtives

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, whose party scored a thumping win at Sunday’s election, is a conservative political dynasty scion credited with putting the debt-ridden country back on the path of growth.

Mitsotakis has offered his country a rare respite from economic instability in the face of unprecedented global upheavals such as the coronavirus pandemic and war in Ukraine.

But a damaging wire-tapping scandal and public anger arising from a deadly train crash in February blighted the record of Mitsotakis, whose family has dominated Greek politics for decades.

The former Harvard graduate who worked at US financial consultancy McKinsey will be tasked by Greek President Katerina ­Sakellaropoulou with forming a government. But he has signalled he will seek a new election, likely in a month’s time, in order to ­obtain an absolute majority to govern alone.

With just over 82 per cent of the ballot counted, his New Democracy party was credited with 40.8 per cent of the votes – a 20-point lead ahead of his nearest rival, leftist challenger Alexis ­Tsipras’ Syriza party, which garnered 20.1 per cent.

The result is a crushing blow to Tsipras, who has lost his fourth straight electoral battle to Mitsotakis after serving as premier in 2015 to 2019, during which he led rocky negotiations with creditors that nearly crashed Greece out of the euro.

Mitsotakis had been at the helm of his New Democracy party for three years before he took Greece’s top job in 2019.

The 55-year-old had then triumphed over Tsipras on a promise to fix Greece’s broken economy.

He insists he has no problem taking on the “dark state of anachronism” – as minister of ­administration reform from 2013 to 2015, he carried out rounds of painful layoffs in the public sector as part of the austerity deal.

Mitsotakis hails from a Greek political dynasty. His father Konstantinos Mitsotakis was prime minister from 1990 to 1993, his sister Dora Bakoyannis was Athens’ former mayor and an ex-minister, while her son is the capital’s current mayor.

Tall, slender and uptight, ­Mitsotakis, usually sports a white or light blue shirt, and courts selfies with teens in an effort to ­appear personable. But he is awkward around crowds, and has struggled to shake his elitist reputation.

An enduring image of Mitsotakis from his years as a technocrat has him seated at his office with an uppity look, gingerly holding an espresso cup while reading a newspaper.

But with nearly 440,000 youth votes at stake, the conservative leader has taken to posting behind-the-scenes clips from his campaign on TikTok.

He says he dreamt of becoming a basketball player, idolises his entrepreneur spouse, and watches the Netflix hit Emily in Paris to relax.

At the onset of the pandemic, Mitsotakis initially earned plaudits for keeping a lid on virus deaths. But he caused outrage at the height of a strict lockdown ­imposed by his government, when photos emerged showing him and his wife on mountain bikes in the company of other bikers on Mt Parnitha outside Athens.

But Greece’s remarkable economic recovery from the crippling impact of the pandemic is a valuable shot in the arm for Mitsotakis. Although the country lost out on its vital tourism revenues during the pandemic, Greece came back with growth hitting 8.3 per cent in 2021 and 5.9 per cent last year.

That was helped in part by a ­€57bn dished out by the government to cushion the impact of the pandemic and inflation.

With the vulnerabilities of the health sector cruelly exposed during the pandemic, Mitsotakis has promised to significantly invest in the national health service.

Also among his mantra are tax cuts for large properties, a smaller public sector and boosts in investment incentives for private enterprises.

But on social issues, he straddles liberalism with his backing for LGBTQ rights in a deeply ­religious country, while also seeking to win over the conservative base with a tough line on migration.

On the campaign trail at the border with Turkey, he vowed to extend a 37.5km, 5m-high steel fence to contain the migration flow.

The illegal wire-tapping scandal targeting journalists and political figures including socialist leader Nikos Androulakis had been a blow on his record.

Following anger over the deadly train crash of February 28, with critics slamming successive governments for under-investment in the railway, he has also vowed to correct the problem.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...


The feminist movement promoted the incorrect notion that the actions boys were taught in order to appear manly were mechanisms used to perpetuate a patriarchal society.

The truth is that those actions were made in order to teach boys to respect women and because women tend to love that sort of treatment from those that care for them.

When we stopped teaching boys to respect women we grew generations of boys who never became men.