Category: Government (Page 13 of 13)

Republicans Shouldn’t be Allowed to Talk

Republicans Use Wokeism

Republicans Use Wokeism

Republicans have alighted on a strategy of decrying the dangers of “wokeism” and all things “woke” — catchall terms they have weaponized to include a host of liberal policies and positions they don’t like.

Leftists are angry that Republicans disagree with their cultural marxism, and would like to see any criticism automatically branded as sexist, racist, or otherwise beyond discussion.  The authoritarian impulse of the Leftists is blatant and disturbing.

Normal people think that the Leftists won’t win, but they so often do.  If a parent is disturbed that her daughter is changing in a locker room with an adult man sporting an erection, the parent is instantly dismissed as a hateful bigot.  If a female athlete, who has been training for years, doesn’t want to lose to a man, she is invited to resign from the team. 

Transgender politics is completely unreasonable, yet all criticism became taboo in a very short time.

Republicans and conservatives can’t be intimidated or timid when targeted for standing up for judging people by the content of their character, rather than their race.  Wokeism, cultural marxism, whatever one wants to call it, is divisive and authoritarian and must be resisted.  Ten years ago, no one would have thought that Canada would submit to tyranny so quickly.

 

If East Palestine was in Kyiv, rather than Ohio, it might get some attention.

Biden goes to Ukraine, seems like a normal politician thing to do, but one wonders if this is how the Vietnam War got started.  Biden should be talking about a resolution, but that never comes up.

This part seems odd.

“We did notify the Russians that President Biden would be traveling to Kyiv,” Sullivan told reporters Monday. “We did so some hours before his departure for de-confliction purposes.”

At some point, the East Palestine, Ohio train wreck catastrophe warrants some attention by national leaders.  Pete Buttigieg treats his appointment as the Secretary of Transportation as more of an honorary title. 

Balloons Aren’t Funny

Chinese Home-made Airship AS700 Conducts Test Flightmen,

Some media and politicians are taking a whimsical view of these high flying balloons.

The White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, confirmed that the administration does not believe aliens are involved. “There is no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns,” she said. 

NORAD should consider anything invading American airspace to be a threat.  We don’t now much about the Chinese balloon that was shot down after passing over much of the US, but we do know that the Chinese government lies like mad. 

I think it was a trial balloon.  The Chinese government wanted to see what we’d do and how seriously we would take the incursion.  Since they had attempted this three times during the Trump administration, and Pentagon officials didn’t even tell the president, the Chinese government expected not much of a reaction.

Reports say that NORAD radar has been upgraded, so the balloons are easier to detect.  Our spy satellites could certainly see them.  The military shouldn’t be wasting expensive ordinance on hobby balloons, but they should be alert and have procedures to intercept incursions into our airspace. 

This report Inside China’s Military Balloon Program is more informative than anything I’ve seen in the New York Times.

Eliminating Natural Gas in Homes

It isn’t often we can see an authoritarian government implement a sweeping change in how we live.

Currently, 40% of American homes have natural gas stoves.  In twenty years, that number will be smaller, and eventually, it will be unusual for a new home to even have natural gas available.

It starts with an interview in Bloomberg  CPSC To Consider Ban on Gas Stoves.  If that link doesn’t work, this link may be available.   The issue gets picked up by other media, softened up a little, and spread.

In case anyone missed it, this is just another wacky conspiracy dreamed up by the Republicans.

That is all that has to be done.   Now, your kitchen stove is a partisan issue.   Are you a Leftist, or do you want to kill your own kids?  Immediately, induction stove questions started showing up on the  Home Improvement forum on Reddit.   Over a dozen posts in a month.  This social media is used because it’s non-partisan and populated by people interested in home projects. 

Most people just want to live their lives without killing their own kids.  A few people will replace their gas stove with an electric model, celebrities will mention the issue, building codes be changed, and in twenty years, gas stoves will be old-fashioned. 

Eventually, running natural gas to new homes won’t seem worthwhile.  What’s the problem?

In our push for electric cars, nobody is talking about building more nuclear power plants.  It’s silly to imagine that solar panels and wind turbines will suffice.  Our electrical grid is shaky, and getting worse.  Electric water heaters, stoves and heating use a lot of power, and require a large backup generator to remain operational.  Most of those are powered by natural gas because the gasoline/alcohol mix we currently use deteriorates in a few months, gumming up the carburetors.

When you find yourself trapped at home because your electric car can’t be charged, and the temperature is dropping, nobody will think to blame Richard Trumka Jr, a commissioner at the CPSC.

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