Politics

[goldandblue]

That poor girl represents the vast majority on college campuses across the country,…. Our future leaders boys and girls

We are F'd....

 

[Rogue219]

Always has been. It's those mail in ballots that show up late that is the problem.

Too bad state legislatures can't determine when and how these ballots get counted.

 

[ACamp1900]

Yeah, miss Asian Lisa Loeb is the reason I have little faith we can stay a unified nation. If we can’t even agree what a man or woman is anymore,… I mean come on.

We are F'd....

 

[Rockin’Irish]

What happened to the “Follow the Science” mantra? Oh yeah, we only use mantras if it fits a narrative rather than when it is actually backed by factual science. DNA is a pretty good indicator of science at work. It can identify criminals, ethnic heritage, etc. but I guess it wouldn’t be a good tool on hashing out who has the ability to conceive and produce a child (in the absence of medical hardship).

 

[Irish#1]

Didn't you see Arnold in the movie Junior?

 

[Blazers46]

If there isn't a highly doctored Project Veritas video, is there actually voter fraud?

Until Jack Posobiec says there is voter fraud I won't believe it, he's very trustworthy with a strong track record. Release the kraken!

I enjoy project Veritas

 

[Bishop2b5]

The Archbishop of San Fransisco has barred Nancy Pelosi from receiving Communion because of her advocacy of abortion.

Pelosi banned from receiving communion in San Francisco archdiocese over her position on abortion | CNN Politics

The conservative archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may no longer receive the holy sacrament of Communion in the archdiocese, because she supports abortion rights.

www.cnn.com

In a letter to Pelosi released Friday afternoon, the archbishop wrote that he had informed the California Democrat that "should you not publically repudiate your advocacy for abortion 'rights' or else refrain from referring to your Catholic faith in public and receiving Holy Communion, I would have no choice but to make a declaration, in keeping with canon 915, that you are not to be admitted to Holy Communion."

"As you have not publically repudiated your position on abortion, and continue to refer to your Catholic faith in justifying your position and to receive Holy Communion, that time has now come," he continued. "Therefore, in light of my responsibility as the Archbishop of San Francisco to be 'concerned for all the Christian faithful entrusted to [my] care' (Code of Canon Law, can. 383, §1), by means of this communication I am hereby notifying you that you are not to present yourself for Holy Communion and, should you do so, you are not to be admitted to Holy Communion, until such time as you publically repudiate your advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and confess and receive absolution of this grave sin in the sacrament of Penance."

 

[ACamp1900]

20 years late,…

 

[Rogue219]

 

[Rogue219]

Not like the Catholic Church hasn’t gone out of its way to protect children in the past.

Pretty on brand.

 

[zelezo vlk]

It’s for her own good. Receiving the Eucharist unworthily is a grave sin. I hope Senator Pelosi sees the error of her ways here.


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[MacIrish75]

In other news, things are looking up. I just voted for Romney in this thread, so things should rebound in short order.

 

[ACamp1900]

It’s for her own good. Receiving the Eucharist unworthily is a grave sin. I hope Senator Pelosi sees the error of her ways here.


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[drayer54]

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Not like the Catholic Church hasn’t gone out of its way to protect children in the past.

Pretty on brand.

You want to have a discussion about the sexual orientation of the priests that were overwhelmingly responsible for that abuse?

Because the data is embarrassingly politically incorrect. If our bishops had the courage then to actually follow Church teaching on the subject, it never would have happened in the first place.

And kids are far less likely to be abused in a Catholic parish post-Dallas Charter than they are in an average public school, a BSA troop, etc. today. But don't let that get in the way of you taking a glib shot, on a Notre Dame FB message board, at a courageous bishop who is--finally-- following canon law and disciplining a public Catholic who has been creating a grave scandal for decades simply because it presents an optics problem for the Blue Team you apparently root for.

 

[Blazers46]

Well Project Veritas is bad so…. who cares.

 

[ulukinatme]

Weissman writes for Occupy Democrats. I would have thought his followers would have tipped the scales for AOC, and apparently so did he. This was in response to a similar poll that Elon did last week.

 

[ACamp1900]

honest to Goodness major respect for him owning it,… I’ve seen a lot of this stuff blow up in their face and they delete and move on, not missing a step.

 

[ulukinatme]

honest to Goodness major respect for him owning it,… I’ve seen a lot of this stuff blow up in their face and they delete and move on, not missing a step.

Truth. Right or left, I don't think there's many or any politicians I'm going to trust over...well, just about anyone to be quite frank. Do people really believe career con artists are trustworthy?

 

[Bishop2b5]

I'm going to stay as far away as possible from making this personal and attacking any of our friends from the other side of the aisle here at IE, but this article hits a lot of the points I've tried to make here in recent years and represents a lot of my own thoughts on the thinking of those on the Left. The vast majority of leftist positions and their arguments for those positions are all or almost all emotional in nature. "Don't you care???" or "People will die!" or "They're trying to take us back 200 years and put you in chains!" are just a few examples of some of the completely false, but emotionally charged replies that are common from the Left. There's a saying, "Conservatives choose their views to fit the facts. Liberals choose the facts that fit their views." A lack of rational and critical thinking, coupled with a strong sense that their feelings are more important than the truth is a major part of the Liberal/Left/Democrat/Woke mindset.

Virtually any argument or discussion you have with someone from the left side will come down to some sort of emotional appeal from them. I know our Leftist friends think they're right and their emotional beliefs are valid. Unfortunately, such a mindset makes them impervious to reason. It's like trying to prove that 3x3=9 to someone who thinks numbers should be whatever you want them to be.

An education was once meant to teach you HOW to think, not WHAT to think, let alone replace thinking with emotions. Of course, much of this was done intentionally. You can't easily fool people who think and demand evidence. You CAN easily fool those who are easily worked into a lather, easily scared, or are otherwise easy to manipulate emotionally.




This article does a much better job of explaining it than I can. The highlights are mine.

MSN

The unbearable rightness of being a Democrat​

Hugo Gurdon - May 10

Top Democrats keep emailing me to tell me how angry they are. They’re asking for money, and people apparently donate more if those seeking handouts are in a rage.

I mentioned recently that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) asked me for support on the grounds that she was made “sick to [her] stomach” by originalist Supreme Court justices moving to overturn the “constitutional right to abortion.”

Then, the "Ragin’ Cajun," Democratic operative James Carville, emailed me saying he was “furious.” That was his one-word headline. “I’m so damn angry,” he went on, “I can hardly type this message to you.”

A flunky doubtless typed it for him, which is an amusing irony but beside the point. The salient thing is that Col. Cueball, like Pelosi, thinks it’s persuasive that his feelings are running high. On the Left, anger is seen as self-justifying. Fury is its own excuse. If you’re throwing a fit, you must be right. Rage or nausea make your argument unassailable.

This exactly fits Allan Bloom’s landmark 1987 analysis The Closing of the American Mind. He saw that university leftism was dragging America into a sort of anti-rational imbecility that displaced reason with emotion, and he noted that “civilization or, to say the same thing, education, is the taming of the soul’s raw passions.” He added, “Indignation or rage was the vivid passion characterizing those in the grip of a new moral experience.”

These passionate militants graduated to run the Democratic Party and send me fundraising emails. There is an adamantine chain of causation between their emotional preening and the urge to violence that recently produced the firebombing of a pro-life/anti-abortion organization’s headquarters in Wisconsin. If you’re a left-winger, you can lob Molotov cocktails at people whose opinions you dislike and feel self-righteous about it.

Graffiti scrawled on the Wisconsin organization’s wall declared, “If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either.” The dauber doubtless justified his or her physical threat because, you know, he or she was really mad.

And why not? After all, rage supposedly justified a national orgy of destruction two years ago after the police murder of a black man, George Floyd. And, just this past week, President Joe Biden’s White House took days to stop making excuses for mobs attempting to intimidate conservative justices outside their homes. Initially, press secretary Jen Psaki refused repeatedly to condemn it, saying, “The president’s view is that there is a lot of passion, a lot of fear, a lot of sadness … about that leaked document.”

Passion, fear, sadness — emotions rather than reasons. With a veneer of excusable emotion, the Left uses violence again and again to get its way. This is right out of Saul Alinsky’s militant handbook Rules for Radicals, which inspired Hillary Clinton’s university thesis and has now been absorbed into the Democrats’ DNA.

The Madison, Wisconsin, police chief responded to the arson by intoning the piety, “There is no room for hate or violence in Madison.” But it’s not true. There is plenty of room. The Left has for generations opened a wide space in which its adherents may indulge their hate and inflict their violence. The wide-open space is all of America.

So, when the Senate passes a bill to boost security for Supreme Court justices, as it did unanimously on May 9, don’t be fooled into thinking that Democrats oppose physical threats in principle. If they did, it wouldn’t take them longer than 72 hours to work out what they believe. It betrays the fact that their objection to mob rule is entirely circumstantial.

Why did they eventually get there? Because they realized that it might kill them in the midterm elections six months away. They loved the Floyd riots two years ago until they didn’t. Spikes in violent crime turned out to be unpopular: Virginia voters threw out their Democratic governor, and they’re chopping Democrats off at the knees in polls as elections hove into view.

The polls show, one hopes, that the public is at least for now seeing Democrats for what they are — a party led by ancient radicals who encourage their base to threaten opponents, stoke fear, and visit violence on those who get in their way. Occasional pious statements about the need for peaceful protest are unconvincing from such a source, and the electorate is, appropriately, unconvinced.

The truth is coming home that they’re not right simply because they’re angry. Their anger is due to the fact that the majority knows they’re wrong.

 

[ACamp1900]

Yep I lived it myself,… heavily emotional and frankly narcissistic. ‘ I fight for x because fighting for x makes me feel like a better person than you because you don’t fight for x’… even if the targeted person does, just not in the same way. At least that’s my take. Perspectives are always very specific in fairness… but,…

There are actual SNL level archetypes of that in this very thread, however getting them to see it is beyond my human ability. I gave up shortly after my walk from the left almost twenty years ago now.

 

[Rockin’Irish]

Great article Bishop, thanks for posting it!!!

 

[drayer54]

Pelosi’s Porsche has put more people in danger than my AR-15. Paul Pelosi, husband of Nancy Pelosi, arrested on suspicion of DUI after crash in Napa County

82 years old and he found a crime the police their will actually enforce.

 

[Sea Turtle]

Pelosi’s Porsche has put more people in danger than my AR-15. Paul Pelosi, husband of Nancy Pelosi, arrested on suspicion of DUI after crash in Napa County

82 years old and he found a crime the police their will actually enforce.

I wonder if they'll ever find out who took a crap on her desk and if it will be covered during the 6 day televised hearings this summer?

 

[Blazers46]

I wonder if they'll ever find out who took a crap on her desk and if it will be covered during the 6 day televised hearings this summer?

Amber Heard… duh.

 

[ACamp1900]

Amber Heard… duh.

Amber Heard is Corn Pop confirmed

 

[Irish#1]

Amber Heard is Corn Pop confirmed

And after the trial is over there will still be some dumbass out there that is stupid enough to hook up with her.

 

[ulukinatme]

And after the trial is over there will still be some dumbass out there that is stupid enough to hook up with her.

Hey, could always knock her up and be livin' the sweet life...outside of the verbal, physical, and mental abuse of course!

 

[drayer54]

Glad the ACLU is getting further exposed as a scam operation.

 

[Bishop2b5]

The Biden Justice Department’s Shameful Pandering to Bomb-Throwing Rioters

The Biden Justice Department’s Shameful Pandering to Bomb-Throwing Rioters


The foundational duty of government is to maintain public safety and order, without which neither liberty nor prosperity is possible. The dramatic story of the summer of 2020 was the outbreak of riots and protests following the murder of George Floyd. More than a dozen people were killed and a billion or more dollars in damages were caused, including the destruction of many businesses. This cried out for a vigorous response.


Instead, apparently viewing the cause as a righteous one, Democratic prosecutors at the federal, state, and local levels have been scandalously soft on the many crimes committed in the course of those riots and protests. Large numbers of offenders were let off scot-free by progressive prosecutors; even those whose crimes caused death have been given sentences no longer than ten years. In so doing, the progressive district attorneys and the Justice Department have imperiled public safety in our cities and undermined public confidence in the even-handed administration of law .It is unsurprising that urban crime and violence have spiked in many cities after the law failed to restore order or punish criminality.


The Biden administration has just added to this shameful spectacle by retroactively reducing the plea-bargained sentence in one of the most high-profile of those crimes, in which two white-shoe lawyers in Brooklyn threw a Molotov cocktail into a police car.


Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman were well-compensated attorneys in their early thirties when they joined the protesting mob in May 2020. Rahman was caught on tape throwing the firebomb into an unoccupied police car, and Mattis was arrested with more such improvised explosives in his car and was videotaped trying to hand them out to others. These are gravely serious crimes, more so than those committed by all but a tiny handful (at most) of the people charged in connection with January 6. An unapologetic Rahman told reporters later, “The only way they hear us is through violence.”


Mattis and Rahman pleaded guilty last year to one count of possessing and making an explosive device, a charge carrying up to ten years in prison. Both of them will quite properly be disbarred. Federal prosecutors sought to charge them with still more serious offenses for distribution but, in a shocking reversal, have now agreed to recommend a prison sentence of 18 to 24 months for charges carrying a maximum of five years. Even for a Justice Department that has bent over backwards to be lenient towards left-wing protesters while throwing the book at right-wing protesters, a retreat from a previous plea agreement is a dramatic display of favoritism for left-wing political violence.


Merrick Garland is right to make examples of those who rioted at the Capitol on January 6, and right to pursue genuinely violent right-wing extremism. Riots and violence originating on the political right should be met with a firm hand. But he and big-city progressive prosecutors have badly undermined the public legitimacy of those prosecutions by refusing to take the same approach to their own side. Justice that plays political favorites is not justice at all.