Does this fact alone not tell you everything you need to know about Democrat priorities?
If we are going to stand any chance of undoing many decades of corruption, involving unimaginable amounts of money–which is what access to the richest Treasury on the planet by far gets you–then Trump is the indispensable element. He’s bold, he’s honest, and he really enjoys beating amoral assholes at their own games.
Never bet against him. He will always find a way to win. Syria is already looking like a master-stroke, and certainly not something we had a moral obligation to do.
The drum beats are strong, but so too is my faith, and I am not someone prone to optimism. This is rational faith, based on recent history. It’s the sort of faith that says Tom Brady is likely to have a good season again.
Through some combination of confusing lies, Democrats have made this point obscure and non-obvious.
The reality, of course, is that poor people tend not to show up to vote, and when they do, they reliably vote for the people promising free stuff. This makes them reliable Democrats.
And teacher’s unions, knowing that some percentage of their membership does not belong in front of children because they are lazy, incompetent, abusive or otherwise unfit, want to make sure they are never exposed to competition.
Here is the thing: good teachers need not fear competition. The goal is not to run out good teachers, but bad ones. The goal is to REWARD good teachers and fire bad ones. I personally would support much higher salaries and much better benefit packages for teachers, if I could be assured there was some structural incentive, like competition, for them to reliably produce good work over the long haul.
In Sweden–where they seemingly performed this logical operation, reached the correct solution, then made the morally defensible decision–they found that charter schools not only worked to improve educational outcomes among the poor, but that they reliably improved the quality of all schools around them. Competition will do that.
[And I will note that competition assumes that only self interest is, in the long run, a reliable motivator. Morality and character are fine, but they decay over time, and no means has yet been found to ensure they are reliably produced–other than, perhaps, a top quality education, which is the topic being discussed.]
Logically, then, the only rational goal being defended by the unions is their own existence. Union bosses don’t want to be fired either, so their JOB, by and large, is to protect the incompetent and unfit. That is literally the only solid reason they have for existing.
The union bosses, in turn, see Democrats as their own protectors, and so contribute heavily to them, like all public sector unions, which also exist mainly to protect the incompetent and unfit.
Thus, all Democrats who oppose vouchers and charter school are literally protecting incompetent and unfit teachers simply because it nets them campaign cash, and they are literally standing in the way of poor kids getting access to the best possible education available to them. They are helping ensure, in other words, another generation of ignorant and thus poor kids; and thus another generation of people who want the public largesse Democrats have positioned themselves to dole out, which is never enough to live a good life, but enough to support bad decisions and chronic underwork.
Again, Jones is half crazy, but he is and long has been willing to sacrifice everything to tell the truth as he sees it. I don’t agree with everything he says. But he’s not playing a political game.
Hard to say what happened to Drudge but I won’t go there much anymore.
More generally, it occurred to me it would be a fun exercise to ask graduate students in philosophy to write various position papers in the style and voice and using the ideas of various philosophers.
How would the Joker morph with Heidegger? Sartre? Nietzsche? Jesus? William James? Spinoza?
In important respects, I think the Joker can be seen as an allegory of the genesis of evil. To the extent any person values, or claims to value, the good, then they must be concerned with evil too.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
I don’t joke much on this site, but I do have a sense of humor, and sometimes it is quite good. Not sure that’s the case here, but I at least find that image amusing.
Think about it. Ponder it. Consult your own experience, your own feelings.
My hypothesis: in the present climate changing genders has become a socially acceptable and in general laudable means of avoiding intrinsic, deep seated emotional difficulties faced by people who are, I suspect, either severely traumatized, or narcotized by addiction to social media.
The process of “transitioning” is so intrinsically difficult that it can occupy one’s own attention for a considerable period of time, as well as one’s audience, where social media is concerned.
But the process has an end. You can get as far as you can get. Then all the feelings you were running from come back. You did not, in the end, escape, and by putting all your emotional eggs in that particular basket, you have created a dead end from which it seems there is no escape.
This is not true, of course, but I think that feeling leads to a lot of suicides. As I have no doubt commented, people who fully transition have something like 4x the suicide rate of our national average, which itself is absurdly high.
Emotional health always, I feel, starts where you are at. For any person at the end of that road, they simply have to remember who they were before. The sexual part is not the primary part. The feelings, the sensations, the images, and the thoughts that went with them: that is primary.
I truly feel left wing paranoia and compulsion is pushing a lot of good kids down dangerous and–for some of them–fatal paths, with no real compensating benefits. It is not wrong to point this out. Transgenders do not scare me. I am not phobic, to use the overused, and generally abused word.
I don’t like being yelled at, and I feel no compulsion to try and feel what I am told by lunatics to feel, or to think what deranged people want me to think. I think that is a simple enough position.