FBI's Take on Jan 6th

 FBI's Take on Jan 6th

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EXCLUSIVE: FBI Devoted at Least 16,000 More Hours to Jan. 6 Riot Than to BLM Riots in DC

Fred Lucas / @FredLucasWH / March 20, 2023

Life Among the Ruins - VDH

 Life Among the Ruins - VDH

Life Among the Ruins

 

American society is facing three existential crises not unlike those that overcame the late Roman, and a millennium later, Byzantine, empires.

Premodern Barbarism

Postmodern Abyss

Them   (Our Enemies)

 Pete's Friend (Mayor of College Park) is a Pedefile !

LGBTQ-Activist Mayor Linked to Buttigieg Arrested for Child Porn

The Democratic mayor of College Park, Maryland, who is openly homosexual and fancied himself a role model for LGBTQ youth, was arrested on dozens of counts of possessing and distributing child pornography on Thursday morning.

Church of England Approves of Gay Marriage

 And Here We Must Stand

Last week the Church of England approved blessings for gay couples. The three voting houses of bishops, clergy and laity voted on the proposal in an all-church body known as Synod. In a joint statement by Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Stephen Cottrell, the Archbishop of York, “For the first time, the Church of England will publicly, unreservedly and joyfully welcome same-sex couples in church.” Separately, Cottrell added that same-sex couples “could now come to church and have that relationship acknowledged, celebrated and the couple receive a blessing.”

How can you simultaneously celebrate and bless a marriage in the name of God while maintaining that it is not, in fact, a biblical marriage that God would endorse? That isn’t just doublespeak. That is a form of blasphemy. You can only bless what God has affirmed should be blessed, and only celebrate what God has affirmed should be celebrated. Homoerotic activity, much less gay marriage, is morally wrong. That may not be a cultural truth, but it is a biblical truth

WSJ: The State of the Union Contradiction: If Biden is such a success, why aren’t Americans pleased?

 WSJ: The State of the Union Contradiction: If Biden is such a success, why aren’t Americans pleased?

President Biden devoted most of his State of the Union address on Tuesday night to celebrating what he says is a long list of legislative and economic achievements—spending on social programs and public works, subsidies for computer chips, even more subsidies for green energy, and a strong labor market. But if he’s done so much for America, why does most of America not seem to appreciate it?

That’s the contradiction stalking his Presidency as he enters his third year and plots a likely re-election campaign. The disconnect is clear enough in the polls. His job approval rating average has climbed to 44.2% in the RealClearPolitics average, which should be better with all of that supposed good news. Gallup has it at 41%. Mr. Biden’s RCP average job approval on the economy is 38%.

The latest Washington Post/ABC poll is even worse for the President. Some 41% of Americans say they’re worse off financially than when Mr. Biden became President, while only 16% say they’re better off. Most people—62%—say Mr. Biden has accomplished either not very much or little or nothing. That includes 22% of Democrats.

And here’s the really bad news for Mr. Biden. Some 58% of Democrats say they’d prefer a different party nominee for President in 2024, and he even loses a head to head matchup with former President Trump 48%-44%. . . .

The President’s biggest problem is that all of his legislative victories haven’t delivered the benefits he promised. The $1.9 trillion Covid bill in March 2021 added so much cash to the economy that it helped to trigger an historic inflation. The result is that most Americans haven’t had a raise in their income after inflation in two years. This takes a shine off the low unemployment rate every time people hit the grocery store. They can see that the nearly $500 billion in spending and tax subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022 had nothing at all to do with reducing inflation.

Americans also observe a fraying social consensus that has them worried about the country. Crime may not be as high as it was in the 1990s, but it has risen sharply in big cities. The record migrant surge across the border would be less worrisome if Mr. Biden seemed to care about stopping it. The fentanyl scourge isn’t his fault, but its breadth betrays a troubling decay in values.

As for foreign policy, Americans can see that the world is becoming more dangerous and its rogues more brazen.

Americans aren’t pleased, because he’s not a success, all claims by the Biden Administration and the media — but I repeat myself — notwithstanding.

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 In Search of a Right Populist Agenda

In Search of a Right Populist Agenda

FROM THE MAGAZINE

In Search of a Right Populist Agenda

Merely opposing the Left’s hegemonic power is not enough.

Martin Gurri

Winter 2023 

Politics and law

The Social Order

Hollywood Virtue Signals Harvey Weinstein

  Should we care about what they do at awards shows?

If we ignore the awards shows, at least the key performances, we make ourselves ignorant of what is in the air that kids breathe. What creates attitudes? What can fuel social contagions that proliferate throughout the culture? What we see from these performers tells us what a lot of young people will be doing over the next few years. It goes from outré to normal.

The culture has shifted around us, and it was invisible to most of us until the damage was done. In just a few years we went from only being vaguely aware of the alphabet people to 1 out of 6 Gen Z–those who are around 18 right now–identifying as non-heterosexual. That includes all the colors of the rainbow. And the numbers are still skyrocketing. For one thing, the kids won’t have kids. Our culture is literally going to die off.

Our schools are pushing gender ideology and attacking every brick in the foundation of Western culture. Without a few brave souls like Chris Rufo and Matt Walsh, the heroes at Gays against Groomers, and some vilified parents, many of us still wouldn’t know. And we need to know if we are going to save our culture.

It’s tiresome to pay attention to the evil being pushed out by Hollywood and the music industry, but it is also necessary to understand the messages that children are being fed. Just as we have to keep up with the outrages that take place in schools, the pornography being pushed at kids in libraries, we must pay attention to celebrities. They are cultural barometers.

Keeping tabs on the cultural milieu tells us vital things about the culture’s health.

There’s much we can read about the state of the culture by applying a Kremlinologist’s attitude towards show biz awards shows:

 

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