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Saturday, November 30, 2024

What About Pete?

By Rich Kozlovich

Pete Hegseth has been nominated as Secretary of Defense by Donald Trump, but that giant of intellectual wherewithal, Whoopie Goldberg, has declared Hegseth "clearly knows nothing about the military", and Whoopie absolutely knows all about the military because she played a bar tender on Star Trek, like OAC was a bar tender after graduating cum laude from Boston University in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in international relations and economics.  And she could only get a job as a bartender?  Odd, don't you think? 

At any rate, while Whoopie wasn't a member of Star Fleet in that show, and of course it really wouldn't have matter anyway because none of that was real, but hey, let's not get picky!  Right?   After all, that's Whoopie's job to be picky, so, let's take a look and see if Whoopie knows what she's talking about.

Hegseth is 44, a combat veteran, commissioned as an officer in the Minnesota Army National Guard joining in 2002 serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He twice earned the "Bronze Star, [he's authorized] to wear the Joint Service Commendation Medal, two Army Commendation Medals, three Army Reserve Components Achievement Medals, the National Defense Service Medal with a Bronze Service Star, an Afghanistan Campaign Medal with two campaign stars, an Iraq Campaign Medal with two campaign stars, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Armed Forces Reserve Medal with “M” Device, the Army Service Ribbon, two Overseas Service Ribbons, the D.C. National Guard Emergency Service Ribbon, a NATO Medal, a Joint Meritorious Unit Award, a Combat Infantryman Badge, and an Expert Infantryman Badge.

He retired as a major, and refers to himself as a recovering neocon now believing invading Iraq was a mistake.  He has critical insights on weapons procurement, training, DEI insanity, planning, and more.  But Whoopi says he "clearly knows nothing about the military". 

She must have used the same logic when she said Jill Biden was a great doctor and should have been made Surgeon General.  Jill Biden's degree was in education, not medicine. 

To be a leftist requires massive mental capacity.  Why?  To justify their irrational views, and twisted logic must require unparalleled mental gymnastics. Fortunately, they're so obviously nuts, ordinary people with ordinary mental capacity can see through it all.  But that's not a deterrent to the left.  They lie, they know they lie, we know they lie, and they know we know they lie, and the brilliant conclusion these mental giants on the left come to is since everyone knows it all a lie, it isn't really a lie after all.  Ergo, why stop lying?

Gaetz was defeated as Attorney General even before he left the gate, and the claim is he knew he was guilty of something and couldn't face the music.  He said the Justice Department investigated him and didn't charge him, and if he was guilty, he'd be in jail now.   So why did he quit?  There were five Republican Senators who absolutely said they would not vote for him, three of whom thought Merritt Garland was perfectly acceptable, all five of which need to be primaried when their time comes.  

As for releasing the House Ethics Committee report on him, which are usually filled with unsubstantiated claims..... he said, she said stuff.   But, I'm all for it, provided they release all the ethics reports, which have hidden all the provable vile antics of many of those in Congress, especially in those cases where government money was used to silence their accusers.    

So now they're going to go after Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard, which in her case I have to wonder how did she made the journey across the aisle from adoring Bernie Sanders to becoming a MAGA fan.   Just a thought mind you.  

Know you're friends by their enemies, and Hegseth has all the right enemies.

CNN's Van Jones Explodes Over Trump’s Defense Secretary Pick because he thinks the military needs no correction, and he's a military expert?  He's a political analyst, media personality, lawyer, author, and civil rights advocate.  Actually, that's what he's paid for, but in reality he's just another a race baiting hustler, with no military credentials or experience, so he's just doing what he does best.  The race baiting hustle,  and Lloyd Austin is no better.  And he's not alone in the military or Department of Defense, which is filled with:

.......[a] regime of left-wing four-star generals and DoD lackeys [which] has produced one of the most disastrous tenures in the Pentagon's history. We've had spy balloons flying over the entire continental United States. We had the Afghanistan withdrawal disaster, which cost the lives of 13 American servicemembers and became a stain on the nation's history. Russia invaded Europe during the last four years while China and Iran have seen a resurgence in power and influence. The Middle East is the most unstable it has been since the end of Trump's first term.

Then we have Fauxcahontas, Elisabeth Warren, "who stole a job from a legitimate minority at Harvard" declaring he would make the military unsafe.  A military which is focused on DEI insanity, climate change, and electrifying America’s military forces is going to be unsafe if Hegseth is confirmed?  Really?  There's more, and it seems likely all these panicked voices may be connected to Obama, who "has been running a shadow presidency since he left the White House in January 2017."

The Democrats/socialists/communists and DEI misfits scream he's not qualified, it's racism, white privilege, he's too young, he's a media guy.  Well, he's 44, he has excellent military experience and performance, a lot of media people have migrated into administrations in the past, and I really don't care if black race hustlers are upset he's going to fire a DEI general, and probably a lot of white ones.  After all, considering the disaster of the Afghanistan pull out, who are they to criticize anyone?   It's time to eliminate DEI in the military and demand MEI, Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence. 

This brings me to the rape scandal, a vile and unending tactic by the left.  While he admits to a sexual liaison with this woman he claims it was consensual, and it was she who was the "aggressor" and there's video evidence to that, which is all confirmed in the police report.  The only crime committed here looks like is an effort at extortion by this woman. 

This kind of thing no longer has the impact it did in times past.  The Establishment’s Scandal Scam Tactics Won’t Work Anymore.  The Pravda media cares little for the truth, they only care about framing an innocent man and destroying him for political purposes, and it's just not working any longer. 

He has his defenders also.  Scott Jennings tore into Pentagon leadership, he called him an 'American Hero', and Bill Ackman says he will be a revolutionary leader for the military, GOP Senators Express Confidence in Hegseth’s Confirmation, and I agree.   I just hate the tattoos.

Scandals, We Have Scandals, We Have Lots and Lots of Scandals

By Rich Kozlovich

I'm really going to date myself here saying many years ago Perry Como had a very popular television show, and there was a segment where he would read some of the fan mail, and that started out with a tune, "Letters, we get letters, we get stacks and stacks of letters", so when I see this kind of thing being exposed this tune runs through my head, and in this case paraphrased as, "Scandals, We Have Scandals, We Have Lots and Lots of Scandals"!  

Politics and scandals go hand in hand, but for the Democrats, it's a leftist tenet of faith with absolutely no regard for the people they claim to represent, the day to day working people of America, taking their money and kicking them to the curb when they don't need them any longer. 

As I reported in my article, Kamala, The People's Choice For 2028!  Remarkable!, saying:

As time is moves along, truth generally follows, and it's now being shown while spending over a billion dollars,  and leaving a debt of 20 million dollars, her campaign knew Kamala had no to path to victory.  In point of fact, their entire operation was a one billion dollar lie........... DNC staffers are getting desperate, after Kamala hung them out to dry........, Kamala took a Hawaiian vacation as her staffers are still fighting for severance pay..........as Monica Showalter asks, "if she doesn't take care of her staff, does anyone imagine she'd take care of the American people?" 

What I didn't know at the time was she was spending her Hawaiian vacation in a $7 million luxury mansion."  So, the question that should be asked is:  Who's paying for that?  All the while the Democrats are asking for donations to pay off the twenty million dollar debt, and this after spending one billion dollars like drunken sailors.

And the hits just keep right on coming.  Another scandal rocks Kamala Harris's failed presidential campaign, By Rajan Laad November 28, 2024.

 The great English author, poet, lexicographer, and moralist Samuel Johnson famously said “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” These instances reveal the true character of the Democrats. .......The Washington Free Beacon revealed that Harris’ presidential campaign paid $500,000 to 'Reverend' Al Sharpton’s National Action Network nonprofit.  What did Harris receive in exchange?

A softball interview on Sharpton's program on MSNBC, [a filmed broadcast interview allowing for retakes where] Sharpton called Kamala's campaign both "extraordinary" and "historic" while referring to President Trump as "hostile and erratic." He asked a series of easy questions, he asked Kamala if men who opposed her were "misogynistic."  MSNBC is claiming or perhaps feigning ignorance about the donations made to Sharpton's organization.

Imagine that, Al Sharpton and scandal appearing in the same sentence.  Just like Captain Renault, I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.  
 
Sharpton has been scandalous his entire career.  My friend Mychal Massie called him a "A Coward and A Liar", a race baiting hustler making millions with his intimidation "business model" of '‘donate or you are a racist",  and then he'd show up with loud protestors.  Instead of them being charged with crimes, what ended up happening was businesses donated, generously, gutlessly, in order to get them to go away.
 
That used to be a crime called extortion, which BLM, AOC, Joy Reid, and all the other race baiting hustlers are following Sharpton's "business model".  The author goes on to describe how Sharpton has enriched himself, and ends with this thought: 
 
When one learns of Harris’s billion-dollar catastrophe and its excesses it either causes disgust or ridicule with an undercurrent of schadenfreude.  But this is a grave matter that could be cases of bribery, money laundering, or even theft. This must be investigated, perhaps Trump's DOJ will look into this.  These stories of corruption and reckless spending are a reminder that the U.S. didn’t dodge a bullet but a massive meteor on Nov. 5.

Here's What I Believe, What I Don't Believe, and The Fix

By Rich Kozlovich 

Editor's Note: I originally ran this on May 19, 2022, with a couple of comments worth viewing. For some reason it's been hit a lot in the last 48 hours, and as I re-read it I thought, given what's going on, this needed to be republished with some updates. Enjoy! RK 

The insanity I've seen displayed over the last sixty years years has been mind boggling. I wish I could have said things have improved.  While we have great technology and advancement, plenty of food, at least until now, good medical care, until now, and longer lives, we have to consider what's happening to the American culture.  Conclusion?  It hasn't improved.  I wish was completely wrong.  I'm not!  

Here are the things I believe. 
 
I believe the left hates Trump even when he does things they like, just like they hated Nixon, who promulgated more far left policies that impact our culture and economy than most 20th century presidents, including the EPA, OSHA and more, much more.  And they hated him.  Why?  Because he was an anti-communist, and that's what tells the tale about who the left really is.
 
The mental gymnastics leftists and RINO's must go though to criticize Trump, and conservatives, has been remarkable.  The media's irrational rantings have been so outrageous you can't help but laugh.  The lies, misdirection, logical fallacies Democrats spew out about conservatives is so obviously false I wonder how their mind became so twisted.  Whether they believe what they're saying it or not. 
 
I can honestly say I didn't like Trump yesterday, I don't like him today nor will I like him tomorrow, as a person.  When I say that to my conservative friends they respond:  Who does?  But we all agree, he's a leader!  And as President of the United States, I believe he may possibly be one of the greatest Presidents this nation has ever had, even with a split Presidency.
 
I believe the RINO's and Neo-Cons hate Trump because he wants to dismantle a system that's made they and their friends powerful and wealthy.  In that regard, the left and the RINO/Neo-Cons, are in harmony and explains why they've been so cozy hoping to even now destroy Trump in order to keep him from running for President again.  

This has exposed the RINO/Neo-Cons, like Liz Chaney and others, for who and what they are.   That will help define who and what the Republican party is and will be.  They're the reason the Republican party has been consistently called, and acted like, the Stupid Party.  
 
Here's what defines a Republican as a RINO. 
  1. They are totally out of touch with their base.  A base that subscribe to traditional American Judaic/Christian values.
  2. They're actually more in harmony with the Democrat left.  
  3. They have no sense of loyalty or justice and are totally self-serving.
  4. They take actions that are clearly detrimental to the nation for political or financial gain. 
There's a lot of talk about draining the swamp and fixing the Deep State, but that would take a lot more than rolling back a few liberal left wing initiatives.  It requires an entire restructuring of the liberal/leftist/progressive vision and central power governing structure, and the initiatives they've insidiously imposed on the nation through regulations, spending and taxes. That can't be done without restructuring government by eliminating whole departments of the federal government. 

To fix it you must shrink it, and that must be done on a massive scale, and that includes eliminating the Departments of Labor, Energy, Education, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development and Transportation.  Combine Home Land Security and Veterans Departments with the Department of Defense.  Combine Agriculture and Interior.   Remember, the Post Office once was a Department, and now it's not, and it should be joined by those I've listed here, and that includes the frighteningly large number of agencies that work for those departments.   
 
Let's take the Department of Agriculture which is a massive and expensive self serving boondoggle.  A vast bureaucracy with a budget of some $130 billion.  That's larger than the farmer's net income.  It redistributes funds according to formulas created decades ago and is a massive hog trough of federal funding.
  • $20 billion in various crop “supports” to the nation’s wealthiest farmers
  • $5 billion in ethanol subsidies 
  • Grants that amount to welfare to the wealthy, and food stamps to the poor.  

While the department does good things that need to be retained we have to recognize their real mission!  Mostly to provide cash to political constituents.  It needs purged. As it is now:

  • Too many "Americans" think government is the answer and not the problem. 
  • Too many Americans don't think they're Americans.
  • Too many Americans hate America.
  • Too many Americans are remarkably ignorant of American history.
  • Too many Americans fail to realize how unique American style republican democracy is in all of world history.
  • Too many Americans graduate from school semi-illiterate, and amazingly ignorant.
  • Too many Americans graduate from college filled with false information and assumptions about how the world works, or should work, and are arrogant in their ignorance.
  • Too many Americans no longer are people of faith, and as a result have no moral foundation other than the latest philosophical flavor of the day, and that's a foundation of shifting sand.
Is it any wonder society is being washed back and forth like waves crashing against the rocks to its destruction?  

Here's what I don't believe:
  • I don’t believe Social Security will there for my children and it may not be there for me for much longer. Social Security was supposed to stop being self-funding by 2020 and bankrupt by 2030, and it will go bankrupt with the federal government owing the Social Security fund trillions of dollars they borrowed with non-redeemable bonds.  (Here's the  Summary of the 2021 Annual Reports, Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees)
  • I don't believe our children and grandchildren will have a better life than we did.
  • I don’t believe Medicare and Medicaid can survive the decade.
  • I don’t believe crony capitalism will be less but more – especially since this pattern goes back to the Whiskey Act of 1791.
  • I don’t believe those who left California because they made a mess of it won’t attempt to make a mess of the states they moved to. Currently residents of Democrat run states are fleeing in droves to Republican run states, but they're probably going to take the ideas that destroyed the states they're leaving and vote for them in the states they're moving to. 
  • I don't believe spending billions will end poverty.  Colorado is a perfect example.
  • I don't believe spending billions will fix homelessness.  California spent billions to fix homelessness and it only dropped one percent.  Even if those billions amounted to only "two billion that would come to 1.3 million to get one person off the street".
  • I don't believe you can convince liberals their leftist philosophy has been the most irrational, misanthropic and morally defective belief system in all of world history.  In spite of the most recent and ongoing human disaster leftists imposed on Venezuela.  Millennials all want us to still "Feel the Bern."
  • I don’t believe the national debt can be paid unless the government sells its assets - which amounts to 150 trillion dollars – and they won’t.
  • I don't believe diversity and multiculturalism, is anything more than a leftist scheme to undermine and destroy the American identity, the American culture, the American economy and overturn the U.S. Constitution.   Diversity without accomplishment is incompetence without consequence. 
  • I don't believe the world's economy is stable.  The unending amount of debt the world's nations has accumulated, and continues to accumulate, is going to cause a worldwide economic depression.
  • I don't believe the EU can survive to 2025, but certainly by 2030. 
  • I don't believe Europeans can tolerate the Muslim invasion much longer without civil war breaking out all over Europe if Europe wishes to be European.
  • I don't believe the Middle East or anywhere in the world that's dominated by Islam is fixable.
  • I don't believe Russia or China can withstand an international economic down turn, let alone a collapse.
  • I don't believe a nation that abandoned the moral foundations that made them great can survive. 
  • I don't believe large corporations are concerned about anything except the next quarterly report, and in no way will they support anything considered conservative, in their views, their actions or their philosophy, even if it impacts their profit margins. 
  • I don't believe any of the problems listed above can be fixed until public education is fixed.
  • I don't believe public education can be fixed until the federal government is forced out of it.  
  • I don't believe public education can be fixed unless the states follow Governor Ron DeSantis' lead and pass legislation to teach the truth about communism and all the other leftist clabber.  
  • I don’t believe academia can be purged of its far left Frankfurt School aficionados unless we stop funding these universities with taxpayer dollars and student loans. They can't be fixed until they have to become self supporting "for profit" institutions.
  • I don't believe there is such a thing as man made climate change.
  • I don't believe green activists aren't anything but dishonest, irrational, misanthropic and morally defective misfits.
  • I don't believe spending can be brought under control without repealing the 16th Amendment. 
  • I don't believe you can reduce corruption in government without repealing the 17th Amendment. 
  • I don't believe the federal government can be fixed without passing a 28th Amendment creating term and age limits for Congress, and the federal judiciary, nor do I believe the judiciary will remember it's proper role until age and term limits are imposed.
  • I don't believe government can be fixed without passage of a 29th Amendment creating sundown laws for all federal  departments, agencies, bureaus and any official agency of the federal government, and all federal laws and regulations, with the goal of reducing the size and scope of the federal government.
So what is it that I really believe?  I believe leftism is like rust.  It never sleeps.


Nine Commentaries: The True Nature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

By Rich Kozlovich

I stopped posting links some time back in order to reduce my work load, and now I'm only posting full articles that are sent to me or I have permission to post. However, I'm making an exception here.

I saw this in 2022, and posted it, but not in this way, because believe it or not, the HTML in this is really complicated.  So, I've spent a lot of time isolating the articles and deleting a bunch of HTML, reorganizing the material in HTML mode, and redoing the pictures in order for it all to work and fit in P&D.  It's been a pain. 

Remember, these articles were published in 2012 and 2013, with some updates, so not all of this applies exactly now.  A lot has happened since then, and you will see writers who are in love with traditional Chinese culture and values, so some of this is more self serving than straight up history.  But that's true everywhere, so no matter who we're reading it's incumbent on us to know the details, and the reality of those details.  

Chinese history has fascinated me for years, and I've spent an inordinate amount of time reading their history, which is complicated, and I was even asked to do two podcasts about China a couple of years ago.  In order to understand China today, it's necessary to not only understand the last almost 75 years of communist rule, it's necessary to understand the underlying social paradigms of the people of China, which haven't entirely been destroyed by the CCP.  

The big thing to take away from all this is how easily the people of China succumbed to the most vile and corrupt governmental system ever imposed on any people, communism, which along with Islam, has been the only system of government to totally live up to it's standard.  

Murderous tyranny.  

Western civilization has never lived up to the standards of Judaic/Christian ethics, which is why leftists can use our own values against us.  But it's like capitalism, which has been called the worst system of economics there is.....except for all the others, the Judaic/Christian world with all it's flaws and imperfections still offers most the acceptable imperfection the world has to offer.  Enjoy, and reflect.

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party–Introduction - Epoch Times Staff

The CCP’s rule is the darkest and the most ridiculous page in Chinese history. By understanding the true history of the CCP, we can help prevent such tragedies from ever recurring.  The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party were first published in November of 2004, followed quickly by an English translation. In 15 years, the series has led over 300 million Chinese to renounce the communist party and its affiliated organizations, fostering an unprecedented peaceful movement for transformation and change in China. People continue to renounce the party every day. Here we republish the newly re-edited Nine Commentaries, linked to video versions produced by our partner media NTD Television.  For the other Commentaries, please see the Table of Contents...............

Commentary 1: On What the Communist Party Is -  May 13, 2012 Epoch Times Staff

Commentary 1: On What the Communist Party Is
The CCP, an evil possessing specter supported by force, deception, and the frequent change of its appearance and images, has now shown signs of decay.

For over 5,000 years, the Chinese people created a splendid civilization on the land nurtured by the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. During this long period of time, dynasties came and went, and the Chinese culture waxed and waned. Grand and moving stories have played out on the historical stage of China...................

Commentary 2: On the Beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party -  May 13, 2012 Epoch Times Staff

According to the book “Explaining Simple and Analyzing Compound Characters,”[1]  the traditional Chinese character “dang,” meaning “party” or “gang,” consists of two radicals that correspond to “promote or advocate” and “dark or black,” respectively...........

Commentary 2: On the Beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party
Why did the Communist Party emerge, grow, and eventually seize power in contemporary China? The CCP has constantly instilled into the Chinese people’s minds that history chose the CCP, that the people chose the CCP, and that “without the CCP there would be no new China.”

Did the Chinese people choose the Communist Party? Or did the Communist Party “gang up” and force Chinese people to accept it? We must find answers from history............Like people who turn to any available doctor in times of illness, they looked outside China for a solution. When the British and French styles failed, they switched to the Russian method. They did not hesitate to prescribe the most extreme remedy for the illness, in the hope that China would quickly become strong.......It is unclear whether the founders of the CCP were aware at the time that the “deity” they had introduced from the Soviet Union was in reality an evil specter, and the remedy they sought for strengthening the nation was actually a deadly poison........

Commentary 3: On the Tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party - Epoch Times Staff

What can Emperor Qin Shihuang brag about? He only killed 460 Confucian scholars, but we killed 46,000 intellectuals... - Mao Zedong. 

Commentary 3: On the Tyranny of the Chinese Communist Party

When speaking about tyranny, most Chinese people are reminded of Qin Shi Huang (259–210 B.C.), the first Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, whose oppressive court burnt philosophical books and buried Confucian scholars alive. Qin Shi Huang’s harsh treatment of his people came from his policy of “supporting his rule with all of the resources under heaven.[1]”

This policy had four main aspects: excessively heavy taxation, wasting human labor for projects to glorify himself, brutal torture under harsh laws and punishing even the offenders’ family members and neighbors, and controlling people’s minds by blocking all avenues of free thinking and expression through burning books and even burying scholars alive.

Under the rule of Qin Shi Huang, China had a population of about 10 million; Qin’s court drafted over 2 million to perform forced labor. Qin Shi Huang brought his harsh laws into the intellectual realm, prohibiting freedom of thought on a massive scale. During his rule, thousands of Confucian scholars and officials who criticized the government were killed..............

Commentary 4: On How the Communist Party Opposes the Universe - May 13, 2012 Epoch Times Staff

Commentary 4: On How the Communist Party Opposes the Universe
In the last hundred years, the sudden invasion by the communist specter has created a force against nature and humanity, causing limitless agony and tragedy. It has also pushed civilization to the brink of destruction. Having committed all sorts of atrocities that violate the Tao and oppose heaven and the earth, it has become an extremely malevolent force against the universe................

But the Communist Party promotes humans over nature and a philosophy of struggle in defiance of heaven, the earth, and nature. Mao Zedong said, “battling with heaven is endless joy, fighting with the earth is endless joy, and struggling with humanity is endless joy.” Perhaps the Communist Party did acquire real joy from these struggles, but the people have paid tremendously painful costs.................

Commentary 5: On the Collusion of Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party to Persecute Falun Gong - May 13, 2012 Epoch Times Staff 

Commentary 5: On the Collusion of Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party to Persecute Falun Gong
In planning the strategy of the suppression, Jiang Zemin put three policies in place regarding Falun Gong practitioners:
 
“ruin their reputation, bankrupt them financially, and destroy them physically.”

 Ms. Zhang Fuzhen, about 38 years old, was an employee of Xianhe Park, Pingdu City, Shandong Province, China. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in November 2000 and was later abducted by the authorities.

According to people with knowledge of the case, the police tortured and humiliated Zhang Fuzhen, stripping her naked and shaving her whole head. They kept her tied to a bed with her four limbs stretched out, and she was forced to relieve herself on the bed.  Later, the police gave her an injection of an unknown poisonous drug. After the injection, Zhang was in so much pain that she nearly went insane. She struggled in great pain on the bed until she died. The whole process was witnessed by the local officials of the 610 Office...............[more examples of the CCP's crimes against humanity follow].........

These startling tragedies occurred in modern-day China. They happened to Falun Gong practitioners, who are being brutally persecuted, and they are just a few of the countless torture cases that have taken place over the past five years of continuous persecution. [Note: When this was published, Falun Gong had been persecuted in China for five years; it has now been persecuted for more than 11 years.]

Since China began economic reforms in the late 1970s, the CCP has endeavored to build a positive, liberal image in the international community. However, the persecution of Falun Gong over the last [11 plus] years, which has been bloody, irrational, widespread, vehement, and brutal, has enabled the international community to once again witness the true face of the CCP and the biggest disgrace on the CCP’s human rights record...........

Commentary 6: On How the Chinese Communist Party Destroyed Traditional Culture - May 13, 2012 Epoch Times Staff

Commentary 6: On How the Chinese Communist Party Destroyed Traditional Culture
China is the only country in the world whose ancient civilization has been passed down for over 5,000 years. Destruction of its traditional culture is an unforgivable crime.......Traditional Chinese culture sought harmony between man and the universe and emphasized an individual's ethics and morality......Unlike law, which prescribes hard rules, culture works as a soft constraint. The law enforces punishment after a crime has been committed, while culture, by nurturing morality, prevents crimes from happening in the first place. A society’s morality is often embodied in its culture........

Since attaining power in 1949, the CCP has devoted the nation’s resources to destroying China’s traditional culture. This ill intention did not come from the CCP’s zeal for industrialization, nor from simple foolishness in worshiping Western civilization.

Rather, it came from the CCP’s inherent ideological opposition to traditional Chinese culture. Thus, the CCP’s destruction of Chinese culture has been planned, well organized, and systematic, supported by the state’s use of violence. Since its establishment, the CCP has never stopped “revolutionizing” Chinese culture in the attempt to destroy its spirit completely.............

Commentary 7: On the Chinese Communist Party’s History of Killing -May 13, 2012 Epoch Times Staff 

The 55-year history of the CCP is written with blood and lies. The stories behind this bloody history are both extremely tragic and rarely known. Under the rule of the CCP, 60 to 80 million innocent Chinese people have been killed, leaving their broken families behind. Many people wonder why the CCP kills.  While the CCP recently suppressed protesting crowds in Hanyuan with gunshots [in November 2004] and continues its brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, many people wonder whether they will ever see the day when the CCP will learn to speak with words rather than guns. Mao Zedong summarized the purpose of the Cultural Revolution: 

“After the chaos the world reaches peace, but in seven or eight years, the chaos needs to happen again.” 

 In other words, there should be a political revolution every seven or eight years, and a crowd of people needs to be killed every seven or eight years.............

Commentary 8: On How the Chinese Communist Party Is an Evil Cult - May 13, 2012 Epoch Times Staff 

Commentary 8: On How the Chinese Communist Party Is an Evil Cult
 The CCP is not a political party in the ordinary sense, but a harmful and evil cult possessed by an evil specter. As it nears death, this evil cult is accelerating the pace of its corruption and degeneration. 

The collapse of the communist bloc headed by the Soviet Union in the early 1990s marked the failure of communism after almost a century. However, the CCP unexpectedly survived and still controls China, a nation with one-fifth of the world’s population. An unavoidable question arises: Is the CCP today still truly communist?

No one in today’s China, including Party members, believes in communism. After 50 years of socialism, the CCP has now adopted private ownership and even has a stock market. It seeks foreign investment to establish new ventures, while exploiting workers and peasants as much as it can. This completely opposes the ideals of communism.

Editor's Note: Since Xi has taken power and is clearly a great lover of Maoist economics, and since he's as brutal as Mao, and is totally feared, they all "believe" in communism now.  But Xi, just like Mao understood, the CCP has to love western capitalism otherwise their economic system will totally collapse.  Communist China cannot create it's own internal market  generating the cash they need, so they need western capitalism to exist.  RK

Despite compromising with capitalism, the CCP maintains autocratic control of the people of China. The Constitution, as revised in 2004, still rigidly states, “Chinese people of various ethnicities will continue adhering to the people’s democratic dictatorship and socialist path under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and the guidance of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong’s ideology, Deng Xiaoping’s theory, and the important thought of the Three Represents.”  “The leopard has died, but its skin is still left.”  Today’s CCP only has “its skin” left. The CCP inherited this skin and uses it to maintain its rule over China......
 

 Commentary 9: On the Unscrupulous Nature of the Chinese Communist Party

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is unwilling to leave the historical stage in accordance with the current of history. Instead, it is using the ruthless methods developed during decades of political campaigns to renew its crazed struggle for legitimacy and to revive its dead mandate.

The CCP’s policies of reform and opening up disguise a desperate intention to maintain its group interest and totalitarian rule. Despite tight restrictions, the economic achievements earned by the hard work of the Chinese people in the past 20 years did not persuade the CCP to put down its butcher knife.

Instead, the CCP stole these achievements and used them to validate its rule, making its consistently unprincipled behavior more deceptive and misleading.

What is most alarming is that the CCP is going all out to destroy the moral foundation of the entire nation, attempting to turn every Chinese citizen, to various degrees, into a schemer in order to create an environment favorable for the CCP to “advance over time.”

In this historical moment today, it is especially important for us to understand clearly why the CCP acts like a band of scoundrels and to expose its villainous nature, so that the Chinese nation can achieve lasting stability and peace, enter an era free of the CCP as soon as possible, and construct a future of renewed national splendor.  The unscrupulous nature of the CCP has never changed. .......

 

Kamala, The People's Choice For 2028! Remarkable!

By Rich Kozlovich

 

Recent polls are showing Kamala Harris is the Democrat favorite for President in 2028 as a 41% favorite, beating out Gavin Newsom at 8%, Gov. Josh Shapiro at 7%  percent, Pete Buttigieg at 6% and Tim Walz at 6%.  Imagine that, Walz has massive name recognition and he can't even beat out a nitwit like Buttigieg, who will most likely run in 2028 and have a big following.

As time is moves along, truth generally follows, and it's now being shown while spending over a billion dollars,  and leaving a debt of 20 million dollars, her campaign knew Kamala had no to path to victory.  In point of fact, their entire operation was a one billion dollar lie.  And she's a 41% favorite?  Just how vacuous are Democrats?

But Kamala  (it's not my fault) Harris will always be Kamala telling her campaign staff You Have the Same Power that You Did Before November 5, they just don't have jobs, or money, and now DNC staffers are getting desperate, after Kamala hung them out to dry.  But no need to worry, as they scrounging for cash on GoFundMe, Kamala took a Hawaiian vacation as her staffers are still fighting for severance pay.  Hey, come on man, ya gotta have priorities.    Right?   

As Monica Showalter asks, "if she doesn't take care of her staff, does anyone imagine she'd take care of the American people?" 

And she's at the top of the Democrat poll for 2028, imagine that. But why is Tampon Timmy Walz so badly disrespected?  Although he was thought of as odd from the beginning:

"I just don't think the Walz pick made a ton of sense for Harris" is putting it rather politely..... Walz came up with the "weird" campaign against Vice President-elect JD Vance may have endeared Walz to Harris and other Democrats, but it also is the start of what a nasty person, rather than "folksy" and "Minnesota nice" that Walz supposedly is..... From his far-left views to his own lackluster electoral vote history, connections with anti-Israel imams and concerns with stolen valor, plus habitual lying on many more matters, Walz was indeed a puzzling choice. He likely did nothing to help the campaign. The Harris-Walz ticket didn't win Minnesota by much, and the ticket even lost Walz's home county.

One "Democrat strategist" says, please don't run again, and one megadonor says she's disqualified to run forever as she can't be trusted with money, "if you can't run a campaign, you can't run America."  Imagine that.  He must be channeling Captain Louis Renault, and he's shocked, shocked I tell you.

Then there's Buttigieg.  Charlton Allen defines Buttigieg as the Peter Principle on wheels, from the "Mayor of mediocrity" as Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, to a $75 billion "electric vehicle debacle, a fiasco so monumental that it could be used as a case study in bureaucratic ineptitude.".......

"a man who can speak at length about problems he never solves.......... a lot of talk, a lot of spin, and very little delivered.........Buttigieg does his best to spin them like a used car salesman hawking a lemon.  The New York Post labeled him “The Little Cabinet Secretary Who Couldn’t.”  Even Newsweek, not exactly a bastion of conservatism, ridiculed him for defending what is clearly a massive failure.  And if you think the numbers on E.V. stations are bad, wait until you hear him defend Biden’s trillion-dollar “climate investments” as a net positive.  It’s like watching someone try to sell you beachfront property in Nebraska."

There's so much written about what a disaster Newsome has been, nothing more needs to be said, as for Shapiro, he has a very real antisemitism problem in his party.

Someone recently suggested Chelsea Clinton could decide to run.  Now that's an interesting thought, given that polls show Kamala is the Democrat favorite due to name recognition and the Democrat bench is so shallow they think those other nitwits are even worse than Kamala.

So, who knows, she just might have a shot since she has as good a name recognition as Kamala, has no record to defend, and on her worst days sounds intelligent compared to Kamala on her best days.  Nah, I don't see that happening, she has three very young children, and I don't think she's that stupid.  

The Democrat party is now thoroughly controlled by far left radicals, and there's no one in the Democrat party that will be allowed to run who isn't. If Bernie was a bit younger he might actually have a chance now, but he isn't, he doesn't, and neither are do all the other leaders of the party.  We'll come back to that.  They were good at play acting, but the younger up and comers refuse to act, and are happy to demonstrate who they are, and demand everyone like it.... or else.

Since Kamala and company performed so badly most are probably thinking that's the end for the Democrats.  Disabuse yourself of that fallacious thinking.  In the 2024 elections socialists won in 94 percent of the races they ran in, and won easily, at local, state, and national levels.  That can be viewed in different ways, but here's what we need to understand, the left will now take two tacts. 

First they will vilify, resist, make vile proclamations and accusations spewing out their vile self righteous leftist morality as if vomitus was virtue, with the goal of creating emotional outrage.

Others will take a far more subtle, more low profile tact, "continuing to make inroads across all levels of government".  It's the "slow walk through the institutions" mentality, and it's dangerous.  This is something to pay attention to, and expose,....forever...., because leftism is like rust, it never sleeps, always playing the long game filled with lies and deceit using our own values against us.

Socialism in America didn't start out as an openly Marxist movement, because socialism is foundationally atheistic, and in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that didn't fly in America.  So they called themselves "progressives", and believe it or not, the driving force behind that was religion.  What's now called the "progressive gospel".   In effect claiming socialism was the practical application of the Christian ethic, everyone is everyone's bother and we are morally obligated to ___________fill in the blank, and they would be the moral arbiters deciding who would owe, and who would pay.

After WWII the real powers behind this movement didn't need religion any longer and kicked them to the curb.  After that the driving force was psychology. If you disagreed with what they promoted, you were not only morally inadequate, you were insane, which is the same clabber they're promoting now.

After over 125 years of religious and social corruption condemning western civilization's moral and mental foundations it's a wonder we're now finally coming out of that miasma, and truth is coming to the fore.  

Truth is the sublime convergence of history and reality. Everything we're told has a historical foundation and context, and everything we're told should bear some resemblance to what we see going on in reality. If it doesn't, it's wrong, and all that's left to do is develop the intellectual response to explain why it's wrong. And that's what's finally happening, and why the Pravda media is collapsing and swirling down the drain.

DEI is philosophy without form, acceptance without accomplishment, and incompetence without consequence!

By Rich Kozlovich

On November 26, 2024 Rajan Laad posted this article, DEI's Clouded Lens, saying:

"The Camerimage festival this year was marred due to 'sexist' opinions of the festival's director Marek Å»ydowicz in an op-ed for Cinematography World about female directors and cinematographers. Å»ydowicz received intense backlash from many in the film industry and tried to extinguish the fire with not just one but two apologies but the outraged mob thought his sexism was too severe for forgiveness. The British Society of Cinematographers replied to Å»ydowicz that they were "disheartened and angered by your profoundly misogynistic comments and aggressive tone, which we view as symptomatic of a deep-rooted prejudice.".........The festival jury didn't withdraw but "committed to being part of any gender representation debate."

He goes on to list the prominent filmmakers who pulled out in outrage.  Okay, so, what was said by festival's director Marek Å»ydowicz that was so outrageous so many pulled out?

One of the most significant changes is the growing recognition of female cinematographers and directors. This evolution is crucial as it rectifies the obvious injustice present in societal development. However, it also raises a question: Can the pursuit of change exclude what is good? Can we sacrifice works and artists with outstanding artistic achievements solely to make room for mediocre film production?”

That's it?  That's all it took to set them off?  Maybe instead of apologizing he should  have offered them ice cream, cookies, and a safe room to cry out their little eyes. 

If the best filmmakers are all men, then they'll demand at least, the very least, one woman must be on that list.  But when you give in to insanity it never ends.  How about this.  There must be one black, or one homosexual woman, or one homosexual man, or one Asian, or one, Hispanic, or one atheist, or one communist, or...well... you get the idea.  This kind of insanity is a metastasizing cancer infecting all the cells in the body until the body dies.  And DEI is killing every institution it infects. 

So, what does this mean in reality?  It means someone who excelled must be sacrificed to accommodate these leftist fanatics, but it won't be the most prominent or most successful filmmakers, because that may impact future employment.  So they have to choose struggling up and coming filmmakers in order to accommodate a less qualified woman.   What if that up and coming filmmaker was the very best of them all?  Well, too bad, he'll be sacrificed anyway.  

What hypocrisy! 

Are we approaching the day when people will understand there can be no apologizing for telling the truth?  You can never apologize enough to satisfy them.  Your punishment must be permanent as a a warning to all others to never deviate, even the slightest.  Consensus to the  the sacred tenets of leftist insanity is absolute.  Or else!   

Well, how's this?  Truth isn't sexist, and it isn't racist, it's just the truth, and prominent people who tell the truth must have the courage to stand for up for what's true, regardless of the personal consequences. Once that happens there's an automatic separation of the sheep from the goats, and sides are taken, and battles enjoined, but truth and time are on the same side, and as Ben Franklin said, "Truth will very patiently wait for us". 

I can already hear it...."Oh yeah, what's truth?" So, here's the irrefutable definition:

Truth is the sublime convergence of history and reality. Everything we're told has a historical context and foundation. Everything we're told should bear some resemblance to what we see going on in reality. If what's presented to us fails in either category, it's wrong. All that's left to do is develop the intellectual response to explain why it's wrong. 
 
Standing against the tide telling the world, "You're all wrong and I'm prepared to tell you why", isn't for the faint of heart.  Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is irrational!  It's leftist philosophy without form, acceptance without accomplishment, and incompetence without consequence, and it's long overdue for the cancer of DEI to be cured with with the only cure possible.  An injection of MEI, Meritocracy, Excellence, and Intelligence.  It just takes guts. 
 
 “Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?”  - Margaret Thatcher

Culture is King! Even When the Culture is Insane!

By Rich Kozlovich

For days I've read unending diatribes as to why Kamala lost the election, with a lot of excuses, and a lot of finger pointing.  I was Biden's fault because he didn't drop out soon enough, or even chose to run in the first place. It was George Clooney's  fault because....well.... I'm not quite sure why he was blamed, but the excuses, accusations, and finger pointing didn't end there. 

On Monday J.B. Shurk published this article, No Wake for the Woke saying:

Democrats will learn nothing from their electoral drubbing.  If they were capable of self-reflection and intellectual growth, they would not need “safe spaces” or social media platforms dedicated to mass censorship.  When you are so afraid of dissent that you feel psychologically compelled to label all contrary opinions as “hate speech,” you are not a fully functioning adult willing to process new information and adapt accordingly.... Democrat operatives tell their dwindling viewing audience that they lost the election because of “disinformation,” racism, and misogyny.  Americans are just too “stupid” and “deplorable” to be trusted with the vote.  The country is a MAGA junkyard filled with “garbage” human beings.  

And they think that was the perfect campaign?   The author goes on to say:

If anyone is to blame for her loss, the formaldehyde femmes explain, it is the news media.  “Journalists” should have used all their airtime reminding Americans that President Trump is “literally Hitler.”  You see, America, Democrats didn’t lose because they’re stark raving mad!  They lost because of bad “messaging”! 

Actually, the unending vilification of Trump was pretty much what the media did, .  But they just don't get it, and as strange as it seems, they seem to actually believe all the clabber they spew out.  Not only that, they're going to double down with what they believe is their '“winning” policy agenda!"

More illegal immigration, less crime control, more expensive energy, less drilling for oil, more spending and borrowing, more inflation, more DEI, more gender bending, a further diminished and capable military, more violations of constitutional rights by the DOJ, FBI, less secure retirement funding, and always remembering, .....censorship is free speech.  

So now what are we seeing from these people?

  • The U.S. State Department decided to fund “therapy and listening sessions” for heartbroken employees (so much for the notion that our spies and diplomats are made of sterner stuff).  
  • Stephen Colbert and other overpaid late-night “comedians” have turned their shows into group counseling services for damaged Democrats unable to accept Kamala Harris’s loss.  
  • Meathead Rob Reiner, who confidently predicted Kamala’s victory on Election Day, is so distraught that he has checked himself into a mental health facility.  
  • News organizations are so distressed over their loss of influence that overrated “journalists” take turns screaming at the public for having rejected their pro-Harris talking points.  
  • Joy Reid and other mentally unstable hosts on MSNBC are warning Democrats to cut off communications with their Trump-supporting relatives.   
  • Democrat teachers owing list of post-election incidents that includes terrorizing students
  •  Democrat doctors threatening patients, 
  • Democrat psychiatrists conspiring to harm Trump voters, Democrats working to bankrupt Trump-supporting businesses, 
  • Democrats divorcing their Trump-voting spouses, 
  • Democrats threatening or committing acts of violence against MAGA Americans.
He concludes his article by saying:

This much is certain: people this psychologically unstable are not survivors.  They cannot endure conflict.  Hell, they can’t even endure intellectual debate.  They need censorship and “safe spaces” to avoid melting into an emotional puddle.  Democrats will not control the future because they can barely control themselves. 

Hollywood is filled with people living in a hermetically sealed bug house.

DeNiro and other once-favored celebs are in serious need of psychological counseling, only the counselors are probably as troubled as they.  Dick Van Dyke would rather die than suffer another four years with Trump as President.  In years gone by he acknowledged he had, and possibly still has, a serious drinking problem.  It appears it's true, overindulgence in alcohol destroys brain cells. 

There are two characters I really want to highlight, I should say two nitwits, the Meathead, and Ellen DeGeneres.   Eric Utter posted this article, Meathead Wrestles With TDS quoting the self important Reiner:

“I have big decisions to make. For the good of myself, my family, and my country.”......“Ellen DeGeneres whom I have known a long time and is a beautiful and caring woman had the right idea. She obviously does not want to be a part of a place that is filled with hate, evil and fascism. Much respect to her for standing up to madness.”.....I have made the decision to take the next few days to check into a facility for peace and relaxation. No phones, social media, no trolls, just calmness to heal my pain.”

He's checking himself into a facility?  Sounds more like a mental institution filled with psychologically challenged people (Reiner's normal environment) surrounded by people in white coats administering emotion calming drugs.  To me this sounds more like all those around him did an intervention letting him know he sounds like he's losing his mind, as little as there may be there. 

Then there's Ellen DeGeneres who says she can't stand living in such a hateful fascist America under Trump any longer.  So, now they're living in England, a nation that will tax that 400 million she's worth massively.  Which is a good thing since a record number of millionaires are all set to flee Britain over looming labour tax raids.  And if she's under the impression she can shoot off her mouth there as she does here, then she's in for a visit from Britain's Thought Police.  Then of course there's this very real potential:

".....become victims of England’s burgeoning Muslim male extremist population which is sexually assaulting and stabbing women at an unprecedented rate. But doing so without hate, and in a non-evil and entirely antifascist way!"

Ya just gotta see the humor in that, but having said all that, I think Ellen should be congratulated and encouraged and get all of her celebrity friends to follow her.  And to really show us how seriously they all take this, they should all give up their American citizenship.

That'll fix us. 

Oh, I just had a thought.  Where will Ellen go next since Britain is getting ready to dump the recently.... very recently....... elected labour party, which stands for everything Ellen loves, when they elect a Trump of their own?