Woke Awakening

Don’t you just love it when woke corporate America suddenly figures out that the liberal policies they support in principle are affecting their ability to run a profitable business?  Suddenly, Starbucks, champion of all things woke, wages a court battle to defend their firing of a group of Memphis employees who not only attempted to organize a union but allowed media cameras into the place of business after hours in retaliation. They, of course, sued for wrongful termination, and a liberal judge forced Starbucks to reinstate them, only to have Starbucks counter-sue and run it all the way to the Supreme Court. That’s how I want to run a customer service-oriented business: with a team of government-mandated disgruntled employees. Similarly, Google had their offices disrupted by workers protesting the sale of software to Israel, despite the software having nothing to do with the military. Google promptly fired the employees and is now facing criticism from the woke mob. This concept in America that employees should be empowered to run somebody else’s business is preposterous. Sure, laws are in place to keep unscrupulous employers from taking advantage of their employees, but in a capitalist system, if you don’t like the way your employer treats you, or you are unhappy with your salary or your benefits, you have the option to seek alternative employment elsewhere. A business that treats its employees well will have less turnover, happier employees that make the customer experience better and will profit from those policies. A poorly run shop will be unable to compete for employees, will be unable to compete in the marketplace, and will ultimately fail. The government should keep its hands off other than perhaps carefully considering and imposing regulatory laws and should not, as the Biden Administration does, be promoting unionization, which, for the most part, encourages inefficiency, fewer working hours, more pay, more benefits and a higher operating cost for the business which is passed down to the consumer in the form of higher prices for goods and services, yet another driver of inflation.  Thus, we have the American automobile industry and the $80000 pickup truck. Recall union workers collecting a paycheck for playing checkers at the autoworkers union hall during the last recession. Witness the mandated five-man work crews on highway projects doing the work of one man. And soon, in California, we can judge the success of liberal workplace policies in producing the 30-dollar Happy Meal at McDonalds. If you want to run a business, nothing is stopping you from opening your own rather than promoting liberal policy and parasitically feeding off the people who built that business. And the government, populated by people like Joe Biden who have never held a job in the private sector, should just butt out.

Maher And The NPR

Interesting in that Katherine Maher, the CEO of NPR at only 41 years of age, possesses a resume devoid of educational achievement and newsroom experience but chock full political positions. A lackluster BA from NYU was followed by a succession of appointments to positions on the Council of Foreign Relations, UNICEF, the National Democratic Institute, and the US Department of State Foreign Affairs Board. Aside from an alarming amount of hubris, an overwhelming sense of self-importance, a frightening explanation of the concept of truth, and a mother who serves in the Connecticut state assembly, what exactly qualified her for the position of CEO at NPR? Perhaps Uri Berliner was on to something 

Beyond Discouraged

I don't know where to begin. I see where the Biden administration is taking the country and am more than alarmed that we are letting them do it. Our traditional and once sacrosanct rules of governance, explicitly defined in our Constitution, appear to be compromised; we are adrift in a sea of contradictions and confusion. The death toll of our society is ringing loud and clear, yet we can't seem to be able to stem the tide of misfortune. Endless vitriol by talking heads sounding the alarm but seemingly to no avail, at least not to circumstance. The mindset appears to be, wait until November, and our designated White Knight, Donald J Trump, will triumphantly ride in and save the day. To me, such wishful thinking emphasizes we, the people’s hapless impotence, have lost our voice, being strung up on our own democratic petard. Am I to say, alas, poor America, I knew ye well? Wake up, America; we’ve got to revive our once indomitable spirit of independence, one for all and all for one in the pursuit of life and liberty. It may be our last chance as a nation, as a society.

Running On Abortion

According to a Wall Street Journal poll, 39% of suburban women are single-issue voters with abortion their priority. 75% say “the procedure should be legal all or most of the time.” A majority think “Trump’s policies are too restrictive.” Conclusions: 

1. The Democrats are going to make this election a referendum on abortion. They have nothing else. 

2. Abortion is a losing issue for Republicans. Progressive women will not tolerate even a compromise. 

3. Suburban women are either ill-informed regarding gestational biology, under-educated on the topic, or just plain heathens. 

And lastly, 

4.  Gird your loins for another four years of disastrous Biden policies and a likely President Giggles.

 Alas poor America, I knew ye well. 

Our Wayward Young Men And Women

This morning NPR was crowing about Biden’s overwhelming support amongst college-educated white women and his posting a 20% lead in the polls with college-educated white men. They surmised that the reason was abortion, followed by January 6 and, of course, Trump’s abrasive personality. How disappointing…. yet another depressing yet predictable sign of the times. It is generally accepted that women vote with their uterus first and foremost. Go ahead, call me a misogynist, but facts are facts. Witness the demise of the red wave in 2022, largely attributed to the democrats running the tried and true abortion issue up the flagpole shortly before the midterms. And they’re at it again. It’s their only viable game plan. And you continually allow the leftist media to manipulate you. Calm down. Nobody is going to take away your ability to get an abortion in America despite Arizona recently going off the rails. Sure, some states may restrict access, but other blue states may make it even more accessible. That’s up to the voters in those states, as it should be. Roe v Wade was overturned on legal grounds, turning the issue over to the states where it belongs. Hate him all you want, but Trump got that right in his recent comment, the one that gave the media fodder to rile up you mentally deficient liberals once again. And another thing, over 60% of Americans support limiting abortion to 16 weeks. In other words, the first trimester. And why do you think that is?  Because medical science has shown that 16 weeks is when the developing fetus can feel pain. Dismembering a fetus after that is barbaric. Aren’t you the same activists that get upset with force-fed geese, caged chickens, and milk-fed veal? If you aren’t responsible enough to get your act together at three months, you should have your tubes tied, you heathens. Lest you pass on your flawed set of chromosomes to another generation. Even the French understood the 16-week limit and made it law. Mon Dieu. But I digress. What happened to the white college-educated American male that he now votes and presumably thinks like his female counterpart?  That hasn’t ever been a thing. Men were traditionally the breadwinners, concerned about the economy, business, the labor market, and stock market performance. Suddenly, the media is telling us that the educated man is all about abortion rights and upset that Trump posts mean tweets. He’s a sensitive guy in skinny jeans. Really?  And we wonder why sperm counts are at an all-time low amongst white males. Masculinity is becoming a rare commodity, shunned and condemned in polite society. The media has gone so far as to label it “toxic.”  Upwards of 70% of our youth can’t even qualify to serve in the military, unable to pass the entrance exam or meet physical standards for fitness. It’s embarrassing. But there may be more to it than that. College-educated white males are more likely to be cubicle workers, blue-collar workers, workers tied to their computer screens. They are more likely to be higher wage earners living in the city or the suburbs. We’re talking about your BMW-driving yuppie types, more likely to spend a day at the spa or on the golf course rather than brush-hogging the back forty. They’ve been divorced from their hunter-gatherer roles for so long that they’ve morphed into a more feminized version of a man, made soft by being fed a liberal college education, no military service, and a job devoid of manual labor. They are comfortably affluent, so much so that they can afford to support liberal policies that have resulted in historic inflation with painful price increases at the supermarket and the pump. Their privileged upbringing and cushy lifestyle, coupled with the media’s incessant barrage of DEI and the demonization of white men for all our social ills, has led to the development of white guilt, alleviated only through overcompensation by virtue signaling. Thus, the support for all things DEI, and indeed everything these days qualifies. Your very existence is a result of white privilege, your suburban community lacks diversity, your salary is disproportionate to women in similar positions, your business doesn’t employ enough people of color, you consume more fossil fuels than minority communities, you consume climate killing quantities of meat, you drive a gas-guzzling SUV, you take vacations that consume resources and your air travel pollutes the environment from airports that reside in lower-income communities in cities that were built by slave labor in an America built on the backs of people of color, stolen from the indigenous. Yadayada. Demagogue much?  So what’s a man to do other than morph into that shadow of a man that you see frequenting the line at the local Starbucks to buy an iced caramel macchiato on his way to the abortion rights march. My body my choice. Uh-huh. Maybe that’s why Biden opened the southern border.  To get an infusion of machismo into America. We certainly could use it, especially amongst college-educated white men.

Biden Boondoggle

I’m just disgusted with the political smoke and mirrors. To have Biden declare Easter Sunday as transgender awareness day and pronounce that there will be no religious references allowed at the annual White House Easter egg roll is beyond the pale. And this jackass continues to portray himself as a devout Catholic. Bullshit. Only when it suits him for political gain. And then to move on to the “pay your fair share” dialogue when recently released figures clearly show that the top 10 percent of earners are paying 46% of our tax burden is just plain disingenuous. The Biden administration campaigned on transparency and a theme of unity but has done nothing but segregate, demagogue, and serve up lies and subterfuge while his family flouts the rule of law and reaps millions in payoffs from our adversaries for personal gain. It’s disgusting and outrageous, and liberal news media are nothing more than propagandists.

Electorate Complisity

How some incumbent officeholders get re-elected after accomplishing nothing in their tenure is beyond me; Gillibrand and AOC come to mind. The whole so-called “Squad,” for that matter, support all the liberal causes, get their camera time, and run their mouths incessantly, but do absolutely nothing to benefit their constituents, save for those feeding at the government trough. They are forever feathering their nests in the spoils of notoriety. Career politicians posing as public servants.