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Conservatives know liberals

One of the sources of our great country divide is that conservatives understand socialism, but liberals don’t know conservatism. Leftists have been branding conservatives as racist, bigoted, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, sexists for the last 50 years, and with the reinforcement of a leftist media and no push back at all from the Republican Party, the label has stuck. As a result, many conservatives consider themselves leftists because they think they’re not any of those things, and they don’t really know or understand what conservatism is all about. Everyone knows people like this. They live their lives according to conservative…

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Fact checkers = thought police

As 2020 winds down, there’s plenty of “Orwellian” distinctions to be made, but is there any more so than the idea of “fact-checkers?” Near as I can tell, fact-checking was invented by the media to address their bias-by-omission approach to news reporting. The greatest source of news bias has always been what they left out, not what they reported. When they did report something that was true, but went against their narrative, they didn’t really have a way to rationalize it. Enter fact-checking. Humans have always been remarkably creative problem-solvers. It’s why freedom always leads to the best problem-solving…

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2020: One long dead parrot sketch

Up is down. Black is white. Big is small. And that parrot is pining for the fjords. This is where we find ourselves in nearly 250 years since our founding. We’re told by government, corporate, and media elites that a virus with a 99.7% survival rate will kill us, violent rioting is peaceful protesting, all whites are racist, President Trump told us all to inject bleach, the virus will kill any guests you invite for Thanksgiving but not any Democrat politician speaking to protesters, Joe Biden wildly outperformed Barack Obama with the most votes in US history without having…

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Massive election reform

It’s difficult to say whether or not President Trump will win his challenge to the 2020 election. Few of us know much about what’s really going on behind the scenes, so it’s hard to predict how it will turn out. But from where all of us spectators sit, one would have to guess Joe Biden will be the next President. However it turns out, one thing is clear: We have to reform our entire election apparatus. Many conservatives believe that if Joe Biden really becomes President, conservatives will never win another election. Without voting reform, that may be entirely…

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But who’s behind it?

If you’re watching any conservative media, you know there’s quite a build up to whatever evidence the Trump team has to prove massive voter fraud. The rumblings and rumors include hundreds, if not thousands, of people who’ve come forward to claim their vote wasn’t counted, someone voted in their name, dead people voted, ballots were thrown out, ballots were added, the software was rigged, and GOP poll watchers weren’t allowed anywhere near the vote counting. Meanwhile, President Trump and his lawyers are slowly starting to appear more and more making claims of significant voter fraud and implying heavily, if…

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Racists gonna racist

Assuming Kamala Harris is sworn in as the next Vice President, California Governor Gavin Newsom is going to have to appoint a new Senator to replace her. The news from today is that black and latino leaders are pushing him to select either another black senator the state’s first latino senator. Like Joe Biden before him, who committed only to selecting a black woman as his running mate, Gavin Newsom will probably follow suit and select a replacement based on something as irrelevant as some physical characteristic. The reason we’re not supposed to judge people based on things like…

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Biden’s deal

Heading into the election, many people were saying that Joe Biden made a deal with Bernie Sanders that allowed him to win the nomination in exchange for adopting Sanders’ platform. This would explain Biden’s embrace of things like the “Green New Deal,” and support from Sanders acolytes like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and “The Squad.” I think we’re now discovering that the deal wasn’t with Sanders. It was the entirety of Washington D.C. Beating President Trump was the most important thing to D.C. denizens, and they’ve been singularly focused on it for four years. What people didn’t notice is to what…

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The secret to career progression

I’ve worked for, or consulted with, many companies and have been blessed to meet many people along the way. One thing I’ve noticed about people younger in their career that I didn’t notice when I was there is the need to know and understand one’s entire career progression. “Kids these days,” as they say, seem very intent on seeing roadmaps and paths so they can follow them like a set of Lego directions. To many of them, their career is more like a checklist where things are accomplished to check a box and show the boss that it’s time…

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Visions of 1934 Germany

No, I’m not going overboard. For one, Joe Biden is no Adolf Hitler. He doesn’t have the confidence, the plan, the acuity, the motivation, or the agenda. But his followers do. It only took a few hours after the networks started indicating Biden was the likely winner before Democrats started feeling themselves and calling for retribution and retaliation against any and all Trump supporters or enablers. This is who they are. It’s not about the possibilities of the future, it’s about the sins of the past. It’s about getting even. It’s about correcting perceived injustice. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wondered aloud…

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