The Woke? The Pozzed? A new label for them: the Self-Hating! Today, you’ll see both an inbound success of capitalist market forces and a pampered, autophageous college prof struggling with the color of his favorite hobby. Enjoy the sweet schadenfreude and the first legit reason in the 21st Century to visit New Jersey!

Hmm, more of a yellow… *ducks*

The dystopian experience of skiing in New Jersey’s new American Dream mall

https://theconversation.com/the-dystopian-experience-of-skiing-in-new-jerseys-new-american-dream-mall-129862

By Robert Snyder, 7 February 2020

The author is a professor of journalism at Rutgers University, which is why he used the term “dystopian” as a synonym for “innovative”. He has recently co-authored “All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants and the Making of New York”.

He looks to have an incurable disease. Maybe an STD, maybe an atheist Jew.

In 50 years of skiing, my first downhill run of 2020 was like nothing I had ever experienced. The 28-degree temperature and machine-made snow were familiar enough, but I ended up skiing through a windowless rectangular box, beneath girders and electric lights, and toward a mural of a swank ski lodge.

I was at “Big Snow,” an indoor ski slope at the new American Dream Meadowlands, a mall and amusement park in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Sounds like fun! I’ve enjoyed skiing on the rare occasion I’ve been able to go… about four times in my life. I would totally sign up for some indoor skiing if I could. Much cheaper than going to a resort in the middle of mountainous nowhere between mandatory holidays with house-bound family.

Whether the vast project will actually deliver the crowds and dollars that its promoters anticipate remains to be seen. Though amusements like Big Snow and Nickelodeon Universe are up and running, most of the mall’s stores and restaurants are set to open in March.

As a historian and avid skier, what I find so jarring about the American Dream Meadowlands is the dissonance of its name and the timing of its completion. Its doors are opening just as malls around the country are shuttering, and as economic inequality and climate change have rendered the postwar vision of the American Dream – modest but real prosperity, a better life for all and little luxuries like the Saturday ski trips that brightened my youth – ever harder to attain for ordinary Americans.

Malls are going out of business because 1. the Internet has facilitated direct sales to the point that commercial outlets are of limited value and 2. tax/business regulations make storefronts too expensive for the kind of small businesses that benefit most from malls, which are basically crowdfunded department stores when you think about it.

As we will see in this article, Meadowlands is a venture into malls as a place of recreation instead of a place of commerce. Time will tell if it works, but this is exactly why capitalism is better than socialism: parasites fear loss, producers embrace opportunity.

The broad prosperity of the United States’ postwar years was built on mass consumption made possible by good wages – often won by unions – for working- and middle-class Americans. Malls, starting in the 1950s, were central to this enterprise.

Unions as professional associations have always been beneficial. Postwar unions reinventing themselves as collective bargainers were bullies and thieves that are STILL preying upon society thanks to those overly generous pension plans they negotiated with the State in the name of the not-yet-born.

As historian Lizabeth Cohen points out, malls were hardly innocent participants in the postwar economy: They drained shoppers, department stores and vitality from urban downtowns and suburban main streets.

This is not true. I grew up in ’80s Los Angeles and malls were the centerpieces of urban downtowns and suburban main streets.

African Americans and Latinos in places like Newark, New Jersey, found themselves isolated from the jobs and shopping opportunities found in malls, while their cities were sapped of tax revenue.

You know why malls don’t like vibrants, Leftoids? Here’s a tip: it’s the same reason why vibrants are over-represented in prison populations. He’s another tip: discrimination is the result of the reason, not the reason itself.

In fact, I’ll give you the reason just to watch your reenactment of Edvard Munch’s The Scream: Blacks and Latinos have less respect for law and private property than white people.

The economic growth that defined the postwar boom staggered in the 1970s. When it resumed, it distributed wealth in ways that exacerbated economic inequality. By the 1990s, the security and social mobility that Americans once considered normal had withered.

Which is it? Economic inequality or social mobility? Come on, “historian”, the poor of America live better than the kings of yore.

Malls, meanwhile, experienced a steady and slow decline. Economic inequality weakened the middle class that long served as malls’ customer base. Then online shopping undermined the brick-and-mortar stores that populated malls. By the 21st century, the future of the traditional shopping mall was shaky at best.

No to the first. Yes to the second. Sheesh, could this guy beat the “economic inequality” drum any harder? It’s only a matter of time until he blames economic inequality for the weather… ohhhh, right. “Climate change.”

Look no further than the fate of Macy’s. The department store that has long served as an “anchor” for hundreds of malls announced on Feb. 5 that it would close 125 stores in shopping centers across the United States.

Because of risky corporate decisions? Obsolete business models? Female leadership? Socialists obsess over outcomes as if they exist independent of behavior.

Nonetheless, in the Meadowlands American Dream forges on.

Developers broke ground in 2004 for its predecessor, a mall initially dubbed “Xanadu” after the pleasure dome in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan.” Though its construction was halted by the 2008 recession, Xanadu was reborn as American Dream Meadowlands, a US$5 billion development built by the Triple Five Group, the same Canadian firm that constructed the Mall of America in Minnesota. A joint series by WNYC, NJ Spotlight and Bloomberg Businessweek described American Dream Meadowlands as “a labyrinth arrangement of private loans, bond sales, tax incentives and a public finance agency in Wisconsin.”

Michael Bloomberg doesn’t get to complain about inscrutable finances. Besides, unless this indoor ski slope is brought to us by Muslim terrorists, I don’t care who profits from it.

If the financing of American Dream is byzantine, its rationale is straightforward. As shopping malls shut down because online retailing is siphoning off their customers, American Dream hopes to attract patrons by offering more amusements than stores.

An excellent idea. In fact:

Their water park looks fun, fun, fun! My annual theme a few years back was visiting as many water parks in California as I could. This pasty white guy has had better ideas than sunburning while standing on hot pavement, but an indoor water park sounds great. Those slides are way better than the usual kiddie fare, too. That red slide in front is a whirlpool! You swirl around in that saucer until you fall through the hole in the middle into the catch basin underneath. I chickened out when I had the chance in Paso Robles.

One day skiing and one day watersliding? I can see myself making a trip to New Jersey for that… and yesterday, I would have laughed at the idea of vacationing in New Jersey.

The mall’s creators envision that its pay-to-enter attractions like the DreamWorks Water Park and Big Snow – the first indoor ski hill in the U.S. – will be the draw that brings visitors, who will then go on to spend money in the stores. When visitors to American Dream shift from amusements to the task of shopping, they’ll have an array of stores to choose from, ranging from Forever 21 to Hermes, where pocketbooks sell for thousands of dollars.

I’ve done this sort of thing before, in Las Vegas in the ’90s. They tried to reinvent the place as family-friendly. A friend and I did the indoor park at Circus Circus, which included an indoor roller coaster and a short-termed Star Trek attraction. Just hitting the huge arcades and motion simulators was fun. Alas, the marketing effort failed because responsible parents aren’t as profitable as problem gamblers. Las Vegas became Sin City once again.

Even so, how could anybody call that kind of experiment “dystopian”?

Downhill skiing, a product of postwar prosperity and the American Dream, never entirely transcended the limits of its time. Despite a significant number of African American skiers, they are not included in the sport’s public image – a problem summed up in a brilliant essay by historian Annie Gilbert Coleman titled “The Unbearable Whiteness of Skiing.”

Of course. The racist, bitter, ugly, childless, feminist androgyne who doesn’t distinguish between “fun” and “white privilege”. I would have fisked that essay instead but she’s charging $22 for it. Methinks her picture says enough:

I’m skeptical about the mall’s prospects. But beyond its profitability, there’s certain to be an environmental cost.

Aaand the environmentalist. “Malls are dying! It’s horrible! We’re rebuilding the malls! It’s horrible!”

Think of the massive amounts of energy the mall will consume to keep Big Snow at 28 degrees year-round. And in an era when climate change and rising sea levels remind us of the importance of wetlands to absorb rain and storm surges, the mall slices off yet another piece of the Meadowlands, leaving the mall and the region around it more vulnerable to flooding.

Relax, Snyder, I’m sure the billionaires who flew to Switzerland in private planes to warn the little people against global warming nuclear winter climate change are buying oceanfront properties only to burden them with titanic, ugly seawalls for the good of mankind. Why else would the people who expect coastal areas to drown continue purchasing expensive coastal property? /sarc

Mr. Snyder, how about you fly to Dubai and demand the Muslims unplug THEIR indoor skiing? Maybe replace it with a homosexual bath house? Why do only white people get shamed for having fun?

And speaking of feeling shame for having fun:

The skier in me keeps returning to the artificial slope. Global warming may be cutting into the length of ski seasons.

But is the answer to build an artificially refrigerated ski slope on a wetlands?

Dude, come on! It’s a fucked-up, urban-blighted chunk of NEW JERSEY!

Of course, outdoor downhill skiing is far from environmentally pure. Badly cut trails scar mountainsides, and at many ski resorts – with their slope side shops and condominiums – athletic pursuit long ago gave way to real estate development.

Yet of all the sports that boomed in the United States in the last century, skiing offered people a special blend of grace, thrills and natural beauty.

His gender must be Questioning.

Most of my skiing is cross-country, which brings me to serene and remote places that I would never otherwise get to. Downhill gives me mountaintop vistas and manageable thrills. Big Snow provides none of these.

I left the American Dream Meadowlands bewildered. My muscles ached pleasantly the way they usually do after skiing, but I didn’t feel the sense of ease and satisfaction that I associate with a good day in the outdoors.

As I headed for my car, a construction worker laboring to finish the stores in time for their March opening asked me what Big Snow was like. I said it was different. He said that he liked to ski but was planning to go to Gore Mountain in the Adirondacks. I told him that was the better bet.

If there’s one Christian concept that Leftists can’t quote enough these days, it’s the concept that humanity is “made in the image of God”. While true, it’s a very harsh truth and not at all the Unified Global Wuvving Family that Satan plots for us.

“Unified Global Wuvving Family” means Critical Race Theory & Intersection. A quick primer/review from Wikipedia,

According to the UCLA School of Public Affairs: CRT recognizes that racism is engrained in the fabric and system of the American society. The individual racist need not exist to note that institutional racism is pervasive in the dominant culture. This is the analytical lens that CRT uses in examining existing power structures. CRT identifies that these power structures are based on white privilege and white supremacy, which perpetuates the marginalization of people of color.

Legal scholar Roy L. Brooks has defined CRT as “a collection of critical stances against the existing legal order from a race-based point of view”, and says “it focuses on the various ways in which the received tradition in law adversely affects people of color not as individuals but as a group. Thus, CRT attempts to analyze law and legal traditions through the history, contemporary experiences, and racial sensibilities of racial minorities in this country. The question always lurking in the background of CRT is this: What would the legal landscape look like today if people of color were the decision-makers?”

Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic have documented the following major themes as characteristic of work in critical race theory:

A critique of liberalism: CRT scholars favor a more aggressive approach to social transformation as opposed to liberalism’s more cautious approach, favor a race-conscious approach to transformation rather than liberalism’s embrace of color blindness, and favor an approach that relies more on political organizing, in contrast to liberalism’s reliance on rights-based remedies.

The intersections theory is the examination of race, sex, class, national origin, and sexual orientation, and how their combination plays out in various settings, e.g., how the needs of a Latina female are different from those of a black male and whose needs are the ones promoted.

White privilege refers to the myriad social advantages, benefits, and courtesies that come with being a member of the dominant race, such as a clerk not following you around in a store or not having people cross the street at night to avoid you.

Microaggression refers to the sudden, stunning, or dispiriting transactions that mar the days of oppressed individuals. These include small acts of racism consciously or unconsciously perpetrated and act like water dripping on a rock wearing away at it slowly. Microaggressions are based on the assumptions about racial matters that are absorbed from cultural heritage.

Because there is “neither Jew nor Greek in Christ Jesus”, The Southern Baptist leadership has chosen to adopt the central thesis of identity politics!

[Resolution 9] ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND INTERSECTIONALITY

http://sbcannualmeeting.net/sbc19/resolutions

WHEREAS, Concerns have been raised by some evangelicals over the use of frameworks such as critical race theory and intersectionality; and

They were already implementing this Social Justice narrative and when called on it, passed this Resolution.

WHEREAS, Critical race theory is a set of analytical tools that explain how race has and continues to function in society, and intersectionality is the study of how different personal characteristics overlap and inform one’s experience; and

That is not an accurate description of CRTI.

WHEREAS, Critical race theory and intersectionality have been appropriated by individuals with worldviews that are contrary to the Christian faith, resulting in ideologies and methods that contradict Scripture; and

CRTI is, BY DEFINITION AND DESIGN, the mutually exclusive opposite of any notion of racial unity… in the Church or out.

WHEREAS, Evangelical scholars who affirm the authority and sufficiency of Scripture have employed selective insights from critical race theory and intersectionality to understand multifaceted social dynamics; and

“Don’t worry, we’re adopting the politics of racial grievances only to become more colorblind.” Yeah, that’s what the atheists told us when they first passed all the “anti-discrimination” legislation. It hasn’t worked; in fact, the situation got worse.

WHEREAS, The Baptist Faith and Message states, “[A]ll Scripture is totally true and trustworthy. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried” (Article I); and

Totally irrelevant to CRTI, but it’s the kind of thing entryists say to look like Good Guys.

WHEREAS, General revelation accounts for truthful insights found in human ideas that do not explicitly emerge from Scripture and reflects what some may term “common grace”; and

“Common Grace” doctrine comes from the Christian Reformed Church, which ordains female clergy and has no affiliation with the SBC. This is comparable to the US Supreme Court invoking foreign legal concepts to “interpret” the Constitution.

WHEREAS, Critical race theory and intersectionality alone are insufficient to diagnose and redress the root causes of the social ills that they identify, which result from sin, yet these analytical tools can aid in evaluating a variety of human experiences; and

If it doesn’t work then don’t use it. The entire point of following a religion is to use its tools, not to introduce outside tools into it.

WHEREAS, Scripture contains categories and principles by which to deal with racism, poverty, sexism, injustice, and abuse that are not rooted in secular ideologies; and

Look! They even admit that Scripture ALREADY has teachings on this subject… while implicitly finding such Scriptural tools to be insufficient.

And no wonder they think that. Scripture is sexist, full stop. Scripture does not even attempt to cure poverty; Christ’s own words were “you will always have the poor, but you will not always have Me.” Even Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, had so much favoritism for his own Jews that they had to literally beat him away. God never faulted him for that.

WHEREAS, Humanity is primarily identified in Scripture as image bearers of God, even as biblical authors address various audiences according to characteristics such as male and female, Jew and Gentile, slave and free; and

Wrong. Humanity is primarily identified as instinctive rebels against God.

Not all humans are “image bearers” of Christ. For example, homosexuals are not images of God because God made us male and female.

WHEREAS, The New Covenant further unites image bearers by creating a new humanity that will one day inhabit the new creation, and that the people of this new humanity, though descended from every nation, tribe, tongue, and people, are all one through the gospel of Jesus Christ (Ephesians 2:16; Revelation 21:1–4, 9–14); and

The boldfaced is a heresy. There will not be a new humanity. There will be the redeemed subset of old humanity. Our new bodies will make physical distinctions obsolete, yes, but even these chuckleheads, by adopting CRTI, admit that people today naturally act in groups and demographics.

Heck, God Himself did it in the Old Testament. There’s a difference between liking one group over another, and upholding impartial justice. But Social Justice demands that ALL beliefs be made to conform. God will accept an “I don’t like you but I’ll never cheat you” attitude. Social Justice will not.

WHEREAS, Christian citizenship is not based on our differences but instead on our common salvation in Christ—the source of our truest and ultimate identity; and

WHEREAS, The Southern Baptist Convention is committed to racial reconciliation built upon biblical presuppositions and is committed to seeking biblical justice through biblical means; now, therefore, be it

Which is it? Are you trying for a colorblind society or are you trying to entertain lesbian grievances against the Book Of Romans? Are you seeking “biblical justice through biblical means” or adopting “secular analytic tools”?

RESOLVED, That the messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, June 11–12, 2019, affirm Scripture as the first, last, and sufficient authority with regard to how the Church seeks to redress social ills, and we reject any conduct, creeds, and religious opinions which contradict Scripture; and be it further

Let me quote it again:

“…affirm Scripture as the first, last, and sufficient authority with regard to how the Church seeks to redress social ills…”

RESOLVED, That critical race theory and intersectionality should only be employed as analytical tools subordinate to Scripture—not as transcendent ideological frameworks; and be it further

But but but you just said Scripture was sufficient!

RESOLVED, That the gospel of Jesus Christ alone grants the power to change people and society because “he who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6); and be it further

RESOLVED, That Southern Baptists will carefully analyze how the information gleaned from these tools are employed to address social dynamics; and be it further

“Jesus Christ alone has the power to change people. CRT/I will instruct us on the changes that need to be made.”

RESOLVED, That Southern Baptist churches and institutions repudiate the misuse of insights gained from critical race theory, intersectionality, and any unbiblical ideologies that can emerge from their use when absolutized as a worldview; and be it further

They’re knowingly adopting atheist philosophy while promising to not actually promote atheism. They think we’re that stupid.

RESOLVED, That we deny any philosophy or theology that fundamentally defines individuals using categories identified as sinful in Scripture rather than the transcendent reality shared by every image bearer and divinely affirmed distinctions; and be it further

Then just say “God hates homosexuality.” It’s true! But you hide it underneath a paragraph of verbiage… why?

RESOLVED, That while we denounce the misuse of critical race theory and intersectionality, we do not deny that ethnic, gender, and cultural distinctions exist and are a gift from God that will give Him absolute glory when all humanity gathers around His throne in worship because of the redemption accomplished by our resurrected Lord; and be it finally

This is misuse of CRTI: “It’s okay to be white!”

RESOLVED, That Southern Baptist churches seek to exhibit this eschatological promise in our churches in the present by focusing on unity in Christ amid image bearers and rightly celebrate our differences as determined by God in the new creation.

Hypocrisy confirmed! “In order to focus on unity in Christ, we’re adopting the politics of racial grievances and microaggressions… unless it contradicts Scripture, of course, because even though Scripture is all we need for moral development, we must also add wordly ways to it.”

This was such a massive horse pill of bullshit that BP News was called in to reinforce the Narrative:

Q&A with the 2019 Resolutions Committee about Resolution 9

http://www.bpnews.net/54275/qa-with-the-2019-resolutions-committee-about-resolution-9

By the 2019 Resolution Committee and Baptist Press, 5 February 2020

EDITOR’S NOTE: Because of the ongoing discussion involving Resolution 9, “On Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality,” from the 2019 SBC Annual Meeting, members of the 2019 Resolutions Committee sought to shed light on both their purpose in addressing the topic and the process by which the resolution was developed, with the goal of clarifying any misconceptions. What follows is a brief comment from the committee about their overall experience and a Q&A with Baptist Press, as well as an FAQ from the 2019 Resolutions Committee.

About a year ago, we were asked to serve on the Resolutions Committee for the 2019 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting..

We accepted this responsibility for one reason: to help the Convention speak with biblical clarity on theological, social, and practical topics in order to advance our cooperative witness and mission. The convention adopted 13 resolutions on a wide range of topics including gains in the pro-life movement, sexual abuse in the church, local church autonomy…

TL;DR Local church autonomy is bad because only a centralized Human Resources department can prevent sexual abuse. It worked for the Catholics!

..sexuality and personal identity…

“Don’t identify as homo while at Church. Some people will feel bad.”

…religious persecution, and a cutting-edge genetic technology called “germline editing.” It was truly an honor to serve the messengers in 2019.

Boldface will be the editor’s words. The rest is the unnamed spokesman for the Committee.

Much discussion has surrounded Resolution 9, “On Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality” (CRT/I).

Since June, we’ve discussed concerns that people have raised through private conversations, including fruitful interaction with the pastor who submitted the original resolution. We want to address some questions that we have answered privately, but do so in a more public way, with the hope of bringing clarity to our deliberation.

Q: Resolution 9, “On Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality,” continues to be an ongoing discussion which has caused concerns among some Baptists. Why did the committee choose to address the subject?

A: We did not begin our work with any desire or plan to speak to this issue but we appreciated the concerns expressed by the pastor who submitted the original resolution

What’s his name? *checks*

Segue

Stephen Feinstein.

Every. Damn. Time.

WHOA, hold up! He posted the original submission on his website

https://sovereignway.blogspot.com/2019/06/sbc19-resolution-9-on-critical-race.html?m=1

and IT’S THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE RELEASED!!!

…I am the one who authored the resolution. My name is Stephen Feinstein, a graduate of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a pastor of Sovereign Way Christian Church in Hesperia, CA, and a Chaplain (MAJ) in the United States Army Reserves. Like many, I am alarmed at the proliferation of toxic, divisive, and satanic rhetoric designed to divide humanity and facilitate constant opposition in our society. Even worse, it has seeped into Bible colleges and some seminaries. I have had parents come to me for advice when their child came home from a conservative Bible college complaining about white privilege. I was present at the Shepherds Conference when my favorite evangelical leaders appeared to be divided on how to handle this issue.

Therefore, I determined after the Shepherds Conference that I would propose a resolution denouncing critical race theory and intersectionality. Well, on Wednesday morning, June 12, 2019, the messengers were given copies of the resolutions. Although I was stoked that my resolution was accepted, I also immediately noticed the committee severely altered what I had submitted. It is their right to do so. I have been asked to make public the resolution as I submitted it, and so I will do so here.

I will append the full text as a postscript but check this out:

WHEREAS, critical race theory and intersectionality are founded upon unbiblical presuppositions descended from Marxist theories and categories, and therefore are inherently opposed to the Scriptures as the true center of Christian union…

RESOLVED, That while we denounce critical race theory and intersectionality, we do not deny that ethnic, gender, cultural, and racial distinctions do in fact exist and are a gift from God that will give Him absolute glory when the entire gamut of human diversity worships Him in perfect unity founded upon our unity in Jesus Christ…

Stephen Feinstein is a good guy! That puts the spokesman’s answer in a completely different light:

End segue.

A: We did not begin our work with any desire or plan to speak to this issue, but we appreciated the concerns expressed by the pastor who submitted the original resolution we recognized the influence that CRT/I has had in our society, and we shared concerns within the SBC that these theories could undermine the Gospel and the church’s mission. And so, we proposed a resolution that we hoped would reflect how the Christian church for 2000 years has applied the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture with ideas that emerge from sources outside the Bible. We were seeking to help our convention address an issue some Southern Baptists were already concerned about.

No! No! No! We apply Scripture TO extra-Biblical ideas! Not WITH extra-Biblical ideas!

Q: One of the concerns raised over the resolution is the origin of these theories. Does the committee acknowledge this concern? Does the committee or the resolution endorse CRT/I?

I had assumed the concern over the resolution was the blatant adoption of militant atheism into SBC dogma. Turns out, the concern is the submitting pastor being returned the exact opposite of what he’d submitted!

A: Yes, we understand the concern, and have benefitted from discussion with individuals who have expressed it. We want to be clear that we acknowledge CRT/I originates from people who are not Christians and hold views that oppose the Gospel. No one is claiming that CRT/I is Christian or that all of its cultural applications are in line with Scripture.

At the same time, as with other secular theories, not every observation is wrong, sinful or unhelpful. But even insights that describe the social dynamics of our society accurately remain insufficient to address the sinful heart of man.

They are introducing moral confusion into standards of Christian morality. “Yes, they’re not Christians and they oppose us, but it’s okay to follow their teachings unless you shouldn’t.” The first step of Converging opposition is undermining the defenses.

For example, we know from our missionaries, who work throughout North America and even to the uttermost parts of the world, that it is crucial to understand the social dynamics where the Gospel’s power to reconcile all things is desperately needed. We affirm without reservation that we must rely exclusively on biblical theology for understanding God’s plan for His world and the power of the Gospel to accomplish His plan.

This is why the resolution rejects embracing CRT/I as a worldview…

Did you catch that? The resolution rejects CRT/I as a worldview but embraces CRT/I generally. Because we have much to learn about microaggressing non-Christian cultures!

…and calls us to place any descriptive insights under the authoritative and sufficient Scriptures. One of the resolved statements reads, “That we deny any philosophy or theology that fundamentally defines individuals using categories identified as sinful in Scripture rather than the transcendent reality shared by every image bearer and divinely affirmed distinctions.”

Q: Some question that the 2019 Resolutions Committee was unclear about embracing the sufficiency of Scripture. What is the committee’s response to that?

A: The resolution appeals directly to the sufficiency of Scripture and does so by using language from the Baptist Faith and Message (BF&M). Article 1 of the BF&M states: “all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation.”

We affirm that the Bible is the authoritative standard for belief and practice, and further, it teaches that Christ, Himself, is the subject of Scripture, not a human theory.

Christ is *A* subject of Scripture. My “boyfriend Jesus” detector is making like Chernobyl.

The resolution expresses clearly that the sufficient Scriptures govern all our own ideas as well as the use of ideas from any and all non-biblical sources. This affirmation reflects precisely how the Christian church for 2000 years has interacted with ideas that emerge from sources outside of Scripture.

The ideas he’s talking about are topics that Scripture doesn’t cover, like manufacturing and science. When it comes to questions of morality, however, this doomed, blind world in bondage to the devil has nothing to teach us. NOTHING.

Q: There has been a real concern that this resolution’s adoption is an illustration of creeping liberalism in Southern Baptist life, or even an attempt to nudge the SBC in that direction. How does the committee respond to this?

Thank you!

A: The committee has been accused of bad motives. Some have compared the resolution to building a “Trojan horse” or letting liberalism into our Southern Baptist tent. This was not the goal of any member of the committee, and there is nothing about our work to indicate that it was our intention. We sought to provide clear biblical parameters to engage ongoing conversations about race in society.

This resolution was never intended to divide us or to harm our convention. It was presented to address concerns that were being raised and provide a basis for unity. However, confusion about the resolution’s content and our motives has brought division. We appreciate the genuine critiques that have been expressed. At the same time, we have watched misunderstandings spread and people’s reputations maligned due to misrepresentation. We are grieved by this, and we believe it grieves the heart of our Lord.

Lies, all lies. They really are building a Trojan Horse to let worldly ideologies into the SBC. We can prove that this is their goal because of the contrast between what Feinstein submitted and what they released!

Q: For the sake of fellowship within our Southern Baptist family, where does the committee believe we should go from here?

Al Mohler and Tom Ascol colluded to add more squid ink.

Segue:

Resolution 9 and the Southern Baptist Convention 2019

The original resolution clearly denounced Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory as they are typically understood, thus warning Christians against them. The revised version said that critical theory and intersectionality are mere tools that could be used in ways subordinate to Scripture.

End segue.

A: We realize that Southern Baptists may come to different conclusions as to the wisdom of presenting Resolution 9. We encourage brothers and sisters not to lose sight of the profound and clear common ground we share on the sufficiency of the Gospel. Along with the message of Resolution 7, “On Biblical Justice,” the resolution makes clear that only Jesus is able to redeem men, women, boys and girls from every nation, tribe and tongue to an eternal relationship with God and reconciled relationships with one another.

This is why church splits happen. This is why church splits SHOULD happen, so that we can abandon Converged institutions to die in their own cack while we proceed to worship the Creator unhindered.

We pledged ourselves to a cooperative culture in Birmingham through Resolution 6, “On the Promotion of a ‘Cooperative Culture’ in the Southern Baptist Convention for Mission Advance.”

They could have, at minimum, taken back the Resolution to try again next year. Instead, they claim to want unity while not lifting a finger to accommodate the legitimate concerns of dissidents whose work they appropriated.

We want to, along with our brothers and sisters, pursue cooperation built on trust and goodwill. We ask our leaders to lead us with biblical courage and conviction as we face various challenges to our cooperative mission. We ourselves are resolved to work tirelessly for this biblical vision with every opportunity the Lord Jesus gives us.

Yes, they are indeed working tirelessly for SOMEBODY’S vision. Somebody who authored Critical Race Theory… somebody who, as the Committee itself admits, wasn’t Jesus.

POSTSCRIPT: The Original Text

On Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality

WHEREAS, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy and reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried; and

WHEREAS, critical race theory and intersectionality are founded upon unbiblical presuppositions descended from Marxist theories and categories, and therefore are inherently opposed to the Scriptures as the true center of Christian union; and

WHEREAS, both critical race theory and intersectionality as ideologies have infiltrated some Southern Baptist churches and institutions—institutions funded by the Cooperative Program; and

WHEREAS, critical race theory upholds postmodern relativistic understandings of truth; and

WHEREAS, critical race theory divides humanity into groups of oppressors and oppressed, and is used to encourage biblical, transcendental truth claims to be considered suspect when communicated from groups labeled as oppressors; and

WHEREAS, intersectionality defines human identity by race, social background, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and a host of other distinctions, and it does so at the expense of other identities; and

WHEREAS, intersectionality reduces human beings to distinguishable identities of unequal value and thus reduces human identity down to differences rather than commonality; and

WHEREAS, intersectionality encourages rage as its driving energy and conclusion; and

WHEREAS, intersectionality magnifies differences while deeming as more favorable the individuals who combine the highest number of oppressed identities; and

WHEREAS, both critical race theory and intersectionality breed division and deny humanity’s essential commonality; and

WHEREAS, the Scripture provides God’s narrative on such matters; and

WHEREAS, the book of Genesis grounds humanity in that which unites us, namely our common identity as the Imago Dei, which itself is the foundation of every biblical, ethical command to love one’s neighbor and to seek justice for all; and

WHEREAS, the Bible acknowledges differences—male and female, slave and free, Jew and Gentile—it does not begin with human differences, but instead begins with what unites humanity, namely the Imago Dei; and

WHEREAS, the sameness of humanity built upon the Imago Dei, justifies the value of all individuals in something that transcends race, gender, and other identity intersections; and

WHEREAS, the New Covenant further unites by creating a new humanity that will one day inhabit the new heavens and the new earth, and that the people of this new humanity, though descended from every nation, tribe, tongue, and people, are all one in Christ; and

WHEREAS, this new humanity is comprised of people from every ethnicity and race, of every socio-economic background and culture, and yet these people enter this new humanity through belief in the Gospel of Jesus Christ; and

WHEREAS, Christian citizenship is not based on our differences but instead on our common salvation in Christ; and

WHEREAS, we find our true identity in Christ; and

WHEREAS, the Scriptures have categories and principles by which to deal with racism, sexism, injustice, abuse—principles found in prior Southern Baptist resolutions such as On The Anti-Gospel of Alt-Right White Supremacy, for example, that are not rooted in Marxist anti-gospel presuppositions; and

WHEREAS, the rhetoric of critical race theory and intersectionality found in some Southern Baptist institutions and leaders is causing unnecessary and unbiblical division among the body of Christ and is tarnishing the reputation of the Southern Baptist Convention as a whole, inviting charges of theological liberalism, egalitarianism, and Marxism; and

WHEREAS, the Southern Baptist Convention is committed to racial reconciliation built upon biblical presuppositions, and is committed to seeking biblical justice through biblical means; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That the messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention, meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, June 11-12, 2019, decry every philosophy or theology, including critical race theory and intersectionality, as antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, since they divide the people of Christ by defining fundamental identity as something other than our identity in Jesus Christ; and be it further

RESOLVED, That we deny any philosophy or theology that defines individuals primarily by non-transcendental social constructs rather than by the transcendental reality of all humans existing as the Imago Dei; and be it further

RESOLVED, That while we denounce critical race theory and intersectionality, we do not deny that ethnic, gender, cultural, and racial distinctions do in fact exist and are a gift from God that will give Him absolute glory when the entire gamut of human diversity worships Him in perfect unity founded upon our unity in Jesus Christ; and be it further

RESOLVED, That Southern Baptist Churches will seek to paint this eschatological picture in a proleptic manner in our churches in the present by focusing on our unity in Christ and our common humanity as the Imago Dei rather than dividing over the secondary matters than make us different; and be it further

RESOLVED, That Southern Baptists Churches and institutions will take a prophetic stand against all forms of biblically-defined injustice, but we will do so in a manner consistent with the biblical worldview rather than unbiblical worldviews; and be it further

RESOLVED, That Southern Baptist institutions need to make progress in rooting out the intentional promulgation of critical race theory and intersectionality in both our churches and institutions; and be it further

RESOLVED, That we earnestly pray, both for those who advocate ideologies meant to divide believers along intersectional lines and those who are thereby deceived, that they may see their error through the light of the Gospel, repent of these anti-Gospel beliefs, and come to know the peace and love of Christ through redeemed fellowship in the Kingdom of God, which is established from every nation, tribe, people, and language.

 

 

In the worst incident of #MeToo I’ve yet found, surpassing even the Duke Lacrosse false accusation, is a medical doctor formally charged with up to one thousand counts of date rape and forcible drugging over a three-year period. ALL of which have just been dropped for lack of evidence.

Left is Grant Robicheaux. I can’t tell anything about the eyes; if this is a mug shot then it’s an unprofessional one. A strong chin on this one; I can see him as a college athlete more easily than a roofie-slipping male feminist. Curly hair indicates high libido, however, so there is that. A large nose & nostrils indicates high social energy. He might have a big family or like to party. It looks like he has pronounced maxillofacial bones (bone ridge from cheeks to upper ears) which is strongly associated with sex appeal. So the incel community believes, anyway.

Cerissa Riley is trouble, however. Sampan eyes indicate “Cluster B disorders”, as they say in the business. Narrow, upturned nose and pessimistic mouth suggest low social energy which is at odds with her carefully-maintained hair. Add rationally horizontal eyebrows and I conclude “emotion vampire”. If Grant really is a Chad then he could have done better than Riley.

We begin two years ago.

Grant Robicheaux & Cerissa Riley: Surgeon & Girlfriend Accused of Raping Drugged Women

Grant Robicheaux & Cerissa Riley: Surgeon & Girlfriend Accused of Raping Drugged Women

18 September 2018

California surgeon who once appeared on a Bravo TV dating show and his girlfriend are accused of drugging and raping two women and authorities believe there could be many other victims. Grant Robicheaux and Cerissa Riley were arrested on September 11 on rape and several other charges, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said in a press release.

Robicheaux is a 38-year-old Newport Beach resident who appeared on the Bravo show “Online Dating Rituals of the American Male” in 2014. Riley, 31, is from Brea, California, and has worked as a dance teacher. They are accused of working “in tandem” to supply drugs to their victims and then sexually assault the women while they were unable to consent, District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said in the press release.

“The defendants may have traveled together to various festivals and locations since 2015 including Burning Man in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, Dirtybird Campout festival in Silverado, Splash House festival in Palm Springs, and landmarks near Page, Arizona,” the district attorney’s office said. Robicheaux and Riley were both released on $100,000 bond on September 17. They are scheduled to appear in court in October.

“All allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Grant Robicheaux and his girlfriend Cerissa Riley,” a statement provided to Heavy on behalf of their attorneys said. “They have been aware of these accusations for a number of months, and each of them will formally deny the truth of these allegations at their first opportunity in court. Dr. Robicheaux and Ms. Riley believe that such allegations do a disservice to, and dangerously undermine, the true victims of sexual assault, and they are eager to have the proper spotlight shed on this case in a public trial.

“It must be noted that none of the allegations in this matter relate to or concern Dr. Robicheaux’s medical practice or patients in any way. They both thank their families and friends for their continued support,” the statement from the couple’s attorneys said.

Meanwhile, Rackauckas said the couple used their looks and status to gain the trust of the alleged victims.

“People often assume rapists are creepy, scary men who lunge out from hiding amongst bushes and attack unsuspecting women. The reality is that rapists come in all socioeconomic groups, any background,” Rackauckas said at a press conference on September 18. “It’s important to understand that rapists can look like anyone. They can be anyone. They can be either gender.”

Technically true, although the vast majority of rape-rapists in USA are atheists generally and male feminists specifically. Christians who believe they’ll go to Hell for sexual assault tend to not do it even when nobody is watching.

He continued, “This morning, my office is announcing the filing of charges and arrest of well-known orthopedic surgeon Grant Robicheaux and his female companion Cerissa Riley. In the materials we’ve seized, there are thousands and thousands of videos and images on Robicheaux’s phone, many also including Riley, which we’re now meticulously going through. There are several videos where the women in the videos appear to be highly intoxicated beyond the ability to consent or resist and they’re barely responsive to the defendant’s sexual advances. Based on this evidence, we believe there may be many unidentified victims out there.”

First red flag goes up: the DA claimed that a hard-partying couple’s home videos of friends at Burning Man was admissible evidence of multiple, coercive rapes. Come on, dude. Most Burners get in the car to go to Burning Man expecting to have drunk/drugged sex with random strangers. You’ll never convince me that the music is the main draw, let alone the scenery. Such “festivals” are like marriages: you give your legal consent to sex at the door as you walk in and it’s binding until you leave.

According to prosecutors, the first incident occurred in April 2016, when Grant William Robicheaux and Cerissa Laura Riley met the 32-year-old victim at a Newport Beach restaurant. On April 10, the couple invited her to a party in Newport Beach and then escorted her to their apartment “once she was intoxicated,” the district attorney’s office said.

“The defendants are accused of supplying multiple drugs to the victim then raping and orally copulating her while she was prevented from resisting due to intoxicating and controlled substances and they should have reasonably known of her condition,” according to the press release. The woman went to the Newport Beach Police Department the next day and underwent a forensic exam, which tested positive for multiple controlled substances, according to prosecutors.

That’s not a convincing argument, either.

Rackauckas told reporters there is no evidence any of the alleged crimes took place in a medical setting. He also said they don’t know whether all the incidents happened the same way. “But we do see is that there is bar, the couple is in a bar, Cerissa introduces her, meets the lady and then introduces her to Robicheaux and then they invite her to a party.” In one case, the party was on a boat, Rackauckas said. “She’s having some drinks, she feels more intoxicated by the drinks than would ordinarily be expected, pretty soon she’s very intoxicated and hardly knows what’s going on. They take her to his apartment and perform all of these sex acts on her. So that’s the general way that we’ve seen it.”

Such reasoning is why fraternity life on college campuses is now deader than nigger jokes. It’s called regret rape, prosecutor. She had her fun and come the next morning (heh), she didn’t want anybody to think of her as a slut.

Rackauckas said at the press conference, “women who have encountered these two might have felt a false sense of security due to the fact that both defendants are clean cut and good looking. We tend to trust doctors who take an oath to do no harm. The second defendant being a female is key. A woman purporting to be his girlfriend clearly paid a significant role in disarming the victims and making them feel comfortable and safe. We believe the defendants used their good looks and charm to lower the inhibitions of their potential prey.”

Tony is off his meds to speculate to the press like that. He brings up a good point, however. “We tend to trust doctors who take an oath to do no harm”? How about “Party girls go to the homes of trendy doctors who have access to the good dope”?

That would be why the party kept ending up at the “doctor’s house”.

Robicheaux was charged with rape by use of drugs, oral copulation by anesthesia or controlled substance, assault with intent to commit sexual offense, four counts of possession of a controlled substance for sale and two counts of possession of an assault weapon. He additionally faces sentencing enhancements for being “personally armed with (a) firearm during health and safety code violation.”

Riley was charged with rape by use of drugs, oral copulation by anesthesia or controlled substance, assault with intent to commit sexual offense and four counts of possession of a controlled substance for sale, with a sentencing enhancement for being “knowingly vicariously armed with firearm.”

Vicariously armed??? Da fuq izzat?

vi·​car·​i·​ous | \ vī-ˈker-ē-əs

1. Experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another

“The police found an imaginary deadly weapon on his person.”

2. that has been delegated

“He was armed with a CCW permit.”

3. performed or suffered by one person as a substitute for another or to the benefit or advantage of another : SUBSTITUTIONARY

“Grant used his Johnson as a deadly weapon but to no avail… the girls kept coming!”

4. Occurring in an unexpected or abnormal part of the body instead of the usual one

Two out of four definitions agree that Grant’s dick was the assault weapon. And look, he was simultaneously charged with *drum roll* sexual assault!!!

*Serious inquiry* Vicariously armed means something like, for example, there was an accessible firearm in Grant’s house at the time of the alleged rapes.

Rackauckas said there were a “number of drugs” found in Robicheaux’s apartment, including ecstasy, date rape drug and cocaine, “nothing that would be a pure anesthetic.” Rackauckas said none of the drugs appeared to have come from a hospital or medical setting, but were more of the “illegal type,” not “hospital anaesthetic.”

Huh. Doctor Grant *didn’t* procure the dope for his party animals. And in fact, he wasn’t charged for any drug possession either.

Good girlfriend!

Detectives submitted the case to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office for review on September 6 and after charges were filed on the 11th, the couple was arrested on September 12, the DA said. District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said his office worked with the Newport Beach Police Department to find evidence that broke the case and led to the charges.

“We have all these videos and a lot of the women on those videos look like they’re not able to consent. They look like they’re certainly past that point. Some appear to be intoxicated to the point of unconsciousness or near unconsciousness,” the district attorney said. Rackauckas said some of the videos showed “sex acts.” There is no evidence the videos were posted online or shared, Rackauckas said. The first victim was recorded on video, he said.

That last paragraph appears to have been the sum total of evidence against Grant & Riley.

He added, “I want women out there to know that the Orange County District Attorney’s Office is taking this case very seriously. We know some victims might blame themselves, they might feel there’s no crime to report because they knowingly drank alcohol or consumed illegal substances with the defendants. But you need to hear this: your conscious decisions to party with these defendants or with anybody using alcohol or other intoxicating substances does not give them a pass to rape, assault or have sex with you once you’re past the point of consent. To do so is a crime.”

White knight bullshit.

Here’s a better picture of Grant. I was right about him being athletic; at minimum, he’s no stranger to the gym. And yes, probably an easy success with the ladies.

In 2014, Grant Robicheaux appeared on the short-lived Bravo reality TV series, “Online Dating Rituals of an American Male,” as one of two participants on the fifth episode of the show’s lone season. Robicheaux was billed as “Grant R.” on the show. His section of the episode was titled, “Three’s a Crowd.” The Bravo website says, “Grant, is a 33-year-old orthopaedic surgeon who was recently named Orange County’s “Most Successful and Eligible Bachelor.” Even though he seems pretty mellow about the title, he’s really not. The truth is Grant is looking for someone just like him—perfect. And once he does, he has a bunch of plans for their perfect life together, including twins (one boy and one girl, natch). The thing that Grant doesn’t seem to realize is that he is very clearly in love with his roommate’s girlfriend … Oh, P.S., all three of them live together.”

The website states Robicheaux, “has a plan: to find the perfect woman, have a fantasy wedding and raise the All-American family. With guidance from his roommate, Grant turns to online dating to find the woman of his dreams.”

The episode is still available on Bravo’s website. During the episode, Robicheaux went on dates with three women he picked out of online dating profiles provided by the show’s producers. During the first date, Robicheaux told the woman, “I want a destination wedding, I wanna crush the plates, I wanna be carried in a chair. I want the best of everything!” She told him her dream wedding consisted of “getting drunk and having sex.”

I sense a trend in Romeo’s dating life.

On his second date, Robicheaux learned the woman he was with didn’t drink, which was a “no-go on his perfect checklist,” according to the Bravo website. On the third date, Robicheaux invited the woman onto a boat with his roommate and his roommate’s girlfriend. “wasn’t super freaked out about the foursome date, or the fact that she was alone with a stranger she met on the Internet and his accomplices friends on a boat with no escape, but she was pretty freaked out when (the roommate’s girlfriend) asked her if she was a virgin,” the website says in the synopsis of the episode. At the end of the show, Robicheaux decided to continue his dating search.

Actually, she sounds like a keeper, a girl who wanted a little fun but got reasonably nervous when the dating show went South Crotch. Although how she didn’t see it coming is beyond me.

Cerissa Riley, who was born Cerissa Gilligan, was married in 2011, public records show. She was divorced in 2017, according to Orange County court records. Rackauckas said he did not know when or where Riley and Robicheaux met. A video posted on YouTube by Riley in January 2016 shows her and Robicheaux on a trip to Mexico. Along with Brea, California, Riley has lived in Anaheim and Costa Mesa, California, and in Orem, Utah, according to public records.

Not a single mother, fortunately, but yes, Grant the celebrity orthopedic surgeon could have done much better in the girlfriend department. Or not. A proper wife would not have tolerated his drug-fueled fornications.

“Law enforcement investigating this case believe there may be additional victims. If you believe you have been a victim, or have information related to the crime and about the defendants, please call Supervising Investigator Eric Wiseman at ###,” the district attorney’s office said. The case is being prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Michael Carroll, of the sexual assault unit.

Prosecutor Tony called for more victims against a guy he knew loved to party hard. The MeToo bitches answered his dog whistle.

Grant Robicheaux: Doctor faces five new rape charges as more alleged victims come forward

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/grant-robicheaux-rape-case-cerissa-riley-court-california-orange-county-a8592256.html

Prosecutors in Southern California had said they believed there were more victims when they charged a couple last month with drugging and sexually assaulting two women the couple had met on social outings.

This week, prosecutors announced additional charges in the couple’s case after five more accusers came forward.

The Orange County district attorney, Tony Rackauckas, told a news conference on Wednesday that Grant Robicheaux, 38, an orthopeadic surgeon, had been charged with sexually assaulting five additional women, and that Cerissa Riley, 31, a teacher, received charges for additional assaults of three of them.

Both defendants also now face a charge of kidnapping to commit a sexual offence of three women in 2016 and 2017, Mr Rackauckas said. Investigators believe the defendants met the victims in a public place where the couple drugged them, and took them to Mr Robicheaux’s home to sexually assault them after they were incapable of consenting.

On Wednesday, the two pleaded not guilty in state court to the new charges, said Michelle Van Der Linden, a spokeswoman at the district attorney’s office. The couple remained free on bail of $1m (£767,000), she said.

Crime doesn’t pay. Orthopedic surgery does.

At the news conference, Mr Rackauckas praised the five women who had recently come forward. “Their echoed sentiment was that they wanted to support the first two women who came forward, and to make sure that no one else suffers in silence the way they did,” he said.

“We think there are more victims out there,” he added.

More and even less credible victims!

Investigators believe that Mr Robicheaux and Ms Riley met their alleged victims at bars, parties and festivals, including Dirtybird Campout in Silverado, California, and Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Some of the women said they had met the couple on dating apps like Tinder and Bumble.

The couple is also believed to have travelled to Splash House festival in Palm Springs, California, BPM Festival in Playa del Carmen and Tulum in Mexico, and to landmarks near Page, Arizona, the district attorney’s office said in a statement on Wednesday.

Yep, yep, they were definitely predatory rapists hiding in plain sight, preying upon women who had no intention of having sex with them, nope, zero, not at all.

“Police? Police! Help me, I’ve just been date-raped by a hunky, rich, playboy doctor! I’m at the Dirtybird Campout in….”

Two months after the original, sensational announcement, Tony was reelected as Orange County DA with 38.5% of the vote. Runner-up was Todd Spitzer with 35.2%, close enough for a runoff election. This time, Spitzer won with 53.2% against Tony’s 46.8%. And on that note:

DA Says Couple Accused of Drugging and Raping Up to 1,000 Women Did No Such Thing—Ex-DA Made it All Up

https://www.thedailybeast.com/da-clears-grant-robicheaux-and-cerissa-riley-couple-accused-of-drugging-and-raping-women?ref=wrap

By Tracy Connor, 5 February 2020

A California prosecutor is dropping all charges against a doctor and his girlfriend, alleging that his predecessor “manufactured” allegations that the couple drugged and sexually assaulted up to 1,000 women.

The stunning turn of events comes a year and a half after the case against Grant Robicheaux, an orthopedic surgeon who appeared on the TV show The Online Dating Rituals of the American Male, and substitute teacher Cerissa Riley exploded into the headlines.

At the time, Orange County’s then-district attorney, Tony Rackauckas, claimed the pair lured women to their Newport Beach home, knocked them unconscious, and raped them.

Tony has some of the most angled (conflict-seeking) eyebrows I’ve yet seen.

Be ashamed of your ListenAndBelieve white-knight bullshit, Tony!

At a press conference in September 2018, he said investigators had seized “hundreds” of incriminating videos from the couple’s phones. Asked whether the number could be as a high as a thousand, Rackauckas said, “I think so.”

A few months later, though, Rackauckas was out of office, replaced by current DA Todd Spitzer, who eventually ordered a review of the evidence. He says he was appalled by what he found.

“The prior District Attorney and his chief of staff manufactured this case and repeatedly misstated the evidence to lead the public and vulnerable women to believe that these two individuals plied up to 1,000 women with drugs and alcohol in order to sexually assault them—and videotape the assaults,” Spitzer said in a blistering statement.

“As a result of the complete case review I ordered beginning in July, we now know that there was not a single video or photograph depicting an unconscious or incapacitated woman being sexually assaulted.”

Rackauckas has not responded to his former rival’s allegations. But Robicheaux’s attorney praised the reversal.

Methinks he’s not going to respond… not until the civil trial for everything from back wages to wrongful imprisonment.

“I don’t want to be overly dramatic or hyperbolic, but the mere filing of this case has destroyed irreparably two lives,” defense lawyer Philip Cohen told reporters.

“He has become persona non grata with an entire city, an entire state—and I don’t want to be exaggerating—but probably an entire country.”

Robicheaux, 39, and Riley, 32, insisted from the start that all their liaisons were consensual. They were swingers, their attorneys argued, and the so-called victims were willing participants.

They claimed Rackauckas inflated the allegations, hoping that media attention would buoy his re-election effort. And last June, unsealed transcripts of a deposition showed the ex-prosecutor thought the publicity would help him.

No surprise that a California gov’t official turned out to be dirty and a white knight, but the scale on this one is off the charts.

 

It’s worth discussing Christian morality in the context of the annual coronavirus outbreak, I guess. I’m trying very hard to avoid the deluge of… three headlines, all of which are bullshit repeated to death. The Superbowl, which is reportedly a good show but irrelevant to everything. Trump’s impeachment, which is reportedly a bad show but irrelevant to everything. And China’s coronavirus, which is irrelevant to non-Chinese… to the point of speculation over whether it’s a bioweapon oopsie… why blame Big Brother when you can blame Third World sanitation?… and besides, this is flu season. Why must the annual flu season always be accompanied by pictures of hazmat workers in rebreathers? Yes, hundreds of people will die, most of whom are Baby Boomers who raised their daughters to hate men. Nobody will miss them, least of all the Democrat Party because the dead always vote Left.

Is It Faithful to Flee an Epidemic? What Martin Luther Teaches Us About Coronavirus

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2020/january-web-only/martin-luther-coronavirus-wuhan-chinese-new-year-christians.html

By Emmy Yang, 30 January 2020

“No Corona but Jesus!” Whew, got it out of my system.

From its epicenter in Wuhan, China, the current coronavirus outbreak is stoking fear and disrupting travel and business across the globe. More than 150 people have died from the virus in China alone, and more than 8,000 are infected across 20 countries—exceeding the SARS epidemic in 2003.

19 Countries don’t care enough to close their borders with China. Then again, 19 countries don’t care enough about blatant Chinese espionage to close their universities to China.

Citizens in Wuhan, a major central city comparable to Chicago…

A waggish tongue might point out that 150 dead in a month is, by Chicago standards, business as usual. You just catch a bullet instead of a bug. And like coronavirus, the plague of lead in Chicago is mostly limited to a certain ethnic group.

…are under lockdown by the government and public activities have come to a standstill, including annual celebrations for Chinese New Year (which began on January 25). Chinese Christians, in Wuhan and China at large, have faced difficult decisions about whether to join the millions of Chinese who return home to visit family (as is customary during the lunar holiday season), to flee from the mainland, or even to gather for regular Sunday services.

I’m shocked the first question is even asked. If your hometown far across the ocean is quarantined for a deadly plague then don’t visit to ‘celebrate’ the Year Of the Gawddamn Plague-Bearing Rat. This is neither a hard decision nor a moral decision.

The second is an easy moral decision. Fleeing plagues is how plagues get spread so don’t do it. I hope quarantine violators everywhere get shot on sight, shoved into a ditch and lit with a flamethrower. Publicly.

All one need do to survive a typical plague is wash his hands twice as often and don’t step in the shit. And don’t bother with those silly particle masks. Either you swap them VERY regularly or they’re just for show. Which might explain a lot: people spreading the plague while pretending to be acting sanitary, because of social pressure to conform. Sounds right for Asia.

And the third question, again, just wash your hands. Clean up the dog/bird/cat shit. God will understand if you cancel Communion for a couple months. When He said only the sick need the Doctor, that wasn’t what He meant.

But are followers of Jesus right to flee an epidemic when people are suffering and dying?

In the 16th century, German Christians asked theologian Martin Luther for a response to this very question.

In 1527, less than 200 years after the Black Death killed about half the population of Europe, the plague re-emerged in Luther’s own town of Wittenberg and neighboring cities. In his letter “Whether One May Flee from a Deadly Plague,” the famous reformer weighs the responsibilities of ordinary citizens during contagion. His advice serves as a practical guide for Christians confronting infectious disease outbreaks today.

First, Luther argued that anyone who stands in a relationship of service to another has a vocational commitment not to flee. Those in ministry, he wrote, “must remain steadfast before the peril of death.” The sick and dying need a good shepherd who will strengthen and comfort them and administer the sacraments—lest they be denied the Eucharist before their passing. Public officials, including mayors and judges, are to stay and maintain civic order. Public servants, including city-sponsored physicians and police officers, must continue their professional duties. Even parents and guardians have vocational duties toward their children.

I miss the days when government gave a damn for the people it governed.

The early Roman Christians were known for going into quarantine zones to care for the sick. Not only did that gain them respect, the death toll was noticeably lower where the Christians went because even basic care for the sick improved survival rates.

Of course, many helpers died and reports that some were hoping to die are probably legit. If your religion might get you killed anyway then risking death by plague is old hat.

Luther did not limit tending the sick to health care professionals. In a time when Wuhan faces a shortage of hospital beds and personnel, his counsel is especially relevant. The city, one of China’s largest with a population of about 11 million, is in the process of rapidly constructing two new hospitals to accommodate growing crowds of coronavirus patients.

Bullshit. You can’t build a new hospital fast enough when you start after the plague does. A tent city a la military logistics is the best one can do and it’s a reasonable effort. Thus, the “new hospitals” are just the government pretending to care.

Lay citizens, without any medical training, may find themselves in a position of providing care to the sick. Luther challenges Christians to see opportunities to tend to the sick as tending to Christ himself (Matt. 25:41–46). Out of love for God emerges the practice of love for neighbor.

Valid. Refusing to care for one’s family makes a Christian worse than an unbeliever.

But Luther does not encourage his readers to expose themselves recklessly to danger. His letter constantly straddles two competing goods: honoring the sanctity of one’s own life, and honoring the sanctity of those in need. Luther makes it clear that God gives humans a tendency toward self-protection and trusts that they will take care of their bodies (Eph. 5:29; 1 Cor. 12:21–26). He defends public health measures such as quarantines and seeking medical attention when available. In fact, Luther proposes that not to do so is to act recklessly. Just as God has gifted humans with their bodies, so too he has gifted the medicines of the earth.

A legit teaching that the Cult of Nice desperately needs to hear. Stop with those short-term missionary trips to Ebolibia and start giving a damn about your own home!

What if a Christian still desires to flee? Luther affirms that this may, in fact, be the believer’s faithful response, provided that no emergency exists and that they arrange substitutes who will “take care of the sick in their stead and nurse them.” Notably, Luther also reminds readers that salvation is independent of these good works. He ultimately tasks them to decide whether to flee or to stay during plagues, trusting that they will arrive at a faithful decision through prayer and meditation on the Scriptures. Participation in aiding the sick arises out of grace, not obligation.

However, Luther himself was not afraid. Despite the exhortations of his university colleagues, he stayed behind to minister to the sick and dying. He urged his readers not to be afraid of “some small boils” in the service of neighbors.

Yep, that sounds like Luther.

Though God’s children face earthly sufferings, those who proclaim faith in Christ share in a heavenly promise of freedom from illness and suffering. In an open letter calling for prayer from Christians around the globe, an anonymous Wuhan pastor affirms “[Christ’s] peace is not to remove us from disaster and death, but rather to have peace in the midst of disaster and death, because Christ has already overcome these things.” Both Luther and the Wuhan pastor express the reality of suffering but recognize that death and suffering do not have the final word.

Why can’t America have pastors like that? Ours are all women and Social Justice Pansies.

This week, my grandparents in China messaged me that they are well but are dwelling “like rats” in their apartment, leaving only when necessary. Incidentally, in the Chinese Zodiac system, 2020 is the Year of the Rat—the animal that spread pestilence-carrying fleas across Europe in the 14th century.

The other way to celebrate the Chinese New Year!

My grandparents live west of Wuhan in the province of Sichuan, where more than 100 coronavirus cases have been confirmed. I cannot help but think of them and my other relatives living in China at this time. Hoping to send them masks now out of stock in many stores throughout Asia, my parents and I discovered this week that even US stores have been depleted.

I’ve noticed the mask-wearing thing becoming popular in California, I think partly because we have a long-standing Chinese population (originally imported to build the Transcontinental Railroad) and partly as a fashion statement by Social Justice Warriors whose “communal living standards” demonstrate a shocking ignorance about how disease is spread. Hence my suspicions about mask-wearing being virtue-signaling.

In downtown Los Angeles, you’d do better to wear hip waders, but then you’d look like a redneck from the bayou. Socially ungood!

In a climate of fear surrounding the outbreak, I come back to Luther’s letter for guidance. As a medical student and a future physician, I have a clear vocational commitment to caring for the sick—whether they have coronavirus, tuberculosis, or influenza. Precautions I will take, yes. But I am reminded by Luther that they are individuals deserving of care all the same.

The author attends both seminary and medical school. She could save a lot of money by obeying Christ and staying out of the clergy.

“When did we see you sick?” ask the righteous in the parable of the sheep and the goats, to which Jesus responds, “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me” (Matt. 25:39–40). If and when the coronavirus encroaches upon our communities, how will we faithfully respond?

We make like Pilate and wash our hands.

 

For the funny files. “When I was your age, kid, I was shot for robbing beer from a 7-11!” But now is the Millennial Generation:

Lingerie-clad barista foils robbery at Colorado coffee stand

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/lingerie-clad-barista-foils-robbery-attempt-colorado-coffee-stand

By Michael Bartiromo, 3 February 2020

It’s like Hooters por la manana! (Spanish “for the morning”) I never heard of such a “business model” before but speculate that it might have something to do with the Air Force Academy being nearby.

The 20-year-old suspect in a recent crime spree in Colorado has been nabbed by police after robbing a bikini-barista coffee stand.

The Colorado Springs Police Department says the suspect, identified as Lenard Moe, had initially robbed Babes Espresso in Colorado Springs on Jan. 8 after pointing a gun at one of the baristas. Police say he then returned two days later to rob the stand again but was ultimately unsuccessful after a barista foiled his attempt.

She’s standing by to take your order and accept your surrender! We accept all credit cards and Daddy Issues!

Following the second attempt, the shop posted footage of the failed robbery on Facebook, where owner John Reinecke explained that the on-duty barista slammed the window on the suspect. “She closed the window with the bar and he could not get in as he attempted to enter in from the window and from the rear of the building,” Reinecke wrote.

On Jan. 9, Reineche also shared pictures of the suspect and offered a $1,000 “bounty” on “the piece of s—“ who robbed us last night.”

A few weeks later, police say Moe struck again, but not at Babes Espresso. Instead, he had committed a carjacking on Jan. 24, threatening a victim with a gun and stealing her car, before ultimately abandoning the vehicle in Pueblo, police say. Moe was apprehended, but released after posting $15,000 bail on Jan. 26, according to The Gazette.

Days later on Jan. 28, the suspect committed yet another carjacking, officers say, but fled on foot after striking a curb. Police were able to locate him that night. He was subsequently booked into the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center. He is being held on a $100,000 bond, according to The Gazette.

Following the robberies, Babes Espresso had also announced on Facebook that it would be reducing its operating hours “to a schedule that is more realistic and in-line with the schedule of our entertainers.”

This is why we can’t have nice whores things.

 

A lazy Sunday afternoon dismantling of a Churchian Cuckservative in full cognitive surrender to the Narrative.

Can Any of the Democratic Candidates Appeal to Evangelicals?

https://www.christianheadlines.com/columnists/guest-commentary/can-any-of-the-democratic-candidates-appeal-to-evangelicals.html

By John Fea of Religion News Service, 31 January 2020

Can they, sure. Do any of them want to, not even a little. If you missed the notice in Scripture then take a memo: the wicked hate the righteous. We can reliably categorize the DemoCandidates 2020 as wicked for reasons ranging from Fauxcahontas’ cultural appropriation to Butt-Gig’s shaming the Church for NOT being sexually depraved to Brother Bernie lusting to build literal gulags.

Frankly, all but the Muslim should be disqualified just for health reasons.

(RNS) — Do the current Democratic candidates for president have any chance of winning evangelicals in November 2020?

Probably not.

Where’s there vote fraud, there’s hope! Y’know, if the Democrats were smart, all of their candidates would choose the same Vice President. That way, it doesn’t matter who wins… excepting Trump, of course… and their VP will become the President about two hours after the “winner” has a heart attack from the stress of his inaugural address. Not even an Arkancide.

Of the candidates left in the Democratic primary race, Pete Buttigieg has made the most of his Christian faith. Buttigieg regularly quotes the Bible on the campaign trail and is always ready to remind us that the Christian right does not have a monopoly on the language of faith.

This is an opinion piece, Mr. Fea, so your painfully neutral language about Petey Fudge-packer blaming Christians for practicing Christian morality tells us all we need to know about your true beliefs: you aren’t disgusted by that piece-of-shit lying false Christian.

But for many evangelicals, Buttigieg’s Bible-infused sermonettes seem indistinguishable from the usual Democratic talking points. One wonders if there is anything about his understanding of Christianity that would put him at odds with party orthodoxy.

Over the last couple of years, I have talked with a lot of Trump-voting evangelicals.

False Christian confirmed. He was careful to not identify as one of the Bad People.

Some go to my church. Some are in my family. We have exchanged emails and social media messages. I met many of them during the tour for my book “Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump.”

Based on this anecdotal evidence, I know that a lot of evangelicals will vote for Trump again. I’ve even met a few evangelicals who voted for a third-party candidate in 2016 but plan to vote for Trump in 2020 because he appoints conservative Supreme Court justices, fights for religious liberty (as defined by conservative evangelicals) and defends the interests of Israel.

But I have also met people who voted for Trump in 2016 and are looking for a justification — any justification — to vote for a Democrat in 2020.

And not finding one. Because the Democrats, finally freed by illegal immigration and vote fraud… excuse me, “democracy”… from even the pretense of caring about their two-year chumps, are not giving said chumps even the flimsiest of excuses for virtuous surrender.

Face it, “swing voters”, your time is done.

These evangelicals might vote for a Democratic candidate who speaks in genuine and sincere ways about reducing the number of abortions in America. Ideally, this candidate would support the Hyde Amendment, the legislative provision that prevents the government from using federal funds to pay for most abortions.

That old shell game! We don’t need to “reduce the number of abortion in America”, as if babykilling and greasy food were similarly non-optimal behaviors. We need to stretch the necks of women who murder their own babies. Do that and the “number of abortions” will magically dwindle with no need for a government task force with supporting legislation.

Stop misdirecting anti-abortion efforts with questions of funding!

Evangelicals might also consider voting for a Democratic candidate who recognizes legitimate threats to religious liberty. Such a candidate might be willing to endorse the Fairness for All Act, a bill that both outlaws discrimination against the LGBTQ community and protects the convictions of faith-based institutions.

News flash: God hates fags and fags hate God, that’s why the latter drape themselves in rainbow symbols. These two groups cannot coexist so kindly stop wasting our time and patience by whining “can’t we all just get along?”

Perhaps this candidate might embrace something akin to what Washington University law professor John Inazu calls “confident pluralism.” Inazu calls both the left and the right to think more deeply about how Americans can live together amid their deepest differences and, in the process, forge a healthy republic defined by “tolerance, humility, and patience.”

SJWs Always Lie. Tolerance? Humility? Patience? Do these chuckleheads think we’re still that stupid?

This one, Inazu, probably does. PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill… that university comes up a lot in political activism circles.

Since we’re discussing pics, one look at John Fea tells me he’s a Baby Boomer lay church leader… probably Baptist. *Checks* History professor at Messiah College and a contributing journalist to RNS. Not Baptist.

If a candidate will speak proactively on these issues, he or she just might steal a small number of evangelical votes away from Trump. In another close election, such votes may be all that is needed to defeat the president in 2020.

Unfortunately, no such candidate exists in the Democratic field.

And that’s what Mr. Fea’s little screed is all about. How can we sabotage Donald Trump’s base when 1. his support is overwhelmingly Christian, 2. we haven’t bothered to hide our poisonous hatred for Christ for decades, and 3. despite the best efforts of our plants, moles and turncoats, the Christians finally noticed?

The Democratic candidates seem to be taking the same route Hillary Clinton took in 2016. The candidate who spoke openly about her faith during the 2008 Democratic primary battle against Barack Obama, and made visits to Messiah College and evangelical celebrity Rick Warren’s California megachurch, seemed tone-deaf on matters important to evangelicals eight years later.

About the boldface: Shrillary and O’Bummer held a formal political debate at Messiah College on 13 April 2008 which was broadcast live on CNN per wikipedia. Mr. Fea is speaking from personal experience here.

Shrillary was tone-deaf in 2008, too, but we Christians didn’t have a choice then. You Leftoids ignored us because you hated us and didn’t need us. Now, you hate us AND need us and the result is tone-deaf indeed:

During the Democratic primaries in July of 2015, when a conservative pro-life group published videos showing Planned Parenthood employees discussing the purchase of body parts and the fetal tissue of aborted fetuses, Clinton said, “I have seen the pictures (from the videos) and obviously find them very disturbing.” Such a response, reiterated a year later, could have helped her reach evangelicals who also found these videos disturbing.

Our problem with Planned Parenthood’s necrophilia is not that it’s disturbing. It is EVIL.

You poor Church mis-leaders. For many years, all you had to do to get a fat paycheck was pretend to care while ensuring that nobody rocked the boat against your Social Justice allies. Now that your rigged “democracy” hiccuped and gave Christians a breath of fresh air instead of yet another Sophie’s Choice, your bleating about how much the Clinton Commissariat needs our support sounds a lot more “Judas goat” and a lot less “shepherd”.

 

Very little demonstrates modern anarcho-tyranny as effectively as the way conservative churches shun politics as 501c3 requires while liberal churches dive right in and never get punished.

Anti-Trump worship leader pens ‘hymn’ to rebuke evangelical supporters

https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-christian-song-indiana-2020-support

By Caleb Parke, 30 January 2020

A worship pastor in South Bend, Ind., is getting attention for a song he wrote “calling out” evangelical supporters of President Trump.

Daniel Deitrich, the pastor for arts and worship at South Bend City Church, wrote “Hymn for the 81%,” a reference to white evangelical Christian voters who helped secure Trump’s victory 2016, as “a plea…to come home to the way of Jesus.”

Pronounced Hay-soos, the Illegal Immigrant of Heaven!

Pajama Boy meets Lumbersexual. “Would bang!” -Pete Buttigeig, Mayor of South Bend.

The anti-Trump pastor’s song has over 400,000 views on YouTube. The lyrics accuse Trump evangelicals of “putting kids in cages, ripping mothers from their babies” and “weaponiz[ing] religion.”

LOL at the latter. I don’t care to repeat such lies so instead of linking to the song, I’ll just write a better one:

To the tune of A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.

“A mighty foe is Donald Trump who with the help of Vlad Putin
“stole the election in 2016 from our god the Lizard Queen.
“Dost ask who would screw thee? Pete Butt-gig, it is he
“The LGBT choice, for a new decade’s joy, of herpes, AIDS and Venezuela!”

Don’t complain about it, Lefties, or you’ll weaponize religion.

Deitrich told Religion News Service he originally wrote the song’s bridge as “an angry middle finger to the listener” and found it “cathartic,” but he toned it down and plans on releasing more songs.

What Would Jesus Do? Not that, because He refused to complain even about Caesar, who called himself a literal God-Emperor.

“There’s so much work to do to combat white supremacy, homophobia, transphobia, sexism — all the ways in which people are treated as less than the children of God that they are,” he told RNS.

God’s children don’t demand the acceptance of perversion. Place your bet: does South Bend City Center display the Cross? I bet they’re that ashamed of Real Jesus.

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/indiana/haunted-hotels-in-indiana/

5. Holiday Inn City Center – South Bend

This hotel recently became the Magnuson Grand Hotel, and is unfortunately now closed. However, during its time as a hotel, rumors state that the building was haunted by the ghost of a former flight attendant. Why? Legend claims she was murdered by a pilot in the hotel. Her ghost could often be seen in hotel mirrors or sitting on the edge of guests’ beds. While you can’t spend the night in this creepy hotel, you could still take a look around the outside of the building.

Oops, that should have been South Bend City Church. Interesting random result, however.

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South Bend City Church began in 2016 when our lead pastor, Jason Miller, started sharing his vision: a new church in the heart of South Bend; a Jesus-centered community for believers and doubters, where we can ask difficult questions and wrestle with the tensions of ancient faith in a modern world; a community that values simplicity and spiritual practices in our life together; and a church that’s deeply connected to the city we love.

Christianity is not an ancient faith. It is a RELIGION, an extremely relevant one.

In the fall of 2016, we began meeting on Wednesday nights to worship, pray, and study the book of Acts. We kept asking one question: what is a church? And each week, the answer we kept hearing from Acts was that the church is nothing more, and nothing less, than the expansion of Jesus’ work in the world.

A church is a group of believers in God. No wooden boxes or fancy bathrobes or mission statements required. Jesus’ work is rescuing people from a fallen world; He was not at all interested in making the world a better place, as many of His followers expected Him to do. Before and after His time, Israel was an insolent backwater underneath the Roman Empire’s boot heel. Jesus’ worldly success: zero.

In our first year, we gathered at an event venue, a downtown hotel, and a convention hall. We threw a donut party on the streets of South Bend to raise awareness and funds for the cause of chronic homelessness in our city.

That’s nice but that’s not Christianity. Not unless the purpose was street preaching or sheltering believers specifically.

We experimented with different ways of worshiping, learned about historic practices of faith, explored the theme of doubt within Scripture, and listened to our neighbors as we dreamed together. We set up and tore down chairs and sound equipment more times than we’d like to count. And in June 2017, we finally found a long-term home in a building with a legacy in the South Bend community and beyond: a once-abandoned Studebaker car factory.

That explains my confusion over “city center”. *Checks Google Earth* No Crosses on the building but it’s a big, shared, renovated, historical building so maybe they weren’t allowed. To confirm:

Their main worship room does not display the Cross, either, and their logo of a triangle with a slash is also not a Cross. No Jesus fish or other Christian symbol, either. Not even a bookshelf of loaner Bibles. Nothing to represent Christ.

It must have made those “doubters” uncomfortable.

‘Hymn for the 81%’: A conversation with Daniel Deitrich

What do you think is the purpose of worship music?

There’s this great line from a prayer in the old Church of God hymnal that says, “We thank you for music, and for everything that elevates our spirits above the smoggy confusions of our time and gives us hope.” I love that. I’m stuck in the smoggy confusion a lot. Worship music should give us hope — hope that the way of Jesus can bring healing and peace to a hurting world here and now.

Jesus personally said He wouldn’t do that. Matthew 10:34 “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.”

Also, Luke 24:36 “While [the disciples] were still talking about [eyewitness reports to the Resurrection], Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

The peace that Christ offers is for believers exclusively. It is not for the doubters, the poor, the homeless or God help us, brazen homosexual politicians and the music directors currying their favor.

 

The Verge did an excellent expose on what happens when women run a company.

EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE

https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/5/20995453/away-luggage-ceo-steph-korey-toxic-work-environment-travel-inclusion

5 December 2019

Avery felt out of place at Away. Like many of the executives at the popular direct-to-consumer luggage brand, she’d gone to an Ivy League college, worked at a popular startup, and honed an intense work ethic that set her apart from the pack. But the higher-ups, who were almost all white and straight, still never gave her the time of day. “It was very clear who was in the clique,” she says.

Don’t worry, this isn’t an cis-white shaming article. The expose-writers tried to protect the Narrative while plumbing the depths of the Narrative’s consequences but all they could manage was that opening paragraph.

How, one wonders, did Avery know her higher-ups were all straight? “Hey boss, let’s fuck!” “I have a boyfriend.” “You freak!”

Originally, Avery had joined because of the brand’s popularity — the hard-shell suitcases were everywhere: in overheads, luggage carousels, subway ads — but she also wanted to believe in the mission. Away promised a lifestyle of inclusion and nice vacations.

Women see work as a source of money and status.

It was also founded by two women (one a person of color) who sought to run a globally minded business. “In my mind, it’s a trivial product but the brand is more than just luggage,” Avery says. “It’s about travel.” As the months went by and she got a closer glimpse at the growth and image-obsessed culture, however, she started to feel like the mission was just a smokescreen to get employees to work harder and longer.

THAT is the education she needed. And guess what, it was free! Work sucks, ladies, and the smart ones among you grabbed husbands while young. Ye who didn’t should think about them playing with their kids while you make that daily commute through NYC traffic to pay off your student debt by working in a call center. My cousin is a dentist and will make fat bank off your teeth-grinding.

Like many fast-growing startups, Away’s workplace is organized around digital communication. It’s how employees talk, plan projects, and get feedback from co-workers and higher-ups. Away used the popular chat app Slack, which has the motto “where work happens.” But of course, being a startup, a lot of other chatter happened there, too.

Away was a total henhouse. Gossip gossip everywhere! Women thirsting for travel to exotic locations and easy virtue-signaling, which was much more important than actually doing the work of making luggage! It’s early in the article but none of these women sound like they worked the factory floor.

And reading between the lines, that was the source of Away’s problems. Too few actual workers who were motivated to do good work. You’ll read a lot about the trouble they had responding to customer complaints… take one guess what they were complaining about. “Your product is shoddy!” “But we’re diverse and inclusive! You’re speaking to a pink-haired lesbian right now!”

When a co-worker invited Avery to join a private Slack channel called #Hot-Topics filled with LGBTQ folks and people of color, she was relieved to find that she wasn’t the only one who felt uncomfortable with Away’s purported mission and company culture. “It was a lot of like, ‘This person did this not-woke thing,’ or ‘Those people did something insensitive,’” she recalls. In other words, it was a safe space where marginalized employees could vent.

The pecking order was defined by victimhood and Narrative identity groups.

It was also against company policy. Away embraced Slack in more ways than one — its co-founder, Jen Rubio, is engaged to its CEO Stewart Butterfield —

Womens’ OTHER use for the workplace: finding a quality husband. But instead of working as the secretary for a couple years, Jen accumulated $$$ of student debt and Wokeness in college for years then began a high-profile career in order to find a husband in order to quit it all.

Muy inefficient-o!

…but it took things further than most startups. Employees were not allowed to email each other, and direct messages were supposed to be used rarely (never about work, and only for small requests, like asking if someone wanted to eat lunch). Private channels were also to be created sparingly and mainly for work-specific reasons, so making channels to, say, commiserate about a tough workday was not encouraged.

The rules had been implemented in the name of transparency, but employees say they created a culture of intimidation and constant surveillance. Once, when a suitcase was sent out with a customer’s incomplete initials stenciled onto the luggage tag, CEO Steph Korey said the person in charge must have been “brain dead” and threatened to take over the project. “Slack bullying is a thing,” explains a former member of the creative team we’ll call Erica*. “In my experience there, it’s extensive and relentless. It wasn’t just co-workers pinning things on other people — it came from the execs.”

Micromanagement is a strong indicator of insecure management. Leadership is a real-deal skill and not one you’re likely to learn from somebody who became a professor because he was scared to live in the results-oriented private sector.

Korey was infamous for tearing into people on Slack. “You could hear her typing and you knew something bad was going to happen,” says a former customer experience associate we’ll call Caroline*. Yet while her feedback was almost always sent online, its effects were felt in the real world, often when employees burst into tears.

Sigh, the Internet age. Where slutphone-addicted wimminz, and more than a few men, think management and leadership can be done remotely.

So when the executive’s name unexpectedly popped into #Hot-Topics the morning of May 16th, 2018, employees knew something was wrong. She’d found out about the channel from Erin Grau, the head of people, who said language in the room had made at least one person uncomfortable. “I thought, Damn, she’s gonna see us talking about some stupid stuff, but whatever,” recalls a former marketing manager named Emily*. She hoped Korey would at least find the conversations funny.

A good idea. Laughing helps in a high-stress job but if your coworker stops laughing then it’s time to run, not walk.

That hope evaporated the next day when Korey began calling people into a room one by one. There, flanked by the company’s head of people and general counsel, she told six people they were being let go. “You’ve been discriminatory,” employees remember her saying. “The stuff you said was hateful, even racist. You no longer have a job at this company.” Emily, who is a person of color, was shocked. “That was jarring — three white people telling me I was racist,” she says.

HAHAHA! Take your own medicine, you trans-POC! “I chose to work here because they didn’t hire white people. Then some white people came along and said I was being racist!”

Korey disputes ever using the terms “racist” and “hate speech,” although multiple sources confirmed these were the words she used.

Burned! Honestly, K, the truth would have been fine. It was, y’know, the truth.

The situation bruised employee morale, according to leaked Slack logs and interviews The Verge conducted with 14 former workers. But it was consistent with a pattern of behavior from the company’s top leaders.

Employees were asked to work exceedingly long hours and limit their paid time off. Their projects were brutally criticized by executives on public Slack channels. They were reprimanded for not answering messages immediately — even late at night and on weekends.

The cutthroat culture allowed the company to grow at hyperspeed, developing a cult following with celebrities and millennials alike. But it also opened a yawning gap between how Away appears to its customers and what it’s like to actually work there. The result is a brand consumers love, a company culture people fear, and a cadre of former employees who feel burned out and coerced into silence.

Yeah, so, why did those women tolerate that? I know why I tolerated it during a McJob back in the day. I wanted to get promoted and overtime is nice, so I volunteered for all kinds of extra duty like that. Then I found out my female boss had sabotaged my promotion because I was the only person in the company that the client wanted to work with. (I was told that by the client.) We had a conversation about her attitude. She gave me a welfare application, I walked across the street to a better job and her company lost a client.

For all their high-level credentials, none of these female coloreds wanted to lead even themselves out of misery.

Korey and Rubio met in 2011 while working at the trendy direct-to-consumer eyewear company Warby Parker. There, Korey implemented the lessons she’d learned at Bloomingdale’s years before. “The things I learned there about retail markups, markdowns, wholesaling, licensing, and the department store supply chain all later became the very things we would avoid at Warby Parker,” she said in an interview in Fortune.

“I’m an expert in shopping!” It’s legit female work so I can’t complain, but I’m still waiting for any of these female executives to drop a line about the time they got their hands dirty on the assembly line. Barbie was too busy giving interviews to Fortune magazine!

Their aim was to sell “first-class luggage at a coach price” by cutting out the middleman and marketing directly to consumers. It was a model perfected by brands like Dollar Shave Club, Glossier, and Everlane: direct-to-consumer powerhouses that, through some alchemy of Facebook ads, freckled models, and bold sans serif fonts, had elevated themselves out of their business category to achieve tech company success.

Following this blueprint, Korey and Rubio positioned Away as a travel company, not a luggage brand. “We’re working to create the perfect version of everything people need to travel more seamlessly,” Rubio said in a 2018 interview. “Luggage is only the beginning.”

Women are good at copying men. Not so good at innovating. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery so I’m still not complaining but this is why women make poor officers.

To make their brand even more aspirational, Away partnered with models and it-girls like Karlie Kloss, Julia Restoin Roitfeld, and Rashida Jones to promote the bags on social media. This was Rubio’s wheelhouse: she’d managed social strategy at Warby Parker and knew how to make Away hyper-relevant.

Men get shamed for watching porn and then women do THIS?! Hypocrites!

Korey, for her part, didn’t have to work hard to project an aspirational lifestyle. The CEO grew up in Ohio in a 55,000-square-foot historic mansion with an indoor swimming pool and three dining rooms. She’d gone to boarding school, then landed in Bloomingdale’s executive development program while at Brown University.

But for all of her privilege, no one denied the executive’s fanatical work ethic. Where Rubio’s job seemed to involve glamorous travel and speaking events, and many employees say they never interacted with her, Korey was always in the office. She managed all of the company’s operations and was regularly online past 1AM.

Probably following Daddy’s example. For a third time, I’m not complaining, but she would surely have been much happier finding a husband that resembled Daddy instead of becoming a workaholic ‘male’ herself.

The CEO often vacillated between being funny and relatable to hyper-critical and even cruel. Employees say she swore during interviews, cackled at people’s jokes, and took new hires to lunch, telling stories about her own mistakes. Once, during an interview, a woman remarked that she was drawn to Away because she was a millennial and it was a millennial-friendly product. “I’m a millennial, too,” Korey said. Later, that same employee was told by her manager that Korey had referred to the team as a bunch of “millennial twats.”

This must be the “frenemy” concept I’ve heard about. I do not think it would be good for workplace morale.

Korey was adamant that clear feedback was critical to employees’ growth. She was blunt when she didn’t agree with someone and encouraged managers not to shy away from harsh criticism. Erica, who managed a small team, questioned whether this strategy actually worked. “It didn’t feel like I was helping my direct reports grow,” she says.

Care-based morality. Employees grow the company, not the other way around. Mission focus, people!

When the photo team took suitcases to a shoot in the Hamptons and brought them back banged up and covered in sand, an employee who’d started that week was blamed for the “unacceptable” error and called out publicly on Slack. (The bags had eventually made their way to customers, and executives were furious.) “It could’ve just been a co-worker pulling them aside and saying this isn’t cool,” Erica says. “It felt like they were publicly outing the situation so that everybody could follow along.”

Yeah, the execs should be furious about the worn bags being sent out because it’s not an honest mistake. Somebody was passive-aggressively sabotaging the company. But blaming a new hire doesn’t make sense.

This company spent a lot of effort on fashion and no effort on quality control, so ultimately the execs have nobody but themselves to blame.

Korey often framed her critiques in terms of Away’s core company values: thoughtful, customer-obsessed, iterative, empowered, accessible, in it together. Empowered employees didn’t schedule time off when things were busy, regardless of how much they’d been working. Customer-obsessed employees did whatever it took to make consumers happy, even if it came at the cost of their own well-being. The framework echoed the tough company culture at Amazon where employees are taught to forget old habits and embrace a new set of ideals.

The intensity prompted employees to form small groups, chatting in texts about the toxic company culture. “Everyone kind of found their tribe and stuck to them because you needed to have allies there if you were gonna stay there,” says Serena*, a marketing manager.

But even this seemed like it could get them in trouble. From the beginning, Korey and Rubio had banned direct messages on Slack for anything related to work. Ostensibly, this was supposed to make the culture more transparent. “Over the course of our careers, Jen and I observed situations where women and underrepresented groups were often excluded from key emails or meetings,” Korey said in a statement to The Verge. “Slack affords levels of inclusion and transparency email simply doesn’t. With email the original author gets to pick who is included in the conversation and whose voices won’t be heard. That’s not the company we want.”

This is a level of sadism rarely found outside of women and dot-Indians. The latter, come to think of it, being from an exceptionally status-conscious society. I’ve always wondered why degenerate managers would go so far that they can’t live their own lives because of the effort they put into hating and fearing others.

In practice, however, it did the opposite. Transparency seemed like it was just a pretense for Korey to micromanage and exert control. Marginalized employees felt silenced by the cutthroat environment and executives like Korey who used mistakes as an excuse to nitpick. “Steph has the drive and the personality of someone who could be very successful,” Erica says. “She embodies what we all aspire to be. But she does it in a way that’s absolutely not what I want to be.”

Ohmigawd, NAGGING! The quintessential behavior of women! No wonder social media is a nightmare of NAGGING!

Ironically, Korey described Rubio as her “work wife” when the pair had worked at Warby Parker. “What was so nice about the relationship is we could lean on each other to complain every once in a while, like if a project wasn’t going well,” she explained in a podcast interview.

That partially explains Avery’s frustration at discovering the company officers were heterosexual.

To Avery, this was just more hypocrisy at Away: the founders were allowed to complain to one another in private, but employees were expected to have almost every conversation in public.

Yep, status-driven behavior. The little people don’t deserve to be treated well!

In the summer of 2017, Lauren joined Away as a customer experience associate. She was one year out of college, thrilled at the prospect of working for a brand she’d seen all over Instagram.

At the time, the company had around 50 employees. “The energy was light and supportive,” she recalls. Her salary, which was around $40,000, wasn’t a lot to live on, but it also wasn’t out of the ordinary for someone just starting out in New York City.

Nobody lives in NYC on $40k unless it’s in a dumpster. One vote for “Sugar Daddy”. Not an option for low-ranking men, which helps explain why NYC is feminist central.

Lauren’s job was to answer customer calls and emails, getting the “queue” of customer inquiries down to zero. On a busy day, Lauren and her co-workers answered about 40 phone calls and responded to 100 emails each.

Her bachelor’s degree was in “Stupid”, if the best work she could find after graduating was a call center.

From the beginning, Korey and Rubio were masterful at getting these young employees hyped up about their jobs. “You are joining a movement,” they would say. “Everyone wants to be a part of this.” Lauren and the 12 other associates on customer experience felt lucky, even chosen. They worked long hours and bonded over crazy customer stories, intoxicated by the energy of the company.

…A few weeks later, Korey asked the customer experience managers to have their associates cancel future travel plans, at least until the holidays were over. Those who’d already booked tickets would be asked if they could work from home. “We were like ‘No, no we’re not gonna do that. That’s not moral,” Caroline says. But she knew she didn’t have a choice.

You DID have a choice, Caroline. Your slutphone has an off switch. Go on vacation. Play with your family. Dare to relax. I can only fault management so far.

Caroline was protective of how close her team had become. If one person was forced to stay, the rest were likely to follow suit. “They exploited the fact that we were close,” she says. “They knew we would take a bullet for each other and they just used it. Everyone was crushed. But they weren’t going to leave if their friends stayed.”

Ah, the herd instinct. Another explanation for the privacy invasion: they didn’t want to allow a second “herd” to form.

By January, the team was completely burnt out and the positivity was starting to wane. “I would leave at nine. I wouldn’t eat until midnight, then I’d get in bed and work until I fell asleep,” Caroline remembers. And yet, customer emails kept piling up.

To Korey, this was unacceptable. She began randomly calling the customer experience line to see whether someone picked up, often berating the managers and screaming, “What is this shit!” at her desk if her call went unanswered.

When managers don’t know how to solve a problem, the natural instinct is to look for problems that they can solve. Passing the buck is popular, too.

Korey says these “spot checks” are a typical part of any retail company. “This isn’t the only area we do this,” she adds. “In fact, we use secret shoppers at our retail stores, and we regularly place multiple combinations of e-commerce orders to ensure our fulfillment facilities are packing orders correctly.”

Management paranoia began extending to suppliers and retailers. An early indicator of “regime change”.

…When [Korey] noticed two managers still had time off on the calendar, she was livid. “If you all choose to utilize your empowerment to leave our customers hanging…you will have convinced me that this group does not embody Away’s core values,” she said. (Emphasis Korey’s.)

Full Commissar achieved.

Days after Korey’s 3AM tirade, she announced that she was hiring a buffer to put between herself and the team: a vice president of customer experience, Monte Williams. The associates were thrilled.

Williams looked people in the eye, spoke to them with respect, and had over a decade of experience leading teams at brands like Rent the Runway. Those who’d been planning to quit decided to stay to learn what they could from this new manager.

Finally, a man to the rescue! Look, Ma! People skills! But I fear poor Monte is doomed. Buffering Korey from the worker bees won’t stop Korey’s obsession with control.

Then, in mid-April, the team started to notice something strange. Customer emails were piling up during what was supposed to be a slow period. “We had 100 extra people in our inbox. We were like, what’s going on?” Caroline remembers.

It was a Groundhog Day scenario. The company was rolling out new customization options on the luggage, and the operations team was woefully understaffed. Bags weren’t going out on time and, once again, the customer experience associates couldn’t get a clear estimate on when they were expected to ship.

Too many photo shoots in the Hamptons. Too many overpriced supermodel shills. Not enough unsexy men on the factory floor.

This time, however, Korey couldn’t push the team to tackle their ever-growing inbox: Williams was standing in her way.

The customer experience executive wanted to prioritize his team’s mental well-being, but the inbox of customer emails was the highest it had ever been. The associates oscillated between feeling grateful that someone finally cared about them — Williams was the first person who’d ever really voiced appreciation for their work — and feeling worried he didn’t understand how behind they were getting. At its peak, the inbox of customer inquiries was 4,000 emails deep.

In May, Korey created a Slack channel titled #may-cx-issue to try to address this issue. If Williams wasn’t going to push his team, then she would have to step back in. She began grilling him on why managers — many of whom were working 16-hour days — weren’t answering more customer emails.

Once, a team member tried to explain that managers didn’t handle as many customer emails because they were charged with leading the team. But Korey didn’t buy it. “I’m just going to be honest here, your response to me reads like [the managers] don’t really do anything positive for the business anyway so it doesn’t matter if they’re here or not,” she said.

Williams tried to smooth things over, explaining that some team members were missing calls simply when they stepped away to use the bathroom. “We all always assumed people went to the bathroom,” she responded. “Let’s please stop talking about that as if it’s a surprising Friday update.” Of the interaction, Caroline says, “It was like watching him get stoned to death.”

On May 25th, the team saw a 5:30PM meeting on their calendars and knew the time had come: Williams was being fired. He’d lasted less than six months.

Another man learns the pain of working for a female boss.

For Caroline, that was the final straw. “I just lost my shit,” she says. “Everybody loved Monte. Everybody. I was just like, ‘This is the first time anybody has cared about the team, and you’re taking it away from us. You really don’t care at all.’”

Within a few months, she would give notice as well.

Thus began the exodus from Away: when the man was fired, the abused women chose to follow him into the sunset instead of loyalty to the herd. If Williams was a smart cookie, he saw this coming from the beginning and used the opportunity to identify and headhunt Away’s talent. No idea if he actually did that.

Korey wouldn’t comment on what people had said in the channel that she determined was racist. But employees say she pointed to two comments that called out “cis white men.” “It just became really obvious that this happened because someone white and powerful got offended,” says the customer experience manager, Lindsey.

Probably Korey’s father. Few trust-fund babies have POC parents and I can’t think of any reason superwealthy Korey would have ridden herself and her company to exhaustion, except to impress her father.

Every person interviewed for this story has since left the company. Some, like Serena, feel conflicted about the founders, two women she both admires and fears. “It’s so fucked up,” she says. “I still want their validation.” When asked what she learned from her time there, she pauses, reflecting on the tumultuous year.

Herd instinct combined with the need to signal virtue… but most of all, the need to fill a husband-shaped hole in her heart.

 

The Bride of Cain is back in the news, this time praying for Satan to have a miscarriage. (Stuff that male pastors never say.) Here’s the link…

Paula White Cain: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

[Paula Knight-White-Cain] made headlines in January of 2020 after a portion of a sermon she gave went viral. In the clip, which is embedded below, White calls for “all satanic pregnancies to miscarry right now. We declare that anything that’s been conceived in Satanic wombs, that it’ll miscarry, it will not be able to carry forth any plan of destruction, any plan of harm.”

Trump-bashers have been having a lot of fun with it and I admit to a chuckle, too. While following the story, however, I came across a new false priest that the Left is trying to establish as a Christian authority. Fresh meat!

Lessons Trump Supporters Are Teaching Their Children

https://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/lessons-trump-supporters-are-teaching-their-children-dg/

By John Pavlovich, 21 September 2019

A gentle reminder that SJWs Always Project. Both for that headline and… dayumn, this whole article is projection! Maybe I’ll just fix a sandwich while you read.

One thing you learn as you raise children is that they’re always watching, always listening, always learning—that you are always teaching them something: about what you value, about how to treat people, about how to be a human being.

I wonder if people supporting this President and this Administration realize what they’re teaching their children; what boosting his tweets and applauding his rally rants and celebrating his legislative assaults on vulnerable people is telling them.

Whether they realize it or not, they’re teaching them…

People don’t matter. Human beings are things, wielded in battles you manufacture in order to win. The actual flesh and blood lives on the other side of your stereotypes and slurs and caricatures have no intrinsic value.The moment you can dehumanize a person you’ve never met, is the moment you free yourself from any responsibility for the damage you do to them or applaud someone else doing.

Stay tuned for my next post which will include, in no particular order: female leadership, female baggage, female luggage and dehumanizing treatment like Trump never did.

Never apologize. When you are found to be wrong or speak in error—never admit it. No matter how far afield of facts you find yourself or how grievous the mistake or how divorced of reality your initial statements may have been, simply double down, gaslight people, and attack your critic’s credibility and integrity—but never admit the error and never, under any circumstance, apologize. That is failure.

This… is CNN.

Diversity is dangerous. The more differences around you, the more there is to fear. Threats always come from those who aren’t like you. If someone’s pigmentation or orientation or nation of origin don’t match your own, they’re probably someone you want to avoid or be wary of. Never seek-out difference. Exclusion and self-preservation are the best defenses against the evils in the world.

Peach, brother! To the Hindus, the Jews, the Muslims and the Chinese.

It’s all about you. Forget the advice of your teachers and pastors and story books, and discard all that nonsense about loving your neighbor as yourself or doing unto others and you’d have done to you. Other people’s experiences are unimportant. In this Universe you are the solitary sun around which every other body revolves. The more you allow other people to be seen and heard, the less you will be able to thrive. This is a zero-sum game and there is only one winner.

Atheism.

Compassion is a flaw. To feel empathy is to show weakness. Sitting with people long enough to see them and understand their story and to feel a bit of their pain will only slow you down. The more callous you can become, the less vulnerable you are. The greatest virtue in this life is to simply not give a damn about other people. A dead heart is much better than a bleeding one.

More atheism.

America is the world. Some people will tell you that all human beings on the planet have value, that humanity is one interdependent community sharing the same home, that a child five thousand miles away is as important as one down the street or the one in your nursery. Don’t buy it.The place where you live and the people who live there are better than everyone else.

Wow, he demanded that you should consider total strangers on distant continents as important as your own infant! Such incoherent rage against family and community! It must hurt that the “we’re a nation of totalitarian Socialist parasites immigrants” narrative is failing.

Women are less valuable than men. Consent is irrelevant. Autonomy is a myth. A woman’s body does not belong to her. She exists solely for the pleasure and purpose of men, and this is true of wives and partners and blind dates and people you pass on the street. Whatever you do to women, no matter how vile, you will never be made accountable for.

Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. You left out making babies. No, there is a God in heaven and cops on the street. Oops! No more cops, because they arrested too many black criminals. Non-taxpaying voters living five thousand miles away complained!

Cheat to win. The desired ends justifies any possible means, no matter how vile or despicable. Rig every system, fix every game, stack every deck—and justify it all because the victory is all that matters. Fair play and honesty and being a person of honor are all of little value. What really matters is the prize, so be sure and get it. Winning is worth both someone else’s pain and your soul.

Cheating to win is, almost by definition, what the atheists do. People who believe God exists, believe they’re unable to get away with cheating.

Whiteness is better. You’ll hear a lot about equality and you’ll even pretend it matters to you, but don’t believe it for a second. God may have made all people in his image, but Caucasians bear far more resemblance. Never mind that if Adam and Eve existed, they came from a place without a Cracker Barrel—just know that your pigmentation makes you superior to the “bad people” and “shithole countries.”

This is a lie. I don’t pretend that equality matters to me EVEN IN REAL LIFE. It’ll be the death of me but I just can’t fake it… and if you ever see Antifa soyboys trying to find their martial arts microdicks with both hands, you won’t be able to pretend equality, either. Here, have a clip. Just the first three minutes.

Ironically, those embarrassments to fitness do prove that the Master Race isn’t always.

Your convictions are for sale.

Laws don’t apply to you.

Religion is a prop.

When in doubt, lie.

A generation of children is learning these things from the people most entrusted to show them how to be human. They are forming the lenses they see the world through from birth. It will be almost impossible for them to discern reality.

The rest of us will have to do all we can to remind them that this simply isn’t good or right or decent, and help them transcend their parent’s prejudices and preferences—and to embrace interdependence and equality and compassion.

The world we become depends on it.

Children belong to their parents, to be raised as their parents wish, Youth Pastor John Pavlovich. To Eternal Hell with your “village raising child” abuse.

Aw man, I forgot my sandwich.

Speaking of his actual job title, this article gives a good introduction to this child of Lies.

How Raleigh’s John Pavlovitz Went from Fired Megachurch Pastor to Rising Star of the Religious Left

https://indyweek.com/news/raleigh-s-john-pavlovitz-went-fired-megachurch-pastor-rising-star-religious-left/

By Amanda Abrams, 22 November 2017

Little by little, John Pavlovitz is becoming a familiar name among progressives, particularly progressive Christians. And he has Donald Trump to thank for it.

Translation, the atheist Left is trying to break Christians away from Trump with all the subtlety and effectiveness of an Establishment Republican purchasing the black vote.

Pavlovitz, forty-eight, is a Wake Forest resident, minister at North Raleigh Community Church, and father of two young kids. He’s also the writer behind Stuff that Needs to be Said, a blog that calls out hypocrisy in plain language, with the president and his ardent followers within the religious right earning particular scorn.

Here’s the TL;DR on his Stuff that Needs to be Said: God didn’t write the Bible, which is full of mistakes anyway and morally irrelevant because we’re so damn smart now. Link but I won’t get into it:

htt ps://johnpavlovitz.com/2016/01/18/1o-things-this-christian-doesnt-believe-about-the-bible/

His style—compassion paired with a no-bullshit, emperor-wears-no-clothes attitude, all informed by an inclusive brand of Christianity—has endeared him to millions of readers. This year alone, twenty-three million people have viewed his blog, and he has over sixty thousand Twitter followers. His words have been featured in Slate, Cosmopolitan, and Quartz.

He’s not building his own brand, as a marketer would say. Controlled opposition at best, Judas Goat at worst.

But as his recently released book, A Bigger Table, explains, finding that voice was the result of a years-long process of soul searching. A former megachurch pastor, Pavlovitz didn’t fully arrive at his new, progressive mind-set until a few years ago.

“It was a gradual deconstruction of my faith,” he says. “You look at one isolated area of the Bible, for example, then realize, Well, if that doesn’t mean what I was taught it meant, what other areas of my spiritual journey was I taking for granted? So you start digging into it, and you find yourself exploring all areas of your belief system.”

Born in Syracuse to a middle-class Italian family, Pavlovitz grew up Catholic.

Huh. By his name, I would have guessed him Jewish.

By his own description, his was a mainstream suburban childhood, and he was raised with a sense of “in groups” and “out groups”—those who were blessed by the Almighty, and those who were not. People of color, gay people, poor people, addicts, atheists—”All were to be avoided or feared, or at least approached with great skepticism,” he remembers.

You know what’s missing in that list? Protestants. This isn’t Cat-bashing, this is noticing that all the groups John was “raised to hate” just happen to ALL have blue check marks. A Catholic schoolteacher is going to warn kids about those rival Bible-thumpers much more quickly than he would slander the poor or the brown people living in heavily-Catholic Latin and South Americas.

I call bullshit. He’s lying about his childhood Catholic experience.

Then he went to college, at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where he’d arrived with a scholarship to study graphic design.

The City, and College, of Literal Brotherly Love. Hmm.

“It’s difficult to comprehend how my head didn’t simply explode upon arrival,” he writes in A Bigger Table. With no idea of what to expect, he was suddenly exposed to a wide-ranging, colorful diversity beyond anything he could have imagined: artists, dancers, musicians, gay, straight—people he came to know and care about.

And it came as a total surprise, yes sir!

Then his brother came out as gay. Pavlovitz had grown up with a vague discomfort about gay people, yet his first reaction at hearing the news about his brother was relief. He finally understood why his sibling had been so depressed, and he was happy that his parents embraced his brother’s identity.

The likely reason his brother was depressed, statistically, was he’d been raped by a homosexual. Encouraging that perversion was the worst way Pavlovich could have helped his brother.

Those two events were pivotal, says Pavlovitz: they opened his mind about who was worthy of compassion and love.

Around the same time, he was finding his way back to Christianity, thanks to his impending marriage. Late in the game, he and his fiancée realized they wanted to have a church wedding, and the only institution that welcomed them was a small Methodist church in suburban Pennsylvania.

Why would no church want to marry them? *checks* It wasn’t a homosexual marriage so I dunno.

They liked its coziness, so the Pavlovitzes continued there as congregants after they were married. One day, a church leader asked if he would serve as the church’s youth pastor. The fit was perfect. He had found his calling.

It’s a colossal red flag for a pro-sodomy “Christian” who doesn’t believe that Biblical standards of morality are binding, to be in authority over children.

After a stint in seminary and more time at the Pennsylvania church, the couple moved to Charlotte, where Pavlovitz got a job as youth pastor at a megachurch, the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church; he spent nearly a decade there. To be an integral member of a church family, Pavlovitz found, was to be part of something greater than oneself, something warm and welcoming. The sense of belonging was powerful.

Again, a youth pastor.

But it was also, he learned, stifling. The pressure to conform, to agree with derisive comments about Democrats or the “gay agenda,” to prioritize boosting attendance over addressing genuine laspes in faith, was intense, he says.

Yah, dey be called Christians, mon. They ain’t down wit da kiddie diddle, all thinkin’ that dicks should go inna chicks.

Instead of being a balm for congregants’ dark nights of the soul, church felt like an event where participants presented highly edited versions of themselves. And that old sense of in-groups and out-groups was still there, an invisble line between a certain kind of Christian and everyone else.

Was everyone struggling with doubt? Pavlovitz didn’t know, but he sure was. Given his experiences in Philadelphia and in his own family, he’d accepted that gay people were his equals in dignity and worth. What else that the church was promoting was untrue—about Muslims, or women, or poor people?

Pavlovitz knew he was a heretic and fancied himself the Secret King, resenting every moment his beliefs were overshadowed by Christ’s.

It was a terrifying realization. At that point, Pavlovitz was a respected pastor, someone who was supposed to have all the answers.

“There’s a conspiracy of silence in churches,” he explains. The ministers are seen as being so certain of their beliefs that their congregation doesn’t feel comfortable coming to them with doubts.

That’s a black lie. People having doubts need someone who can reassure them, not push them over the edge into apostasy.

Meanwhile, clergymen (and they’re usually men)…

Duh. Christianity.

...aren’t able to confess the questions they themselves have. Were they really acting like Jesus would? That was the big question. Wasn’t the goal to love everyone, unreservedly?

But instead of speaking his doubts, Pavlovitz hid his misgivings and got a job at a Raleigh megachurch. (He asked that the INDY not give the church’s name.)

And then, one day in 2013, he was fired.

“You don’t fit here. You’ve never fit here,” the head pastor told him.

In fact, Pavlovitz says, he did fit—very well—when he ministered to young people and families looking for comfort and connection. But he couldn’t find a place for himself in the fabric of a church that, like many in the U.S., had become increasingly corporate. It was skilled at creating “really well-produced, age-specific Sunday experiences” and “great faith-based entertainment,” Pavlovitz says, but it never attempted to pull together people from all corners of humanity for the common purpose of glorifying God.

And that, Pavlovitz realized, was what his soul was yearning for.

Whoa, hoss. “One day, he was fired”? That doesn’t happen in a vacuum. From what I can piece together, Pavlovich started his blog while at the megachurch in order to vent his beliefs, was revealed to be an LGBT activist and quietly dismissed before a child molestation happened:

Being fired was a shock at first. But within twenty-four hours, he came to view it as a blessing, one that would allow him to finally speak his mind. He’d already begun the blog by then, but it had mostly been reserved for the church community. Now he began to write more freely.

In 2014, his writing project went viral. It started with a personal post in the form of a letter to his kids. “If I Have Gay Children” outlined the ways he would continue to love and support his son and daughter if they came out—that he would not keep their sexual orientation a secret and not quietly hope that they would eventually change. Almost overnight, millions of people read it.

Pastor Daddy planted the idea in his kids’ heads… publicly… that he’d love to see them embrace sexual perversion.

“One day you’re unemployed; the next day CNN calls,” Pavlovitz says. The shift was incredible. Suddenly he had an audience, and he was going to use it.

In 2016, another of his posts caught the internet’s eye. “To Brock Turner’s Father, from Another Father” addressed the dad of the Stanford University swimming star who’d been accused of rape; the father had asked the judge for leniency.

“Brock is not the victim here. His victim is the victim,” the post begins, then systematically knocks down the father’s excuses for his son’s actions.

Recap, Turner and Barbie got drunk at a frat party and left together. Two grad students noticed him having sex with unconscious her behind a dumpster. He was convicted on five counts of sexual assault but received a infamously light sentence from the judge, who then had to defend his job from a recall effort.

But the site’s greatest one-day readership occurred on November 9, 2016, the day after Trump’s election.

“That day, a lot of people were searching on Google, and they found me,” he says. It helped that pop singer Katy Perry shared his post, “This Is Why We Grieve Today,” on Twitter. The essay explained to a hypothetical clueless reader why Trump’s election felt so profoundly painful to many Americans. It resonated.

A lot of journalists pulled out their backup plans to discredit Trump, which apparently called for a Judas Goat to divide his support.

Many of the readers who found him that day have stayed. Pavlovitz says his readers come from all over the political and religious spectrum—and that’s apparent in the dozens or sometimes hundreds of comments on his posts.

“But I think we all have the same pull toward protecting humanity,” he says. “If you’re a person who believes in equality that transcends gender or faith traditions, you’ll find something that appeals to you.”

Pavlovitz has always featured Christianity-specific posts, like “Why You May Want to Try Church Again” or “With the Time You Have Left Here.” But most of his writings focus on current events: gun control, kneeling NFL players, sexual harassment and assault, and, in the last week, Roy Moore.

Unabashedly liberal, Pavlovitz has come a long way from his roots as an acquiescent megachurch pastor. One could imagine posts like “Rescuing Jesus from American Evangelicals” or “In Gun We Trust: God Bless the NRA” being written to some of his conservative former congregants.

Obviously not, if he’s still pushing the Sodomite agenda that got him fired in the first place.

But Trump’s election in particular has provided him with fuel; he’s covered immigration, white supremacy, and health care, and often directly addresses Trump supporters in posts like “If You Voted for Trump, You Owe My Children an Apology.” He is unremitting in his derision for voters who he believes must take responsibility for the chaos and violence that’s occurred since the election.

Pretty sure it’s Antifa, BLM, BAMN and the Clinton Machine who should be taking responsibility. To their credit, the first three often do.

Pavlovitz says his comfort with questioning established dogma makes him a rarity in mainstream Christianity and has turned him into something of a beacon for others with doubts—a surprisingly large group of people.

“People say to me, ‘I’ve been in the church my whole life, but you’re finally giving me permission to wrestle with things,’” he says. “Right now, there’s a voice of Christianity that seems loud because it has the White House behind it. But there’s a large population in America that thinks, This is nothing like the faith I entered into.”

Some simply know in their gut, he says, that a religion of in-groups and out-groups isn’t what Jesus was preaching.

Dude, Heaven or Hell. It doesn’t get more in-group than that.

“I believe he’s absolutely on to something,” says Molly Worthen, a UNC history professor who focuses on religion and ideology. “There are changes in the way younger evangelicals think about things like sexuality and gender roles. But they’re also exhausted by the aggressive confrontational style and old Moral Majority approach to politics.”

The Cult of Nice has not begun to be confrontational. Atheists are trying very hard to guess at why Christians support an obvious non-Christian like Trump. They’re so incapable of handling the truth that I’ll show it to them right now: for the first time in a long time, we have a political leader who doesn’t betray our trust and doesn’t hate our existence. It’s that simple.

Indeed, a number of polls have shown a decline in Christian beliefs among young Americans over the past decade.

Pavlovitz—now a youth minister at North Raleigh Community Church…

He really, really, likes working with kids. While praising homosexual behavior.

… a congregation that welcomes people who are questioning the Christianity they grew up with—is part of a movement of progressive Christians, people like North Carolina’s Reverend William Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, whose agendas have become more pointed as a result of Trump’s presidency. But the movement has been slow to coalesce in recent years, Pavlovitz acknowledges. He thinks it’s partly because liberal Christians view political power with disdain; after all, their Jesus was a homeless preacher, an underdog who was executed for butting up against an established government.

But Nancy Petty, pastor of Raleigh’s liberal Pullen Baptist Church, thinks progressives often struggle with how to articulate their faith, since much of the vocabulary of Christianity has been co-opted by the far right. But that hasn’t been the case with Pavlovitz, she says.

“One of the things with John is he’s articulating the message of progressives,” she says. “He’s found his own language.”

Pavlovitz isn’t a radical. The topics he emphasizes, like gay rights and women’s rights, were resolved by liberal Christians years ago.

Bullshit.

And unlike Barber and Wilson-Hartgrove, he doesn’t frequently talk about the tougher, more structural issues of poverty and racism that could require a radical reordering of society to remedy.

Yes, in fact, all Socialists would be less popular if people knew their true intentions. Tip: they are not trying to help you.

But that’s probably part of why Pavlovitz is so popular. His is a manageable liberalism, one that makes logical sense but isn’t too taxing. And yet, at a time when America seems to have taken a giant step backward in how it views minorities and other vulnerable populations, he might be exactly what the country—and the church—needs.

Pavlovich is a two-faced traitor against Christ, claiming the Name while destroying everything that Name ever taught.

 

A slightly dated story but one that perfectly illustrates how fatherlessness causes violence in society.

EXCLUSIVE: Mom of teen accused of killing Vietnam veteran makes plea for son to come forward

https://www.wxyz.com/news/region/detroit/exclusive-mom-of-teen-accused-of-killing-vietnam-veteran-makes-plea-for-son-to-come-forward

By Kimberly Craig, 12 April 2019

DETROIT (WXYZ) — “I don’t know if it was a self defense or what, but he had been seeing this young lady,” said Teneal Johnson whose teenage son is now accused of killing 70-year-old Jamie Mintz early Monday morning in Mintz’s home on Mansfield in Detroit.

Johnson’s son, 17-year-old David Williams, was dating Mintz’s 14-year-old granddaughter despite their parents and other relatives trying to keep them apart.

Ah, the old story of Romeo and Juliet. Now viewable in black and white:

Terrible photo, but it does establish that Juliet was white. Romeo was black:

On Thursday, Detroit police released photos of David Williams as they search for him and hope for the public’s help in locating him. It was late Sunday night or Monday morning when Mintz’s relatives say his granddaughter secretly let David into the house. Around 4:00 a.m. the teens turned on a light and it woke Mintz up out of his sleep.

Mintz found David Williams in his house and, according to relatives, he wanted David to remain there until he alerted police and they arrived.

At gunpoint, it must be noted. Romeo then murdered Mintz with his own gun.

David Williams was already on probation in a domestic violence case involving an alleged assault on his stepfather, and we’re told he feared going back to jail.

How’s that no-more-bail reform working for you liberals? *checks on NYC* wow, chucking rocks through peoples’ windows doesn’t count as violence. Yeah, we told you elected fuckers this kind of thing would happen, which means you’re accomplices.

On the bright side, Juliet didn’t fall in love with a Bucky Beta type who would expect her to stay at home, jobless and dependent upon a husband. Women are evolved to favor genetically superior mates!

Detroit Police say the teen struggled with Mintz, wrestling the gun away from him and shooting him.

Mintz, a Vietnam veteran, was killed and the teen fled the scene on foot.

Either Mintz was befuddled by granddaughter defending the intruder or he was ambushed. Frankly, the situation was at the point where he could lawfully have gunned down Romeo in cold blood. Home invasion plus statutory rape plus probation violation plus the old “I was afraid for my life” equals cops who’d rather finish that crossword puzzle than make an arrest.

Teneal Johnson says she saw her son Monday afternoon and he seemed fine. She said he gave no hints that hours earlier, he had a deadly encounter with his girlfriend’s grandfather.

Indicating sociopathy.

The father of Mintz’s 14-year-old granddaughter, Melcolm Appleton, tells 7 Action News that Mintz would be alive if the state social workers had not forced her to be temporarily removed from their home and placed with Mintz for two weeks.

Appleton says he tried to tell state workers that his daughter was making up lies about him and his wife because she was upset that they were trying to keep her from seeing David. Appleton says his daughter is now devastated over the devastating loss of her grandfather and she now regrets ever sneaking David into the house.

Smooth move, Ex-Lax! You Child Protection Service providers believed a 14yo’s words over her father’s and pretended that moving her down the street would prevent… what? Prevent a violent probationer from continuing his statutory rape, or prevent Daddy from restraining Juliet’s gender experiments?

Had you done what you did for money, CPS, it would have been child sex trafficking.

Teneal Johnson fears her son has done harm to himself because it’s been days since she’s heard from him.

“I’m on the news,” she said. “I probably look a mess, but I’ll do it for you. I’ll do it all for you. Just please come talk to me.”

“It’s okay, baby! I don’t care that you’ve gone sexually feral with a new habit of murdering father figures, I just want to know that you’re okay! Call me!”

What a misandric abomination.

Fathers love their children by rearing them and when needed, disciplining them. Single mothers don’t, as we just saw. Romeo would not have been able to assault his stepfather if he’d still been with bio-dad (assuming he knows who bio-dad is… his precocious behavior suggests no), or if stepfather hadn’t cared about Romeo’s poor behavior. Juliet would not have been able to play alley-cat if her father’s right to restrain her self-destructive behavior had been confirmed instead of denied. And her grandfather should have taken the exact same steps as Daddy. With apologies for disrespecting the dead, he should have seen this exact situation coming.

Because fatherhood was absent at every level, Romeo grew up to be a murdering rapist before his 18th birthday and Juliet was “freed” to ruin her family. Stepdad is pressing charges against his stepson, Grandpa is dead, his gun now circulating on the black market, and Mr. Appleton has legit motivation to never again cooperate with the criminal justice system.

The only winner is Child Protection Services for sacrificing two more father figures to Social Justice.

 

There’s a landmark civil case building in New Jersey: can a transsexual employee be punished for tone-policing the customers?

Amanda Breaud: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

By Erin Laviola, 24 January 2020

Amanda Breaud is the former Applebee’s supervisor who is suing the restaurant chain on accusations of discrimination and retaliation. Breaud says that she was fired after asking a customer, who witnesses said had been making Islamophobic remarks at the bar, to leave the restaurant. The incident happened on May 13, 2019.

Breaud alleges in the lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court of New Jersey in January 2020, that the franchise location where the incident took place was a “hostile work environment where racism and bigotry were commonplace.” She claims that although other customers had reported feeling upset by the man’s comments, Breaud was still “berated” later by the store manager, who told her she had “no authority to tell customers at the bar to refrain from ‘discussing religion.’”

That’s the discrimination and retaliation bit. Breaud “discriminated and retaliated” against the customer, then was fired for chasing off a paying customer.

Applebee’s, meanwhile, insists that Breaud was fired for failing to show up for a scheduled shift. The franchise owner claims that Breaud’s termination was not connected to the confrontation at the bar.

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https://oklahoman.com/article/5653219/former-applebees-employee-says-she-was-fired-for-booting-customer-who-made-anti-muslim-comments-files-lawsuit

[Breaud] told the chain’s area director that she “could no longer work” at the Middletown restaurant because of the hostile atmosphere there and asked to be transferred back to the Tinton Falls location, where she previously worked before being temporarily moved to Middletown, according to the suit.

That explains a lot.

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The other defendants named in the lawsuit include the Applebee’s franchisee, the general manager, a senior manager, and the bartender who was involved in the May 2019 incident.

This tells you her lawsuit isn’t about her getting fired. It’s revenge, pure and simple. Looks like Breaud’s brain is still wired for female.

Here’s what you need to know.

You need to know that she is a transsexual and therefore sexually perverted, if not full-blown headsick. If that is her best attempt at a smile then it’s no wonder her coworkers hated her.

1. Lawsuit: An Applebee’s Patron Was Describing Muslims As ‘Disgusting;’ Other Customers Complained to Amanda Breaud & Asked Her to Intervene

Ahh, the tide be turning.

Amanda Breaud explained in her lawsuit that on May 13, 2019, a customer sitting at the bar was attracting negative attention because of his comments. He was referred to in the filing as “Alex.”

“Alex” was reportedly heard saying that “Muslim people are disgusting,” that “most of them are terrorists,” and “if it were up to me, none of those motherf*ckers would be allowed in this country.” According to the Asbury Park Press, a news story about refugees was playing on television at the bar at the time.

She could probably have defused the situation simply by changing the channel on the TV.

Breaud said that another customer had complained to her about the man’s remarks, arguing that “such language and racist comments should not be tolerated” in a family restaurant. According to the lawsuit, the woman threatened to call the police on “Alex” if something was not done to make him stop. The woman added that the bartender was participating in the conversation and vocally agreeing with “Alex’s” statements.

It’s probable that a customer did complain about Alex because Breaud has a receipt with a thank-you scribbled on it. There’s no evidence presented for the existence of the other customers besides Breaud’s “the world agreed with me and declared me a hero” lawsuit allegations.

Breaud said that on her way over to confront “Alex,” families at two other tables “directly complained to Plaintiff about the offensive conversation and pleaded with her to do something to end it.”

Breaud says she quietly asked the man to leave.

Taking her actions at face value, that’s still not the way to handle this kind of situation. Why not simply state that other patrons have been complaining? If he persists in annoying other customers, THAT’s when you throw him out. Not for his beliefs; for being bad for your business.

The lawsuit alleges that “Alex became irate and yelled” but ultimately left the restaurant. Other customers praised Breaud for stepping in.

One customer left a note on a receipt that read, “To the Manager – Thank you for standing up to hate + Rascism. Thank you for your service.” The receipt was included in the lawsuit.

Breaud further explained in a letter to Applebee’s that an additional witness applauded and thanked her after “Alex” left and said, “I was just about to leave. I couldn’t listen to it anymore.”

Such tolerance in diversity! How fortunate Applebee’s is, to have Woke customers who are so accepting of other peoples’ ideas!

2. Amanda Breaud Says the General Manager Criticized Her Decision & That She Should Have Asked the Offended Customers to Move away From the Bar

Amanda Breaud says that she received hostile treatment from the rest of the Applebee’s team after asking “Alex” to leave the bar. She alleges in the civil lawsuit that the bartender continuously complained about her in front of customers and that Breaud’s actions “were costing her money in the form of lost tips from regular customers such as Alex.”

This wasn’t an isolated incident? For that matter, why was Breaud intruding on the bartender’s work area? Why didn’t she take the bartender aside for a work?

Breaud says that later that night, she received a phone call from the general manager of the restaurant. She says the manager “berated her” for asking the man to leave. According to the complaint, Breaud says the manager informed her that what she should have done instead was ask the other customers, who had complained that “Alex” was offensive, to move further away from him.

The manager’s solution is also legit. The other customers were at the same bar, watching the same network media? Modern politics is like that, ya diworse beaches. You don’t get the echo chamber that the Big Three enjoyed unchallenged for decades. We are here and we ain’t queer!

The manager allegedly told Breaud that she did not have the right to tell a customer that he could not talk about religion at Applebee’s. In the lawsuit, Breaud’s attorneys argued that this “was an obvious attempt to minimize and downplay Alex’s blatantly racist and openly discriminatory conduct and behavior.”

It was racist and discriminatory to be told NOT to tell customers to shut up about unapproved beliefs? And by the way, Islam-bashing isn’t a race issue, it’s a religion issue. Funny how the Elites don’t like the other R-word these days.

Breaud filed a report with Applebee’s Human Resources department that same day, describing what had happened and the reprimand she had received later that night from the manager. She claims that the company did not respond to her complaint and failed to investigate.

Appeal to amenable authority… FAILED? Interesting.

3. Breaud Says She Experienced Retaliation & Was Fired One Week After the Incident

Amanda Breaud alleges in her lawsuit that she faced severe retaliation from her coworkers following the incident with “Alex.” She says that she suffered from insomnia and anxiety attacks “due to the Defendants’ failure to protect her from retaliation or to maintain a safe, non-discriminatory work environment.”

Breaud requested a transfer. Before going to work at the Middletown location, she had worked at a franchise in Tinton Falls and requested that she be allowed to go back there. But her request was denied. Instead, a new schedule was submitted that would have required her to work three days a week at the Middletown restaurant.

According to the lawsuit, Breaud refused this arrangement. She says she was discussing other possible solutions with Applebee’s Area Director, Sam Halim, when she was suddenly fired from the franchise on May 20.

I’ve never understood suing over wrongful termination. “My boss hates my guts! My coworkers were toxic! Give me back my job with them!” They do it for settlement money, sure, but you can’t really put a cash value on work that you were going to do if life had happened differently. How many tips were you going to make four months from now? At which store location? Now subtract your estimated worker’s comp….

Breaud says her manager accused her of failing to show up for a scheduled shift. Breaud’s attorneys described this claim as a “false and retaliatory accusation.” She says that she had asked another coworker to cover the shift because she had to deal with a family issue.

Notifying the boss of that kind of thing prevents this kind of thing. She trusted the coworkers who hated her to go out of their way to accommodate her family issue? I just heard everybody reading this post roll their eyeballs at “she had to take time off for family issues”, plus several pillow-muffled screams of frustration from active-duty servicemen. And that’s just for cis-normative women.

In a letter to Applebee’s following her firing, Breaud explained again what had happened that day and about the general manager telling her she should have asked the other patrons to move.

She wrote in part, “The ‘coaching’ was alarming to me. Asking guests who are offended (rightfully so) by derogatory remarks, to get up and move; does not WOW them. Imagine if the guests had pulled out their cell phones and recorded me telling them if they were ‘so offended’ they could move. That is not the message I want to send my guests. I want them to feel safe and leave WOWed.”

Wow. But the tale of her emotional stability is only beginning!

4. Amanda Breaud Says Bigotry Was ‘Commonplace’ at the Middletown Restaurant & That It’s Not In Her Character to Allow Derogatory Remarks

Who’s discriminating now, bitch?

Amanda Breaud explained in the lawsuit that the incident on May 13, 2019, was part of a pattern of behavior at that Applebee’s location. She alleges that the senior manager, Troy Montanez, created a hostile environment and that bigoted and racist comments were “commonplace.” …

Breaud explained to NJ Advance Media that in regards to “Alex’s” alleged inflammatory remarks about Muslims, staying silent would not have been in her nature. “I didn’t want anybody to think that is something our company stands for, or I’ll ever allow.”

She further explained to the Asbury Park Press that the issue is personal for her. “I’m a gay woman and I’ve been at the bar before or out in public and had people say things about me. A lot of my life I wish that someone would have stood up for me. Now that I’m able to stand up for myself, I want to stand up for other people.”

I don’t think waitressing is a good fit for her. Maybe there’s a social-justice-for-bath-houses think tank with an unpaid internship she could lateral to. Or maybe, a nice hospital with flowers and butterflies and locks on the doors and nice men in white lab coats.

Her attorneys explained in a statement on their website, “As alleged in the complaint, the actions taken by Ms. Breaud should be celebrated, not punished. The retaliation experienced by our client has no place in a civilized society and Applebee’s must be held to account for its failure to oppose racism in its restaurants and for violating our client’s rights.”

Oops! The mask slipped!

Breaud and her attorneys are asking Applebee’s to reinstate her and provide her with back pay and benefits.

Yeah, see, I just don’t get that. If “Jersey Troy” Montanez didn’t like you before your lawsuit, Breaud, then he sure as hell ain’t gonna kiss your strap-on after it. Just get another job! It’s not as if Breaud is a white male Christian, prohibited by state & Federal law from being “over-represented” in the workplace.

The lawsuit also lists demands including compensatory and punitive damages, a request for the defendants to undergo anti-retaliation and anti-harassment training, and for the company to identify an “an appropriate professional” to investigate any future claims of harassment or discrimination.

Convergence is well along its way to being publicly acknowledged as the anti-moral monstrosity that it is… thanks in no small part to this kind of “I demand with the power of the State that you accept my beliefs as your own” litigation.

 

They should call themselves the BBD, British Broadcasters in Denial.

Why promoted women are more likely to divorce

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200121-why-promoted-women-are-more-likely-to-divorce

By Maddy Savage, 22 January 2020

Having a successful and enjoyable career alongside a fulfilling romantic relationship is a life goal for many of us. But even in the most gender-equal countries, finding a partnership that lasts is trickier for high-flying women than men.

Problem: gender equality isn’t working. Solution: more gender equality. Because brute force is male privilege.

In Sweden, which ranks first in the EU’s gender equality index thanks to factors like generous parental leave, subsidised daycare and flexible working arrangements, economists recently studied how promotions to top jobs affected the probability of divorce for each gender. The result: women were much more likely to pay a higher personal price for their career success.

Headline: “Women are more pampered than ever in human history. Women hardest hit!”

“Promotion to a top job in politics increases the divorce rate of women but not for men, and women who become CEOs divorce faster than men who become CEOs,” summarises Johanna Rickne, a professor at Stockholm University and co-author of the research, which was published earlier this month in American Economic Journal.

The paper, which looked at the lives of heterosexual men and women working for private companies with 100 or more employees, found that married women were twice as likely to be divorced three years after their promotion to CEO level compared to their male counterparts. In the public sector, using three decades’ worth of records, women mayors and parliamentarians promoted after an election doubled their chances of splitting from their partners; 75% were still married eight years after the vote compared with 85% of those who didn’t get promoted, while there was no evidence of a similar effect for men. Female medical doctors, police officers and priests who progressed in their careers also followed the trend.

Those are all jobs in which women wield authority over men. Hmm.

The authors noted that while the majority of participants in the study had children, most had left home by the time their parents divorced, so the marriage stressors in the run-up to these separations were not connected to more generalised pressures of having small children.

Could it be… maybe… that women don’t feel love for the men they rule over?

You just know they’ll find a way to blame men for this. Never mind that they’re now the frigging CEO.

Rickne argues that although Sweden has provided the legislation and societal structures to create “the expectation that you shouldn’t need to choose between family and career”, the research reveals that what happens to families when women progress up the career ladder is often a different story.

Many couples experience “stress and friction” when there are changes in the division of their economic and social roles, for example due to the impact on the amount of leisure time they can spend together or how they divide up household tasks. But this, the research team argues, is often amplified when it is the woman who is promoted, because it creates more of a mismatch of expectations.

Just get a maid, Prime Minister Barbie! Why are you STILL arguing over household chores?

While Rickne’s research did not measure which party initiated divorce in each case, one theory is that the husbands of top managers who got promoted found the situation harder to deal with than wives who were married to high-performing men. She points out that the marriage market has not kept up with the labour market when it comes to gender equality, since it is “still seen as quite unusual for men to be the main supportive spouse in someone else’s career”.

Yep, it’s still the husband’s fault that “the unnamed party” blew up the marriage.

“I think this norm changing is pretty far off,” she adds. Her team’s research, she argues, might therefore act as a lesson about what lies ahead for other countries that are moving towards more egalitarian economies.

That’s the problem with marriage, isn’t it? If both parties are equal then nobody’s in charge. You can’t have a marriage without one spouse being the boss of the other… and per Rickne’s research, if the woman is boss then the marriage probably won’t last anyway.

That leaves only the solution that’s worked for thousands of years: getting rid of men entirely???

The benefits of divorce

Divorce isn’t always a bad thing. Molly Malm, a lawyer for Swedish law firm Lexly, points out that Sweden’s overall high divorce rate compared to the rest of the EU is linked to its gender equality goals. The high level of female participation in the workforce and a norm of shared custody of children following a split makes it easier for divorcees of all economic backgrounds to leave partnerships that aren’t working.

“Getting a divorce doesn’t always need to be the end of the world,” says Malm, who points out that is has become normalised in Scandinavia to get married multiple times or have several long-term partners across a lifetime. “Sweden is not very religious… You get married because it’s romantic and joyful, it goes hand in hand with a big celebration. If it doesn’t work out, you know that you can file for divorce.”

…One constructive consequence of high divorce rates, [Rickne] argues, is that it has become much easier for both men and women in Sweden to hold senior roles in business and politics without a partner.

“In other places… if you are on the campaign trail and you want to appeal to voters, you almost have to have a spouse by your side. The same thing might happen for CEOs – that their spouse becomes a necessary asset in their world of work, but in Sweden that’s not really the case,” says Rickne.

No more need to marry a creep and let him touch your body! You can go straight into the halls of power with no need to deceive the stubbornly traditional!

Scarily, that actually IS progress.

“Society has accepted divorce more, and it might be a positive thing,” she argues. “If women get into unequal relationships with a spouse that will not support their career, divorce lets them continue their careers alone and possibly look for a new partner… It’s not necessarily ideal to stay with the same person your whole life.”

“Dear John, I don’t need you anymore. You’re divorced. Signed, the woman who lied to you at the wedding altar. Don’t be selfish, now… let me have the kids.”

Couples who were closer in age and took a more egalitarian approach to childcare were less likely to divorce following a wife’s promotion. The paper calls for more research to explore the conditions that might encourage “women at the top of the ability distribution to expand their choice set of partners to ‘marry down’ and for men to do the opposite”.

Partial success already; there’s lots of men who are eager to wife up a higher-status, breadwinning woman. We call them male feminists and one should worry less about their divorce rate than their sexual perversion rate.

Positive examples

Charlotte Sundåker, 38, was promoted to interim CEO of a global education company in Stockholm two years after having her first child with her long-term partner Christian Hagman, who is 31. She believes his younger age played a positive role in their relationship surviving “lots of friction” after she got the job; there was “less pressure for him to be more successful” since he was in a different phase of his career.

“Global education company.” Fascinating how many of these feral women get employed to advance globalism.

Sundåker describes him as being “of another generation that tries to challenge the old ways of being a man”, which made him more supportive of her tough workload. But both partners argue that the core reason they remained together was frequent and honest conversations about the challenges they were facing.

“When she actually started, she was obviously consumed by it. That is the nature of being a CEO,” says Hagman. “I was a bit sad about not connecting with her on a daily basis from a relationship standpoint… But she saw me and she listened to me, and I did the same.”

Snip snip, eunuch.

The couple says that having a long-term perspective was also essential, with an understanding that Hagman would want to have his own more career-focused period in the future. He has since started his own design consultancy, while Sundåker now runs her own business and heads up Ownershift, a Swedish think tank designed to empower more women to do the same.

Even her disposable emotional tampon of a husband “life partner” at least makes his living by making stuff. Barbie’s career is teaching children and female empowerment. Maybe one day, she’ll be empowered enough to break the stereotype of women being unable to code.

I can’t confirm that this is the correct Hagman but the age is right and Linkedin says he’s a product design guy… consistent with this article’s description of him.

Charlotte was easier to find. Manjaw, prematurely baggy eyelids, flat chest, all standard feminist. At least this one hasn’t cut her hair yet. Interesting that her eyelids are different types; not just a case of guardedness. She’s hooded (defensive) about her personal life while social (upper eyelid showing) but possibly deceptive (flat lower eyelid) about her professional life.

Divorced CEO Charlotte Ljung believes that increased awareness of the common challenges faced by couples after women are promoted into more senior jobs could also improve the chances of relationship survival, even for those who start off in more gender-traditional roles.

Barbie, if you actually raised your awareness of dominant female divorce rate issues then you’d realize that those gender-traditional marriages are the successful marriages. Those wives raise their own kids and gossip over the back fence, while you raise other womens’ kids and gossip about status in male-taxpayer-funded, Socialist-government-operated think tanks.

The only difference between traditional wifely behavior and Current Year wifely behavior is rebellion against male authority.

 

Despite my recent post predicting that the gun rights rally on Monday in Richmond, VA would be a second Charlottesville, the event proceeded entirely without violence. One thing about pessimism is you can be happy when you’re were wrong.

Of course, that leaves the question of where I went wrong. A review discovered three factors I hadn’t taken into account.

1. The Cops Marched, Too

Charlottesville would have been much different had Dwayne Dixon pointed his rifle at a uniformed deputy than Mr. Fields.

2. Antifa Hasn’t Forgiven “Blackface” Northam

This came out of nowhere for me.

Even Virginia’s Antifa Groups Oppose Northam and Democrats’ Gun Control Push

Even Virginia’s Antifa Groups Oppose Northam and Democrats’ Gun Control Push

By Sigiloso, 28 December 2019

Virginia Democrats and Governor Ralph Northam may have opened an even bigger can of worms than they intended with their rhetoric about enforcing proposed new gun control laws they pass. Over 90% of the state’s counties have signaled their #resistance by declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries, most of which vowing not to enforce any new limits on gun rights enacted when Democrats take control of the legislature in January.

Recently, these flyers have been popping up around the Old Dominion . . .

TROLL 15/10!!! They blew the fuse on this one! What a perfect way to sow dissent among the Left!

Apparently one was tacked up in an area where an Antifa group noticed it. They posted this on their Facebook page:

Winning!

One of their allies in the Tidewater area also shared, appealing to the authority of none other than Karl Marx in their view that the people shall not be disarmed.

With Antifa lining up against Governor Northam and Virginia’s anti-gun Democrats over gun control, the law-abiding members of the VCDL and the Second Amendment sanctuary movement are the least of their problems.

Richmond was safe because Richmond got epic-level trolled!

3. Intentionally Or Not, the Pro-Gun Face Was Not White Male

NARRATIVE FAIL: Minorities, LGBT Community, Women Show Up In Force At Pro-Gun Rally

https://www.dailywire.com/news/narrative-fail-minorities-lgbt-community-women-show-up-in-force-at-pro-gun-rally

Isn’t she adorable?

The media tried to claim that the event was going to be attended by angry white conservative men and that violence was likely to break out, neither of which materialized.

Members of the LGBT community, Democrats, and gay rights supporters attended the event, declaring that “Gun Rights Are Gay Rights.”

Other videos on social media showed black Americans expressing anger at the media for lying about the event and for hoping that bad things would have happened at the rally so they could push an agenda.

They were ready for Angry White Men but not Angry Black Men. Guess what, Governor Blackface, the real Negroes are marching off your plantation and IN YOUR FACE!

Even NBC News was forced to admit that the rally was peaceful and that law-abiding gun owners acted lawfully and peacefully in a piece titled: “At tense Virginia rally, demonstrators reject extremists, defend law-abiding gun owners.”

NBC News’ report comes after a leftist NBC News reporter [Ben Collins] falsely smeared gun owners ahead of the event by attempting to frame the narrative by claiming that the event was a “white nationalist rally.”

The reporter was later forced to delete his tweet after facing widespread backlash on Twitter.

Ohmigawd, the Left declared a war and nobody showed up!

Note to self: next time, check if Antifa actually wants to be violent… what did I just write?!?

God, it feels good to be wrong. Feels… funny!

 

He penned an article reflecting on his misspent life. I draw different conclusions based upon the self-evaluation… the influence of Cultural Christianity.

8 Personal Defects That Allowed Me To Worship Fornication For 18 Years

8 Personal Defects That Allowed Me To Worship Fornication For 18 Years

20 January 2020

Last year I released a new edition of The Best Of Roosh: Volume 1, a compilation of 87 articles I published between 2006 and 2013, during the stretch of time I was most committed to a lifestyle of fornication. While re-editing these articles in 2019, I noticed eight blindspots, flaws, and rationalizations that allowed me to perform behaviors that were causing me great self-harm. Here they are…

1. I was frustrated and full of angst

I’m struck by how angry I was, not only at women but also at “beta males” for valuing women beyond the sexual. Where did this anger come from? Why was I was so mean during the time I was extracting the most from the world (in terms of sex and novelty)?

They deserve to be hated for their endless, society-destroying pandering that God names Original Sin. Better to visit a whore than give your daughter a STEM education!

But Roosh doesn’t talk like that was HIS motivation:

First, I was projecting anger outwardly as a way to relieve the guilt and meaningless of casual sex. I was participating in exceedingly shallow behavior that had no moral justification, so my attacks against others were a way to relieve my own condemnation. The more shallow my actions, the more I had to step up my attacks against those around me.

Second, I simply wasn’t receiving joy from my efforts, regardless of the quantity or quality of women I was sleeping with. My ego was being rewarded, and I was also earning money from the sex guides I was writing, which allowed me to continue funding my worldwide fornication efforts, but none of it was leading to contentment. It was not even leading to short-term contentment because I was adapting to casual sex as time went on. The first time you try coffee, you feel a noticeable energy boost, but if you drink coffee daily, you long ago stopped feeling the kick, and instead drink it to avoid a negative (fatigue). I was engaging in casual sex simply to avoid a negative, of feeling like a “loser” or experiencing pleasure withdrawal, instead of gaining a positive.

A standard description of addictive behavior, with the twist that Roosh was able to monetize it into a self-supporting behavior. I wonder, however, why he connects his anger at other men to the globo-pimp lifestyle. Perhaps the picture will clear as we continue reading.

2. I wanted more than my fair share

When someone is born, God ensures that they receive as much food, shelter, and material comfort as necessary for their salvation, as long as they follow His rules.

No. That was the Old Testament. It is not Christ’s deal.

I didn’t know about His rules nor did I care to find out. Instead, I wanted to throw away the generous plate of food set before me at the dinner table for the plates of other men. I wanted their notch counts and caliber of women, their travel experiences, their fame, and their passive internet income, and then when I got all of that, I thought I would be able to see myself as a superior man, when in actuality my “gains” were losses. When I did make it in the material sense, I saw myself as some kind of lion, the king of the jungle, when I was just one of numerous hyena chewing on a leftover corpse.

I was also extractive. I wanted to remove value from the world at the same time I attacked others for being extractive themselves. I would try to use a woman’s body for sex and then whine like a baby if she used me for a $10 cocktail. I would erupt in anger if a woman dared to have a 30-minute conversation with me when she didn’t have any intention of giving sex. I now sit at the dinner table and bless the food that is intended for me. I do not look at what is on the plates of other men.

These two paragraphs were what got me thinking. Why is Roosh beating himself up? Of course a Godless man wants what he wants, without regard to quaint notions of arbitrary morality. It’s not something to regret, really; an honest atheist is much better than a hypocritical believer. It’s something to grow out of as we learn better.

Now that he’s Christian and regarding that life as immoral, good, that’s progress. But there’s also a false guilt of having “taken too much”. Greed isn’t an absolute vice. I’ve met righteous billionaires and parasite hobos, and a couple guys who go from rags to riches and back again repeatedly. And let’s not forget, his every single conquest had been a willing participant.

Fornicating with one woman isn’t categorically more or less greedy than fornicating with a thousand. Christ teaches that sin is of the heart, not of the action.

3. I made a false idol out of the vagina

The vagina was my god. I uprooted myself from my family, traveled around the world, and shaped my inner being to access as much of it as I could, all to feel its pleasure and validation. I am embarrassed to admit how many thousands of hours I wasted pursuing the female flesh, with barely any consideration of the human attached to it. One only needs to look at a listing of the books I unpublished to see how heavily I worshipped the vagina.

I sense the pattern of his new ideology in the boldfaced passage and cannot see it as a purely Christian perspective. There is nothing wrong with a man leaving family behind to accomplish what he wishes in life. Does Roosh see his fornicating past as bad because it was immoral, unhealthy conduct, or because he wasn’t being loyal to his roots?

Ironically, I thought I was a master of the vagina. Through my game, I believed that I was a modern hypnotist, a keymaster of the flesh. Instead, I was its slave. I toiled ceaselessly for a few minutes of genital rubbing, and since that was hardly commensurate to the effort I was expending, I became a fornication guru to sweeten the deal. All that wasted time, lost forever.

Not wasted time if it led him to God. It’s a poor, sheltered, untested man who lives with no regrets. God values our character, not our accomplishments. What does Roosh wish he had spent his time on instead?

I would receive a lot of comments during this time that said I was a “pussy beggar” or “desperate.” While many of these comments were uttered in ill will, there was some truth to them. I didn’t beg with my hand out, but I begged through my dedication of time and mental energy.

Not the same thing. I dedicate my time and energy to all sorts of things, some profitable and some intentionally not. It’s okay to have obsessions and strange interests. It’s part of healthy manhood, frankly, to enjoy something odd without giving a damn for the approval of others.

4. I thought fornication was “evolutionary”

No matter how immoral your behavior is, you still need to find a justification so you can look at the mirror and see yourself as a “good” person. Therefore, you must lie to yourself. I rationalized that my grotesque behavior was actually evolutionary because I intended to spread my seed far and wide and impregnate countless women. There was only one problem with that justification: I wasn’t impregnating any women.

Nothing to learn here. We are in agreement that the main purpose of evolution is to excuse immorality.

5. I thought fornication was the end-all-be-all of male existence

Whatever you lacked in boyhood or early adolescence will become your idol later in life. If you grew up poor, you go on to cherish money. If you were a late bloomer like me who received practically no sexual attention as a teenager, you go on to cherish sex. In my case, I thought there could be no higher achievement or experience than sex, and that it was an even greater good than love. Once I clearly felt the downsides from my pursuit of sex, and it took my entire adult life for that to happen, the spell was lifted and I came to see sex with a woman I didn’t care for as a step below masturbation because of the drama it inevitably caused.

So that’s what Roosh wishes he had spent his time on instead, healthy masculinity. But he didn’t know at the time what healthy masculinity was… and frankly, masculine abstinence would not have been rewarding.

It turns out that pursuing sex so vigorously was actually the source of my problems instead of the solution. My anger, frustration, malaise, and existential dread bloomed from my sexual activities. Those problems are now almost entirely gone. It tends to be the case that the behavior we think will solve our problems actually creates more problems.

If this was true then why not correct it at the time? Why not sit down and think “this isn’t fun anymore. What else do I want to do”?

Perhaps I’m searching too hard. Some people are natural-born followers who don’t handle independent living well. Nothing wrong with that except, as we see here, a man has got to be the leader of his own life. No substitute authorities.

Living for family instead of hedonism is not a guaranteed escape from idolatry. Rather the opposite, consider the abuse of “for the children!” thinking.

6. I thought I was right

I was so sure of my conclusions. There was little doubt that fornication was the correct path, and anyone who disagreed with me was either jealous, sleeping with ugly girls, or deeply misguided. People who said that my behavior was immoral or sinful wished that they could sleep with European babes like me. The men who were stuck in their boring hometowns were not strong enough to uproot themselves, travel the world, and learn foreign languages like me.

Of course he believed in what he was doing. Same as now. That’s normal.

What isn’t normal, or at least not healthy, is wishing for stasis. An absence of troubles. Roosh was a globetrotter who regretted not staying “rooted” but many’s the man who lived in his boring hometown hating himself for lacking the courage to risk.

Roosh’s self-detected defects are beginning to sound like “I deviated from my elders’ prescribed life path”. Which is not Christianity.

How could I have been so certain of behaviors that I now see as wrong? Because I ignored the teachings of holy men before me, I ignored my conscience, and I believed the lies and deceptions that entered my mind.

Per his self-reported history, and I cannot claim to be an authority here, the doubts came when he came to terms with the death of a close friend. Again, a typical moment of reckoning. It’s always one thing to be a materialist when you’re at the top of the world in good health and another to face the Grim Reaper in a failing shell of mere flesh.

I have trouble with such reckoning. I follow Christ because I believe He is correct, not because He gives my life meaning. Christianity has brought me little meaning, family or comfort and neither did I ever expect it to. Instead, I take the view that life’s purpose is to become who I want to be for eternity, now that I’m freed from existential worries and behavioral quotas. Over the years, I’ve had to make peace with the fact that this attitude qualifies me as a freak.

That may be why I have trouble with men coming to God for emotional reasons rather than rational reasons. On one hand, they’re no less a believer than I am. Nobody gains Heaven because they’re smart. On the other hand, they come to God expecting to gain something from Him–recall Roosh’s words about God giving everybody their fair share–and methinks that will be a recipe for disappointment in the coming years.

I think it is also part of how Churchians can tolerate crimes against God, from ignorance of Scripture to tolerating open Sodomy. None of those crimes endanger what the Churchian hopes to gain from his practice of religion… friends and childcare, often as not.

The fact that I was so wrong, when I was certain I was right, has made it impossible to trust myself today. If the behavior I’m about to embark on does not glorify God, either directly or indirectly, or is not clearly His will, there’s a chance it’s part of Satan’s plan to corrupt me and those around me.

Roosh, not trusting yourself is how you ended up where you did. You still refuse to take charge of your own life. Back then, it took the shape of youthful temptations; today, it’s taking the shape of a sheltered life of guaranteed returns.

The MGTOW life is an intentional life. What do you want? Do it. Who do you want to be? Become it. The atheist Roosh should not let the quest for pussy make him miserable and the Christian Roosh should not entrust his salvation to a third party.

Not that Roosh ever claimed to follow the MGTOW path. It is curious how different we are. Roosh doesn’t trust his own judgment despite having lived by it for 18 years whereas I hold the beliefs I do in open defiance of every priest I’ve ever met and nearly every priest I’ve ever heard of.

7. I thought that things in the physical world could make me happy

I believed that I could be a happier person from accumulating material. More sex, more money, more fame, and more status would elevate my base level of happiness, but that didn’t happen. Because my lifestyle was the disease, the opposite occurred. More bangs meant more feelings of meaninglessness. More money meant more anxiety from losing it, or anxiety from not using it in a way that increased my stature. More fame and status meant more fear of losing my level of popularity, attention, or worldly respect.

If worldly success isn’t fun then you’re doing it wrong. Ecclesiastes 2:9-11 “Then I became great and increased more than all who preceded me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also stood by me. All that my eyes desired I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor and this was my reward for all my labor. Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun.”

There is a pattern here of Roosh regretting not only his past sin, but the general life he lived. There’s no theological cause for the latter which suggests an ulterior motive. Here, I have the answer presupplied in his joining Orthodoxy, the ethno-nationalist branch of Christianity.

I think Roosh’s actual self-evaluation is that he found himself emotionally isolated and returned to the religion of his homeland. That’s okay as far as it goes, but me being emotionally isolated despite loyalty to God, I know that “coming home to Christ” in expectation of mortal benefit is the foxhole religion of Current Year.

It happens a lot in Protestant circles, Prots switching to the “true Christianity” of RCC or Orthodoxy about the time they get married with kids. I have trouble believing it’s an honest epiphany rather than Benedict Option life-boating.

Well, they haven’t abandoned God. But one wonders what will happen when it’s time to cut and run again.

I can’t stress how every attempt to solve a life problem had the opposite intended effect, and from all that materialistic chasing, the only two things that have made life worth living in the present is the love of my family and my relationship with God. Anything else I’ve pursued was an empty distraction.

It is good that you’ve come this far, Roosh, but you will need to pick one. Ours is a jealous God.

Partial confirmation of Cultural Christianity:

8. I listened to African-American music to help me get in the sex mood

In my older writing, I used a lot of slang that is more commonly used in urban America. I had listened to hip hop music and came to believe in the message that sex and money were the most logical goals for a man to pursue. In fact, to get me pumped up for a night of pursuing fornication, I would listen to hip hop songs…

I sling a little ghetto myself when the mood is right and know enough Valley Girl to have been hanged in the Old World for opposing the King’s English had they understood a word of it. Behold Eighties Daddy Issues!

Her real name is, indeed, Moon Unit Zappa. It was actually a pre-Internet trolling of California culture but I digress.

Culture does not lead to righteousness, else yours truly, a child of Los Totally Not Angeles would not be a Christian. It can make righteousness easier, certainly, but it’s just as true that living in the darkness makes the light shine brighter. Commiefornia has already reached the point at which people might pass out upon hearing the Word of God.

I know Roosh is a real Christian because he’s repentant. He burned the trash he once peddled and cleaned up his social media. That’s solid. But whatever he eventually moves on to, I hope it is something he wants and not something a human authority told him to want.

Human authorities are not to be blindly trusted.

 

To them, the Constitution is nothing but an obsolete roadblock to Progress, to be done away with By Any Means Necessary. Old News, but their admitting it publicly is New News.

Pack the Union: A Proposal to Admit New States for the Purpose of Amending the Constitution to Ensure Equal Representation

Pack the Union: A Proposal to Admit New States for the Purpose of Amending the Constitution to Ensure Equal Representation

10 January 2020

For most of the twenty-first century, the world’s oldest surviving democracy has been led by a chief executive who received fewer votes than his opponent in an election for the position. The first of these executives started a war based on false pretenses that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. The second — a serial abuser of women who hired as his campaign manager a lobbyist for violent dictatorships — authorized an immigration policy that forcibly separated migrant children from their families and indefinitely detained them in facilities described as “concentration camps.”

A promising start… torpedoing any possibility of credulous idiots to believe this is a legit work of jurisprudence. I especially like how this partisan hack STILL can’t accuse Trump of doing bad himself despite having finally been impeached of… um… something something about Hunter Biden selling American influence to foreign nations. Although I shouldn’t underestimate credulous idiots. They cling to their guns but not their children.

Democracy, as they say, is messy.

USA is not a democracy and never was intended to be. USA’s enemies declared it to be a democracy and today, are horrified to discover that the Founders “screwed up”.

But even when democracy is messy, a society’s commitment to the endeavor rests on the belief that giving power to the people is appropriate and fair. Recent events have highlighted some of the ways in which federal elections in the United States are profoundly undemocratic and, thus, profoundly unfair.

False equation of democracy with fairness. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch.

The Electoral College — when it contravenes the popular vote — is an obvious example of this unfairness. But it is just one of the mathematically undemocratic features in the Constitution. Equal representation of states in the Senate, for example, gives citizens of low-population states undue influence in Congress. Conversely, American citizens residing in U.S. territories have no meaningful representation in Congress or the Electoral College.

The main reason for this article is explaining why the American federal government is set up the way it is. Lots of people don’t understand the concept of the Electoral College. The answer is simple and Christian: people are easily manipulated sheep. God knew it, America’s Founders knew it and even Tommy Lee Jones knew it in “Men In Black”:

Thus, the idea of parceling out voting by area and not headcount. It prevents mob psychology from being the deciding factor in elections.

If we truly hold to be self-evident that all are created equal…

That is not what the Declaration says. It says that all MEN are created equal… not that men are equal to women… and men are equal in the sense that we are peers of each other, meaning no royalty, not in the sense that a lazy moron’s vote should be counted equal to a hardworking taxpayer’s.

That, folks, is why Socialists love democracy. It’s easy to stay in power when you buy votes with tax revenue. In other words, when you feed the parasites the bread of producers.

One notices that the author didn’t go on to mention that human rights are derived from our Creator.

..then it is time to amend the Constitution to ensure that all votes are treated equally. Just as it was unfair to exclude women and minorities from the franchise, so too is it unfair to weight votes differently. The 600,000 residents of Wyoming and the 40,000,000 residents of California should not be represented by the same number of senators.

This isn’t about fixing the Constitution. This is about destroying the Constitution wholesale.

When it was written, the populous states wanted to leverage their population to control the Federal government. The less populous states, understandably, refused to agree to that. The solution was the two houses of Congress which cannot act independently.

Senators weren’t even supposed to be elected in the first place. They were appointed directly by the state government, as representatives of the state government. The House represented the people.

Harvard Law wants to destroy the Senate entirely so that Wyoming will be ruled by California with no representation in the government.

Nor should some citizens get to vote for President, while others do not. Any rationalization of the status quo must adopt the famous Orwellian farce: “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”

Equality is a lie that the Founders never taught. We are not equal, Harvard Lawyer. You, an enemy of the America system of government, are unfit to be allowed a vote. No wonder you want to extend voting privileges to convicted felons, when you are a pre-convicted felon yourself!

These observations are not new, and they were noted well before the Constitution was ratified. During the Constitutional Convention, delegates from small states refused to accept a system of representation by population. Likewise today, the faction that benefits from the unfair allocation of power has no interest in changing it. Article V of the Constitution requires supermajorities to amend the Constitution, so pragmatists [America-hating Socialists] have been reduced to advocating meager solutions: perhaps Congress could admit Washington, D.C., as a state; maybe Puerto Rico too, if we’re really feeling ambitious.

While a step in the right direction, these proposals are inadequate. To create a system where every vote counts equally, the Constitution must be amended. To do this, Congress should pass legislation reducing the size of Washington, D.C., to an area encompassing only a few core federal buildings and then admit the rest of the District’s 127 neighborhoods as states. These states — which could be added with a simple congressional majority — would add enough votes in Congress to ratify four amendments: (1) a transfer of the Senate’s power to a body that represents citizens equally; (2) an expansion of the House so that all citizens are represented in equal-sized districts; (3) a replacement of the Electoral College with a popular vote; and (4) a modification of the Constitution’s amendment process that would ensure future amendments are ratified by states representing most Americans.

This is blatant insurrection against our legitimate government.

It’s also a great idea. We should divide Wyoming into 40,000 states so that California becomes voiceless in the Senate! It’s what Harvard calls democracy!

Radical as this proposal may sound, it is no more radical than a nominally democratic system of government that gives citizens widely disproportionate voting power depending on where they live. The people should not tolerate a system that is manifestly unfair; they should instead fight fire with fire, and use the unfair provisions of the Constitution to create a better system.

I weep with frustration, that monsters such as this author can be bred in broad daylight with no fear of justice.

Gunning Bedford, a delegate from Delaware, warned that if representation were based on population, large states might “crush the small ones” in Congress. But as James Madison noted, that risk is minimal, because large states do not inherently have anything in common that would bring them together for such purposes. The only issue that would reliably divide small and large states is the very question of how to allocate power among them.

James Madison made that comment in the context of a Federal government limited to its original purpose of international relations and a couple infrastructure purposes, for example a common currency. His opinion is obviously no longer relevant.

Note that there’s no reason for such a limited government to represent every specific individual person in the nation.

Luther Martin, of Maryland, also argued that because the federal government was a confederation of equally “sovereign and free” states, each should be considered an equal contracting party. But again, this view is not especially compelling. As Pennsylvania delegate James Wilson wryly inquired: “Can we forget for whom we are forming a government? Is it for men, or for the imaginary beings called states?”

The Federal government was for the states, which were not imaginary beings. Anybody who thinks the state is imaginary will be surprised when he defies it.

States do not have interests independent of the people who live in them, so equal numbers of people ought to be entitled to an equal number of representatives.

THAT IS SUCH A LIE! Hello, Deep State!

Moreover, while it was at least plausible at the time to argue that the federal government was a creature of sovereign states, today the federal government is intimately involved with individual lives in a way that would have been unimaginable to those in the Founding era. If the federal government can levy personal income taxes, change the definition of marriage, and penalize the failure to purchase health insurance, shouldn’t the people whose lives depend on those decisions be entitled to equal representation?

No, the Federal government should be arrested and imprisoned for disobedience to the restrictions placed upon its power.

U.S. Territories. — The problem of unequal representation is especially severe for citizens of U.S. territories. Such citizens pay payroll taxes but, with few exceptions, are not eligible for Supplemental Security Income. Nor are the territories reimbursed for Medicaid at the same rate as states.

They also serve in the military at higher rates than the national average, and yet, per capita healthcare spending on veterans in the territories is much lower than the national average.

Here, he complains that US Territories aren’t sufficiently parasitic. This is a problem for him because democracy won’t help him if he doesn’t create as many parasites as possible.

4. The President. — The practical effects of an Electoral College that contravenes the will of the people are perhaps self-evident but still worth mentioning. Whereas in the early republic, the President had more modest duties, the modern presidency has transformed into the most powerful office in the world.

Presidents have the power to shape history for better or worse. It makes little sense to allow an antiquated, unfair system of representation — a system that does not work as intended.

The system IS working EXACTLY as intended, hence this author’s frustration with the system. The author even gives a helpful example:

For most of American history, it was relatively rare for a bill to pass the Senate without support from senators representing the majority of Americans. Most votes passed with around two-thirds of the Senate in favor, with those senators representing two-thirds of the population. While this extraordinary arrangement may not be permanent, with the Republican party relying on white, rural voters — typical residents in many of the smallest-population states — it is likely to repeat with increasing frequency.

This situation is happening because the Socialists have succeeded in turning major population centers in parasite mounds of paid voters. The Senate is preventing the strong from ruling over the weak… exactly the reason it was originally designed.

Considered in isolation, unequal methods of representation may not seem like a problem. The Senate alone has very little authority. It cannot pass legislation without the House, and it cannot confirm appointments unless the President has made one. A somewhat unfair element of government seems tolerable when it is just one part of a grand scheme. But as shown previously, the problem of unequal representation is embedded in each part of the government. Neither the House, the Senate, the presidency, nor the Supreme Court is accountable to the citizenry on a one-person, one-vote basis.

AS INTENDED BY THE FOUNDERS.

An appeal to the Framers’ vision glosses over the fact that most of these institutions are operating in a manner that the Framers never would have imagined. It also glosses over the reality that for all their political wisdom, the Framers — many of whom held human beings as slaves…

Says the guy whose concept of democracy depends upon voters financially dependent upon the State for survival.

…had views about voting rights that are fundamentally incompatible with modern democracy. Just because something is in the Constitution doesn’t mean it can’t, or shouldn’t, be reevaluated.

What Harvard Law wants is not what the Founders wanted America to be, nor is it the American tradition developed over two centuries… although to his credit, he did note the illegalities of the Civil War Reconstruction Amendments (as an example to be followed).

This paper’s author and the university that supports it are literal Enemies Of the State.

 

Virginia’s Cuckservatives have not learned the lessons of Charlottesville. Thus, they will be holding a PRE-PLANNED gun rights rally in a DEMOCRAT STRONGHOLD on Monday Jan. 20 to protest firearm restrictions… and in doing so, are poised to give the gun-banners every excuse they could possibly hope for.

Virginia: Important Statement about VCDL Capital Lobby Day, Jan 20th 2020

Virginia: Important Statement about VCDL Capital Lobby Day, Jan 20th 2020

Virginia – -(AmmoLand.com)- Monday, January 20, is Virginia Citizens Defense League’s Lobby Day. It is not VCDL’s Protest Day.

There is a distinct difference between the two.

No. They’re both useless wastes of time, resources and goodwill.

Lobby Day is about, well, lobbying – sending a message to the General Assembly and to the Governor, Attorney General, and the Lt. Governor. That message is simple: no more gun control that in any way, shape, or form negatively affects law-abiding gun owners. Bills that go after criminals or bills that are beneficial to gun owners are fine.

And Northam will enact gun control anyway. Methinks your “lobbying” is less about results than excuses. You “heroic, law-abiding Americans” won’t do anything to remove your evil governor. Not even a recall petition.

While there have been some verbal threats by the Democrat leadership to push major gun control down the throats of Virginia’s gun owners and some very bad bills already filed to back up that threat, NOTHING has happened yet and won’t until after January 8th 2020. And perhaps it won’t happen at all if we press hard enough.

You gun owners are gutless, lying cowards.

The second amendment sanctuary movement, with its absolutely massive turnouts of gun owners, is sending a deafening message to lawmakers ahead of Lobby Day. On top of that, we now believe the size of the crowd on Lobby Day could be absolutely incredible, possibly historic if gun owners from around the state follow through and attend as we believe they will. You will absolutely want to be a part of this!

Be a part of a giant mob that will be easily and inevitably infiltrated by Antifa types looking to murder Trump supporters while posing as Trump supporters? That the Governor is ALREADY changing the city’s laws to prepare for? AND that the FBI is priming for a Narrative Event? (more in a moment)

Fuck that noise. STAY AWAY!

Militias

Various militia groups from Virginia and nearby states have graciously volunteered to provide security. With a large Capitol, Richmond, and State police presence, not to mention enough citizens armed with handguns to take over a modern mid-sized country, we have the security base covered nicely. That said, we welcome our militia brothers and sisters to be part of making the day a success! Some militia groups are looking to take canned food donations during Lobby Day and deliver them to a Richmond Food Bank. Please contribute.

If you have the manpower to storm the capitol and take back your government then why haven’t you already? Do you think some peaceful chanting will show the Globalists the error of their ways? It won’t because it didn’t.

Long Guns

If you are asking how you can help with VCDL’s mission, carrying long guns at Lobby Day is not helpful – it is a distraction. Virginia Citizens Defense League’s important messages inevitably get lost as the press rushes to get pictures of anyone carrying an AR or AK. The stories then become about the rifle, not Virginia Citizens Defense League’s agenda. You can set your watch by it. Long guns are not easy to carry in a crowd, either. VCDL needs its voice heard loud and clear in order to able to stop the onslaught of gun-control bills.

Fools! You EVEN KNOW how the Left is going to frame you!

Virginia Citizens Defense League Lobby Day is a peaceful event about gun rights and NOTHING ELSE
We are NOT there to have arguments with the other side. They lobby, we lobby, and never the two shall meet. Just ignore them.

And we are not there to push any other agenda. Our total focus is on protecting our right to keep and bear arms. Period. This is not about flags, statues, history, etc. Just guns.

I cannot believe how naive these people are.

If you somehow find yourself being harassed by the other side, don’t engage them. They could well be baiting you and recording what you do for propaganda purposes. If necessary, go find a police officer and let them take care of the person causing the disturbance. Otherwise, just ignore them and go about your business.

Shut it down, Ammoland. Just shut it down. It can’t do any good and is giving the Enemy a prime stage from which to strike at you. To wit:

Illegal Alien from Canada Allegedly Planned Attack at Virginia Gun Rally

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2020/01/16/illegal-alien-from-canada-allegedly-planned-attack-at-virginia-gun-rally/

By Katherine Rodriguez, 14 January 2020

Three men who reportedly have ties to a neo-Nazi group and had allegedly discussed attacking a Virginia gun rally next week were arrested and charged with breaking federal gun and immigration laws on Thursday.

Did the FBI nab them in the nick of time, or was the FBI sitting on the perps for a politically convenient moment? You get one guess.

Of those arrested, one of the detained was Patrik Mathews, a former reservist in the Canadian Army who U.S. officials say entered the country illegally after Canada kicked him out of the service over his suspected ties to white supremacist groups, ABC News reported.

Canada being what it is these days, I’m surprised they even let Aryan McCracker join up:

The CBC reported that while in the force, Mathews worked as a combat engineer and had basic explosives training while serving with the Winnipeg-based 38 Canadian Brigade.

The other two arrested were American citizens — Brian Mark Lemley and William Garfield Bilbrough IV — but what the three of them had in common is that they all had suspected ties to the white supremacist group The Base, according to a federal criminal complaint filed in Maryland District Court.

Prosecutors say Mathews entered the U.S. illegally in August 2019 and was sheltered by Lemley and Bilbrough while they lived in Maryland until they moved to Delaware in November that same year.

Did you guess right?

So, Mathews probably didn’t enter USA for this specific event. He probably entered USA to look for work. Being a suspected “hater” in Canada is probably as bad as being a registered sex offender in America.

“Within The Base’s encrypted chat rooms, members have discussed, among other things, recruitment, creating a white ethno-state, committing acts of violence against minority communities, the organization’s military-style training camps, and ways to make improvised explosive devices,” the complaint stated.

The FBI arrested the three men under suspicion that they were planning to travel to the rally to begin “a possible race war,” the New York Times reported.

As. Reported. By. The. New. York. Times. Let’s see if that criminal complaint actually does state that they were planning a race war.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/three-alleged-members-violent-extremist-group-base-facing-federal-firearms-and-alien

Greenbelt, Maryland – A federal criminal complaint has been filed charging three alleged members of the racially motivated violent extremist group “The Base” with firearms and alien-related charges. The complaint charges Brian Mark Lemley, Jr., age 33, of Elkton, Maryland, and Newark, Delaware, and William Garfield Bilbrough IV, age 19, of Denton, Maryland, with transporting and harboring aliens and conspiring to do so. Lemley is also charged with transporting a machine gun and disposing of a firearm and ammunition to an alien unlawfully present in the United States. Further, the complaint charges Lemley and Canadian national Patrik Jordan Mathews, age 27, currently of Newark, Delaware, with transporting a firearm and ammunition with intent to commit a felony. The complaint also charges Mathews with being an alien in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The complaint was filed January 14, 2020, and was unsealed today upon their arrests by the FBI.

Nope, no charges for conspiracy of mass murder or anything such. Looks like the New York Times lied. I’m fine with prosecuting an illegal immigrant but notice it’s the FBI doing it today, not ICE. Why didn’t the FBI inform ICE? Why did the FBI burn their access to a white nationalist server just for a deportation when letting ICE have an anonymous tip would have preserved that intelligence asset?

Because the FBI is setting the stage for Monday’s protest in Virginia. They make a racially sensitive arrest of “evil white male gun owners”, the NYT applies the proper spin and then Northam used it to declare a state of emergency.

https://www.gq.com/story/virginia-state-of-emergency-militias

Virginia governor Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency on Wednesday afternoon [January 15], citing the potential for violence at an upcoming pro-gun rally at the state capitol. On Twitter, the governor wrote:

“We have received credible intelligence from our law enforcement agencies of threats of violence surrounding the demonstration planned for Monday, January 20. This includes extremist rhetoric similar to what has been seen before major incidents, such as Charlottesville in 2017. This intelligence suggests militia groups and hate groups, some from out of state, plan to come to the Capitol to disrupt our democratic process with acts of violence.”

That credible intelligence was the FBI arresting an illegal immigrant from Canada. Arrest on the 9th, martial law on the 15th, event on the 20th. They’re moving right along.

As part of the state of emergency, Northam also ordered a unified command of both local and state police as well as emergency services.

There it is. Northam has total control to manipulate events as he wishes.

Stay away, folks! Hindsight is gonna be 1/20/20.

 

 

And her little dog of a divorce attorney, too! We warned you wamminz of what would come after the collapse of lawful society. The next victim of a ‘Ho might skip the asking of permission.

Kansas man requests ‘trial by combat’ with swords to settle custody battle with ex-wife

http://www.kake.com/story/41562982/kansas-man-requests-trial-by-combat-with-swords-to-settle-custody-battle-with-ex-wife

By Associated Press, 14 January 2020

HARLAN, Iowa (AP) – A Kansas man has asked an Iowa judge to let him engage in a sword fight with his ex-wife and her attorney so that he can “rend their souls” from their bodies.

David Ostrom, 40, of Paola, Kansas, said in a Jan. 3 court filing that his former wife, Bridgette Ostrom, 38, of Harlan, Iowa, and her attorney, Matthew Hudson, had “destroyed (him) legally.” The Ostroms have been embroiled in disputes over custody and visitation issues and property tax payments.

The judge had the power to let the parties “resolve our disputes on the field of battle, legally,” David Ostrom said, adding in his filing that trial by combat “has never been explicitly banned or restricted as a right in these United States.”

What a beautiful idea! Women are at least as strong as men so Ex-Wife Barbie can’t object on grounds of infirmity.

He also asked the judge for 12 weeks’ time so he could secure Japanese samurai swords.

His motion filed in Shelby County District Court stemmed from his frustrations with his ex-wife’s attorney, Ostrom told The Des Moines Register.

“I think I’ve met Mr. Hudson’s absurdity with my own absurdity,” Ostrom said, adding that his former wife could choose Hudson to act as her champion.

Win-Win negotiation at its finest! And no, there’s nothing absurd about this. If a man cannot defend himself with money then justice demands he be allowed… alternatives. This article clearly implies that while Wifey is lawyered up, Hubby is representing himself.

Hudson argued in his legal response that because a duel could end in death, “such ramifications likely outweigh those of property tax and custody issues.” Hudson asked the judge to reject the request for trial by combat.

How like a male feminist to plead craven! Hudson will steal the sweat off an innocent man’s brow and his children out of his home, but only so long as he himself faces no consequences.

Judge Craig Dreismeier said in his own filing Monday that he won’t be issuing a decisions anytime soon, citing irregularities with both sides’ motions and responses.

Hmm… that wasn’t a rejection.

“Until the proper procedural steps to initiate a court proceeding are followed, this court will take no further action concerning any motion, objection or petition filed by either party at this time,” the judge said.