Could This Video Be The Key To A GOP Win In The Midterms?

 https://x.com/justinpetersmin/status/2071318818115203258?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Nice Job ACB.

 Well, it looks like SCOTUS just agreed that mail in ballots can be counted after election day and that Trump nominee ACB wrote the majority opinion.  

The record of Trump SCOTUS nominees has not be what conservatives thought it would be.  They provided the margin to overturn Roe, and not the margin to overturn elections.  

We need a massive overhaul of how we conduct elections.   

 https://x.com/zarathustra5150/status/2072126350761070773?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

https://x.com/geiger_capital/status/2071975015403212955?s=12&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

 

 https://x.com/westernlensman/status/2072096347608547379?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "2020. CBS NY reports on Turkish anchor baby ring busted operating in Long Island, NY — not only did their babies get US citizenship, they were getting taxpayer funded healthcare in the process. These are the type of insane birth tourism schemes that are incentivized by birthright citizenship, and have to be stamped out: "Prosecutors say more than 100 pregnant women from Turkey came here to give birth, so their children were instantly granted US citizenship." "Investigators say the women then used benefits like Medicaid." "The defendants fraudulently facilitated the births in the United States of approximately 119 Turkish children. And those children now hold birthright US citizenship." "Alleged lies to obtain travel visas. Fraudulent Medicaid claims for babies and moms who stayed at seven birth houses across Suffolk County." "Women paid up to $10,000 each for accommodations and free health care paid by U.S. taxpayers." "Six people arrested, charged with money laundering and $2 million in Medicaid fraud." "The mothers who participated were not charged. Investigators say many of them have returned to Turkey with their babies, who will remain U.S. citizens.""

 

 

 

 https://x.com/nmlinguaphile/status/2071974727464501655?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "As a Native American I’m a little offended that the 14th Amendment didn’t grant us citizenship until Congress passed an exception for us. Meanwhile, a CCP spy can fly to Guam, drop a baby and fly home with the baby who qualifies to run for president 35 years later."

 "Read the Kavanaugh concurrence “In my view, the Executive Order does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. But the Order does contravene a federal statute, 8 USC 1401(a). Congress could — consistent with the Fourteenth Amenedment — amend 1401(a) or other use enact new legislation establishing exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country. But Congress has not yet done so.”"

 https://x.com/tomselliott/status/2072009686467953137?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "Justice Thomas notes that ratifiers of the 14th Amendment's stated it was merely emphasizing the recently passed Civil Rights Act, which likewise confirmed citizenship for babies of those permanently domiciled in the United States (specifically babies of slaves), while expressly excluding babies of temporary foreign residents. "The evidence from the decades following ratification confirms that the Citizenship Clause was understood to exclude the children of temporary visitors. There was frequently expressed, enduring, and widespread agreement, from the Reconstruction Congress through the end of the 19th century (and even into the 20th), that the Citizenship Clause did not guarantee citizenship to persons not domiciled here.""

 

 

 

 

 

 https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/2072035823768441249?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "JUST IN: Senate Republicans are facing massive pressure to RE-FILE *DEMOCRAT* Sen. Harry Reid's ban on birthright citizenship for illegal aliens, from 1993 FILE IT NOW! REID: "If making it easy to be an illegal alien isn't enough, how about offering a REWARD for being an illegal immigrant? No same country would do that, right?!" "Guess again. If you break our laws, by entering this country without permission to give birth to a child, we reward that child with US citizenship and guarantee a full access to all public and social services this society provides. And that's a lot of services." "Is it any wonder that two-thirds of the babies born at taxpayer expense in country, county-run hospitals in Los Angeles are born to illegal alien mothers?!""
Back when democrats were sane.  

x .com/sethdillon/status/2071997175605665990?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "Now that the Supreme Court has given its blessing to birth tourism, it's probably worth revisiting this story from 2019. A Chinese national named Dongyuan Li ran a company called You Win USA Vacation Services that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the U.S. to give birth so their children would get citizenship. She advertised having served more than 500 customers, charged each between $40,000 and $80,000, used 20 apartments in Irvine to house the mothers, and took in $3 million in wire transfers from China in two years. Customers were coached to lie on their visa applications and at the U.S. consulate interview in China, claiming they'd stay only two weeks when they actually planned to stay up to three months to give birth. They were told to come early in pregnancy and were coached on how to conceal their pregnancies from customs. You Win's marketing pitch was that giving birth in the U.S. meant "13 years of free education," "less pollution," "an easier way for the whole family to immigrate to the United States," and "priority for jobs in U.S. government, public companies, and large corporations." What could possibly go wrong by constitutionalizing the incentive driving these schemes?"

 

 

Well, If A Nobel Prize Winning Economist Says So...

 https://x.com/chrismurphyct/status/2070230760196624429?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/BskiMike22802/status/2071408668244160617

" Wow,

@ChrisMurphyCT

. You just come right out and announce you are a racist... out loud. Not even trying to hide it. The minimum wage is one of the most racist policy instruments in American history, Senator — and you just introduced legislation to TRIPLE it. Congratulations. That is a special kind of brazen. Allow me to educate you, since your staff apparently has the historical awareness of a participation trophy. The minimum wage was championed by progressive eugenicists in the early 20th century — the intellectual ancestors of YOUR party — specifically engineered to price Black Americans, immigrants, and the disabled out of the labor market. They called those workers "unemployables." Princeton economist Thomas Leonard documented this exhaustively. Sidney and Beatrice Webb, heroes of the progressive movement, argued openly that a wage floor set high enough would function as "social cleansing." Their words. Not mine. Union leaders were more direct. They stated flatly that minimum wage rules removed "the incentive for employing the Negro." Primary source. Direct quote. The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931? Texas Representative Martin Dies said it on the floor of the United States Congress — it is in the Congressional Record — "you cannot prescribe the same wages for the Black man as the White man." Southern Democrats pushed it through. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 — the law that created the federal minimum wage — excluded agricultural and domestic workers at the explicit demand of Southern Democrats, because that was where Black labor was concentrated in the Jim Crow South. Under a Democratic president. Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman called the minimum wage "the most anti-Negro law on our statute books" in 1966. And here you are in 2025, in case you don't have enough of a leak in the think tank already, pushing it to $25 an hour. Let me do the math your speechwriter apparently skipped: $25 an hour is approximately $52,000 per year before employer-side payroll taxes and mandatory benefits. At that price, a 17-year-old with no resume and no work history is flat-out unemployable. Not because employers are heartless — because no rational business pays $52,000 a year for someone who requires six months of training before they produce a dollar of value. A 2006 review by economists Neumark and Wascher examined more than 100 minimum wage studies. Two-thirds showed NEGATIVE employment effects. Research in South Carolina found minimum wage increases reduced employment by 8.9% for teenagers and 15.5% for workers WITHOUT a high school diploma. The CBO estimated that even a $17 minimum wage would push 350,000 workers entirely out of the labor force. You want $25. Here is what $25 does: McDonald's finishes the kiosk rollout. Walmart doubles down on self-checkout. The young man or woman who needed that FIRST JOB to build a resume, earn a reference, and get their foot on the first rung of the economic ladder — gets absolutely nothing. No experience. No references. No second job. Just the welfare line. Which is, of course, exactly where a textbook snollygoster like you needs them to stay. Dependent. Desperate. Reliably voting for whoever promises the next handout. Senator, what have you ACTUALLY done for the people of Connecticut? Because this policy does not lift workers. It removes the bottom rung of the ladder, hands it to the automation industry, and calls the whole arrangement compassion. Quinn's Law Number One: "Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent." Quinn's Law Number 25: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money." But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who actually read the history and the economic studies instead of the fundraising email."

This Isn't About Haiti

 https://x.com/saltygoat17/status/2070887878906048728?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

 

 https://x.com/rising_serpent/status/2070896889633935412?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" How is it that American citizens can't afford a home while 30% of TPS recipients have mortgages while at the same time 51% of their households receive at least one form of welfare benefit? Do you understand how impossible this is without your government being a co-conspirator in fraud?"

  https://x.com/westernlensman/status/2071583573681791391?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" January 2010. Obama’s DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano announces that she signed the Haitian TPS order: "It will be good for 18 months from the date of the issuance. So that will be in July of 2011." That's how it was introduced. 16 years ago. Full Clip Transcript: "Lastly, as has been widely reported yesterday, I signed the order beginning for the process of TPS status for Haitians already in the United States. This is a kind of an intermediate immigration status that allows those who are here to remain and to work, and as they work, of course, many send remittances back home. This in and of itself, is a form of support to Haiti and a form of economic assistance to Haiti. To qualify, you must have been in the United States before January the 12th, the date of the earthquake. It will be good for 18 months from the date of the issuance. So that will be in July of 2011. So for Haitians in the country who were here before the earthquake, we are now opening up the process of TPS, that intermediate immigration status for you.""

  https://x.com/MendlovitzMark/status/2070558583293636902

" I've been told by a friend from Ohio that one of the reasons the elites are so hysterical about Haitians having to go home, even some Republicans, is apartment owners love renting to them, especially if they are paying government-subsidized rents. Think about the insanity of that. We are subsidizing the rents of foreign nationals, driving up the cost of housing for native Americans by diminishing supply and increasing demand. That is as un-American as anything our government could do to us."

 https://x.com/alicianieves__/status/2070650275736539216?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" This actually gets at the heart of the question “why can’t we stop mass migration, even when the people coming require so much state welfare?”. That’s actually the point. Not only do big businesses benefit from having “asylum” seekers as cheap labor, but there’s now an entire economy downstream from the state welfare being used to support these foreign nationals—NGOs, apartment owners, school systems, cities getting federal money for social programs for them. The abuse of humanitarian pathways of migration (which are actually unconstitutional btw) opened the door for a multi-million dollar economy that discovered a way to extract money from the federal and state governments. This is why the British are unsuccessful at stopping the boats of obvious economic migrant men from coming — there’s now at least 30 people employed to “help” each of these men, mainly single young women with low earning potential liberal arts degrees. These beneficiaries will fight to the death to keep mass migration bc they need these kind of social service jobs to live comfortable independent lives. The ongoing unemployment of USAID workers is a scary reminder to thousands of them that their lives will be harder for them without mass migration."

 

 https://x.com/ocraziocornpop/status/2070696715154268196?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "Trump, 2018: "Haiti is a sh!thole country." Hollywood Libs: "Haiti is a great, truly beautiful country. Trump is a r*cist!" Trump (& SCOTUS), 2026: "Temporary means temporary, Haitians have to return home to their great, truly beautiful country." Hollywood Libs: "Haiti is a sh!thole country. They must be allowed to stay forever." CHECKMATE, LIBTARDS. WHY ARE HOLLYWOOD LIBS LIKE THIS?"

 

 

 

Something To Be Happy About

 https://x.com/elsathora/status/2070753121018540375?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

Jesus

 "Nobody who ever met Jesus ever had a moderate reaction to him…They either hated him and wanted to kill him, they were afraid of him and wanted to run away, or they were absolutely smitten with him and they tried to give their whole lives to him."

 (J. Stott)

The strange thing is that the Jesus portrayed by many who profess Christ today doesn't provoke any of these reactions.  

Sowell, On Experts

 https://x.com/ThomasSowell/status/2070623134542119390/video/1?s=51

What Indeed?

 https://x.com/swipewright/status/2070180767699771559?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" Defenders of child transition need to answer a basic question: What evidence would change your mind? We were told not to worry because such treatments and procedures were extremely rare. But when new data show that these treatments aren't so rare, the same defenders suddenly change their tune: the numbers are no longer reassuring because they are small; now they are reassuring because they are large. If the rates are low, that proves the panic is overblown. If the rates are high, that's evidence that access is improving. If the rates rise, that means stigma is declining. If they don't rise enough, that means barriers remain. Heads they win, tails you're a bigot. At some point, defenders of pediatric gender medicine must answer a simple question: What result would change your mind? We should have insisted on a clear answer to this question long ago, BEFORE we ever started performing these procedures on children—not AFTER the results come in, when activists have had time to devise post hoc explanations about why the latest horrific finding is actually wonderful news. Falsifiability is a basic principle of science. No claim that can be "confirmed" by every possible outcome can be called scientific. This failure to adhere to basic principles of science is made even more sinister given that kids are having their puberty stunted, fertility compromised, and healthy body parts altered or removed as a result."

 

 https://www.city-journal.org/article/oregon-study-pediatric-gender-medicine-transition

Africa

 https://x.com/sfliberty/status/2070649595445584346?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

I'm not going to copy paste the whole thread post by post, but it's worth reading.   

I Don't Care Who You Are, That's Funny

 https://x.com/themossadil/status/2070855375738253760?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/DrRitaDed/status/2070709915845595575

"I designed a new pride flag with Grok.

"It even hangs itself." 

 

Again, Well Done To The Dans Of The World

 https://x.com/redwavepress/status/2070835917338677452?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" Bill Maher on Far-Left (Communist) Democratic Socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier: “They call her DCA. She makes AOC look like LOL times WTF. But good news, if you’re a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo, you’re no longer the weird one. She also says the United States, the country she is running to be a part of [in New York's 13th Congressional District], is occupied NATIVE LAND, and this country, America, is a f*cking disgrace.” “During the oath of office, she’s going to take a knee.” “And she’s not too CRAZY about white girls. She calls ugly colonizer women ugly and she says black men and Arab men fetishize ugly colonizer women. To which the Kardashians wrote back, ‘F*ck you, b*tch.’”"

 

Brought to you by the Dan Trabues of the US. Dan will likely claim that he'd never vote for her  specifically, but he and his ilk have paved the way for exactly this kind of candidate. Dan, his ilk, and the ASPL, have voted for and supported exactly the type of leadership which has nurtured this latest round of of extremist/socialist candidates. 

 https://x.com/shawn_farash/status/2070967176085774767?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" After Reagan mopped the floor with Mondale in the 1984 Election, the Democrat Party needed to rebrand, and several Democrats formed what was known as the DLC (Democrat Leadership Council). The DLC believed the Democrat Party went too far left and, in order to survive, needed to come back to the center to avoid alienating too many moderate voters. Contrast that with what is happening now. After Trump swept all seven swing states and won the Popular Vote in 2024, instead of forming another version of the "DLC" the dems were hijacked by the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America). Rather than coming back to the center, they have gone even FURTHER left, engaging in a full on embrace of Socialism and Communism. The DLC saved the Democrat Party in the 80s... The DSA might destroy it in 2026. Remember in November. Everyone must vote. Nobody stays home. Reject communism."

 https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2069883259216068795?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Colorado Boulder has publicly declared support for Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the man accused of carrying out the Boulder firebomb attack that killed Karen Diamond and injured more than a dozen people at a rally for Israeli hostages. In a statement, the group praised Soliman for taking “direct action” and described his attack as a “decisive act of resistance.” Anti-Zionist activist groups across the U.S. have also campaigned for convicted hate-crime offender Tarek Bazrouk, jailed arsonist Casey Goonan, and other individuals imprisoned for violence."

Well Done

 https://x.com/floppingaces/status/2070648207743594909?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://floppingaces.net/most-wanted/democrats-built-a-patronage-hive-and-act-shocked-that-the-radicals-want-the-keys/

" The Democratic establishment deserves a slow clap here. Really. Bravo. They spent years building the perfect little political terrarium: NGOs, activist salaries, university grievance factories, donor cash, media protection, blue-city patronage, “equity” rackets, and taxpayer-funded do-gooder laundromats all humming along under the sacred banner of “Our Democracy.” Then they looked at the radicals crawling around inside and said, “Surely these people will remain manageable.” Absolutely brilliant, guys. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries now look like substitute teachers trying to take attendance during a prison riot. The donors are sweating through their custom suits. The consultants are pretending this is just a “messaging challenge.” The media is polishing the same old turd and calling it “youth energy.” No, champ. This is not youth energy. This is the bill. You told them America was evil. You told them capitalism was theft. You told them police were the enemy. You told them borders were immoral. You told them every institution had to be “decolonized,” “reimagined,” or burned down and rebuilt by people with sociology degrees and untreated rage. Now they believe you. And worse, they want promotions. That is the humiliation. The party bosses thought they were renting radicals by the hour. Turns out the radicals thought they were being trained to run the place. Democrats built the hive, fed the hive, defended the hive, and called anyone who noticed a conspiracy theorist. Now the hive has the keys. Enjoy the buzzing."

A Constitutional Problem

"... nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

 

What's happening in NYC is simply an end run around the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment.   The government of NYC is  going to force landlords, through regulation, into an untenable situation which will eventually force them to sell at a huge financial loss, or allow they city to confiscate their property.   There should probably be a suit filed immediately, but it's likely that none will be filed until there are actual damages, which means after actual people lose everything.  

 

 

 https://x.com/billackman/status/2071226941856719202?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" Imagine your family worked for a generation to save enough money to buy a brownstone occupied with rent stabilized tenants on the Upper West Side. The family financed the purchase with a mortgage from a bank based on the premise that rents and cash flow would at least keep pace with inflation so you could pay interest and principal on the mortgage and hopefully have some cash flow left as a return on your investment. While you had rent stabilized tenants, you were led to believe that the NYC Rent Guidelines Board would be required to adjudicate rental increases each year by taking a measure of the inflation of costs to own and operate a building and setting rental increases appropriately. You believed the RGB would do its job as the board is comprised of two representatives each for landlords and tenants and five independent representatives that represent the general public. Now, a new mayor

@NYCMayor

Mamdani is elected on the promise of freezing rents. There are about two million rent stabilized renters that benefit if rents are frozen so by promising frozen rents the new candidate for mayor buys votes and wins the election. The new mayor achieves his objective by stacking the RGB with directors who do not follow their obligations and simply vote for a rent freeze as a preordained conclusion as evidenced by the statements of an RGB director who resigned in protest for this very reason. Meanwhile, inflation in NYC is rampant in utilities, real estate taxes, insurance, repairs and maintenance, etc. and now your rents are frozen. Real estate is a high operating leverage business which means that frozen rents and inflating expenses will cause property cash flows to plummet and your after debt service cash flow to go negative. I expect therefore there will be hundreds if not thousands of small NYC property owners who are now or will shortly be underwater on their mortgages, and without any cash flow to maintain their assets. If you remember the images of the South Bronx burning in the mid 1970s, you can viscerally understand what is happening to small NYC real estate owners. While the rent freeze appears to be short-term good news (long term it will lead to poorly maintained apartments) for 2 million NYC renters, it is bad news for the 2 million or more renters in the 1 million market rate apartments in the City because a landlord-hostile market is not likely to add meaningfully more supply and market rents will likely continue to escalate at a high rate. All of this seems quite unfair and wrong unless I missing something? Why am I wrong?"

 https://x.com/AffordAnything/status/2070864887643783274

 "There's no freeze on property tax. There's no freeze on the wages paid to landscapers, plumbers, electricians, drywallers, flooring installers. There's no freeze on the cost of lumber, copper, baseboard, quarter rounds, flashing, siding, window treatments. There's no freeze on the wages paid to janitors or porters. There's no freeze on utilities -- on electric, gas, water, sewer (building-paid utilities in hallways, lobbies, maintenance corridors; most buildings pay water and sewer for tenants). There are currently 57,421 units sitting vacant in NYC because it's more cost-effective to leave them empty than it is to rent them out. If you're wondering: "How that could be possible? Wouldn't making anything be better than making nothing?" -- the answer is no, because of the 2019 Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act. The HSTPA mandated a certain level of renovation for a vacant unit, but did not allow landlords to raise the rent enough to be able to recoup those costs. If a long-term tenant moves out after decades, the apartment often requires $50,000 to $100,000 in lead abatement, new wiring, plumbing, and structural renovations. Because the law heavily restricts how much of that cost can be passed to the next tenant. The HSPTA eliminated the "vacancy bonus" (which allowed automatic 20% rent increases when a tenant left) and heavily capped Individual Apartment Improvements (IAIs). This means landlords who want a renovation loan would be rejected by a bank, because the landlord would not be able to show that they could repay that loan. Landlords who pay out-of-pocket would end up losing money, underperforming even what they could get by putting their money in a U.S. Treasury or gov't bond. Therefore, it's more cost-effective to just leave the unit vacant. That's why we have 57,421 vacant units across New York right now. That number is about to get much worse."

 

Nationalism

 I saw something this morning bashing "Christian Nationalism" again, and I had to wonder why "Christian Nationalism" is the target of so much hate.  I don't see anyone objecting to Muslim nationalism which, worldwide, is much more prevalent and much more dangerous, likewise the Atheist Nationalism we see in places like China and N Korea seems pretty toxic as well.  I guess I'm wondering what the problem really is.  

I Only Believe What I Can Experience Through My Senses

 https://echabot.substack.com/p/but-i-only-believe-in-things-i-can"

"

1. If we cannot see God, then God does not exist.

2. We cannot see God.

3. Therefore, God does not exist.

What is wrong with this argument?

First, many people assume it is irrational to believe in God unless God’s existence can be verified through the empirical method. In other words, many skeptics reject God because they cannot verify His existence by utilizing their five senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching). For them, something is real only if it is visible or empirically detectable.

This idea is related to the “principle of empirical verifiability,” which was championed by philosopher A.J. Ayer and became influential in many philosophy departments during the twentieth century. However, this view suffers from a serious problem: it is self-refuting.

Consider the statement, “A belief is only true if it can be tested by the five senses.” Can that statement itself be tested by the five senses? No, it cannot. The principle fails its own test. Therefore, if someone says, “I only believe what I can see,” he or she would be unable to justify that belief, since the belief itself is not visible and cannot be observed through the senses.

Second, the objection commits what philosophers call a category mistake. A category mistake occurs when we assign something a property that applies only to objects belonging to a different category. In this case, people confuse the categories of the created and the uncreated, the material and the immaterial.

To assume that there are no immaterial realities is clearly false. Many things we accept as real are not material objects. From the perspective of historic Christianity, God is not a created being and therefore does not possess physical composition as created things do. Scripture teaches that God is spirit (John 4:24). He has no physical parts and is not composed of matter. Likewise, the Bible warns against making physical images of God (Exodus 20:4).

The Hebrew word echad (”one”) leaves room for a plurality within a unity of essence, but it does not imply a plurality of beings or physical parts within God. Therefore, expecting God to be visible in the same way as a material object is a category mistake. The God of the Bible is uncreated, immaterial, and transcendent.

Third, there are many realities that we cannot see directly, yet we readily accept their existence. Consider the following examples:

1. Electrons

2. Protons

3. Neutrons

4. Individual atoms

5. Electric fields

6. Magnetic fields

7. Gravitational fields

8. Justice

9. The consciousness of other human beings

10. The wind

None of these things are directly visible to us. Yet we believe they exist.

Some may object by saying, “We can infer the existence of electrons by observing the behavior of charged particles,” or “We can infer the existence of electric and magnetic fields from their effects.” Likewise, someone may say, “I know the wind exists because I can see tree branches moving.”

Exactly.

We accept the existence of many things because we observe their effects and infer their existence. We do not see the thing directly, but we recognize that it is the best explanation for the evidence before us.

Christians argue that we can similarly infer the existence of God from His effects in the world. The universe, the fine-tuning of nature, the existence of objective moral values, consciousness, rationality, and historical evidence for Jesus all serve as data points that point beyond themselves. Inferential reasoning is an essential part of how we come to know truth.

An inference is a conclusion drawn from evidence and reasoning. Much of what we know about the world comes through inference rather than direct observation.

Of course, if someone is committed to philosophical naturalism—the belief that nothing exists beyond the material universe—he or she will tend to interpret every piece of evidence in a way that confirms that worldview. Presuppositions matter. People often arrive at different conclusions not because they possess different evidence, but because they interpret the same evidence through different philosophical lenses.

The point is simple: the inability to see God is not evidence that God does not exist. We routinely believe in realities that cannot be directly observed because we can infer their existence from their effects. The question, therefore, is not whether God can be seen, but whether the evidence we observe is best explained by God’s existence.

Many of these points are discussed in the book God and Atheist Objections: An Ex-Atheist Scientist Responds to 130+ Objections, which provides helpful responses to common challenges raised against belief in God."

Thank Goodness

 Well, we can all calm down now.  Elon is no longer a trillionaire, so we can stop all of the idiocy and ignorance about wealth and how it works.  

Good Question

 https://x.com/bskimike22802/status/2069034754067075496?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

"Dear Democratic Party, I have a question, and given how confidently you have answered it two completely different ways over the past several months, maybe one of you can finally settle it for the rest of us. Is President Trump a criminal mastermind, brilliant enough to systematically dismantle American democracy, suspend elections, and refuse to ever leave the White House? Or is he a man so cognitively diminished that several of you are now formally pushing the 25th Amendment over what you are calling "frontal lobe" decline? I teach Anatomy and Physiology for a living. I can tell you with confidence: those are not the same brain. This is what logicians call a contradictio in terminis, a contradiction in terms, where two claims cancel each other out the moment they leave your mouth in the same news cycle. You cannot argue that a man is sharp enough to outmaneuver the courts, the press, the intelligence community, and his own party to seize unprecedented dictatorial power, while also arguing he cannot remember what he had for lunch. Pick one. The Constitution does not have a clause for "dangerously brilliant and also legally incompetent." Several of your colleagues, Representative Schiff chief among them, have built entire careers warning the country that this man is plotting to never leave office, suspend the next election, and install himself as a permanent ruler. Impressive long-range strategic planning for a man you simultaneously insist cannot finish a sentence. What's next, claiming he is secretly cloning himself to personally rig fifty state elections while too senile to work the White House remote? ...oh wait. You already do both. Sometimes in the same press conference. Jim Quinn's Second Law of Liberalism covers this perfectly: if you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing. You shriek "dictator" and "threat to democracy" while quietly building a case to remove a duly elected president without an election, based on a diagnosis none of you are medically licensed to make. Section 4 of the 25th Amendment requires the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to formally declare a president unable to discharge his duties. It does not require Adam Schiff's vibes, a cable news chyron, or a trending hashtag. That is not protecting democracy. That is the very power grab you claim to be fighting, wearing a slightly different mask. I have met some confused students in eighteen years of teaching. None of them have ever managed to be more confused than a chameleon dropped in a bag of Skittles quite like this argument manages to be. But what do I know, I am only a science teacher who insists two contradictory premises cannot both be true in the same argument. We cover that before lunch."

Private Property

 https://x.com/babygravy9/status/2069355690376712501?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" I still laugh from time to time about a seminar I attended at Cambridge where anthropologists and moral philosophers were talking about morality in cross-cultural perspective and the subject of private property came up. After various know-it-alls suggested there was no deep basis for private property ("cultural construction"), an ethologist piped up, "Have you ever tried to take a banana from a gorilla?" and there was just dead silence for about a minute and then everyone pretended nothing had happened and just continued as they had been."

BVMLTT/Seperation/Juneteenth Celebration

 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ_RCUbqwJn/?igsh=cmIzOGxhenUzcGw2

Beware of language.  

 https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2069220620710072491?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

" Juneteenth weekend in Chicago: -40 people shot -8 people dead -1 mass shooting with 13 shot including children Everyone involved was black, no police were involved. No protests from BLM, no outrage from Democrat Politicians, and no wall to wall media coverage. Total silence."

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Who Knows

 Apparently Dan has his panties in a wad about some alleged attacks on people with disabilities.   I could be wrong, but it seems like the billions of dollars defrauded from the government by those lying about helping the disabled might have something to do with whatever has his panties wadded.  

P-BO Library

 https://x.com/bskimike22802/status/2069397281699180790?s=46&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

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OBAMA: THE MOST RACIST PRESIDENT SINCE LBJ. PROVE ME WRONG. A Juneteenth Story Nobody in the Media Wants to Tell You.

— THE SETUP —

June 19, 2026. Juneteenth. The federal holiday marking the day in 1865 when word finally reached enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, that they were free — two and a half years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation had already said so on paper.

The first Black president of the United States chose THIS day to open his $850 million monument to himself on Chicago's South Side.

In a historically Black neighborhood.

Where the Black families who BUILT that neighborhood's identity are being priced out by the very legacy project supposedly built to honor them.

I want you to sit with that for a second before I start dumping data on you.

I am going to make a claim that a lot of people reflexively dismiss without engaging a single piece of evidence. My claim is this: Barack Obama is the most racist president the United States has had since Lyndon Baines Johnson. Not in terms of personal animus. In terms of DOCUMENTED OUTCOMES for Black Americans under his leadership, his policies, and now his legacy project.

That is a falsifiable claim. So here are the numbers. Respond with data or do not respond at all. I have had enough of the alternative.

— THE MONUMENT AND THE FAMILIES IT DESTROYED —

Original budget: $300 million. What it actually cost: $850 million. And climbing. The Obama Foundation told the city of Chicago it would maintain a $470 million endowment to keep the thing financially self-sufficient without a taxpayer bailout. The most recent publicly available filings show exactly $1 million deposited into that fund. One million out of four hundred and seventy million.

That is not a rounding error. That is a promise nobody kept. And if this thing goes under? The taxpayers of Illinois pick up the check. Again. As always.

The Obama Center sits on 19.3 acres of public parkland that the city handed over on a 99-year lease. Cost to the Obama Foundation for that century of prime Chicago real estate: TEN DOLLARS. You read that correctly. A $10 payment for 99 years on publicly owned land in Jackson Park.

Meanwhile, the African American Contractors Association president Omar Shareef told Fox News that SEVEN TO TEN Black-owned subcontractors came to him in the months before the opening with the same story. Unpaid invoices. Ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to tens of millions. Some of these men and women put up their HOMES as collateral to take on this project. At least two minority-owned firms — Vision Painting and Decorating Services and Glass Management Services — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2024 and listed the Obama Center contract in their filings.

One African American contractor told Fox News, quote, "I haven't had eight hours or six hours sleep in over a year. I'm cooked emotionally. I feel like an aluminum can thrown in front of a steamroller. We're crushed."

The Obama Foundation pointed the finger at Lakeside Alliance, the primary contractor. Lakeside said projects of this size take time to close out. Nobody cut the check. And now Adamson Plumbing's president, Mike Owen, who showed reporters his spreadsheets outside the center, says his company is nearly FOUR MILLION DOLLARS in the red. He watched the star-studded celebration from the outside. Bruce Springsteen performed. Stevie Wonder performed. John Legend performed.

Mike Owen's company may not survive to see next year.

"If they would have known it was a Trojan horse or a Pandora's box," Omar Shareef said, "I don't know if they would have raced as much as they did to be a part of it."

A monument built by Black hands, ON Black land, IN a Black neighborhood, DISPLACING Black families, WITH unpaid Black contractors, opened ON Juneteenth.

Quinn's First Law of Liberalism: Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent. You do not need a laboratory. You need a calendar.

— THE OPENING DAY. ALL OF IT. —

Let me describe the opening, because it is too ridiculous to summarize.

While President Trump was at the White House hosting a Medal of Honor ceremony honoring the actual bravery of American service members, Barack Obama opened his library. A library, by the way, that is not technically a library. It has no presidential documents. Those are at the National Archives. What it has is an NBA-sized basketball court, a vegetable garden, a Chicago Public Library branch, and a building one architecture critic described as having "an ominous presence, its mostly windowless heft recalling a menacing sci-fi headquarters." Another writer compared it to a trash bin. A very expensive trash bin.

Valerie Jarrett opened the ceremony with a land acknowledgment. She named the original Indigenous inhabitants of the land upon which they were gathered and expressed respect for those peoples. Which is fine. I have no objection to acknowledging history.

But here is my question. If the land is stolen, and you feel the need to acknowledge that publicly at the ribbon cutting, and you are standing in front of an $850 million building erected on a 99-year lease for $10... who is doing the stealing NOW?

Joe Biden wandered around on stage. I am not being unkind. The man was literally standing there after everyone else had departed, waving at nobody. He had done this when he was PRESIDENT — stood on stages after the moment passed, looking uncertain which direction to walk. At his own vice president's library opening, he was described by commentators as wandering "like a Roomba." That someone with this level of cognitive confusion was running the most powerful country on earth for four years is a different article. But it is worth noting who likely filled that void. And we will get there.

Michelle Obama was asked to describe her next chapter in one word. Her answer? "Me."

That was it. "Me." Her former boss just opened his legacy center and she responded to what the next phase of her life holds with the word "me." I am not analyzing the marriage. I am noting that the woman who has given speech after speech about empathy, community, and service answered a question about the future with the word "me," without a trace of irony, and then called it dropping the mic.

Gavin Newsom was so moved by the occasion that he ACTUALLY TEARED UP. He said he was crying because he missed Barack Obama so much. The governor of California, whose state has the highest poverty rate in the country, adjusted for cost of living, whose homeless crisis is visible from space, whose energy policies have driven some of the highest electricity rates in the nation, who once said Greg Abbott "doesn't have the backbone" — you know, the governor who is IN A WHEELCHAIR due to a SEVERED SPINE — stood at the Obama Center and wept. Because he missed Barack Obama.

Meanwhile, outside on the streets of Woodlawn, the neighborhood surrounding the center, longtime residents are being offered $2,000 by investment firms to vacate apartments their families have lived in for decades.

Those residents did not make the program.

— THE UNIFIER WHO DIVIDED, AND THE CASE HE BUILT AGAINST HIMSELF —

Barack Obama stood at that podium on Juneteenth and told the crowd he believes in American values that transcend party. He invoked John McCain. He invoked Mitt Romney. He talked about turning toward each other instead of away.

I want to tell you what his campaigns actually did to John McCain and Mitt Romney, because this is what I mean when I call him subtle.

His 2008 campaign cast McCain as George W. Bush Part Three. His 2012 campaign ran a super PAC ad implying Mitt Romney was responsible for a woman dying of cancer — linking her death to Romney's private equity career with zero causal connection. His vice president, Joe Biden, told a crowd that Romney wanted to "put y'all back in chains." His campaign spread a story that Romney had forcibly cut the hair of a gay classmate in prep school. They strapped a dog to the top of a car story into the rotation. They treated a decent man like a monster.

And then he stood at his library opening and praised the values he shared with Mitt Romney.

That is not complexity. That is OJ Simpson's book, If I Did It, telling you that you did it. A 2016 CNN poll found 54% of Americans believed race relations had gotten WORSE under Obama — including 57% of white respondents and 40% of Black respondents. The man who built his entire 2008 campaign on racial healing left office with the country more divided, and a plurality of his own community saying conditions had deteriorated on his watch.

— THE WEALTH HE LEFT BEHIND: THE RECEIPTS —

This section contains no Fox News. No conservative websites. These numbers come from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, from

Inequality.org

, and from the Urban Institute.

Black household median wealth stood at roughly $10,700 in 2007, before the recession. By 2010, two years into Obama's first term, it had fallen 36% to $6,900. Then it kept going. By 2013, Black median household wealth had collapsed to approximately $1,700 — while white household wealth had already begun its recovery and was climbing to $120,000.

Let me restate that. By the midpoint of the Obama presidency, the median Black household in America had seventeen hundred dollars in wealth. White households had one hundred and twenty thousand.

That racial wealth gap, by the latter half of Obama's presidency, was the LARGEST IT HAD BEEN IN THIRTY YEARS. Comparable, in the findings of multiple economic research organizations, to wealth gaps that existed in the 1950s and 1960s. During Jim Crow.

The first Black president oversaw the largest racial wealth gap in a generation. You may want to read that sentence twice too.

Black homeownership fell from 49% to 44% on his watch. Black homeowners with NEGATIVE equity exploded by twenty-fold during the crisis — from 0.7% to 14.2%. And unlike white families, Black homeowners did not reach their foreclosure peak until 2013, well into the Obama years. Average white home equity in 2016 was 3.5 TIMES greater than average Black home equity. And white equity had recovered 84% of its pre-crash value. Black equity had recovered only 73%.

These are not my calculations. They are from researchers who were actively trying to make the case for more intervention. They found the exact opposite.

The researchers at Jacobin — not exactly a right-wing outlet — published an analysis titled "How Obama Destroyed Black Wealth." Their conclusion: Obama had the legal tools, the legislative leverage, and the Treasury mechanisms to sharply blunt the foreclosure crisis and protect Black homeownership. He chose not to use them. Wall Street banks received trillions in rescue funds and discount loans through TARP and Federal Reserve programs. Black families got HAMP — the Home Affordable Modification Program — which set ambitious targets, fell catastrophically short, and left many borrowers in worse shape than if they had simply defaulted and started over.

The banks got made whole. The neighborhood got a $10 lease.

— SIX POLICIES THAT HURT BLACK AMERICANS. ON PURPOSE OR NOT, THE OUTCOMES ARE THE OUTCOMES. —

Thomas Sowell, one of the most respected economists in American history, spent a career making one point: good intentions are NOT a data point. Results are. You judge a policy by what it produces, not by what the press release said it would produce. Here is what the policy produced.

ONE. THE CASH FOR CLUNKERS CATASTROPHE.

Obama's 2009 stimulus included a program that gave rebates of up to $4,500 to trade in older vehicles for new ones. It scrapped approximately 700,000 perfectly functional used cars. Removed them from the market permanently. Literally crushed them.

Who shops for used cars? People who cannot afford new ones. What demographic is significantly overrepresented in that population? You already know the answer. Cash for Clunkers destroyed the affordable used vehicle supply just as the Black community was losing wealth and income at the steepest rate in a generation. You needed a car to get to work. You could no longer afford a car because the supply had been crushed to subsidize new car purchases for people with better credit scores.

The government took a functional economic resource OUT of the hands of the people who most needed it. Then called it a stimulus.

TWO. THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT AND THE LABOR TRAP.

The ACA expanded Medicaid coverage and that coverage gain was real. Millions of Black Americans who had no insurance got insurance. I am not going to pretend that did not happen.

What also happened: The employer mandate on businesses with 50 or more employees was tied to a 30-hour weekly threshold. Businesses in low-wage sectors — retail, food service, hospitality — responded by converting full-time positions to part-time below the threshold. Low-wage sectors where Black workers are significantly overrepresented. The mandate to provide health coverage created a structural incentive to make sure nobody hit 30 hours.

And the states with the LARGEST Black populations — Southern states — mostly refused Medicaid expansion, creating the coverage gap. The people who most needed the coverage, in the states with the least prior safety net, got left out of the program that was supposed to help them. Not because Republicans were blocking it from Washington. Because state legislatures exercised exactly the authority the framers gave them.

Also: since the ACA's full rollout in 2014, the seven largest health insurance companies TRIPLED their revenues, from $511 billion to $1.5 trillion. The Democrats spent fifteen years screaming about corporate healthcare greed. Then wrote the law that turbocharged it. That is not an accusation. That is a spreadsheet. Look it up.

THREE. MINIMUM WAGE ADVOCACY AND THE ENTRY-LEVEL TRAP.

Obama pushed hard for federal minimum wage increases, from $7.25 toward $10.10 and beyond. The federal floor never moved — Congress blocked it — but the rhetoric drove state and local action across the country.

Walter Williams spent his career documenting what happens to Black teenagers when the minimum wage rises. Unemployment increases first and fastest for the least experienced workers. Because here is the economic reality: when you mandate that a business pay $12 an hour for every hire, the business starts asking whether a 17-year-old with zero work experience is worth $12 an hour on day one. The math often does not work. So the 17-year-old does not get hired.

Pre-federal minimum wage expansions, Black teen unemployment was often comparable to white teen unemployment. After major hikes, the gap widened dramatically. Williams made this argument with historical data for DECADES. It was not controversial among economists. It was inconvenient politically. So it was ignored.

The person who most needs that first job to build a resume, develop work habits, and create a reference — who often happens to be a young Black man in an urban area — gets priced out of entry-level employment by the very policy designed to help workers. Quinn's First Law. Every time.

FOUR. THE SCHOOL DISCIPLINE DISASTER.

In 2014, Obama's Departments of Education and Justice sent what is known as the "Dear Colleague" letter to school districts nationwide. The thrust: if your suspension and expulsion rates are statistically higher for Black students than for white students, you may face a federal disparate impact investigation — even without any evidence of intentional discrimination. Just the numbers alone could trigger federal scrutiny.

School districts responded by lowering suspensions. By adopting informal quotas on discipline by race. By telling teachers they could not apply consistent standards because the outcomes would look unequal.

You know who suffered most from that policy? The well-behaved Black students in those schools. The ones who came to learn. The ones who needed a functional classroom to have any shot. The ones who sat through chaos, disruption, and reduced instructional time because the school was prohibited from removing persistently disruptive students when the numbers said they had removed too many already.

Thomas Sowell called this the mismatch problem applied to K-12. You cannot engineer statistical parity without sacrificing standards. And when you sacrifice standards, the students with the fewest outside resources to compensate — tutors, private schools, family support — pay the highest price.

The policy meant to protect Black students from unfair discipline made classrooms MORE chaotic for the Black students who were behaving. It is almost elegant in how completely backwards it went.

FIVE. DODD-FRANK AND THE DEATH OF COMMUNITY BANKING.

Dodd-Frank imposed sweeping new regulations on financial institutions following the 2008 crisis. Some of the regulations addressed real abuses. Fine. Nobody is arguing the subprime market was clean.

What also happened: the compliance cost was enormous and fell disproportionately on smaller community banks. Community banks that could not afford teams of compliance lawyers started consolidating, merging, or closing. The number of Black-owned and minority depository institutions declined sharply. These were the banks that served the neighborhoods the big banks historically avoided. They approved higher percentages of loans to Black applicants. They made relationship-based lending decisions that factored in the local knowledge a Citigroup risk model cannot capture.

Dodd-Frank made the big banks more compliant and smaller banks less viable. And the people who most relied on those smaller banks — Black entrepreneurs and home buyers in underserved communities — lost access to credit at the moment they most needed it to rebuild from the recession.

SIX. IMMIGRATION AND THE INVISIBLE COMPETITION.

Obama deported 2.7 million people over eight years. His own immigration advocates called him the "Deporter in Chief." He set deportation records. I give him that, because it is true and it drives the left insane.

But here is what is also true. Overall low-skilled immigration inflows remained high throughout his administration. And the economic research — not my opinion, peer-reviewed economic research, including work associated with the National Bureau of Economic Research — documents that a 10% increase in immigrant labor supply in a given skill category correlates with roughly a 3.5 to 4% wage decline and a 3.5 percentage point employment rate drop for competing native-born workers.

Who competes most directly with low-skilled immigrant labor? Workers with high school diplomas or less. What demographic is significantly overrepresented in that category? The United States Commission on Civil Rights published findings acknowledging this exact dynamic — that unauthorized immigration tends to depress wages and employment for low-skilled American citizens, and that Black men are disproportionately represented in those affected groups.

You cannot simultaneously demand living wages for American workers AND maintain open-border-adjacent immigration policies that flood the low-wage labor market. One of those things cancels the other out. The left has spent a decade pretending this is not a basic supply-and-demand question.

— THE THIRD TERM NOBODY ELECTED —

Here is where it gets interesting. And uncomfortable for people who have convinced themselves that the Biden years were separate from the Obama years.

They were not.

Obama lives ten minutes from the White House. Not ten miles. Ten minutes. During the Biden years, he spoke to Biden by phone infrequently, according to people close to both men. But when he showed up — at the White House in April 2022, for the ACA anniversary event — the room treated him like a conquering hero. Staffers mobbed him in the hallways. Democrats who served under him were visibly more excited to see him than to see the sitting president. The Heritage Foundation noted that Biden "cut a lonely and forlorn figure" as Obama was swarmed.

Obama quietly advised the Biden White House for five months on artificial intelligence policy, holding Zoom calls with top West Wing aides, before Biden's October 2023 executive order on AI was signed. NBC News reported this. Not Fox. NBC. Biden's chief of staff Jeff Zients confirmed it. It was the first time Biden had formally tapped his former boss to shape a key policy initiative. But only the first time that was publicly documented.

The Biden White House was staffed heavily with Obama-era personnel. Susan Rice returned as Domestic Policy Advisor. Ron Klain, who served under Obama, was Biden's first Chief of Staff. The policy priorities of the Biden years — ACA expansion, climate regulation, administrative agency activism — were continuous with, and in many cases extensions of, Obama-era groundwork.

I am not saying this was a shadow government. I am saying the separation between Obama's two terms and Biden's term is largely cosmetic. The personnel overlapped. The policy agenda overlapped. The Overton window had been established. And the man who established it was ten minutes away, available on Zoom, and walking into his former home to be received like a returning pharaoh while the man nominally in charge wandered around a stage not knowing which direction to exit.

I want you to think about what that means for the policies we spent the last several sections discussing. The ACA expansions that Democrats voted to make temporary and then screamed were being taken away. The immigration enforcement theater. The regulatory framework that choked small businesses and community banks. The school discipline guidance still rippling through urban school districts. All of that continued, expanded, or found new expression in the Biden years. Under the supervision of a man who was, by multiple credible accounts, actively involved in shaping that administration's direction.

And that same man just opened a monument to himself. On land taken for ten dollars. On Juneteenth. In a neighborhood his monument is pricing out of existence. While Black contractors who built the thing are filing for bankruptcy.

— THE LBJ FLOOR AND WHY OBAMA IS BELOW IT —

I set Lyndon Johnson as the floor deliberately. LBJ is documented — on his own White House tapes, confirmed by serious historians — using racial slurs in private with regularity. He referred to Black staffers as "furniture." He continued the Kennedy administration's wiretapping of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was a product of the segregationist South who made the most cynical calculations about what political loyalty was worth.

He also signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Whatever his private ugliness, those two laws dismantled Jim Crow by statute. That legacy is real.

What is Obama's equivalent? What law, signed by his hand, materially and durably improved Black economic outcomes? The ACA expanded coverage and helped insurance companies triple their revenues. The stimulus saved the banks and let Black homeownership fall five percentage points. The school discipline guidance made urban classrooms more chaotic. The minimum wage advocacy contributed to entry-level job scarcity for young Black men. The foreclosure crisis response left white equity recovery at 84% and Black equity recovery at 73%.

LBJ was a racist who did something transformative for Black Americans despite his personal ugliness. Obama was celebrated as a racial healer who presided over the largest racial wealth gap in thirty years while delivering policies that, on the evidence, made Black economic outcomes measurably worse.

I know which one I can hold in more complicated regard. And it is not the one who opened a monument on Juneteenth while Black contractors called his project a Pandora's box.

— THE COMMUNIST GOALS MOMENT —

On January 10, 1963, Representative A.S. Herlong Jr. read into the Congressional Record a list of 45 Communist Goals for America, drawn from Cleon Skousen's "The Naked Communist." I want to flag exactly two.

Goal Number 40: Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity.

In the 1950s, Black American families had intact two-parent households at a rate of roughly 80 to 85 percent. After decades of welfare expansion — which accelerated through the Obama years — the rate of Black children living in two-parent homes fell below 30%. Sowell documented this correlation extensively. Williams called it the destruction welfare accomplished that slavery could not. The Obama years added benefits, expanded the safety net, and the structural incentives that penalize marriage and work in low-income families continued producing their predictable outcomes without anyone being required to acknowledge the mechanism.

Goal Number 17: Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda.

The Dear Colleague letter on school discipline. The federal influence on curriculum standards. The expansion of Department of Education reach into classrooms that the Constitution designates as state and local responsibilities. All accelerated under this administration. The students in the schools most affected — urban schools serving predominantly Black populations — got disrupted classrooms and federal ideology in exchange for declining educational outcomes.

I am not saying anyone read this list and followed it. I am saying the outcomes match the list regardless of intent. Trees are judged by their fruit.

— THE MOMENT OF CLARITY —

Let me bring it back to June 19, 2026.

An $850 million building opened. Tripled over budget. On land that cost ten dollars. With a promised $470 million endowment that has $1 million in it. With an architecture critic describing it as a sci-fi menacing headquarters. With the African American Contractors Association president saying seven to ten Black-owned firms came to him financially ruined for having worked on it. With Black families in the surrounding neighborhood receiving $2,000 offers to vacate homes they have lived in for decades. With home prices in the area up 4.6 times since the project was announced.

A Nobel Peace Prize winner was applauded. A Roomba wandered the stage. A governor from California cried. A former first lady said "me." The local residents who have been fighting this project for a decade were not on stage.

They were outside. Wondering where they are going to live now.

Quinn's Second Law: If you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing.

They told you Trump was the one who did not care about Black America. They told you conservatives wanted to keep Black communities poor and dependent. They told you the man who built his career on images of unity and hope was the answer to structural racism.

The structural racism is still here. The wealth gap is still here. The neighborhood is changing in exactly the direction the residents feared. The contractors are still unpaid. And the man with the Nobel Prize is taking a bow on Juneteenth.

I want you to tell me where I am wrong. Actually wrong. With data.

The comments are open. I will be here.

But what do I know. I am only a medically retired Army combat medic who spent twenty-three years watching outcomes matter more than intentions, a science teacher who grades by results and not effort grades, and apparently the one person still willing to say that a Juneteenth ribbon cutting does not absolve you of the seventeen hundred dollars.

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