Good morning Deplorables, other than a biological attack on President Trump by the depraved left, it was a quiet weekend.
Been saying this a while – the American Left is the Red Guard, & I bet they are proud of that if confronted – Forced Denunciations And ‘Sensitivity Training’ Mimic Communist Brainwashing Tactics https://t.co/RQsoUHbHyR via @Inoreader
— Epa 'if the KKK is a terror org-all are' Minondas (@WTEpaminondas) October 2, 2020
Forced Denunciations And ‘Sensitivity Training’ Mimic Communist Brainwashing Tactics
Via The Federalist
Critical race theory looks like it’s all about race. But race is merely the tool used to stir up emotional responses that play into the hands of agitators who simply want to control minds.
Agitators for critical race theory have fanned out of academia into mind-hacking workaday Americans, trying to convince them the nation is unredeemably evil. They doggedly attempted to do this to federal employees as well as all big corporations.
Christopher Rufo, a research fellow with the Discovery Institute, has described how trainers for critical race theory (CRT) in the federal government are defying President Trump’s executive order to cancel their race-baiting training. In the State Department, for example, they are pushing a “’21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge,’ in which staff are asked to recite a racial equity ‘pledge,’ ‘select a different minority group daily,’ and engage in a ’10-15 minute challenge’ in ‘pursuit of racial equity.’”
The State Department, EPA, and VA are moving forward with critical race theory trainings—in violation of a presidential order.
The agencies are pressuring staff to denounce their "white privilege," become "co-resistors" against "systemic racism," and sign "equity pledges."
— Christopher F. Rufo
(@realchrisrufo) September 21, 2020
Indeed, as Rufo has noted, the goal is to indoctrinate employees with neo-Marxist rhetoric that portrays America as a “white supremacist” nation. Critical race theory and communist tactics are pretty much interchangeable. It’s really all about brainwashing.
In critical race theory, as in communism, the concept of “social justice” quickly devolves into a smokescreen, an old-fashioned divide-and-conquer tool. They evoke hostilities between people in order to control them. While Karl Marx stoked divisions by trying to build “class consciousness,” today’s CRT trainers stoke divisions through its brand of race consciousness.
Sure, at first glance CRT looks like it’s all about race. But race is merely the tool used to stir up emotional responses that play into the hands of agitators who simply want to control minds. CRT really represents a classic, textbook case of coercive thought reform, otherwise known as brainwashing.
Similarities to Communist Brainwashing of U.S. POWs
During the Korean War, many American prisoners of war ended up in camps run by Chinese communists. Unlike the North Koreans, who used physical torture on prisoners, the Chinese used psychological methods to induce compliance in our POWs. Social psychologist Robert Cialdini describes the Chinese “lenient” techniques of gradual thought reform in his book “Influence.” He characterized these as:
Commitment and consistency pressures to gain the desired compliance from prisoners. . . . For instance, prisoners were frequently asked to make statements so mildly anti-American or pro-Communist as to seem inconsequential. (‘The United States is not perfect.’ ‘In a Comunist country, unemployment is not a problem.’) But once these minor requests were complied with, the men found themselves pushed to submit to related yet more substantive requests.
Today we see CRT agitators getting people to make the seemingly mild statement that “Black lives matter.” Most are unaware that the BLM organization is blatantly Marxist and does not believe people have a right to own property or to raise their own children. But we can see how many youths have been pushed to these further levels once invested in the BLM slogan. This is what Cialdini calls the “foot-in-the-door technique.”
Another tactic: get the American POWs to write things down, perhaps just by copying them from a notebook, which might seem harmless. But the act of writing is active, not passive. And the POWs were providing documents in their own writing which could be used to persuade others as well as affect the self-image of the writer.
Cialdini noted that when the POWs returned to the United States, the American psychologists who examined them were unsettled by the success of the Chinese brainwashing attempts, and found that “the Chinese were very effective in getting Americans to inform on one another.”
Read the entire article HERE.
A Nation on the Razor’s Edge https://t.co/yUAwrvdKdd pic.twitter.com/AhOqnMb6g7
— Canada Free Press (@canadafreepress) October 3, 2020
A Nation on the Razor’s Edge
Via Canada Free Press
About a week ago, when Jerry Nadler—a man whose politics are repellant to me—had his ostensible “accident,” this writer rapped some conservatives for making fun of something that transcends politics—as in old age and the increasing level of infirmity, sometimes humiliating infirmity, that comes with it.
What the nation has witnessed in the last couple of days, following Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis, is quite revealing. A considerable number of self-professed “tolerant” progressives are apparently incapable of demonstrating anything resembling simple human decency, with some even wishing Trump would die. For such people, wholly unlike the aftermath of Pearl Harbor or 9/11, politics no longer “stops at the water’s edge.” For such people, politics is now an all-consuming, zero sum game, manifested in its most virulent form: You either agree with me, or you’re the enemy.
The enemy who must be completely destroyed
Most Americans have no clue that the current “revolution” is being perpetrated from the top down, not the bottom up. BLM and Antifa are its ultimately disposable, useful idiot foot soldiers. Academia and pop culture are its ideological incubators. And the mainstream media are its mouthpiece.
The agenda is quite straightforward: A number of multi-nationalist, America-in-name-only, Ruling Class titans, with companies whose market caps exceed the GDP of most of the world’s sovereign nations, no longer wish to be constrained by those nations—or the nation-state itself. They see themselves as “enlightened” citizens of the world whose “expertise”— measured solely in terms of historically unprecedented levels of wealth and power—entitles them to rule over the “benighted” classes. Toward that end, they have aligned themselves with the Communist Chinese Party, whose state media’s denigration of Trump sounded remarkably similar to a number of progressives’ equally contemptible remarks.
And if they succeed in engineering the “fundamental transformation of the United States of America?” No one will more more surprised than their leftist enablers, who will belatedly discover they are every bit as “deplorable”—and dismissible—as the most rabid Trump supporter.
Here’s hoping at least 51% of the electorate rejects this calculated debasement of our national identity
Much to her credit, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow asked Americans to pray for the President’s and First Lady’s “speedy and complete recovery — and for everyone infected, everywhere.”
Sadly, in today’s political climate, the first thing that comes to mind is whether or not she will be “cancelled” for her “heresy.” Yet what is the Cancel Culture—with a data-mining, privacy-invading Big Tech leading the way—other than an attempt to maintain totalitarian levels of acceptable Groupthink? And who is more voluntarily enslaved by Groupthink than younger Americans, many of whom now believe that some level of violence is acceptable in service to shutting down speech they find offensive—even as their fragility is so transparent, terms like “trigger warnings,” “micro-agressions” and “snowflakes” have become part of the lexicon?
Read the entire article HERE.
It’s Time to Hate Them Back https://t.co/f8p69Q3tUU
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) October 4, 2020
It’s Time to Hate Them Back
Via Townhall.com
I used to be one of those “Democrats are my opponents, not my enemies” type of people. Not anymore. Committed leftists are our enemies, enemies of the country and just about everything good and just in the world. They have hated us for decades, but did their best to hide it as much as possible. They are no longer hiding it. We should accept their hate and give it back as hard as we can.
It’s not like this is new for me – I’ve been disgusted by Democrats for years. But over time I’ve always blown past the worst parts of the left. In the past, when a Republican has died, I’ve been disgusted by the vitriol and celebration but quickly moved past it. When Ronald Reagan died, many leftist, including many who weren’t even alive when he was president, cheered. The same thing happened with George H. W. Bush, and he was a man almost universally likable. Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing was celebrated, with Democrats giddy at the prospect of replacing him on the Supreme Court.
Each time, and every time in between, conservatives ignored the mob dancing on their graves because the leaders said the “right things.” They were civil, put on their Sunday best, and acted like decent human beings at memorials. We now know it was all a sham.
Something about Donald Trump broke the left, including the so-called leaders. I don’t expect everyone in power to like each other. I don’t even want them to. Being too cozy runs risk of them getting together to do really bad, really stupid things. But I do expect them to be human, always. Democrats aren’t capable of it anymore.
Read the entire article HERE.
Black Lives Matter Leaders Support Violent Riots, Biden Won’t Condemn Them https://t.co/bsdfuMM38h via @BradleeDean1
— The Sons of Liberty (@BradleeDean1) October 3, 2020
Black Lives Matter Leaders Support Violent Riots, Biden Won’t Condemn Them
Via The Sons Of Liberty
After the recent toll of mostly peaceful Black Lives Matter rioting wrecked cities and tilted the polls toward Trump, Joe Biden and even Kamala Harris began condemning “violence”.
Biden has said meaningless things like “we condemn the violence”, and “I condemn this violence unequivocally” as if violence were an independent entity. Condemning violence, like condemning war, is either pacifism or evasion. Since Biden isn’t a pacifist, he’s evading.
Violence is a concept. You don’t condemn a concept: you condemn its perpetrators.
The Democrats embraced Black Lives Matter, they even fundraised on behalf of the rioters and looters. Senator Kamala Harris tweeted out a link to the Minnesota Freedom Fund which bailed out rioters and looters, and Jaleel Stallings, who was accused of shooting at police officers.
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According to police officers, Stallings had crouched near a car during the riots and opened fire on them. He faced two counts of attempted second-degree murder and the bail fund backed by Kamala Harris and several Biden staffers still bailed out the alleged wannabe cop-killer.
Once Biden goes into details, then his condemnation of “violence” actually turns out to be a condemnation of cops and conservatives. Or, as he put it, “I have condemned all forms of violence – police violence, lawless violence and violence perpetrated by extreme, right-wing militia groups.” When he condemns “violence”, he really means he’s condemning the police.
The closest that Biden comes to condemning the violence by Black Lives Matter, a racist domestic terrorist group which has devastated entire cities, is condemning the “lawless”. And he does it so vaguely as not to offend BLM and its supporters while giving the shopkeepers whose lifetime of work, his supporters burned to the ground, the false impression he stands with them.
Biden’s toothless condemnations of “violence” are a meaningless cowardly evasion of moral responsibility. He’ll even occasionally condemn “looting or destroying property or burning churches” without naming who’s going around looting, destroying, and burning churches.
Burning churches is a bad thing. But not so bad that Biden will name the church burners. And when Biden fails to condemn Black Lives Matter, he supports its violent riots.
Even while the media falsely claims that the riots are peaceful, the hate group’s co-founders, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, have not been asked to condemn it. On the rare occasions when they’ve been asked about it, they’re deflected or dismissed the violence.
Ask BLM’s co-founders about the hate group’s violent riots and they’ll typically reframe the question by dismissing it as a mere issue of property and claim that they value life more. That’s despite the fact that hundreds of first responders and civilians have been wounded in the riots.
Read the entire article HERE.
Parents Outraged After Ohio High School Football Game Turns into a BLM Rally https://t.co/zZOKiP1qWA
— PJ Media (@PJMedia_com) October 3, 2020
Parents Outraged After Ohio High School Football Game Turns into a BLM Rally
Via PJ Media
In case you haven’t noticed, racially charged political movements are invading every area of American life. High school football games are no exception. Parents attending a football game at Lakewood High School in suburban Cleveland, Ohio, were outraged when someone took to the public address system before the game to declare that the school would henceforth be an “agent of change” in combatting “systemic” racism in “society as a whole.”
“All of the visiting parents were completely caught off guard,” popular Cleveland radio host Bob Frantz, whose son was playing in the game, told PJ Media. “We were standing respectfully for the playing of the Lakewood alma mater, and when it ended they began a new song,” which turned out to be “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Also known as the “black national anthem,” the song is featured before NFL stadiums as a part of the BLM movement.
“Then, when [the announcer] began telling everyone how horribly racist American society is, we were livid,” said Frantz, who hosts “Frantz Authority” on Salem affiliate 1420 The ANSWER. “Most of us sat down immediately, and the three dads near me, all of whom were police officers, were visibly angry. One said he would have walked out if it wasn’t his son’s senior season.”
As the marching band played the black national anthem, the announcement continued over the public address system: “Let us pause and reflect on the inequality that our nation has faced since its beginning.”
“The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tamir Rice among others remind us of the systemic racism that persists across so many of our nation’s institutions and society as a whole,” the speech continued. “By acknowledging, discussing, and taking action to address these inequalities, Lakewood City Schools aims to be an agent of change, not only in our community but in the world. We must all take a stand against racism. Let this be the moment when our children someday look back and say, ‘This is when we stood together for change.’”
Lakewood City Schools did not return a request for comment, but sources have confirmed that both the school principal and the band director knew in advance about the planned speech. The principal, Mark Walter, reportedly attended an anti-racism rally in Lakewood in June.
A source close to the situation told PJ Media that Lakewood police are furious about the political stunt and are threatening to pull security from the football games until they receive an apology. Despite receiving a slew of complaints from parents and law enforcement, the school reportedly still plans to repeat the BLM-themed stunt at future football games but will remove the names of those killed in encounters with police. They also plan to read a tribute to first responders at halftime as part of a compromise with law enforcement.
Read the entire article HERE.
Governor Whitmer Refuses To Throw Ring Of Power Back Into Fires Of Mount Doom https://t.co/z2zbYrHRpN
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 3, 2020
Governor Whitmer Refuses To Throw Ring Of Power Back Into Fires Of Mount Doom
Via The Babylon Bee (Satire)
MOUNT DOOM—Governor Gretchen Whitmer is refusing to throw the Ring of Power back into Mount Doom, despite the Michigan Supreme Court ordering her to return it into the fires whence it came.
“Throw it into the fire! Destroy it!” shouted a judge sitting on the court, after leading Whitmer to the Cracks of Doom. “We can end this all right now!”
“Nooo! Not my precious!” Whitmer screamed as the state Supreme Court handed down the order to destroy the Ring. “Nasty, nasty Constitution! We don’t likes it! Nasty, fat Founding Fathers!” She turned and left.
“No, Whitmer! It will be your undoing!” cried the judge.
The Ring betrayed Whitmer, of course, and she was found floating in the River Anduin with arrows in her back, as Governor Gavin Newsom sought to attain the Ring of Power for himself.
Check out the Bee’s takes on politics and culture HERE.
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