Matt

I hope every farmer that supports this amnesty bill goes bankrupt and their entire lineage is destroyed for generations.

Jack Smith's team secretly seized text messages from 44 sitting lawmakers — including senior senators like Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham, and Josh Hawley — as part of the investigations into January 6 and Trump's classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. The scope is staggering: 20 senators and 24 House members had their White House communications collected and analyzed by federal investigators without public disclosure. Grassley and Ron Johnson, through their senior committee positions, were responsible for releasing the documents that revealed the surveillance.

Tech guys showed up in the replies to defend Flock, but the primary argument is that you have to be a paid shill to have any issue with the cameras. If this is the messaging to the public, it’s little wonder people are growing to hate them. If you want the public to think they’re necessary, you’re going to need to convince the cameras will be used to solve actual crimes, not petty traffic offenses

Tech guys showed up in the replies to defend Flock, but the primary argument is that you have to be a paid shill to have any issue with the cameras. If this is the messaging to the public, it’s little wonder people are growing to hate them. If you want the public to think they’re necessary, you’re going to need to convince the cameras will be used to solve actual crimes, not petty traffic offenses

I’ve just finished reading Gad Saad’s book Suicidal Empathy. It ranks, along with Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything and Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s Cynical Theories, as the best take-down of the lunacy at the heart of the wokeist philosophy. For Saad, empathy—in itself a perfectly decent trait—has become so grossly exaggerated that it threatens truth, reality, and justice. Cases in point abound: so they won’t feel bad about themselves, we’ll allow biological men to compete in women’s sports and crush the dreams of thousands of young women; so as not to undermine the self-esteem of minorities, we will permit unqualified candidates to have positions in universities and the corporate world; so that everyone might feel included, we will characterize the meritocracy as “white privilege,” etc. As I was making my way through Saad’s book, I kept remarking the sharp distinction between empathy and love. To empathize is to enter profoundly into the experience of another and to endeavor not to hurt that person’s feelings. But to love is, as Thomas Aquinas taught, “to will the good of the other.” As I said, in itself and all things being equal, empathy is a good thing. But it is not the same as love, which, depending on circumstances, can very much involve hurting someone’s feelings. When a professor gives a student a “C” as an honest reflection of his work, he might well be insulting him, but he’s also telling him the truth and perhaps even urging him to try harder. When, in the Confessional, a priest tells a murderer to turn himself in to the police, he’s undoubtedly making that person’s life more uncomfortable, but he’s also willing the man’s good. Any decent parent knows that showing real love for her children means engendering all kinds of bad feelings in them. In light of this distinction, we can understand why Jesus didn’t say, “have empathy for one another,” but rather “love one another.” And why St. John the Evangelist didn’t say, “God is empathy,” but rather “God is love.” It occurred to me as I was reading Saad’s book that one reason Wokeism has seized the consciousness of so many in the West is that Christianity has faded as a cultural force and Christians themselves have forgotten what stands at the heart of their faith.

Is it time for Britain to become a republic?

New Hampshire girls bullied a transgender boy to stop playing soccer. They painted "PGS" (protect girls sports) under their eyes when forced to play against him.