Fox News Commits Ritual Suicide: What Can Be Done?

 

BUD LITE:  "I KNOW HOW TO DESTROY A WHOLE COMPANY."

FOX NEWS:  "HOLD MY BEER!"

Boys and girls once again we are witnessing successful conservatives shooting themselves in their collective foot. Though the news doesn't seem to have reached our three amigos at Bill Whittle dot com, Fox News just gave away it's cash cow, having "parted ways" with its news superstar, Tucker Carlson after surrendering to Dominion Voting Machines for 3/4 of a billion dollars and also refusing to pay Dan Bongino what he's worth.

What is it about conservatives that we fracture into insular subgroups and snipe at one another from behind rocks. What are we, Pharisees tearing at each other over the smallest deviation from perceived orthodoxy? Are we Sadducees preaching the gospel of "When you're dead that's all she wrote so godliness is determined by how much money you make." Are we Scribes - bureaucrats of the Temple of Conservatism, writing down everything to the vast confusion of the laity?

What I hope is that Fox had to pay Tucker through the nose to break him out of his contract and that Carlson can, as Rush Limbaugh did in his time, inspire a wave of collegiality and courage among fellow conservatives. Perhaps those news people and commentators among us could band together and create some kind of Conservative version of Netflix that incorporates Daily Wire, The Blaze, Bill Whittle, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingram, Dan Bongino, Mark Levin, Greg Gutfield and refugees from Fox. Hannity, Ingram, and company are going to suffer from the absent lead-in of Tucker Carson.

I wish we could create a combination conservative entertainment and news network that brings all the best conservative content together under a single paywall. Tucker Carlson would bring enough of a following with him to jump start a conservative version of Netflix or Amazon Prime or something like that.  Add on some of the more family oriented entertainment networks like Hallmark, Pureflix, Angel Studios and such and such a streaming service would bury the mainstream media in no time.

Ronald Reagan said that anybody that agrees with you 80% is a friend and ally. If conservatives took that advice to heart, we'd be unstoppable. As it is Revelation talks of an "image to the beast". It's beginning to look like the United States is working on carving out that image in support of a globalist socialist scheme.

To paraphrase Dylan Thomas, we must not go gentle into that rotten night. We must rage against the dying of the light that has for 2 and 1/2 centuries shined as a beacon of hope in a world ravaged by evil and hopelessness.

Tom King

Plastic Waste in the Ocean - The False Narrative

Four massive garbage scows leave New York headed out to sea.

I post this here with the full knowledge that had I posted it on Facebook, the Facebook Gestapo (FBG) would likely take it down and suspend my account. They are kind of sensitive about this sort of thing. This way I hope I can post the link and avoid being suspended again.  I checked the source of this chart and it's solid.

This link is to a Politifact article, that is often cited in the fact-check take-downs, claims that, though the numbers are real, it is missing some "nuance." They claim it was long ago (2010) and we've "probably" done a lot worse since then and/or did a lot worse before that and that much of the vast Chinese plastic waste "may" come from products manufactured in the United States. The article waffles a lot and Politifact claims there has to be more mismanaged waste in the ocean without evidence that there is. It also leaves out the fact that not only have we taken steps to reduce plastic waste, the pre-2010 plastic waste they worry about has come largely from Democrat run cities dumping their trash onto big barges and dumping it into the ocean rather than disposing of it sustainably. Even National Geographic, toeing the environmentalist's histrionic line claims the US is responsible for 20% of the world's waste, a dubious figure at best.

I don't see how the US can be blamed because China (which doesn't buy a lot of stuff from us in the first place) dumps US made plastic stuff in the ocean. Shredding and/or recycling it and/or burying it in landfills for future archaeologists to sift through works pretty well and from personal experience digging up buried plastic stuff, it breaks down a whole lot faster than the environmentalists claim it does.

While I agree, we shouldn't dump our plastic in the ocean on purpose, we shouldn't be held responsible for the rest of the planet's irresponsible habits. We've cleaned up our air, developed better ways to dispose of our trash and even forced ourselves to recycle, even though in many cases recycling turns out to be a scam. Remember who likes to run waste disposal companies (Guido, Salvatore, Tony, and guys like that). 

Instead of wringing your hands and making people feel guilty in order to manipulate them into giving up a little more control of their own life, why not fix the problem?  Start with the trash barges progressive coastal cities ship out to mid-ocean and scatter without concern for the environment. Why do those of us in the heartland have to pay for the sins of the coastal dwellers. If wealthy progressives want clean beaches in front of their oceanfront mansions, maybe they need to convince progressive cities to clean up their messes. 

Those of us who live inland have been figuring out ways to safely dispose of our garbage a long time before it became a political tool.

That's Not the Purpose..................Yet!

Beware the dreams of tyrants.

Recent movements by the Biden administration would move our economy from paper cash to all digital money. This would give government the ability to see every dollar we spent on anything at all. It would provide a means to track where we buy gas, where we buy food, what sort of entertainment we purchase, where we go on public transportation or even give the feds power to clean out our bank accounts altogether; in other words it would give government power over everyone's ability to buy and sell. That sounds eerily like something I read about in Revelation. But the kindly progressives, so concerned about our collective welfare, argue that the purpose of digitizing all money in the U.S. is not to control all these things...........at least not for now!

They claim it's not about restricting movement of Americans, for instance. At least not for now. But I can tell you from personal experience, I've sat in meetings in DC with progressives 20 years ago in which they fantasized about that very thing. The tracking technology that's possible with the digital ID does make that possible, whether they promise it won't or not. It's one of those deals where, "we have to pass the bill in order to find out what's in it."

The promoters of this level of government security, control and monitoring assure us that the whole idea is benign. You can trust us. We're the party of the people. Boy that ought to send a shiver up your spine. Just check out all the People's Republics in the world that are neither republics nor are for the benefit of the people. If you see the words People's, Democratic, or Republic in the name of a newly reorganized nation, count on that nation being a tyranny. Digital currency, digital ID and this sort of technology is a gateway to an all-powerful oppressive rule by a small group of tyrants. Bet on it.

Progressives two decades ago were dreaming about $10 a gallon gas (back when ten bucks was worth half what it is now). The idea was to "encourage" (here read "force") people to give up their cars and use public transportation by making it impossible for ordinary schlubs to own and operate a personal vehicle. They didn't have the capacity to create digital IDs back then, so they figured we'd all have to buy transit passes that could log our travel on some central computer every time we swiped one to get on and off trains or buses. One of the advantages they said was that law enforcement could more easily track "criminals". So what is the current definition of a "criminal". More to the point, what will that definition be tomorrow?

Back then, they dreamed of walled cities, not to keep people out, but to keep people inside; to keep them from spoiling "nature". The idea was you'd have to get permission from some government entity to visit nature outside the city walls. I was there at the symposium on transportation. I'm not making this up at all. It really creeped me out, especially seeing the gleam in the eyes of my progressive colleagues at the very idea of all that central monitoring. President Bush was in office at the time and one of the attendees suggested a motion to ban barbecue restaurants in Washington DC because so many had opened up since a Republican from Texas had come to occupy the White House. I'm not kidding. When they found out I was from Texas, conservative, and a male to boot, a bunch of angry feminists ganged up on me to tell me how awful I must be. The whole thing about forcing people to use public transportation exclusively was clearly driven by Marxist ideology. It is a control/monitoring tool they need to make old Karl's dream come true.

Digital technology is now capable of achieving that progressive pipe dream. Digital IDs and Digital currency gives the government the ability to strictly determine where you go, what you can buy, what you can sell and what you can do. That may not be the intent right now, but what about 10 years from now? Do we really want to create tools that provide government that sort of power? 

Don't get me wrong. I'm not a technology Luddite. I love my computer and the Internet. They are tools that allow me to exercise a great deal of freedom. That is, until government creates digital controls over the whole thing and digitizing our money would do just that. 

It wouldn't be the first time a plowshare was fashioned into a sword.

• Frank Herbert, author of Dune, once wrote, "It's not so much that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's that power attracts the corruptible."
  

Given the level of corruption in government these days, do we really want to hand them a stick to beat us into submission with, even if they promise not to use it............for now?

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