One more double standard?

So Stacey Abrams is allowed her own opinion, but Donald Trump is not?

McAuliffe nods along as Stacey Abrams tells ‘Big Lie’ that Georgia race was stolen from her

I’m no Trump fan, but he has the right to make the same claims as Stacey Abrams re: their elections were “stolen”. It doesn’t make their claims either true or false; it’s just a personal opinion which they are entitled to espouse. In any event, they’re both attention-seeking blowhards, but I think Stacy Abrams takes the cake. She is so into her “stolen” election claim that her website actually displays what appears to be a title of “Governor”:

(Screen shot, staceyabrams.com, 6:20pm PDT 10/19/2021; my annotation in red)

I guess Disney World has expanded… Fantasyland is now located in Georgia.

Why law-abiding citizens should conceal-carry

An interesting quote from Alexis Piquero, a criminologist at the University of Miami, who was interviewed for the story:

“The onus is really on us as a collective because we can’t always rely on the police,” he said. “We have to rely on one another.”

I couldn’t agree more. That’s why I support will-issue concealed carry permit laws. If one of those riders had been a concealed carry permit holder, things might have gone quite differently – both for the criminal as well as the victim.

Scary…

Halloween is upon us; here’s the latest scary American horror story:

A judge, at the request of the city of Chicago, has told Chicago Fraternal Order of Police president John Catanzara that he can no longer advocate his opposition to a Chicago vax mandate to police officers:

Late Friday, a judge granted the city’s request for a temporary injunction barring Catanzara from making any public comments that encourage FOP members to disobey the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate until the next hearing on the city’s lawsuit on Oct. 25.

This is the “freedom” democrats like Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot want to offer us? The freedom to speak the party line,  or not at all?

Each person is guaranteed the right to speak free of government interference (remember that pesky 1st Amendment?). The freedom to speak must never be predicated on whether or not the speech is deemed to be “true” – particularly when it’s the government determining “truth”. Chicago’s request, and the judges subsequent ruling, should be promptly overruled – by the courts if possible, by the people if necessary.

Dave Chappelle is funny…

… and not necessarily transphobic. But that’s only my opinion. However, it is also my opinion that the fired Netflix employee quoted in the Verge article below is a racist:

Netflix just fired the organizer of the trans employee walkout

Here’s the quote I found concerning:

“All these white people are going around talking to the press and speaking publicly on Twitter and the only person who gets fired is the Black person who was quiet the entire time,” says a former employee in an interview with The Verge. “That’s absurd, and just further shows that Black trans people are the ones being targeted in this conversation.”

So you’re the one being targeted, not the group of people whom you’ve identified by race alone? Isn’t your identification of this group in this manner racist on its face? And are you so sure that these people are only white?

The definition of racism has been in flux lately. However, I find proposed changes – and the current definition – to be limiting.   I think it’s important to recognize that racism should not require a fundamental belief that one race is superior to another; racism is also evident in any claim that assigns an attribute – positive or negative – to an individual or group of individuals based solely on the color of their skin. Thus, the quoted Netflix ex-employee is acting in a racist manner by identifying a group – one alleged to have spoken freely to the press without repercussion – by the purported color of their skin.

We will never escape racism until we realize that people – yes, Virginia, even white people – must be judged as individuals, by their character rather than by the color of their skin.

Illegal immigrant = victim

Now it’s the evil, exploitative employer taking advantage of the innocent illegal alien – who shouldn’t be here at all, let alone be employed:

Biden Administration Orders ICE To End Mass Workplace Raids

Why would the government do this to support illegal aliens? They can’t (or at least shouldn’t) vote. What does the current administration hope to gain? Well, I’ll tell you…

What if you were a U.S. citizen with a relative illegally residing in the United States? Would you want to be responsible for their care? Would you want to feed, cloth, and house them on your own dime? Or would you support an administration that either allowed them to support themselves or provided monetary support directly?

The administration is not looking for these illegal aliens to become citizens and vote Democrat some 10 years down the road (at least not in the short term). It is instead are trying to cement the support of existing voters who might otherwise be required – as “sponsors” of these extended family members and illegal immigrants – to provide support for their care and housing.

Once again, buying votes with our money…

Sen. Warren is dangerous

Sen. Warren now wants to break up Facebook and other social media giants to “…protect our democracy.” From whom, Ms. Warren? From ourselves? Or from you?

Sen. Warren sounds alarm on ‘The View’: Break up Facebook before 2022 elections and ‘true steal comes along’

An interesting quote from the news article linked above:

“We also have to do breaking up Facebook now, now, now, before we are facing down the 2022 and then the 2024 elections, and that the true steal comes along, and that is the minority party that has ideas that are not supported by the majority of Americans gets to hang onto power. That is wrong and it will break our democracy,” she said on ABC’s “The View.”

I’ve got news for you, Ms. Warren – if the “…minority party has ideas that are not supported by the majority of Americans…” then they won’t win the election. That’s how elections (and democracies) work. It is your actions to control the means and media of speech that are the true threat to our democracy.

Don’t get me wrong; Facebook is dangerous, too – potentially more so then Sen. Warren. But the solution is not to turn Facebook into a government-regulated Ministry of Propaganda. Instead, we should work to remove the regulatory protections offered under Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act of 1934 (revised 1996) that allow social media companies to arbitrarily censor speech. It is this ability to control what can be heard that is so dangerous to our democracy.