Dec
20
2025

It's Not A Phobia If …

Just yesterday I made this point in my report on Gad Saad's book The Parasitic Mind. Looks as if the Bee said it first, though.

Also of note:

  • You say that as if it was a good thing. More irritating content in my lousy local newspaper, Foster's Daily Democrat; Jeff Thomson opines that Presidents of progressive era offer lessons for today. (archive.today link)

    It is, to be sure, an extremely selective history. I won't go into the whole thing, but here's his paean to Woodrow Wilson:

    Woodrow Wilson (first modern Democrat president) signed the Federal Reserve Act, which forever solidified our nation's central banking system. More antitrust action creating the Federal Trade Commission. Pushed for passage of the 19th Amendment — women's vote. Guided the country through World War I and urged U.S. membership in the League of Nations .... blocked by a Republican Senate.

    Woodrow Wilson was a (literal) racist. He re-established strict segregation in Federal government offices. He showed D.W. Griffith's Klan-glorifying black-demonizing movie, The Birth of a Nation, in the White House, calling it "history with lightning".

    His support of the women's suffrage amendment was (at best) lukewarm, after years of outright opposition. He oversaw the trampling of suffragettes' civil liberties, which (among other things) involved sending off lady protestors to a rural Virginia prison/workhouse/hellhole for daring to unfurl banners in front of the White House.

    But that only went along with Wilson's general contempt for Constitutional liberties. His administration had his (socialist) political opponent, Eugene Debs, jailed for making rabble-rousing speeches against the WW1 draft. The infamous "Palmer Raids" rounded up and deported other dissidents.

    But speaking of WW1: Wilson ran for re-election in 1916 using the peacenik motto "He kept us out of war". While privately acknowledging that, yes, we were going to get into it post-election. And (indeed) after his second inauguration, he took less than a month to ask Congress to declare war on Germany, eventually resulting in over 300,000 casualties of US soldiers.

    All in all, Wilson was a nasty piece of work, making Donald Trump look like a relative flower child.

    Thomson's profiles of other Democrat presidents are similarly hagiographic. JFK is lauded for the Cuban Missile Crisis; but try to find "Vietnam" or "Bay of Pigs" anywhere in the column.

    So: not worth your time. Definitely not worth your subscription.

  • I have a nominee for #31. Despite having more than a week to go, John Hawkins has a collection of The 30 Most Obnoxious Quotes of 2025. John's a plague-on-everyone's-house kind of guy. (These days, so am I.) Here's #9, one of three (!) quotes attributed to "Destiny | Steven Bonnell":

    “If you wanted Charlie Kirk to be alive, Donald Trump shouldn’t have been president for the second term.”

    Uh huh. But the quote source is this Yahoo! News article: Elon Musk Says Destiny ‘Should Go to Prison’ For Arguing Trump Election Led to Charlie Kirk Shooting

    So my nominee for #31:

    “Separately, incitement to murder and domestic terrorism is a felony crime. For that, he should go to prison. He can resume streaming when he has served his term.” -- Elon Musk


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