Undeniably Right

A new take? 

I sure hope it is!

If you ever want to see people act like lemmings, just start watching their social media posts. The members of the Grant County meme brigade are a perfect example. The topics about which they make their posts will be identical. Whatever the topic is that the creators of the memes decide they want to promote, the lemmings repost their often factually incorrect memes and act morally superior. And it's ironic that they act morally superior because that's kind of the underlying theme of my column today.

Recently several members of the brigade have begun posting about how the indigenous people of North America were morally superior to the Europeans that invaded their lands. That they lived in harmony and cared about the land in ways that we are apparently not capable of appreciating or emulating. We know the truth to be completely different from that fantasy. The indigenous people were violent just like the rest of the world. They enslaved each other after fighting wars. When the Europeans arrived, they were living relatively simplistic lifestyles.

I tend to agree with the statement. Let's see what he says!

I think Americans are tired of diversity, equity, and inclusion as defined and implemented by the woke progressives. Like many programs or policies implemented by politicians or pseudointellectuals, they express goals or philosophies that most of us support in principle. America was a nation that invited all to come here regardless of ethnicity, social or economic class. We don't care who you are as long as you come here to contribute to our society and assimilate to our culture.

But DEI in practice is nothing more than virtue signaling and discrimination. We have seen how it promotes diversity and inclusion based solely upon some favored demographic characteristic while telling those of these so-called privileged demographics that they are terrible people and must subvert their interests to those that are favored under such program.

Critics of Donald Trump's plan to deport illegal immigrants generally have two objections; the cost and logistics are prohibitive, and you will be splitting up families. My response to those criticisms is since when did the government care about how much money something was going to cost? And American families are regularly split up when a parent gets arrested for domestic violence or driving while intoxicated for example. But let's look at the reality of what Trump is going to do.

First, we have to understand that these people have broken the law to come here whether their intentions or honorable or less than honorable. But Trump will begin to focus on those that have criminal records and are making our streets unsafe. If you think crime committed by illegal immigrants is not the problem, you need to quit looking at the FBI and Department of Justice statistics because they have testified in front of Congress that they are no longer collecting all of that data from the states. Go look at the state databases especially in Texas, Florida, New York, and California and you will see that illegal immigrant violent crime especially is on the rise.

What will we learn today?

In the wake of Donald trump's victory over Kamala Harris, the losing side is going through the typical analysis of what happened. There are, of course, a lot of opinions, many of them focusing on misogyny and racism, the typical response from progressives when they don't get their way. But among the less emotional and delusional analysts, there's a discussion about the changing landscape in the media. A lot of that discussion centers around Kamala Harris's decision to not appear on Joe Rogan's podcast and Donald Trump's decision to spend 3 hours with him.

Bernie Sanders believes that decision was significant in the final outcome. Many media and political pundits believe young men who were on the fence or not going to vote, changed their mind after listening to the episode. He believes that Harris could have at the very least, pulled a few of those young men away from Trump. Whether or not it would have been enough to change the outcome of the election is doubtful, but the overall point is podcasters might have more influence than the Democrat party realized.