Category: Baiting The Left

The Damage Done by Woke Ideology

In one of his brilliant books, Thomas Sowell explained how Stage One Thinking often leads to major problems. One of the top reviews of this book was written by Jason Cohen. Here’s a portion of it:

Sowell’s main thesis is that political decision-makers, which include both politicians, administrative agencies, and large government bureaucracies, often are rewarded for what he calls “stage one” thinking. In other words, because a politician’s main objective is to get re-elected, policies which are popular and appear to, or do, have short-term benefits are often pursued without regard to the policy’s long-term consequences. Ultimately, the politician will not be rewarded for the benefits that accrue in 10 or 20 years from the superior policy, but may be voted out of office for his unpopular stance.

A recent case in point can be found in Victoria, BC: Suspected gang member believed to be recruiting near schools: Victoria police chief:

A suspected gang member believed to be recruiting in local schools was recently arrested by Victoria police, Chief Del Manak told the Greater Victoria School Board on Monday.

“This is just one person of many who we have observed, and we continue to work on targeting these activities.”

Manak’s comments came as he renewed his call for reinstatement of the school-liaison officer program that previously brought police to district schools, saying he is ready to commit officers to the effort.

The board voted unanimously last year to cut the liaison program, citing concern for Black and Indigenous students who might not feel comfortable with a police presence.

Prince of the Evil Globalists

Yuval Harari is infected with TDS and doesn’t like that Donald Trump may be returning to power in America. It’s rather astounding that he can imply that re-electing Trump will bring more wars when quite the opposite is true. After all, it’s under the reign of his BFF Biden that endless wars have broken out. Are people really so stupid to be buying what this cretin is selling?

Much more on Harari can be seen here.

Your Moral and Intellectual Superiors

Jeffrey A. Tucker has recently published a stinging rebuke of the WEF cretins and their supporters who have been stuck on stupid for years:

More and more, it’s obvious what a disaster this was. And yet no one has apologized. Hardly anyone has admitted error. The big shots who wrecked the world are still in power.

The rest of us are left holding the bag, and paying very high repair bills for cars that are non-optimal for driving from one town to another and back again in the cold weather that was supposed to be gone by now had the “climate change” prophets been correct. They turn out to be as correct as those who promised us that we would no longer need “fossil fuels” and that the magic inoculation would protect everyone from a killer virus.

What astonishing illusions were born of this nutty and destructive period. At some point, not even corporate CEOs will be tricked by the experts.

h/t James MacMaster

Textbook Definition of an Urban Bigot

Jen Gennai is a well paid senior employee at Google. She epitomizes the term “urban bigot”:

If she was REALLY concerned with the employment opportunities of “underprivileged minorities”, that she purports to be deeply concerned about, why doesn’t she immediately resign and insist that a black trans paraplegic two-spirit he/she/they be her replacement? Asking for a friend.

Ontario Public Sector Workers: More Money for Me, More Taxes for Thee

It appears that “conservative” Ontario Premier Doug Ford has caved and will be opening up taxpayer wallets to his unionized public sector workers:

An ill-fated attempt by Premier Doug Ford to cap the wages of public sector workers has been wiped off the books.

His government has followed through with a promise to repeal its controversial Bill 124 public sector wage restraint legislation, cementing a win for thousands of unionized workers.

Twice struck down by the courts as unconstitutional for restricting collective bargaining rights, the 2019 law limited pay increases for most public sector workers — including hospital nurses, teachers and civil servants — to one per cent annually for three years.

h/t James MacMaster

Something is Very Wong with San Francisco

A Chinese national was just appointed onto the San Francisco Elections Commission:

The appointment of a noncitizen – who cannot vote – to the San Francisco Elections Commission is a ‘big problem’ as China is playing the ‘long game’ to weaken the U.S., according to a top Republican senator.

Kelly Wong, an immigration rights activist and immigrant who came to the U.S. in 2019 from Hong Kong, was unanimously appointed by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors to the city’s Elections Commission on February 14.

California voters approved a measure in 2020 to eliminate the citizenship requirement to serve on San Francisco boards – and Wong is believed to be the first noncitizen ever to sit on the commission.

Here is her victory speech. Some people don’t think this is a good idea.

Quebec teacher challenges Education Minister’s gender transition policy

Quebec’s Ministry of Education has been politically captured:

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces the launch of a constitutional challenge in Quebec’s Superior Court against the Ministry of Education. This action is brought on behalf of a teacher who refused to lie to the parents of a 14-year-old student seeking a female-to-male gender transition, as her school administration had ordered her to do.

Following directives in the Education Minister’s Guide and Procedures on trans and non-binary persons’ gender identity, the student’s Montreal high school created a set of procedures to make it illegal to inform parents (or guardians) when their child seeks a gender transition.

h/t James MacMaster

 

Making It All Make Sense

In the Reader Tips before the last one, SDA regular ‘richfisher’ pointed out that Tucker Carlson’s interview with Mike Benz was a much watch. This partially emanated from a recent Scott Adams podcast episode, in which he asked a whole lot of questions about various happenings in the world the past 10 years that just don’t make any sense. So why are they happening? Adams extrapolated some of the key points of what Benz said in the interview, did some of his own research, and added his own insight. The start of this portion of his much longer podcast can be watched here. Think of it as “The Unifying Theory Of Modern Insanity” (TUTOMA).

Update: Some have suggested that this law change, in 2016, is what has permitted the CIA and U.S. Military Complex to turn its extensive forces on the American people.

Misunderstanding Tucker Carlson

Here is an interesting discussion between two gentlemen who I generally respect and watch often. They’re talking about Tucker Carlson’s recent missives from Russia. While they make a few good points, I believe they mostly have misunderstood why Carlson is publishing the videos he has. Here are a few comments on this video that much more resonate with me:

The left/right divide is simply not the crux of the struggle in the West. It’s elitism vs populism.

Pointing out the cleanliness and safety of Moscow’s underground works even better for Western Europe. Until quite recently we had that. Most people who live today in Paris, Berlin, Rome etc. can remember a time when public spaces where clean and safe. Then politics moved dramatically to the left and we have a world in which the lives of ordinary people has become highly susceptible to crime, financially precarious and public spaces look like shit. There is a disconnect between the upper echelons of politics and ordinary people. If it goes on for too long, the consequences could be grave indeed. The majority of people are utterly disappointed with politicians, if that doesn’t change over the next couple of years through democratic change at the top, people will indeed question the entire political system.

It’s not complicated. Our cities are crumbling while our leaders take care of other countries. We grew up being told Moscow was a shit hole. He’s using it for an example of how we’ve been lied to. Also, it shows by comparison how bad cities are. He’s not saying overall Russia is great. He’s simply highlighting how far we’ve slipped. Not complicated.

What do you think?

Update: Related:

h/t ‘richfisher’

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