RUTHFULLY YOURS

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/04/compromised_biden_cannot_lead_america_or_the_world.html

Last week the Russian government held a press conference where it aired accusations of breathtaking corruption on the part of Joe Biden and his family.

Unfortunately, this event was no fake news Russian propaganda. The incriminating evidence presented at the event came straight from the hard drive that belonged to Joe Biden’s son Hunter.

As you may know, in 2019 Hunter Biden carelessly abandoned his laptop at a computer repair shop in Delaware. This was an act of astounding recklessness, since the emails, text messages, files, photos, and videos contained on that computer provided extensive record of greed, corruption, bribery and graft, not only on his part but also on the part of his father and other members of their family.

When the New York Post tried to report on the hard drive in October 2020, the America mainstream media and law enforcement authorities refused to acknowledge it or take appropriate action. Rather than commencing an investigation, the establishment falsely claimed that the hard drive was a product of “Russian disinformation.” They did this even though they knew it was real.  The staff of the New York Post conducted an extensive, multi-level authentication process to ensure that the hard drive was genuine, and they made the details of this process available to anyone who cared to check.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/04/amid-a-crime-wave-the-new-york-state-attorney-general-gets-tough-on-reporters/?itm_

Letitia James has used her office to thwart investigative reporters while sticking up for a group with intimate ties to Hamas.

New Yorkers are currently suffering through an epidemic of violent crime that is diminishing the quality of life of the nation’s most-burdened taxpayers. And what is state attorney general Letitia James doing about it? Pushing back against the so-called bail-reform laws that every day turn violent offenders back out on the street? Devising new ways to protect tourists and residents? Conducting a forensic investigation into all that missing Covid-19 relief cash that was stolen?

No, she’s coming to the defense of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in its efforts to stop its own members from talking to reporters about the potentially illegal activities of the group’s leaders. On April 1 (this couldn’t have been an April Fool’s Day joke, can it?), the Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York sent a cease-and-desist notification to Steven Emerson, founder and director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), ordering the end to “any ongoing or contemplated unlawful espionage operations against Muslims and Muslim organizations within the State of New York.”

The press release announcing the letter begins: “On the eve of Ramadan, New York Attorney General Letitia James today warned a known anti-Muslim hate group to stop spying on Muslim communities.” The second paragraph begins: “As we enter the holy month of Ramadan, it’s more important than ever that we show our support for our Muslim communities and stand up to Islamophobia and hate of any and every kind.”

https://issuesinsights.com/2022/03/31/identity-or-persona/

“Nothing can change the fact that females have two X chromosomes and males have an X and a Y, and certain physical realties flow from that difference.”

Much has been made of the statement, “I am not a biologist,” by aspiring Supreme Court justice Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson during her Senate Judiciary Committee hearing when asked “What is a woman?” This has obscured the far more important point that she did not feel empowered to provide an answer. That is because the terms “woman” and “man” seem now to occupy a semantic nether land between identity (biological sex) and persona (gender).

The irony here is both rich and irritating. Progressive culture has been quick to jump all over “cultural appropriation,” often in relatively trivial matters such as dress, casual language, or even Halloween costumes. Yet allowing gender to displace sex is arguably the ultimate form of appropriation. Unlike culture, ethnicity, and even race, biological sex is all but absolute and easily determined (very rare cases of genetic anomalies notwithstanding).

By contrast, persona is at least partially elective, regardless of whether it is driven by a deep-seated psychological imperative, comfort, or simple preference. Claims such as “gender fluidity” eliminate any doubt about the presence of choice in gender. Even race and ethnicity are to some extent persona rather than identity. As many millions have learned by sending their DNA to sequencing services such as “23 and Me,” our genetic identity is often a stew of different racial, historical, and geographic elements. We then characterize ourselves based upon a perceived dominant genetic strain, our appearance, our affinities, or even family legends. That leaves considerable leeway for choice. Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren demonstrated this vividly by claiming a Native American persona despite a laughably tiny and murky genetic component. She adopted a persona (perhaps for mercenary reasons) with little connection to her genetic identity.

https://amgreatness.com/2022/04/03/the-nihilism-of-the-left/

The last 14 months have offered one of the rare occasions in recent American history when the hard Left has operated all the levers of federal government. The presidency, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the permanent bureaucratic state are all in progressive hands. And the result is a disaster that is uniting Americans in their revulsion of elitists whose crazy ideas are tearing apart the fabric of the country. 

For understandable reasons, socialists and leftists are usually kept out of the inner circles of the Democratic Party, and especially kept away from control of the country. A now resuscitated Bernie Sanders for most of his political career was an inert outlier. The brief flirtations with old-style hardcore liberals such as George McGovern in 1972 and Mike Dukakis in 1988 imploded the Democratic Party. Their crash-and-burn campaigns were followed by corrective nominees who actually won the presidency: Southern governors Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. 

Such was the nation’s innate distrust of the Left, and in particular the East Coast elite liberal. For nearly half a century between the elections of John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama, it was assumed that no Democratic presidential candidate could win the popular vote unless he had a reassuring Southern accent. 

How did the extreme Left manage its rare takeover of the country between 2018 and 2020? Certainly, Obama’s election helped accelerate the woke movement and energized identity politics. One could also argue over the political opportunities in 2020 following the devastation of COVID-19.