Friday, May 6, 2022

They Got Away with It

 

They Got Away with It

 The leftist mob and their media and big tech collaborators got away with it.  They handed the presidency to a doddering, senile Joe Biden in 2020 by withholding and lying about news critical to the election.  A paltry 125,000 votes in four states would have given President Trump 51 electoral votes and the presidency if details contained in Hunter Biden’s laptop about Joe Biden’s “play-for-pay” crimes were not covered up from the electorate.

 Unethically and illegally giving Biden the presidency is the most egregious assault on our republic, because it has resulted in our living in Biden’s and minion’s distorted dystopia, with our country facing ruination, with Putin’s war on Ukraine and with the Chinese CCP greedily eying Taiwan.

 But that’s not the only thing that the leftist-Marxist mob have gotten away with.  They rampaged through the country systematically destroying or defacing reminders of our history and culture, and causing over two billion dollar’s-worth of damage in our cities.  The excuse given by the mob for this destruction was the killing of a petty criminal drug addict by a Minneapolis cop.  Black Lives Matter and Antifa, both avowed Marxist organizations that fomented the riots, were never prosecuted or brought to task.  The leftist mob got away with it.

 Elements of this same left-wing mob defunded our police and installed “woke” prosecutors in our major cities that let repeating criminals “walk”, resulting in our current high crimes rates.  They continue to intimidate by violence any elements of government or society with whom they disagree.  Who can forget the “hatchet job” perpetrated on Judge Kavanaugh during his SCOTUS confirmation hearings?

 And now they’re back again.  Since Americans have begun to see Biden and the democrats for the destructive leftists they really are, and their popularity, even in the left-wing propagandist media has slipped, they had to do something.  What better issue that abortion?  So, they stole and leaked a draft SCOTUS ruling which discusses overturning “Roe vs Wade” and “Planned Parenthood vs Casey”.

 No fires in the streets yet, or graffiti on the SCOTUS columns (a chain link fence was quickly erected around the SCOTUS building), but the leftist mob has already called the six potentially pro-life Justices “extremists”, and threatened them, their families and their homes.  And they are getting away with it, just like they got away with their other assaults on our laws and society.    

 Any honest, rational person who has some perspective of history can see that this country has two different levels of justice; - one for the left wing and their abuses, and another for the right.  Whatever leftist extremists perpetrate is met with “ho-hums”, and “just peaceful protests”, whether destroying $2 billion worth of property, including federal property by Marxists agitators in support of a criminal junkie, intimidation of legislators and judges, or assaults on America itself.

 But just let the right wing try similar protests and demonstrate in the streets.  Condemnation by the hypocritical left is swift and severe.  Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 and the march on the capitol on January 6, 2021 are examples of right\wing demonstrations that turned violent like many left-wing riots in 2020.  There is a democrat run, January 6th committee trying to prove sedition and insurrection against the participants in the march on the capitol. There was almost universal condemnation by the media of the right-wing violence, and almost no mention of the violence and abuses of BLM, Antifa and other Marxists in the continuous riots during the summer of 2020.

 Not to condone any violence, but the disparity of how the right and left are treated in this country is beyond any modicum of fairness.

 Another example is how President Trump and Joe Biden are treated.  Trump, for all his foibles and combativeness, straightened the country out, at least before Covid hit, and was poised to bring it back economically.  He was tormented mercilessly and wrongfully by the left and impeached twice for trivial causes, once, after he had already left office.

 Who would not be combative in such circumstances?  Biden, who has literally ruined this country economically and culturally, has been treated with kid gloves, like a kindly old grandfather.  Politics aside, any honest person has to acknowledge the inequities perpetrated on the American people by the unscrupulous, “woke” leftists.

 Ray Gruszecki
May 6, 2022

Friday, April 29, 2022

Putin and ICBM’s

 

Putin and ICBM’s

 Not something that we think about every day, but when Putin “rattles his nukes”, he is not necessarily only talking about small battlefield weapons.

 Ultimate nuclear weapons are ICBM’s with multiple nuclear warheads (MIRV’s), that can destroy most of the major cities in a modest country with one launch.  And there are thousands of active ICBM’s in the world in countries such as the U.S., China, Russia, U.K., France, India, North Korea. 

 Clearly, there is still enough nuclear capability in the world to completely destroy our blue marble and kill everyone on it.

 Putin is being embarrassed by how poorly his vaunted Russian military have performed in light of the determined resistance the Ukrainians have mounted, using the billions of military aid that virtually the whole world has supplied to them.  Putin may not be mad, as some claim, but a wounded ego from military failure, exacerbated by crippling sanctions on Russia, and particularly on Putin and his fellow oligarchs, may cause him to react irrationally.

 https://www.military-today.com/missiles/intercontinental_ballistic_missiles.htm

https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-stooges-may-nuke-us-183813392.html

 Ray Gruszecki
April 29, 2022

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Twitter and 2020 Election

 

Twitter and 2020 Election

 Lest we forget, the media and big tech, notably Twitter, blocked news contained in Hunter Biden’s laptop, just before the 2020 election, that was damaging to Joe Biden.

 Four states, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, with 51 electoral votes and a paltry 125,469 popular votes, constituted Joe Biden’s miniscule margin of victory.  Trump would be president if the truth about the contents of Hunter’s laptop were known, which they would have been if Elon Musk had owned Twitter, and had applied the truly free speech that he promises.

 But for the suppression of the news, we would not be living in Biden’s dystopia, with runaway inflation, runaway crime, open borders, energy dependence and all of the other destructive elements of the Biden administration.  Also, does anyone think that Putin would have invaded Ukraine if Trump were president?

 The handing of the 2020 election to the incompetent Joe Biden by the collective suppression and manipulation of selected news has to be one of the most egregious wrongs perpetrated on this country by any political party.  I’m sure that this figured in Elon Musk’s decision to raise $44 billion to take control of Twitter and re-impose some modicum of free speech.  That it hit a raw leftist nerve is evident from their bleats and ranting and tirades against free speech and freedom of information.

 Ray Gruszecki
April 26, 2022

Monday, April 25, 2022

Elon Musk and Twitter Purchase

 

Elon Musk and Twitter Purchase

 Elon Musk is a South African, Canadian, U.S. American physicist, inventor and financier, who is the richest person in the world with a net worth of $220-280 billion, depending on stock prices.

 Although he refuses to label himself politically, and although he is mercurial, his actions over the long term indicate that he leans Libertarian.  He seems to be honest and a straight shooter.  He contributes to both political parties, and supports and offends both democrats and republicans equally.  He seems to seek and back the truth and free speech, a rarity in someone as wealthy as he is.

 Musk did not become the richest person in the world by making rash technological and business decisions.  He has successfully started and developed companies such as Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Neuralink, Zip2, OpenAI and Solar City.  Elon Musk is reminiscent of Thomas Edison for inventiveness and business acumen, and of Nicola Tesla for his technological creativity and benevolence toward humanity.  Musk’s naming his electric cars Tesla’s is no coincidence.

 Now he owns Twitter, and we laud him for his professions regarding free speech.  But as the old saying goes, “money talks and BS walks”.  Free speech or not, Musk obviously considers freeing Twitter from the shackles of left-wing censorship, a money-making proposition.  Musk obviously believes that the truth will sell and make money for Twitter/Musk.  Let’s hope he’s correct and he doesn’t end up flipping it.

 Ray Gruszecki
April 25. 2022

Elon Musk and Twitter

 

Elon Musk and Twitter

 Unbeknown to most, Google and Facebook own many of the popular U.S. based social media platforms.  Facebook owns WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram.  Google (Alphabet) owns YouTube. - Twitter, Telegram, Snapchat, Pinterest and Reddit have been independent.  Six major social media companies, including TikTok are own by Chinese interests.

 When modern social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook and others posit themselves as representing the digital world public square, they cannot degenerate into the private leftist fiefdoms of Jack Dorsey or Mark Zuckerberg.  They may be private companies, not subject to government freedom of speech laws, and unfairly protected by Section 230 of the “Communications Decency Act”, but they should be should be an open forum if they are to represent themselves as a “public square”.  

 To the chagrin of the left-leaning big tech algorithm makers that filter out non-leftist opinions, along comes unpredictable libertarian Elon Musk, with $44 billion, who promises to clean up Twitter’s algorithms.  Woe and alas, but all manner of pornography like truly balanced free speech in 140/280 characters will be allowed into Twitter to poison the minds of some of the sheep that write the “hard news”!

 This is a good article about why Twitter, which is relatively small in the panoply of the social media giants, is as important as Musk finds it.

 https://www.socialmediamagazine.org/twitter-powerful-influential-social-media-platforms-world/

 Ray Gruszecki
April 25, 2022

Sunday, April 17, 2022

More on Marxism/communism/socialism

 

More on Marxism/communism/socialism

 Marxism has been re-branded and re-packaged for American voters by the influential voices controlling the democratic party, as something new and wonderful without providing historical perspective.  These leftist influencers seem to have forgotten that Marxism has never succeeded without totalitarianism. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.

 Marxism/socialism/communism always starts out with dissatisfaction of the status quo, and with idealistic promises for the future. Everyone is entitled to “free stuff”, particularly those that are deemed to have been culturally denied in the past. This includes free health care, free abortion, free education and a myriad of other free social services, including a guaranteed job and at least a $15/hour minimum wage. Additional little fillips are “wealth taxes” on “the rich” and on successful corporations, reparations for minorities and forgiveness of college loan debt.

 How are these all to be paid for? Why, by increased taxation, of course, coupled with a redistribution of wealth from the capitalist “fat cats”. In other words, socialism proposes to penalize the wealthy innovators to provide “free stuff” to everybody else, including those who are idlers in society.  A favorite phrase of the socialists is that “the wealthy should pay their fair share”, forgetting that the wealthy have already paid the legally required taxes to get where they are.

 Obviously, all of this does not come naturally, so other rigorous means are necessary. It is absolutely essential to take the guns away and disarm everyone. Speech disagreeing with “politically correct” social justice mundanity must be curtailed and termed as fascist or “white supremist”. Laws against emigration and movement by wealthy people and companies need to be enacted.

 Stronger government and erosion/cancellation of individual and civil rights must lead the body politic toward totalitarianism and away from any remnants of democracy. These drastic measures are necessary because taxation can only go so far. Confiscation requires a strong, dictatorial government. Socialism, communism and fascism require a commitment to the use of force. You cannot decide what to do with the other guy’s money unless you are committed to use force to take that money from him. All socialist programs are mandatory and enforced by the government. This is the reality of socialism — a pseudo-religion grounded in pseudo-science and enforced by political tyranny.

 So, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see why socialism never works in the long term, and always leads to the Maduros, Stalins, Maos, Castros and other dictatorial butchers, and to the deaths of over 120 million of their own people in the 20th century. Alternatively, socialism/communism morphs into market-oriented dictatorships like China, Vietnam and Laos.

 And yet socialism is no longer a parlor game for academics but a political alternative taken seriously by millennials and other thinkers, who don’t recognize that much of what they enjoy in life is a result of free market capitalism and would disappear if socialism were to be implemented. We can maybe excuse some youngsters like AOC’s naiveté because of youth and inexperience. How do we excuse people like Bernie, Markey, Krugman, Reich and others who are Biden’s handlers, and should know better?

 The ravages of the Biden administration’s turn to Marxism are everywhere evident after 16 months in office. No elaboration is necessary.  All that is needed is a trip to the supermarket or gas station, or to read or hear the news about the next aberration or blunder by old Joe and his incompetent handlers.

 What has happened in this country since Biden was handed the presidency, (details for another time), is a resounding affirmation that the wide-eyed altruism promised by scratching the surface of socialism never works.  Marxism/communism/socialism needs totalitarianism, and not democracy to flourish.  Let’s hope that these idiots that are ruining the country can be thrown out in the mid-term election, and some degree of rationality and common sense returned to our government.

 Ray Gruszecki
April 17, 2022

Saturday, April 16, 2022

“The Passion of the Christ”

 

“The Passion of the Christ”

 I watched Mel Gibson’s magnum opus “The Passion of the Christ” again on Good Friday.  It’s not a pleasant movie to watch.  It tells the story of Jesus Christ’s death on the cross with brutal, cinematic honesty.  It draws accurately from all four of the synoptic gospels to portray 30 A.D. Roman-Hebrew politics and associated violence and brutality.  In spite of the controversies around its graphic depictions and claims of anti-Semitism, this movie should be seen by every Christian, not just charismatic Catholics like Mel Gibson.

 Only the Roman government had the authority to put Christ to death.  Christ was condemned to be crucified at the insistence of the Jewish Sanhedrin in face of original reluctance by the Roman Governor, Pontius Pilate, who was finally convinced, after “washing his hands”, and who ordered Christ flogged and crucified.  The Jewish insistence that Christ be crucified is an historical fact, and not some manufactured anti-Semitism.  But Rome gave the order, after insistence by the Sanhedrin.

 Mel Gibson could not get a major studio to finance the movie, so he invested $30 million of his own money.  Overall, Mel Gibson earned somewhere in the range of $400 – $475 million off “Passion of the Christ”.

 The movie was filmed in Italy, with mostly Italian actors, speaking ancient Aramaic, Latin and Hebrew.  Jim Caviezel, who played Christ, suffered a lightning strike, a dislocated shoulder, hypothermia and many bruises during the filming.  He needed two heart surgeries.  Being a devout Catholic, he says he would do it again.  And he might have to, since Mel Gibson is working on a sequel, - Jesus’ resurrection.

 Some references:

 https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-passion-of-the-christ-2004

 https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/celebrity/much-mel-gibson-make-off-passion-christ/

 https://www.today.com/popculture/caviezel-playing-christ-proved-be-challenge-wbna4297029

 Ray Gruszecki
April 16, 2022