RUTHFULLY YOURS

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/lockdowns-and-other-madness-bruce-thornton/

Historians of the future will look back on the pandemic of 2020 as the occasion for one of this country’s worst unforced errors ever. The policies that the blue state mayors and governors of our most populous cities and states enacted were equal parts hysteria and politics, all the while they were touted as “following the science.” The lives of millions have been damaged, the economy willfully stalled, and a presidential campaign tainted with electoral fraud.

No enemy could have dreamed up a more insidious and devastating attack than those policies and their consequences, the ramifications of which will last for years––businesses lost, children harmed by isolation and their educations being interrupted, and the “deaths of despair” from depression, drug and alcohol abuse, unemployment, and domestic violence that typically follow economic depressions and natural disasters.

This disaster happened not just because the virus was new and its nature unknown. It soon became apparent that politics was driving the response. The progressive Democrats and Republican NeverTrumpers have for four years stewed in their bitter, irrational anger over losing the presidential election to an outsider like Donald Trump, who sneered at their technocratic pretensions, hypocritical “democratic norms,” and long record of policy failures both at home and abroad. He smashed the cognitive elites’ received wisdom and hypocritical “principles,” challenging the foundations of their power and influence.

So they set out to destroy him. They corrupted our federal investigative apparatus, jumped Constitutional guardrails, and fed anonymous mendacious leaks to a compliant media. When the “Russia collusion” canard collapsed, they turned to preposterous articles of impeachment that quickly imploded in the Senate. But nothing worked.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2020/12/05/founding-fathers-of-silicon-valley-give-up-on-california-move-to-texas-n1193826

This is becoming an all-too-familiar refrain. XYZ Company pulls up stakes in California and expands or moves to Texas or Tennessee. But even for the arrogant California commissars in Sacramento, who have seen more than 13,000 companies leave on their watch in the last few years, this one has got to hurt.

It’s got to be a public relations gut punch for California Governor Gavin Newsom, who’s done little to retain all the companies bailing out of Silicon Valley because it’s too expensive to conduct business there.

The headquarters for one of the Founding Fathers of the Silicon Valley is pulling up stakes and leaving the Golden State.

Bill Packard and Dave Hewlett’s legacy company, Hewlett-Packard, is packing up “the garage” and moving to Texas.

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2020/12/17/on-the-passivity-of-jews/

Jabotinsky was one of the founders of the Jewish state. He was a Russian Jew living in England. He enlisted in the British Army during World War I, and negotiated, with the British government, to allow Russian-immigrant Jews to fight in the Mideast, known then as “Palestine.” He succeeded in getting a special but limited dispensation for the Jews: They would not be allowed to fight, but could be enlisted as mule drivers. They were formed into the Zion Mule Corps under the direction of a Colonel Patterson, fought at Gallipoli, and, reconstituted as the Jewish Legion, were, it seems, responsible for most of the victories attributed to Lawrence in the dime-novel journalism of Lowell Thomas.

Jabotinsky was the colleague of Josef Trumpeldor, an ex-colonel of the czarist army. Trumpeldor was the first Zionist to advocate, and practice, self-defense as an inalienable right. He, a Jew, rose to high rank in an anti-Semitic army through determination and strength, and he quite simply did not understand how his fellow Jews hoped to thrive in a hostile world without these qualities. Jabotinsky was his protégé. He said, “You can take the Jew out of exile, but you can’t take the exile out of the Jew.”

We Jews, individually, are human beings capable of heroism; but as a group, we are trained, first and most importantly, to escape notice. For notice has, for thousands of years, equaled death. I exempt from indictment for “camouflage” not only the Jews of Israel but the Orthodox communities of the Diaspora. And now my exemptions are complete.

I was stunned, last year, to see a television commercial proclaiming the universal appeal of its product. There were happy young and old, black and white, straight and gay, and, mirabile dictu, a young Jewish couple, identifiable by the man’s yarmulke.

Who had seen the like before? Not I.

Were Jews, in violation of all historical norms, being presented as human beings? No. They were being appealed to as consumers.

https://dianebederman.com/front-line-medical-workers-exhausted/

I watch NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. During the pandemic he has introduced us to many “essential” front line health care workers who share their stories with us. Holt, like so many in main stream media, seems to be using the plight of health care workers to take us down a path to submission where we give up all the hard won freedoms bequeathed to us.

Many front line workers are exhausted. They tell us about their exhaustion. One told us that her children cannot come and hug her when she comes home. She has to shower first. One ICU doctor shared his mental distress, the trauma of so many sick people and those who die.

Odd.I don’t remember Lester Holt interviewing the men and women of the armed forces on a daily basis so they could share their angst when in war. No one seemed too concerned about their lives. Their fears. Their exhaustion. Their mental health. I assume when soldiers volunteered during peace time, many had no idea that war would be coming. But when it did, they went to war.

Dear essential health care workers, you signed up to care for sick people. And a pandemic arrived. And you are serving.

These medical people, who have such angst, are still alive. True, some health care workers, sadly, have died in the line of duty, unlike non-essential people who have taken their lives because their livelihood was taken away – so that health care workers would not be overwhelmed. Non-essential people lost their jobs, their businesses, their families, their dignity.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-patrick-gaspard-george-soros-biden-cabinet

After a lifetime of serving the Democratic Party, Joe Biden has no fixed beliefs. He can’t have any; the party has changed too much.

Joe Biden became a Democrat back when Democrats represented America’s working-class wage earners, heavily Catholic and concentrated in the big cities and industrial states. Democratic voters of that era tended to be populist on economic matters –they liked Social Security and Medicare — but they were basically conservative on social questions. They believed in biology, and most of them got married and went to church.

That’s the world Joe Biden grew up in. His “Joe from Scranton, son of a coal miner” shtick is a relic from that era. He still whips it out occasionally at events, but only for nostalgic reasons. After all, 1962 seems like yesterday. But in fact, it was a long time ago. That Democratic Party has been extinct for decades.

The modern Democratic Party no longer represents wage earners. It is now funded almost exclusively by Silicon Valley and the finance establishment, the billionaire class. Its foot soldiers don’t work in factories. They’re community organizers. They’re members of interest groups that have coalesced around a specific race or sex or sexual orientation.

None of these groups exist for the benefit of the United States. They exist only for their own benefit. Their purpose is very clear: To leverage our political system in order to collect as much money and as much power as they can for their own members and for their members alone. This is called identity politics and it is the most divisive way possible to run a government.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/12/the_great_reset_and_klaus_schwab.html

The time has come to implement the Great Reject before we experience the Great Regret.

Klaus Schwab, the chief proponent of a global project called the “Great Reset,” may be the most influential “intellectual” in the world today. A former member of the UN Advisory Board on Sustainable Development, he is the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF) that meets annually in the Swiss resort town of Davos. Business Insider explains, “Each year, business leaders and heads of state give lectures and speak on panels about topics ranging from gender equality and venture capital to mental health and climate change.” And as the WEF website states, “The non-profit organization’s aim is to engage the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.”

The “Great Reset,” a term coined in a 2011 book by economist Richard Florida and wholeheartedly adopted by Schwab in the context of the United Nation’s Agenda 2030 for sustainable development, proposes to determine “the future state of global relations, the direction of national economies, the priorities of societies, the nature of business models and the management of the global commons.” It presents itself as a humane and compassionate means to inaugurate a beneficial root-and-branch transformation of the social, economic and political structure of the world’s “operating systems”: capitalism, the free market and democracy.

Practical capitalism is to be supplanted by what Schwab calls “stakeholder capitalism” in which the private sector is tightly controlled by government (otherwise known as “fascism”). The free market is considered unfair and skewed to the advantage of a piratical business class exploiting the world’s poor and hungry. Democracy is regarded as an inefficient political arrangement relying on the incapacity of the demos to understand its own best interests or to command the intricacy of integrated governing structures and processes.