After the Silicon Valley Bank melted like Dorothy’s Wicked Witch of the West, Moody’s announced that is was downgrading the US banking system’s rating. Once the world’s most vibrant economy, we were no longer stable, now seen as negative, with a “rapidly deteriorating” operating system. Basically, the bank went woke — investing than $73 million in Black Lives Matter — and now it’s broke.
President Biden promised that no one would lose a penny, nor would anyone have to pay for the bailout. I guess they call that New Math. But much like the Wizard of Oz hiding behind his curtain, the impotence of the man in the White House was exposed.
The US government has a $31 trillion debt, thanks to Biden’s binge of inflationary spending, a Reverse Robin Hood policy where the poor are made to pay the bills, like student loans, racked up by the rich, and consumers are thrown into recession.
What the meltdown made clear, to anyone who can remove the rose-colored glasses offered by a daily dose of the Lying Media: the US does not have the money to cover everyone’s FDIC accounts — up to $250K each, unless you’re California Gov Gavin Newsom, bailed out as an SVB investor after lobbying Biden. So the government will have to print more money. Which will devalue the dollar, inflame inflation further, and lead us, likely, to a digital currency. At least Davos will be happy.
Sadly, this is not the only catastrophe facing the nation at Biden the Wizard’s hands. The Founders must be upended in their graves, stunned that their bequest — a democratic republic that was the envy of the world — is now a Marxist Inferno.
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EDUCATION:
The nation’s schools — from kindergarten to higher education — are crumbling, infested with teachers who think political indoctrination more urgent than reading. Rebecca Rothstein, a teacher at North Bethesda Middle School, bragged on TikTok that she is a proud Marxist who believes math and science can wait. Angry about the patriarchy, police violence and the ability of boys to impregnate girls, she argued kids need lessons instead in anti-racism. In videos since taken down, she added, “F*** Capitalism…Revolutions involve violence.” She should be arrested, for inciting violence and abusing children. Instead, the Biden administration will likely make her Teacher of the Year, lauding her for urging boys to get vasectomies at birth.
Is it any wonder that in Illinois, a damning report recently found 60 different public schools where students have zero proficiency in math or reading? That’s 0. Perhaps this is why Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican candidate for president and author of Woke Inc., wants to abolish the US Education Department. Bureaucrats “use federal funding as a handcuff to get schools to bend a knee,” to Woke, CRT and BLM.
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten fought to keep the schools closed during the pandemic, even while saying teachers wanted them open, and now she has taken to screaming for student debt forgiveness and against reform of public unions. On the steps of the Supreme Court, she went full meltdown. Edvard Munch, the painter famous for The Scream, would be proud.
FREE SPEECH:
If Biden’s Marxist Mob has one underlying theme, it is the evisceration of Free Speech. In fact, they have proven adept at turning our Truths into their Big Lies.
At Stanford Law School, a federal judge invited to the campus by the university’s Federalist Society was berated by the dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for his resume of exemplary service, before being heckled and chased out by a woke mob, escorted from the building by federal marshals. The university issued a meek apology, then hid. One of the judge’s alleged misdeeds was his refusal, in an opinion, to use a transgender sex offender’s preferred pronouns. Apparently they care more about pronouns than crimes. Imagine what lawyers and judges these students will make — without the ability to debate or even listen to opposing views. Now, the university is threatening to punish any student members of the Federalist Society who talk, and members of the mob are threatening reporters if they mention their names.
Legal scholar Jonathan Turley thinks Radical Leftists have become addicted to censorship. From COVID to climate change to elections, they push an agenda and quash any dissent. Their narrative becomes the only one allowed. Perhaps that explains why, amid the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, Democrats’ first instinct was to ask officials at the Federal Reserve, the Treasury Dept and the FDIC to use social media to censor anyone raising doubts about the solvency of the US banking system. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, and Mark Warner, D-Virginia, both called for silencing Americans who are understandably upset by the prospect of losing all their money.
Recently, Tucker Carlson aired tapes of January 6 that showed Jacob Chansley, aka the QAnon Shaman (photo below), being escorted through the Capitol that day by police officers. His lawyers now accuse the Justice Department of suppressing this potentially exculpatory evidence from them, a violation of the Sixth Amendment. The DOJ response: that Tucker tape was taken out of context.
Ray Epps, suspected Fed agent, and Antifa protestors posing as Trump supporters to commit vandalism — these insurrectionists also appear on the tapes. So threatened is the DOJ that it recently informed court system it will be indicting 700-1200 more defendants. This is on top of the 900 or so who are still languishing in jail. By the way, the Jan 6 Prison Choir recently released a rendition of the National Anthem, interspersed with President Donald Trump reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. After the song — proceeds to benefit families of Jan 6 prisoners — went to Number One on iTunes, Apple pulled it. Of course they did. Censorship is what they do best.
Because they own a compliant liberal press — no longer journalists, they are full-on cheerleaders for a version of Marxism that leaves them safely in their mega-mansions paid for by us — Radical Leftists don’t care about hypocrisy. And if you accuse them of channeling Nazi Joseph Goebbels’ Big Lie policy — tell a lie often enough and big enough and people will believe it — they double down, shaming you as the Nazi.
FEMINIST CAMPAIGN AGAINST WOMEN:
If there is anything more Orwellian than the presence of biological males in female sports, it is hard to imagine. Recently, the girls track team at Brookline High School in Massachusetts took home the state championship— after a biological male “identifying” as a female joined the team. To criticism that this was unfair to the opposing team, “Chloe” Barnes crowed, “Deal with it. Just deal with it.”
Female powerlifters and their allies protested a Minnesota court’s decision requiring USA Powerlifting to permit male athletes who identify as transgender to compete against females. “Unfair to women,” ESPN’s Sage Steele tweeted. “And the irony of this decision being made during Women’s History Month…The hypocrisy continues.” But the court ruling still stands, real women its victims.
At the White House, on International Women’s Day (a holiday embraced by both Vladimir Lenin in Communist Soviet Union and Chairman Mao in Communist China) First Lady Jill Biden handed out courage awards to 12 women, one of whom was a biological man, Alba Rueda. What an insult to the other eleven.
The trans movement has much to answer for in this absurdity. In Britain, a transgender sex offender, a biological male, was recently found guilty of raping a girl with “her” penis. Talk about misplaced pronouns!
The mania for turning the children into instruments of what was once a civil rights cause comes at a cost. Coached by teachers — often out of the reach of parents — the kids come to see gender dysfunction as the root of their teenage angst. Now, as transgendered victims return to their biological gender, some are speaking out.
“I thought womanhood was unsafe before ever experiencing it,” Prisha Mosley recently told the New York Post. “I was afraid of a life I hadn’t tasted yet.” Pushed by activists and therapists who convinced her she was born in the wrong body, she endured testosterone injections and a double mastectomy by age 18. Now 25, she laments, “I will never know what it’s like.”
In so many ways, Biden has left the country in ruins. High crime rates and homeless encampments in cities, illegal migrants and drug deaths in states, a federal government and school hierarchy weaponized against parents and citizens — it is too much to absorb. Migrants are now swarming the northern border with Canada as well as the southern one with Mexico. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz, main witness at the House Justice Committee’s field hearing in McAllen, Texas which was boycotted by Dems, said the U.S. no longer has operational control of the border. And this just in, thanks to inquiries by House Republicans: the Pentagon spends $50 million a year (about $130,000 a day) to store the materials that would have completed Trump’s Wall.
Some days I think of Dorothy, swept from her home by a tornado, landing in Oz, saying to her dog, “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” Indeed.
It is unnerving on the number of 1984 themes that are becoming manifest today. (Ten or more themes by my count.) I am coming to the belief that our society must start to understand the implications of today's version of Big Brother. Do we think that anyone today would want to become Winston or Julia from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four? Using the frog in pot metaphor, I think our society needs some dousing in the scalding water of what the Ruling Class [aka Big Brogher} is actually cooking us in.
Another excellent article, Johanna! Your documentation of our demise is timely and accurate. So who controls Biden? In my view, this is the third ,four year term of the Obama regime. An Obama regime backed by George Soros and hell bent on fulfilling his vision of the world. The goal of 90 year old George Soros is a borderless world where all peoples are controlled by a centralized One World Government. To further those aims he founded his Open Society Foundation in 1979 and has contributed Billions (with a B) to radical liberal causes through out the world. As he has said many times, the biggest obstacle to his One World government is the USA. The the esteem of the USA must be reduced or eliminated by any means possible while at the same time raising up all third world countries. Biden, the puppet, controlled by Soros and Obama is doing exactly that with alarming success. We must fight censorship and insidious Marxist dogma like CRT, ESG Equity and inclusion wherever they are being implemented. It won't be easy but nothing worth while ever is....stay strong everyone and thank you Johanna for speaking the truth in your Substack articles!