Today in the Prozac Nation, the Austin Travis County Integral Care Center in Austin, Texas became the latest in a collection of public entities to clamp down on free speech and ban employees from saying Merry Christmas in front of patients. This kind of reactionary policy is something of a New Normal in the effete Postmodern United States; today it was also reported that the University of Virginia has a petition going to ban the phrase. The Cultural Marxists have been attempting to ban Christmas in general for some time, under the pretense of being inclusive; in spite of the obvious contradiction involved.
Not so in the SE Asian country of Malaysia. In that predominantly Moslem country, the Supreme Islamic religious leader decreed that the term Merry Christmas in no way violated Islamic cultural norms.
Dr. Zulkifli Al-Bakri, the Islamic Mufti of the Malaysian Federation stated that use of the term is not forbidden to Moslems and wholly permissible when used to celebrate the holidays of non-Islamic faiths.
"It's no more than merely a greeting to express one's happiness and enjoyment upon seeing the happiness of others celebrating." the Mufti said, "As long as communications with other religions do not glorify non-Moslems, wishing someone a 'Merry Christmas' is permissible."
The Mufti cited the 2007 decision of an Islamic Ecclesiastical court which ruled in favor of a group of Egyptian scholars who sent Christmas greetings to then-Pope Benedict. The Mufti's decision came in response to a legal challenge by an activist from a Moslem group, seeking to ban the term Merry Christmas in Malaysia on the grounds that it was offensive to Moslems.
Does this sound familiar? Once again, it is uptight, drugged-out, native-born American Liberals---offended and outraged at 'seeing the happiness of others celebrating'---who are the ones shutting down Christmas cheer and not Moslems from abroad. The Grand Mufti of Malaysia has no problem with Moslems saying Merry Christmas in hospitals in schools; the overpaid and hysterical bureaucrats running such institutions in America, do.
So, nobody is going to get sued or harassed in Malaysia any time soon for celebrating Christmas. Maybe Americans can take a lesson in inclusiveness from the Mufti.
Christmas in Kuala Lumpur. Nobody 'offended' here.
As sort of an unintended follow-up from yesterday's post; a group of self-described Manly Alpha Leaders among the Manosphere's Red-Pill Cult collectively decided to get into the Christmas Spirit and---to use their own words---word-rape a female blogger who dared criticize one of their writings. The guilty Gamers (so far) are Roosh Valizdeh, Quintus Curtius, and Vox Day, with a number of their fawning acolytes tagging along.
They've all ganged up for this burst of Alpha outrage on Donna Zuckerberg, sister of the CEO of Facebook. The Red Pills have had a long-standing dislike for Facebook and social media in general; since the owners of these sites are routinely obliged to discipline them for their continual spamming, doxxing, trolling, harassment, and other obnoxious behaviors.
Donna Zuckerberg wrote a few articles recently expressing some concern about the increasing Nazi rhetoric coming out of the Red Pill Cult, a specimen of which reads:
"Why have so many White male leaders of communities and websites that used to focus on sex and gender shifted in recent months to Anti-Semitism, White Nationalism, and complaining about the (Jewish) media? In part it is because these men were always grossly bigoted and racist. The outspokenness of the Alt-Right empowered other men to share Anti-Semitic views which they otherwise might have been quiet about. But the Alt-Right was getting a lot of attention. And attention is what these men crave."
What she said here was a little too close to the truth for the Manospherians, who unleashed a torrent of abuse on her. Roosh and Vox are actually gloating over several of Donna's Twitter posts complaining about the deluge of Anti-Semitic spam, including a few where her face is photo-shopped on a lampshade.
Males who engage in this kind of behavior are simply punks. They aren't leaders of men, they are poltroons who pose as leaders. The only reason that they get much attention is because Feminism and Cultural Marxism have so culturally depreciated masculinity that hoods like these can pass themselves off as real men and get away with it.
Quintus Curtius, an intellectual pygmy who really started the whole gang-bang against Donna Zuckerberg, wrote a rant under the guise of a rebuttal; the gist of which was that he is more of a man than Donna is. "I am a 48 year old man who has more scars than you will ever have!" he exults to her, "I fought more battles than you will ever fight! While you were mincing around the halls of Princeton, I was leading Marines on Okinawa and East Asia..." and other rather unmasculine braggadocio. As a side note, one wonders what battles Quintus was leading Marines into these regions. Considering that the last battle the Marines fought on Okinawa was in 1945 and the last they fought in SE Asia was in 1974; Quintus seems a bit young to have participated in these.
Vox Day gleefully quotes an extract from Roosh's article, showing us all the deep spirituality and masculine courage these two boast of having. Addressed to Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, these cowards actually boast that they've somehow gotten to him through his sister:
"If Mark Zuckerberg is reading this right now, and there's a good chance that he is because his sister bit off more than she could chew, I want him to know that she is now our 'house ho'. Mark, we have raped your sister's mind with our ideas and our vigor. We have so burrowed a hole into her head that not a day goes by without her thinking of our ideology, our arguments, and our words. You can do your worst on Facebook, and hide reality to your heart's content, but you cannot begin to stop us from wounding your own family. What goes around comes around---you've manipulated the minds of millions of people who use Facebook---censoring the truth from them, and now we own the mind of your sister."
As sinister as this sounds, it's doubtful that Zuckerberg is too worried. Quintus, Vox, and Roosh don't even own their own minds anymore, let alone owning anybody else's. They exhibit such advanced stages of psychological dysfunction with screeds like these, one has to doubt that they actually have it together enough to do more than bluster---like the Internet version of a street bum shouting abuse at random pedestrians.
The civilized way to handle criticism is by debate: but the Gamers can't defend any of their positions through logical argument. So they take the thug's way of force and intimidation---the very things they project on Mark Zuckerberg.
With Christmas just five days away and an Election officially settled most cultures would be alive with the Spirit of Christ's message. Not so in Postmodern America. Here, where the Seven Deadly Sins are often mistaken for civic virtues; the closer we come to the commemorative day of Christ's Advent the less Christian our culture becomes. The Christmas Season in America begins on Black Friday---basically little more than a Wall-Street sponsored riot---and ends on New Years Eve---basically little more than a Wall-Street sponsored drunken orgy.
A series of posts today really captured the essence of Xmas-America. Blogger and commenter Insanity Bytes critiqued an editorial which appeared in the Washington Post. The Post, once a great newspaper but now a sleazy tabloid, published a piece titled Our Culture Celebrates the Purity of the Virgin Mary: As a Rape Victim, that Hurts Me. One can more or less surmise the tone of the article from its title. Written by a feminist pastor from a very Left-leaning denomination, the whole thesis revolves around redefining Mary's image to make less 'patriarchal' and offensive.
It really does take a significant degree of narcissism to complain, as this author seems to imply, that Mary's example is too high a bar for women to emulate. But the 'pastor' misses the whole point. In spirituality we cannot be God and very few can be saints. Yet their attributes are examples that we should follow. Among the Cultural Marxists and their Anarchist camp-followers, the idea that anyone should actually achieve excellence in anything, including spirituality causes them to recoil in horror and wounded pride.
Not far behind the Left, the Far Right chimed in. Manosphere Red Pill Cult blogger Chateau Heartiste published the first of an upcoming series of articles calling for another civil war. Heartiste's article was praised and widely circulated by other Game Cultists, even though it's arguably one of the stupidest theories that Heartiste has ever suggested. He introduces the article---which is largely a hotchpotch of vulgarity and crackpot-level historical revisionism---by announcing:
"The best way to think about America, now and historically, is as the battleground between rival White factions, with nonwhites and women as shock-troops ordered to exploit White men's racial guilt and their white knightery. One faction---the Runaway Universalist (RU) Whites---is engaged in biological warfare against the F*** You (FU) Whites, via open borders to the third world."
To most rational people, the above statement indicates mainly that Heartiste is a full-blown neurotic, and a crypto-Nazi to boot. "The psychological level of the RU Whites' anti-White subversion propaganda was amplified by a tacit alliance between various nonwhite and Middle East/North African-White tribes, most notably the Jews."
Ethnic Cleansing and Internecine Warfare: about as far from Christianity as one can get; but a prime example of how the Red Pills would spread Christmas Cheer.
Sadder still, the Cultural Elites are even worse than the extremists. An article in the New York Daily News written by Gersh Kuntzman---who once claimed to have suffered PTSD from visiting a rifle range---praised the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey as a heroic statement against the Russian Government.
"As Vladimir Putin's man in Turkey, Karloff was the public face of that murderous dictator's war crimes around the globe and of oppression at home," this effete New York degenerate says of the Christian President of Russia, "I, for one, am shedding no tears for Andrei Karloff!"
Kuntzman not only prances in sadistic glee over a murder that was denounced worldwide, he almost sets a record for telling the most lies in a single paragraph: "Karloff's job in Turkey was to ease tensions over Russia's atrocities in Syria (lie) and its incursions inside Turkey itself (lie)---meaning that his job was to enable and normalize Vladimir Putin (lie). Given that role, he wasn't a diplomat but a soldier (lie), and his death is the same whether it came on the battlefield outside Aleppo or in an art gallery in Ankara (lie)."
These three articles really sum up what Christmas has come to mean in America. But it wasn't always like this. For the next few days, we'll be running some articles related to the Christmas Season, because it's obvious that the Ameroboobs need a remedial course on the subject.
After six weeks of withstanding intimidation, harassment, death threats, doxxing, and attempted bribery, the Electoral College did what it always has and confirmed the legally elected President. The final step in all of these arcane processes is for the US Senate to certify the Electoral College results. Fortunately, Senators are typically better-protected than State Electors.
The Anarchists and their confederates are likely not finished yet. They're already plotting various social disturbances and other crimes up to and including Inauguration Day.
None of these theatrics will deter Trump from being sworn in, however. It is really time for most of us to begin focusing on the policies and composition of the new administration. Geopolitically, Obama has become utterly irrelevant---as this week's incident in the South China Sea amply proved. On domestic issues likewise, Obama can really do little more than sign or veto legislation passed during the interim Congress.
Is the Left finished, as we all hope? Sadly, not. The reality is that the Cultural Marxists have become so deeply entrenched in most American sociopolitical institutions that rooting them out is going to be a long and arduous process. If Trump intends to keep his promise about draining the cesspool, this is a project that will occupy much of his entire first term.
While the new administration needs to clean up corruption, America's social infrastructure is also in desperate need of rebuilding. 30+ years of dumbed-down schools, drug proliferation, radical feminism and homosexual activism have exacted a brutal toll on American social psychology. The government can do some proactive things to reverse these trends as Putin has in Russia; but the speed of their successes will depend upon how deeply the cultural rot has effected us nationally. At this level, the Cultural Marxists are going to be very obstructive; and this is where many of us will have to do our part to encourage needed reforms.
Economic and physical infrastructure has been so long neglected that this is going to be a major focus of government spending programs. Cleaning up the corruption at high levels may offset much of these expenses; but we are literally talking trillions of dollars in damage that has to be rectified immediately. America's system of river navigation and flood control is on the verge of collapse; and most of our bridges and dams are well past their warranties. Our rail system and public transportation is obsolete; our space program nonexistent; our power grids badly outdated; drinking water contaminated. This is to say nothing of our chaotic airports and healthcare system.
The Cultural Marxists and their Neocon RINO Republican enablers have brought us to this point. The Trump Administration is going to be a pivotal one and will ultimately determine whether we sink into rogue-nation Third-World status (as we largely already have); or rejoin the Community of Nations and become a net contributor to the world again. Trump deserves a chance and his election may give us, as a society, a chance again.
How many of us still remember Obama's Pivot to Asia? This was a foreign policy shift that occurred largely after Obama's disastrous failures in the Middle East and his restarting the Cold War with Russia through his sheer incompetence and arrogance. The Pivot to Asia wasn't much different and ended just as ignobly as the others: leaving China the dominant power in the Pacific.
Obama had nearly pushed China to the very brink of WW3 with his continual provocations in the South China Sea in June. Six months later, his once-swaggering Pentagon saber-rattlers are obliged to bow before the Chinese Dragon and beg with their rumps in the air for the return of a deep-sea drone.
A Chinese patrol boat captured the drone on Thursday after the captain's suspicions were raised about its purposes. The drone was allegedly part of a NOAA research project carried out from Subic Bay in The Philippines, according to Captain Jeff Davis, a spokesman for the LGBTQ-friendly Pentagon. Chinese suspicions were further raised when Filipino Defense Minister Delfin Lorenzana publically stated that he had never been informed of the US deploying undersea drones from Subic Bay.
China determined that they would return the drone after their Military Intelligence had an opportunity to inspect it further. This led to an angry outburst from the Obama Administration and from Senate RINOs. "This brazen provocation fits the pattern of increasingly unstable Chinese behavior," thundered Senator McCain, "And this behavior will continue until met with a strong and determined US response!"
Definitely harsh words over a device that the Pentagon claims is commercially available for around $150,000 and, according to them, was part of a non-classified project to map ocean currents. Nonetheless, the effete Peter Cook of the Pentagon press corps told the Corporate Media that: "Using appropriate government-to-government channels, the Department of Defense has called upon China to return an unmanned underwater vehicle that China unlawfully seized and return it in compliance with international law." So much for the 'robust response' McCain had called for.
This isn't the first time that China has intercepted and inspected an underwater drone, but it is the first time that the Pentagon and Corporate Media have raised a public outcry over it. This fact was noted by Li Je, a Chinese military spokesman, who added that "the drone that we seized on Thursday is newer and more advanced than the oceanographic drones we have encountered before; and might carry sensitive information just collected in the South China Sea. This is why the US is so nervous and employed the media to hype it up this time. The US is aware that such spying activity is inappropriate."
This incident illustrates why we need professional men in the military and intelligence fields again. As if China was really going to be fooled by spy drone disguised as a research vessel! Our Pentagon apparently believes that no military in history has ever disguised spy equipment as a scientific apparatus before. The fact that there were more drones in the area and that the Chinese seized this one in particular indicates that they were probably monitoring it for some time.
Song Zhongping, a military analyst who comments for China's Phoenix TV, stated that drones of this type easily can be altered for espionage purposes. "For military purposes, the drone can gather hydrological intelligence about salinity, temperature, and the ocean currents. More importantly, it can also gather military intelligence about the movement of submarines."
Thus concludes (hopefully) Obama's Pivot to Asia. In six months, Obama has managed to be snubbed at Pacific conferences; driven Japan to seek reconciliation with Russia; can't control a vassal he installed in The Philippines; saw the South Korean government overthrown; driven former allies into China's orbit; caused riots on Okinawa; and now is obliged to grovel in front of China after blundering a routine security operation.
And the Corporate Media is more concerned that Trump misspelled a word commenting on the whole affair. We could use some professionals in the media again, too.
"Time to Flush the Obama Navy"
We Americans have grown accustomed to our annual December ritual of Christmas-bashing. What used to be a national holiday celebrating the central hopes of the Christian faith is marked here today by articles on holiday depression; schools banning Christmas displays; lawsuits removing Nativity Scenes; local governments issuing politically-correct anti-Christmas edicts; and of course the ubiquitous protests outside every department store demanding an end to everything from wearing fur to voting in free elections.
This is the new normal in the Prozac Nation. Beefed-up police presence; lots of drugs to deal with holiday stress; watch-what-you-say; unbridled commercialism; guilt-tripping over the homeless bum population; and a lot of pretending that it's all about the holiday spirit.
Less effete cultures, however, still celebrate holidays like Christmas and actually enjoy it. This is even true in countries that are war-torn and not even predominantly Christian---like Syria. Santa Claus actually appeared in the ancient city of Homs---known in New Testament times as Edessa---along with RT News reporters to visit displaced children at a UNICEF shelter there. RT reported that "Santa ignited a festive mood in the crowded room as children were singing and dancing in an early celebration of what is set to become for Syria its sixth Christmas in wartime. The weather was also getting into the Christmas spirit, as snow began covering the roads."
We were unable to find any news stories of an American media outlet doing anything similar. However, many have banned the use of the word 'Christmas' as offensive.
Meanwhile, Fars News reported today that the Catholic community in the Al-Azizyeh District of Aleppo began setting up Christmas displays for the first time since 2012. This district was recently liberated by Allied forces from Al-Qaeda occupation. Like many US municipalities, Al-Qaeda had forbidden public Christmas displays.
The Fars News video shows Syrian Christians stringing holiday lights in the streets and re-opened businesses bringing out their Christmas ornaments.
And in Damascus this weekend, SANA reported that hundreds turned out for the annual Christmas Tree lighting at the Dama Rose Hotel. The ceremony was attended by Christian priests; featured a youth choir singing hymns and carols among other activities. In Damascus---and in the Syrian Arab News Agency---it is still acceptable to refer to this as a 'Christmas Tree'.
It's no wonder then, that the US Government-Media Establishment is calling for censorship and legislation to counter foreign propaganda. In a country where schools are banning Christmas and trying to establish progressive policies--- like disseminating homosexual propaganda in Kindergarten and organizing extracurricular Satanist clubs---it is outrageous to allow Russian, Iranian, and Syrian stories of delivering presents to orphans or worshippers thanking God that they weren't ethnically cleansed. And besides, portrayals of Russians and Arabs as human beings doesn't fit the exceptionalist narrative that our media hopes to convey.
People might start wondering, for example, how Syrian children manage to survive in orphanages in the middle of a civil war without Ritalin and safe spaces. And they might start thinking that faith has something to do with it.
Remember When American Schools Looked Like this at Christmas?
It seems hardly a day passes any more without some icon of the Far Left publically experiencing a mental breakdown of some kind. Many were probably well on the way to neurosis already, but the recent Trump victory triggered their latent problems.
Paul Krugman, an economics professor at City University of New York, Nobel Prize recipient, and contributor to the New York Times, is the latest victim of this syndrome. Krugman is not only not reconciled to the 2016 Election, he's having flashbacks to the 2000 Election. Hence he wrote on Twitter yesterday that,
"There was rightly a cloud of illegitimacy over Bush dispelled wrongly by 9/11. Presents some interesting incentives for Trump."
Apparently Krugman is warning that Trump will stage a terrorist attack as Left-Wing conspiracy theorists claim that Bush did; as well as implying that Trump's election was illegitimate, as these same conspiracy theorists say of Bush's:
"At some point Trump will surely use the patriotism card to distract from the tainted election and his anti-populist policies."
Unlike the Democrats, of course, who have been claiming that Trump stole the election with collusion from the Russians, and that all good Americans really sided with Clinton. Because the Democratic Primary election wasn't the least bit tainted---other than top officials being forced to resign over cheating and a suspected whistleblower being murdered. Krugman is an admitted believer in the conspiracy theory that the Russian Government somehow orchestrated Trump's win.
Krugman incidentally is paid $225,000 a year to teach this kind of nonsense at CUNY. A recognized 'expert' on income inequality, Krugman has an estimated net worth of $2.5 million.
Nonetheless, this champion of the economically deprived managed to pull his faculties together enough to write a brief but utterly senseless op-ed in the New York Times today. Forgetting that the Russians are supposed to have hacked the voting machines, Krugman wonders why Clinton promises of welfare failed to materialize votes among the working poor against Trump's promises of creating well-paying jobs. His answer concludes that "it has to be about culture and, as always, race."
Now to draw Krugman's argument to its logical conclusions: he is suggesting that racial minorities prefer welfare to work. This kind of patronizing hypocrisy is why prominent Black community leaders like Louis Farrakhan urged Black and Moslem voters not to support Clinton. Krugman though is too severely blinded by anti-Trump hysteria to see the absurdities and contradictions in what he writes: and he is succeeding only in making a fool of himself.
