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A court in California has ruled in favor of a school district's decision to restrict "false and divisive" critical race theory lessons to students.
A report from the Advocates for Faith and Freedom explained when the Temecula Valley Unified School District decided to limit the fake lessons, it was sued by the Temecula Valley Educators Association and a group of political activists.
The plaintiffs complained about a school district resolution that limited the CRT curriculum, which essentially teaches that America is all racist and to get rid of it, more racism is needed and requires teachers to tell parents of their students' gender transition ideas.
"This is a win for commonsense, parents, and the safety of students," noted Robert Tyler, president of Advocates for Faith & Freedom. "TVUSD is committed to providing a quality education free from political agendas and free from dishonest and divisive curriculum. This ruling allows TVUSD to continue implementing these sound policies."
"This was a hard-fought battle that paid off for parents," said Mariah Gondeiro, vice president of Advocates "This ruling vindicates the actions taken by the TVUSD School Board who put the rights of parents and the safety of students over the wishes of special interest groups."
Joseph Komrosky, school board chief, explained, "Despite the small but vocal opponents that seek to rewrite history and indoctrinate students, I am very optimistic for our school district.
"I believe that the diversity that exists among the District’s community of students, staff, parents, and guardians is an asset to be honored and valued. These policies were enacted by the school board to ensure our district puts the needs of students and their parents above all else. Our district remains focused on providing a holistic education for all of our students, free from both discrimination and indoctrination."
The lawsuit's allegations included that restricting the biased and racist CRT teachings hurt children of color and LGBTQ students.
Tyler said, earlier, "The Board’s opposition to CRT is based precisely on the discriminatory philosophy it encourages and is thus not tantamount to discrimination or the failure to provide a quality education, but in fact just the opposite."
"TVUSD is committed to providing students with a holistic education, instead of pushing political agendas and divisive curriculum. We contend that the TVUSD is doing exactly what they were elected by parents to do, which is to guide curriculum in accordance with what is best for all students, free from the political influences and whims of lobbyists and special interest groups."
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A new report published at The Gatestone Institute by Guy Milliere, a University of Paris professor, is warning that unless something significant changes, Muslims will be "the end of the European civilization as we know it."
He cited the results of a survey published by a French weekly, Le Journal du Dimanche. It found radical Muslims routinely are given platforms in France, 49% of French Muslims want Catholics to convert to Islam and 36%$ want churches made in mosques.
"France is a country where more than 70% of prison inmates are Muslim. According to reports, the crime rate among the Muslim population is high.... There are also more than two hundred rapes every day in France, most perpetrated by Muslim men who entered France illegally. Only 7% of illegal immigrants ordered to leave France are ever actually deported," he warned.
"If Europeans wish to avoid such a future and keep their culture, they need to start making that outcome unmistakably clear to everyone, not just by words but by actions. If not, what we are seeing could well mean the end of the European civilization as we know it," he said.
He continued citing the survey results: "The first question in the survey was about Jews. 17% of French Muslims admit that they hate Jews. 39% say they have a bad, or very bad, opinion of Judaism."
He pointed out, "France is the only country in 21st-century Europe where Jews regularly have been murdered simply because they are Jews. Since the kidnapping, torture, and murder of Ilan Halimi in January 2006, all Jews murdered in France have been killed by Muslims."
And he warned when it's Israel, "the results are even more disturbing."
"Feelings go beyond hatred. 45% of French Muslims say they want the destruction of Israel. An equivalent number of French Muslims define the massacre rape, torture, beheadings, and burning alive of Jews by Hamas terrorists in Israel on October 7, 2023, as an 'act of resistance'."
The stunning overview: "Almost half of a religious community in a Western democracy openly wants the destruction of a group of people who were just massacred in another country and the greatest number since the end of the Holocaust."
There should be, he said, alarm over the fact, that "so many French Muslims have sympathy for an organization whose leaders say that they will repeat the October 7 attack time and again until Israel is annihilated, and unabashedly state that they want the genocidal destruction of the only Jewish state."
Nearly half of French Muslims put their religious Shariah law above the nation's secular laws, even though the European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2003 that is incompatible with democratic values.
It's a threat that should be taken seriously, he said.
"France is one of the only countries in the Western world where men have been beheaded by radicalized Muslims. (The other is the United Kingdom, where two Muslims tried to behead British Soldier Lee Rigby in 2013.) Samuel Paty, a schoolteacher, was beheaded on October 16, 2020. Herve Cornara, a small business entrepreneur, was beheaded on June 26, 2015, in Romans-sur-Isère, a small town in the southeast of France. And Father Jacques Hamel had his throat slit and was beheaded on July 26, 2016, in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy, while saying mass in an almost empty church" the report said.
Further, France has some 750 "no-go zones," where "Muslim gangs and radical imams are in charge. Non-Muslims can still live there, on the condition that they accept the status of dhimmi (tolerated second-class citizen), bow their heads, and admit that they live in a territory ruled by Islam," the professor wrote.
The report said the Muslim ideology permeates society.
"Jewish men conceal their skullcaps under a hat. Jewish women tuck their Star of David necklaces inside their clothing. Many Jewish families no longer place mezuzahs at the entrance to their homes. For more than 20 years, it has been impossible to talk about the Holocaust in French schools."
And he said the attacks now have expanded to Christians.
"French Christians visibly wearing a cross on the street receive insults. Every year, dozens of French churches are desecrated and ransacked," he said.
The column explained, "French President Emmanuel Macron said, in October 2020, that he wanted to fight what he called 'Islamic separatism,' but seemed not to want to see that Muslims tempted by Islamism do not want to 'separate' themselves from the rest of the population but to conquer others and have them submit. 'Islam,' Macron added is 'in crisis.' His statement provoked vehement protests from all of the French Muslim organizations and demonstrations in several countries of the Muslim world. Since then, he has avoided talking about Islam altogether."
France has now about 10% of its population of nearly 68 million who are Muslim.
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Joe Biden and his Democrat Party repeatedly have claimed that President Donald Trump and conservative Americans are a threat to democracy.
But there may not be much of that, democracy, left by the time Biden leaves office.
He's being accused – again – of breaking the law by his announcement this week that he is canceling more student debt.
This, on top of his family's apparently influence peddling operations, his advocacy for racism under various "equity" and "diversity" agendas, and more.
A report at the Washington Stand pointed out that the Supreme Court last year ruled unconstitutional Biden's promise to cancel $400 billion in student loans.
The court said the HEROS Act of 2003 didn't give the secretary of education the authority to do what Biden demanded.
Biden has since announced a long list of smaller "loan cancellation" programs, the most recent just days ago.
When the Supreme Court ruled Biden threatened, "I will stop at nothing to find other ways" to force those loans onto taxpayers instead of borrowers.
And he's boasted of his open defiance of the court: "The Supreme Court blocked it. But that didn't stop me."
The report notes there is an obvious reason for Biden's decision to defy the law and the courts: He needs to buy the votes to win re-election, as his approval ratings have plunged to historic lows and 8 in 10 say he's too old for another term.
"President Biden knows how deeply unpopular he is with young voters and his base, and his student debt plan is a desperate attempt to win them back on the taxpayer’s dime," Sentinel Action Fund President Jessica Anderson explained. "Biden hopes that wiping away some student loan debt will make voters forget that he is responsible for record-high inflation, rising food prices, and our stagnant economy. Americans won’t be fooled by Biden’s latest campaign stunt."
The report noted members of Congress agree.
"He unilaterally is forgiving this debt, supposedly forgiving, which means he doesn’t care what the law says — Congress," Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, told Tony Perkins on Washington Watch.
"He doesn’t care what the judiciary says — the Supreme Court. [A]nd yes, of course, he’s buying votes. But for the rest of the taxpayers, there is no forgiveness [for them]. Someone is going to pay these loans back, and now it’s going to be you, the taxpayer."
This week Biden said he was "forgiving," another term for transferring the debts to taxpayers, some $1.2 billion owed by 153,000 borrowers.
To date, that makes about $131 billion he's transferred from borrowers to taxpayers.
Legal analysts told The Stand his move is unconstitutional.
"Despite the Supreme Court clearly saying that under our constitution the president cannot rewrite our nation’s laws, President Biden continues to do just that," explained Karen Harned, of the Center for Constitutional Responsibility. "The president is once again breaking the law in a transparent attempt to garner votes."
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WASHINGTON – The Federal Bureau of Prisons has barred J6 prisoner Joseph Biggs – a decorated war veteran and former Infowars reporter, but branded an imminent threat to national security by the Biden administration – from legally speaking to the American public, lawyers and other sources close to Biggs tell WND.
The years-long ongoing process of destroying Biggs’ free speech since his arrest has only become more severe in prison.
A decision on Biggs’ part to personally divulge even minute details about his case, or of his current incarcerated life as a "domestic terrorist," could result in the immediate revocation of the few privileges – phone calls, the ability to leave his prison cell, visitation, even food – lawyers tell WND.
With the FBI employing the Bureau of Prisons to essentially torture the political hostages, speaking out or even providing WND with a comment for publication could result in a brutal beatdown by correctional officers and Biggs’ return to isolation in solitary confinement.
With the FBI employing the Bureau of Prisons to essentially torture the political hostages, speaking out or even providing WND with a comment for publication could result in a brutal beatdown by correctional officers and Biggs’ return to isolation in solitary confinement.
Thus, the other inmates there were shocked and intrigued to find out that a former Army staff sergeant, who earned two purple hearts in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan and later became a well-known talk-show host, was now a political hostage and sentenced to 17 years in prison for walking through the Capitol building for approximately 15 minutes during the “Stop the Steal” protest on Jan. 6, 2021.
Contrary to the narrative disseminated by the corporate media, it quickly emerged that the former Proud Boys leader is no "white supremacist" or "Nazi."
Like nearly every high-profile Jan. 6 defendant who refused to cooperate with the government before being sentenced or accepting a plea deal that would directly incriminate former President Donald Trump, Biggs paid a big price. In his case, he was locked in solitary confinement in a 6-by-8-foot, freezing-cold cell with no windows and practically starved for 17 months in the Alexandria Detention Facility.
At any time, he could have complied with prosecutorial coercion and accepted a plea arrangement that would have resulted either in his release, or a reduced sentence. But, as Biggs saw it, he chose to be persecuted rather than sell his soul.
Last October, Biggs was "black-box" cuffed for weeks and stranded on a bus while being transferred from a Philadelphia jail to prison, a haunting journey that the government is prohibiting him from telling the world about.
He prayed the torture he endured at that time would not take his life.
Other transfers from jail to jail throughout a two-year pretrial detention period were indescribably excruciating. At times he and his co-defendants languished for days on a bus, starved in the box cuffs, and resigned to urinating on themselves as the U.S. Marshals ignored their pleas for a simple trip to the bathroom.
But on the last trip from jail to prison, the box cuffs badly cut into Bigg’s wrists.
The Bureau of Prisons uses frequent forced travel as a form of indoctrination into its system of "psychological torture," cynically referred to by insiders as "diesel therapy."
For weeks, months, or even as long as a whole year, inmates would go missing while being driven or flown all over the country with chains wrapped around their waist. The ends of the chains are anchored to a rectangular, black metal box.
Their hands are cuffed as well – also anchored in the box in a tightly fitting restraint system.
Food is sometimes provided but served in small bags that make eating difficult because of lack of sufficient mobility. Often the black box causes prisoners’ hands to swell because their blood can’t circulate.
Adjusting to his first-ever stint in prison and recovering from the psychological torture, Biggs, a combat veteran, has kept to himself and consumes one book after another – as many as possible.
But most prisons have been defunded. There is no law library – nothing for education or entertainment except staring at a wall, and perhaps reading letters of encouragement sent from the few strangers across the country who take time to write to the political prisoners.
Among the inmates currently surrounding Biggs in FCI Talladega, most plagued with disturbing criminal histories, Biggs is a leader and inspiration.
His surprisingly warm reception in the "correctional" facility has prompted Biggs to begin executing the goal he vowed would become his life's work, before he was found guilty of "seditious conspiracy": He now sees constructively using the tragic circumstances in which he finds himself for having protested the theft of the 2020 presidential election as an opportunity to do good: Not just to push for prison reform, but to teach other prisoners about the U.S. Constitution and the American system that is rapidly being destroyed by the same forces that are putting hundreds of innocent patriots in prison.
Indeed, just like a large portion of lifelong Democrats across the nation, many of the inmates in the Alabama prison now support Trump and have recently abandoned their longtime support of the Democrat Party.
Many barely finished high school and reportedly have very little understanding of basic American history or of the U.S. Constitution.
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The politics of forcing Americans to buy expensive and sometimes unreliable electric vehicles, along with the reality that consumers just won't go along, have prompted Joe Biden to give up at least a portion of his green ideology, the goal to abruptly change American's transportation away from internal combustion engines.
A report from Business Insider said his agenda-driven administration is planning to back off federal rules that require the construction and sales of more and more EVs.
Now, the report said, automakers might not have to reach the 60% EV production benchmark until 2030.
The reality is that demand for those vehicles, given their reliability, range, charging, expense, and other issues, has plunged in recent months.
Business Insider said, "The incoming revision comes amid continuing pressure from car companies and the United Auto Workers union to ease the requirements as well as loud criticism from Republicans and their presidential candidate frontrunner Donald Trump."
Even Shawn Fain, United Auto Workers chief, which endorsed Biden, has "expressed concern" about the short time frame Biden had demanded earlier for the entire industry, and all consumers, to change over.
Business Insider pointed out that the demand for EVs, "pulled back" drastically in 2023.
In fact, dealers have been "turning away" their allocations of electric cars because they were not seeing the sales keep up with supply.
Fox News commentator Liz Peek had some thoughts on the scheming by Biden to force Americans into EVs, then pull back on that campaign in order to try to win another four years in control of America.
"Surprise! Joe Biden is running away from his push for electric vehicles – arguably his most important climate program -- as fast as his 81-year-old legs can carry him. Common sense and sinking polls in Michigan have broken through Biden’s climate panic; it’s about time."
She also noted there was the factor from BYD, China's leading maker of electric cars.
She explained, "The New York Times, favored errand boy for the Biden White House, delivered the head-spinning turnaround on Sunday of a holiday weekend, under the radar. In essence, Biden has extended the timetable for lowering tailpipe emissions several years into the future, a backtracking sure to infuriate the climate lobby and especially climate-obsessed young voters. The president’s standing with that latter cohort is already shrinking; a recent poll showed Donald Trump running ahead of Biden with registered voters under the age of 35."
The Times had outlined Biden's new plans to "relax" EPA demands for emission limits.
Peek pointed out, "The EPA celebrated the tripling of EV sales during Biden’s presidency and the building of 130,000 charging stations. That sounds impressive except that electrics represented less than 8% of all new car sales last year and the U.S. will need an estimated two million charging ports by 2030.
Further, California already has been forced to issue advisories to electric car owners not to charge their vehicles at certain times because the state's electric grid cannot handle the load.
And it was Cox Automotive that reported the average price for a new EV was nearly $51,000 when the "old-fashioned gas guzzlers" were going for an average of $34,000.
Further, Peek noted that "Reports of cold weather hindering charging operations and battery lives being drained by sub-freezing temperatures have further squelched enthusiasm."
Automakers were losing their shirts, with Ford taking a hit of $36,000 for "each" EV it made.
"Those issues have not swayed a White House consumed by climate alarmism. What has gotten their attention is the political risk of losing Michigan, a critical swing state. A recent Fox News survey shows Trump leading Biden 47 percent to 45 percent in the Wolverine state. The Real Clear Politics average of Michigan polls shows Trump ahead by 5 points."
Her own network's newest polling shows that 6% of 2020 Biden voters have switched their preference to Trump, enough to change the outcome of an election.
Biden also faces new opposition from the state's large Arab-American population, whose members are charging Biden has failed to meet their demands regarding the Hamas terror war the Gaza-based organization launched against Israel.
Rank-and-file auto workers also are alarmed by Biden's EV push, since it takes fewer worker hours to make them.
And there are the Chinese products, which have been selling more than Tesla around the world and might soon be made in Mexico, meaning they could be imported economically.
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In the biblical parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus' teachings skewer a number of ideologies, including that of an elite class that cannot be burdened with helping others.
Also, it teaches all people are our "neighbors" and to do good for others who are in need.
Now a message delivered at the Lutheran Church of the Cross, a Canadian organization "populated by senior citizens, lesbians, and a host of other ragtag goatlings," likens drag queens to that Good Samaritan.
In the Bible, the Good Samaritan is the one, out of many, who stops to help another human being in need.
The new message, from University of Victoria student Ruby Cupp, during a "Reconciling Sunday" event at the leftist congregation, aligns that person with today's drag queens, their insistence on access to others' children, and their campaign to push others into their own belief system.
The report comes from Protestia, which identified Cupp as "a non-binary, transgender, bisexual who uses they/them pronouns."
That speaker complained, the report said, that "people are unwilling to let LGBTQ folks try to be the Samaritan in a world full of broken and hurting people."
Cupp's message included, "When one thinks of a church-going Christian, I’m probably the last person they would picture. In Jesus’s parable of the gospel, today, the Samaritan was an unlikely person to help out the wounded man.
"Growing up, I always thought that the term 'Samaritan' just meant a good person who helps out others when they can. But in reality, Samaritans referred to an entire identity of the people who at the time were socially outcasts. They practiced a different religion than that of the majority, and to the religious leaders of the time, they would have been seen as heretics."
Cupp continued, "Yet it was the religious people who passed by the wounded man, and finally a Samaritan who helped out. He was an unlikely person to help. When I started to read the story that I had heard hundreds of times in my childhood, but in this new context, I started to realize how much modern-day social outcasts are prevented from helping only because of their identity. My mind immediately thinks of how many times the drag queens in this country have been attacked for simply wanting to read stories to children."
The messaging continued, "I’ve seen so many celebrations of queer joy in my life, from drag performances to open mic nights to visual art showcases to pride parades, to rallies for trans joy. It’s clear that queer people everywhere want to help out others, regardless of who they are. They want to help out their neighbors, and Jesus tells us in the gospel, that everybody can be our neighbor."
Cupp charged, "What would have happened if the Good Samaritan, as told by Jesus in His parable, was denied the opportunity to help out the wounded man? What would have happened if Samaritans were so socially outcasts, and they wouldn’t even have the means to help in the first place, even if they wanted to?"
Cupp insisted that Christians "need to work towards queer liberation by letting our justice roll down like water and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream."
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A rabbi in Hawaii has gone to court to challenge $40,000 in fines authorities have leveled against him for holding religious meetings in his own home.
First Liberty Institute said it has filed a federal complaint against county officials on the Big Island, on behalf of Rabbi Levi Gerlitzky.
"Rabbi Gerlitzky has a constitutional right to engage in religious activities in his home with family or friends in the Jewish community, free from government burden and interference," explained Jeremy Dys, senior counsel for First Liberty Institute.
"By levying fines on religious gatherings while allowing similar secular in-home gatherings like Super Bowl parties and book clubs to continue without penalty, the county violates both the U.S. Constitution and federal law."
Elizabeth Kiernan of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, who also is working on the case, said, 'The law and Constitution protect Rabbi Gerlitzky’s right to host gatherings of family and friends in his home to meet their spiritual needs."
The legal team explained that since 2017, Gerlitzky has lived on the Big Island to serve the needs of the small Jewish community through the Chabad Jewish Center of the Big Island.
As part of that effort, he often invites members of his community to his home.
The complaint explains hosting such gatherings at his home is necessary since there are no public options within walking distance that offer kosher kitchen facilities.
"To comply with the Sabbath restrictions of his Orthodox faith, some of the rabbi’s guests, which rarely exceeds 30 people, will walk to the rabbi’s home for Shabbat meals, occasional prayer meetings, and other Sabbath observances such as Passover."
But state authorities have fined him for that, prompting the complaint that charges those fines are a substantial burden on religious practice – without any compelling government interest involved at all.
"Even though secular and other religious gatherings regularly take place in Rabbi Gerlitzky’s neighborhood unmolested, defendants have unlawfully imposed a substantial burden on Rabbi Gerlitzky and the center, ordering the center to pay thousands of dollars in fines for its religious gatherings and denying Rabbi Gerlitzky a permit to host meetings for the center at his home until he first brings his home up to all commercial standards—a burden that is not feasible for Rabbi Gerlitzky and the center to meet."
The report explains local government officials allow social gatherings without issue, but demand that meetings for "religious purposes" are only allowed when a special permit is obtained.
The complaint accuses the county of waging a "regulatory war" on the rabbi and the center.
Those demands are based on a "facially unconstitutional zoning ordinance," the complaint charges.
The case seeks declaratory relief, monetary damages, attorneys' fees, and injunctive relief.
The complaint First Amendment and federal law both are being violated because the regulations allow secular meetings in homes without a permit, but require any religious meeting in a home to first obtain that permit.
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There's a new report that charges there might be two million terrorists who have gained access to the United States and are inside the borders now, as a result of Joe Biden's open borders policies for the nation's security.
That some have entered is without doubt, as border security teams have confirmed they've stopped even those on terror watch lists at the border, and those experts really have no way of monitoring those they miss.
Biden opened the borders when he took office by halting virtually all of the border security measures that had been assembled under the term of President Donald Trump.
Since then so many millions of illegals have entered the nation that even "sanctuary" cities whose officials purport to be in support of the world's migrant population have been insisting that the floods be halted.
Now reporter William J. Kelly has posted a report, citing a source from the National Sheriff's Association.
That information explains two million suspected terrorists may have crossed the border already into the U.S.
Kelly, in his "Chicago Files" report, noted the Democratic National Convention is scheduled in Chicago.
That leaves circumstances putting a "bull's-eye" on the city, he said.
Border experts have confirmed that many of those entering the U.S. across Biden's open border are men, of military age, and often traveling without family.
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“That’s crazy! Our leaders must be insane!”
That’s basically how most Americans react to much of what they see going on around them every single day.
From the Biden administration’s enthusiastic support for amputating body parts of troubled children to its obsession with bringing as many millions of illegal aliens as possible into America, to its recent demand that U.S. airlines employ more people, including pilots, with “severe intellectual” and “psychiatric” problems, it’s increasingly clear that many of America’s current leaders are, to put it plainly, stark raving mad.
But making this statement is not an exercise in calling one’s political opponents nasty names, as happens so often today.
Rather, it’s about taking a serious look at the reality that America’s current leaders are indeed genuinely insane – in a clinically diagnosable way. We’re talking about rampant sociopathy, psychopathy, Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and other scary-sounding conditions whose clinical symptom pictures perfectly match many of today’s leaders.
Of course, many cases of what the secular psychiatric world labels serious “mental illness” ultimately boil down to individuals who, one way or another, willingly or unwillingly, have fallen into the grip of dark spiritual forces.
Yet it’s illuminating to briefly explore how current research in psychiatry – a field ironically dominated largely by the left – nevertheless has concluded that leftist radicals and leaders are, more often than not, “way out there” on the spectrum of serious mental illness.
For example, in a groundbreaking peer-reviewed study published in March 2023, titled “Understanding left-wing authoritarianism: Relations to the dark personality traits, altruism, and social justice commitment,” authors Dr. Ann Krispenz and Dr. Alexander Bertrams found that left-wing extremism is closely associated with “psychopathic tendencies.”
“Narcissistic individuals and those with psychopathic tendencies are more likely to strongly endorse left-wing antihierarchical aggression,” summarized the widely cited PsyPost website, which reports the latest research on human behavior.
“Individuals with dark personalities – such as high narcissistic and psychopathic traits – are attracted to certain forms of political and social activism which they can use as a vehicle to satisfy their own ego-focused needs instead of actually aiming at social justice and equality,” the authors explain.
Stated simply, left-wing psychopaths pretend to care about “social justice and equality,” but in reality are just feeding their massive “ego-focused” lust for power, glory and revenge.
Likewise, retired psychiatrist Brad Lyles, M.D., explains that “one way of understanding the increasingly outlandish beliefs and behaviors of the left is through the lens of Borderline Personality Disorder. The Borderline diagnosis,” he notes, “is among the most infamous diagnoses in psychiatry. It is the diagnosis that keeps therapists up at night, covered in sweat, fearful of every encounter with this sort of patient.” Lyles writes:
Understanding the long-researched processes driving Borderline Personality Disorder provides unique insights into the processes driving the more extreme politics of the left. The Borderline model explains not only the often inexplicable behaviors of the left – but also why the left is so legitimately dangerous.
The most dangerous feature of the Borderline model – and the process most dangerous in our politics – is “psychological” projection, as distinct from the “political” variety.
Psychological projection hardens a patient's mere belief or suspicion that the OTHER (person, organization) is bad into a CONVICTION the other person is bad. ...
On the contrary, political projection – “accusing the other guy of what you are doing” – is merely a strategy. A prominent – and execrable – example would include the three years Democrats accused President Trump of "colluding with the Russians" while they themselves were in fact colluding with the Russians.Psychological projection is not a strategy. It is a threat.
With psychological projection there are no gray areas in the belief structure: The other person is ALL BAD. There is no circumstance in which a person (or political party) is understood to possess a combination of both good and bad features.
This “ALL BAD” belief structure is what the late Pulitzer-winning columnist and psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer was getting at when he famously wrote, “To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.”
It’s this same “conservatives are evil” belief that underlies the left’s epically deranged comparison of President Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler – hands-down the most reviled, genocidal mass murderer in world history. Yet top Democrat politicians, including Joe Biden, as well as the “mainstream” (i.e., irredeemably left-wing and dishonest) media, have continually likened Trump to Hitler since before he was elected president in 2016 and continuing today, eight years later.
Yet if Trump really is another Hitler, where exactly are all of his Hitler-like policies and actions? After all, the man was president of the United States and leader of the free world for four extremely important years. What justifies such a comparison?
In reality, of course, Trump’s policies were totally in line with the values and sensibilities of the great, center-right American middle class that has long constituted this nation’s moral, economic, and spiritual backbone. America’s economy was stable and strong under Trump, unemployment was at historic lows, and perverse trade agreements were replaced with fair, pro-American ones. Border enforcement was a priority, America’s military was being rebuilt, and the world was blessedly free of major wars, due to Trump’s personal strength and leadership.
But hold on. Can it really be true that many of America’s top Democrat leaders are ruthless psychopaths?
Let’s rewind a few years and briefly focus on Barack Obama, since 1) much of today’s societal madness began or accelerated because of him, 2) a great many people believe Obama is calling the shots in Washington, D.C. today, and 3) his wife Michelle is increasingly considered a top contender for becoming the Democrats’ presidential candidate later this year.
Many Americans believe, and some widely respected voices have said publicly, that Barack Obama is a “sociopath” or “psychopath.” (For the record, though numerous psychology articles attempt to differentiate between “sociopathy” and “psychopathy,” in the end the analysis always boils down to the two being essentially the same, with “psychopaths” just being a little worse than “sociopaths.”) In 2016, Dr. Ben Carson referred to Obama on camera as a “psychopath.” The aforementioned columnist-author Charles Krauthammer, a psychiatrist by training, repeatedly pointed to Obama's “extreme narcissism.” Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will wrote in the Washington Post about “Barack Obama's intellectual sociopathy.” And so on.
Consider a typical description of sociopathy: "Sociopaths are often well-liked because of their charm and high charisma, but they do not usually care about other people. They think mainly of themselves and often blame others for the things that they do. They have a complete disregard for rules and lie constantly. They seldom feel guilt or learn from punishments." Remind you of anyone?
Fast-forward back to today: From President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to the presidential Cabinet – including in particular Attorney General Merrick Garland, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra – all of these people "have a complete disregard for rules and lie constantly." It’s literally what they do for a living. And to all appearances, they do so easily, reflexively, and without conflict or conscience.
Interestingly, it’s not just the left’s leaders who are “mentally ill.” Gallup pollsters conducted an extensive study involving more than 4,000 interviews conducted over the course of four years, which concluded that Republicans had “significantly” better mental health than Democrats. Likewise, a SurveyMonkey study found that Democrats suffered significantly more mental illness than Republicans. In fact, Democrats were found to be twice as likely to have been diagnosed with a mental disorder as Republicans in almost every category, from anxiety, depression, and PTSD to bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and narcissistic personality disorder.
Yet, it is the left that continually accuses Donald Trump and his supporters of being deranged, delusional, racist, anti-science, and mentally ill. That’s a projection.
And speaking of projection, recently a “gender-affirming” psychologist gave a prize-winning demonstration of the ubiquitous left-wing tactic: At the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s 27th annual training symposium in Montreal, Canada, Dr. Harriette Wimms, who is the clinical director for the Village Family Support Center in Baltimore, Maryland, said regarding parents who oppose cutting the breasts and/or sex organs off of their own precious children – wait for it – those parents have a “mental illness.”
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Jesse Watters, since taking over Tucker Carlson’s time slot, has shown himself unafraid to shatter the Murdoch line on election sanctity. Last night he did it again – twice.
Reacting to concerns about Joe Biden's age and mental capacity ahead of the 2024 presidential election, he charged, "For three years, Joe Biden has been America's emperor, and the Democratic machine in the press has been his swindlers, lying and convincing him that he looked fantastic. But last week, the emperor was caught with no clothes. "
That would be when special counsel Robert Hur released a report on his investigation into Biden's decisions to take – and keep – classified government documents.
It's similar to the scenario for which President Donald Trump is facing federal criminal charges.
However, Hur pointed out that during an interview, Biden couldn't recall when he was vice president, or when his son died, and recommended that no charges should be filed because a jury would sympathetically view him as an elderly man with a diminished capacity.
Watters pointed out that 86% of Americans already feel Biden is too old for the office, and "the remaining 14% are Biden family members."