For every new administration, it is important that the team is firing on all cylinders from the moment the president takes the oath of office.
This time around however it becomes far more important. Consider the working factors involved.
The president has a strong majority in both the house and the Senate. This of itself might be important in other years, but this year that’s a bit of a question mark because of the number of establishment Republicans amongst long-term Republican seat holders.
There is, however, a rather important factor which has not been lost on anyone watching the high level Democrats in burning in the news. The circular firing squad that is the Democratic party of the moment gives the president and his team serious advantages not to be had at any other point during the electoral cycle. They need to jump on this in a real hurry before they get their act together.
Edtor’s note:
For over 20 years now, I’ve found my inbox filled with messages from longtime readers who wonder if I’m going to be re-posting “A Bithead’s Christmas”, and begging me to do so.
As I believe I’ve told you in previous years, I get more email about this one single post, these 2900 or so words, than I have about anything else written here. And it happens every single year. Either this one post is particularly good, or the rest of it is comparatively bad. You’ll forgive me if in my vanity, I believe the former. I take that they’re using Email, instead of simply leaving comments, to mean that I’ve struck a very personal and private nerve. Touching people in that fashion is a very rare thing, and one I take very seriously, so the answer to the question is “Yes, of course I’ll run it again”.
Understand going in, it may not be politically correct. I seek no absolution, no forgiveness, for it’s being overtly Christian in nature, any more than I seek absolution or forgiveness for anything else that I put into these spaces. It is what it is, because Christmas is what it is, and because I speak my mind on the topic at hand, whatever that is.
Christmas, and thereby, Christianity itself, has been going on for a little over 2000 years, in spite of all the naysayers, protesters and government regulations that history has managed to toss up in those 2000- plus years. It does so, because at the core of it all, is a message…….. a message that all the naysayers, protesters and government hacks will never understand, much less conquer. It is a message that will survive the ravages of time, government, and liberals, fascists, and anything and everything else, long after you and I are no longer even a memory in this world. The Christmas message, you see, is eternal, and ever green.
(Evergreen. I am suddenly struck with the symbolism here)There is something of a journalistic precedent for this as well. . . I do not pretend to hold myself quite so high in the world as these media outlets who have such traditions as “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”… but they’ve been getting away with such things for well over 100 years, so I suppose I can get away with it, here.
One of the things that man has always found fascinating about the Christmas story, is that you can reread it all your life, and every time you reread it, you find a new truth buried within it, so perhaps that’s WHY we get away with repeating such stories. It’s perhaps where such traditions come from.
So with all this in mind, and with the hope of helping you find new meaning in this season… and peace… a personal peace… in these troubled times, I will offer once again this year:
A Bithead’s Christmas
I find myself wanting to take more seriously, the challenge of writing to the subject of Christmas, today, than I have in years past. It’s not clear in my mind as to why, but this isn’t unusual… I never really do have a firm grip on why I want to attack a subject in these spaces. In fact, the writing of a coulmn for me has becomes more an effort of exploring a subject; the codification of random thoughts. The act of putting those thoughts into words on a screen allows me to think about, and RE-think about the subject at hand. My thoughts on a given subject often do not fully take shape until such time as I’ve re-written them twice. Often, indeed… usually, the ideas are already there, waiting to be cast into words, but not fully defined until the act of sitting down and typing them out. I suppose this subject is no exception.To this effort, some blogs, this time of year will quote the great Gospels of Christ’s arrival, and expound on that. And that’s worthy, and right. Some others will take the secular angle of the holiday and go off on that. That too, is fine, though frankly it’s always for me missed the core of the topic, a little.But not me, for either of those tacks. Not this year. I’m going to go off the beaten path, for this post, at least in context of this blog, given it’s Christmas, and off the beaten path in terms of the Liturgical calendar, given it’s me. I’m going to stick with the meaning of Christmas, but to point it up, I’m going to turn to something a little later… about 30 years later… for my subject. I trust you’ll see why when I’m done.This story is in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. We’ll use Luke’s version for the purpose.
In Luke 18 it reads:
15 Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them; and when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. 16 But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God. 17 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
Now, all three versions add a little something to the story, and I suggest you read them yourself to get it all.
Most times that Christians hear this text or read it, a child is being baptized. The apparently intended thrust of reading it in those situations is to make a loose connection with the Children being accepted by Christ. And, that’s a valid angle for the story. But, think about the story line, here, so you can get the flavor of what I’m going to describe to you. There’s a far bigger angle that many miss.
See, Christ has been playing “superstar” for a while, now. He’s been attracting flat out huge crowds wherever he goes. The disciples are starting to become concerned for the (human) well being of Christ. Children are, then as now, a source of some stress to adults already under stress, so the disciples decide, wordlessly to give the Lord a break. But Jesus says.. “Hey… No.. Let ’em come… It’s OK. ”
Apparently, seeing some remaining resistance in their eyes, he reinforces the command with a statement that must have shaken them badly. “It’s to the likes of these as belongs the Kingdom of God.”
Now, It’s not hard for us to imagine what’s going on in the minds of the disciples…. They must have felt a little put back… While not saying so, they must have figured they had an inside track to Heaven. (Shrug) It’s human nature.
The passages don’t record if they said anything, but you just know what they’re thinking, here… “Comon, Jesus… We’re tryin’ to give you a break here! And you elevate these lowest of low, mere children, into the ownership of heaven? You raise a polite nothing to a path to heaven and eternity? What’s THAT about?”And you know, Jesus knows it too. He knows full well what they’re thinking, because watch what he comes back with: “I’ll tell you the truth;”, he says, “Unless you change… Unless you transform, and accept the kingdom of heaven like a child, you’ll never enter it.”
But what does he mean, here? He’s talking, I’m afraid, about how you lose touch with happiness and the sense of wonder, as you become an adult. That loss prevents us from seeing the Kingdom of heaven as it is.
For most of us, the happiest times of our lives was when we were children. When we’re younger, we have less in the way of cares, and troubles. Let’s admit, too, that as we get older, we become aware of, and allow more and more sadness into our lives.It’s true; It’s a hard world out there, and being adults we’ve come to understand this, in a way of understanding that only long exposure and experience… and lots of scar tissue, can bring.It seems that every year we have more worries and concerns.
Oh, yeah, do we EVER worry. We worry about our health, and those concerns increase with advancing age. We worry about our jobs, about our investments, our savings, about the future in general. Retirement is a concern. Will we have enough? We’re too fat, we’re too skinny.
We’re too tall, we’re too short, our once wavy hair is still waving… Only, it’s waving bye-bye. We worry about the future our kids will have and the normal growing up problems, but we also worry about the future that we’ve left our kids. We look at the news, and we wonder what kind of a world have we left them? We even worry if we worry too much.We’ve seen marriages and relationships we thought would pass the test of time, pass away, instead. Things we had hoped would come to pass, didn’t, and those we’d not dreamed, in our wildest nightmares would happen, did. We see loved ones die. Jobs disappear. Hearts get broken.
And friends, those are just the hum-drum… The everyday worries that every generation has had, since Cain bopped his brother’s bean with a rock. Then you get into the problems particular to us and our times; AIDS, oil shortages, cancer, drugs, the way our own technology seems to be spiraling out of our control…
And Islamofacists.
Ah, yes, there’s nothing at all, to my mind, like the specter of 3000 plus people dying on national television, in Washington, NY and Pennsylvania… while we watch, to remind us that we’re not in control.And yes…. it’s all about control, if you think on it for long. All these things I’ve listed are worries about things we cannot control, try as we might.
The list of these reverses, these scars, gets longer as the years progress, and it starts eventually, to break down the positive outlook in every one of us… Each according to their ability to resist. Each step, each worry, each bit of emotional scar tissue, if you will, moves us farther away from the relative joy of our comparatively carefree childhood.
By now the sharper among you will notice where I’m going with this; This is where Christmas comes in. This is why Christmas holds a special place in our hearts, and our traditions.
You see, even for the not-so-religious, it is a time of renewal of our fragile human spirit. All of the hurts, small and large, become less pronounced, and fade under the soft glow of the lights, the candles, the fireplace, and the smile of the children.
Have you ever noticed that it’s the children, in fact, that do us the most healing? Christmas, it’s said, is for the children. Presidential speechwriter and WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan noted recently about some of the qualities of children:
“They are susceptible to wonder. A child can look at a red toy car in the red-green glow of Christmas tree lights and imagine an entire lifetime.
A child can play with a new doll and smell good things being cooked and hear sweet music and it can make that child imagine that life is good, which gives her a template for good, a category for good; it helps her know good exists. This knowledge comes in handy in life; those who do not receive it, one way or another, are sadder than those who do.”
Of course, we move away from that ability as we grow older. Our long experience has hardened us to the realities of the world around us, and perhaps jaded our point of view. But here comes Christmas, which gives us, individually and collectively, the chance of looking at the world through the wonder-filled eyes of a child once again… Becoming childlike ourselves in the process, and becoming healed and renewed.
The experience is a far deeper one for those who have accepted the Christmas promise, and it’s meaning. Reacting to that promise includes allowing someone else to run the controls of our lives. Remember I said it was all about control? Well, I want you to think about the features of being a child.
It was Randall Jarrell, I think, who once quipped:
“One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.”
Well, let’s remember.
You’re NOT in control of much of anything. Someone who knows better, and is by far more powerful than we, is running things. And looking back, I’m sure most of us would conclude that having that situation back would be of comfort to us. Haven’t we all wished to resign from the world of adulthood at times?
I guess this would be a good place to slip in a parallel story.
Consider the fictional person of Ebeneezer Scrooge. Think about how the story develops;
He’s had some serious emotional setbacks in early life… and those have become a self-feeding, never ending circle by the time we meet him, 7 years after his best friend’s death.
All these setbacks have made him cold, and hard, and for all outward appearances, non-feeling. He’s covered with emotional scar tissue. Being hard, is his way of dealing with what he cannot control.
Only after his overnight experience do all these cares get swept away, along with his anger of not being able to control his situation…. The realization comes to him that he never really WAS in control in the first place, so stop fretting about it all… Think about what are essentially the first words out of his mouth as he realizes that the weight of his worries.. Not unlike worries you and I have had, are gone;
“I’m as light as a feather….” The weight of that scar tissue… And all the concerns they represent having been lifted off his shoulders…
“…and as giddy as a Schoolboy!”
Like.
A.
Child.
“I’ll tell you the truth”, he said, “Unless you change.. Unless you transform, and accept the kingdom of heaven like a child, you’ll never enter it.”
Amazing parallels, aren’t they?
I’m reliably informed that Charles Dickens was not as a rule what one would call very religious. Yet, in looking at the parallels in these two story lines, I must wonder in all honesty if he didn’t have some help with “A Christmas Carol”.
Now, you’ll notice I took some liberty with the way the Biblical text was quoted. Some liberty, I say, but not very much, really, since it’s long been pointed out by Bible scholars that the word that earlier versions of the text had as ‘change’ were really translated from the ancient Greek word for “transform”.
This is a major point, because it demonstrates what the first step is, and whose it is… yours.
And no, change and transformation are not the same thing. The best description I’ve ever thought of to explain the difference between the two, runs along these lines:If I take a rock, and in the other hand I take a large hammer, and I hit the rock with the hammer, and break it, I’ve changed that rock. If I take that same rock, and take a small hammer and chisel, and very carefully, perhaps over a period of decades, sculpt that rock into a flower, I’ve still merely changed that rock.
Transformation, on the other hand, is when the rock itself, as a matter of responding to it’s own will, becomes a flower. And of course that’s beyond the normal power of the rock, by any standard we know.
What Christ therefore is saying is, that we must become children, as of a matter of our own will. Which is, as I say, impossible by any standard we know…. Which in turn leads us to the source of all things, who teaches us how, and gives us the power to do it.
You see, the externalities I mentioned, the lights, the fire, the children…and that which Dickens writes of… the giving, the being open to what joys are around us, and so on, helps toward the goal of understanding the Christmas promise, but it’s not the whole deal.
At the core of it all… (and this is a connection that, alas, many people never make…) is that the one whose birth is being celebrated every December the 25th, is the one who takes over that long list of worries. But understand, here…THAT’S WHY WE CELEBRATE!!
With those worries removed, lives get changed, hearts mended, child-like perspectives restored in a way that the lights, carols and greenery can never do on their own. And the newly remade Children find that the authority and responsibility and all the ponderous weight connected with them, are taken away by the one who said “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me”.
Now, I must warn you; There are those who will resist being told all of this… to the point of removing such joy as they find, wherever they may find it, often using the power of governments, and force of arms to have it removed from town squares and schools, mocking, persecuting and yes, even killing those responsible for the spreading of the news of this miracle.
It’s a sad truth, that a world used to darkness, you see, will continually fight to see the darkness continued.
That warning given, however, I will say to you also, that it’s no accident, Christmas being called the season of light, and that Christ is called the light of the world.
If I have one wish for this Christmas, it is that you will be open to the light…. With the wondering eyes of a child.
Well, this doesn’t come as anything of a surprise.
The problem with that whole scenario was that instead of believing the science, we believed the scientists. We somehow believed collectively, that the white lab coat shielded one from greed and averice, and the need to feel powerful.
As I’ve said before, bring me the head of Anthony Fauci.
By the way, if Behind The Black isn’t on your daily reading list, it should be.
“Joe Biden” was just a name on the ballot, served up because, as of 2020, he had wide name recognition but not a far-left image. A perfect combination! And one that did not require him to do anything at all, once in office. A vote for Biden was simply a vote for things as they were: a government trending always to the left, with trillions of dollars being dispensed by a benign bureaucracy–the real power in America, the fourth branch that is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution.
I think this narrative helps to explain why Democrats are so horrified at the prospect of a Trump presidency. Trump, a real, non-senile president? A president with a mandate from the voters to bring about important changes? A president who will re-assert control over the “fourth branch”? A president who won’t be a pawn in the hands of Washington insiders? A president who actually understands and carries out his duties under Article II? A president capable of standing up to the Washington establishment?
This is what passes for revolutionary change in our late-stage republic.
Indeed so John, and well said.
The obvious problems with the Biden administration and particularly with the incapacity of Biden himself, was the reason behind the illegalities, outright fraud and protectionism that was demonstrated by the Democrats and their lackeys in the mainstream media, for the last five years, now.
All of this resulted in the Democrats being handed their backsides in the most recent election. The fourth branch, otherwise known as the deep state, or if you prefer, the swamp, fully exposed itself during the Biden administration.
This resulted in Donald Trump being the first Republican nominee to beat two Democrat candidates in the same election, despite the news media and the pollsters saying that the election was a close one (and therein trying to create their own reality… and thus exposing themselves even further).
It’s going to be quite a while before any of them are seriously listened to again, by the majority of Americans. Oh, there will always be hangers on, people too emotionally invested in keeping the Democrats afloat. But their numbers will be comfortably low for at least a few election cycles.
A great thing, that…
Then, too, let’s consider the individuals identified administration thought were in fact qualified:
Let’s break this one down.
A cabinet post does not mean by any stretch of anyone’s imagination that one needs to have serious experience directly relatable to the department which one overseas. A cabinet position does not mean that they are going to be running the day-to-day operations of their departments. That’s not their job.
Presidential cabinet members are there to ensure that the policies of the duly elected president are carried out. That’s it. No more, no less.
The Democrats would have us limited to people of supposed expertise, (are those of political convenience) but the fact of the matter is the tyranny of expertise has not served us well at all, and neither has political convenience.
I submit to you that the current method of selecting cabinet positions has led, for example, to the direct pipeline of people from Goldman Sachs to the US Treasury and the back again. The results on our economy of that pipeline have been anything but laudable.
Similarly, we’ve ended up with supposed experts from Bristol Myers AstraZeneca, etc hip deep in the doings of the FDA. The mishandling of covid should be considered a clear demonstration of the value of that pipeline.
The reason that the Democrats are scrambling trying to prevent these nominees from being confirmed, simply put, is that they will actually do their job, making sure that the president’s policies are carried out. That, my friends, is their worst fear.
It’s also important to recognize that to a man, every one of Trump’s cabinet appointees have had their rights abused by the very agencies that they are appointed to oversee. That is probably the most important factor of all in this.
First off, it demonstrates just how far to the left AOC is. I mean, where is there to go when you’re too far left for Nancy Pelosi?
It also shows that Pelosi, for all of her faults, has begun to realize just how dearly having AOC in their caucus has cost the Democrats.
Pelosi has never been comfortable around AOC. I have had several reports over the years that whenever the two interacted, Pelosi was seen drinking more lunch than usual.
Now that AOC has gotten a little taste of power, she appears to be thinking that she stands a chance at the Democrat party leadership in the house. After all, Pelosi is not going to be around much longer, however you slice it.
That said, given the current mood of the country as regards the Democrats she may be in the Democrat leadership but she’s never going to be speaker. Thank God for small favors.
Scott Jennings writes:
“Inflation is transitory. Afghanistan is a success.
The border is secure.
Robert Hur is a liar.
The videos are cheap fakes.
Biden has a cold.
He’ll never drop out.
Oh, I’ll never pardon Hunter.”
And here’s the thing, if I’m right in what I said this morning about the majority of the people being pardoned by Biden being chosen not by Biden but by his surrogates, then we still have a problem going forward even after Biden is out of the White House.
Watch the video and then I’ll have something to add.
Okay, now that you’ve seen the vid and heard what Dennis had to say, I have one thing to add.
Postulate the Middle East without Israel. Let’s Make Believe for just a moment that Israel does not exist. Does anyone seriously believe that the region would be peaceful?
The fact of the matter is that the problem has always been the cultural influence of Islam.
It should come as no surprise that among the nearly 1,500 individuals
whose sentences Biden commuted last week were at least three Democratic
politicians and several public officials, including a disgraced former
judge infamous for orchestrating a scheme that sent thousands of
children to jail in exchange for kickbacks, according to a report by The Daily Caller.
To begin with, I am completely unconvinced that Biden has the mental capacity to be creating such a list of people. Indeed, what we have seen of his mental decline in public begs the question, did he even know what he was signing.
One is reminded of Henry Blake and Radar O’Reilly
“Sign this, sir.*
” What is this I’m signing, Radar?”
“Oh, you’re not supposed to know sir. Top secret.”
All of which translates to the idea that the list of people who got the get out of jail free card, were on lists created by by his fellow Democrats, within the Democrat establishment.
Such is the legacy of Joe Biden, but more, this is today’s Democrat party. It is situation that needs to be investigated by congressional oversight, and seriously considered at the next election.
And by the way, this is not unprecedented. I would urge you to, in the search engine of your choice, do a little investigation into “operation wetback”.
That’s a good thing to see, but what we really need to see, and I emphasize the word need, is jail time being passed out to the participants. Including, and especially, the people directing that operation.
Meanwhile, hey Steve, Welcome to the party pal.
This guy only posts alerts and many folks don’t think he’s credible. But I thought it was important to share. Scary if true. I haven’t verified anything to get it out quickly.
Well, that’s interesting. But I am unconvinced that this is a major concern at this point.
First, as Linda indicates the guy is something of an alarmist, and always has been. I’ve never posted anything on this blog from this guy before, and I expect it’ll be the last time. I also expect he’s simply trying to generate traffic on his channel. I find it difficult to take him seriously…. But let’s go with what we have for the sake of discussion.
Most of you know that I’m an amateur radio operator and have been for years. The technology to send messages via “waterfall” have been part of amateur radio for a long time, a couple of years at least. I can send that kind of message myself. It’s not hard at all, nor is it complex these days. Sending such messages a couple of years ago was something of a fad. Birthday greetings, call signs, things like that. All legal,
As little as 20 years ago it would have been difficult to send, much less receive, (20 years ago very very few radios had waterfall displays) but with modern radios and computer control, no big deal.
Indeed, today, there’s only a couple of zillion transmitters that are capable of transmitting on those Russian frequencies, with only slight alteration.
Where the scenario this guy is pitching falls down, however, is where in the blazes would he get information about large amounts of encrypted data being sent to US commanders in the field?
First of all, the usual circuit involves VHF and UHF to satellites, very low power, very high speed, encrypted, and sent and received with very directional antennas. These are not likely to be able to be monitored in the manner he’s suggesting, encrypted or no.
Secondly, even in the (rather unlikely) event that the signals from the Pentagon through satellites to commanders in the field could be received by people other than the intended targets, it’s pure speculation to suggest that the data being sent to commanders in the field at this point is in response to the message he shows us. The messages are encrypted as he says so how would he know what was in them? Fact is, he doesn’t.
That aside, there are other questions, too.
For example, if it’s the Russians targeting the Ukrainians or the Ukrainians targeting the Russians why would the message be in English?
My expectation is that with the length of time to generate the signal we see in the video, our military would have plenty of time to triangulate it. They know pretty well already, where it came from.
Was the message generated, or sanctioned by either government? I have my doubts.
Frankly the only thing that gives me pause about any of this, is the current state of the White House. Consider, that any of the bad actors, if they really intended on making some kind of a major move, China, Russia, Iran etc, they would make it before January 20th. I mean, can you possibly imagine a White House more ill-prepared for such doing, than the one we have for the next month?
That said, I have my doubts that’s what this is. The most likely scenario to my mind, my awis some Ukrainian individual trying to tweak the Russian brass a little. There are many Ukrainian amateurs who have had the capability of sending such messages. We’ve seen it before.
The second most likely is some third party who isn’t even involved in that area sticking their nose in.
Either way, the original message, the subject of the video, most likely did not come with the sanction of any government.
All that said, I will reiterate that we should not underestimate the importance of the fact that the message was sent in English not in Russian not a Ukrainian and not in say, Chinese. I regard the message as a deliberate attempt to create a reaction on the part of the West. The US, Great Britain and so on.
I’m unable to speculate further without more data, which does not seem to me likely in coming.
“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f–k things up.”
It’s to the point now where the Joe Biden Presidential library might never be built. Is somebody going to pay a million dollars for the privilege of hearing him Mumble through a less than coherent speech?
He certainly not going to get any money from the party, which now finds itself millions of dollars in debt as a result of Kamala Harris, the Obama choice for Biden’s replacement, blowing through a record breaking billion dollars and then going even beyond that, to leave the party of financial shambles. So, no money from there.
The Democrat donor class, frustrated with how things have gone have also tightened the purse strings. So no money from there either.
Short version, the party is dead broke, and it’s prospects of a fast financial recovery are nonexistent.
As a result of all of this, I would suggest that the days of Obama holding the reins of the party are over.
Thing is, who is it ready to stand forward to replace him? At the moment, the answer is nobody. So the result of the one two punch of 4 years of what can only be called a failed administration, and all of the extreme left nonsense surrounding it have left the party in disarray.
So what’s left for them now? Not much, really. Even with the true believers, there is a realization beginning to happen. The understanding is starting to form that Trump’s Landslide occurred with the help of a goodly number of previously Democrat voters. The understanding that so much of what the extreme left has always been promulgating as virtues, we’re actually liabilities. The recognition that their problems did not involve not screaming “Trump as Hitler” loud enough.
Solutions to problems required that the problem itself be properly identified. That’s pretty basic. The problems for the Democrat party started back in 2016 which was about the time they started allowing the crazies to take over. That bubble kept growing until election day 2024 when it finally popped. The crazies, of course, will never get the message that was sent by the millions of Democratic party voters who crossed the line and voted for Trump.
It’s the party is to survive at all, they’re going to have to get the idea that there is a reason why so many rank and file Democrats decided that Trump, who the Democrat leadership deemed so inferior, was in fact a better deal for this country and its people.
The open question at this point is whether or not they will have the courage and the integrity to look in the mirror so the answer to the question of who is to blame for all of this.
I doubt it.
After watching this vid from Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, is a rare event where he got something right and not nearly politically correct, I begin to believe that anything is possible.
I am driven by these events and these comments to ask if the shooting and the left at their reaction to that shooting ….celebration instead of condemnation…. is a tacit admission that Obamacare is an abject failure?
I have to further wonder if the shooting of leftist politicians will soon follow? You know, the ones that were pushing Obamacare to begin with.
I suggest that if not, the pretext for the shooting is well off base to begin with even from a purely logical standpoint, and certainly from a moral standpoint.
Anyone with a couple of brain cells to rub together would look at the situation and recognize that this killing has done the liberal agenda no favors. Absent supportive reaction from the usual suspects, it would have been regarded as a lone wolf, and independent crazy, and that would have been the end of it.
However, the celebratory reaction from the left on social media is indicative of just how whack job the left has gotten, and if you think the American voter, the American people don’t understand that, try again.
This and the left’s reaction to it will I believe cause a gag reflex in the American voter. They will remember this in the next several elections.
Let’s be perfectly clear, here… The problems that we face with a healthcare system today are a direct result of the influence and interference of government in the healthcare process.
If we properly identify the source of the problem, does that mean that politicians are going to be receiving bullets for Christmas?
Say what you will, but not only was both the act of the killing immoral, but so too was the celebratory reaction. But more, when you properly identify the source of the problem, which is government, The killing doesn’t even make any logical sense, much less moral sense.
As a side note, this case at least in part is going to fall under the jurisdiction of SDNY. It’ll be interesting to see how that plays out.
Addendum;Per Yahoo News:
In one social media post, he [The CEO killer] said he used to get “bummed out” in maths class because “all the low hanging fruit has been solved before I was born”.
He added that he was now grateful for his “21st century education” and he would focus on issues including “evolutionary psychology, primitive neuroscience, and information networks”.
After becoming valedictorian of his 2016 high school class at Gilman School in Baltimore, which costs around $40,000 a year, Mr Mangione went on to study computer science at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the most prestigious universities in America.
He then went on to work as a data engineer for TrueCar living in California and later Honolulu, Hawaii, according to his LinkedIn.
According to his Goodreads account Mr Mangione was sympathetic towards Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) writing:
“He was a violent individual – rightfully imprisoned – who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterised as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary.”
….Mr Mangione went on to share an online take he said was “interesting” which read: “When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive. You may not like his methods, but to see things from his perspective, it’s not terrorism, it’s war and revolution.”
Source:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/luigi-mangione-murder-suspect-thought-202359160.html
If you think this is a a one-off, a unique situation, it most certainly is not.
I am now seeing reports that BLM co-founder Hawk Newsome Isa calling for “Black vigilantes” to hunt down and kill White New Yorkers after the Daniel Penny acquittal. (Apparently he was unaware that there were a number of black people on that jury.)
This is the nature of the hive mind.
