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It is unprecedented for a lame-duck Congress to jam through an omnibus spending bill after the American people voted out the majority party in the House of Representatives. However, Senate Republican leadership has worked with outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for one last liberal spending blowout before the conservative majority takes control of the House on Jan. 3.

The omnibus spending bill is loaded with thousands of earmarks, which are line-item funding for specific pet projects directed by members of Congress. Many of these earmarks would advance the Left’s extreme agenda and fund its institutions using the taxpayer’s money. House Appropriations Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., bragged that the omnibus “fulfills 98% of Democratic member requests in the House, with $5.4 billion for 3,213 Democratic projects.”

The types of woke-waste line items that some Senate Republicans will help fund, unless they change their minds, include these 12 projects:

  1. $1.2 million for “LGBTQIA+ Pride Centers” and another $1.2 million for “support services for DACA recipients” (aka helping illegal aliens with taxpayer funds) at San Diego Community College.
  2. $477,000 for the Equity Institute in Rhode Island to indoctrinate teachers with “antiracism virtual labs.”
  3. $1 million for Zora’s House in Ohio, a “coworking and community space” for “women and gender-expansive people of color.”
  4. $3 million for the American LGBTQ+ Museum in New York City.
  5. $3.6 million for a Michelle Obama Trail in Georgia.
  6. $750,000 for “LGBT and Gender Non-Conforming housing” in Albany, New York.
  7. $2 million for the “Great Blacks in Wax” museum in Baltimore.
  8. $856,000 for an “LGBT Center” in New York.
  9. $750,000 for the “TransLatin@ Coalition” to provide “workforce development programs and supportive services for Transgender and Gender nonconforming and Intersex (TGI) immigrant women in Los Angeles.”
  10. $2 million for “MLK Labor” in Washington, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO that expelled Seattle police officers from union ranks.
  11. $956,000 for “The Equity Incubator at the Universities at Shady Grove” in Maryland.
  12. $791,200 for “equitable energy resilience and EV infrastructure” in Sonoma, California.

 

These types of woke projects have no place in the federal budget.

House Republicans could have banned the corrupt practice of earmarking. But the GOP agreed to keep the pork money flowing with a 158-52 vote in November.

The earmarks in this omnibus spending bill should be a wake-up call to the dangers of allowing earmarks back into Congress’ appropriations process.

Rather than rubber-stamping these earmarks and the $1.85 trillion omnibus, lawmakers should kick government spending into next year. Then the new Congress can draft responsible bills that reflect the values of all Americans and cut wasteful spending.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/12-woke-earmarks-in

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On 12/17/2022 at 8:26 AM, Gold Brick said:

If we are just handing out good grades.....why not just put a price on the different diplomas and we won't need all of the extra over head. Wouldn't even have to go to college. Just think of all the money we would have to pay down the deficit!

The first 2 even 3 (today) years of college are general education anyhow at 4 year colleges. They have to get at least $100,00 0grand out of you now. 2 yr Community and Junior Colleges is where it is at. You take basic reading, Writing, Speech, and any type of math. Then you are in the career study you want. And come out less in debt and making as much if not more money.

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New York City is being overrun with unlicensed marijuana retailers. It seemed to happen almost overnight. Suddenly there were signs in front of smoke shops advertising pre-roll THC joints; there are edibles at many bodegas. Gotham is awash in weed. How did this happen? Wokeness. Allow me to explain. 

Twenty months ago, New York state legalized retail sales of marijuana, but with a woke catch. As a form of reparations, the state decided to give licenses to sell pot almost exclusively to people who had been previously convicted of marijuana offenses.  

Let’s set aside the insanity of rewarding criminal behavior in such a way and focus on the fact it was only last month that the first 36 licenses were granted. Thirty-six. Since March of 2021, when legalization occurred, hundreds of unlicensed retailers have sprung up like, well, weeds. 

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On 12/20/2022 at 8:20 AM, fedup said:

Do you remember what I posted about definitions???

We the free people of this country has used the Webster's dictionary just fine. We don't need you to change the definitions and words in that book because people are not paying attention to your crying.  

I am a man. That is all that is needed.  No Liberal invented words are needed. 

 Ze was not forcing me to do anything. What I care about at that moment was catching the bus and getting home. This person was not preventing me from doing that. So I fail to see how force is even an issue

Your Liberal government will make you, I and everyone else who has a penny pay for this. So you are being forced to deal with this. Your Liberal government is promoting this BS. We even pay for convicted criminals sex change while they are in jail.   Would you even want to venture a guess on how much money all of this is costing the tax payers???

" Aren't pronouns fun? Seriously, aren't they?) "

"I also have a great-trans-nephew living outside Cleveland Ohio.  I am perfectly fine with him, or zim. "      I am perfectly fine with "it" as long as "it" did not cost me one red cent.

In The Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson famously wrote: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

I would argue that my trans-nephew and this person talking to zis friend have the right to live their Life as they wish. They have the Liberty to change their sex and gender if they so chose. And they have the right to Pursue Happiness in whatever body or identity they wish.

I can't find anything in the Constitution that says I HAVE to pay for these peoples wishes.  Can You?

"As for chromosomes and genetics, there are forms are deafness and blindness caused by genetic defects. Sometimes these forms of deafness can be corrected by surgery-or mutilation as some could call it."

Comparing these people's wishes to someone being born deaf or blind does not rate my time on the keyboard. What a pathetic joke. 

 

 

 

 

One of the great characteristics about the English language is its ability to add new words and add new definitions to old words. It does this not because of any conspiracy, but because that is the nature of the language. I hope you aren't so naive that you don't know that trans-woman will fit into the second definition of woman, or even become part of the first definition. And trans-man will similarly become the second or part of the first definition of man. Language changes, attitudes change, priorities change, expectations change, customs change. When transhumanism takes off the very definition of what a human is will change. Fifty years from now, if by miracles of modern medicine you are still around, you will probably still be railing against things you have no control over, much like the famous meme of Abe Simpson yelling at a cloud. Not good for your blood pressure. I'm older than you and getting upset over things (different things from what upsets you) isn't good for mine either. 

As for paying for sex changes, with AI and related technologies I think it is feasible for people to have a say in what their taxes will be spent on. People who do not want their taxes to pay for sex change operations can then specify that. Those who do not object or even support taxes paying for them will give their approval. But whether that happens or not, as Ben Franklin said, the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. 

The reason I brought chromosomes into this discussion is because people argue that if you are born with an XX chromosome or an XY chromosome that should determine how you identify yourself. I find the idea that a submicroscopic section of your cells should determine whether you-as a free adult-should be allowed to modify your body or determine how anyone-at any age-can self-identify is a most inane tyranny. 

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On 12/20/2022 at 8:31 AM, fedup said:
 
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Stanford releases guide to eliminate 'harmful language,' cautions against calling US citizens 'American'

Stanford's index says its goal is to eliminate 'many forms of harmful language'

Stanford University published an index of "harmful language" it plans to eliminate from the school’s websites and computer code, offering terms to be used as replacements.

The Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative, which was revealed in May, is a "multi-phase, multi-year project to address harmful language in IT at Stanford," according to the guide.

The guide says its goal is to eliminate "many forms of harmful language," including "racist, violent, and biased (e.g., disability bias, ethnic bias, ethnic slurs, gender bias, implicit bias, sexual bias) language" in Stanford websites and code. It added that it strives to educate people on the impact of words.

There are 10 "harmful language" sections outlined in the index: ableist, ageism, colonialism, culturally appropriative, gender-based, imprecise language, institutionalized racism, person-first, violent and additional considerations.

 

Among the words the university urges people to avoid in the imprecise language section is the term, "American." People are instead asked to use "U.S. Citizen" because "American" typically refers to "people from the United States only, thereby insinuating that the US is the most important country in the Americas." The Americas, the index notes, comprises 42 countries.

Other terms deemed harmful in this section include "abort," which offers the replacement of "cancel" or "end," because of moral concerns about abortion; "child prostitute" is replaced with a "child who has been trafficked," so the person is not defined by just one characteristic; and "Karen" is replaced with "demanding or entitled White woman."

Under the ableist section, the index urges people to use "accessible parking" instead of "handicap parking," "died by suicide" instead of "committed suicide" and "anonymous review" instead of "blind review." It also says people should use "unenlightened" as a replacement for "tone deaf," and a "person with a substance abuse disorder" as a replacement for "addict."

Click here so you can read the rest of the Liberals' stupidity--------->

https://www.foxnews.com/us/stanford-releases-guide-eliminate-harmful-language-cautions-against-calling-us-citizens-american

This will fall by the wayside in short term. Language changes but these changes are silly. I doubt they will be picked up by the larger public, even by most students at Stanford. Penn State tried something similar some years ago. What happened to that? Did any of Penn State's PC terms become part of the lexicon?

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On 12/22/2022 at 10:00 AM, jaman said:

The first 2 even 3 (today) years of college are general education anyhow at 4 year colleges. They have to get at least $100,00 0grand out of you now. 2 yr Community and Junior Colleges is where it is at. You take basic reading, Writing, Speech, and any type of math. Then you are in the career study you want. And come out less in debt and making as much if not more money.

Good idea for some but some people are more concerned with getting credentials (i.e. degrees)that will lead to a certain profession regardless of potential income. 

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7 hours ago, fedup said:

New York City is being overrun with unlicensed marijuana retailers. It seemed to happen almost overnight. Suddenly there were signs in front of smoke shops advertising pre-roll THC joints; there are edibles at many bodegas. Gotham is awash in weed. How did this happen? Wokeness. Allow me to explain. 

Twenty months ago, New York state legalized retail sales of marijuana, but with a woke catch. As a form of reparations, the state decided to give licenses to sell pot almost exclusively to people who had been previously convicted of marijuana offenses.  

Let’s set aside the insanity of rewarding criminal behavior in such a way and focus on the fact it was only last month that the first 36 licenses were granted. Thirty-six. Since March of 2021, when legalization occurred, hundreds of unlicensed retailers have sprung up like, well, weeds. 

My father was a violent alcoholic who beat my mother. When he tortured me as a 6 month old baby, she  called the police and they escorted that a-hole to the outskirts of Reynoldsville and told him to never return. He never returned until about five years later in a casket. Had he been a pothead our lives would have been much better. 

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Wokeness is very similar to the radical campus politics of the 60's. The big difference between the two movements is today we have social media, which might give wokeness staying power. I support some aspects of wokeness (despite being a boomer) but oppose some other aspects of it. 

  A great poet, who won the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize, eventually rejected 60's radicalism though he still retained his connections to the left and retained many leftist values. He wrote a poem about his disillusionment that some on here may have heard before: 

(I think most of the younger generation will also shed the more extreme expressions of woke-ism in time.)

Song by Bob Dylan
Crimson flames tied through my ears, rollin' high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on edges, soon, " said I, proud 'neath heated brow Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
 
Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth, "rip down all hate, " I screamed Lies that life is black and white spoke from my skull, I dreamed Romantic facts of musketeers foundationed deep, somehow Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
 
Girls' faces formed the forward path from phony jealousy To memorizing politics of ancient history Flung down by corpse evangelists, unthought of, though somehow Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now
 
A self-ordained professor's tongue too serious to fool Spouted out that liberty is just equality in school "Equality, " I spoke the word as if a wedding vow Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
 
In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who teach Fearing not that I'd become my enemy in the instant that I preach My existence led by confusion boats, mutiny from stern to bow Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
 
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats too noble to neglect Deceived me into thinking I had something to protect Good and bad, I define these terms quite clear, no doubt, somehow Ah, but I was so much older then I'm younger than that now

 

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14 minutes ago, fedup said:

O and by the way, your dead beat a hole dad would still be around you, given the new liberal rules concerning our laws. Be glad this many Liberals were not around when he was kicking the sh1t out of you. 

Oh, what liberal rules would that be? My mother wanted to divorce him, but was told she would lose custody of her kids if she did. Today because of these horrible Liberal laws she would have had an easier time getting sole custody of her kids after a divorce. I would be interested to know what laws you are referring to. In fact conservatives today bemoan the fact so many kids are being raised by single divorced moms. Many of those kids are better off without Good Ole Dad. (spit)

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23 minutes ago, fedup said:

You are kidding, right?????

All those words of excuses.

What excuses? I'm Ok or at least accepting of the many changes that are occurring in our society. Not all of them, but many of them. Don't mean to insult you, but it sounds like you, along with others here, want to see a return to the period of the 1950's, if not earlier. I see no indication of that happening. If you want to call that making excuses, well, you do you. 

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Many family members are trapped in hideous circumstances with a violent member.  There are so many complications to leaving a bad relationship that it takes a good plan and all the help you can get.  If you want out, then GO!!  No one will ever blame you, and if they do, give them the keys to the house so they can go live with the offender!  Just get the kids away if nothing else.

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I know a lot of gay people and I have ask them all. “When did you know that you were gay?”

They all said by the age of 5 or 6 that they knew that they were different just not how. But by the age of 10 to 12 that they knew they were gay.

Now here’s my question. Is a trans gender male attracted to females or males? Is a trans gender female attracted to males or females?

Is it then, they are just role playing, or are they gay?

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1 hour ago, S_A_Hoov said:

I know a lot of gay people and I have ask them all. “When did you know that you were gay?”

They all said by the age of 5 or 6 that they knew that they were different just not how. But by the age of 10 to 12 that they knew they were gay.

Now here’s my question. Is a trans gender male attracted to females or males? Is a trans gender female attracted to males or females?

Is it then, they are just role playing, or are they gay?

Maybe this deserves a Topic of its own instead of being buried at the end of this one?

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12 hours ago, weirdcritter said:

Oh, what liberal rules would that be? My mother wanted to divorce him, but was told she would lose custody of her kids if she did. Today because of these horrible Liberal laws she would have had an easier time getting sole custody of her kids after a divorce. I would be interested to know what laws you are referring to. In fact conservatives today bemoan the fact so many kids are being raised by single divorced moms. Many of those kids are better off without Good Ole Dad. (spit)

There are tons of these articles in print and on TV.   Turn on the ID channel

 

He also sent their teenage daughter 50 texts messages asking her why she wouldn't call him and stating, "I didn't do anything wrong."

When Susan Hoke — who along with her daughter briefly stayed with friends in the wake of the Splash Magic assault — asked him to leave her and their daughter alone, Scott Hoke reacted violently and demanded to talk to the teen.

He "destroyed" the teen's room, breaking pictures, paintings and seashells she'd collected, then threatened to slash all of his daughter's and wife's clothing if they didn't return home, according to PFA records.

Susan Hoke and her daughter turned off their phones to avoid getting further threats, records state. They moved back home after the PFA was granted, which also evicted Scott Hoke from the family home.

Scott Hoke fatally shot his estranged wife in her Jackson Twp. home on Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, then fatally shot himself in the head, police said.
 

Murder-suicide: On Monday night, Scott Hoke, of 1748 Cemetery Road in North Codorus Township, somehow got inside the Hoke family home at 1250 Summit Run Court and fatally shot his estranged wife in the head, Northern York County Regional Police said. He then fatally shot himself in the head, police said.

It happened shortly after 10:30 p.m. Monday, and responding officers found the couple dead in the kitchen, a handgun still in Scott Hoke's hand, police said.

 

https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/2016/09/13/murder-suicide-pfa-police-shooting/90305116/

 

Your pretending does not make your case.  You know damn well what I am talking about when it comes to Liberals and crime. It's on the news all day long and it's happening in every liberal city in this country. Maybe you don't see that because you get your news from the MSM, you know, the group of idiots that believes the only crime ever committed happened on Jan. 6th

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8 hours ago, S_A_Hoov said:

I know a lot of gay people and I have ask them all. “When did you know that you were gay?”

They all said by the age of 5 or 6 that they knew that they were different just not how. But by the age of 10 to 12 that they knew they were gay.

Now here’s my question. Is a trans gender male attracted to females or males? Is a trans gender female attracted to males or females?

Is it then, they are just role playing, or are they gay?

age 25
 
Brain Maturity Extends Well Beyond Teen Years Under most laws, young people are recognized as adults at age 18. But emerging science about brain development suggests that most people don't reach full maturity until the age 25.Oct 10, 2011
 
Even if we skip that fact, it's impossible to believe that a 6 year old or even a 12 year old can make such life changing decisions. Especially when parents and doctors are pushing them to change, 
 
 

“I was failed by the system. I literally lost organs.”

When Chloe was 12 years old, she decided she was transgender. At 13, she came out to her parents. That same year, she was put on puberty blockers and prescribed testosterone. At 15, she underwent a double mastectomy. Less than a year later, she realized she’d made a mistake — all by the time she was 16 years old.

Now 17, Chloe is one of a growing cohort called “detransitioners” — those who seek to reverse a gender transition, often after realizing they actually do identify with their biological sex. Tragically, many will struggle for the rest of their lives with the irreversible medical consequences of a decision they made as minors.

“I can’t stay quiet,” said Chloe. “I need to do something about this and to share my own cautionary tale.”

 

https://nypost.com/2022/06/18/detransitioned-teens-explain-why-they-regret-changing-genders/

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13 hours ago, weirdcritter said:

What excuses? I'm Ok or at least accepting of the many changes that are occurring in our society. Not all of them, but many of them. Don't mean to insult you, but it sounds like you, along with others here, want to see a return to the period of the 1950's, if not earlier. I see no indication of that happening. If you want to call that making excuses, well, you do you. 

I want to see a time when the damned liberals ain't controlling or trying to control every aspect of my life. 

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20 minutes ago, fedup said:

I want to see a time when the damned liberals ain't controlling or trying to control every aspect of my life. 

Agreed.  People can believe what they want. Just done expect everyone around them to accept or agree with it. Just like not everyone accepts or agrees with what I believe. Stop pushing everything you believe and calling others some kind of hater if you disagree.
Let’s stop being an offended society and forcing everyone to accept the societal norms that change every year or so.  We’ve become an offended,  entitled society…..which is interesting because the ones that name call other as being entitled are the most entitled of all.  The ones that cry “I’m offended” the most are the ones offending the most.  
There’s a word for that. Hypocrisy. I’m sure someone’s offended at that.  
Oh well.  Call me a name and move on. 
 

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3 minutes ago, pennstater said:

Agreed.  People can believe what they want. Just done expect everyone around them to accept or agree with it. Just like not everyone accepts or agrees with what I believe. Stop pushing everything you believe and calling others some kind of hater if you disagree.
Let’s stop being an offended society and forcing everyone to accept the societal norms that change every year or so.  We’ve become an offended,  entitled society…..which is interesting because the ones that name call other as being entitled are the most entitled of all.  The ones that cry “I’m offended” the most are the ones offending the most.  
Carry on.  

You nailed it

But those that need to learn what you said already knows everything there is to know so they don't hear you. 

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An English bishop is pushing back after a church choir sang a "woke" version of a popular Christmas carol injecting LGBT and "inclusive" language into the song. 

"God rest you queer and questioning, your anxious hearts be still," a line of the amended U.S. version of "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" sung by the All Saints with Holy Trinity choir in Loughborough, England, said, according to The Express, with another saying, "God rest you also, women, who by men have been erased. Through history ignored and scorned, defiled and displaced."

Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, took issue with the amended version of the song and the injection of progressive wording.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/english-bishop-pushes-back-rewritten-woke-christmas-carol-sung-inclusive-church

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1 hour ago, fedup said:

There are tons of these articles in print and on TV.   Turn on the ID channel

 

He also sent their teenage daughter 50 texts messages asking her why she wouldn't call him and stating, "I didn't do anything wrong."

When Susan Hoke — who along with her daughter briefly stayed with friends in the wake of the Splash Magic assault — asked him to leave her and their daughter alone, Scott Hoke reacted violently and demanded to talk to the teen.

He "destroyed" the teen's room, breaking pictures, paintings and seashells she'd collected, then threatened to slash all of his daughter's and wife's clothing if they didn't return home, according to PFA records.

Susan Hoke and her daughter turned off their phones to avoid getting further threats, records state. They moved back home after the PFA was granted, which also evicted Scott Hoke from the family home.

Scott Hoke fatally shot his estranged wife in her Jackson Twp. home on Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, then fatally shot himself in the head, police said.
 

Murder-suicide: On Monday night, Scott Hoke, of 1748 Cemetery Road in North Codorus Township, somehow got inside the Hoke family home at 1250 Summit Run Court and fatally shot his estranged wife in the head, Northern York County Regional Police said. He then fatally shot himself in the head, police said.

It happened shortly after 10:30 p.m. Monday, and responding officers found the couple dead in the kitchen, a handgun still in Scott Hoke's hand, police said.

 

https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/2016/09/13/murder-suicide-pfa-police-shooting/90305116/

 

Your pretending does not make your case.  You know damn well what I am talking about when it comes to Liberals and crime. It's on the news all day long and it's happening in every liberal city in this country. Maybe you don't see that because you get your news from the MSM, you know, the group of idiots that believes the only crime ever committed happened on Jan. 6th

I fail to see what this has anything to do with liberalism. I doubt that liberals advocate giving deranged psychopaths guns and giving them carte blanche to shoot people. In fact, liberals would want to toughen gun restrictions. They are also critical of toxic masculinity, which this jerk had in spades. And just because acts of violence take place in cities with a liberal government doesn't mean that liberalism is responsible for these acts of violence. More likely it is just jerks who think they they are god's gift to the world and they have the right to tell women and their children exactly how to live. 

Had Scott Hoke been a liberal he would have respected his daughter's right to have her own space and not infringe on it. He also would have left his wife and kid alone, and not insist in the name of patricarchal attitudes that his wife and child subject themselves to him. Instead Scott Hoke would have sought therapy to gain an understanding of his behavior and get treatment for his unresolved anger issues, probably medication for his depression, which is likely the source of his anger.  Nothing that John Stuart Mill, John Rawls or any other leading liberal thinker would have sanctioned what Scott Node did to  his wife and himself, let alone terrorizing his daughter. 

BAck in the fifties and sixties men were supposed to be the head of the household, the absolute ruler of the home, and he had every right to treat his woman and his children anyway he wanted, using hand, belt and maybe, depending on the attitudes of local law enforcement, even lethal force. If Liberalism is moving families away from such patriarchal sanctioned violence then I think it is for the better. Scott Hoke was no liberal. You may want to complain that Liberals are turning men into wimps, but wimps and nerds don't go around shooting people. Scott Hoke and his family would have been better off  had he been a wimp in touch with his feelings. You made fun of people fired by Elon Musk from Twitter because they were crying.  Unlikely any of them will be acting violently like a member of the Proud Boys or Oathkeepers.

BTW: I watch and read my fair share of true crime . The Dahmer dramatization on Netflix was excellent. 

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17 minutes ago, weirdcritter said:

I fail to see what this has anything to do with liberalism. I doubt that liberals advocate giving deranged psychopaths guns and giving them carte blanche to shoot people. In fact, liberals would want to toughen gun restrictions. They are also critical of toxic masculinity, which this jerk had in spades. And just because acts of violence take place in cities with a liberal government doesn't mean that liberalism is responsible for these acts of violence. More likely it is just jerks who think they they are god's gift to the world and they have the right to tell women and their children exactly how to live. 

Had Scott Hoke been a liberal he would have respected his daughter's right to have her own space and not infringe on it. He also would have left his wife and kid alone, and not insist in the name of patricarchal attitudes that his wife and child subject themselves to him. Instead Scott Hoke would have sought therapy to gain an understanding of his behavior and get treatment for his unresolved anger issues, probably medication for his depression, which is likely the source of his anger.  Nothing that John Stuart Mill, John Rawls or any other leading liberal thinker would have sanctioned what Scott Node did to  his wife and himself, let alone terrorizing his daughter. 

BAck in the fifties and sixties men were supposed to be the head of the household, the absolute ruler of the home, and he had every right to treat his woman and his children anyway he wanted, using hand, belt and maybe, depending on the attitudes of local law enforcement, even lethal force. If Liberalism is moving families away from such patriarchal sanctioned violence then I think it is for the better. Scott Hoke was no liberal. You may want to complain that Liberals are turning men into wimps, but wimps and nerds don't go around shooting people. Scott Hoke and his family would have been better off  had he been a wimp in touch with his feelings. You made fun of people fired by Elon Musk from Twitter because they were crying.  Unlikely any of them will be acting violently like a member of the Proud Boys or Oathkeepers.

BTW: I watch and read my fair share of true crime . The Dahmer dramatization on Netflix was excellent. 

I guess you are just going to keep denying the facts. Lets just do it the simple way.

Liberals soft on crime.

Liberals let criminals run around free

Liberals let people steal other peoples stuff.

Liberals let your dad whack the dog sh1t out of you and your mother then set him free. 

on and on and on it goes  Liberals kiss law breakers azzes.

 

If you don't want to believe me read what this guy has to say.  I would say he knows all about this subject.

 

By Paul DeGroot

Cops murdered and attacked; rioting and looting running rampant in American cities, defunding police and revolving door justice. This is the legacy of Joe Biden and the Progressive Democrats such as Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D- NJ CD-11).

Their misguided approach to crime is to treat it as social justice issue, which forgives bad actors for their crimes because of their race, poor upbringing or lousy schooling. As a so-called former prosecutor, Mikie Sherrill should know better.

Millions upon millions of minorities and poor people go through life without committing crimes.  But they are often the victims of crimes by the same people that the liberal Democrats are trying to protect.

Just last month (January 2022) an innocent honor roll student, Robert Cudra, was shot through the head on a Paterson street by a stray bullet as he was taking in groceries for his grandmother. https://abc7ny.com/robert-cuadra-killed-stray-bullet-paterson/11495554/

The response from the left was deafening silence. No NBA or NFL stars came forward to denounce the senseless killing or console the family. Nothing from our Democrat leaders.

Paterson is not some far off country. It is a town that is only minutes away from where your family and mine live. Paterson is the city where I made my living as a county prosecutor for 25 years.  I devoted each day to putting bad guys in jail.

I care about Robert and many thousands like him because I know this young man deserves a chance in life, a chance that he is not getting because progressive policies are hurting, not just the people who live Paterson, but people in your community. Emboldened criminals are spreading out to the suburbs, stealing cars, breaking into houses and flouting the law.  Last year there were 350 reported burglaries in Morris County and 213 stolen cars in Parsippany.   Recently police stopped a man walking down the street in Caldwell; he was carrying a loaded handgun with the serial number scratched off.

Confounded by the failure of their liberal policies such as bail reform, to keep people and property safe, the Democrats are floundering for answers. They keep coming up with the wrong ones.

Neither President Biden nor Congresswoman Sherrill can bring themselves to blame the people responsible. The criminals themselves.  Sherrill has been silent on crime except to support The Justice in Policing Act of 2020: which was spearheaded by notorious and preachy liberal U.S. Sen. Cory Booker – the failed mayor of Newark.  The Act does nothing to help police fight crime, but it does put a tremendous onus on police officers who are trying to fight crime. The Act makes police suspects from the start.

Recently our often-confused President took to the airwaves to share his thoughts on how to reduce violent crime in cities such as New York (452 murders in 2021) Philadelphia (562 murders) and Chicago (800 murders) where liberal officials have been engaging in crime-excusing and failing to prosecute criminals. The President’s approach is at best naive, at worst dangerous to Americans no matter where they live.

Like most liberals Biden can’t bring himself to blame individuals for crime. Instead, he blames inanimate objects. It’s the guns that are problem – not the people using them.  The solution: get guns off the streets and shut down rogue gun makers?

As a career prosecutor, I’m not sure what the president means by rogue gun makers, where they are or what their role is in murder. Neither is he nor Rep. Sherril, I bet.

The gun buy-back programs have been tried in cities small and large. They are mostly publicity stunts that garner a lot of old and forgotten weapons and a few photo-ops. Hardened criminals and gang members are NOT going to turn in their guns for a few dollars.

Besides, many serious crimes are committed with knives and bats. Recently a woman in the liberal bastion of Seattle was struck violently in the back of the head by a man wielding a baseball bat.  Are bats the problem? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SQfnRz9zHQ .

Democrat politicians are slowly waking up to the idea that their soft-on-crime policies are unpopular everywhere. So, in New Jersey they have come up with a quickly legislative solution: keep people who commit crimes with gun in jail before their trials. I’m sure the ACLU will have a problem with that.

The proposed Jersey legislation is another quick public relations hit. Why deny bail or set incredibly high bail limits only for people who use a gun to commit a crime. How about using the same logic – that these people are a danger to others — and apply it to all sorts of violent offenders. The liberal excuse makers will never take it that far.

As a prosecutor who actually worked to punish criminals, I know that if there are   no consequences for criminal activity, we get more crime – whether it is looting, burglary, or shootings.

The certainty of punishment reduces crime and takes bad actors off the streets. As your congressman, I will make sure America does not continue its drift into lawlessness. I can’t say the same for Rep Sherrill.

Paul DeGroot served as a Passaic County Prosecutor for 25 years. He is now a lawyer in private proactive and lives in Montville, Morris County  

 

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Very nice screed mostly filled with opinion. He cared so much about Robert Cuadra he misspelled his name. Of course those punks responsible will be freed after promising scouts honor not to ever hurt even a fly and Biden will fly in from Washington to give each of them a big hug if we are to believe this Paul deGroot. The kids who did this were gang members who probably see going to prison as a big achievement. Being charged with murder I'm sure they won't get a slap on the wrist. 

BTW: Reynoldsville, where I grew up, where my father tortured me as a 6-month old baby back in 1950 or 1951, has never been a hotbed of liberalism. You remember Reynoldsville? That little town  a few miles outside DuBois? In Jefferson County? The town I identified when I first mentioned this incident? If anything Reynoldsville is more conservative than DuBois. SMH. 

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