Posted on 12/30/2021 5:03:53 AM PST by Kaslin
The last year has pretty much been a dumpster fire, and I’m glad to see it go. God only knows what 2022 holds, but the past year has provided some invaluable lessons we can – and must – use, to wrest control of America from those who would destroy her.
On many important issues, the media deliberately lies or disseminates inexcusably false information. Trump did not “collude” with Russia. COVID did not emerge in a wet market. The COVID shots do not prevent anyone from catching or transmitting the virus. Ivermectin is not just veterinary medicine. The border isn’t secure. Higher prices aren’t the result of companies “gouging” customers. Kyle Rittenhouse did not shoot three black men. We did not evacuate all Americans in Afghanistan before the disastrous military pullout. The January 6th mobs at the Capitol last year were not part of an “insurrection.” The Virginia gubernatorial election was not about white supremacy. Parents at school board meetings are not “domestic terrorists.” Joe Biden is not in excellent health. (How many presidents routinely speak from a fake Oval Office?)
The national media is either professionally deceitful or completely incompetent, or both. They cannot be trusted.
Sweeping mandates like those proposed by the Biden administration are unconstitutional. The federal government has no right to force people to inject experimental chemicals and gene “therapies” into their bodies. The “science” (if by that we mean accurate information) about the efficacy and risks of these shots is unclear, incomplete and evolving. It is medically, scientifically and ethically untenable to insist upon a one-size-fits-all manner of treatment for 330 million vastly different individuals. Even some of the most ardent advocates for COVID shots are beginning to acknowledge that it is nonsensical and dangerous to keep insisting on more shots every time the virus mutates.
Government propaganda turns ordinary people into little tyrants. The COVID hysteria peddled by the government (not to mention inconsistent information) – aided and abetted by broadcast, print and social media – has created a perpetual sense of panic in some of the population. In addition to lockdowns, business closures, travel bans, mask mandates and vaccine passports, we must endure those who behave horribly to anyone who isn’t wearing a mask or vaccinated. Last week, former actress and Playboy model Patricia Cornwall was removed from a Delta flight after she swore at, slapped and spit on an 80-year-old man who was unmasked while eating. (This incident, like countless others, was captured on video and posted on social media.) Former Planned Parenthood president Dr. Leana Wen has said that unvaccinated people should be confined to their homes. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper discussed with Microsoft founder Bill Gates the possibility of depriving them of their Social Security payments. It’s not uncommon to see irate statements on social media insisting that those who opt not to get the COVID shots should be incarcerated or even executed.
If you want to know how to create a nation full of Nazis, there’s Exhibit A.
It’s time for a trans category for sports competition. Lia Thomas, the biological male who swam for the University of Pennsylvania mens’ team, transitioned and now swims on the women’s team. Thomas has shattered records, causing outrage among some defenders of women’s sports. USA Swimming official Cynthia Millen resigned in protest. Millen said, “Men are different from women, men swimmers are different from women, and they will always be faster than women. [B]oys will always have larger lung capacity, larger hearts, greater circulation, a bigger skeleton, and less fat… no matter how much testosterone suppression drugs [Thomas] takes, he will always be a biological male and have the advantage.”
Denying the physical advantages of biological males in sport is absurd. (Further proof of this is the near complete absence of female-to-male gender transitioners competing in men’s sports.) Here again, real scientific truth is sacrificed on the altar of “progressive” narrative. If some men want to transition and identify as “female,” give them their own sports category and let them compete in it. If there aren’t many, so what? It will be that much easier to set records. But allowing them to steal opportunities from biological females is wrong.
Teachers need to stick to teaching. According to recent reports in Education Week and Business Insider, U.S. students are falling seriously behind their counterparts in other industrialized nations. U.S. high school math scores are now in the bottom half among the 71 countries surveyed, and 24th in science. Millennials in the U.S. work force rank dead last in math and problem-solving, relative to those in other developed nations.
Not every failing can be laid at the feet of the schools; many of our problems start in the home. But it is inexcusable that, facing these statistics, we have districts, schools and teachers wasting students’ time and taxpayers’ money preaching “systemic racism” and “white privilege,” encouraging sexual promiscuity and gender confusion, promoting pornography, denying or making excuses for assaults, and eliminating advanced classes for students who need them.
Teachers need to stick to teaching. According to recent reports in Education Week and Business Insider, U.S. students are falling seriously behind their counterparts in other industrialized nations. U.S. high school math scores are now in the bottom half among the 71 countries surveyed, and 24th in science. Millennials in the U.S. work force rank dead last in math and problem-solving, relative to those in other developed nations.
Not every failing can be laid at the feet of the schools; many of our problems start in the home. But it is inexcusable that, facing these statistics, we have districts, schools and teachers wasting students’ time and taxpayers’ money preaching “systemic racism” and “white privilege,” encouraging sexual promiscuity and gender confusion, promoting pornography, denying or making excuses for assaults, and eliminating advanced classes for students who need them.
Added to the list:
Election fraud is not “rare” and does change outcomes.
Big tech “fact checkers” now say their facts are only opinions.
As to teachers, a large issue is the administrators who have been indoctrinated in their masters and PHD courses with progressive agendas. I have met too many admins that will not lift a finger to address the progressive onslaught due to fear or they are true believers. The next are the teachers that drank the cool-aid and bully others and tattle on others. Many teachers are to scared to say a word. And you can’t forget the state legislatures that impose the rules. Parents are in this mix too. There are those who are complicit in this mess, the snowplow parent who takes care of all their little snots messes, or the ones who don’t care what is going on because their to busy or tired. The lawyers who will sue if little Johnny has a bruise or his rights are not met, or the correct thought construct is not not taught.
What is a kid to do when when all the parts fail to teach them meaningfully and without bias?
How are good teachers to really to do affective teaching?
I disagree 100%. I refuse to enshrine this category of people on equal terms. There are men and there are women. Period.
The only lesson learned in America is to be afraid, pretend to not notice and do nothing.
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Good teachers are like good FBI agents.
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