In the last commentary, we looked at 11 of the words that the Third Way website/group says that the leftists/Woke/so-called Progressives should stop using. As we pointed out at the end, at least one reason for the advocates of that political and social system to do so is because when normal people hear them, they tune out. People stop listening to them, they can’t spread their message.
The next set of works is shorter, and the Third Way calls them “seminar room language.” Perhaps, but we will tell you up front, the only way we’d stay in a room for a seminar that featured considerable use of these words? If we were chained to the floor and wearing a straitjacket. They’d probably need to gag us, too.
It is getting downright painful to listen to the media – both mainstream and alternative, both “left” and “right.” And even the libertarian (or semi-libertarian) versions.
There is poor English, bad grammar, mispronounced words, and an arrogant attitude. But the worst? The way plain English words are twisted, abused, and used in disgusting ways.
Some Woke group (who can keep track of them all?) called Third Way published a forty-five-word list that “liberals” (leftists – the Woke, so-called Progressives) should stop using.
Now, this is scary: the vocabulary of many of these enemies of liberty is already very limited.
Let’s look at these (or at least some of them) from the point of view of lovers of liberty:
All the radio news and online talk shows and social media, for the last couple of days, have been talking all about the new Cracker Barrel logo. It took a day or two for most observers to notice it is not just their logo, but their entire image, inside and outside their iconic restaurants and stores.
We’ll chip our two cents in on the changes, first. With the revelation that West River of South Dakota and the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming don’t have one of their locations. But when traveling in areas where such do exist (business or family travel), we have enjoyed eating and browsing – and sometimes actually shopping! – at a Cracker Barrel.
Here is a refresher from MSN: Robert Reich is a professor of public policy at Berkeley and former Secretary of Labor. His writings can be found at https://robertreich.substack.com/.”
In one of his latest screeds, he claims that The Donald has “relinquished the presidency.” Curiousity piqued by this bold claim, wondering if I’d missed something over the weekend, we found a list of ten reasons that we should “stop recognizing him as president.” What we found was a rehash of claims made again and again by the media, a whole slew of rabidly anti-Trump Democrats (and a few GOP types), and a lot of chestbeating on the part of the physically diminutive Mr. Reich. (We note that The Donald, at least, has the physical body to actually support such a stupendous ego. Mr. Reich seemingly possesses miraculous powers – or maybe he is a buddy with Charles Xavier.)
Rob Morse, whose Second Amendment and Self-Defense News email is always a great read, recently posted this snippet.
“Selecting government personnel is how politicians establish policy. President Donald Trump nominated a judge for the U.S. Ninth Circuit. This judge, Eric Tung, has been an member of the the International Defensive Pistol Association for five years. That means the judge has owned and trained with firearms.. a lot. He is intimately familiar with concealed carry. Judge Eric Tung was nominated on the 30th of July. We will see how long it takes Senate Republicans to approve the judge.”
TPOL certainly agrees with what Rob writes here. One of the big problems with Trump 1.0 (and many other elected officials) is that they make campaign promises and announce/promote good (or at least tolerable) policies – then appoint people who do exactly the opposite. Often stealthily, warping matters.
This judge’s past record – especially with his appointment to the Ninth Circuit – is promising. It is good news. But we should be very careful.
It was supposed to happen in 2022, but hey! COVID-19 delayed lots of things!
But seriously, what the 1600 PA spokescritter said was not this. Rather: Leavitt explained that police officers will give the homeless the opportunity to leave the encampment, be taken to a homeless shelter, and be offered addiction or mental health services. “If they refuse, they will be susceptible to fines or to jail time. These are pre-existing laws that are already on the books. They have not been enforced,” the press secretary reiterated.
Assuming she isn’t just using some euphemisms, or playing the same games that Harry Harrison wrote about in “Make Room! Make Room!” (The novel the book was based on.)
But it is not the homeless in DC (or any American city) that are the real threat to the peace, prosperity, and sanity of the community.
The homeless on the streets and sidewalks, under bridges and underpasses, in alleys and doorways and parks and parking lots are the results of the real danger facing American cities. And all of the States.
That real danger can be seen in many forms.
Politicians who don’t care for anything but votes, paychecks, power and wealth.
Voters who can be cozened by those politicians.
A lack of love and caring for one another: not just your family (immediate or extended) but people who need help: not just handouts but people helping them to get over or mitigate their mental illnesses, their hopelessness, and their addictions. Including parents who did not raise up their children in a moral and ethical and loving way.
Which boils down to a lack of personal responsibility. People who want to let “George do it” – and George usually means DC or their Statehouse or City Hall. Which are filled with people who have no personal responsibility. No real love except (maybe) their own families and kind. And who are willing to throw billions of dollars of YOUR money (never their own) to supposedly provide care and love to people who need it.
If The Donald really wants to clean DC up for the 250th birthday of these United States, he’d do a lot better to start cleaning up the politicians, the lawyers, the judges, and the bureaucrats, while explaining to the voters, “you surrendered everything to these people.” (We expect he’d use more colorful language.) Of course, those won’t make good Soylent Green either: polluted minds and bodies and corrupt souls are poison. Maybe we could used them for retaining walls or something.
In other words, as the bogus ad above says, “it’s our people that make the difference.”
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment,.
The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, “We didn’t have this ‘green thing’ back in my earlier days.”
The young clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”
The older lady said that she was right, our generation didn’t have the “green thing” in its day. The older lady went on to explain: Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could reuse the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. We used old newspapers to line birdcages.
As we here at TPOL have been researching and writing commentary the last several days, an interesting question (or group of questions) came up.
The first regards Dr. Faucet (we know, his name is really Fauci – but this isn’t a typo.)
We can now be fairly certain that he funneled money to China, and in particular to the Wuhan laboratories, to support research on “gain of function” for various viruses. Including the infamous and historic SARS-CoV2 virus which was released from that lab and is the cause of COVID-19. (What we generally call “Beer Flu” in derision: not that it hasn’t killed people, but to remind us of how this fiasco has impacted us.)
The GAO tells us that the NIH and other related agencies gave grants of 3.7 million dollars (US-FRNs) between 2014 and 2019 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. During that five-year period, a total of 28.9 million dollars went from DHS (and presumably other FedGov agencies) directly to Chinese entities, supposedly for research.
Now, 3.7 or 28.9 million is a drop in the bucket for Uncle Sam’s burning pockets in the days of trillion FRN deficits and a national debt approaching $40 trillion.
But why? Why is the FedGov sending ANY money (grants or not) to China and therefore directly or indirectly to the Chinese Communist Party?
Readers know that TPOL has a rather low opinion of Her Imperial Highness, Michelle Lujan Grisham, overlord (governor) of New Mexico. Her reign has done possibly irreparable damage to the people, land, economy, and environment of the State of New Mexico. And certainly more than any previous governor or government of New Mexico. (New Mexico, unlike the other American States, is more than 400 years old, having been established in 1598.)
But today, we might give – might! – at least a qualified thumbs-up to the Empress of New Mexico. As reported several places including KOB of Albuqueque, she is trying to get the legislature to kick ICE out of the State of New Mexico.
Wow. Imagine the guts it takes for a pitiful little State like New Mexico to tell big bad Uncle Sam “go away,” we don’t want you here.
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Political correctness – more words the Woke aren’t supposed to use
In the last commentary, we looked at 11 of the words that the Third Way website/group says that the leftists/Woke/so-called Progressives should stop using. As we pointed out at the end, at least one reason for the advocates of that political and social system to do so is because when normal people hear them, they tune out. People stop listening to them, they can’t spread their message.
The next set of works is shorter, and the Third Way calls them “seminar room language.” Perhaps, but we will tell you up front, the only way we’d stay in a room for a seminar that featured considerable use of these words? If we were chained to the floor and wearing a straitjacket. They’d probably need to gag us, too.
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