90 years later, Social Security still delivers for Montana - Tim Summers Guest columnist

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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The author is an apologist for the status quo, based on his vested interest in keeping his constituency happy. We don't begrudge him this, but we do take issue with the amorphous language and vague factoids he promulgates.

He does his best dance for us in order to present SS as a great thing, a wonderful success story, and popular beyond imagination. His word choice is carefully designed to make it seem like SS is saving seniors from certain death.

If one manages to survive until the end, the author's cheerleading veers into a little bit of truth, hidden in the fourth to last sentence, the "solvency gap." This successful and popular program has a problem, a problem that directly comes to bear on the topic the author has raised: "Social Security delivers for Montana." But he doesn't discuss this at all. 

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Rescuing Faith from Capitalism: A Theological Response to Project 2025 - by Mike Rivage-Seul

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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This tarot card-reading "theologian" wants to tell us what the authentic Christian faith is. Really. Amazingly, while proclaiming another Jesus, he is somehow able to simultaneously determine when someone is being heretical. His theology is identical to the Left's political agenda, and his presentation is brain dead bumper sticker Leftist slogans.

As is typical for Leftists, the author does not write to inform or explain, he writes to serve The Agenda, which is the overthrow of the system. It has nothing to do with any form of Christianity, because it is a political agenda, not a faith agenda.

Thus, as far as a "theological response," there isn't one.

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Letter to the editor: Dissent was once part of our DNA; now we see automatic consent - by Douglas Mawhinney

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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Apparently the letter writer doesn't understand that dissent is only permitted for the Left. Conservatives are shouted down, deplatformed, shadow banned, and boycotted. Here's the Left's position on dissent:

The letter writer bemoans the loss of the 60s protest culture, viewing the past through rose-colored glasses. Such a wonderful time it was. Just, moral, and noble they were. Opposing "the Man," uplifting the downtrodden, free love and free money for all.

Apparently the letter writer doesn't realize that all that supposed "distrust of big government" eventually led to those same people populating the halls of congress, school boards, and the judiciary. 

When the dissenters and protestor got power they became "the Man." They now are the oppressors, the silencers, the policers of conformity.  They are the persecutors, the intolerant ones, they are the ones who silence people who express their dissent. It is the intolerant Left that has wielded the power of government against their adversaries. 

The Left prosecutes grandmothers for silently praying outside of abortion clinics. 

The Left accuses parents of being terrorists for speaking up in school board meetings. 

The Left runs people out of their jobs for violating leftist orthodoxy. 

The Left accuses conservatives of being book banners for opposing pornography in schools.

The Left forces cake decorators to endorse speech they disagree with.

The Left tells you want you cannot say, think, and do. 

The Left, not Trump. 

Burning buildings and taking over entire city blocks is noble and desirable, but a mostly peaceful protest in Washington DC is treason and insurrection. 

Dismantling government power structures is Gestapo tactics, but forcing people to do things they don't want to do is not authoritarian. 

When Trump defunds entire government departments and cuts bloated bureaucracy, that makes him a fascist, but when leftist California governor Newsome bans gas powered vehicles and wants California to be totally net zero, that's a permissible exercise of government power.

When encountering dissent, Trump actually has a rejoinder and doesn't just roll over like previous Republican presidents. The Left doesn't like it when someone disagrees with them, and especially when Trump disagrees with them.

So Trump tells these publicly funded colleges that they are no longer allowed to discriminate on the basis of race. The letter writer wants these colleges to "dissent," i.e., continue favoring certain races over others in its admission and grading practices. This apparently is tyranny.

In actual fact, with Trump as president the leftist oppressors are being negated. The entrenched power structures are being overturned. They are losing their power to control your lives

Leftists stand for, embrace, and implement, oppession, persecution, hate, and division, all the while accusing their political opposition of doing the very thing they're actually doing. 

So the letter writer is completely unaware of his own irony. He really believes the leftist agitprop coming out of the mouths of the talking heads on TV. He thinks that he's being told the truth by the very people who want to take away his freedom, take his money, and force him into government programs and government facilities.

Such is the sad legacy of the 60s anti-war, anti-government, anti-tyrant movement. They are laughable caricatures of themselves. 

They became what they protested.

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Social Security can benefit future generations – if Congress acts Margie McDonald, Guest columnist

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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The author has nothing new to say. She repeats, almost verbatim, the inane talking points the Left has been using for decades. Here's one recent example.

Inevitably, the Social Security system is proclaimed solvent, followed by recommending crucial fixes. So it isn't solvent. Then, the solution always offered is to increase taxes, always on the rich. Reforms like clamping down on fraud or increasing efficiencies are always rejected.

So the author isn't really advocating for saving Social Security, her intent is to bolster leftist positions and attack and denigrate Republicans. 

She is all-in on The Agenda, and parrots The Narrative. The Agenda is the disassembly of The System, which is the American culture and way of life. The Narrative is the daily talking points disseminated by "Central Command," serving the implementation of The Agenda, and dutifully repeated by the media and talking heads.

Almost everything written here is false, misleading, or mistaken. But that doesn't matter, because accuracy or truth is not relevant. Only The Agenda is relevant.

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Why We Urgently Need a Progressive Policy Infrastructure - By Rob Kall

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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This author seems to believe that the 80-plus years of Leftist political domination didn't happen, that the wrecking ball of leftist policies is non-existent, and that the installation of Leftist politics at every level of government isn't actually there. The leftist control of the news media, Hollywood, public education, and corporations is near total, but not according to the author.

He thinks that the Left lacks the infrastructure to compete with the Right.

Astonishing.

The unstated truth is, the Left thought it had a lock on the power structure, but the walls of the Leftist citadel have been cracking. Conservative ideas have been seeping in, and there became more and more avenues to obtain a right-leaning perspective. Regular America has always been in varying degrees politically Right, despite American institutions tracking Leftward. 

Within the last 40 or so years prominent conservative voices began arising, like Rush Limbaugh, who articulated the things mainstream America knew in their bones to be true but never heard from the media voices. When leftist agitprop is all people see and hear, the conservative message is like a breath of fresh air.

The Leftist citadel had never been challenged before, so they didn't know what to do. But being authoritarians, dissent cannot be permitted. So rather than develop rhetorical skills or logical arguments, they simply turned to personal attacks, deplatforming, and censorship, strategies which continue to be utilized with impunity by the Left even today.

So the author wants a leftist infrastructure built to compete with the Right. He appears to have forgotten that the Left has made many abortive attempts to compete with the conservative media. Air America, Thom Hartmann, Mike Malloy, Randi Rhoads, Al Franken... None of them has gained any traction in terms of popular appeal. 

No one wants to listen to the Leftist message. 

True to form, Leftists attribute their failures to packaging, presentation, or any other reason besides the message itself. They don't understand (or refuse to admit) that their message, unless camouflaged in euphemisms and feel-good language, is just not popular. People don't like the Leftist worldview. Period.

We hope the author gets his wish, and we will witness the inevitable demise of this latest leftist enterprise, accompanied with the excuse-making as to why it failed that will inevitably follow.

It should be entertaining.

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Stop asking about a Biden “cover-up” - by Robert Reich

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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Astonishingly, Dr. Reich sticks hard and fast to The Narrative, even though what he previously denied was happening with Biden's cognition has now attained the status of common knowledge. 

But to him it's still "so-called" and "alleged." 

He's spinning with all his might, trying to avoid acknowledging that we had a president that was incompetent to lead the nation, and he particpated in the gaslighting. Dr. Reich wants to talk about anything else. Particularly if it gives him an excuse to blast Trump again.

Dr. Reich is a calculating liar. He's sold his soul to The Agenda, and likely doesn't have any idea how ridiculous he sounds. Someone needed to tell Biden to stop, and someone needs to tell Dr. Reich to stop. 

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This Executive Order Reveals the Trump-Musk Endgame - by Elie Mystal

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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Mr. Mystal is a flame-thrower. Nothing else. He's not informative, thoughtful, or explanatory. He's not even reasonable. He has his template, which is that everything is about race, his race. He's a regurgitator of leftist talking points and bumper sticker slogans.

We have previously commented on his writing here and here.

Here's the list of the name-calling from today's article, perpetrated by Mr. Mystal:

authoritarian

misogynists 

provable racists

Hatred of:

• gay people
• trans people
• Latino people
• Muslim people
• truth
• science
• journalism
• fact-based reality

criminal junta

running a kleptocracy

fascism

megalomaniacal populists

exceptional thieves

lazy

powers of a king

stealing entire elections

That is his primary technique, to overwhelm the reader with incessant accusations and pejorative labeling. But while wading through the name-calling and leftist talking points is certainly difficult, tracking with the "logic" is even more so. Because government is his god, any cut whatsoever is unacceptable. Thus he finds himself in the position of defending unaccountable, unelected bureaucrats even while acknowledging they are obstacles to a free society. 

Further, it's certainly odd that a president devoted to cutting government spending and eliminating entire government departments could be accused of authoritarianism and accumulating power. But such is the mind of a Leftist.

Lastly, the real thrust of Mr. Mystal's screed is that he resents the fact that Republicans are in power, which means the Democrats lack the ability to enrich themselves by manipulating government power. That is, he's accusing Republicans of doing the very things his side has done for decades.

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Letter to the editor: Montana delegation can still avoid being complicit to treason - by Bob Allen

Found here. Our comments in bold.
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This letter writer is all in a titter about Trump. We are convinced that rationality has departed from the Left, if it ever had it. Supposedly Trump has defied court rulings, when in fact he has obeyed every one, no matter how inane or unreasonable. 

But more to the point, what does the Constitution, so valued and honored by the letter writer, actually say about treason?

Article III, Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

Hmmm. No mention of defying judges.)

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Don’t count on the courts to save democracy - By Ryan D. Doerfler and Samuel Moyn

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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What an odd title. The courts have nothing to do with democracy. Their job is to rule on matters of law. Apparently the problem is the Left thinks that the courts can fix democracy, so the authors want to convince their fellow leftists of the folly of this thinking.

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Letter to the editor: Obama, Simpson gave us the road map for strategic debt reduction - by Michael Legge

Found here. 

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Here we have another leftist regurgitating something he read on some leftist website. As is typical for the Left, the author picks out factoids about particular examples of government spending and assigns their cost to the debt, which implicitly means he regards all other spending as funded. 

So if a war costs $3 trillion but SNAP costs $120 billion, Medicare $747 billion, and Medicaid/CHIP costs $609 billion, the cost of the war is deemed deficit spending but everything else is not. This of course is completely arbitrary based on the author's political orientation.

At the end, the author is actually in favor of debt reduction, which is surprising since the Left generally views deficit spending as desirable. Thus the author concedes major ground. All that is left is to decide what to cut.

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How Democrats Lost the Election - By Marcelo Brazzi

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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This is an agitprop-loaded screed that makes several false claims, repeats bumper-sticker leftist slogans, and basically just reinforces The Narrative in pursuit of The Agenda.

We slogged through a good portion of this, refuting each point as raised, until we could stand no more. And really, we're wasting our time anyway since the author or one of his comrades with come back tomorrow with exactly the same talking points as if today never happened.

Remember, the Democrats lost using these very same talking points. But because they have no original ideas or anything at all that requires introspection, well, they'll continue with their failed strategy.

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Trump and His Crypto Cronies Have Big Plans. Be Afraid - by Sam Gustin

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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The author lets loose with every Leftist talking point available to him, irrespective of truth or even reality. Of course this is the methodology of the Left, to simply overwhelm with repeated, rapid-fire factoids. 

We have deemed this The Narrative. The Narrative is the verbiage distributed to media outlets and Leftist apologists by Central Command, used to attack opponents and further The Agenda. The Agenda is the plan by which The System is disassembled and replaced.

So the author is simply doing his duty to promulgate the daily bumper sticker slogans and incendiary rhetoric required to keep to keep the average American propagandized and uninformed.

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A day that shall live in infamy, as should Donald J. Trump - by Robert Reich

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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The is a letter-perfect regurgitation of leftist revisionist history. Dr. Reich recites every false claim with robotic precision. We will simply note that any claim made here by Dr. Reich which has already been thoroughly documented as false will be affixed with a "Did not happen."

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“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor..." Faceborg meme

Another brainless meme found on Faceborg:

Transcript: 

“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.” ― Stephen Colbert

The Christian-hating Left needs to get better at meme-ing, because this statement is just insipid. And it makes it even worse when they think it's clever. 

The First Amendment Will Suffer Under Trump - by Nan Levinson

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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Oddly, the author will never tell us why the First Amendment will suffer under Trump. She mentions Trump's name eight times, but never tells us anything Trump has said or done that will imperil free speech. Nothing at all, except some vague fears people might have.

Very strange.

Strange also is the author fears what Trump and his supporters MIGHT do, while the Left is ALREADY imperiling free speech, and has been doing so for decades. For example, Ben Shapiro, Ann Coulter, and Charlie Kirk, who have been shut down, assaulted disinvited, or shouted into silence. And the poor cake baker in Colorado, who has been targeted multiple times. An abortion protestor was recently imprisoner for his free speech. Parents who are deemed terrorists for speaking up in a school board meeting. And of course, Trump himself being subject to a gag order regarding his prosecution in New York.

We could go on and on. Yet Trump is the problem?

Lastly, we are pretty sure the author doesn't understand what censorship is. It isn't protesting books in school libraries. It isn't Faceborg suppressing dissent about the vaxx. It isn't about what newspapers publish or don't publish. Censorship can only be accomplished by government.

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How to root out Trumpism What happened and what must be done - by Robert Reich

Found here. Our comments in bold.
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Dr. Reich is up to his usual shenanigans. He rails against big business and billionaires, but gets confused as to who advocates for what and who is the bad guy.

As usual, Dr. Reich is reinforcing The Narrative in service to The Agenda. But this time he argues himself into a corner, unable to articulate why Trump is bad for doing the same things Bernie Sanders was advocating for.

It's really a incoherent mess. This is worse than usual for Dr. Reich.

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Are You OK with Your Country Going Fascist? - By Lawrence Wittner

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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One gets the impression that the author is not being cynical, that he really believes this. Everything he writes is presented as common knowledge. But he doesn't tell us why or how. He makes dozens of accusations but never tells us where he finds his information. 

This article is nothing more than a litany of leftist talking points and bumper sticker slogans. He perfectly parrots this Narrative chapter and verse, without so much a blink of his blank, staring eyes. It's eerie regurgitation, facile to the point of robotic.

And he never defines fascism, nor does he offer a single example of something fascist.

We notice the author is a professor of history. That means this article, which in actual fact could have been written by a junior high student in study hall, is the product of higher learning and represents the current state of education. 

That is a truly scary thought.

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Trump’s Bonkers Economic Plan - by Robert Reich

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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"Bonkers." Dr. Reich is given to hyperbole when comes his political adversaries. Things are never just incorrect, mistaken, improper, or out of order. No, they are always bonkers, bizarre, incoherent, and crazy. 

Further, the complete ignorance on display in this article is breathtaking. Dr. Reich has no clue about the economy, business practice, or the problems government causes. Or more likely, he does understand but is devoted to telling The Narrative in service to The Agenda.

But worst of all, Dr. Reich denies reality. He warns about Trump and his policies and how damaging they will be. But it's like he doesn't know that we've already had Trump as president. We know what he did. We have experience and evidence. We can be assured none of the things Dr. Reich warns us will happen. Because they didn't happen. 

It's what leftists are required to do. They must believe every talking point, every assertion, and every factoid promulgated by Central Command, no matter how ridiculous, fake, or absurd. And they must do it often, everywhere, and with a straight face.

It must be difficult to live life as a leftist.

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The Enduring Influence of Marx’s Masterpiece - by Wendy Brown

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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This is nearly 4800 words, a diarrhea of Marxist jargon. 

Perhaps not apparent to a casual reader, the author is dealing with a book entitled "Capital," which appears in the text with a capital "C." It's also appears with a lower case "c" along with "capitalism," but neither word is clearly defined by the author.

But none of this matters. There is absolutely no information contained here. Nothing is explained. Ideas are absent. 

Thus there is a veneer of intelligence and scholarship in that the author uses big words and long sentences, but it's really only so much nonsense to the average reader. This may be what saves us from Marxism, its proponents are unable to articulate the tenets of their faith, and its salespeople are unwilling to honestly explain their advocacy of a system that has killed millions.

We only managed to get about 25% of the way through this pedantic, impenetrable spew of nonsense.

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My Generation’s Best Chance Is Socialism. You don’t need a $200,000 college degree to know when you’re getting screwed - by Sarah Leonard

Found here. Our comments in bold.

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As is typical for Socialists, the author understands neither Socialism or capitalism. She makes blanket pronouncements and grand generalizations about things she does not know about.

She is convinced that Socialism supplies her answers and capitalism causes her problems. She has no idea how or why for either and cannot explain. 

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