Month: February 2023

My previous post was my shock & awe about literary-employed people using AI chat programs to do their jobs. Today, we remember that that’s the job of Reddit!

I do not know who Maureen Mackey of Fox News is… but I do know that her idea of finding national-news-level content is scouring Reddit’s “Am I the Asshole” forum. But I forgive her because she’s noticing how badly men are being treated.

Yes, yes, I’m doing the exact same thing right now… but my blog ain’t my job!

Man in wheelchair on bus refuses to move for mother and young daughter

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By Maureen Mackey, 25 February 2023

Move over, Rosa Parks!

A Reddit writer has shared a stressful and upsetting situation involving commuter travel and her young daughter.

A woman who described herself as a 32-year-old female wrote on the platform that she and her five-year-old daughter boarded a commuter bus “at a busy stop.”

The woman, who did not share her location, added that once they were on the bus, she saw that “there were no empty seats available, except for one [seat] near a person using a wheelchair” — a person whom she described as a 40-year-old male.

Either 1. a disabled military veteran, 2. a fugly fat piece of lard or 3. the vaxx wasn’t safe and effective. I rule out #2 on the basis that he was taking up only two seats.

The mother went on, “I asked the person if [he] could move [his] wheelchair to another spot so that my daughter and I could sit together, but the person declined.”

The man in the wheelchair, she went on, said he needed the space for his “mobility device.”

The mother wrote, “I was taken aback and frustrated by this response.”

She told the man that her daughter “was very young and needed to sit next to me for safety reasons” — yet still the person “refused to move.”

The woman shared that she “ended up having to stand for the entire ride with my daughter in tow, which was uncomfortable and tiring for both of us.”

The horror! The horror!

The mother wrote that when she told a friend about the incident, her friend told her she was “being insensitive and ableist.”

Word!

The woman’s friend, the original Reddit poster continued, told her “that the person in the wheelchair had a right to the space” he needed — and “that it was unfair of me” to ask the man in the wheelchair to move a bit to accommodate her.

She received a lot of grief on the platform from others. The mother continued, “Now, I’m questioning whether or not I was in the wrong for asking the person to move.”

She asked the Reddit community about it — and for their thoughts on whether she was wrong “for asking a disabled person to move seats on the bus for my child.”

Welp… we know this didn’t happen in Texas, because she didn’t eat a .45 bon-bon with the justification “she needed killin’.” Texans are known to roll (heh) like that.

Predictable outrage ensued, but the takeaway here is crippled male > single mother on the victim totem pole. A good sign for civilization!

Man yells at girlfriend to ‘stop f—ing eating,’ she then charges him with ‘fat-shaming’

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By Maureen Mackey, 26 February 2023

Hmm. Same author, same source, one day later. Her editor better run a chatbot detector on her next submission.

A dramatic relationship upset connected to food has shown up on Reddit, the social media site — and it has prompted the age-old question: “Can this relationship be saved?”

TL;DR no.

A man describing himself as a 26-year-old male explained that his sister, who is 23, runs a bakery — “and she’s been struggling lately to keep up with orders because she’s short-staffed.”

The man, who did not share his location, said his sister “does a lot of orders for wedding cakes that require custard or marmalade fillings — and I offered to help her out by making these fillings at home and bringing them to her so [that] she has less work to do,” he added.

However, there’s been a huge problem.

“Unfortunately, the past four times I’ve made these fillings,” the man wrote on Reddit, “my girlfriend has literally dipped her fingers into the filling jars and contaminated them because, in her words, she ‘just wanted to try some.’”

“I’ve tried explaining to her,” the man wrote on Reddit about his girlfriend, “that she can’t dip her fingers in and contaminate the entire batch, because then I have to remake it.”

The man’s girlfriend is 24 years old, he said.

He said he told her “she should use a spoon and take some out if she wants to try [it] so badly, but she just pouts and says that she likes using her fingers because it takes her back to her childhood.”

Dude, that there is a legitimate sign from Heaven Itself. DITCH THE WITCH WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

He went on to say that recently, he’d been “trying to finish some chocolate custard to send it over to my sister really fast because she was running late on a wedding cake order for an important client.”

So he told his girlfriend, as he shared with others, “to not eat the custard, and if she really wanted to, to please use a spoon.”

He’s not disciplining her.

The man said he stepped “out of the shower, and what do I see? She has her fingers in it again!”

He said he “totally lost it because this is the fifth time she blatantly disregarded what I said.”

Once is a mistake. Twice is disobedience. Five times is an ex-wife even before the wedding vows.

He said that he “yelled at her,” he shared, “and told her to ‘stop f—ing eating’ the food I’m making, because it’s not for her, and she’s contaminating it.”

The girlfriend broke into tears, he said.

“She got mad at me,” the man revealed, “for ‘fat-shaming’ her, even though I made no comment on her weight, and she has no history of weight issues or eating disorders.”

He added, “I know I was harsh, but she kept pushing my limits.”

Bad, bad, BAD SIGN!!!

That’s not harsh. That’s Cuck behavior. This guy is not ready to have a serious girlfriend, let alone wife.

The professional paid advice:

Fox News Digital reached out to a clinical psychologist for professional insights into the relationship drama.

Said Dr. Jayme Albin, Ph.D., of New York City, “The girlfriend is acting and thinking In a very self-centered way. Not only is she disregarding her boyfriend’s request, but he’s brought her attention to the fact that people in the community will be affected by her actions — and still she continues it.”

Compare to the very first, unpaid comment on Yahoo:

Classic – my ex did this to me all the time – keep pushing a button you’ve asker her not to push – and when you finally reach your limit and yell at her – she gets to point you out to everyone -as being the problem person who is angry all the time.

The winner is obvious.

Clown World has reached the point that humanity is diverging into subspecies. The one type believes that what you do reflects your character; the other type believes only in a full stomach.

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Live by the sword, die by the sword. Clarkesworld science fiction magazine is forced to close to submissions by a flood of ChatGTP entries.

I don’t know why this strikes me as particularly funny, but it does. Especially because it won’t be long before SFWA has its first fake member, given the way the most successful clout-chasing con artists think. Wracking up three professional publications wouldn’t be hard, and I don’t think the ever-so-inclusive organization has any specific requirement that its members be human or actually exist.

It has to be admitted. For all its evil and awfulness, Clown World can be amusing sometimes.

I was confused rather than amused.

Come on, now, how hard is it to… wait… people are using AI to do their ENTIRE jobs? And the people reviewing those literary products of incapable-of-creativity chatbots cannot tell the difference?

We aren’t talking about AIs that pass the Turing test. We’re talking about humans who have FAILED the Turing test for YEARS! How long has this been going on? How many people are trying to use AIchat whatevers to cheat?

[GunnerQ googles ‘AI plagiarism’]

I had no idea!

Mississippi research helping to stop AI plagiarism

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Since the launch of ChatGPT in November, the online tool has gained a record-breaking 100 million active users. Its technology, which automatically generates text for its users based on prompts, is highly sophisticated. But are there ethical concerns? A University of Mississippi professor has co-authored a paper, led by collaborators at Penn State University, showing that artificial intelligence-driven language models, possibly including ChatGPT, are guilty of plagiarism – in more ways than one. “My co-authors and I started to think, if people use this technology to write essays, grant proposals, patent applications, we need to care about possibilities for plagiarism,” said Thai Le, assistant professor of computer and information science in the School of Engineering. “We decided to investigate whether these models display plagiarism behaviors.”

You just witnessed academic integrity pass negative-infinity. The steaming mounds of LIES being pumped out of America’s education system were just revealed to be so corrupt, so void of meaning, so MEANINGLESS, that a random word generator is creating a crisis of scholarship.

Ditto the science fiction community.

Ditto the grant-funding system of… eh, that was always money laundering. Submit ten thousand words in your application, to disguise the fact that the only two words that matter are who’s your globalist daddy.

And I’ve long held doubts about instruction manuals for small consumer goods.

A college student created an app that can tell whether AI wrote an essay

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By Emma Bowman, 9 January 2023

See? It’s not hard to detect a fake. At least, it shouldn’t be.

Edward Tian, a 22-year-old senior at Princeton University, has built an app to detect whether text is written by ChatGPT, the viral chatbot that’s sparked fears over its potential for unethical uses in academia.

ChatGPT does not understand the concept of ethics… but it can write an essay on the topic for you?

Edward Tian, a 22-year-old computer science student at Princeton, created an app that detects essays written by the impressive AI-powered language model known as ChatGPT.

Tian, a computer science major who is minoring in journalism, spent part of his winter break creating GPTZero, which he said can “quickly and efficiently” decipher whether a human or ChatGPT authored an essay.

Either this was easy, or Tian is a genius. No sarcasm this time!

His motivation to create the bot was to fight what he sees as an increase in AI plagiarism. Since the release of ChatGPT in late November, there have been reports of students using the breakthrough language model to pass off AI-written assignments as their own.

“there’s so much chatgpt hype going around. is this and that written by AI? we as humans deserve to know!” Tian wrote in a tweet introducing GPTZero.

That’s speciesist!

Tian said many teachers have reached out to him after he released his bot online on Jan. 2, telling him about the positive results they’ve seen from testing it.

I already knew that academia was trash… but this is just sad, man. Teachers don’t know how to combat plagiarism? Why are they only now starting to care?

And to think, I paid attention and tried my best in college.

The college senior isn’t alone in the race to rein in AI plagiarism and forgery. OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has signaled a commitment to preventing AI plagiarism and other nefarious applications. Last month, Scott Aaronson, a researcher currently focusing on AI safety at OpenAI, revealed that the company has been working on a way to “watermark” GPT-generated text with an “unnoticeable secret signal” to identify its source.

The problem here is post-modernism. The idea that truth doesn’t matter. Was that story written by a human or robot? Does it matter? Can you even tell without a tool?

The answer is yes. Truth does matter. It can be detected and verified. But that is an exclusively Christian statement, not a scientific statement. As we’ve seen from the experiment-reproduction problems that !science! has been struggling against.

I hate this world. The “artist” doesn’t care if his paint squiggles qualify as art, so long as he makes the sale, and the people looking at his art don’t care either. Everything is so fake and gay, a science fiction magazine doesn’t know if the stories submitted to them even have a plot. Credit to Clarkesworld for at least caring that they can’t tell.

The reason AI is being used to cheat and make forgeries is not because it became available. It’s because cheating and forgery have become an accepted part of American culture. Students are learning what they’re being taught, to wit, postmodernism and faggotry. Everything is fake and gay so just check the boxes and goof off.

I’ve wondered why AI has been extremely popular among socialist types even before it existed, and now I have the answer. If nothing matters… and you can make someone else do your work… that’s as good as life gets.

This is the difference between being a creator and a consumer. Christ wants us to be active participants in our lives, becoming what we do, living for purpose and accomplishments of varying types, whereas for the atheist, the entirety of life is selecting the least painful path into oblivion.

That is also why, eventually, the WEF “get into the pod and eat the bugs” people will succeed. Because when the time comes, it’ll be the path of least resistance.

What a coincidence, that in this particular world, the path of least resistance is paved with lies and frauds.

Aww, the poor little traitor. He’s so close to Converging the LCMS, sooo close, but dangit, Twitter isn’t censoring the alt-Right like it did before Elon Musk! I didn’t even know the alt-Right was still around! They ‘trusted the plan’ which didn’t work out.

First the background to get you up to speed, then Harrison’s delicious and damning meltdown.

CTCR recommends fellowship with Ukraine, issues statement on Large Catechism volume

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By Cheryl Magness, 22 February 2023

Ooh, a double-header!

The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) Commission on Theology and Church Relations (CTCR) convened in St. Louis Feb. 16–18 for its quarterly meeting. With a deadline looming for submissions to the 2023 LCMS convention, the 20-member Commission was able to conclude much of its work for the current triennium.

The meeting featured a visit from the Rev. Serge Maschewski, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ukraine (ELCU), to discuss the potential for fellowship between the ELCU and the LCMS. Maschewski had been scheduled to meet with the CTCR in December, but ongoing fighting in the war between Ukraine and Russia prevented him from traveling. After a presentation by Maschewski to the Commission and further discussion with a CTCR subcommittee charged with evaluating church relations requests, the CTCR unanimously approved a motion to memorialize the 2023 convention to recognize fellowship with the ELCU.

A native of Kazakhstan, educated at Concordia University in the 90s, long-term affiliate of LCMS generally and of Harrison himself, likely. While the civilian suffering is undeniable, any church relief would have to 1. not encourage migration, and 2. resist politicization. Considering Zelensky kicked out the Russian Orthodox, I doubt that any Church relief will be politically neutral.

Wouldn’t it be nice if churches cared as much about the men next door, as they do the women on the far side of the planet?

In addition to recommending fellowship with the ELCU, the CTCR has, during the current extended triennium, recommended fellowship with several other church bodies, including the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland (ELMDF), the Evangelical Lutheran Church of South Sudan/Sudan (ELCSS/S), and the Lutheran Church of Uganda (LCU). These overtures were approved at the February meeting. The Commission also approved a recommendation from the LCMS Board for International Mission to recognize fellowship with the Ceylon Evangelical Lutheran Church (CELC) of Sri Lanka, a mission of the LCMS that has now become an independent church body.

Meanwhile, and perhaps not coincidentally…

The other major item on the Commission’s agenda in February was the completion of its convention report, which details the CTCR’s activities throughout each triennium… as part of its convention report, the Commission unanimously adopted a statement concerning its recently published Luther’s Large Catechism with Annotations and Contemporary Applications. That statement is available here:

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On Feb. 17, 2023, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s Commission on Theology and Church Relations unanimously approved a statement on Luther’s Large Catechism with Annotations and Contemporary Applications.

The CTCR forthrightly asserts that this volume does not change, question or supplant any doctrinal position of the LCMS, including any Synod teaching on contemporary cultural issues such as race or sexuality.

The CTCR furthermore categorically rejects any assertions to the contrary.

Odd that they feel the need to say that. “We didn’t change anything and reject every critic that says we did… without even listening to our critics!” That is what categorical rejection means, after all. Complaints about Topic X go straight to the shredder.

In feedback we have received as a Commission, it has become clear that many misconceptions about the volume have surfaced on social media, and we wish to offer this brief explanation to clarify what this volume is and what it is not.

First, the CTCR [Commission on Theology and Church Relations] undertook the production of this volume at the behest of recent Synod conventions

“We were ordered to do this. It’s not our fault!”

Second, the text of the Large Catechism itself remains entirely unchanged in this volume… This volume, however, has two very different components, in accordance with the convention resolutions from 2013 and 2016.

Uh-oh. “We didn’t change it, except where we did.”

One component is the newly composed introductions and explanatory
footnotes… They are meant to help clarify the context and language of the catechism in its historical context.

UH-OH. “We are now considering the historical context of Luther’s teachings, which may be different from today’s context. For example, we now know that all white men are evil.”

The other component is a series of excursive essays. The essays are wide-ranging attempts to engage the sorts of contemporary questions that often come up… As such, they represent individual perspectives and judgments that some in the LCMS may not share.

The place for individual, uncertain and/or contentious ideas is NOT in a catechism. That is not what catechisms are for.

Third, the selection of drafters for these excurses was not limited to LCMS authors but expanded to other Lutherans who have a record of scholarship with the Large Catechism or experience with many of these contemporary issues… . Some of these writers are from church bodies not in fellowship with the LCMS.

THEY BROUGHT IN OUTSIDERS! From the infamously corrupt ELCA, perhaps? [I could not confirm; didn’t find a full download.]

Fourth, as noted earlier, the text of each introduction, annotation and excursive
essay underwent thorough review and subsequent approval by the CTCR…

“Trust us.”

Last, while we acknowledge that certain things could have been worded differently… we remain firmly supportive of this volume…

We urge you to read it for yourselves and to make your own judgments.

And when Lutheran laymen did exactly that, their concerns were categorically rejected.

This Woke edition has already been pulled, which may explain why I haven’t been able to find a PDF of it. But I did find these excerpts!

Finally, the recognition of a legitimate place for the use of the sword within God’s plan for His creation is not a license for any Christian to use the sword for any reason unilaterally deemed legitimate and necessary. And it certainly does not provide a scriptural foundation for a right to bear arms.4 Lethal force, Luther consistently taught, is rightly used only by the one placed into the of authority in the state. It is never exercised for the sake of self, but always and only for the sake of the neighbor.

This is a baldfaced lie, that Christianity and self-defense are NEVER compatible… that no Christian may ever “unilaterally” defend himself from a threat.

It’s not even coherent. You cannot defend yourself, but CAN defend the other person in the room, because only the State can be trusted with the sword?

“For middle- or upper-class Christians it is not uncommon to think that many commandments are most acutely relevant to the crimes found in poorer communities. A transformative insight of [Luther] consists in applying God’s Law prohibiting theft to less-than-obvious perpetrators—the virtuous who possess economic and societal privilege.“

Luther’s Catechism just transformed into Cultural Marxism.

However, though some of us are burdened with homosexual lust, pornographic addiction, transgenderism, pedophilia and polyamory, more often they are the speck in our neighbor’s eye rather than the log in our own (cf. Matthew 7:3-5). For decades, if we didn’t wink at fornication we certainly turned our eyes from it, as long as the acts performed outside of marriage were heterosexual ones. We shudder in disgust when it suits [us…]

How dare you find fault with child molesters when YOU sometimes use porn! You hypocrite! Control yourself, not the pedophiles around you! And just so you know, mutilating children and enjoying a pinup poster are equivalent sins!

And lo, a big controversy ensued… and the LCMS didst pull the new Catechism…

Which led President Harrison to have a meltdown.

Statement on recent online unchristian teachings

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Feb. 21, 2023

Dear friends in Christ,

The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, its president, vice-presidents and all 35 district presidents, along with its ministerium and congregations, categorically reject the horrible and racist teachings of the so-called “alt-right” in toto (including white supremacy, Nazism, pro-slavery, anti-interracial marriage, women as property, fascism, death for homosexuals, even genocide).

Except for fascism, all of Harrison’s accusations are beliefs held by GOD HIMSELF.

God forbade interracial marriage, ruled death for sodomy, mandated female submission to husbands, carried out several genocides during Exodus/Joshua… also Tyre and some other places… supported institutional slavery (while gutting its motivation), and being the Creator of All Nations, surely wants white nations to continue existing as white nations.

It’s okay to be white.

The Synodical explanation of Luther’s Small Catechism teaches that the Fifth Commandment, “You shall not murder,” includes the prohibition of “hating, despising, or slandering other groups of people (prejudice, racism, and so forth).” The Scriptures agree: “Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him” (1 John 3:15).

Everyone who hates his brother, yes. What about everyone who hates child molesters? JESUS HIMSELF hated them. Necks and millstones, remember?

Jesus is guilty of HATE!

Every human being is precious to God and as valuable as the very blood of Jesus Christ shed for all, “for God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son” (John 3:16).

No. Not every single human being is precious to God. The generic statement in John 3:16 does not imply a specific statement regarding every individual regardless of their conduct.

Harrison’s rant is fascinating. “How dare you be like Jesus, you alt-Right Twits! Don’t you know that traitors and deceivers are just as precious to God as you?”

We were shocked to learn recently that a few members of LCMS congregations have been propagating radical and unchristian “alt-right” views via Twitter and other social media. They are causing local disruption and consternation for their pastors, congregations and district presidents.

Misinformation? On social media! NOOO!!! We cannot trust people to think for themselves! We only said so in order to encourage adoption of newly introduced deceptions!

They have publicly stated that they seek the destruction of the LCMS leadership. They have made serious online threats to individuals and scandalously attacked several faithful LCMS members. Through these social media posts, even our wonderful deaconesses have been threatened and attacked.

LCMS Convergence thwarted… women most affected!

This is evil. We condemn it in the name of Christ.

If I know the kind of people who fit the alt-Right label, pretty sure Harrison means “disrespected” not “threatened and attacked”. That’s BLM turf. I invite him to share a few headlines regarding these threats & attacks, just to prove he isn’t lying about his enemies. That would not be loving. That would not be what Jesus would do.

That would be… HATEFUL. And hate = murder, don’cha know, Herr Harrison. Don’t you be hatin’ on the alt-Right! They’re as precious to God as you are! Probably more so because you’re a modern pastor.

These “alt-right” individuals were at the genesis of a recent controversy surrounding essays accompanying a new publication of Luther’s Large Catechism. This group used that opportunity to produce not only scandalous attacks and widespread falsehoods, but also to promote their own absolutist ideologies.

To promote GOD’S absolutist ideologies, thank you. Which do not change with individual reinterpretations, or historical contexts, or least of all, !scientific! prog-tard-ress.

That is why I’m willing to condemn this Woke Catechism without having a proper copy to review. It introduces moral confusion regarding human sexuality, a topic that no honest Christian can NOT be certain about.

Anyone trying to sully the reputation of the LCMS based on comments from a small number of online provocateurs does not know the loving, faithful, generous, kind and welcoming Synod that I have met all across the nation. Our people are delighted to gather with sinners of every stripe to receive full and free forgiveness from our crucified Savior and are not represented by these few men with their sinful agenda.

Oh, but I am LOVING, Mr. Harrison! I’m writing this savage fisking with a grin on my face! There is no hate here!

I am not speaking about the individuals who may have expressed theological concerns about the essays published alongside the Catechism. I’m talking about a small number of men who based their opposition upon racist and supremacist ideologies. The former we welcome. The latter we condemn.

The LCMS is a robust Christian community under the absolute authority of the inerrant Scriptures as the very Word of God and bound together in subscription to our Lutheran Confessions. Theological dialogue is good. We have clear processes for registering concerns over published materials, and we encourage such theological critique. The biblical confession of the LCMS on doctrine and life is true and unchangeable.

I know this game. If you have doubts about the conduct of your leaders, the “Christian” thing to do is go to them individually, share your concerns, then watch Pastor smile and nod and reassure you that you’re the problem and you need to shut up now that you’ve been heard.

Actually, that IS Christian… step one. Step two is going back again with allies who agree with you, and Step Three is social media.

Step Three can be accelerated by… for example… categorical rejection complaint-handling policies.

LCMS congregations agree to uphold our biblical standards. We are not a top-down institution. That said, I will work together with our pastors and district presidents to address this matter wherever it arises among us and reject it. We issue the cry of Jesus: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matt. 3:2). We are confident that the same Law and Gospel that broke the hard heart of St. Paul, himself a murderer and blasphemer, can and will do the same today. We are all called to repentance daily. “The blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7). Where that call to repentance is not heeded, there must be excommunication.

“We are not a top-down institution,” said the Peoples’ Beloved Unified Biblical President while issuing a fatwa on the dissidents he categorically refused to listen to.

God is not going to repent of His past support for slavery, genocide and racial purity. Would Harrison excommunicate God Himself? If he allowed a Cultural Marxist to be printed alongside Luther’s Catechism then the answer is yes… yes, Harrison WOULD excommunicate God for past opposition to the Current Thing.

Of all the things I’ve seen as LCMS president, this is the most bizarre.

Seriously? He never noticed Twitter before? Should we tell him about reddit?

I am informed that other conservative denominations are experiencing similar challenges. This horrid attack of the devil drives us to be firm in our confession. Our message of Christ the Savior for all…

Savior for only the repentant.

…our local and global mission that serves the entire human race with forgiveness and joy…

Excepting Russia? Why not fellowship with both UKR and Russia? They’re adjacent and it would silence doubters such as me.

…stands firmly opposed to Satan and all evil. Our steadfast message of love and biblical fidelity on the cultural issues of marriage, sexuality, race, and life is an assault on the devil and his minions to no end. Our steadfast witness and assistance to our global Lutheran friends has the devil fuming.

It’s possible I’m a bit off base here, and Harrison is screeching at opponents against his support of Ukraine rather than against his Woke Catechism, but that’s not what Harrison said and the correlation is high.

While he might intend LCMS charity to Ukraine as nonpolitical war relief for civilians, this screed against “alt-Right Nazis” whose beliefs mirror God’s own, makes me think Harrison would just as happily ship artillery shells to Zelensky’s depot. After all, complaints about misinformation passing uncensored on social media is a policy statement photocopied from the Bidenreich playbook. As is the banning of self-defense, and so on.

Lastly, “we didn’t change the Catechism, we only included essays by outsiders giving their personal opinions that reinterpret the Catechism” is textbook Talmudic deception.

[Bible quotations about martyrdom omitted.]

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

Yours in Christ,

Pastor Matthew C. Harrison
President, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod

You are not in Christ, Mr. Harrison. You are quite provably opposed to Him. Please come to your senses and make public repentance.

An odd thing about this is that previously, Harrison correctly ousted Pastor Matthew Becker in 2015 for (among other offenses) teaching that Scripture does not technically prohibit women from ordination. Upon leaving the LCMS, Becker hooked up with the ELCA, which is good proof of heresy.

Why, then, is Harrison going full Woke now? He strained the gnat of female ordination but now, swallows the camels of “white privilege” and “some Christians are women trapped in male bodies”. The change cannot be only a long-standing association with Rev. Maschewski.

I wonder if the difference is the Fauci jab. There have been reports of Christians abandoning the faith, suddenly and consciously, after getting jabbed. It’s not something that a !scientific! study can be done upon, yet the anecdotes are mounting… and I sense that spiritual battle lines are being drawn. Our daily choices are having moral significance that they ordinarily might not.

Whatever good Harrison has done previously, he now accuses Twitter ghosts of conspiring to commit what Almighty God already did & taught, little of which is relevant to criticisms of the Woke Catechism he just tried to push. One hopes that LCMS leadership is not as !Unity! as Harrison claimed.

The inevitable result of Social Justice Convergence in an organization is the inability of that human organism… organization, excuse me… to behave in the ways it was originally meant to.

With that thought in mind…

Catholic university to cut religious studies, theology majors to fund more in-demand programs

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By Candace Hathaway, 21 February 2023

…You don’t need to read further in order to understand what happened. But then, you’d miss the freak show!

A Catholic university in Virginia recently announced that it is considering cutting 10 majors and programs, including religious studies and theology, citing a “lack of potential growth.”

Marymount University, a liberal arts college, plans to eliminate bachelor’s degree programs in theology, religious studies, philosophy, mathematics, art, history, sociology, English, economics, and secondary education. It also plans to ax a master’s program in English and humanities.

That leaves engineering and queer studies. Also, possibly, that sweet, sweet M.Div parchment that guarantees a sinecure of teaching fairy tales to credulous idiots.

Of course, they aren’t just fairy tales… but the priests and professors of them will be the most surprised to find out!

Marymount University President Irma Becerra supports the controversial cuts, which have sparked a backlash from the school’s students and alumni. The plan is also supported by the Faculty Advisory Committee and the Academic Policy, Budget, and Planning Committee, according to a university spokesperson.

The students are complaining about this shift to student-demanded programs? SOMEBODY is LYING!

“Over the long term, it would be irresponsible to sustain majors [and] programs with consistently low enrollment, low graduation rates, and lack of potential for growth,” Becerra stated. “Recommendations and decisions on programs marked for elimination are based on clear evidence of student choices and behavior over time.”

The university could always downsize. That’s what the private sector does, which is why the private sector is efficient and effective despite the best efforts of experts.

Becerra. Boobs? No. Cuban? Maybe. Karen? You know it!

Segue

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In May [2018], Marymount University’s board of trustees unanimously voted in Dr. Irma Becerra as its seventh president. Becerra is a Cuban-American higher education leader who previously served as provost and chief academic officer at St. Thomas University in Florida. She succeeds president emeritus Matthew Shank, who recently left academia to join the World Affairs Council-Washington, D.C., as interim president.

She’s a female empowerment success story backfilling for a globalist.

What is “knowledge management” and how did you become interested in it?

When I was finishing my Ph.D. [in electrical engineering from Florida International University]…

Ask us about our structural engineering program!

…knowledge management was an emerging discipline. It was really about organizations taking advantage of their most valuable resource: the knowledge that exists inside employees’ heads. Before, when you captured [a company’s] assets, it used to be how many buildings and cars and computers—tangible assets. I was fascinated by the processes that underpin great organizations as they seek to better their knowledge assets.

Pointy-haired boss: “Employees are our most important assets!”

Dilbert: “Is that why none of us got a pay raise last year?”

Pointy-haired boss: “Shut up, you asset.”

A lot of my research was based on work with NASA, developing prototypes of knowledge management systems.

She got a PhD in electrical engineering but her thesis was in leveraging male know-how. Hmm. HMMMM.

How will you apply your background in engineering, mathematics and systems organization to your new job?

One of the things I have been focused on—and this is my engineering training—is, how to do we continue to improve our businesses processes so we can be as effective and efficient as possible? My leadership style is collaborative, but I’m always focused on data-driven decisions.

And on that data-driven note…

End segue

“…Marymount is indeed making changes to better position the University for long-term growth and success,” [a Marymount University spokesperson told Fox News Digital]. “One of those is investing in programs with growth potential, aligned with student demand, to give Marymount a competitive advantage.”

…The spokesperson noted that the cuts were “not financially driven“.

I cannot say the university is wrong; Christianity does not have growth potential. Our ranks are already very thin and they’re going to be thinned out even further in the near future.

But Christ was never about profit and competitive advantage.

Was the Dalai Lama?

Back to segue

Name three books you recently read (and liked):

I have a mix—some leadership books and some that are spiritual and inspirational: The Book of Joy by the Dalai Lama; The Economic Singularity by Calum Chace; and High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard.

I don’t mind that she reads leadership books, but I do mind her proudly finding spiritual inspiration in not-Christianity.

End segue again

Critics argued that the university’s plan does not fit its stated mission.

“If they want to change the mission, then say that and say what that change is,” Ariane Economos, an associate professor of philosophy, told the Chronicle of Higher Education. “But getting rid of theology and religious studies at a Catholic university, that doesn’t fit with the mission.“

Student government president Ashly Trejo Mejia pushed back on the upcoming changes, calling them “detrimental to the diversity of our student body.”

“We fear that removing programs will alter the foundation and identity Marymount University was built on,” Trejo Mejia argued.

When the philosopher, the Christian and the diversity victicrat all agree that you’re whacked, you, bitch, are WHACKED.

According to the updated plan reviewed by Fox News Digital, university officials believe the cuts will set up the school for long-term success.

Hahaha, no.

We live in one of Christianity’s darkest hours over the last two thousand years. The entire Church closed its doors because the government claimed there was a weird disease going around… the same Church that stayed open during Justinian’s Plague AND the Black Death. Child molestation and genital mutilation have gone from horrific crimes to formal government policy in barely a decade. Marriage is GONE. Fatherhood is a crime. Female rebellion against men, aka Original Sin, is the one and only civil right. Men have lost their careers and been court-martialed for refusing to submit their God-given bodies to plague merchants enjoying blanket liability. Clergy pride themselves on obedience to the State. Entire denominations align with the synagogue of Satan. The Pope isn’t Catholic.

What would a revival look like in Current Year? My guess would be…

…”Not a free concert.”

A nonstop revival breaks out at Kentucky college. Now, it’s viral on TikTok

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By Haadiza Ogwude for Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 February 2023

A religious service at a Christian college in Kentucky has captured the attention of social media users across the globe.

During a scheduled chapel service at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, Feb. 8, a religious revival broke out. Over a week later, the service is still going strong, with folks traveling from as far as Singapore to join.

Videos of students participating in the nonstop prayer and worship service have made their way to social media, sparking international attention. As of Feb. 16, posts with the #AsburyRevival hashtag have generated 34.5 million views on TikTok.

The service experienced its largest crowd yet Feb. 14, with over 3,000 attendees, two-thirds of which were from out of state, NBC reports. The crowd was so large the revival had to expand to four additional facilities in the college town.

Sigh, Christian revival does not resemble a flash mob.

We all have Bibles, yes? We have dozens of recorded encounters with the supernatural. Ecstasy and joy are the rarest outcomes. I look for spontaneous confessions because increased awareness of our internal darkness is a routine consequence of exposure to the divine.

Whoever became a Christian thinking it would be FUN? Our most common symbol is the Roman equivalent to the hangman’s noose. Christ did it, now it’s your turn! …yeah, it’s kind of a downer. But it’s also the truth and worth the cost.

Skeptics often view revivals as “manifestations of superstition, hysteria and social contagion,” per the Lexington Herald Leader. Others view them as reactions to major social events. But for believers, revivals are renewals of a person’s faith.

Yeah, basically. Which is why I’m suspicious. Out-of-state tourists don’t need to fly in to Asbury, Kentucky, to get their lives back on track with God, and one-off events rarely do the trick anyway.

Is repentance and confession happening?

Line Stretches Half a Mile as the Fruit of Revival Is on Display at Asbury: ‘A Very, Very Healing Experience’

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By Wendy Griffith, 17 February 2023

WILMORE, Kentucky – The revival at Asbury University is now in its 10th day as thousands of people continue to make the spiritual pilgrimage to this town in hopes of encountering more of God.

The revival is now officially in overflow mode with the line of people to get inside stretching nearly a half mile long. CBN News spoke with folks from all over the country who were waiting patiently to get into Hughes Auditorium here at Asbury so they can experience revival for themselves.

Andrew Hager of Lexington, Kentucky said, “God is here! God is here and He’s working right now, come and get you some, you hear me.”

Yeeeah… I gotta get me some Jeebus goo before it goes out of style. On second thought, who’s Andrew Hagar and why is he offering me a hit?

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14 December 2022

VERSAILLES, Ky. (LEX 18) — Andrew Hager has turned his life around from decades of drug addiction and crime.

Hager now focuses on helping people heal from the disease of addiction. He spent decades in jails throughout central Kentucky for more than 20 years. Next February will mark nine years clean and sober.

“Oh, it makes me so proud,” said Woodford County Jailer Michele Rankin. “It makes me so proud.”

Rankin knows Hager from his days as an inmate. Now, he returns to the Woodford County Detention Center to inspire current inmates that they can live more promising and fulfilling lives.

That’s nice. Honestly, it is. But… ever notice that all clergy are from one of two moulds? Either clerical work was their goal from an early age, and Scripture alone should be sufficient warning about the behavior of formal priesthoods, or they’re broken men who with the Holy Spirit’s help, find the strength to maintain a daily routine.

What about us righteous men who were ruined for doing right? There’s not a single clergyman from our ranks.

Other than Artur Pawlowski.

Mark Vaught came from Cincinnati, Ohio. “When I was saved I got the Holy Spirit, but always looking for more and really hoping when I walk through the doors, it’s poured out on me,” he told CBN News.

Not revival.

Daniel Moye, a 24-year-old Asbury Seminary student, told us, “It’s been a really hard couple of years, and not just for me but for a lot of my friends, and I just felt like the Lord was releasing me from a lot of bitterness and anger that I’ve had just about all kinds of stuff, even some of it towards God and so I would say for me personally, the biggest word I can use is that it’s been a very, very healing experience for me.”

No course correction. No repentance. Not revival.

21-year-old Student Body President Allison Perfater was there when revival broke out.

“You just didn’t want to leave. It’s not that anyone was saying ‘oh let’s see how long we can last,’ we just didn’t want to go. I came in, I had a lot of like anger issues and like really struggled with my anger and I was able to talk with God first and that never would have happened on my own time,” she said.

SHE said?

Had this been a genuine revival, President Allison would have resigned immediately, quit school and begun wearing a head covering. There is no place in Christianity for female leaders, full stop.

Instead, she gave an interview to Tucker Carlson.

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson described the nonstop Christian meeting that has been taking place at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, as “amazing” on his Wednesday program, adding it is a much-needed counterweight to all the evil in the world.

Yeah, baby, some feel-goodism will put those Cultural Marxists in their place!

Carlson interviewed Alison Perfater, the student body president at the university, to get her firsthand account of what exactly is happening.

He began the segment arguing it’s getting harder and harder not to categorize all that is happening in the world in theological terms, like good and evil.

And a lot of things out there are “just evil.”

“And the good news is a lot of people are starting to think about what happens when you die, and they’re becoming much more interested in the spiritual life, which has been basically extinguished in the public square for a long time,” Carlson contended.

A brief time, actually. It’s hard to believe how fast things are happening.

Carlson confirmed that the whole thing began during a regular chapel service when a young man got up and transparently confessed some of his sins. The atmosphere then changed.

Okay, that could be the start of a legit revival. But I suspect he wasn’t confessing sodomy and plagiarism, but rather, being attracted to girls that didn’t like him. Must be the cynic in me.

Meanwhile, Perfater meeting with Carlson is consistent with reports that this is a student-led revival. Children running the show is a bad sign. Student LGBT activists have attacked at Asbury in the recent past, for example staging a walkout in October 2022, so this could easily be a form of Convergence.

“That’s completely what happened,” Perfater answered. “For seemingly no reason at first on Wednesday, February 8 it didn’t end. That’s kind of the logistical side of what’s been going on.”

“On the deeper side of things, what’s been happening here since Wednesday is there’s a young army of believers who are rising to claim Christianity, the faith, as their own, as a young generation and as a free generation, and that’s why people cannot get enough,” she said.

“That’s amazing,” Carlson responded, adding that “everything finds equilibrium.”

Perhaps he meant the younger generation had been pushed so hard by institutions toward a secular, statist worldview, there was bound to be a counter-reaction.

This Jeebus party is not what the counter-reaction will look like. There will be a high death toll. All the thieves and rebels, feral woman and murdering bureaucrats, there is only one righteous punishment for many of their crimes.

Christianity is not a joke. It’s not Sunday Morning Nightclub for skanks. It’s not forgiveness for the unrepentant. God only knows when the tide of wickedness will turn, but it WILL turn.

Perfater offered that the lockdowns of 2020 impacted her generation a lot.

“And so you have to wonder, ‘What’s going to break?’ In this case, the Holy Spirit has interceded for us here at Asbury and across the nation,” she said.

As bad as the Plandemic was for kids, it’s not as bad as the idea that female leadership is a good thing in Christian contexts. All that the Sodomites, spiteful mutants and bureaucrats have done, was take advantage of the opportunity presented by mass apostasy in the form of female empowerment.

THAT is when we’ll have revival. When boring, righteous men are great again, and Student Body President Alison is ashamed of her past as a false man.

Fair warning, I don’t reach a satisfying conclusion. But the journey has merit regardless.

It’s been a long-running question, how much of the dystopian media produced by Hollywood over the last several decades has been predictive programming. The question is no longer academic, with the revelation that the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio was a reenactment of the just-released movie White Noise.

Was the movie a gloat about what was planned, or was the real event inspired by the movie? I don’t have an angle on the latter… but if it was a gloat, the people who funded & developed White Noise might be literally credited with it.

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White Noise is a 2022 absurdist comedy-drama film, written and directed by Noah Baumbach, adapted from the 1985 novel with the same title by Don DeLillo. It is Baumbach’s first directed feature not to be based on an original story of his own.

We practically started with a smoking gun!

White Noise had its world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2022, and was released in select cinemas on November 25, 2022, before its streaming release on December 30, by Netflix.

In 1984, Jack Gladney is a professor of “Hitler studies” (a field he founded) at the College-on-the-Hill in Ohio. Despite his specialism, he speaks no German and is secretly taking basic lessons to prepare for a speech he is due to give at a conference. Jack is married to Babette, his fourth wife. Together, they raise a blended family with four children: Heinrich and Steffie, from two of Jack’s previous marriages; Denise, from Babette’s previous marriage; and Wilder, a child they conceived together. Denise spies on Babette and finds her secret prescription stash of Dylar, a mysterious drug not in the usual records. Jack experiences a dream about a mysterious man trying to kill him, alluding to an earlier conversation with Babette focused on their mutual fear of death. Jack’s colleague, Murray Siskind, a professor of American culture, wishes to develop a similarly niche field, “Elvis studies,” and convinces Jack to help him. They briefly become rivals as competition between their courses arises.

Hmm. This is supposed to be a departure from Baumbach’s normal movie-making?

There are two Hollywoods; you might well have never noticed. One is mainstream culture; adventures, comedies, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Disney, the stuff you think about when you think Hollywood. The other is specifically and uniquely Jewish culture. Neuroticism, paranoia and dysfunctional sexualities galore. The best indicator of the latter is when a movie you never heard of wins a millions awards, the critics rave about it and nobody you know has even seen it advertised. That’s because it wasn’t made for you, goyim.

You might think there’s crossover; you have no idea how different they are. I was once talked into screening Talented Mr. Ripley. It’s the heartwarming story of a professional identity thief being hired to body-double for a trust fund baby wasting his life on the Italian coast. Trust Fundie wants the thief to pose as him to his family so he can continue indulging hard drugs &  loose women despite his bankster family’s concerns. Unfortunately, the identity thief falls into homosexual obsession with Trust Fundie and ends up murdering him in a rage of unrequited love, assuming his identity and forced (thief being homo) to fornicate with his favorite woman as the police close in on his masturbatory double life.

Noah Baumbach is of that second Hollywood.

However, their lives are disrupted when a cataclysmic train accident casts a cloud of chemical waste over the town. This “Airborne Toxic Event” forces a massive evacuation, which leads to a major traffic jam on the highway. Jack drives to a gas station to refill his car, where he is inadvertently exposed to the cloud. The family and numerous others are forced into quarantine at a summer camp. Murray supplies Jack with a small palm-sized pistol to protect himself against the more dangerous survivalists in the camp. One day, chaos ensues when multiple families desperately try to escape the camp. The Gladneys almost make it out but ultimately end up with their car floating in the river. They later arrive in Iron City, where they encounter a man who rants about the lack of media attention on the evacuees and spots Jack, claiming he had seen him before looking at him. After nine days, the family manages to return home. However, since Jack was briefly exposed to the chemical waste, his fear of death becomes exacerbated.

Well, doesn’t that sound familiar. The synopsis devolves into hallucinations and hysteria, finally ending in a dance number. So says Wikipedia. I will not be screening this.

White Noise had its world premiere as the opening film of the 79th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2022, and also served as the opening film for the 2022 New York Film Festival on September 30. It also screened at the 31st Philadelphia Film Festival in October 2022. The film was theatrically released in the United States by Netflix on November 25, 2022, before its streaming release on December 30.

I’m not sure how well it ran with mainstream audiences. Rotten Tomatoes said 6.4/10. But its being the opener of two major, insider film festivals is curious.

The movie rights got passed around since at least 2004 per Wikipedia, which argues against this being a gloat; it was a movie that Hollyweird wanted to do for a long time. It was finally done by Noah Baumbach who claims he was inspired by Covid. That suggests the Ohio Derailment was premeditated for at least three years.

Noah Baumbach on White Noise and Psychotropic Fantasies of the 1980s

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By Erik Morse, 27 December 2022

Noah Baumbach’s White Noise opens like many so-called metafilms: with a movie within a movie. The image of a whirring reel projector dissolves into a supercut of automobile collisions. But these images are not of “real” accidents; rather, they are action sequences from other movies, cropped and sutured together to produce a tribute to the great American car crash. “Don’t think of a car crash in a movie as a violent act,” intones the tweedy Professor Murray Siskind… “No, these collisions are part of a long tradition of American optimism. The movie moves away from complicated human passions to show us something elemental, something loud and fiery and head-on…. There is a wonderful, brimming spirit of innocence and fun.”

Ominous. America burning but we deserve it, because we’re easily distracted? And the violence we see is secretly fake?

The time and place of White Noise is the peak of the Reagan revolution in the fictional, middle-American college town of Blacksmith, home to upwardly mobile suburban families like the Gladneys, made up of patriarch Jack, a paunchy humanities professor at the nearby College-on-the-Hill, where he heads the highly prized Hitler Studies program…

Obsession/projection much? “Here’s a stable, typical, middle-class American who life is all about Hitler.”

…Babette, his loving wife—with a distinctively curled coiffure—who teaches posture to local geriatrics; and their horde of manic children, who are assembled from previous, failed marriages.

Dysfunctional sexuality, check.

But there are troubling secrets beneath the veneer of the Gladney household, including Babette’s mysterious pill regimen and Jack’s shameful lack of fluency in German, which he learns sub rosa from an eccentric local. And then there are the sinister nightmares that Jack has.

Neuroticism, check. Drugs.

Jack remains unfazed by the looming disaster and assures the family that nothing bad ever happens in Blacksmith. “It’s the poor and uneducated who suffer the main impact of natural and man-made disasters,” he tells Babette between discussions over the dinner menu. “Did you ever see a college professor rowing a boat down his own street in one of those TV floods?”

But the cloud’s growth eventually sends it over the town, forcing the Gladneys and the rest of Blacksmith to scramble into their station wagons—just like in a TV-scripted disaster.

One point for gloating. “Disaster only happens to other people. OH NO, disaster just happened to us!”

Vogue Magazine caption: Adam Driver as Jack and Greta Gerwig as Babette in White Noise.

My caption: That’s the marriage of Noah’s parents. Dad was Jewish, Mom was Protestant. This film has a big-nosed guy with a visually American wife? Hmm. Noah’s parents divorced when Noah was young and, I glance over his movie credits, Noah never recovered.

Noah had a child with Greta Gerwig in 2019. Then he cast her as another man’s wife in his White Noise. Are you getting the neurotic sexual dysfunction vibe yet?

In fact, the elder Baumbach hovers over the themes of fatherhood and family that have always been integral to his son’s work, particularly 2005’s The Squid and the Whale, a semi-autobiographical domestic drama that examined parental-adolescent relationships and the traumas rent by divorce. “The theme of divorce was a way to explore the family bubble in a few of my movies,” he says. “The lengths that people go to defend themselves or their families or children from perceived or unperceived dangers of the outside while ignoring the fissures that are occurring inside.”

QED. Textbook neuroticism. More projection. Eternal hatred of outsiders, especially if the outsiders have happy families.

Which argues against Noah knowing about the movie being a gloat. His long & successful media career makes him unlikely to hold affiliation with the agents responsible for the Derailment. He’s already found an outlet for his frustrations.

Heh, the ((Squid)) and the Protestant Whale.

…Baumbach says that he was intrigued by [author] DeLillo’s status as a fellow urbanite chronicling the mores of suburban America. He calls it an “outsider look at the country.” “DeLillo…was an Italian from the Bronx writing about suburban life, and I’m from Brooklyn and Jewish.”

Yet another immigration fail.

My conclusion is that if White Noise was a premediated gloat, it’s one that its producer didn’t know about. Baumbach is just a damaged person who made a career of projecting his internal insecurities onto a country that should hate his people but doesn’t.

So then, who gave him the idea for the train derailment context? Let’s follow the money.

Noah Baumbach on His Ambitious ‘White Noise’ Budget and What the Film Says About America Today

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By Eric Kohn, 30 September 2022

It might seem like a stretch to insert the themes of DeLillo’s oddball novel, which was so rooted in its time, into a 21st-century context. But the material invites big swings, including Baumbach’s own efforts to transform a book that for years has been considered unfilmable into a beguiling movie odyssey as strange and unclassifiable as its source.

Previous attempts to adapt “White Noise” by James L. Brooks and Barry Sonnenfeld went nowhere, and the director of grounded dramedies like “Marriage Story” and “Greenberg” might not seem like the obvious fit to figure it out. Baumbach, however, was drawn to the way the novel merged analytical thinking with otherworldly twists, because the latter provided a template for the former…

One way that movie may have seemed unreal was its scale. Reports of the Netflix production having a budget that stretched past $80 – 100 million has led to much speculation about where that money was going. Some of that is evident on the screen, from an explosive train crash to a car chase through the woods that takes more than few surprising twists and the scariest CGI cloud this side of “Nope.” Baumbach also shot the movie on 35mm anamorphic film, which isn’t exactly the most cost-effective approach.

“Netflix was great and gave us the support we needed to make the movie,” Baumbach said. “The book has this airborne toxic event, which is a big spectacle, and it becomes a big movie as a result.” He added that the streamer, which produced Baumbach’s last two movies, knew what it was getting into.

The money trail ends at Netflix. They wanted this movie to happen badly enough to throw money at it. Those last two movies…

[2019] Marriage Story: Noah Baumbach’s incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.

[2017] The Meyerowitz Stories: An estranged family gathers together in New York City for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.

…are helpful only in establishing how much a disaster set in Ohio is a major break from Baumbach’s normal career of filming ((family dysfunction)) in Brooklyn. They certainly weren’t made for profit.

I get the sense that DeLillo’s book is significant to the Tribe. My last gasp is to review its original themes.

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The Fear of Death

The fear of death lies at the center of White Noise. As Babette notes when she confesses her fear to Jack, “What is more underlying than death?” Everything in the novel—from Hitler to the supermarket, from the airborne toxic event to the white noise of the novel’s title—circles back to human beings’ primal, deep-seated fear of dying. DeLillo’s novel details how modern life attempts to push this fear out of sight, and yet, as in the character of Jack Gladney, the fear continues to resurface and fill us with dread.

The Tension Between Reality and Artifice

Throughout White Noise, the authentic and the artificial often blur together, and substance seems interchangeable with surface. This confusion between appearance and reality represents an essential part of Jack’s own existence. Although Jack has created a venerable, professorial persona for himself, he remains painfully aware of the total fabrication of this character.

At the same time, DeLillo satirizes postmodern human beings’ inability to discern the genuine from the fabricated.

The Pervasiveness of Technology

In White Noise, the pervasive presence of technology proves both menacing and comforting. Throughout the novel, in counterpoint to the human babble of Jack’s friends, family, and neighbors, modern technology asserts itself through the humming of machines and the constant stream of media sounds and images. Technology has become as much a part of the texture of daily of life as humans are themselves.

Faceless and beyond the grasp of the individual, technology makes everyone anonymous.

A satire upon the obvious failings of postmodernism, then. We Christians suffer none of these problems: the terror of death, the tension between real and fake, and “we shall be as gods, until the lights go out.”

But I digress. DeLillo’s book is not unique, if it’s only a polemic against postmodernism.

The airborne toxic event, a dense, threatening cloud of dangerous chemicals, provides a particularly frightening image of technology gone terribly, fatally awry. Yet even this seemingly overt symbol of technology’s capacity for destruction proves more complex than it first appears, as the airborne toxic event paradoxically causes the most beautiful sunsets the region has ever seen. The chemical cloud is noxious and lethal, but it also creates beauty. When Steffie mumbles “Toyota Celica” in her sleep, a similar tension is being evoked, as a crass marketing term becomes transformed, in Jack’s eyes, into something mystical and beautiful. The phrase, which seems to represent cold, mechanized modernity, ends up expressing something primal and deeply human.

Then again, if the book describes a mass-death event as beautiful, there might be a psychopathy theme that didn’t make the Cliff’s Notes.

The Ohio Derailment frustrates me because I cannot prove what I know. The coincidences are far too much, yet the plausible deniability is solid. I could even convince myself that this was just infrastructure collapse followed by a rushed coverup, except there are no coincidences anymore. Such as this book quotation:

“The system was invisible, which makes it all the more impressive, all the more disquieting to deal with. But we were in accord, at least for now. The networks, the circuits, the streams, the harmonies.”

 

 

I can’t believe a Federal legislator finally said it! But Massie did!

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“I have introduced a bill [H.R. 899] to terminate the Department of Education. There is no Constitutional authority for this federal bureaucracy to exist.”

DAYUMN!

H.R. 899

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To terminate the Department of Education.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. TERMINATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2022.

Succinct, which makes it probably just a publicity stunt. But still, this isn’t just pissing on the Third Rail of Politics, it’s stealing a coin from the Bank of Rothschild. The devil cannot afford to have such thoughts even be entertained long enough to be rejected. That is why no Cuckservative has ever dared even to suggest this; it’s always been “let’s have school vouchers instead, so the government can get its hooks into all the private schools, too, via funding requirements. Oops, I mean, we’ll have school choice.”

I understand the Catholics require a miracle before formally declaring a Saint. If Massie pulls this off then that’ll be the miracle.

Meanwhile, I appreciate the sentiment!

It was bad enough that did the Ohio derailment happen in the same place where a recent Jewish-culture disaster movie was set. Now, turns out the CDC changed its mind about the hazards of vinyl chloride a month ago, for the first time since 2006. What is the significance? Did the CDC know?

The new guidance:

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The old guidance:

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A removed section:

Has the federal government made recommendations to protect human health?
Vinyl chloride is regulated in drinking water, food, and air. The EPA requires that the amount of vinyl chloride in drinking water not exceed 0.002 milligrams per liter (mg/L) of water.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has set a limit of 1 part vinyl chloride per 1 million parts of air (1 ppm) in the workplace.

That is consistent with the CDC expecting a massive spill in the near future. Also consistent with simply eliminating redundancy, since EPA and OSHA still regulate v.c..

A change, from:

‘At high concentrations (>30,000 ppm), vinyl chloride was been shown to sensitize the heart to epinephrine, resulting in cardiac arrhythmias in dogs (Clark and Tinston 1973).

In addition, like other halogenated hydrocarbons, vinyl chloride may sensitize the heart to the effects of circulating catecholamines. Therefore, the patient’s cardiac rhythm should be monitored, and the use of isoproterenol, epinephrine, or other sympathomimetic drugs should be avoided (Haddad and Winchester 1990).

To:

‘At high concentrations (>150,000 ppm), vinyl chloride was shown to sensitize the heart to epinephrine, resulting in cardiac arrhythmias in dogs (Carr et al. 1949).

They changed the definition of “high concentration” based on an older study. Although 30k ppm is probably more than Ohio residents & wildlife will be exposed to.

The real question is long-term exposure. Then & now agree that such chronic exposure results in a specific liver cancer, like asbestos does to lungs. If the cancer rate does spike (heh) among vaxxed Ohioans then at least it’ll be a recognizable cancer.

It has been hypothesized that cardiac arrhythmia reported after vinyl chloride exposure may result from sensitization of the heart to circulatory catecholamines, as occurs with other halogenated hydrocarbons. This was demonstrated in a dog study where the EC50 for cardiac sensitization for vinyl chloride was determined to be 50,000 ppm (Clark and Tinston 1973). Cardiac sensitization by halogenated hydrocarbons generally occurs at very high air concentrations (0.5–90%) when the compounds were tested as anesthetic agents in experimental studies (Brock et al. 2003). Therefore, it appears unlikely that individuals exposed to low levels of vinyl chloride will experience these effects.

“Circulatory catecholamines” means adrenaline/epinephrine, at least for today’s purposes. They used to believe that v.c. sensitizes the heart to adrenaline but now it’s just a suggestion. Along with that change, is a reassurance that low-level exposure can’t cause heart problems. Very suspicious, when lots of people are having CDC-induced heart problems these days.

Left unchanged from 2006, is that incineration is the recommended form of disposal. The controlled burn was therefore in line with longstanding regulations, although I have trouble believing that the c.v. couldn’t be transferred to safer containers yet COULD be safely pooled and burned off.

I did some additional research on hydrochloric acid and phosgene gas, the products of c.v.’s incineration. Phosgene is a notorious lung irritant but does not remain in the body or environment. It’s probably the culprit for the early wildlife kills. Hydrochloric acid’s consequences will be first to fish stocks and then to soil acidity, critical for farming, but it shouldn’t persist unless drought conditions.

Everything stinks about the derailment but I can’t find conclusive proof a la 9/11. Turns out that derailments have been a serious problem, as expected from infrastructure collapse due to loss of skilled (white) workers and chronic neglect of preventative maintenance. Ohio even had a 97-car derailment on 17 January 2023 per Newsweek, but they were empty.

Even though the derailment is perfect modus operandi for the Agenda 2030 crowd, it sounds increasingly like an inevitability of general social decay. With several unlikely coincidences, a context of uninvestigated sabotages against the food supply and a Regime that can still make Climate Change bank off the human suffering. Hmph.

The latest insanity from GAE has led me to an epiphany. The reason our rulers are detached from reality is not because they’re diabolists or war-profiteering murderers. (Not all of them, anyway.)

They’re pussies. Psychologically speaking.

Horowitz: National Guard ordering suspended unjabbed soldiers back to duty, under threat and with no back pay

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By Daniel Horowitz, 15 February 2023

Last May, a 20-year-old infantryman in a state guard unit who is the son of one of my podcast listeners, among thousands of others who chose not to inject the gene therapy, had his gear confiscated and was suspended from service. He never heard from his unit commander since then and had obviously moved on with his life, making immutable career changes. It was sad and tragic that he had to abort his military career on account of a shot that even the government concedes can cause myocarditis, particularly for young males, but it was a decision he was forced to accept.

A great evil, and one I still don’t understand. Using your military for medical guinea pigs (if not deliberately poisoning them) while trusting your military honor guards to not drill you in the back, is way more stupid than evil. As in, an evil man would never do that. He needs his enforcers… especially if he plans to slow-genocide the rest of his population.

What kind of man would harm his own bodyguards while actively making enemies? Not a good man. Not an evil man, either.

It’s scary how well that shoe fits, when one stops to think about the possibility of men rejecting Christ and patriarchy to the extent that they become feminized at the level of Proverbs 14:1. “The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.“

One supposes that it would have been too honest, had the Bidenreich imported the Chinese military to secure D.C. in the wake of J6. As it was, I’m surprised that no fraggings or revolts happened. The likes of Schiff were so eyes-rolled-back, spittle-spewing deranged that they forced those Guardsmen to live in unheated parking garages for the winter of 2020… as punishment for them maybe having voted for Trump.

It remains the greatest display of guilty conscience that I have ever seen. They knew they were guilty. They acted guilty though none pursued. The accusations they projected were like self-indictments. My ultimate… final… impression…

…is that they wanted to be punished. They wanted the Guardsmen to turn on them. Yes, it would have justified their accusations after the fact, but that would not have helped them escape D.C. under the very Trump-Supporter martial law that they ordered, now would it have? The winners would not have been kind while writing the history books. “They ordered us to put them behind razor wire then bullied us until we snapped. Honest! We have video!”

More and more, as I watch Cabal behavior… sabotaging entire industries, mutilating children, betraying allies while planning two-front global thermonuclear war… either they’re diabolists driven insane by desperate haste, and they can’t all be demon-possessed like that, or they’re trying to provoke somebody into stopping them.

The only way to know, is if they whisper “thank you” at the gallows.

Out of nowhere, the 20-year-old discharged soldier received a memorandum from his commander titled, “Notification of Return to Duty Requirements for Soldiers Not Fully Vaccinated for COVID-19.”

…The memo begins by referencing the change in policy and first inviting the rejected soldier to come back and resume participation in regular drills and training. Well, that is a reasonable invitation. It would have been nice to offer back pay, but it’s a nice gesture to reinvite them, nonetheless. However, the letter continues to emphatically clarify that this is not a mere invitation; it’s an order. “If you fail to participate in training on or after 20 March 2023 without an approved STA or other exemption you will be considered Absent Without Leave (AWOL) and may become subject to MCMJ or other adverse administration actions.”

That has got to be an anomaly. They couldn’t poss… -hic- They absolutely could be that stupid and probably are.

Indeed, it is true that the January 18 memorandum referenced by this letter seemed to indicate that they can be ordered back to duty. “All currently serving nonfederalized Army National Guard and Air National Guard members who are not fully vaccinated for COVID-19, but are otherwise qualified and eligible are no longer prohibited from, and may be directed to resume participation in drills, training and/or other duty conducted under Title 32,” states the memorandum from National Guard Bureau Chief Daniel Hokanson. (Emphasis added.)

However, this is scandalous for the unelected National Guard leadership to take a statute passed by Congress and signed by the president terminating the vaccine mandate, and then order those cast away to return against their will. And to add insult to injury, there is no back pay.

Is GAE engineering a military revolt & tribunal against itself? Because this would be how to do it. Treat military personnel with a conscienceless sadism so complete, that incarceration will no longer be a deterrent.

Do our rulers in D.C. have the exact same mindset as a harpy smashing the family heirlooms because her husband refuses to discipline her?

This revelation comes amid widespread reports that the military leadership continues to discriminate against unvaccinated soldiers. While they are no longer being discharged, deployments, travel, and honors are affected, as well as continuing other restrictions.

Vote harder! HARDER! Speaker McCarthy commands you! Trust the Science!

Yeah, no. This is straight-up conscription & slavery. Like Christianity, the situation is easy to understand and hard to accept:

Cabal: “We need more bodies in uniform to maintain control of our global empire. However, recruitment is way down since we mandated sodomy and involuntary genetic experimentation. We’re vulnerable! Either you find a solution or I find another ass-kissing sycophant.”

Ass-Kissing Pentagon Sycophant: “Technically speaking, those unvaxxed soldiers that we got rid of several years ago are still under military authority. We’ll just reactivate them.”

Cabal: “Exxxcelent! They’re disciplined and already trained! But they’re also Christians willing to suffer for their beliefs. I want them maltreated and shamed and sodomized. After you give them their guns and tanks back, you break their spirits, understand? NO BACK PAY!”

It’s hard to accept that they can be so self-destructively, malignantly, stupidly evil, unless they subconsciously want the predictable consequences. 

Even the guilty would be happier, although they might never admit it. There is supposed to be justice in this world, after all; why else does injustice upset us?

Perhaps those who commit the greatest injustices, are the ones who feel justice’s unnatural absence the most. Not that they’re repentant. They’re out of control and like a woman, need an external authority to restrain them.

Continuing my development of the Totalitarian concept, the Hollow Man, let’s talk about symbology, an important and overlooked psychological topic. Humans have always identified themselves using symbols… uniforms, flags, mannerisms, architecture, even attributing meanings to simple colors. God himself took a nationless clan and turned them into history’s biggest, most stiff-necked metaphor. Open the Bible to a random page, drop a coin on it and you’ll probably hit something symbolic.

Our choice of symbols is a form of self-expression. People cannot see our beliefs and loyalties, and explaining them to everybody would be very time-consuming. It’s easier to display a symbol. I would wear the American flag to show my citizenship, or the Gadsden flag to show my dissident political leanings. Or the Ukrainian flag, if I was a spiteful mutant wanting my people to be ethnic-cleansed by an transnational death cult.

That is all simple and obvious. So I thought, until this minor scandal hit a nerve among the Hive-minded.

RIGHT WING EXTREMISM
‘Absolutely Repulsive’: Some House Republicans Are Now Wearing an Assault Weapon Lapel Pin

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By David Badash, 2 February 2023

At least three House Republicans this week began wearing pins in the shape of an assault weapon on their clothing. U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-NY), U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), and U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) were all caught on camera with the pins, leading some to express outrage.

U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) was among the first to circulate images of the two Republicans wearing the pins.

“Where are these assault weapon pins coming from? Who is passing these out?” he asked.

Why do you care, Gomez? Serious question. George Santos in particular is a pathological liar and deceiver with enough insider-status that it took an honestly bipartisan outrage just to get him removed from his committee assignments. He’s also a textbook example why I just cannot stop thinking the pejorative “pedoface”. In other words, he’s a gun rights activist like Satan is an angel of light: giving the appearance just long enough to gain a dishonest, momentary advantage. Santos wearing a rifle lapel pin means literally nothing.

Aaron Fritschner, the Deputy Chief of Staff and Communications Director for U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), captured an image of Congressman Clyde wearing the pin on his tie.

Uhh… Aaron secretly snapped a picture of Clyde secretly displaying his loyalty to the Second Amendment, while Clyde was speaking in chamber next to a sign saying “shall not be infringed”? This is comparable to a nutcase proclaiming that John Kerry secretly gave a Masonic gesture while speaking at Davos about how best to starve humanity down to “sustainable numbers”.

Not exactly a big reveal. To me. But what about to Hollow Men? What do they see?

“Absolutely repulsive,” Duke University Professor of Global Health and Public Policy, Gavin Yamey said in response to the assault weapon pins. “We have mass shootings almost daily, and the Republicans are wearing assault weapon pins FFS.”

One of the Members wearing the pins, Congresswoman Luna, on Wednesday also participated in a House Natural Resources panel debate to push back on Democrats’ attempt to ban firearms inside the Committee’s hearing room.

She tweeted later, “The same Democrats who are voting to send firearms to Ukraine are telling me I can’t carry one.”

Oookay… politics aside, Luna is using symbols to express her internal beliefs, in a context where those beliefs are relevant. This is normal behavior.

And continuing to ignore politics, the Hive triggered HARD about this:

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) also pointed to National Gun Violence Survivors Week. “While gun violence continues to be the leading cause of death for children in our country, @GOP members are wearing assault rifle pins during #GVSurvivorsWeek. Shameful.”

American historian of Christianity Diana Butler Bass did not mince words: “Always said it was just a matter of time before the GOP replaced the cross with an assault rifle. Guns are their god.”

Democratic Texas state Rep. Gene Wu said the GOP “has stopped playing coy and is now openly and unabashedly praising mass shooters. Will there be special versions to celebrate specific mass shootings?”

Professor of International Relations Nicholas Grossman said: “Legislators from party that defends recent coup attempt by their up-til-recently—and possibly still—party leader replace traditional patriotic flag pin with a pin depicting a rifle.”

California state Sen. Dave Min weighed in, saying, “The debate over 2A [the Second Amendment] has never been about 2A. It’s about ‘disrupting’ civilized society as we know it, and trolling the ordinary Americans concerned about our insane levels of gun violence. That’s why it’s the biggest assholes who are most loudly touting irresponsible gun access.”

The addition of the assault weapon pins to Republican Members’ clothing comes on the heels of U.S. Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) distributing grenades to fellow Members last week. In a note he declared they are “inert.”

Snicker, I missed “Grenade-gate”. I can see why that stunt would make some people uncomfortable.

But lapel pins being worn by gun rights advocates? It was Democrats who started the trend of wearing lapel pins. Why aren’t they priding themselves on being “influencers”?

Let’s ask a credentialed expert:

Sociology professor and author Samuel Perry observed, “Republican members of congress are wearing AR-15 lapel pins. That’s not just tone deaf. We find Republicans value gun rights more than any other right, including freedom of speech or religion. No need for a flag or cross pin. The gun is both their patriotic & religious symbol.”

My current conception of the Hollow Man is he has an inverted soul. Instead of his behavior being expressions of his internal beliefs, he protects his body by behaving however the Hive requires, which makes the possession of ANY internal beliefs impossible because they get contradicted from one Narrative to the next. As Luna tweeted, “The same Democrats who are voting to send firearms to Ukraine are telling me I can’t carry one.”

It would follow, then, that while Normals wear lapel pins to communicate who they are, the Hollow wear lapel pins to DEFINE who they are. Such symbols are marks of ownership… brands upon the Social Justice Warrior.

An interesting experiment: keep a necklace or lapel pin of the Cross in your pocket. The next time you talk to a Social Justice type about Christ, pull it out and put in on after a minute of conversation. I bet it would shut them up faster than anything you might say, because while words are nothing to them but spell components to control other people, a worn symbol is a fait accompli of unchallengeable beliefs.

That explains why the SJWs are freaking out over AR-15 lapel pins like they didn’t when 2A advocates were merely stating their beliefs and even legislating their beliefs. The SJWs thought they still had an opening… that they could lie and deceive those advocates.

But now that he’s wearing a symbol of rifles, they believe that Rep. Clyde has changed religions from Christ to “shall not be infringed”. That picture above? The sign was just words. Words can change. The tie pin was ownership. The Hollow Man sees that and thinks that so long as Clyde is wearing it, he’ll never be turned against the Second Amendment.

Come to think of it, my proposed experiment was already run. Back in the day… you youngsters won’t believe this… schoolteachers were required to take oaths of loyalty to the United States. It was just a scrap of paper. Basically unenforceable. But oh, the Communists HATED that loyalty oath.

I never understood that. The same people who could put their hand on a Bible and perjure themselves from here to Hades with a smug smirk on their face, freaked out about a piece of paper with their name on it saying they wouldn’t betray the USA if given the chance. Isn’t it just another lie, in a lifetime of lies?

But now, it makes sense. That paper was not a statement of loyalty, it was a symbol of loyalty. It was something that a fellow Communist could use to attack him with. Something that wouldn’t disappear with a shift in the Narrative. An objective reference point.

Lapel pins are a sign of ownership. The subject cannot change his beliefs without first ditching the lapel pin, which won’t happen during a word-spell.

And now, I understand what the freakout was regarding Musk buying Twitter. He wasn’t buying a social media company. He was buying the souls of the Hollow Men, who were recorded on Twitter supporting Current Things that are no longer the Current Thing. Those tweets were deleted but the archive is forever, and now Musk owns the archive. The Hollow Man’s true beliefs are only what is seen, so if you display his deleted tweets praising Bernie Sanders before Biden was (s)elected, you’re forcing a soulless man to have consistent and long-standing internal beliefs.

The pain must be exquisite.

Troll 11/10. Expect suicides!

Editorial: AR-15 lapel pin reveals the void in rep’s soul

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By San Antonio Express-News Editorial Board, 12 February 2023

Just reading that headline, whoa, talk about projection.

Art of the Gentleman is a sartorial website advertising itself as “home to the Gentleman Set that was curated by your resident gentlemen, sure to make your dapper days easy.”

In the section on lapel pins, it says, “A lapel pin is a small pin worn on the lapel of a jacket. Lapel pins serve no functional purpose to a gentleman’s outfit rather it adds a decorative touch to the overall look.”

Correct so far.

To the question “What type of lapel pin should I wear?” one of the answers is to choose one that ensures you don’t stand out at work for the wrong reason.

Huh? I’ll choose a non-political pin for work, sure, because my work is not politics. Ahh, now I see the Hollow Man’s addition… “choose one that ensures you don’t stand out at work for the wrong reason“.

The Hollow Man MUST stand out for the CORRECT reason. ESPECIALLY in a political context! Specifically, whatever reason best protects his body and its appetites.

In the U.S. Congress, members are fond of referring to each other as “the gentleman or gentlewoman from” their respective home state, even if there’s little evidence the subjects are worthy of such a dignified description.

This brings us to Republican U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde, the “gentleman” from Georgia who recently stood out for wearing a lapel pin in the shape of an AR-15. He not only wore one but handed them out to colleagues, who also wore them. This includes serial liar U.S. Rep. George Santos, R-New York.

People expressed outrage that Clyde was showcasing and celebrating a weapon of mass destruction synonymous with names like Sandy Hook, Parkland, El Paso, Buffalo and Uvalde.

The words didn’t matter. The symbol of bodily ownership mattered. A total POS can call himself honorable and no SJW complains, but when a total POS like Santos wore a lapel pin, the wailing began.

A gentleman would have considered the criticism, perhaps offered, at least, a halfhearted apology and replaced the AR-15 lapel pin with something [socialist].

Never apologize. The words don’t matter and you’re demonstrating weakness to wild animals.

[Clyde was] wrong for thinking that his sporting of the AR-15 lapel pins only bothered his Democratic colleagues. They represent something very specific and painful to families who have lost loved ones to the pulling of AR-style triggers.

Textbook Social Justice. “I am offended on behalf of people who aren’t here, did not appoint me or know I exist, and don’t even know about the offense that I believe you just committed against them, despite your claim that no offense was given or intended.”

Clyde benefits from the same free speech that has allowed grieving family members to touch the deepest reaches of our shared humanity with grace and wisdom. He has no such depth. He has triggered no one, but he has revealed his heart.

BOOM, there it is! I may be wrong about the Hollow Man… but these Hollow Men say I’m right.

No one with even a thimble of compassion or common sense can be so insensitive and clueless to fail to understand the pain that symbol brings to too many families.

The Editorial Board is speaking of their own pain, obviously. The AR-15 symbol burned them like a Cross waved at a vampire.

During President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, Tuesday Night, some members of Congress wore pins in the shape of crayons to signal support for federal investment in child care.

Does the “gentleman” from Georgia understand there are hands that cannot hold crayons because of the hands that have held AR-15s?

That’s what the crayons were supposed to represent? In the context of listening to Dementia Joe run his mouth? I had no idea.

But now that I have the idea, that SJWs have this severely allergic reaction to worn symbols of political allegiance… hmm… my mind whirls at the possibilities.