Democratic leaders hurried to endorse eliminating air travel and wiping out cows. My latest in PJ Media. It is jihad-related in light of the alliance between these Leftists and Sharia supremacists, both wanting total control over the society:
Democratic socialist wunderkind Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has been receiving torrents of ridicule for the “Green New Deal” program she unveiled with great fanfare and media adulation on Thursday, and it’s well deserved. But conservatives may come to find that laughter catching in their throats: as stupid as it is, and as disastrous as it would obviously be if it were implemented, many powerful figures on the Left aren’t laughing. And it’s not in the least impossible that they’ll bring that disaster upon the nation by trying to implement it.
The popularity of Ocasio-Cortez herself is a case in point. She is attractive, passionate, and untroubled by the miseries of possessing an intellect. She was already famous before the Green New Deal rollout for demonstrating a sub-middle school understanding of the branches (which she calls “chambers”) of government, exhorting Democrats to work hard to “take back all three chambers of Congress, uh, rather, all three chambers of government, the presidency, the Senate, and the House in 2020.” She spoke before taking office about being “inaugurated” and, as a member of the House of Representatives, signing legislation. She is a vociferous foe of Israel and denounces the “occupation of Palestine,” but can’t explain why.
And on and on: every news cycle brings more evidence of how truly free Ocasio-Cortez really is of any significant civic, historical, or economic knowledge. But none of it matters. She is a darling of the Leftist media and a rising star in the Democrat Party. Netflix paid ten million dollars for a documentary about her. Al Jazeera has already anointed her the next president of the United States.
Is she better equipped to be a bartender (which she was not long ago) than a member of the House of Representatives? Of course. But that won’t stop her rise. The Left ridiculed Donald Trump and called him stupid all through 2016, and he was elected president. What Ocasio-Cortez has on her side is the fact that powerful people on the Left take her seriously.
For all its talk (in the FAQs provided by Ocasio-Cortez’s office) of becoming able within the next few years “to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes” and providing “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work,” the most arresting passage in the entire Green New Deal plan is this: Nearly every major Democratic presidential contender says they back the Green New deal including: Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Jeff Merkley, Julian Castro, Kirsten Gillibrand, Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard, and Jay Inslee.
Those Democrat leaders aren’t laughing Ocasio-Cortez out of the room for announcing a plan that includes the intention to “upgrade or replace every building in US for state-of-the-art energy efficiency.” They’re nodding their heads and signing on. They don’t think it will make them look just as dimwitted as Ocasio-Cortez to endorse a plan that calls for constructing “high-speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary.” Those railway bridges connecting California with Hawaii, Australia, and Japan are going to be, like, awesome.
They’re happy to lend their names to a plan that calls for “a full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases,” in other words, destruction of the existing automobile industry, as well as the aeronautics industry. And the prospect of a massive carnage of “farting cows” doesn’t seem to trouble them.
The Green New Deal as Ocasio-Cortez has presented it will never be implemented in full, because the United States would go bankrupt and a new civil war would break out before all of its recommendations could be put into place. But that won’t stop Democrats from moving in the direction of a unitary socialist state in which all means of production are in the hands of the government – for the good of the climate and the people, of course.
If establishment media reporters ever decided to challenge these leading Democrats on their support for this absurd plan, which is almost certain never to happen, they would likely follow the lead of Ocasio-Cortez adviser Robert Hockett, who appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show Friday and claimed that the FAQs containing all these nonsensical plans was a fabrication by “conservative media”; Ocasio-Cortez even retweeted this forgery claim. However, the document has been definitively proven to have originated from her office, and bears the name of her chief of staff as its author; also, the resolution Ocasio-Cortez has introduced in Congress contains the provisions for eliminating all use of fossil fuels, “upgrading all existing buildings in the United States,” and more. Nor did any of the Democrat leaders who endorsed the plan withdraw their support when its absurdity became apparent.
Only Nancy Pelosi, of all people, has been dismissive, saying, “The green dream or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it, right?” But the withered dowager empress underestimates the young upstart at her own risk. History is full of examples of how swiftly the mighty can fall; before she knows it, Pelosi could find herself being led to the scaffold in a squalid oxcart, while the woke, green populace celebrates the fall of the tyrant and the dawning of a new age of justice and climate awareness….
Read the rest here.
Terry Gain says
I disagree. I think AOC, Omar and Tlaib are a godsend who will help Trump win a landslide victory.
mike9a says
Yes for people with brain, but imagine how many zombies are following this nutwits!!!
carpediadem says
Oddly enough, “zombies” have enough nous to get onto the streets and campaign for their political idols. Who among the “people with brain” have done this?
J D.S says
The democrat party has succumbed to stupidity…….The cause? It’s members…has to be stupidity and it’d members.
Mac-101 says
No one has been prosecuted for the massive open election fraud in 2016 and 2018. It ain’t goin to happen. If voting mattered THEY wouldn’t let us do it! No LOL!
Dana Baillie says
You may be absolutely correct, but what happens after that. Mr. Trump has only one more kick at the cat. Then what. These people will just bide their time, and their time will come.
This is classic Agenda 21/2030 that has been steadily pushing forward for a couple of decades now. Unfortunately, they will ultimately get what they want.
Connie says
Nah-ah!!! The good/the smart will rise up just in time. Mao was able to execute the good people because everyone else in China was in fear..WE ARE NOT..We are coming for them all…
carpediadem says
Yeah? Got a date set on that?
eduardo odraude says
Our children or grandchildren may end up seeking to immigrate to the Visegrad countries. Maybe it’s time to start buying real estate there, before its price skyrockets as West European non-Muslim refugees start to flood Visegrad and push up demand. Visegrad might turn into the last bastion of liberal democratic Western civilization. As outlandish as it sounds, is it really that hard to imagine, given the way things are going, that the US could decline to a second or third rate power in a generation? Ocasio Cortez seeks to bring the statism of the least advanced Latin nations into the US, and she has plenty of takers on the proposition. The most advanced state in South America, Chile, is also the most free market and least statist of South American nations. Yet somehow Ocasio Cortez thinks we should follow the statist paths that have destroyed or retarded and corrupted the development of so many South American states. The Left often assumes the State is more accountable and responsible than the market, but the opposite is usually the case. Where is the accountability when it is virtually impossible to fire a civil servant? Where is the accountability when it is virtually impossible to end even government programs initially described as “temporary,” much less other government programs? The State is something that can only change in one direction, namely it grows bigger. Increases are virtually never reversed. Like a ratchet, which allows motion in only one direction. Yet see Ocasio Cortez go on one of the late night tv shows and the crowd practically faints with adulation at her every word. Chalk it up to state-controlled education (namely, your friendly local state school board majority). It turns too many of us into stupid materialists, nihilists, and conformists who have weak or no principles and live primarily for pleasure, entertainment, and ease. Imagine if there were not only “school districts” but “newspaper districts” or “religion districts” and in each district a political body would vote on what newspaper you could read if you lived in that district, or what religion you could be part of in that district, and any other choices were considered damaging to “public media” or “public religion”? But as repugnant as such an idea is, people tolerate approximately the same situation with schools. If parents don’t have freedom of formation of belief, then the First Amendment’s freedom of expression of belief is profoundly vitiated. Majoritarian control of education is a spirit killer. People can be mental slaves and be so used to it they are unaware of it and see nothing wrong with the existing arrangements.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Many good points
+1
gravenimage says
I take your points, Eduardo–but I do not intend to give up on America yet.
carpediadem says
Exactly right, Dana.
And the sheer uselessness of conservatives or nonLeftists or whatever constantly laughing at how ‘dumb” Cortez and others are. They’re not too “dumb” to get into power, are they?
They’re not too “dumb” to implement severe poverty measures on the US are they, while increasing their own wealth and power?
Meanwhile the not-“dumb” ones pontificate liberally and rely on one man – Trump – to do their job for them.
Noone stood against Cortez when she was running. THAT is “dumb”.
Garfield says
Stood against her? How? It’s rigged. Who has Soros money to go against them?
gravenimage says
You may be right, Terry.
Mac-101 says
It’s ALL part of the Globalist agenda. It s designed to remove private transportation from the average citizen and force them to take Public Transportation, which will take them only WERE they are authorized to go.
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Same for the Elites who are fortunate enough to have smart self driving cars. It will only take THEM where THEY are authorized to go. Those poe slobs left alive will be slaves in “Green” Concrete cities unable to travel or leave, just like a feudal serf in Europe or Asia!
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The future of Humanity is a BOOT in da Face, courtesy of the “Progressives”!
Rezali Mehil says
Salaam 101
I do think you have something there… it goes hand in hand with the micro flats springing in NY (AOC’s playing ground) e.g. https://ny.curbed.com/2018/2/6/16980120/upper-west-side-sro-tiny-apartment-for-rent.
Huge building will be revamped to the “latest standards” of heating and other supplies yes … but also with embedded AI systems, cameras, drones et all. The travel stations close by or embedded in the basement will indeed take you to where they want you to go …e.g. to guaranteed government jobs … and you better be grateful.
AOC has already cheered for Amazon abandoning NY due to democrat political pressure (25000 freedom jobs gone) and of course she had Rashida Tlaib “back” for calling The current Potus an MF. Rashida ofcourse can’t stop smiling and grinning …saying “I cannot believe how stupid the average American Kafir is!!”
It is indeed a bleak future that these people have for you… Do you not feel that it would be better if you immediately converted to a Islam to ensure that your freedoms were better protected that this.
Indeed a half way house from the corrupt state of the west now to the relative freedoms on offer from Islam.
All the Friday night culture of drink, smoke, drugs, intoxication, immodesty… poof ..all gone , to be replaced to an inhouse mosque in each microflat complex, AI drones ensuring praying done on time and properly…a proper jumah celebration.
I mean I can’t wait…. what say you?
More Later …
Rezali
Mac-101 says
The last year I served in South Korea they were putting up massive 100+ acre compounds with 70 store buildings that housed manufacturing plants in the basement, stores on the next couple floors and apartments in the top floors. In theory people would never leave the compound.
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Supposedly Red China has dozens of major cities built from scratch with 5% occupancy. Were THEY built because the Chinese are Stupid? Make Unproductive Projects to keep people working or to relocate Almost people there in the near future?
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I am a sin laden sorry excuses of a back sliding Christian Wanabe. I truly believe we are in the End Times and THEY will use Satan’s Beast as the leader of the NWO with Islam as the Forced Religion of the Beast. I will be beheaded before I renounce Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and take the Mark of the Beast on my G-d given body!
LeftisruiningCanada says
Right there with you Mac.
I’ve seen those weird empty cities in the middle of nowhere. The Chinese ain’t stupid, and those cities ain’t going to sit there for nothing i’ll bet.
Look at the ‘Social credit” control system coming online there….do we really think this isn’t what our leftist would be tyrants want for us? They’ve been trying to create stuff like this for years….
And when you look at it, with so many employers and visa granting embassies checking up on your facebook posts, we already have a piece of the puzzle in place already.
Christ keep us all, and you Mac.
gravenimage says
The appalling Rezali Mehil wrote:
Salaam 101
I do think you have something there… it goes hand in hand with the micro flats springing in NY (AOC’s playing ground) e.g. https://ny.curbed.com/2018/2/6/16980120/upper-west-side-sro-tiny-apartment-for-rent.
Huge building will be revamped to the “latest standards” of heating and other supplies yes … but also with embedded AI systems, cameras, drones et all. The travel stations close by or embedded in the basement will indeed take you to where they want you to go …e.g. to guaranteed government jobs … and you better be grateful.
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Of course, the claim that these tiny apartments–whatever one thinks of them–are going to drone you is absurd.
AOC has already cheered for Amazon abandoning NY due to democrat political pressure (25000 freedom jobs gone) and of course she had Rashida Tlaib “back” for calling The current Potus an MF. Rashida ofcourse can’t stop smiling and grinning …saying “I cannot believe how stupid the average American Kafir is!!”
It is indeed a bleak future that these people have for you… Do you not feel that it would be better if you immediately converted to a Islam to ensure that your freedoms were better protected that this.
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Of course, Rezali Mehil has no problem with a grim future for the Infidels–she just hopes, as do all Muslims imposing Shari’ah, that some will convert to Islam out of either desperation or a desire to oppress and terrorize others.
More:
Indeed a half way house from the corrupt state of the west now to the relative freedoms on offer from Islam.
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Rezali Mehil is using the West–which offered her family asylum from the other-sect Muslims who threatened them–as a base from which to wage Da’wa and stealth Jihad.
More:
All the Friday night culture of drink, smoke, drugs, intoxication, immodesty… poof ..all gone , to be replaced to an inhouse mosque in each microflat complex, AI drones ensuring praying done on time and properly…a proper jumah celebration.
I mean I can’t wait…. what say you?
More Later …
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Muslims like to pretend that Islam is moral–but Rezali Mehil has before lauded child marriage, the rape of Infidel women and their being used as sex slaves, and here forced Mosque attendance. *Ugh*.
There is *nothing* moral about Islam.
FYI says
Convert to islam?
Hmmm..I wonder…but let’s see..this allah the “best of deceivers” of yours..
a god who is a racist bigot{Jews are “apes to be despised and hated” k2:67}
{but..ehm..Moses and Jesus are Jews:isn’t that A BIT ODD of allah..?}
a god who doesn’t understand Science{especially Astronomy and Physics and Biology..see the Apostate prophet 43 scientific errors in allah’s “perfect” book}
a god who is so lingustically challenged he can only be understood through ONE language.
a god who is a misogynistic chauvinist k2:282{a woman’s value=HALF that of a man}
a god who is a nazi {Sahih Musllim #6985:islam’s Final Solution for the Jews}
a god who doesn’t understand Theology{he stupidly thinks Christians are polytheists,divide God into parts and idiotically thinks God has companions:Christians don’t believe that!}
I suggest if anyone is considering converting to islam to try the following contemplative exercise:
Close your eyes
Take a deep breath
Bend down over a toilet and shove your head in..
Open your eyes
You see that?That’s what islam has in store for you..you feeling smart huh?
Well done to Ex-muslims and former converts to islam who have seen the light{have a bacon sandwich for God’s sake,a beer and make sure you sit listening to the song of a songstress,do art,music,study science and philosophy…}
Failing that..
You Tube..all superb..
The Apostate Prophet
Don’tConvert 2 islam
Christian Prince
Acts 17 Apologetics
Zakir Naik{just kidding ..he’s a “meical doctor” who doesn’t understand science..go figure..and his Hebrew fluency is something else…}
Listen to EX-muslims and former converts to islam…
If the choice was to convert to islam or be an atheist:then be an atheist and be smart..If you are a former convert to islam and you have seen through islam you haven’t wasted your life if you gained the Wisdom to get out of it!
The reason you muslim trolls keep coming back promoting your false god,your false prophet and your false “holy” book is explained in 2 Thessalonians 2 v 10-11
You PREFER to live in falsehood and believe what is FALSE and so God sends the “power of error” to work in you so that you believe what is FALSE.since you do not Love and Welcome the Truth to be saved.
mortimer says
Clean nuclear electricity is virtually inexhaustible and will be part of humanity’s energy mix until the next ice age. It will be needed to produce clean hydrogen for running our vehicles.
We should stop using oil for vehicles as soon as possible in order to bankrupt the Arab states that are exporting Wahhabism and jihad. Then we can thoroughly debunk Islam without fear of reprisals. Islam will disappear as soon as Muslims see that it cannot be defended morally, historically or logically.
mike9a says
Not so simple, mos are sensing that and with all their oil money are buying stocks in tesla and other major electric car manufacturers. Look who is majority stock owner of twitter? I’m not saying it is not possible but with 2-brain cell-lefts it is hard to do anything with enemy within.
Mac-101 says
I’m not a Nuclear Engineer, but it looks to me the 1960s style pebble based Nuke Reactors are the way to go. They shut down almost immediately so are supposedly infinitely safer than a Big Conventional Rod Plant. They should be on the coast providing electricity , desalinating sea water and powering Battery cars at night. 3 way win. Especially in Cali. Will NOT happen! Supposedly they can NOT make nuclear weapon grade materials!
Leon Degney says
A great suggestion but only if plants are built in geoSTABLE areas.
Mac-101 says
Definitely. But as I understand they were designed in the 1960s without the need for massive contamination ponds since the rods do NOT need cooled since the pebbles supposedly are broken down to a smaller unit. Don’t really know though what is really true.
Westman says
You may have forgotten that thousands of nuclear fuel rods are in cooling pools around the world with no solution to their disposal, or the disasters of Chernobyl and Fukushima. Germany is transitioning away from nuclear reactors because of the risks.
One of my university majors was physics and it can be shown, conclusively, that fission reactors create by-products that outlast containers and storage facilities – nightmare polution problems, sent to future generations.
Iff, that’s if and only if, fusion reactors can be created with enough efficiency to provide significant power then the dream of sufficient “clean energy” will be possible. However, even those reactors will create a small amount of by-products that will need storing. Thermodynamics offers no free lunch.
eduardo odraude says
I don’t support the statist “green dream,” but I would support major government funding of research into the efficient energy storage mechanisms that will be needed to make solar and other renewable energy sources even more practical than they now are. Even if global warming is not at all human-caused, there is enough evidence suggestive of human causation to warrant a faster transition than we are currently making to renewables. I think the main obstacles to transitioning to pollution free energy are not technical or economic, but political. The technical obstacles could be overcome quickly. In fact they are being overcome pretty quickly as it is — the price of solar and wind power have been dropping dramatically in recent years — often, even without subsidies, they are cheaper than fossil fuel and nuclear sources — but we need to develop better energy storage mechanisms so that solar and wind energy can be more easily and abundantly available even on days when there is no wind or sun.
If we could go to the moon in the 1960s, and invent atom bombs in the 1940s, we can improve energy storage mechanisms by two orders of magnitude with ease. That would not require some sort of massive state control of the economy, any more than such control was required to fund the 60s moonshot or the 40s creation of an atom bomb.
One part of the much talked of and very variously conceived “singularity” approaching us is that we are entering a transformation into a society (assuming a major civilizational breakdown does not happen) with nearly unlimited, free energy and nearly unlimited material wealth. If that sounds unbelievable, you may not have been paying attention to what has been going on since the Industrial Revolution. Historians generally think the Industrial Revolution was the biggest thing to happen, in material terms, in 10,000 years, since the Neolithic Revolution. The Industrial Revolution has led to a series of further material revolutions since and brought levels of wealth to ordinary people that were beyond the imagination of kings not long ago. Jeremy Rifkin is one of the people talking about how emerging “internet of things”, coupled with AI, if its dangers and risks don’t destroy the world, will mean something like unlimited material wealth at near zero cost and unlimited energy at near zero cost.
Mac-101 says
CNG is here now! About 8 years ago I spent 5 grand in a compressor and dryer and another 1500 to convert a truck to run on CNG straight from the farm well in PA.. No refineries or anything is needed! My dirty Red Headed Sin in Law ran off and my daughter can not keep it maintained. I’m in KY! Commercially it would be about a buck a gallon equalivent!
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No more Blood for Oil!
Mac-101 says
If I recall correctly about 20 years ago the US gubermint spent about 4 or 5 Billion to make storage areas in the stable salt caverns in Utah I believe. It was sabotaged by dat Traitorous Scumbag Senator Harry Reid so ALL that waste is ready to be leaked into the Mississippi and other important water sources in the USA!
RonaldB says
It is neither possible, nor desirable, to attempt to eliminate petroleum in transportation. In the first place, it would be prohibitively expensive and massively polluting. What do you think would happen to all those tens of millions of toxic batteries when their life cycle ran out. Furthermore, the US is the largest producer of gas and oil, and is now a net exporter. Saudi Arabia can always export to China, other parts of Asia, etc. The prices might go down, but the wealth surplus is still there.
What is actually dangerous is not Saudi wealth, but US deficits financed by sale of treasuries to countries like Saudi Arabia and China. The only way massive deficits do not cause massive inflation is because the foreign countries buy the treasuries and inject oil into the economy. These countries use their wealth to buy land, companies, communications, educational foundations and political influence.
The US could defend itself from Muslim (Saudi) terrorists by strictly controlling Muslim entry into the country and closely tracking all Muslims inside. Plus, severely limit the investments a foreign company (or country) can make.
The size of the deficit militates against this, apart from the plain greed of officials bribed directly or indirectly, because when holders of treasury bonds and US dollars are prevented from spending them, they buy fewer of them. This in turn leaves more deficit dollars floating around in the US economy, triggering inflation.
So, our real protection comes from getting control over our deficit spending. If you don’t do that, all the fanciful plans for physical impossibilities like a Manhattan Project to eliminate fossil fuels, will simply destroy the economy and turn us into a Venezuela.
eduardo odraude says
Two objections to this. First, it is politically impossible. Second, terrorism is only part of the problem and perhaps not the biggest part. Perhaps the biggest problem with Muslim influx is that it means Muslim influence over the political system (see Omar and Tlaib), which, to judge by Muslim nations around the globe, means the erosion and eventually the end of freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
Here’s an immigration policy that might be politically possible, because it does not mention any religion or nation and thus would not be controversial with respect to the First Amendment:
Institute a moratorium on immigration from any nation that does not protect freedom of speech and freedom of religion. The policy could make exceptions for dissidents, oppressed minorities, and perhaps scientists. The policy would affect not only Islamic nations. It would put pressure on Europe to provide stronger protections for free speech. It would put pressure on authoritarian states like China.
thebigW says
“terrorism is only part of the problem and perhaps not the biggest part. Perhaps the biggest problem with Muslim influx is that it means Muslim influence over the political system (see Omar and Tlaib), ”
the non-terrorist danger of Muslims infiltrating now is just to plant the seeds for future terrorism which they can’t do yet on a mass scale
gravenimage says
Yes–stealth Jihad can represent an even bigger threat than violent Jihad. Not least because it is often not recognized as a threat, sometimes even by Anti-Jihadists.
Westman says
14 years and a Billion dollars to clean up the “contained” nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.
There is a 1134 Sq Mi exclusion zone around Chernobyl and its contaminants can be detected in Europe. Fukushima lost 311 Sq Mi and much more. https://www.boredpanda.com/photos-fukushima-exclusion-zone-podniesinski/?utm_source=duckduckgo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=organic
This the shadow of the “unseen” world out of control. It looks “clean”, yet it’s deadly.
Sam says
Socialism, communism, Islam are here and our youth hates America. These are such dangerous times that I don’t see if our democracy can stay Democratic.
Mac-101 says
We will NOT without a massive Religious Revival. It sure looks like Satan’s Beast is goin to git his 42 months of rule with the NWO!
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Hitler took over Germany with 33% of the vote, Bolsheviks Russia with 5% and the Chi-Coms with 1% of the peoples support. Evil ALWAYS wins if Good People do Nothin!
Sam says
Agreed. So how do we fight? I am sick of sending money to Republican candidates as they do nothing to fight evil even when they are in the majority in Senate and Congress.
Mac-101 says
I am an outright Conspiracy Nut and believe the Deep State is an Arm of the Uni-Party who are owned by da BANKSTERS and run by the Satanic International BANKSTERS behind da Curtain working to destroy America and establish THEIR NWO!
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Not much we can do except speak Truth to Power to EVERYONE we meet and Support Trump to the End. Even if he is Controlled Opposition. Everyone must follow a Banner and carry HIS Cross!
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Attempt to save as many souls as possible along da way!
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Or Else! says
I know a lot of “good” people who have no clue about the dangers of Islam and Marxism.
It’s all about the software downloaded onto our brains by others vs. what we choose to download ourselves.
We know the Western education systems were taken over by progressives….therefore, “knowledge” against that narrative/purpose has been either revised or omitted….and replaced with confirmation-bias. i.e. We’ve told you the truth. No need to question further.
Young people come into the work world consumed with their careers, relationships, home-buying, children, etc. that they don’t have the time/mindset to be educating themselves on such topics. That was surely the case with me and my peers. Islam and Marxism weren’t on anybody’s enemy radar. Quite the opposite. Some of my peers still think Che and Marx are “t-shirt worthy” heroes.
For my part, I’ve slowly started encouraging my family and friends to research Islam for themselves. I get strange looks. But they know I’m not a racist or a bigot. The first thing I say is, “Islam is not a race. It’s an ideology. So, look at the ideas. Who made them up? How were they spread?” It doesn’t take long for their eyes to cloud over. It’s a whole new way of thinking, as they’ve been conditioned to equate all religions and misconstrue appropriate criticism as “racism”.
Richard says
Or Else: Your point is excellent. For decades, liberals have taken over the education system and turned into a system of brainwashing children that will last as long as they vote. Is it because liberal teachers love children? My late Aunt Betty June taught children and told me of abortion: “We have to kill them while we can. Otherwise they are born and we’ll have to support them for the rest of their lives.” Adolph Hitler couldn’t have said it better! Now they want to pay people who don’t want to work. The aim is to make everyone they can dependent upon government in every aspect of their lives, but the result will be Atlas Shrugged: Those loonies who continue to work to support the bums will become less and less until they cease altogether. St. Paul wrote in one of his epistles: “Let us put in all our wealth and be of one purse together.” He quickly saw the results and wrote another epistle saying: “He who will not work, neither let him eat.” Doing away with cows who have gas means doing away with peoples’ right to eat meat, folks living on vegetables will be producing the intestinal gas instead of the cows. Nature will replace the cattle with deer with chronic wasting disease and raccoons with rabies. Oh, and replacing buildings means tearing down perhaps scores of millions of them. Where will we put all the trash those buildings are made from? Goodbye Grand Canyon! As for “green energy”, I’ve driven past a huge wind farm and seen eagles lying dead under the fan blades. In California, they put out a lot of solar panels in the desert to get solar power. Before doing so, they had to remove all the endangered desert tortoise from the are – making them far more endangered. To quote Kermit the Frog: ‘It’s not easy being green!”
gravenimage says
Good post, Or Else!.
gravenimage says
I had an acquaintance at Berkeley who had one of these ubiquitous Che posters up in his bathroom. I decided to ask him what it was that liked so much about Che (I knew something about what a nasty piece of work he was, even when I was at university).
This fellow seemed like he was a decent person, so I wondered what he’d say–it turned out he knew next to nothing about Che Guavara, and nothing about what a vicious murderer he had been–he had a general sense that he was a “cool” revolutionary standing up for “the people”.
I imagine many people’s understanding is no better than this–just enough to be incredibly harmful.
Anjuli Pandavar says
“untroubled by the miseries of possessing an intellect”
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Priceless! I’ll be quoting that without restraint 🙂
Brilliant post!
mike9a says
+100
somehistory says
When they begin killing the cows in massive numbers, and no steaks or roasts or cream for their lattes arrive, what then? Surely the idiots standing with the young fool….and to some of us, she is ugly as her “sisters” tlaib and omar…eat beef?
Some pol in HI has already expressed his/her knowledge of the foolishness of such a plan as this “rail” everywhere..
She and schumer, or whomever announced it with her, may attempt to begin “replacing every building” and grounding all flights…but they won’t get very far.
And her money pllan for everyone, willing to work or not…Stockton, CA is going to try that with a beginning of 130 people at $500 each month for 18 months. What happens when the money runs out?
Riots and chaos.
RonaldB says
Venezuela is a very recent example of the fact that you can absolutely ruin an economy by trying to adapt intuition-based principles to reality through force.
There are many, many such examples in history of socialism ruining and impoverishing peoples otherwise living satisfactory lives. All of these countries derived a hell-hole from a viable nation: USSR, Mao’s China, East Germany, Zimbabwe, Cuba. South Africa is scheduled to be one of the next.
James Lincoln says
RonaldB,
You are correct.
And it’s astonishing how quickly a country can turn into a hellhole with the wrong kind of leadership. Think of Venezuela…
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Ronald.
Moshe says
What if the “wunderkind” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is actually a time traveler from a blighted world 12 years from now, sent back to warn us that future peace and prosperity require a carbon-free world? I saw a movie with a plot like this and think it is a real possibility.
AOC only seems brilliant to us (including to the major contenders for the Democratic nomination for President with Ivy League credentials) because she possesses the foreknowledge and insights of this future dystopia.
How do you know that 12 years from now scientists will not discover that bovine flatulence poses a dire threat to ecological stability?
Kepha says
I suppose that in our pristine, pre-civilizational age, herds of mammoths, aurochs, bison, and woolly rhinoceri produced no f–rts?
Moshe says
A major hypothesis posits that the widespread use of antibiotics in the feed-stocks for cows and cattle in modern agribusiness leads to a special flatulence with higher greenhouse-gas potency.
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is a vegan and expert on toxic flatulence. This is a serious issue.
Indiana Tom says
Well, Cory Booker is an expert on flatulence, that is for sure. Most Democrats are.
don vito says
Moshe what a great read, “special flatulence”, “Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is a vegan and expert on toxic flatulence”, “A major hypothesis posits”, I hope you are never banned. Hehe, whoops, not suppose to laugh.
Wellington says
I think it most likely, Moshe, you post here at JW in thinly disguised sarcasm mode in order to discredit JW. There are other possibilities respecting what you are up to, none of them helpful to the preservation of liberty.
And while we’re at it, why not directly address the many “impediments” Islam puts up to liberty, for instance death for apostasy (e.g., Sura 4:89) and the founder of Islam saying “I have been made victorious with terror.” {Bukhari Hadith 4.52.220}
Your turn, asshole.
gravenimage says
True, Kepha.
gravenimage says
I’m so tried of this trollery from “Moshe”, whatever his ultimate aim here is.
LeftisruiningCanada says
” she possesses the foreknowledge and insights of this future dystopia. ”
Don’t you think it’s more likely that AOC is a late model terminator sent back precisely to create the future dystopia you speak of?
Her suggested policies would surely do the job if what we want is a ruined nation of serf-slaves tyrannized by an all powerful State run by solar powered robots.
Moshe says
This is an excellent point. Thank you for this insight. As I remember, there were both male-appearing and female-appearing Terminators.
Specifically, the beautiful actress Ms. Kristanna Loken in “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” played a next-generation Terminator with a lovely face but an ugly soul–or more accurately, a lack of soul: a sociopath without conscience or remorse, a “shape-shifter” with the ability to simulate the appearance of any normal human being with whom she came into contact.
Sound familiar?
gravenimage says
“Moshe” wrote:
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is a vegan and expert on toxic flatulence.
……………………
It’s lines like this that make me think that “Moshe” might be a satirist after all…
MTMLA says
AOC’s dream and the demoncraps will have the masses walking, riding a donkey or a bicycle where the government can keep an eye on them as in China. The government leaders will be the only ones riding fancy limousines and flying airplanes. In these totalitarian regimes communism/socialism is for the masses while the politicians and those connected to them enjoy the benefits of capitalism and the comforts it provides them…as in Cuba, Venezuela, N Korea and other totalitarian regimes.
Mac-101 says
Exactly. Even the Big shots with private transportations will be controlled by smart self driving cars! ALL who live will be under 100% surveillance!
LeftisruiningCanada says
I disagree.
Increasingly many Chinese ride electric scooters. This fits in oh so nicely with the eco-fascist plan for our de-industrialized serfdom.
Westman says
Occasional-Cortex reminds one of movie stars and perhaps missed her calling on daytime soap operas. Isn’t acting an occupation where one acts out a script, written by others, without thinking about its inconsistencies, delusions, and fabrications?
The left thinks Islam is a fellow traveler on the road of delusion toward world control and a free life supported by OPM(the opium of the left – Other People’s Money). Like two robbers, dividing a bag of gold in a dense forest, only one is likely to emerge.
One can be certain that AOC will be hanging around with Omar and Tlaib, calling for the destruction of Israel and “free stuff”.
RonaldB says
Yeah. The entire Democratic constituency seems to go on emotions and feelings. It’s like the entire party has been feminized, allowing only neutered males. As emotionally-driven beings, they dote on AOC, who projects the strong self-assurance and attractive stance of the narcissist personality. It doesn’t hurt that she’s a dish as well, although in truth, seeing her picture all the time, knowing how little brain matter there is, gets old after a while.
The founding fathers of the US said we could only make a republic succeed through an educated and moral electorate. I don’t think they conceived of a feminized polity driving entirely by their feelings.
Wellington says
Agreed, RolandB, and in other words, there is a lot of merit to toxic masculinity as long as the toxic male is aligned with good, not evil. Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry and Ian Fleming’s James Bond come to mind as sterling examples to be admired and even emulated. Or, as George Orwell (or was it Richard Grenier?) reputedly said, people sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Men have made a lot of mistakes throughout history but so have women. Feminists don’t want to hear this (nor emasculated males) nor do they want to hear that while the female utilizes the right hemisphere of her brain more than the male does and sometimes this is a good thing, e.g., the so-called “sixth sense” that women possess due to this, it can also be a negative by allowing emotion, not reason, to guide action.
Mirren10 says
It’s not often I disagree with you Wellington, but I do here. Allowing emotion, not reason to guide action, is not solely a feminine trait, plenty of men have, and do, allow emotion to drive them, rather than reason.
Wellington says
Actually, Mirren, I don’t think we’re far apart on this if at all. I was only speaking in the aggregate. Plenty of men are emotionally driven and plenty of women are guided first and foremost by reason. But generalities have merit and the exceptions, even many exceptions, don’t disprove a general rule. Take for instance the fact that more men in America than women vote Republican and more women than men vote Democrat. I submit (not meant in an Islamic way) that, again speaking generally, the Republican Party, with all its faults, is the more rational of the two parties and that Democrats are definitely more likely to be guided by emotion than reason (I’ve come across this so many times I probably lost count decades ago). If men and women were equal on the emotional front v. rational front, you would expect that, minus a statistically insignificant variable, about 50% of men and women who vote for one of the two major parties would vote Republican and the other 50% of men and women would vote Democrat. But that is not the case.
As Dennis Prager has said, if only men had the vote in America we would have land-slide Republican majorities at the national and state levels. I certainly think a part of this is wrapped up with the reason v. emotion element per gender distinction. And don’t forget that I did mention that women utilizing the right hemisphere of their brain more than men has advantages at times, such as that sixth sense which women have and which I consider definitely real—-the female will pick up on subtle things often times that will go right over a man’s head.
Hope you are doing well. Take care.
gravenimage says
Actually, over half of white women vote Republican:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/09/white-women-vote-republican-why
(This is a very unpleasant article, but it does note this fact).
And while I have certainly known many irrational women, I have also known many irrational men. They may tend to act from different emotions at times, but can both be driven by feelings.
In any case, I hold both Wellington and Mirren in the highest esteem, despite their disagreement here.
thebigW says
I don’t mind emotions, if the emotion is against Muslims.
KWJ says
thebigW:
I don’t mind emotions, if the emotion is against Muslims.
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I’m not trying to be the comment police, but I cringe at comments like yours because it feeds into the anti-Muslim trope rather than it being anti-Islam, and, frankly, it sounds immature. Sure, there are loathsome Muslims as anyone and generalizations that imply many Muslims, e.g. Muslims don’t take responsibility for the things they’re doing in Western countries that are causing problems and adding to divisiveness and causing people not to like them. (Desire for sharia law for instance.)
If I said the same thing but replaced it with Christians I’d sound like the Qur’an and what many Muslims think. Ditto for people who write religious posts and say something like Christianity is the only true religion.
As far as men or women being more emotional than the other, I agree with Gravenimage. I also don’t think the Republican Party more or less emotional than the Democrats, they just have different ideas and agendas and sometimes pragmatic thinking on some issues, especially social issues.
It’s an emotional response to migrants or refugees from war-torn or violent countries, but that shouldn’t override looking at the consequences whether money and ethics, or with Muslims the clash of values and culture and the concerted effort of those who want to Islamize the world, thus they vote for Muslims-another dangerous consequence.
Likewise the Left’s reaction and groupthink about Israel that’s devoid of knowing the history and what they have to deal with situated among Islamic countries because they don’t understand Islam and Muslims’ goals. Once a person understands that, the view isn’t so one-sided. There’s a lot of groupthink so a lot of the Left can’t make good arguments no less Muslims. The latter reacts emotionally, often, seeing it as “You’re attacking my religion, something I believe in…you don’t like us,” but they are believing in a book filled with hatred towards all others, and they can’t win the arguments; they aren’t looking at facts.
thebigW says
KWJ, being anti Islam but not anti Muslim is stupid.
gravenimage says
Emotions can certainly be a good thing, so long as they do not override reason. A bit of righteous anger over the horrors of Jihad terror is certainly not amiss; nor is sympathy for the victims.
vlparker says
Please name for me the occasion on which AOC demonstrated that she has a cortex? I have never seen any such evidence.
Indiana Tom says
Fembot.
The Crusader says
This generation does give me grave concern. Look what happened in NYC they elected AOC. TIME TO WAKE UP educate your children on the Construction and the bill of rights . If this how our future looks we are in trouble. Look at the mess California is in and NY .
Mirren10 says
“economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work,”
That’s the best bit !
Boy, she is really one dumb stupid bint. I wonder if it’s occurred to her, or any of the other morons who think this suicidal rubbish is just tickety boo; ”what are we going to do hun, if **everyone** decides they;re ‘unwilling to work’ ?”
Stop being so racist, bigoted, islamophobic, sexist etc etc ….. !!
gravenimage says
Yes–since when is being unwilling to work the same as being unable to work?
LeftisruiningCanada says
Then they rediscover their true stalinist heritage, arrest them for counter revolutionary wrecking, and admit them for 10 years into a slave labor prison system.
“All who do not work shall not eat.”
That’s the iron fist of collectivist reality hidden by the velvet glove of feigned progressive compassion.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Mac-101 says
I’ve been taught before that something like 90% of the Gulag detainees were labeled Irredeemable Deplorables, sound familiar, and they were voted their by their workers councils because they did not work hard enough or that someone didn’t like them , alcohol issues or even something as simple as someone wanted their ole lady for themselves!
somehistory says
I don’t know if you are saying that I implied something different, but since soros is behind many of the things this young idiot is advocating, “ruin” is what is planned.
When people who have had just about everything they want, suddenly find themselves without anything…riots and chaos will happen. Just look at the situation when a hurricane hits and supplies run short, and that is very short term.
I don’t expect anything good to come until the chaos is over and then we’ll all see just what comes next. I am a person of faith, so my view is probably much different from yours and many others.
Connie says
WHY…are posting such negative, discouraging information?? I am a subscriber..not paying at this time..but really ..isn’t your JOB to offer HOPE, ACTIONS TO TAKE??
I am about to unsubscribe..as I am actually DOING WHATEVER I CAN TO END THESE CRIMES OR ESCAPE TO A BETTER COUNTRY..
I DO NOT BELIEVE GLOBALISM WILL SURVIVE..as criminals/stupid humans are in the minority.
gravenimage says
Don’t give up, Connie.
Lynn says
This ‘Deal’ is nothing more than a polished up Agenda 21 now call Agenda 2030. Same thing only different.
Or Else! says
For all the Left’s talk about “equality”, does anybody think Ocasio-Cortez’s ideas alone, and not her youth and attractiveness, are the reason she’s being pushed out front by the party/media? A young, pretty face–the combo that always seems to help sell the Left’s identity politics. In this case, she’s a “visible minority”! Even better!
They love themselves some Hollywood!
Always sizzle over steak.
Mirren10 says
”A young, pretty face–the combo that always seems to help sell the Left’s identity politics. In this case, she’s a “visible minority”! Even better!”
Very true, Or Else!
If she looked like a bag of spanners, perhaps fewer people would be jumping on the daft bint’s bandwagon ?
Ashley says
I find this to be a fascinating thread…thoughtful post and comments.
I am, of course, vehemently opposed to sharia in ANY shape or form. So I have to take issue with Robert’s view that “It is jihad-related in light of the alliance between these Leftists and Sharia supremacists, both wanting total control over the society.”
You can only be controlled if you submit. I hold some views that can be perceived as “leftist” and others that can be perceived as “conservative.” Thus why I’m a registered Independent.
We are ALL under total corrupt government control…make no illusions to the contrary. Our society IS orchestrated and dictated by those in power.
I just try my best to buck societal norms that I feel are wrong…
Garfield says
Try not submitting in the UK where you can get put in jail for the things written in this comment section. Try not submitting to 15 rabid Islamic rapists roaming the streets looking for.uncovered meat. You need to wake up.
Matthew D Schroeder says
Tsk. Tsk. Casting Pelosi as Marie-Antoinette is a very real disservice to Marie-Antoinette.
Agha Ali Arkhan says
The global warming hypothesis together the green religion and the vision of collective action to save the planet will lead to misery and death on a massive scale. Because politicians do not possess the intellectual power to implement such a vision, this misery and death is a certainty.
Debi Brand says
“Green New Deal,” its warriors and its lackeys, as Spencer states, “It is jihad-related in light of the alliance between these Leftists and Sharia supremacists, both wanting total control over the society:….”
Indeed, indeed, as is spoken to in, “CAIR’S Confederation” (dlbrand February 16, 2019OpposingIslam),
By Debi Brand: http://www.debibrand.org/cairs-confederation/
Indiana Tom says
The Green machine is really a control mechanism for the masses and a government welfare program for the rich. Just look at all the political connections the green entrepreneurs have and the amount of government subsidies they recieve. Al Gore jets around and offsets his carbon footprint by planting a twig. Of course everyone else must give up their car, their heat, their air conditioning, and live in a tiny apartment. It will be a cross between 1984 and Soylent Green. Oh, I forgot, to reduce growing animal protein, we will just eat people. I just love the new Soylent Green Big Macs at McDonalds. Special sauce all the way. Yum.
Garfield says
Good points. And if some people say no they’re not trying to control us! I bet the people in Dresden said noooo they won’t bomb the whole city. cmon.
I know that some Jews in Germany said no they won’t kill us…we are German citizens!
And I guess people now say things like no FGM won’t be made legal here. And they’re not converting people to jihad in prisons. And the dems just really CARE about the poor.
Hmmmm….a while ago I said no they wouldn’t legalize killing a fully formed baby on the day of its birth…..
The left COULD turn America into a.shythole is the point I’m trying to make.
somehistory says
Her boyfriend, who looks a whole lot like her, except that he has a beard, is listed as a member of her “staff.”
She says he just has access to her google calendar…because “spouses” normally do.
Mac-101 says
So da dudes a spouse but he ain’t good enough to make a commitment to? LOL!
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I wonder who the pad and utilities name is in? LOL Squared!
Garfield says
A Mr. George Soros?
Mac-101 says
Good One. I’d lover to know how many of Soros’ NGOs are supporting her!
Tekyo Pantzov says
I thought this was a blog about Islam. I guess soon we’ll be reading stories about baseball.
gravenimage says
Last I checked, Baseball was not pro-Islam.
Mac-101 says
It’s Simple. The Green/ Red Alliance is real and is out to destroy America and Western Civilization!
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Stop Laughing: Yes, the Green New Deal Is Stupid and Evil, But It’s Coming
……………………..,.
Stupid and harmful, certainly. And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is disturbingly pro-Islam, as well. She has also compared any illegal aliens–including violent Muslims and Narco-criminals–entering the country to the Virgin Mary and Jesus.
Debi Brand says
“She has also compared … illegal aliens–including violent Muslims and Narco-criminals–…to the Virgin Mary and Jesus.”
Clearly, her perspicacity, far above cutting edge…
Jay Dillon says
Getting rid of cows to fight climate change is completely a$$-backwards. In fact, we should increase our livestock herds in order to reverse desertification. This has been proven by Allan Savory of South Africa, who has regreened desert areas by using huge herds of sheep, goats, cows, etc., simply using careful grazing schedules. Please share this information widely, it might be the best hope for actually saving the planet from know-nothing ideologues like AOC. https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change#t-22776
jewdog says
Donald Trump may not be a valedictorian, but I’ll take our conservative dunces over the left’s any day.
andrew mckendrick says
Why not send AOC to India where she can give her talk about getting rid of cows to the Hindu population ? Will be interesting to see if she returns.
stacy French says
this diabolic creature’s inner desire is to be Global Dictator….
Garfield says
As to retrofitting “all the buildings”….where is the debris going to go? How will they TRUCK it all away? Er….handcarts?
Igor Slamoff says
Robert Spencer is a world-renowned authority on Islam and everything he says on that issue should be pondered with great care. Now he has branched out into a new field of endeavor, issuing judgments on matters of environmental policy. Of course he has every right to his opinion, but I don’t think he has the requisite background in environmental economics and social sciences in general for his opinion on such issues to carry much weight.
Regarding Islam and related issues, he rightly criticizes Ocasio Cortez: “She is a vociferous foe of Israel and denounces the ’occupation of Palestine,’ but can’t explain why.” I likewise deplore her attitude on Israel, but by contrast I admire her candor when she confesses her ignorance on the subject. That shows that she isn’t a dogmatic know-it-all who starts churning out phony statistics about how many innocent Palestinian women and children have been drawn and quartered by the Israeli army. That shows that she is willing to learn.
I think Robert Spencer should restrict his judgments to matters he knows about, at least when writing in a blog that purports to be about the Islamic threat.
Whatever you say about AOC, she isn’t an Islamic threat, at least not yet.
gravenimage says
Uh huh. This is not all that different from insisting that Robert Spencer not speak about Islam because he is not Muslim.
You can disagree with his views, but demanding that certain topics should be off-limits to Mr. Spencer on his own blog is just appalling.
Evelyn Hall says
Pol Pot would have been proud of Ocasio Cortez and look what he did to Cambodia.