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 Blumenthal, Schiff, et al

The Daily Caller, a right of center publication founded in 2010 by Tucker Carlson, a 20-year veteran journalist, and Neil Patel, former chief policy advisor to Vice President Cheney, reports that Twitter executives have identified Connecticut’s bully U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal as a congressional troll: Congressional Trolls’: Twitter Execs Bashed Dem Lawmakers’ Claims About Russian Bot Manipulation.

In a push push, shove shove roundup of congressional irritants, the Daily Caller notes, “Democratic lawmakers such as California Rep. Adam Schiff, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal pressed Twitter on claims of Russian bots influencing trends on the platform. Their source was the Hamilton 68 dashboard created by former FBI official Clint Watts and the Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD), according to journalist Matt Taibbi.”

Tabbi is the “no respecter of persons” journalist who has been keeping tabs on Twitter, post Elon Musk, the founder, CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner and CEO of Twitter, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI; and president of the philanthropic Musk Foundation.

In an effort at transparency, very much resented by non-transparent congresspersons, Musk lately has been releasing emails that show an uncomfortably cozy relationship between Trump Hunters and Twitter, now in the process of a Musk/Tabbi facelift.

Trump, of course, is the former President whose policies, foreign and domestic, current President Joe Biden and a legion of journalists have so far successfully reversed. During the great reversal, the U.S. southern border has been bleached out, Afghanistan and American military machinery has been returned to the Taliban, Afghani women have been rewound in mandatory chador winding sheets, U.S. energy products have been short-sheeted, inflation is now singeing the backsides of pro-Biden progressives, and a recession is bending its boney finger, inviting us into a future in which it can no longer be doubted that excessive spending has become a dangerous menace.

Perpetual Poverty Zones

A former fraud investigator for the state of Connecticut calls the state’s welfare system in urban poverty areas “perpetual poverty zones.” The Bible tells us, “The poor you will always have with you.” However, Abe Lincoln, poor himself for much of his short but upwardly mobile life, tells us that the American economic system has been ingeniously designed in such a way that we should not have the same poor with us all the time.

Among some urban half-families in the poorer sections of our impoverished cities in which fathers are conspicuously missing, welfare, the financing of perpetual poverty, is passed along from generation to generation the way millionaire politicians such as Blumenthal (see above) transfer their assets, considerable in Blumenthal’s case, to their progeny in their last will and testaments.

The Dissappeared

Christopher Columbus statuary has become nearly an extinct species in Connecticut, largely because Columbus is credited with the European discovery of America – not good among leftists. And the European discovery of America, persistent and oppressed critics of the country insist, has been largely overrated by non-woke elementary school teachers. Patriots, those brought up under the passing ancien régime, have a somewhat different view of the European settlement, Columbus, and statuary opponents, but – really, who cares about patriots infected with systemic racism?

Native Americans also are fast disappearing from sports arenas in the still, somewhat United States. In the postmodern progressive era now oppressing us, the very name “Indian,” a miscue from Columbus, is disparaged as an indicator of “systemic racism.” One begins to wish that the word “systemic” should be expunged from the American tongue, somewhat like Columbus, never again to be injected into a discussion. The hidden purpose of the word “systemic” as used in postmodern political discourse is to cut short discussions pretty much in  the way a cutthroat stops his victims from useless protestations. Lenin, in his more rumbustious moods, used to say: If you label a thought or a person effectively, you no longer have to argue with it, or him, or her … or whomever.

Grammarians who object on grammatical grounds to the new miasma of pronouns circling our political polemics like outer space junk need not be answered at all, if it is at all possible to discredit grammar itself as “systemic” oppression, for what can be more oppressive than clear and unambiguous language. George Orwell makes all the necessary points on the subject in “Politics and the English Language.

The word “Indian” and all its various iterations is, school children now are taught, a form of rancid systemic “racism,” another power word with sharp elbows.

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