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Daily Broadside | Gay Sex in Senate Chambers Shows How Far We Have Fallen

I’ve been watching and responding to culture and politics for a long time now, and there’s not a lot that surprises me anymore. I’ve learned that politicians are, generally speaking, not upstanding, principled public servants but self-serving grifters who are mostly interested in staying elected to feed at the public trough.

That’s the baseline level of normal in politics now.

Every now and then, though, there are extreme, “watershed” moments that put me back on my heels as American traditions and norms are destroyed by the cultural Maoists who have infiltrated the ranks of federal, state and local governments.

One of those happened again last Friday.

Leaked amateur pornography shows a congressional staffer having anal sex with an unknown man in the Senate hearing room, video obtained by the Daily Caller shows.

The alleged staffer can also be seen in a photo, naked on all fours, looking back at the camera on the table where Senators often sit to ask questions during a hearing. 

There is so much that is wrong with this incident but before I get to that, note that if this was a heterosexual hook up videoed in a Senate hearing room, I’d have a problem with that too. My response is not driven by the fact that this was gay pornography. That’s a factor, but my response is driven by something more significant than that.

To begin with, we have an act of casual sex between (one assumes) two consenting adults. Again, this could’ve been a consenting man and woman having sex. Sex is one of our primal urges and is both the source of our greatest pleasure in life and the cause of many troubles throughout all of human history.

In the course of time, Amnon son of David fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of Absalom son of David. Amnon became so obsessed with his sister Tamar that he made himself ill. She was a virgin, and it seemed impossible for him to do anything to her.
(2 Samuel 13:1-2, NIV)

Read the rest here.

But not only is it sex, it’s homosexual sex. At this point in our cultural collapse, no one even cares anymore that it’s two men caught in flagrante delicto. It only took 60 years for homosexuality to go from a shameful closeted sin to a omnipresent cultural influence that is celebrated with its own “Pride” month.

But we forget that homosexuality, like casual sex between heterosexuals, is a perversion of God’s sexual design for man and woman.

Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
(1 Corinthians 6:9-10, NIV)

The footnote for the bolded phrase reads: “The words men who have sex with men translate two Greek words that refer to the passive and active participants in homosexual acts.”

But not only is it casual sex, and casual sex of the homosexual variety, but these two dudes decided to film themselves engaged in it. Again, that doesn’t surprise anyone anymore because there are so many “sex tapes” involving the rich and famous, the not so rich and famous, and thousands of unknowns because amateur pornography is rampant in our society. Anyone can set up a camera in the bedroom or the boardroom or on the beach and film their raw lust for all to see.

Why someone chooses to do that, with all the risks it entails, I’ll never know.

But to top it all off, this particular homosexual act wasn’t filmed in a private bedroom, or an empty boardroom in some nondescript office building, or on some public beach under the shade of a palm tree. This homosexual act was filmed in what might be considered one of the most sacrosanct buildings in the world. It is home to what once was considered “the world’s greatest deliberative body,” the envy of the modern world, one that commanded deferential respect.

Here served the likes of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Charles Sumner, John C. Calhoun, Henry Cabot Lodge, Hubert Humphrey, and John F. Kennedy, among others.

What these two men did was a moral abomination and an indefensible disgrace. While the one who was identified has been fired, the inviolable and solemn decorum historically associated with the Senate has been violated in a shocking and repugnant lack of decency.

I liken it to pissing on someone’s grave, but worse.

Believe it or not, this is all going to plan. What plan, you ask? (H/T Kevin Downey Jr.)

6. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and press.
7. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in the media.
8. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, and healthy.”

Well. Here we are.

Just like we can’t go back to the time before Slick Willy poked Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office, we can’t undo the act of sodomy that desecrated the Senate. We cannot go back to an undefiled state. It’s happened.

And it’s happened because our culture produces the people who performed the act.

But we can reject the growing depravity we’re witnessing before it metastasizes and ruins us all. We can turn from our wickedness and seek God and beg forgiveness and mercy.

That’s my prayer.

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Daily Broadside | “Democrat” is Now Just a Euphemism for “Communist”

Daily Verse | Jeremiah 20:9
But if I say, “I will not mention him
    or speak anymore in his name,”
his word is in my heart like a fire,
    a fire shut up in my bones.
I am weary of holding it in;
    indeed, I cannot.

Friday’s Reading: Jeremiah 21-25
Saturday’s Reading: 26-29

Friday and I’d like to end the week with a synopsis of a short essay by Steve Rose over at American Thinker. In it he touches on an idea that has been forming in my head but hadn’t crystalized yet. As I was doing my daily reading, I came across the title of his article which immediately resonated with me.

Yes!

“Stop Calling Them Democrats. They’re Communists” accelerated my coalescing thinking, bringing clarity to many statements I’ve made over the last few years. I’ve called the Democrats “cultural Marxists.” I’ve called them “anti-American.” I’ve called them tyrants. I even wrote a column that called Democrats “Communists.” I’ve called for the Democrat party to be outlawed. I’ve even said that I’d rather be an American than a Democrat.

But Rose’s title-statement is a bold declaration that we’re no longer dealing with Americans who have a slightly different view of how to govern this great land. We’re dealing with an altogether different creature when we talk about today’s Democrats.

This is no longer the party of FDR, JFK, or even Bill Clinton, and it’s time to start calling a spade a spade…

One of the many challenges real Americans now face is to start calling “Democrats” what they actually are. They’ll protest. But if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and acts like a duck, we need to call it a duck.

We’ve been conditioned to believe that communism is just a myth, that it isn’t real, or even if it is real, it only exists in faraway places like China, and anyone who mentions it is a conspiracist who deserves ridicule.

I think he’s right that it is very difficult for the average American to wrap his or her head around the reality that there are functional communists who are not just living among us, but who operate in the highest levels of our society and its institutions. They have their hands on the levers of power.

I think we all know that we’re not living in our father’s America, but it’s really difficult to accept that it is, in fact, happening. But, as Rose writes, you only need to look at what the Democrats are doing to understand who they are. As the old adage goes, if you want to know what I believe, don’t ask me, watch me.

  • They’re raiding and jailing their political opponents.
  • They’re turning the FBI, CIA, and IRS against American citizens.
  • They’ve come out against freedom of speech, religion, press, the Second Amendment, and other core American ideals.
  • They’ve abandoned the rule of law, and now have one set of laws for themselves and another for the rest of us.
  • They’re deliberately trying to bankrupt us—sometimes directly (through shutting down businesses), sometimes indirectly (through wasting trillions of our dollars.)
  • They’re indoctrinating our children with radical ideologies.
  • They celebrate infanticide.
  • They’re making secret deals with foreign entities against our interests.
  • They’re deliberately keeping our borders wide open to erase our national identity.
  • They mandate groupthink and conformity and punish anyone who doesn’t parrot their chosen narratives, however absurd.
  • They’re purging the best from our military and converting what’s left into a tool of Wokeism.
  • They’ve transformed our once-great American cities into crime-ridden hellscapes.
  • They relentlessly stoke division between everyone and never miss the slightest opportunity to accuse someone or something of being racist, sexist, phobic, supremacist, etc.
  • They constantly work to slander, cancel, and erase our Founding Fathers, American heroes, and America itself. (E.g., they removed the statue of Theodore Roosevelt from the American Museum of Natural History.)
  • They want to defund the police, release criminals from prisons and disarm the rest of us.
  • They defend terrorists. (Joe Biden: “Antifa is an idea, not an organization.”)
  • They’ve ignored the first principle of the Nuremberg Code, which was written in the aftermath of WWII, and which explicitly prohibits coerced consent for experimental medications. (See, e.g., here or here.)
  • They’ve tried to corrupt elections on a national scale.
  • They’ve openly stated their desire to abolish the family structure itself.
  • They’ve threatened to abolish the filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, and dismantle the electoral college system.
  • They’re criminalizing normality on multiple fronts.
  • They’ve taken down American flags and raised other flags in government buildings and city streets, symbolizing their stealth political takeover.
  • Their leaders have literally kneeled to one form of the cause they actually serve in the Capital building.

As he acknowledges, there’s lots more that could be listed here, including the shocking six-year harassment of President Donald J. Trump that continues almost two years after he “lost” the fraudulent 2020 election. This list is unprecedented law-breaking and social norm-busting in which the highest law enforcement branches in the land have been weaponized against one part of the population — conservatives and MAGA supporters.

The problem is that while we can see what is happening, no one knows what to do about it. It’s become dangerous and risky over the last few years to express dissent from the imperial rulers’ official narrative, which is concocted by Democrats and amplified by Democrats through their Democrat mouthpieces in the media.

So concerned citizens are reluctant to point out what they see happening and for sure don’t want to speak out about it. Yet, that fear is exactly what communists want.

Tyrants don’t simply announce themselves openly and honestly. “Hi! I’m trying to become a tyrant, and I’d like to enslave you. Will you start obeying everything I say?” The serpent in the garden of Eden didn’t say, “Hi! I’m trying to turn you against the Almighty. Eat this, please.”

Instead, they make lofty, inspiring speeches. They promise free things. They appeal to our sense of hope, fairness, and justice. They claim to hold the solution to racial harmony, violence, and the literal death of the planet. They bribe the corrupt, seduce the gullible, and slander, disarm, and imprison everyone else.

Once they’re in power, the mask comes off. But by then, it’s too late.

That’s why I have been warning for years about some kind of open conflict erupting, and I’m not at all inclined to change my mind. In fact, I’ve only grown more certain that such a conflict is coming. How it will happen and what form it will take are unclear, but it only takes an incident like Mar-a-Lago to ignite the simmering anger of those it represents.

And if Trump is indicted — and I’m hearing that the DOJ is moving that way — I’m afraid that will set off a nationwide outburst that will lead to the government cracking down on we citizens in what will become a military-style lockdown. Think of the protesters who were at the Capitol on January 6 and did nothing more than wander through the hallways taking selfies. The vast majority of them are still held in jail without due process.

Think the State won’t do that to you if you’ve so much as voiced an opinion contrary to the current junta that’s in power?

You say they wouldn’t?

Why not? They’ve already gotten away with jailing the January 6 protesters. What’s to stop them from expanding their definition of what constitutes a threat to our precious (*spit*) democracy?

If they do it, who’s going to stop them?

I think Rose is right, that we’ve got to start calling them what they are. In the same way we’ve been calling transactivists and other members of LGBTQUERTY+ “groomers” for trying to corrupt our children, it’s time to call the Democrats what they are: communists.

We’re definitely under threat in the United States, but it’s not from foreign adversaries. It’s from right here among us. Their name is “Democrat”, but they are thoroughly communist. Make them own it.

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Democrats are Communists Wrapped in the American Name

Daily Verse | Proverbs 19:21
Many are the plans in a man’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.

Friday and another week behind us on the road to either serfdom or civil war, as I see it. I wrote yesterday that patriotic, “Normal” Americans are being forced into a defensive position by the cultural Marxists, who have advanced through our civic institutions and now control nearly all the levers of power. I honestly don’t know how much longer we can claim to be a “free” people.

If you want absolute proof that the current administration, fronted by a moron who has failed upward for more than 50 years, are dyed-in-the-wool socialists communists, you have to look no further than their response to the uprising in the island-nation of Cuba, just 90 miles off the coast of Florida.

For 60 years the Cuban people have suffered poverty and oppression under a Communist regime. They’ve finally had enough and are rising up en masse to challenge the rule of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel. They face a military that, so far, is loyal to the president, who declared that combat orders have been given.

Nonetheless, Cubans have been demonstrating, shouting slogans like “Freedom!” and “Down with communism!” and “Freedom for the people of Cuba!” Protesters chanted “Freedom,” “Enough” and “Unite.” News outlets report that more than 100 activists are missing or held by the Cuban government. Others report that police have fired on and beaten demonstrators. Many waved American flags.

The response of our feckless “leaders” has been restrained. The New York Times labeled Cubans’ calls for freedom an “anti-government slogan.” It took Resident Biden 24-hours (with pressure from Republican lawmakers like Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis) to finally issue a statement.

We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba’s authoritarian regime. The Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights. Those rights, including the right of peaceful protest and the right to freely determine their own future, must be respected. The United States calls on the Cuban regime to hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment rather than enriching themselves.

We’ve heard nothing from AOC or Bernie Sanders because — what can they say? They want to the same system here that the Cuban people are rejecting there. Cuba is a real-time example of what happens when you go full commie. You should never go full commie.

Worst of all was US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas who said, ““The time is never right to attempt migration by sea. To those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking. Allow me to be clear. If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.”

Then he said, “If you want to come in, sail to Mexico and travel up through our southern border, because we aren’t really watching it that closely.”

Nah. He didn’t say that. He knows Cubans vote for Republicans, and Florida is turning red, and politicians need Florida to win elections and we can’t have that! Better to have illegals come from South America and not even try to stop them.

And, to top it all off, US Press Secretary Jen Psaki refuses to call communism “communism” and instead blames “mismanagement.”

Here’s what Barbara Arthur, who fled Cuba for the U.S. with her father back in 1969, has to say about the Cuban unrest (my emphasis):

After sixty years of oppression, the Cuban people are rallying for freedom. Thousands have taken to the streets in protest of lack of food, medicine, and blackouts. The people are starving; their children are starving. While many United States athletes dishonor our flag, Cuban protestors wave Old Glory in the face of tyranny. While our mainstream news media seeks to silence us with intimidation, the Cuban people cry out, “We are not afraid.” Truly, “give me liberty or give me death” in full display. Think about it: During the protests, the Cuban government has cut its people off from the internet and social media. Sound familiar? It should. Big Tech has done the same to many conservative Americans who do not align with their political views.

As a Cuban-American, our freedom is especially important to me. My family was ravaged by Castro’s communist regime. He took power as a socialist but within no time he exposed his totalitarian claws. Communism is not at our door, it’s in the house—the White House. If we allow our country to go the way of Cuba or Venezuela, where would we flee to? If there is no free America, there is no American Dream. Wake up, America, socialism is just a nice word for communism.

How ironic that while Leftists here in the U.S. demonize our country and burn our flag, people the world over — Hong Kong comes to mind — wave our flag in their countries as a symbol of freedom. Here in the US, however, we’re facing an increasingly hostile ruling class that has branded 75 million of us Americans as the greatest threat “we” face — the threat of white supremacy.

The truth is that the Democrats are now the party of communism — which means I’d rather be an American than a Democrat.

Have a good weekend.

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Daily Broadside | Marx Followed Rosseau with a Violent Twist

Daily Verse | Psalm 100:1
Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.

It’s Wednesday and the last day of June, meaning we’ve hit the mid-point of 2021. On the downside, it means we’ve survived only one eighth of Resident Biden’s reign—seven more to go (grrr!). On the upside, we’ve completed one quarter on our way to the 2022 mid-terms. Only three quarters to go until we place a check on the junior commies in the White House. So there’s that.

Yesterday I started what will be a short series of posts (inspired by a chapter in Andrew Breitbart’s Righteous Indignation) in which I want to explain the source of the insanity currently gripping our country. It’s called cultural Marxism, and it has deep roots reaching back to the Enlightenment (or the Age of Reason) from about 1685-1815. If you missed yesterday’s post, you can read it here: CULTURAL MARXISM GOT ITS START IN THE 1700s.

To quickly recap, Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) posited that human beings are basically good but that “society” corrupted them. The overriding concern of his work was,

“to find a way of preserving human freedom in a world where human beings are increasingly dependent on one another for the satisfaction of their needs. This concern has two dimensions: material and psychological, of which the latter has greater importance. In the modern world, human beings come to derive their very sense of self from the opinion of others, a fact which Rousseau sees as corrosive of freedom and destructive of individual authenticity. In his mature work, he principally explores two routes to achieving and protecting freedom: the first is a political one aimed at constructing political institutions that allow for the co-existence of free and equal citizens in a community where they themselves are sovereign; the second is a project for child development and education that fosters autonomy and avoids the development of the most destructive forms of self-interest” (emphasis mine).

In Rousseau’s mind, the solution was a new “social contract” based on the “general will” which embodied the entire will of the people (RI, p.108). The idea of changing society interested Karl Marx (1818–1883), who picked up on Rousseau’s philosophy and made it his own.

Marx saw all of history as a series of “class struggles” but, contrary to Rousseau, believed that human nature was formed by the surrounding society. This led him to believe that if “human nature was to be changed, it could be changed only by destroying the surrounding society” (RI, ibid.).

In addition, Marx incorporated Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s dialectic theory into his philosophy. The term “dialectics” means a process of resolving conflict between two opposing sides that results in a “linear evolution or development from less sophisticated definitions or views to more sophisticated ones later.“

For Marx, that meant that “capitalism carried the seeds of its own destruction—capitalism (thesis) would be faced with the wealth gap that capitalism creates (antithesis), and that wealth gap would be solved by socialism/communism (synthesis)” (RI, ibid.).

In sum, Rousseau believed that men and women were basically good, that society corrupted them, and the solution was to form a different kind of society. Marx picked up where Rosseau left off, believing that society corrupted human nature but that the solution was to destroy the surrounding society. In both cases, Rousseau and Marx believed that the current society had to be replaced, and that “communism” was the solution.

You can see the faintest forms taking shape in their philosophical viewpoints that we recognize today. Tomorrow we’ll take a look at how this thinking came to America.