https://x.com/theblaze/status/2075301674340495735?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
Another example of how the MSM slants the news. Had the white cops roughed up these three, we'd have outrage.
https://x.com/nancyrpearcey/status/2076015000724848990?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"Every Christian should understand the impact of Rousseau on our own day:
"Most of the ideologies that bloodied the twentieth century were influenced by Rousseau. His writings inspired Robespierre in the French Revolution, as well as Marx, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, and Mao. Even Pol Pot, who massacred a quarter of the population in Cambodia, was educated in Paris and read his Rousseau.
So if you get a grip on Rousseau’s thinking, you have a key to understanding much of the modern world.
What exactly was it that made his worldview so revolutionary? Rousseau said the way to grasp the essence of human nature was to hypothesize what we would be like if we were stripped of all social relationships, morals, laws, customs, traditions—of civilization itself.
This original, pre-social condition he called the “state of nature.” In it, all that exists are lone, disconnected, autonomous individuals, whose sole motivating force is the desire for selfpreservation—what Rousseau called self-love (amour de soi). Social relationships are not ultimately real; instead they are secondary or derivative, created by individual choice.
What did that mean for Rousseau’s view of society? If our true nature is to be autonomous individuals, then society is contrary to our nature: It is artificial, confining, oppressive. That’s why Rousseau’s most influential work, The Social Contract, opens with the famous line, “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
He did not mean chains of political oppression, as we Americans might think: For Rousseau, the really oppressive relationships were personal ones like marriage, family, church, and workplace.
This line of thought represented a stark break from traditional Christian social theory, which takes the Trinity as the model of social life. The picture of ultimate origins given in the Bible is not one of disconnected solitary individuals wandering under the trees in a state of nature. Instead, the picture is one of a couple—male and female—related from the beginning in the social institution of marriage, forming the foundation of social life.
The implication of the doctrine of the Trinity is that relationships are just as ultimate or real as individuals; they are not the creation of autonomous individuals, who can make or break them at will. Relationships are part of the created order and thus are ontologically real and good. The moral requirements they make on us are not impositions on our freedom but rather expressions of our true nature.
By participating in the civilizing institutions of family, church, state, and society, each with its own “common good,” we fulfill our social nature and develop the moral virtues that prepare us for our ultimate purpose, which is to become citizens of the Heavenly City.
This explains why it was so revolutionary when Rousseau proposed that individuals are the sole ultimate reality. He denounced civilization, with its social conventions, as artificial and oppressive.
And what would liberate us from this oppression?
The state.
The state would destroy all social ties, releasing the individual from loyalty to anything except itself. Rousseau spelled out his vision with startling clarity: “Each citizen would then be completely independent of all his fellow men, and absolutely dependent on the state.”
No wonder his philosophy inspired so many totalitarian systems."
(From Total Truth)"
"Rousseau's foundational claim: man is naturally good and civilization corrupts.
"This sounds compassionate. It is the most dangerous idea in Western political thought.
Because if man is naturally good, then every failure, every crime, every inequality is caused by the system – never by the individual.
Responsibility evaporates.
The oppressor is always external.
The victim is always pure.
This is the complete architecture of Woke in one sentence, written in 1755.""
Nancy Pearcey
I've heard something like the bold text before, but I don't remember where.
https://x.com/garywinslett/status/2075742790500127019?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"If I ran a Democratic campaign for the midterms this fall and I could only tell my campaign staffers one thing, it would be: Look at this chart. Talk to the yellow people, not the blue people."

https://x.com/dsa_watch/status/2076012307734262267?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
As the video shows, the DFL is pandering to the yellow folx and the DSA.
https://x.com/redwavepress/status/2075966549161021642?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
"The Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) has a web of caucuses within the group that EXPLICITLY push COMMUNISM, including the Marxist Unity Group that PROUDLY puts on their website that they seek to “Fight to Constitution” and “overthrow” it.
“Marxist Unity Group works towards adopting a minimum-maximum program for DSA. We view both the ‘minimum’ and ‘maximum’ program as essential. The minimum program refers to the party's comprehensive platform: the policies that it will immediately implement upon taking power... The maximum program refers to the results of this process: a world free of the market, borders, classes, and all other oppressive structures that exist under capitalism-in a word, communism.”"
https://x.com/shannonrwatts/status/2075941737353166857?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/surging-progressive-once-said-black-democratic-leaders-defang-the-white-left_n_6a51a01ae4b084b03f7f0f6d
"Bernie Sanders and Abdul El-Sayed have endorsed William Lawrence for a congressional seat in Michigan. Lawrence said that Black political leaders are a “pillar” of the “capitalist, imperialist” American establishment, and that by backing Dem leadership they “defang the white left.” His Dem primary opponent is @MattMaasdam, a Navy SEAL endorsed by union locals."
If a GOP said something like this, they'd be pilloried as a racist.
https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/2075661274151878855?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
https://x.com/americandebunk/status/2075763268681867733?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" Fraud is running rampant in NYC.
Palace Daycare collected $9.4 million last year by allegedly handling 8,000 different patients. But when Nick Shirley and Dr. Oz show up on camera to ask the staff for their actual daily numbers, the math immediately falls apart, and the manager fakes a phone call to hide it.
The staff claims they see about 100 patients a day across two shifts. But the receptionist admits 8,000 patients a year is impossible.
But the most revealing evidence is the staff itself--every single person in the front office was hired exactly one month ago. The entire previous workforce left at once.
The current employees do not know who manages the business. They have never met the owners. They cannot name their actual employer.
This is known as a structural reset. In organized fraud, clearing out legacy staff creates a human shield of ignorance. If new workers lack operational history, they can sit under questioning and truthfully say they know nothing.
This is not a business with high employee turnover. Rather, it's a financial crime scene."
Because going to locations where fraud is happening, talking to people there, and putting the results out for the public isn't "real journalism".
https://x.com/joeroganhq/status/2075573252001501565?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
Maher on the side of sanity.