op ed review 12/5
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Joe Biden's Dirty Little Secret: He Wants Higher Gasoline Prices, a goal of the Left for years.
Buttigieg: Struggling Families Worried about Gas Prices Should 'Buy an Electric Car'
Joe expected a 10 percent cut in deal with a Chinese giant.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/29/joe-biden-expected-10-percent-cut-in-deal-with-a-chinese-giant/
Former British special forces officer behind Joe Biden's '10% stake in dirty China deal
Pass the Buck: Biden Calls for Investigation into Retailers on Supply Chains
Biden tells federal agencies they should hold off on suspending or firing federal workers for not complying with the vaccine mandate until after the holidays.
Biden bill would give amnesty to 6.5 million illegal immigrants, says Congressional Budget Office
Judicial vacancies open door for Biden to offset Trump's legacy in court system
Biden administration to restart 'Remain in Mexico' program under court order
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/02/biden-remain-in-mexico-523666
Joe Biden greeted in Minnesota with 'FJB' and 'You Suck' signs
https://nypost.com/2021/11/30/joe-biden-greeted-in-minnesota-with-fjb-and-you-suck-signs/
LA cops arrest 14 suspects in 11 smash and grab robberies and all freed under 'zero bail' policy
America's smash-and-grab crime wave baffles congressional Democrats
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/dec/1/americas-smash-and-grab-crime-wave-baffles-congres/
House Republicans propose requiring history of communism in high schools
DHS: Sanctuary Orders Ensure 'Majority' of Illegals Are Not Deported
Large Migrant Group Rushes Border in West Texas
Democratic Lawmakers Sign onto Letter to Ignore Parliamentarian, Ram Through Immigration in Reconciliation
Jeffrey Epstein visited Bill Clinton at the White House at least 17 times, visitor logs reveal
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10235499/Epstein-Clinton.html
??? 80 House Republicans Help Democrats Pass Bill to Fund Federal Vax Database. Big brother will be watching you.
Here’s the list
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021388
Vet Affairs keeping vets from using health care outside its system.
https://nypost.com/2021/12/01/vet-affairs-keeping-vets-from-using-health-care-outside-its-system/
Smoking crack cocaine is now legal at NYC safe injection sites.
https://nypost.com/2021/12/01/smoking-crack-cocaine-sanctioned-at-nyc-safe-injection-sites/
Salvation Army pulls anti-racism document after donor blowback.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/29/salvation-army-pulls-anti-racism-document-after-do/
CNN roasted for tweet saying Waukesha parade attack was caused by 'a car' that drove through parade.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/waukesha-parade-attack-cnn-tweet-car-parade
New CEO says Twitter is 'not bound by the First Amendment'
https://thepostmillennial.com/new-twitter-ceo-free-speech
If critical race theory is in Missouri classrooms, it’s likely in yours.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/25/if-critical-race-theory-is-in-missouri-classrooms-its-likely-in-yours/
18 Dems Announces House Exits -- Over 3X what GOP Needs for Majority
DeFazio becomes latest Democratic lawmaker to retire at the end of current term. Unfortunately, “the blue leaning district is expected to become more favorable to the Democrats next year, thanks to the new redistricting map passed by the party.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/defazio-latest-democratic-lawmaker-to-retire
Chris Christie's new book on how to save the Republican Party from Trump sells only 2,289 copies. Trump’s new book sells 100,000.
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
“Third-Worldizing America”
Victor Davis Hanson 12/4
In a recent online exchange, YouTuber Casey Neistat posted his fury after his car was broken into and the contents stolen. Los Angeles, he railed, was turning into a “3rd-world s-hole of a city.” The multimillionaire actor Seth Rogen chastised Neistat for his anger. Rogen claimed that a car’s contents were minor things to lose. He added that while living in West Hollywood he had his own car broken into 15 times, but thought little of it.
Online bloggers ridiculed Rogen. No wonder – the actor lives in multimillion-dollar homes in the Los Angeles area, guarded by sophisticated security systems and fencing. Yet both Neistat and Rogen accurately defined Third Worldization: the utter breakdown of the law and the ability of the rich within such a feudal society to find ways to avoid the violent chaos.
After traveling the last 45 years in the Middle East, southern Europe, Mexico, and Asia Minor, I observed some common characteristics of a so-called Third-World society. And all of them might feel increasingly familiar to contemporary Americans. Whether in Cairo or Naples, theft was commonplace. Yet property crimes were almost never seriously prosecuted.
In a medieval-type society of two rather than three classes, the rich in walled estates rarely worry that much about thievery. Crime is written off as an intramural problem of the poor, especially when the middle class is in decline or nonexistent.
Violent crime is now soaring in America. But two things are different about America’s new criminality. One is the virtual impunity of it. Thieves now brazenly swarm a store, ransack, steal, and flee with the merchandise without worry of arrest. Second, the Left often justifies crime as a sort of righteous payback against a supposedly exploitative system. So, the architect of the so-called 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, preened of the riotous destruction of property during the summer of 2020: “Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.”
Third Worldization reflects the asymmetry of law enforcement. Ideology and money, not the law, adjudicate who gets arrested and tried, and who does not. There were 120 days of continuous looting, arson, and lethal violence during the summer of 2020. Rioters burned courthouses, police precincts, and an iconic church.
And there was also a frightening riot on January 6, when a mob entered Washington D.C.’s Capitol and damaged federal property. Of those arrested during the violence, many have been held in solitary confinement or under harsh jail conditions. That one-day riot is currently the subject of a congressional investigation.
Some of those arrested are still – 10 months later – awaiting trial. The convicted are facing long prison sentences. In contrast, some 14,000 were arrested in the longer and more violent rioting of 2020. Most were released without bail. The majority had their charges dropped. Very few are still being held awaiting capital charges.
A common denominator to recent controversies at the Justice Department, CIA, FBI, and Pentagon is that all these agencies under dubious pretexts have investigated American citizens with little or no justification – after demonizing their targets as “treasonous,” “domestic terrorists,” “white supremacists,” or “racists.”
In the Third World, basic services like power, fuel, transportation, and water are characteristically unreliable: in other words, much like a frequent California brownout…………One of the most memorable scenes that I remember of Ankara, Old Cairo, or Algiers of the early 1970s were legions of beggars and the impoverished sleeping on sidewalks. But such impoverishment pales in comparison to the encampments of present-day Fresno, Los Angeles, Sacramento, or San Francisco. Tens of thousands live on sidewalks and in open view use them to defecate, urinate, inject drugs, and dispose of refuse.
In the old Third World, extreme wealth and poverty existed in close proximity. It was common to see peasants on horse-drawn wagons a few miles from coastal villas. But there is now far more contiguous wealth and poverty in Silicon Valley. In Redwood City and East Palo Alto, multiple families cram into tiny bungalows and garages, often a few blocks from tony Atherton. On the main streets outside of Stanford University and the Google campus, the helot classes sleep in decrepit trailers and buses parked on the streets.
Neistat was right in identifying a pandemic of crime in Los Angeles as Third Worldization. But so was Rogen, though unknowingly so.
https://www.nationandstate.com/2021/12/04/victor-davis-hanson-third-worldizing-america/
The Counterrevolution and the Republican Party
Jared Pederson 12/4
“For nearly a year the Biden “presidency” -- whoever they are -- has subjected the United States to a destructive revolutionary agenda of unprecedented scope and virulence, all of it arising out of an irrational civilizational death wish for which there is no historical parallel……Whatever the long, medium, and short term causes, the coup has happened and the revolution is in progress. We are now in the midst of it, and the only question worth asking is how, if at all, a counterrevolution of sanity can be mounted and succeed. Surprisingly, there is real hope. That hope lies in two stubborn centers of resistance that remain: nearly 50% of the American electorate, judging by the 2016 and 2020 elections; and the Republican Party. Mention of the Republican Party may have caused a few groans from the readership, and I sympathize. The Republican Party may not be much, but, institutionally, it’s all we’ve got. Every other major American institution has either signed on for the revolution or completely acquiesced to it…..”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/12/the_counterrevolution_and_the_republican_party.html
On The Use Of Fear As A Government Tactic by Mark Wauck
“…a remarkable article that appeared in the Daily Telegraph (UK). “Use of fear to control behavior in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists”.
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/on-the-use-of-fear-as-a-government
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BOOKS
Matt Walsh children’s book: “Johnny the Walrus” “Matt Walsh is a true master of the written word. In his magnum opus, he skillfully lays out the case for trans-walrusism and why everyone, regardless of our political ideology, must affirm any child who identifies as a walrus. Must read!”
https://www.amazon.com/Johnny-Walrus-Matt-Walsh/dp/1956007059/ref=sr_1_6
In her new book, “Laptop from Hell”, Miranda Devine describes a Biden grift-and-influence machine dirtier than most people could imagine — because the mainstream media sat on the story of Hunter Biden’s juicy laptop until well after the election.
David Horowitz’s new book, “I Can’t Breathe: How A Racial Hoax is Killing America”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/11/i-cant-breathe-jason-d-hill/
“Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters” by Abigail Shrier.
https://www.amazon.com/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters/dp/168451228X/ref=sr_1_1
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ROE V WADE
Will the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade? Possible outcomes for the upcoming abortion case
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-dobbs-roe-abortion
Supreme Court argument suggests shift in abortion jurisprudence
The Supreme Court will probably uphold the Mississippi law limiting abortion after 15 weeks
SCOTUS Oral Arguments: Signs Point to Roe v. Wade Being Nuked
Roberts wonders: Is it a good thing that our abortion laws are closest to ... North Korea and China?
Reading the room: Observers agree Supreme Court looks poised for a major change on Roe – HotAir
Dem senator warns Supreme Court of 'revolution' if Roe v. Wade is overturned
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-senator-revolution-roe-wade-overturned
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PROGRESSIVE WATCH
UK Government Bans Word ‘Christmas’ to Avoid ‘Offending Minorities'
https://neonnettle.com/news/17555-uk-government-bans-word-christmas-to-avoid-offending-minorities-
“Ministers are warned that using the word 'Christmas' in jab drive will offend minorities”
Wikipedia Community Considers Deleting Entry on Mass Killings Under Communism over Claims of 'Bias'
George Soros' Influence over Joe Biden's Administration Raises Concerns in Congress
Toronto school cancels event with ISIS survivor over concerns it would 'foster Islamophobia'
Woke ASU Students Issue 'List of Demands;' Plan Rally Demanding Kyle Rittenhouse Be Expelled From School
U.S. Space Academies Tout 'Diversity' As China Preps To Dominate Space
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GLOBALONEY
Those Ugly Climate Models
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/11/30/those-ugly-climate-models/
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COVID
Is The Omicron Variant The 'Midterm Election Variant'?
The “Epidemiological Relevance” Of The Vaxxed Is Increasing
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/the-epidemiological-relevance-of
Leading Cardiologist Says Researchers Are Refusing to Publish Study Results That Show Covid Vaccine's Link To Massive Increase In Heart Attacks
Japan warns of cardiac health risks from COVID vaccines
Why Isn’t Everyone In Bangladesh Dead From COVID? - GreatGameIndia
https://greatgameindia.com/why-isnt-everyone-in-bangladesh-dead-from-covid/
Fauci Admits It: Trump Was Right About ‘Living With’ COVID
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/11/29/fauci-is-now-copying-trump-on-covid/
Dozens of Oregon workers fired for not getting COVID shot
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ARTICLES
“The Looting Will Stop When Store Owners Can Shoot On Sight”
40 Years Ago, Monty Python Predicted (and Mocked) Wokeness
3 Reasons Why Paid Abortion Leave Is Just Stupid
Unsettling theory: “Get Ready for President Hillary Clinton”
Meet the Technology That's Uncovering 2020's Voter Fraud
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SATIRE
Jen Psaki Announces President Biden Will Visit Family Of Traumatized Waukesha SUV Driver.
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