The worst, most diabolical and very baddest conspiracy theory of all is the one that says, “even if it’s real, it doesn’t matter.”
Everyone—that is, each of us—believes in conspiracies. What matters is whether or not the particular conspiracy matters to you. I have been veritably brined and pickled in conspiracies my whole life. John F. Kennedy was shot when I was 16, a very impressionable age. I can even remember the McCarthy hearings when I was still a child—they were on the TV constantly instead of cartoons and there were a lot fewer stations to choose from back then.
The Watergate affair absorbed more than just the year of 1973. Some 9/11 conspiracies were afoot the day it happened, and there have been more since. A casual list of conspiracies over my lifetime quickly numbers over a hundred, and that would be leaving out such fun as the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Princess Diana, whether Elvis is really dead, and the machinations of the lizard people.
One conspiracy I particularly enjoy is the one that says that the internet was designed to promote phony conspiracy theories so the real ones would go undetected. It’s a triple conceit! I love it. But in the end, I have long since developed an automatic sense of contra-conspiracy which reflexively dismisses most of these dark fantasies. I can only manage so much ire at a given time.
Being a child of my age, I have already given more time than I should to stories of flying saucers and other kitchen ware. I am not so interested in Big Foot or lake monsters. I have read hundreds of books only in part—at least until I reach that paragraph early on where the author breathlessly first asks the reader to judge the evidence. That judgment is the very thing I am looking for the author’s expertise to supply. However, at least since the salad days of Erich von Däniken, I have understood hucksters make good use of the reader’s own lack of knowledge, depending on it, even, to fill in the gaps for specious theorizing.
For instance, 160 years later we know the conspiracy to kill Abraham Lincoln was real because it finally succeeded—at least in part, and some of the principals were caught and hanged. But we still don’t know who financed the thing nor the identities of many of those who aided and abetted the conspirators.
The election fraud of 2020 involves dozens of conspiracies—one for each state involved, and more on the part of legislatures and news organizations which have ignored evidence and refused to investigate. In the current political environment, there is little reasonable hope of determining what actually happened. Yet, unless that is in fact done, it will certainly happen again.
Jeffrey Epstein was murdered and whatever he knew about his powerful pedophile clients is likely hidden. There is no political will, much less determination on the part of legal authorities to find out “who done it.” This not only establishes the level of corruption involved but also informs anyone foolish enough to come forward that they will not be safe.
But the one that has put an end to my own interest in conspiracies is the not unexpected discovery that Hillary Clinton was provably the source of the Russian collusion hoax. This otherwise incredible fact has been met with the rhetorical, “Who cares?” which obviously says to one and all, that there are at least two types of law in the United States: laws meant to punish Republicans and laws meant to protect Democrats. Not that anyone has noticed.
There is a large crossover of various conspiracy theories and established syndromes of guilt. If you are only aware of the cruel use of slavery in the Americas, you might be open to believing the tripe of the “1619 Project.” Never mind the use of slavery and subjugation by Africans of other Africans, or Native Americans by other Native Americans, much less the Muslim slave trade that continues to this day, or the Chinese use of slave labor to make the wind turbines and solar panels that the government subsidizes us to use. This is an American sin. It is your guilt that must be expiated.
One truly strange phenomenon to be found in such foolishness is “The mystery of the pyramids,” a conceit that insists those marvels were built by space aliens or a lost race, instead of the hardworking crews who proudly signed their names to the stones in much the same spirit as the steelworkers who signed the girders of the Empire State building. Not believing physical evidence but accepting anything else, no matter how implausible, has psychological roots.
In our internet age, any concept involving nefarious business captains and politicians who gather for the private Bilderberg meetings becomes more difficult to maintain; however, the annual and very public meeting of bigwigs at Davos in Switzerland does an excellent imitation of the language and the style of world domination by a self-appointed elite. The problem is, after many decades, the blatant stupidity and wrongheadedness becomes too obvious for even the waiters and busboys to swallow.
Listening to the blather of a Henry Kissinger or John Kerry must be excruciating to the help while trying to set a bowl of hot soup down between a drowsing chancellor and a flirting prime minister, amidst a tech billionaire’s gesticulations to purchase yesterday’s big idea as well as a liaison for the evening.
The serving staff could not have gleaned from the posturing of Metternich and Talleyrand at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, as they plotted to divide up Poland like so much pie, that the not quite finished Napoleon, even by failing, had succeeded in gutting them all, or that the 19th century would be enlightened instead by a pax-Britannia, while the old order argued over the quickly diminishing spoils of medieval civilizations.
The Nazis may well have been behind the Reichstag fire, but the incompetence of the Weimar government is the culprit for the rise of Hitler, not a conspiracy, nor a hapless Dutch communist named Van der Lubbe. The fire was in the aftermath of years of ineptitude that caused the most advanced nation in Europe to collapse into a toilet of its own worse philosophical ideas. The lesson there is obvious.
Heinlein’s Razor still applies: Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity. (That applies as well to those who have misattributed this bit of wisdom to someone named Hanlon on the often-unreliable Wikipedia.) Most conspiracies originate in mistakes which are inexplicable or for which no one wants to take responsibility.
Many conspiracy theories exist as the sort of mini-religions that crop up in a culture that has lost its way. As others have postulated, when people stop believing in God, they are ripe for believing in anything. The fever of barroom conversation over the “magic bullet” in the Kennedy assassination and the escape of Saudi nationals immediately after 9/11 has drawn more blood than beer. Why people argue over details they have heard from questionable sources is, in truth, a matter of greater concern to the stability of society.
It is not enough that you have lost your job because of demonstrably poor economic decisions, political ineptitude, and ignorance, without blaming it on someone or something else. If all else fails, don’t examine your own decisions and effort—blame it on climate change, sexism, or racism. In our age of self-identifying, you too can be a victim of a conspiracy.
Fox News reached a $787.5 million settlement Tuesday in a defamation case brought by voting technology company Dominion that alleged the network knowingly aired false claims linking its machines to a conspiracy to undermine the 2020 US presidential election.
The agreement to end the case avoided what most experts suggested would have been a damaging, high-profile trial for the conservative channel in which owner Rupert Murdoch would have been compelled to testify in open court.
Judge Eric Davis announced the last-minute agreement after the 12 jurors had been selected and the Delaware Superior Court was readying to hear opening arguments.
Dominion’s co-lead counsel Justin Nelson told reporters outside court that the settlement “represents vindication and accountability.”
Fox’s lawyers did not stop to speak to assembled media, leaving the network to publish a brief statement saying it was “pleased” to have ended the dispute.
“We acknowledge the court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false,” it added.
The trial had been due to test the limits of free speech rights for media in America, even if wilfully broadcasting misinformation.
The settlement means Murdoch and star anchors, such as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity will avoid having to take the witness stand.
Dominion sued Fox News for $1.6 billion in March 2021, alleging it promoted Donald Trump’s baseless claim that its machines were used to rig the election that he lost to Joe Biden.
Dominion argued that Fox News aired the falsehoods while knowing they were untrue.
The trial was set to be one of the most consequential libel cases ever heard in the United States. It also threatened reputational and financial damage for Murdoch’s 24-hour news behemoth and the media titan himself.
Dominion said the network began endorsing Trump’s conspiracy because the channel was losing its audience after it became the first television outlet to call the southwestern state of Arizona for Biden, effectively projecting the Democrat would win the presidency.
First Amendment rights
Fox News denied defamation. It claimed it was only reporting on Trump’s allegations, not supporting them, and was protected by free speech rights enshrined in the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
The protection makes it difficult for plaintiffs to win defamation suits in the United States.
In pre-trial hearings, Davis ruled that there was no question Fox aired false statements about Dominion.
For Dominion to have won however, it would have to have proven Fox News acted with actual malice — knowing the information was wrong or having a “reckless disregard” for the truth.
The tough burden has been a bedrock of US media law since 1964.
Dominion released a trove of internal Fox News communications in which some commentators and executives balked at Trump’s claims and even expressed a dislike of the ex-president despite praising him on air — evidence, it said, of malice.
A filing showed that Murdoch described comments by former Trump advisors Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell pushing Trump’s claim that the election was stolen from him as “really crazy stuff. And damaging.”
Murdoch also admitted in a deposition in the case that some on-air hosts had “endorsed” the false claim but he denied that the network in its entirety had pushed the lie, according to court documents filed by Dominion.
Star anchor Tucker Carlson told staff he couldn’t wait until he could “ignore Trump most nights.”
“I hate him passionately,” Carlson said.
Fox News accused Dominion of “cherry-picking and taking quotes out of context.”
The network employs some traditional news reporters, but the majority of its airtime is given to conservative commentators, including in prime-time shows.
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My comment:
Never, ever forget what this traitorous network did on Election Night 2020!! #PayUpSuckers!
There is no doubt that we are in the middle of a great political realignment. You see it almost everywhere you look. Some of the signs are subtle, like the slow evolution of the GOP base away from a reflexive trust in law enforcement and the military. While others, like the budding onscreen bromance between Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald, are not.
One of the ways you can see this ongoing realignment is by observing the broader Culture and taking note of whom the major entertainment corporations want you to think of as the “Bad Guys.”
Hollywood and the news media have always led the way in determining who are the good guys and who are the bad. Indeed, the reason why the saying “politics is downstream from culture” resonates with us in the first place, is that throughout most of its history Hollywood has been at the leading edge of the Progressive vanguard, and U.S. politics has typically responded to Hollywood’s Progressive output, rather than the other way around.
And Hollywood wielded this power very effectively, for decades.
Hollywood released movies like GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER, BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK, IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT and THE DEFIANT ONES long before the average Aamerican man on the street was comfortable with the concept of full racial integration. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that the Civil Rights movement was given a tremendous boost by those movies, and that these movies (and many others just like them) helped to drive the broader culture towards racial equality.
But it wasn’t just Civil Rights issues that were tackled by activist Hollywood. Along with being a part of the Progressive vanguard came a healthy skepticism towards, and mistrust of, authority… particularly that authority claimed by Government. For many Americans, JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG was the first time they saw the horrific footage American soldiers captured when the Nazi death camps were liberated at the end of World War II. A dramatic cinematic moment that taught us all what can happen when Government abandons the concept of equal justice and turns on its own citizens.
In most of the great crime dramas of the 60’s and 70’s, from DEATH WISH to AND JUSTICE FOR ALL, THE FRENCH CONNECTION and THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 to Sidney Lumet’s entire oeuvre of New York movies (SERPICO; DOG DAY AFTERNOON; PRINCE OF THE CITY), official corruption is as much a villian in the story as any of the criminals who drive the plot. In a similar way, THE GODFATHER movies seem to slyly suggest that as bad as the Mob was, they were pikers compared with the fundamental corruption of the average Government functionary. Sure, Michael Corleone could whack you, but Senator Geary could bankrupt your business, throw your whole family in jail and drop a bomb on your house.
Ditto for ABSENCE OF MALICE in which the villains are the Press, the local cops, union officals, and the District Attorney. The “hero” of the story (Paul Newman) is a (maybe) mob-connected Miami importer/exporter who seems to be under the impression that he has the right to conduct his life and business free from official harrasment, and that to the extent Government believes he is guilty of something, he is still entitled to due process and the presumption of innocence.
I know, crazy right?
Anyone remeber who the villain was in GHOSTBUSTERS? If you said Gozer, you’re only partially correct. Gozer was what Hollywood calls “The Big Bad.” But there are several secondary villains the Ghostbusters run into along the way to their final confrontation with the angry lady with the flat top and the dog that used to be Venkman’s girlfriend. These secondary villains include Public Sector Academia, haughty white collar hotel managers, and several Government officials, from the local EPA chief (aka Walter “Dickless” Peck) to the craven Mayor of New York City, who only agrees to help the Ghostbusters after Venkman reminds him that if they’re right, then he will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters.
DEMOLITION MAN might be the most Libertarian, anti-Government movie ever made. Sly Stallone’s John Spartan is the symbol of everything that was best about America as the bombastic 80’s rolled into the 90’s. Looking back, Spartan may have represented the pinnacle of what it meant to be a free man in America before it all started going to toxically masculine shit.
Former cop Spartan is awakened from cryo-freeze in 2032, to an America that is clean, safe, polite and… utterly devoid of anything resembling life, liberty or happiness. Actual physical sex is illegal, as is dropping a good solid F-bomb. The populace is unarmed and docile, made that way by oppressive laws, an endless supply of inane entertainment content and ancient marketing jingles masquerading as popular music… gee, why does that all sound so damned familiar?
Denis Leary delivers something of a Libertarian manifesto at the film’s midpoint, one which I’m pretty sure I quoted verbatim at several points during the wholly unnecessary COVID lockdowns (more on those in a moment)…
These days, smoking a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinatti in the middle of a California non-smoking section will get you thrown right into the “Kamala Harris Wing” of the Gavin Newsom Memorial Gulag, and we’re probably no more than a couple of years away from a San Francisco public Healthcare surtax on every serving of chili-cheese fries. If you squint, you can easily begin to wonder if the filmmakers got the last two numbers in the year reversed, because the 2032 of DEMOLITION MAN looks an awful lot like the actual 2023 we are currently living through.
The “inciting incident” of DEMOLITION MAN occurs when a Government official named Cocteau, in the spirit of Soros prosecutors in Big Blue Cities all over America, intentionally releases murderers into the streets to terrorize the citizenry. He knows full well that, in their fear, the citizens of San Angeles will turn to him to protect them. This in turn will allow him to further consolidate his power over all the intimate details of their lives.
Hollywood called Dr. Raymond Cocteau a villain. And we all agreed that he was.
But that was then, this is now. Here in the “Now”… modern-day Cocteaus control Big Blue Cities (and States) all over America, and are celebrated by the Press for their courage in tearing those cities (and States) down to the studs.
Remember this speech from PREDATOR?
Well, after spending the last forty years smiting America’s enemies in the name of Freedom, Schwarzenegger has had a sudden change of heart. And so now it’s “screw your freedoms” and obey Anthony Fauci, a man who really did cook up a story (also, probably a virus!) and drop us all in the meat grinder. I guess we’re all just expendable assets now, just like Arnold’s doomed special forces team. Too bad… Arnold used to be somebody I could trust.
These days, when we watch the news, it’s those the same Goverment, military and intelligence officials… those who were once the “Big Bad“ villains in BOND movies, the MISSION; IMPOSSIBLE franchise and a million other thrillers from NO WAY OUT to PREDATOR to FIRST BLOOD, who stare back at us from our TV screens and say “you can trust us, now… this time it’s different.”
Untrustworthy men and women like Clapper, Brennan, Comey, Vindman, Fauci, Walensky, Page and Strzok, are now given a platform and a sinecure by the same Media who used to recoil from such officials like vampires from garlic bread. Each night these officials look us in the eye and tell us that everything we know to be observably true has “all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation”… that we should ignore our lying eyes and do whatever our Government tells us to do, all while some brainless member of the Fourth Estate looks on adoringly, nary a single critical question on their well-paid botoxed lips.
Look, I believe in the Deep State is real. I do. My Father was a part of it for 20 years and he told me many times that the Government is not run by The President or the Congress… but by the countless faceless bureacrats of a million unelected Federal State and local agencies. But it has taken a long time for me to arrive at my current level of mistrust. Tucker Carlson said something on Glenn Beck’s radio show recently that really resonated with me. He said he’d spent his whole life in D.C., his father worked for the Government, and so he had a baseline level of trust in Government that was hard to shake. I too grew up in a D.C. suburb, and my Dad drove into the District every day for 25 years to his job at a Federal Agency, and so it was natural for me to say “how could Government be bad? My Dad works there?”
But it is sometimes bad. It’s too big, it’s too powerful, and it’s too dumb. It is too often a hammer when what we need is a scalpel.
What I don’t believe, though, is that the Deep State is a malevolent serpent, slithering its way through the halls of Adminstrative DC pushing the dark agenda of the the Globalists or the Military Industrial Complex or the Pharma companies or the Intelligence community. I believe that the Deep State is more like Ayers Rock, huge and immovable. You can’t move Ayers Rock, you can’t change it or influence it. The best you can do is chip away at the edges a little bit, but even that requires such a high level of effort that it makes the juice hardly worth the squeeze.
That’s what the Deep State is, it is an immovable rock. A million faceless calcified systems, for which no one seems to be responsible and from which everyone seems to have plausible deniability. Those who work within those systems long ago gave up on changing them for the better and now simply work to maintain them in their zombified states, training their replacements in the same go-along-to-get-along systems for generation after generation.
In a very real sense, Pete Buttigeig is not the “Director” of the Department of Transportation. He can’t be… because no one can. The DOT is too big for any one person to “direct.” The best he can hope for is to be is an effective caretaker. Which means the DOT, and every other Federal Agency, exist outside any one person’s direct control.
Like Ayers Rock, they just… are.
It’s the people that make The Deep State good or bad… or evil. Obviously there are good caretakers and bad caretakers, and Mayor Pete is clearly the latter, but no matter who runs the DOT next, the agency itself will continue to grow and metastasize, forever. Because that’s what Government agencies do. It is their primary function. These caretakers may not be villains, but they are certainly not heroes.
And yet if Pete Buttegieg, or a character very much like him, were to show up in a big studio movie in 2023, would he be a villain like Walter Peck or Senator Geary? Or is it more likely that he would be the hero of the story? If nothing else, the fact that both Pete Buttigieg and Anthony Fauci have had Hollywood-produced hagiographic documentarties made about them within the last few years, is highly suggestive of what the answer might be.
Could STRZOK: THE MOVIE be far behind? I think even the most committed Progressive would have to admit that the chances are non-zero.
Here in 2023, everyone knows that Richard Nixon resigned because he engaged in a massive cover-up of his administration’s involvement in the Watergate break-in, a story revealed by the reporting of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodard and Carl Bernstein. But to watch ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN is to understand that in 1972 the connection between the break-in and the Nixon Government was never obvious, that the outcome of the story was by no means assured. In the beginning, Woodward and Bernstein didn’t have any idea what they had. They started with a weird penny-ante crime story and slowly and methodically followed it all the way to the White House. The result was a best-selling book and one of the greatest movies ever made.
Now compare that with the way our Media Coporations and Big Tech handled the Hunter Biden laptop story. No honest broker would suggest that the details revealed by the release of the laptop’s contents were any less suggestive of massive governmental corruption than was the initial fact pattern surrounding the Watergate break-in. Quite the contrary… the laptop arrived in the Media’s collective in-box with all the dots already connected. But we all know in our hearts that there will never be a big budget studio movie about The Hunter Biden laptop featuring an ensemble of the biggest movie stars of our time, no matter where that story leads.
Because the Bad Guys have become the Good Guys.
When I was in college I worked for a summer as a greenskeeper at a Golf Course on the PGA Tour. I wrote about it here, in what is still my favorite essay on this substack. I was something like a glorified gardener, that summer. Mostly I pushed a mower for three months. Except on this one particular day after the course got hit by a tornado that knocked over something like a hundred trees. My entire crew was called in over that weekend to do cleanup duty. The head of our crew took me out to where he had a big yellow machine hooked up to the course’s heavy-duty diesel tractor, a big sonofabitch that coughed out great clouds of black smoke as it operated. Boss Man told me the machine was an industrial woodchipper and that it was going to be my job to feed all those dead trees into the mouth of that goddamned thing. I guess he caught me staring at the spinning blades because before he walked away he said ‘listen, if that thing grabs ahold of you, it’s best not to fight it, just let it pull you in. It’ll be over faster.”
The Deep State is like that shredder… it’s not evil, but it is dangerous. COVID taught me that. Nothing in my life, not the threat of nuclear war, not financial collapse, not even 9/11 has scared me as much as watching a majority of my fellow countrymen bend over for every autocratic Federal impulse in exchange for an ephemeral sense of safety from an airborne respiratory virus.
We got too close to the churning maw of Government in 2020 and it pulled us right in. Unfortunately, this time there were no Woodwards or Bernsteins to pull back on the reins and say “hey wait, this doesn’t make sense. Let’s all slow down until we figure this out.” The Woodsteins of the world were all on the government’s side this time, and the Entertainment Corporations were their platform.
Our vertically integrated Entertainment system, once the vanguard of Progressive mistrust of authority, gave the Government cover to do whatever it wanted throughout the pandemic. And then Hollwyood, the News Media, and their enforcers in Big Tech turned these Government COVID officials into heroes, even though those officials knew that much of what they were saying wasn’t true. Hollywood and the Media sympathetically promoted every autocratic Government demand, and they attacked, censored and deplatformed anyone who dared to ask a critical question.
How on Earth did that happen?
It happened because that’s another thing the Deep State does… it captures. And now it has captured Hollywood and the broader Entertainment business, including the “News” Media. How it has done so is probably beyond the scope of this essay, but there is little doubt that it has. What this means for a beleagured American populace trying to figure out whom they can trust is anyone’s guess. But it seems obvious to me that it is an ominous development.
Whom will our cultural vanguard decide are tomorrow’s villains? Well, you know what they say… “if you look around the room and you’re not sure who The Mark is… you’re The Mark.”
A generation of Americans is being raised on half-truths and lies about the history of slavery in America. They are given the impression that America was uniquely bad and that American slavery was uniquely bad. They learn nothing about slavery elsewhere. Among the many lies they are told are that “black slaves built America” and that America is systemically racist.
Since the only mortal enemy of the Left is truth, here are some truths about slavery.
America’s Slavery Compared to Slavery Everywhere Else
If you are interested in morality and committed to truth, you do not ask, “Who had slaves?” You ask, “Who ended slavery?”
Who had slaves?
Every civilization throughout history had slaves: Asian societies, Africans, Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples around the world, and the Muslim/Arab world, which may have had the most slaves of all.
Who ended slavery?
There was only one thing unique about slavery in the West: It raised the issue of the morality of slavery, ferociously debated it and finally abolished it there, before it was abolished in any other civilization. If you care about moral truth rather than, for example, promoting America-hatred, you must recognize — and you must teach — that America was one of the first slave-holding societies to abolish slavery. This even includes Africa. Cornell professor Sandra Greene, a black scholar of African history, notes, “Slavery in the United States ended in 1865, but in West Africa it was not legally ended until 1875, and then it stretched on unofficially until almost World War I.”
The Numbers of Slaves
According to the authoritative SlaveVoyages.org, the total number of black slaves imported from Africa into America was 305,326. The number of black slaves other countries imported from Africa into the rest of the New World — i.e., into the Caribbean and South America—was 12,521,337. In other words, other countries imported 41 times the number of black slaves into the Western Hemisphere than the United States did including the years before American independence). Yet, the American Left never mentions this important moral point—because the Left-controlled education system suppresses facts it finds inconvenient, and the Left is not interested in morality or truth, but in vilifying America.
And then there is Arab/Muslim enslavement of blacks. Professor Paul Lovejoy, in his “Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa” (Cambridge University Press, 2012), reveals that from the beginning of Islam in the 7th century through the year 1600, the estimated number of Africans enslaved by Muslims was about 7 million. After 1600, it was about a million per year. Do American students ever learn about the Arab/Muslim slave trade? How many know, for example, that a great percentage of the African male slaves were castrated so that they could not have families?
Black Slaves Built America
This is another lie of the Left.
Those who make this argument point to the lucrative cotton manufacturing and trade in the 19th-century — the industry in which black slaves were primarily used in the American South.
But University of Illinois professor of Economics, Deirdre McCloskey, answered this:
“Growing cotton, unlike sugar or rice, never required slavery. By 1870, freedmen and whites produced as much cotton as the South produced in the slave time of 1860. Cotton was not a slave crop in India or in southwest China, where it was grown in bulk… That slaves produced cotton does not imply that they were essential or causal in the production…
“The United States and the United Kingdom and the rest would have become just as rich without the 250 years of unrequited toil. They have remained rich, observe, even after the peculiar institution was abolished, because their riches did not depend on its sinfulness.”
But one need not know anything about cotton to understand how false “Black slaves built America” is. All you need is common sense.
First, even if slavery accounted for much of the wealth of the South, the Civil War that brought slavery to an end in the United States wiped out nearly all of that wealth and cost the Union billions (in today’s dollars).
Second, if slavery built the American economy, the most robust economy in world history, why didn’t Brazil become an economic superpower? Brazil imported four million black slaves, about 12 times as many as America. Why did the slave-owning American South lag so far behind the North economically? Why did England, which, though it played a major role in the transatlantic slave trade until the beginning of the 19th century, had almost no slaves, become the most advanced economy of the 19th century?
“Black slaves built America” is left-wing propaganda to vilify America and to discredit capitalism.
America is Systemically Racist
This is the Great Left Lie.
Four million black people have emigrated to the United States since the 1960s—and tens of millions more would if they could. Are they all fools? Why would anyone move to a country that is systemically bigoted against them? Did any Jews emigrate to Germany in the 1930s?
Blacks have emigrated to the United States because they know what Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the black woman who fled her homeland of Somalia and who now writes and lectures in America, knows:
“What the media do not tell you is that America is the best place on the planet to be black, female, gay, trans or what have you.”
Blacks emigrating to America know what Algerian writer Kamel Daoud, writing in Le Monde and Le Point, knows:
“It is forbidden to say that the West is also the place to which we flee when we want to escape the injustice of our country of origin, dictatorship, war, hunger, or simply boredom. It is fashionable to say that the West is guilty of everything.”
As regards American slavery and everything else, always remember this: Truth is a liberal value, and truth is a conservative value. It is not a left-wing value.
Candace Cameron Bure's NEW 2023 Christmas Movie has been officially announced via Great American Media's press release below! I'm excited to see the movie will have a military theme to it, which is a wonderful way to honor those who serve our country.
GREAT AMERICAN FAMILY ANNOUNCES
PRODUCTION START OF
‘MY CHRISTMAS HERO,’
STARRING CANDACE CAMERON BURE
NEW YORK, NY – April 18, 2023 – Great American Family, TV’s fastest-growing network for two straight quarters, today announced the start of production for MY CHRISTMAS HERO, starring Candace Cameron Bure (A Christmas Present, “Full House”), which will premiere as part of the network’s annual Great American Christmas franchise. Great American Christmas returns in October with original movie premieres Saturdays and Sundays, and 24/7 holiday movies through the end of the year.
In MY CHRISTMAS HERO, US Army reservist and orthopedic physician, Nicole Ramsey (Bure) is dedicated to serving military service members and their families at the Joint Military Base in Lacey, Washington, home of I Corps and the 62nd Airlift Wing. This Christmas, with the help of many dedicated heroes, Dr. Ramsey is on a mission to honor a special fallen soldier and bring much needed healing to her own family.
“We are proud to tell a story that honors our U.S. veterans this Christmas season. From WW2 to present day veterans, we shine the spotlight on their heroic work as well as aftercare needs. We have a talented cast and crew and are thrilled to bring it to our Great American Family audience,” says Candace Cameron Bure.
MY CHRISTMAS HERO is produced by Veteran Productions in Association with Candy Rock Entertainment and Syrup Studios. Mick McKay serves as Producer, and Martin Wood directs an original screenplay written by Jim Head. Executive producers include Candace Cameron Bure, Ford Englerth, Jeffery Brooks, Jim Head, Gerald Webb, Eric Jarboe, Holly Hines, Martin Wood, and Trevor McWhinney. Supervising Producers include Jonathan Shore, Robyn Weiner, Michael Shepard, and Doran Chandler serves as Associate Producer.
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Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee spent Monday’s Manhattan field hearing blaming guns, not the criminals behind them, for the nation’s crime epidemic.
The committee held a field hearing in Manhattan as New York City deteriorates from an American centerpiece of capital ingenuity into a treacherous urban jungle where far-left prosecutors allow criminals to control the streets.
“Today’s hearing is about the administration of justice, and keeping communities safe, something that has always been a central focus of the House Judiciary Committee,” opened House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan.
The Ohio Republican went on to condemn Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for prioritizing political witch hunts over street safety. Bragg’s office unsealed the first indictment of a former president this month with 34 charges against Donald Trump related to 2016 hush-money payments to a porn actress.
“Rather than enforcing the law, the [Manhattan] DA is using his office to do the bidding of left-wing campaign funders,” Jordan said, outlining the crime statistics that plague Bragg’s New York City constituents. Major crime spiked 22 percent under Bragg’s first year in office, including a 30 percent rise in subway crime, according to the New York Times. The paper reported Saturday that less than 330 people were responsible for almost a third of all shoplifting arrests last year.
“You leave more criminals on the street, you get more crime,” Jordan said.
Democrats countered by scapegoating guns and declared the hearing politically motivated, given the Manhattan DA’s prosecution of the former president.
“It is shameful that the Republicans of this committee would use the pretext of violent crime to play tourist in New York and bully the district attorney,” said New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, the Democrats’ ranking member. “It is particularly disgraceful that they would use this pretext after doing nothing, nothing to stop gun the gun violence that terrorizes our nation.”
Nadler called on lawmakers to “stem the iron pipeline” in reference to “the illicit flow of illegal firearms from states that do less to protect their citizens to New York and elsewhere.” Nadler also argued to move the committee’s hearing to Jordan’s home state of Ohio with claims that red states, not blue states, are at the center of the nation’s crime wave. Local officials responsible for the nation’s unsafe streets, however, are Democrats.
Nearly every Democrat on the committee followed suit and went after guns when it was their turn for questioning to a panel of witnesses victimized by criminals who used knives to rob and kill.
Among the witnesses who testified include Madeline Brame, whose veteran son was fatally stabbed nine times in 2018 and Jose Alba, a bodega owner whom Bragg charged with second-degree murder after fending off a violent robber in self-defense. Alba was stabbed by the assailant’s alleged girlfriend as he was forced to defend himself.
Brame told lawmakers Bragg’s office dismissed her pleas to prosecute those responsible for the murder of her son and treated her like “garbage.” Alba, whose charges were ultimately dropped amid public outrage, re-told the story of Bragg sending the bodega owner to Riker’s Island for nearly a week after the incident.
“I still don’t know why I was charged with murder,” Alba said, speaking through an interpreter. “Even though the charges were dropped, they should not have been brought against me to begin with. I’m now traumatized from the incident. I am not working because I am terrified for my life that someone in a gang will come after me for revenge.”
New York Democrat Congressman Daniel Goodman called the proceedings a “charade” to protect Trump. The remark provoked an interruption from Brame.
“Don’t insult my intelligence,” Brame said. “This is why I walked away from the plantation of the Democratic Party.”
New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who chairs the House Republican Conference, highlighted how it’s Democrats who obsessed over Trump at the hearing on crime.
“In addition to House Democrats belittling the victims here today, Democrats have politicized this hearing, mentioning Donald Trump 38 times. That number for Republicans is zero,” she said.
Several Democrats at Monday’s hearings stood on graves of children gunned down in schools that lacked proper security to demand stricter gun control.
“When Senate Republicans were finally motivated to action by the horrific slaughter of babies in Uvalde, did my Republican colleagues here join? No, not a single one of them voted for the bipartisan Safer Communities Act,” said Pennsylvania Congresswoman Madeleine Dean.
Bary Borgen, whose son was beaten in Times Square two years ago in an anti-Semitic attack, responded to the congresswoman by asking the obvious.
“Why isn’t anybody blaming the shooter?” Borgen said. “You’re blaming guns, no one blames the shooter.”
Borgen also blasted Nadler at the hearing for being dismissive of demands that his son’s perpetrators be given a fair sentence.
“You’re a Jewish New Yorker,” Borgen said to Nadler. “I called your office numerous times. I called Mr. Schumer’s office, another Jewish New Yorker, numerous times.”
“No one called us back,” Borgen added. “Neither one of you came out with a statement on my son’s incident, okay? You’re a Jewish New Yorker. You have Jewish roots here.”
Runaway crime in New York has proven to be a key liability for the state’s Democrat lawmakers. Republicans flipped four congressional districts in New York where crime was the prime issue, including a seat held by the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Sean Patrick Maloney, during last fall’s midterms in a lackluster year.
