I’m in Waco, Texas right now getting ready to give a talk today at Baylor University. Fyi: the title of my talk is “The Moral Logic of the American Revolution.” I’ll be back to regular programming next week.
My opening remarks:
The Good
VERY NICE ESSAY FROM BARI WEISS: Things Worth Fighting For
Bearing witness to Ukraine’s answers forces me to ask some hard questions about us—questions I worry we have forgotten how to ask: How would we act if the guns were to our heads? Would we similarly feel no choice but to fight for our home, for everything we love? Would we have the courage to live by the values we profess if our backs were to the wall? Or the sense of national unity? Or have we gotten so comfortable, so coddled, so removed from the world of flesh and blood, that we have forgotten how to name those values at all.
In the words of President Zelensky in his address to the United States Congress earlier this week, “slava heroyam” [“Glory to the heroes.”]
I’M SURE FINLAND AND THESE OTHER SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES ARE LOVELY IN THE SUMMER, BUT WHO WOULD WANT TO LIVE THERE IN THE WINTER? Finland World's Happiest Country Fifth Year in Row...
SERIOUSLY, HOW COOL IS THIS? 'Beyond Imagination': Ocean Explorers Stunned After Finding Famous Ship Off the Coast of Antarctica
WHAT IS THE STATUS OF COURAGE IN 2022? READ THESE TWO EXCELLENT BLOG POSTS IF YOU NEED SOME INSPIRATION TODAY:
How is it, by the way, that I’ve become a Naomi Wolf fan (same with Robert Kennedy, Jr.) in recent months (never saw that coming)?
Do you understand what is at stake? If you continue to comply and collude with what has become a tyrannical oligopoly, your kids will live as slaves and as serfs forever.
The DMs insist that I am “brave.” But I am not “brave”; you’re just a p _ _ _ y.
NICE: Woman's missing dog found on ice floe 7 miles from shore
UKRAINIAN AIR DEFENSE FORCES SHOOT DOWN A LOW FLYING RUSSIAN HELICOPTER (After clicking on the link, you should put this video on your big screen to see the full effect):
VERY GOOD NEWS. Scientists create revolutionary blood test that can detect over 50 genetic diseases
THIS DOUBLE AMPUTEE AIRMAN WHO HAS TWICE HAD COVID IS GOING TO GET HIS KIDNEY TRANSPLANT (GOOD), BUT WHAT KIND OF STUPID AND IMMORAL RULE (BAD) PREVENTS HIM FROM GETTING THE TRANSPLANT IN NORTH CAROLINA? Air Force veteran denied kidney transplant over COVID shot finds solution
THE CDC WAS POLITICIZED?!?!?!? No! Impossible. Say it ain’t so, Joe. Btw, the key word here is “supposedly”: Pandemic over, cont’d: Biden COVID czar out. “Zients was an odd choice from the start. By appointing Zients to that position and Xavier Becerra to run Health and Human Services, Biden picked two men without any medical background to run his administration’s policies for the worst pandemic in a century. Under their management, COVID-19 policies became even more politicized than before, especially when it came to schools and interventions. That politicization infected even the supposedly hard-science bastion of the CDC, which calculated its guidelines on political lobbying from teachers unions until this day.”
SORRY, NO. You can’t have Alaska, but we’re happy to trade Massachusetts for Ukraine. Russian lawmaker demands part of US be returned, Americans pay reparations
The Bad
THIS IS WHAT DECLINE AND FALL LOOKS LIKE: Biden Regulating ‘Wokeness,’ Socialism Into Federal Policy: Expert
HOW CAN ANYONE TAKE THIS GUY SERIOUSLY? Al Gore’s 2009 Warning on Vanishing Polar Ice and the Perils of Censoring ‘Misinformation’
THIS IS NOT WHAT WINNING LOOKS LIKE. At a certain point do you say that the mental illness behind this is much worse than Covid? U.S. Navy claims it can't deploy warship because its commander is unvaccinated
IT’S COME TO THIS: California Officials Raid Preschool & Interview 2-year-olds Over Covid Mask Compliance.
MURPHY’S LAW ON STEROIDS, AND IT COMES FROM A GUY NAMED MURPHY NO LESS. America’s Ruling Class is reaching peak stupidity: A MOMENT OF PEAK STUPIDITY.
IN A SANE WORLD, THESE PEOPLE WOULD BE CONSIDERED AS TOO STUPID TO HOLD UNIVERSITY POSITIONS, BUT WE DON’T LIVE IN A SANE WORLD, WHICH MEANS THAT THE INSANE ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM: Today’s blacklisted American: Renowned cancer researcher fired for wearing Halloween costume 13 years ago.
DECLINE AND FALL: Biden to request $2.6B to promote gender equity worldwide
And now it has been revealed that while Americans were facing those life-and-death threats, the federal government was paying news outlets $1 billion to promote the experimental shots.
The Blaze reported through a Freedom of Information Act procedure, it found that the government purchased advertising from ABC, CBS and NBC as well as cable news stations Fox News, CNN and MSNBC, "legacy media publications including the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, digital media companies like BuzzFeed News and Newsmax, and hundreds of local newspapers and TV stations."
ARE YOU STARTING TO GET THE SENSE THAT WE’VE BEEN LIED TO: See confrontation of top scientist who hid truth about ivermectin
GOVERNMENT REGULATION RUINS EVERYTHING IT TOUCHES: Here’s the real reason young people can’t afford a home.
BIDENOMICS IS HURTING—AND I MEAN, REALLY HURTING—LOW INCOME PEOPLE, BUT AMERICA’S SOCIALISTS REALLY DON’T SEEM TO CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO THE AMERICAN PROLETARIAT:
Food Prices Jump 20.7% In 1 Year, Hit Record High In February
Top Grain Farmer Warns Of Monthly $1,000 Grocery Bills Due To Inflation
I FEAR SOMETHING VERY BAD IS COMING: Looming food shortage is the next ‘slow-moving disaster’ to hit world.
THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE, FOLKS. Public policies that encourage one-parent homes are a form of child abuse.
WHATEVER YOU SAY, DAVID. Pretty sure I warned all of you about David’s collectivism a decade ago. What was the title of that book? (Frankly, David, no listens to you anymore):
Shot:
Chaser:
IT REALLY IS SAD—IN A DEEP METAPHYSICAL WAY—THAT LAWS LIKE THIS ARE BEING PASSED, AND YET DECENT PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE TO BE PASSED IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN. The problem, of course, is that bills like this don’t go to the heart of the matter. You wouldn’t need the bill if you didn’t have government schools to begin with. There is only one option in accord with a free society: #JustWalkAway. You have ZERO moral obligation to support an intellectually corrupt and morally bankrupt institution. Your moral obligation is to protect your children: Are leftists liberating children or preying on them in public school classrooms?
GROOMING IN THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS HAS BECOME A THING. You’ve been warned, folks: #JustWalkAway: Wisconsin Teachers Instructed to Hide Students’ Gender Identities from Parents.
THE KULTURPUSTCH IS HERE. Did it every occur to you that maybe—just maybe—the Ruling Elite is lying to you? As If: Poll Claims Americans Want Elementary Schoolers Taught About ‘Sexual Orientation’ and ‘Gender Identity.’
AMERICA IS IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS. This Isn’t Obama’s Iran Deal. It’s Much, Much Worse.
SOME OF US HAVE KNOWN THIS FOR A LONG TIME: Russia funds 'rabid environmental groups' to dominate Europe's energy
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY JUSTICE. Here are the facts: a woman was raped. In dispute is whether the rapist is a man or a woman. Apparently, if the rapist is not man, then it’s not rape. If He’s Not a Man, It Can’t Be Rape.
The Ugly
IS DEMOGRAPHY DESTINY? Is the West done? My own view is that demography is a consequence and not a cause. The deeper cause behind these demographic trends is the major philosophic movement of the last 150 years: NIHILISM. We need a better class of “intellectuals” to fight nihilism. Islam is the Only Winner in the Ukraine War.
SOME UGLY THINGS:
AT THIS POINT, I’M PRETTY SURE THEY’RE JUST MESSING WITH YOU:
. . . and the Beautiful
Henryk Górecki, Symphony No. 3 = loss, helplessness, a mother cries for her child, regret, suffering—it’s all there. You can feel all of it. It’s very hard for me to listen to this beautiful piece of music without being overcome with waves of emotion. When you listen to it, you might also think about what’s happening right now in Ukraine.
P.S.: Don’t forget to submit your aesthetic recommendations to: redneckaesthetic@gmail.com. Please always use as your subject line: “The Beautiful.”
Have a great weekend!