CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'
Posted on 06/12/2025 4:59:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The left’s martyr-making machine is in overdrive—recasting criminals, rioters, and radicals as victims, even as the public demands law, order, and sanity.
The entire career of race-baiter Al Sharpton was founded on falsehoods about the Tawana Brawley scam.
Nearly everything the left told us about the Trayvon Martin fight was false.
The “hands up, don’t shoot” Ferguson fable and the Covington Kids myth were quickly exposed.
The Duke Lacrosse and Jussie Smollett melodramas were laughable.
Russian “collusion,” “laptop” disinformation, and Joe Biden “fit as a fiddle” gaslighting were utter lies.
But more recently, the hard left lost its mind championing a host of violent, unsavory characters.
The illegal alien and El Salvadorian national, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was portrayed as a victim of unfair deportation in the left’s larger, losing war for open borders.
Garcia became a “Maryland Man”: a supposed poor victim of Trump overreach.
He was constructed as a family man engaged in construction to feed his family, who somehow forgot to become “documented” and was deported.
In truth, Garcia is now facing felony indictments for human trafficking. He was a likely MS-13 gang member, a violent and bullying woman-beater, and rarely employed gainfully in construction.
Luigi Mangione was a rich, spoiled kid who dabbled in Jacobin politics.
Posing as a revolutionary, Mangione ambushed Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. He murdered him in cold blood near a New York hotel.
Instantly, some on the left embraced Mangione as a revolutionary hero who delivered justice to a supposedly greedy corporate capitalist.
Mohamed Soliman, like Garcia, was a violent illegal alien. He bragged about his hatred of Jews in general and Israel in particular.
So Soliman made some Molotov cocktails and tried to incinerate Jewish marchers advocating on behalf of Israeli hostages still held by Hamas.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
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All of this would be common knowledge if the US had media that tried to inform the public. But we don’t. The “News Business” is complicit in all of this. The public believes things that just ain’t so, because that’s all they hear.
The public believes things that just ain’t so, because that’s all they hear.
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Oh I believe the public is much better informed than it used to be. The only people ignorant now are those willingly so.
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There doesn't appear to be a shortage of such types...
Eyes wide shut.
But that is no excuse to swoon over creepy gangbangers, spoiled-brat assassins, anti-Semitic burners of Jews, and illegal aliens breaking the law and damning America—while waving Mexican flags.
An excellent discussion of the current state of affairs, in the state that he loves.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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It’s very hard, maybe impossible, to sustain a republic without a fair, inquisitive, and honest press. The press is essential to a free republic because it serves as a cornerstone of informed self-governance. It holds power accountable by exposing corruption, abuse, and mismanagement, ensuring leaders answer to the public. Just look at the laundry list of outright corruption and lies in Professor Hanson’s article!
Through rigorous investigation and reporting, the honest press uncovers truths that are otherwise hidden, fostering transparency.
An inquisitive press amplifies diverse voices and ideas, enabling citizens to engage in reasoned debate and make informed decisions, whether in elections or civic life. Our press is a radical left wing of the Democrats and is not the least bit inquisitive.
Without a free and honest press, unchecked power and misinformation erodes trust, weakens democratic institutions, and undermines individual liberties.
Historically, from the Federalist Papers to modern investigative journalism, a free press has been a bulwark against tyranny, as it empowers the public with knowledge to sustain a republic’s integrity.
At least today we have a large army of honest, independent investigative journalists not employed by the MSM.
Like some antebellum, neo-Confederate, states’ rights activist, Newsom threatened to withhold California’s federal income taxes from the federal government—a possible felony.
The more Dims change, the more they stay the same.
And......Obama’s birth certificate is a proven forgery.
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