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LESSON ONE...

Libertarian Senator Rand P (R-KY) is a nutter, much like his father, former U.S. Representative Ron Paul (R-TX).

Both are inflexible absolutists who speak conservative but have very little influence in legislation, especially when you consider that Kentucky's senior Senator is the corrupt Republican reprobate Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

But that doesn't mean we can't learn first principles from Rand Paul.

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Bottom line...

We are so screwed--especially if we do not take back our government.

-- Steve

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“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS


SORRY JACK, THAT'S NOT SCIENCE, IT'S TYRANNY!

POLITICS-SCIENCE

The progressive communist democrat science mindfuck.

It’s about time to call out the narcissism and self-focus surrounding the agenda of so-called trans individuals who demand, under penalty of law, that we accept and celebrate their delusion that men can be women and women can be men. A scientific impossibility that is crippling our society as it erodes social conventions and norms. This includes the nonsense about the use of made-up words that purport to identify the many different gender identities claimed by the activists.

This is quite a departure from gay rights, where natural attractions between two individuals of the same sex are, well, natural, and that legal rights conferred to statutorily-coupled married individuals should be applied to both groups equally through a statutory “civil union,” a “personal relation arising out of a civil contract between two persons, to which the consent of the parties capable of making that contract is necessary.”

When biologists discuss sex as being “binary,” it denotes that there are only two sexes based on the binary classification between sperm  (small gametes) and ova (large gametes). Differences beyond gametes, including genetic chromosomal differences, hormone levels, and average morphological and behavioral differences, are a combination of social constructs used to define the cultural and social distinctions between males and females.

It is also true that, in a free society, you should be able to believe anything you want as long as you do not assume the moral or legal authority to force someone else to accept your belief, right or wrong. Hence, forced transgenderism is about power and has very little to do with freedom.

What we are seeing is a different manifestation of the power equation used by progressive communist democrats who want to destroy today’s society by corrupting social and cultural norms and substituting a version of a perverted society that grants perpetual authoritarian power over the population—defining freedom not as an inalienable right, but a privilege to be dispensed by the ruling elite as a reward for proper behavior or withheld as punishment for wrong thinking.

Science…

Science can be considered “unscientific or not science” when it deviates from the principles and methodologies that define the scientific method. Science relies on empirical evidence gathered through systematic observation, experimentation, data collection, and analysis rather than based on sparse anecdotal evidence, faith, belief, or feelings. If a claim or theory lacks supporting evidence or cannot be tested empirically, it falls outside the realm of science. Likewise, scientific theories must be falsifiable, meaning there must be a way to potentially prove them wrong through observation or experimentation. Claims that cannot be tested or proven false do not have a scientific basis and remain hypothetical.

Bottom line…

I am tired of the progressive communist democrats using “science” to excuse and implement authoritarian policies that lack scientific plausibility or fail to adhere to the scientific method.

We are so screwed.

-- Steve


“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS


OF COURSE, ACADEMIC HISTORIANS CLAIM TRUMP IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY

At a time when the human rights and checks and balance protections built into the U.S. Constitution are being ignored by the progressive communist democrats, they have the temerity to suggest that Franklin Delano Roosevelt (#2), Barack Obama (#7), and Joseph Biden (#14) are presidents of note, even though they have fundamentally transformed America in unhealthy un-American ways., including the destruction of systemically important institutions.

The 2024 “Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey” ranking of presidential greatness, from President George Washington to Joe Biden, finds that former President Donald J. Trump ranks dead last (10.92). 

What else would you expect from an “echo chamber” of academics existing in an environment overpopulated with progressive communist democrats?

Likewise, as expected, we find the top ratings being awarded to Abraham Lincoln (95.03 average), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (90.83), George Washington (90.32), Teddy Roosevelt (78.58), Thomas Jefferson (77.53), Harry Truman (75.34), Barack Obama (73.8), and Dwight Eisenhower (73.73).

The rating scale of 0-100 for overall presidential greatness ranged from 0=failure, 50=average, and 100=great.

By their own words, “There are also several presidents where partisan polarization is evident – Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Obama, and Biden – but interestingly not for Bill Clinton,” they make a mockery of their findings.

But President Joe Biden’s #14 rating (62.66) is the final nail in the coffin.

Putting aside the fact that Biden’s presidential record is incomplete, one wonders how anyone, let alone a group of experts, rates a corrupt, mush-headed, congenital liar whose foreign policy prescriptions have overwhelmingly been on the wrong side of history so highly.

By their words, ye shall know them…

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Engage

Toolkits and Resources 

  • Implicit Bias Assessment Test
  • How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
  • The Urgent Need for Anti-racist Education

How to be(come) an Ally 

  • How to be an Ally for Social Justice, Melissa Michelson, TEDx Menlo College. 
  • Best Practices for Being an Ally, The Ohio State University Political Science Diversity Committee
  • Guidelines for Being Strong White Allies, by Racial Equity Tools, adapted from Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Social Justice by Paul Kivel.
  • Learning to be an Ally for People from Diverse Groups and Backgrounds, The Community Toolbox, by the Center for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas

Resources for Addressing Anti-Asian Hate and Violence 

Stop AAPI Hate

  • StopAAPIHate.org
  • Report on Anti-Asian Violence and Hate Incidents
  • Other Reports released in 2020

Resources

  • Visit APSA Resource Page on Addressing Anti-Asian Hate and Violence for more resources.

Get Informed

APSA journal publications on related topics

  • Protests, Policing, and Race from the APSA journals
  • A Virtual Review: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity in American Political Science Association Publications
  • Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting,  APSR, by Omar Wasow  
  • What kind of movement is Black Lives Matter? The view from Twitter Al Tillery

Relevant Research

  • Special Projects Fund Awardee Research
  • The Collaborative Study of Race in the Americas: Team Building in the 21st Century
  • #MeTooPoliSci: Addressing Gender Discrimination in Political Science
  • Collected articles on linked fate, Black identity politics and race, ethnicity and politics, from the Collaborative Multiracial Post-election Survey CMPS 
  • American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom, by Hanes Walton, Robert C. Smith, Sherri L. Wallace 
  • American While Black: African Americans, Immigration and Limits of Citizenship, by Niambi Michelle Carter 
  • Convicted and Condemned: The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry, by Keesha M. Middlemass 
  • Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism and Unequal Politics, by Jamila Michener
  • Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior, by Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird
  • Can We All Get Along: Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics, by Paula D. McClain and Jessica D. Johnson Carew

Centennial Center Project Grant Recipients 

  • The Collaborative Study of Race in the Americas: Team Building in the 21st Century , KC Morrison, David Covin
  • The Collaborative Multi-Racial Post Election Survey , Lorrie Frasure, Matt Barreto, Edward Vargas, and Janelle Wong.
  • #MeTooPoliSci: Addressing Gender Discrimination in Political Science , Nadia Brown, Rebecca Gill, Jennifer Merolla, Melissa Michelson, Elizabeth Sharrow, Patricia Stapleton, Dara Strolovitch

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Bottom line…

This online survey is bullshit and would have been more appropriately presented on April 1, 2024 – April Fools’ Day.

This academic association’s inherent and apparent political bias stems from various factors, including the composition of its membership and the prevailing ideologies within the academic discipline it purports to represent. Perhaps we should examine the leadership of the American Political Science Association, which claims it is the “foremost organization of social science experts in presidential politics,” including the board of directors and executive committee who may hold certain political leanings that shape the direction of the organization and its activities.

According to the survey results, 525 respondents were invited to participate, and 154 usable responses were received, yielding a 29.3% response rate. This suggests only the most motivated and possibly the most biased and engaged individuals were likely to respond.

We are so screwed.

-- Steve

The 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey was conducted online via Qualtrics from November 15 to December 31, 2023. Respondents included current and recent members of the Presidents & Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, which is the foremost organization of social science experts in presidential politics, as well as scholars who had recently published peer-reviewed academic research in key related scholarly journals or academic presses.


“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS


FORGET TAIWAN: WILL THE COMMUNIST CHINESE EVENTUALLY OWN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA?

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It was no surprise that a Communist Chinese spy served for almost twenty years in U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s San Francisco Office, including while she was the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Surprisingly, however, the spy was allowed to retire with his pension and without government prosecution. The Chinese spy was Feinstein’s driver who also served as a gofer in her Bay Area office and as her liaison to the Asian-American community. The spy even attended Chinese consulate functions as a stand-in for Senator Feinstein. Feinstein was quick to point out that none of her California office staffers possessed a security clearance, as if this matters when discussing sensitive matters with a staffer nearby--who becomes a near-invisible functionary.

So why should I be surprised to find that the San Francisco Elections Commission has, for the first time in history, appointed a non-citizen who is ineligible to vote as an election official?

More surprising is that Hong Kong native Kelly Wong is an immigrant rights advocate. Wong is said to have arrived in the United States to pursue graduate studies in 2019.

Something seems fishy here as Wong claimed she would also continue her work for the progressive advocacy group Chinese for Affirmative Action—a non-government organization founded in 1969 whose mission is to protect the “civil and political rights of Chinese Americans and to advance multiracial democracy in the United States.” This suspiciously sounds like one of many pro-China front organizations. Wong has worked with the influence group since 2022.

Chinese influence groups seeking citizenship and political power?

WHAT WE DO

Comprising 11 Asian American social justice groups, the Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE) network focuses on long-term movement building, capacity infrastructure, and leadership support for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders committed to social justice.

Amidst a pandemic and surge in anti-Asian hate, AACRE grassroots groups are supporting and leading marginalized populations including immigrants, refugees, formerly incarcerated individuals, and LGBTQ+ people.

Together, we are advancing an inclusive vision of justice for all communities.

HOW WE DO IT

AACRE leverages the power of its network by developing the relationships, critical connections, and unique strengths that exist among its member groups. Shared capacity work includes access to common facilities, financial management, and administrative support systems. Strategic communication and collaborative efforts include retreats, convenings, information sharing, and joint projects that promote a culture of trust, mutuality, and transformation.

THE ASIAN AMERICANS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND EQUALITY GROUPS:
  • The Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, works to educate, organize, and empower the Bay Area South Asian communities to end violence, oppression, racism and exploitation within and against diverse communities
  • APEX Express is a weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Asian Americans from all corners of the community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, djs, and activists and airs each week on KPFA 94.1FM.
  • The Asian Prisoner Support Committee works with Asian and Pacific Islander prisoners to educate the broader community about the growing number of APIs in the U.S. being imprisoned, detained, and deported.
  • Asian Refugees United builds intergenerational and inter-ethnic power for positive lasting change through sharing art, healing, culture and political engagement. Started in 2007 as a project of Forward Together, ARU addresses workers’ rights and community health issues in general by building the voice, visibility and power of Bhutanese and Vietnamese immigrant and refugee communities in East Oakland.
  • The mission of Chinese for Affirmative Action is to protect the civil and political rights of Chinese Americans and to advance multiracial democracy in the United States. CAA advocates for systemic change that protects immigrant rights, promotes language diversity, and remedies racial injustice.
  • Hmong Innovating Politics is a grassroots organization whose mission is to strengthen the political power of Hmong and disenfranchised communities through innovative civic engagement and strategic grassroots mobilization.
  • Hyphen is a news and culture magazine that tells the stories of Asian America, beyond identity, featuring emerging artists, thinkers and doers. By documenting and disseminating these stories, Hyphen contributes to the ever-expanding, multifaceted narrative of Asians in America.
  • Lavender Phoenix works to build LGBTQ+ Asian and Pacific Islander power by amplifying the voices and increasing the visibility of LGBTQ+ API communities. Through organizing, Lavender Phoenix inspires and trains leaders, establishes intergenerational connections, and documents and disseminates histories.
  • The Network on Religion and Justice for Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People works to nurture and support efforts toward a fully inclusive Asian Pacific Islander faith community.
  • VietUnity Bay Area – promotes a progressive voice within the Vietnamese Community. Through alliance building, community education, organizing, and collective action, Viet Unity Bay Area works towards positive social change that acknowledges and combats all forms and systems of oppression. VietUnity Bay Area connects it work to broader multi-racial and multi-class movements for social justice and systemic change.
  • Visibility Project is a national portrait and oral history archive highlighting queer Asian Pacific American women, trans, and gender non-conforming communities. The Visibility Project utilizes powerful photography and personal storytelling narratives that embrace the intersections of queer APAs.

According to her bio, Wong has worked with the United Nations International Organization for Migration, which seems to facilitate and fund illegal migration into the United States.

“Born and raised in Hong Kong, I moved to the US in 2019 and finished a master degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. I have devoted my career to championing immigrant rights and equity and inclusion. Prior to graduate school, I worked closely with victims of trafficking, migrant domestic workers, and refugees in Hong Kong while working at Fair Employment Agency, International Organization for Migration, and UNHCR. I am currently working at Chinese for Affirmative Action, which is the fiscal sponsor of Stop AAPI Hate campaign, to provide legal services and advocate for low‐income AAPI immigrants in San Francisco.”

Bottom line…

Consider how many military-age Chinese men are transgressing our open border under the Biden open borders policy. How many will infiltrate American businesses, including those associated with critical infrastructure? [Alarming Rise in Military-Aged Chinese Men Entering US Illegally, Border Patrol Union Chief Warns]

There is no need to engage in war when Americans are willing to sell out their nation for the proverbial thirty pieces of silver or a sexual fling.

Remember Eric Swalwell, another Bay Area Democrat, and his romp with Chinese operative Fang-Fang. The same Swalwell, a member of the House Intelligence Committee who was defended by liar, leaker, perjurer, and evidence fabricator Adam Schiff, who is now running for the U.S. Senate.

Or foreigners fighting the battle in our Courts, using our own Constitution and laws against us—lawfare.

We are so screwed.

-- Steve


“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS


ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE NOT MIGRANTS; THEY ARE CRIMINALS VIOLATING FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAWS

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Progressive communist democrats have started calling illegal aliens 'migrants' so they can pretend the people crossing our border are not doing so illegally.

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Bottom line...

We are so screwed.

-- Steve

 


“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS


TRUMP RULING: IGNORE THE LAW, IGNORE THE FACTS, STOP TRUMP IN 2024

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In an amazing display of progressive communist democrat police state justice, New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron found that Trump was guilty of fraud, conspiracy, and issuing false financial statements and false business records, and fined Trump and the Trump Organization  $370 for a standard business practice with no declared victims.

There was no trial; the prosecution’s case, using a never-applied law, was conducted by the Judge based on the attorney-filed briefs, after which he held Trump guilty as charged. The only thing to be decided at trial was the penalty to be assessed.

Considering the outrageous amount of the fine, one must ask about the disposition of funds since there were no declared victims—or is this a case of state forfeiture of assets where the money flows to satisfy New York’s budget deficit?

The Judge found Trump’s former attorney, fraudster and perjurer Michael Cohen, a credible witness because his State-sponsored testimony aided the State’s case.

"Although the animosity between the witness and the defendant is palpable, providing Cohen with an incentive to lie, the Court found his testimony credible, based on the relaxed manner in which he testified, the general plausibility of his statements, and, most importantly, the way his testimony was corroborated by other trial evidence. A less-forgiving factfinder might have concluded differently, might not have believed a single word of a convicted perjurer. This factfinder does not believe that pleading guilty to perjury means that you can never tell the truth. Michael Cohen told the truth."

The Judge appears upset that Trump did not confess, roll over, and beg the Court’s mercy.

"Their complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological. They are accused only of inflating asset values to make more money. The documents prove this over and over again. This is a venial sin, not a mortal sin. Defendants did not commit murder or arson. They did not rob a bank at gunpoint. Donald Trump is not Bernard Madoff. Yet, defendants are incapable of admitting the error of their ways. Instead, they adopt a 'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil' posture that the evidence belies."

Adding a little poetry…

“The English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744) first declared, ‘To err is human, to forgive is divine.’ Defendants apparently are of a different mind.”

Who was really calling the shots?

CO-JUDGE

Bottom line…

Of course, the ruling will be appealed, and the matter will drag on through the courts—enriching attorneys as they delay and delay.

Undoubtedly, the prosecutor, the Judge, and affiliated parties should be impeached, removed from office, and prosecuted for attempting to interfere with a federal presidential election. Trump should sue the State of New York and the Democrat Party to recover expenses, punitive damages, and an official policy.

We should all be thankful to Donald Trump for revealing the depth of corruption in the Democrat Party and the institutions it has corrupted over the years since Barack Obama was elected.

We are so screwed.

Gop-CHANGE

-- Steve


“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS