The progressive left has been working on one or another scheme to socially engineer society for more than a century. Hitler’s master-race nonsense is flattery to post-Darwinist Western progressives who got the idea that natural selection, with a little help from them and the government, could/would weed out the undesirables in society so that when … Read more
I must confess that I was fuming as I watched The Five on Monday, and these were the featured stories. If you want to understand what motivates Liberals, these stories will sum it up for you.
Around the alternative media sphere, there is a lot of conversation about the events of the past several years, leading to the question, “Well, why is this happening?” Like “If COVID was planned, why?” or “What’s driving the gay bloc to push transgenderism and drag queens?”.
I’m not shy about my objection to assisted suicide, by which I mean – in case you were not clear – state-legalized and managed euthanasia. It is, as most of my content on the subject begins, a slippery slope that gets slicker quicker, and we’ve been observing that in real-time.
The political Left has been obsessed with population control since before Hitler. From contraception to wage and job antics to actual castration preventing lesser persons from procreating is a hallmark of the progressive pursuit of Utopia. Gender-affirming surgery looks to me to be more of the same.
We were part of the Baby Boom generation and are now in our 70s and 80s. We are strangers in a strange land, recalling Robert Heinlein’s book by the same name, which gets stranger by the day.
Democrats are the party of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, and discrimination. In the 20th century, their policy preferences destroyed the black family and increasingly trapped them on crime-riddled urban plantations while they (Democrats) pretended to be their friends. So, don’t be surprised by this. The recent push for gender drugs and surgery for kids follows a similar Modus Operandi.
Specifically the Second Amendment – the Right to keep and bear arms. For those that keep up with 2A things know that former NYC Mike “No Big Gulps for you!” Bloomberg, you already know that he funds his totally Astroturf’d civilian disarmament groups known as Moms Demand Action and EveryTown for Gun Safety. While he … Read more
Transportation costs have a direct downstream impact on everything, from the money that comes out of your wallet at the pump to the cost of goods and services. So, as the Left plays word games to support a new regional Transportation Initiative, understand that it isn’t just a gas tax.
Reading that title, one should be thinking, at least, of North Korea. China, as well. Those of us who are older remember the Berlin Wall and the East German army and the Western Allies decades long standoff with thumbs ready to put their Safeties to off. I also think of the Stasi, keeping tabs on … Read more
There has been a lot of angst from you, GraniteGrok readers, that I have seen both here in comments here on the ‘Grok as well as on Facebook. Most of them surround “where is my State heading? What is happening to the ‘Live Free or Die’ ethos we grew up with (or moved here for)? … Read more
“We’re uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It’s classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.” —Jared Diamond
I had lunch recently with a close friend with whom I attended college some years ago. He continued his education and is now a PhD. He is not a “lefty” sort of guy, but he isn’t a conservative-libertarian either. But with Social Scientists now weighing in on the gun debate, attempt to convey clarity, ambivalence is the net product. In our conversation over lunch he conveyed his thoughts about guns. Specifically, this thought:
“All too often following one of these mass shootings that garners national attention, the attempt to meaningfully discuss solutions to gun violence in America is muted and we fail to find any meaningful consensus regarding what we as a society can do to address gun violence.”
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” — Alexander Pope
In the Union Leader today, and article entitled, “NH Women react to end of ban on combat.” The UL article starts out, “Combat veteran Nancy Young of Auburn was thrilled to hear other women will get the chance to serve on the front lines in the military.
“Thrilled,”you say? This article is demonstrative of how callous we as a society have become. To be clear, I take no issue with women participating in front-line combat…other than to say, “be careful of what you ask for, ladies.” But these
“How come liberals never admit that they’re liberal? They’ve now come up with a new word called ‘progressive,’ which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it’s a label.” —Marco Rubio
His Majesty, King of the United States, Barack Obama
Obstinate continuance in a particular course of action despite ongoing and continued opposition encapsulates the very definition of Persistence. Such is the case of Representative Jose Enrique Serrano, a DemocRAT , representing New York’s 15th South Bronx District.
As Fox News Reports, Serrano proposes the constitutional amendment ending presidential term limits. The resolution dates back 15 years Serrano bringing it forth with each foray into public life.
I would be remiss if I neglected to mention that Señor Serrano is a member of
Another of the folks that spoke out against the Federal Govt’s move to further do social engineering via the Sustainable Communities Initiative / Granite State Future Plan was Tom Flaherty. He stressed that the key entity is HUD – it gets the final say via operating through the 9 Regional Planning Commissions under contract. One statement from them:
“Given that our State’s population can fit within the boundaries of many of the nation’s cities, we are presented with the unique opportunity to create a truly integrated approach to planning not just in one city or region but across the State as a whole.”
Who the hell do they think they are – to view citizens as mere lab rats? So, it is the unelected and unaccountable Planners that get to determine how our State is going to look like? How many citizens understand this? And the chutzpah – it seems that Planners are thinking “look at what we can do!” without never thinking “er, maybe Citizens are happy in what they are doing now?” I guess not – Utopians never do…
Before getting into the quick discussion of NH HB1658 (“limiting financial assistance for mothers who have additional children while receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF).”) that some Conservative has introduced, how ’bout this for a table setting? This went viral back in December and while it was shocking to see a single women with 15 kids by 3 “baby daddies”, what was worse was the attitude display by her:
“Somebody Needs to Pay For All My Children“
“Somebody needs to be held accountable, and they need to pay.”
(H/T: Weasel Zippers) The Welfare State gone crazy? No, it hasn’t. What is shown here is the actual logical endgame of the Liberal philosophy that allows bad behavior to continue under the guise of “she needs help”. Yes, indeed she does – but not the type I think she requires (think: a humungous dose of traditional morality). Yes, those children are in a bad situation – no doubt about that. However in this case, the Liberal philosophy that places personal sexual / libertine behavior off limits for discussion is shown for the fraud it really is – and the result is now clear that it places lots of children at risk. Tell me, Libs – how is this result showing “we care more than Conservatives”? There are Progressives that hold the State should not become involved in the intimate life of that woman (except when it is a minor female child – then they have no problem involving Govt in abortions without Parental Notification), but here’s the rub – they have no problem in having the State pay for the consequences of that philosophy.
Except they also expect us all to just pay for the cost of their failed policy. And that is where NH HB1658 comes in.
I love these meaningless labels you people employ to scare people. “Elite” why not “effete” why not “European minded”? Does an “elite” have lots of money, or is an “elite” just overeducated? Can you be a capitalist and an “elite” or are they mutually exclusive? Do you have to have travelled abroad to be an “elite” or can you be house bound and be elite as well? Please, go ahead and define an elite for me. Is Warren Buffet an “elite”? The Koch brothers support the NYC Ballet and Opera. That sounds pretty elite to me. Are they the “elite”?
-jklml
I normally just let these things stay in the comment area, but I’ve decided to break my informal guideline. The above is the comment left on my post here pontificating that the Davos Elitist founder wants to scrap capitalism. He demanded I give him a definition, so I have:
For the most part, we use “Elite” in two different ways. When talking about people that just exude excellence in what they do (e.g., Navy Seals, top rated artists, pundits like Krauthammer and Steyn), they are at the elite levels of what they do.
Every one of these was or is a left wing campaign to make leftist dogma look like centrist mantra. They exist to streamline progressive/socialsit thought into mainstream thinking. But they failed and so the latter iterations have become more destructive. Each “movement” has gotten progressively more unruly, progressively more violent.
Or was I just being captain obvious; Democrats secretly selling American guns to violent Mexican criminals so they could later find those guns at crime scenes and use that to make the case for limiting the right to buy or own firearms. Who could doubt that scenario? It made perfect sense to me. It is your typical left wing Shakespearean tragedy, staged to persuade the inattentive rubes who still have some sliver of trust in the government, or believe that the Democrat party just want’s to protect them.
Well this should poke a hole in that balloon. “Why would an anti-gun administration knowingly force licensed firearms dealers to sell guns to violent criminals?”
Why is that? Well we know why because it is obvious. To sell their own preferred anti-gun policy potions and prepare the soil for their legislative “response” to the expected “outrage.” But If Democrats are willing to do this just to deny Americans their second Amendment rights, what wouldn’t they be willing to do to advance every other part of their anti-liberty agenda? (At least a few people could be having na epiphany right now so let’s give them a moment to enjoy it…) OK.
