Cuba: The Cuban people are rising up and demanding reform. They see America as that “shinning city on hill” example of what they would like to be.
There are many reasons this has come together now. Here are a few: the loss of revenue from Venezuela; a collapsed economy; gargantuan foreign debt; a disastrous sugar harvest; uncontrolled inflation; a plague that is intensifying rather than abating; a collapsing health system; medication, food, water and electricity shortages; long lines and empty shelves at every store; and increased repression.
We should support them in every way possible as they strive for liberty and freedom in their own country just miles off our shores.
Culture Wars Are Real: The looney progressive left wing of the Democratic Party continue to push their elected officials farther and farther out of the mainstream. At some stage, the average American voter is going to realize, this isn’t your parent’s Democratic Party and start looking for an alternative to:
- Critical Race Theory “teaching” us we’re all racist, how does this help?
- Defund the Police while our cities burn, murder rates are up, crime rampant.
- Woke Culture attacking, silencing and scaring free speech, debate, and civil discord.
- Transgender issues blatantly discriminating against girls in sports and opportunities.
- Shameless Anti-Israeli sentiment with no regard for a peaceful solution.
- Selling out to China and Russia, as the Washington Elite profit from cozy relationships.
- Marxism, Communism and Socialism are good, while freedom & liberty are bad.
Read the piece below from my friend, former Congressman Thaddeus McCotter, who lays out the challenge and summarizes when he writes: “The founding elite risked their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to rebel against a tyrannical government to expand human liberty. The current elite has protected its wealth, power, and privilege by abetting a tyrannical government to curtail human liberty.”
Democrat’s Defund the Police Charade: In an unbelievable show of bravado, Democrats tried the old trick of putting lipstick on a pig and calling it something else. With bodacious arrogance, the White House and leading Democrats just said it’s the Republicans who are defunding the police, not the looney left Democrats! (???)
Yes, they just said it over and over again, thinking America was dumb enough to buy it. Even the liberal Washington Post had to call them out.
There is a great piece below that catalogues the left’s “Defund the Police” statements and efforts by name, date etc. Just the facts.
Shameless lying that unfortunately in today’s biased media is rarely called out on the left.
–Saul Anuzis
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Why Cuba’s youth are revolting now against the island’s dictators
Something wondrous has happened in Cuba: For the very first time in the 62 years since the Castro dynasty turned the island into a totalitarian dystopia, Cubans have taken to the streets from one end of the island to the other, denouncing their repressive regime and calling for freedom.
They can be seen and heard on YouTube and social media, chanting “Liberty,” “Down with the dictatorship” and “Down with communism.” And they can also be heard shouting a challenge to their rulers: “We are not afraid.” That chant is a taunt, a war cry, a rebel yell. And it is coming mostly from young Cubans, the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the so-called revolution.
You have to live in a place like Cuba — where an inordinate percentage of the country’s budget is dedicated to keeping Big Brother’s eye fixed on you — to appreciate the magnitude of the fearlessness and despair needed to loosen one’s tongue out on the street.
The protests are among the most dramatic proof ever offered of the failure of a tropical dictatorship that has driven 20 percent of its people into exile. Innumerable promises for a brighter future have been made during this time by the military junta that has ruled Cuba since the days when cars had tailfins and the top songs in the US charts were Elvis Presley’s “Jailhouse Rock” and Domenico Modugno’s “Volare.”
Well, surprise, surprise, the future is here, and the youngsters can clearly see that all of those promises have turned out to be lies. Now, those who were supposed to reap the benefits of decades of sacrifice, self-denial and unquestioning obedience demanded by Big Brother are out on the streets, shouting at their aging masters — and the world — that they are tired of living a lie.
Crime and Cuba backfire on Democrats
Democrats’ election hopes. I say “apparently” because although the events are taking place in different countries, both are tied indissolubly to the Left and to the party in power in Washington. I refer to surging violent crime rates in the United States and to popular protests against socialist tyranny in Cuba.
Official 2020 crime figures are not out, but preliminary estimates are that there were 25% more killings last year than in 2019 and that the rate has accelerated in 2021. Media outlets that run interference for President Joe Biden note that the murder rate is still only half what it was at its 1980 peak, but this muddying of a problem with anodyne historical context cannot obscure the salient fact that the trajectory is sharply upward.
Even if the Democratic fan base refuses to acknowledge where blame lies, Biden doesn’t. That’s why he called his panicky July 12 White House meeting on crime. He was scrambling to tamp down a growing public conviction that Democrats are weak on crime. An ABC News/Washington Post poll late last month found 20% more people disapproving of Biden’s handling of crime than approving of it and 59% saying it is a serious problem, with “extremely serious” at a 20-year high. You can see the whites of Democrats’ eyes as Republicans head toward 2022 and 2024 elections as the law and order party.
Biden’s officials listened to the president with furrowed brows, as though his proposed solutions were serious. They weren’t. He laid blame on rogue gun dealers, touted “strike forces,” which sound dynamic and convey the idea that he’s taking decisive action, and pressed for passage of his infrastructure bill because a (small) portion of its gazillions would be used to hire police officers.
This is just hand flapping to distract voters from the fact that the Left and the Democrats have relentlessly undermined the rule of law for more than a year. They sided with vandals and rioters from last summer onward and proudly excused violence as legitimate political protest. They supported the “defund the police” movement and actually defunded them in some places. The Left and its party systematically promoted lawlessness, and no amount of tinkering and posturing now will undo the damage they’ve done. Democrats’ election hopes. I say “apparently” because although the events are taking place in different countries, both are tied indissolubly to the Left and to the party in power in Washington. I refer to surging violent crime rates in the United States and to popular protests against socialist tyranny in Cuba.
‘Utter Nonsense’ — McConnell Tears Into Biden’s Voting Rights Speech
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell ripped President Joe Biden’s speech on voting rights, saying it was “set in an alternate universe” and that Biden had promised to bring the U.S. together, not divide it.
McConnell gave a floor speech Wednesday, slamming Biden’s Tuesday speech highlighting the right to vote and the need to “defend democracy” in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the speech, Biden called the battle over voting laws the “most significant test to our democracy since the Civil War.”
“Yesterday the President of the United States delivered a speech that was set in an alternate universe. He called these mainstream state laws, these modest integrity measures that are wildly popular with Americans, quote, ‘the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War,’” McConnell said in his floor speech.
“This is our new president who promised to lower the temperature, bring America back together, and rebuild a civil society where we can dialogue as fellow citizens. That’s the person who is now yelling that mainstream state laws are more dangerous than two World Wars … more dangerous than poll tests and Bull Connor and actual Jim Crow segregation … and somehow analogous to the Civil War,” McConnell continued.
Corporate Media Parades Biased Lies As Fact While Silencing Debate
Bias isn’t the problem. It’s when a gaslighting monopolistic media hegemon insists that lies are facts and anyone who questions them is ‘disinformation.’
“I’m a biased journalist, and I’m good with that,” headlined an article by former New York Times editor Lauren Wolfe on her Substack earlier this month. Wolfe was fired from the Times after fawning “I have chills” on Twitter about President Biden’s inauguration in January.
In her recent article, Wolfe decries the expectation of farcical “objectivity” in newsrooms like The New York Times, suggesting journalists can’t turn off the perspective and bias they bring to each story.
“When The New York Times hired me, I asked them about the decade of political tweets I had on my timeline, including critical ones about Trump and other prominent Republicans,” Wolfe recollected. “The man who hired me told me that it was no problem, as long as I stopped right then.”
Recalling her reporting on sexual violence, she insisted there are times a journalist should judge opposing perspectives rather than presenting them equally. “Am I supposed to not say rape is bad?” she asked. “As journalists, we can all use what appears to be a ‘neutral voice,’ but that doesn’t mean our implicit bias isn’t guiding our choice of sources, or even what stories we decide to cover.”
“Transparency trumps pretending we’re not humans with opinions and emotions like everyone else,” Wolfe added. “Pretending that we’re all able to be constantly and utterly objective just feels absurd to me. Instead, I’ve always believed it is better to be open about my views on the issues I cover.”
To a great extent, she’s right. From pavement-pounding reporters to TV pundits, journalists should insist on factual accuracy, honesty, and fairness. They should not — simply because they cannot — be robotic audio/visual cables broadcasting The Facts without first processing and presenting the news through their own paradigms. They can’t do that, as Wolfe says, because they are human.
The danger with this facade of perfect objectivity is that journalists pretend — and insist you believe — it exists. It has led legacy media outlets like Wolfe’s former employer to tout their coverage as authoritatively factual while inserting plenty of bias, from slant to full-on lies.
Don’t You Just Love Congress?
Behold the Democrats and GOP locked in a scorpion dance over Biden’s $4 trillion.
Don’t you just love Congress? It’s sooo entertaining.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer reached into the barrel of the Democrats’ Mega Millions spending lottery Tuesday evening and the winning number is . . . $3.5 trillion! That will be the pick’em amount in the Democrats’ “budget blueprint” for Joe Biden’s spend-o-rama on climate, new entitlements and Medicare expansions.
But wait, there’s more!
Performing alongside on Capitol Hill we have the spectacle of 11 Republican senators who’ve “compromised” with President Biden and his Democratic partners on an infrastructure spending bill that could hit $1.2 trillion.
Notwithstanding the sideshow of Texas Democrats flying in chartered jets to hide out in D.C., what’s going on in Washington ain’t just fun and games, folks. No one has yet pocketed the trillions in the spending lottery. For now, they’re proposals. What comes next is the politicking. In fact, what comes next is going to be a mesmerizing scorpion dance between Democrats and Republicans.
The U.S. health insurance industry profited off of COVID-19
The American health insurance industry — which rakes in over $1 trillion a year — wants to rebrand for the first time in 20 years. This, according to its lobbying group’s CEO, comes “after a year filled with unprecedented challenges.”
Unprecedented challenges for who? Certainly not them. After all, health insurance companies’ profits actually surged during COVID-19! So, while this last year was certainly filled with unprecedented challenges for the American people and small businesses, health insurance companies experienced nothing of the sort.
UnitedHealth Group, the largest health insurer in America, increased its profits by 44% between FY20 and FY21. Anthem, Aetna, Cigna, and Humana saw similarly large gains. How’d they pull it off?
The short answer is that their lobbyists, through Obamacare, created a business model that virtually guarantees their success.
The health insurance companies that profited the most during the downturn are the ones that grew the biggest under Obamacare. A recent analysis in Barron’s observed that “[u]nemployment could hurt UnitedHealth’s commercial business, but it could also boost enrollment in its government-backed plans, like those available under…Obamacare.” But “[f]or smaller, less diversified insurers, the calculus could be different.”
Obamacare architects once boasted that the heavy hand of government would “unleash forces that favor integration across the continuum of care.” That’s exactly what happened. By leveraging government-distorted markets in Medicare, Medicaid, and, as of this year, the Obamacare exchanges, United Health Group was able to integrate vertically. UHG is not only a health insurance provider—it is now the largest single employer of physicians in the country, and it’s on track to add another 10,000 more physicians.
ESG Investing: Funds Weigh Sovereign Debt Profits Against Human Rights
Late one evening last November Nickolai Prakofyeu answered the phone to some troubling news: he had 24 hours to leave Belarus or face at least 12 years in prison. Prakofyeu’s father had been tipped off by a sympathetic source within the Belarusian KGB that the security forces of Alexander Lukashenko’s regime were no longer willing to tolerate the family’s pro-democracy activities since last August’s disputed election.
Officials were about to shut down his family’s hotels and restaurant in the south-eastern city of Gomel, which had been giving free food to anti-government protesters. After the warning, Prakofyeu and his wife had time to gather just a few belongings — along with Jason, their Yorkshire Terrier — before fleeing in the early hours.
“We packed what we could into our car and drove to Ukraine,” says the 28-year-old, who has since linked up with the Belarus opposition in exile in Poland. From that bolt-hole he now spends his time pressuring western companies into ditching their investments in his home country. They include an array of asset managers who have funded Lukashenko’s authoritarian regime by buying Belarusian government debt.
Such divestment campaigns are not new in the world of emerging markets investing, where European and North American fund groups frequently use their clients’ money to bankroll unsavoury regimes. But they have been given fresh impetus by the phenomenon of ESG investing sweeping the asset management industry — which evaluates investments on environmental, social and governance criteria. And by the public attention Belarus has attracted.
Leading the Charge Against Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory continues to permeate our classrooms and infect our children’s minds with outrageous ideas about their nation’s history. Through groups such as 1776 Action, we can use our voices to save our children’s futures.
Critical Race Theory continues to permeate our classrooms and infect our children’s minds with outrageous ideas about their nation’s history. But a growing number of Americans are standing up to fight back against its false tenets and demand its removal from K-12 education. At the forefront of this patriotic effort is 1776 Action, an advocacy group committed to the vital work of restoring honest and unifying education in public schools throughout the nation.
The group’s Candidate Pledge has garnered national attention in recent weeks for its emphasis on America’s values and its vow to eradicate divisive race-and gender-based ideologies such as CRT from America’s schools. Political candidates who sign the pledge commit to restoring “honest, patriotic education that cultivates in our children a profound love for our country”and to promoting a curriculum that “teaches that all children are created equal, have equal moral value under God, our Constitution, and the law, and are members of a national community united by our founding principles.” The pledge also seeks to prohibit any curriculum that divides students by race and sex–or sets out to infuse harmful ideologies into course material.
Critical race theory fiction and other lies about history
On July 3 the publication theGrio.com published an op-ed by Toure entitled “F**k Fourth of July: The only independence day I recognize is Juneteenth.” In it, the author insists that the very reason the colonies sought independence from Britain was because the European country was talking about abolishing slavery. This of course isn’t based on factual evidence, but rather on Toure’s notion that Black America has never had a fair shake. It completely ignores a document called the Declaration of Independence which outlines the actual reason for the split. It reads in part,
“…A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” Among the things not mentioned slavery. No reference to it whatsoever.
Social justice warriors will tell you the lack of reference to slavery was a silent endorsement by the new union of states. Again, the facts don’t support that. During the Revolutionary War, the colonies all pledged to ban their involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. Vermont was the first state to abolish slavery, on July 2, 1777. By 1804, slavery had been abolished in all the Northern states. That’s an important detail that the professional victims have conveniently left out.
United States action against slavery didn’t stop there either. Congress first regulated against the trade in the Slave Trade Act of 1794. The 1794 Act ended the legality of American ships participating in the trade.
The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1807 is a United States federal law ensuring that no new slaves at all were imported into the United States. It made all importation from abroad, even on foreign ships, a federal crime. It took effect on January 1, 1808, the earliest date permitted by the United States Constitution.
Just as an aside, I should point out to those critical race theory advocates who want the Jefferson Memorial torn down, this legislation was promoted by President Thomas Jefferson, who called for its enactment in his 1806 State of the Union Address. He was among many founding fathers who had promoted the idea since the 1770s.
We’re only one generation away from losing America
Our youth are being indoctrinated by CRT; are not proud of USA
Who is proud to be an American? I am.
The good news is that an overwhelming majority of adults (68%) are very or extremely proud to be an American. The bad news is the only group that is not proud are young people. Only 36% of those aged 18 to 24 said that they were extremely or very proud.
TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence conducted the latest Issues & Impact/Tipp Insights poll from June 30 through July 2. The responses are similar results to polls conducted for Young America’s Foundation over the past year.
Overall, 44% of the adults surveyed said they were extremely proud to be an American, 23% were very proud, 15% were moderately proud, and 8% were slightly proud. Just 6% said they were not proud at all.
Despite all of the media coverage about racial issues in our country, only 7% of the black respondents and 9% who are Hispanic said they are not proud to be American. In fact, the majority said they were either extremely or very proud to be an American.
The Founding Elite vs. The Current Elite
On an insightful Independence Day Twitter thread, Emily Zanotti expressed her partiality for this provision of the Declaration of Independence:
This is my favorite part: ‘And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.’ Can you imagine writing that? Signing your name to that? Acknowledging that this document means you will come out of this broke, dead, and remembered as a traitor if you do not win. Signing your own death warrant. Man, that took balls . . .
In recognizing and celebrating the signatories’ fortitude, Zanotti illuminated the stark contrast between the visions of America’s founding elite and its current elite.
Without a doubt, the founding generation’s leading figures were from the colonies’ elite. Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and their fellow preeminent revolutionaries were wealthy and celebrated in their time. These were not hardscrabble peasants yearning to commit regicide and confiscate wealth.
As the Declaration makes clear, they already had their fortunes and honors. They could have ridden out the troubles with the English crown in comfort, occasionally petitioning the king for parliamentary representation or the repeal of offending acts. Thus, their stand for independence and liberty was as incongruous as it is inspiring.
The founding elite rebelled to expand the freedom of their fellow human beings. Patently, the expansion the founding generation sought wasn’t completed in their time. And while many of them tried mightily, they ultimately failed to abolish slavery and grant, without qualification, the franchise to all men and women. But to denounce the seminal victory for human freedom by comparing it to the current blessings it has borne is, at best, preposterous. It is injurious, at worst, because it masks the venality, mendacity, and cynicism of America’s current elite.
Tudor Dixon, candidate for Michigan governor, seeks to use CPAC as campaign launching pad
Dixon has made multiple significant campaign hires recently, including heavy hitters from Trumpworld.
Conservative political commentator and Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon faces a potentially stacked GOP primary field if she wants to take on Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2022, but she’s been busy building an apparatus she believes can earn the GOP nomination.
That work continued over the weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where she met donors and aimed to build grassroots support with her Saturday address on the future of conservatism.
“A successful weekend honestly is just to bring any money in right now. This race is going to be a very expensive race,” Dixon told Fox News. “We’ve already had quite a few donors commit to us, that’s a huge deal in a race against someone like Gretchen Whitmer who has so much support. She was just given another nod by President Biden.”
A Michigan Republican insider compared Dixon’s work at CPAC this year to John James’ appearance at the conference in 2018 as he built support for his first of two U.S. Senate runs. James was later endorsed by the American Conservative Union (ACU), which puts on the CPAC conference, and won a close primary.
AND check out her video here about who she is: https://twitter.com/i/status/1397937576045170691
Looking Back: Democrats Push to Defund the Police
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. – Maya Angelou
From the White House to the Speaker’s Office, Democrats are scrambling to distance themselves from the slogan they once so proudly championed – ‘Defund the Police.’ This was a rallying cry for progressives throughout the last year, but after losing nearly a dozen seats and seeing the latest polling, Democrats are now claiming it was actually Republicans who wanted to defund the police… no, really. We didn’t think it was serious either. It’s a messaging strategy so distorted and bizarre even the Washington Post gave it 3 Pinocchios.
Who knows how long Democrats will try out this new talking point before shame outweighs their desperation, but in an effort to reach across the aisle, RSC wanted to help our colleagues on the Left get back to reality and stop embarrassing themselves.
We looked for an example of a Republican official calling for defunding or “reimagining” police, but couldn’t find anything. Democrats can’t say the same – in fact, here are over two dozen examples of when they have:
Take their word for it:
The “defund the police” movement, is one of reimagining the current police system to build an entity that does not violate us, while relocating funds to invest in community services.
Let’s be clear, the people who now oppose this, have always opposed calls for systematic change. https://t.co/SEh97GS9hg
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) June 9, 2020
Washington Times – Inside the Beltway – REPUBLICAN ‘MISADVENTURES’ (-Saul Quoted in Article)
Calls for unity within the Grand Old Party come and go. Some now say that this call should be heeded now by GOP lawmakers — or else.
“Now is the time for conservatives and Republicans to unite and do everything possible to win a governing majority in the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate. The only way to stop the reckless left-wing and progressive policies in the Biden administration is to win back a Republican majority in Congress,” declares Saul Anuzis, former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party and now president of 60Plus, a nonpartisan organization addressing concerns of senior citizens.
Tax policy, successful border strategy and tactics, personal liberty, privacy and founding American values are all on the line as the midterm elections approach, he said in a statement.
“Now is not the time to attack Republicans who you disagree with on one specific vote or another. We need a center-right coalition that can win a majority. Choose your battles wisely. Pick your fights, focus your efforts, and don’t force wasteful misadventures that will take away time and resources from races we need to win against liberal Democrats,” Mr. Anuzis cautioned.
He has one final bit of advice.
“Keep your eye on the ball — which is a conservative Republican majority in 2022,” he noted.
The threat of China invading Taiwan is growing every day. What the U.S. can do to stop it.
The Chinese military has already begun gray zone operations. An all-out attack on Taiwan looms if Beijing continues to escalate.
The question is not whether the United States should defend Taiwan during war but how to prevent war in the first place. Now is the time to strengthen U.S.-Taiwan security cooperation.
In his speech celebrating the Chinese Communist Party’s 100th anniversary last week, Chairman Xi Jinping proclaimed that China has never bullied or oppressed the people of any other country. Yet that is exactly what Beijing is doing to Taiwan, and its intensifying aggression toward the democratic island is increasingly raising concerns that it will try to take it by force.
For years, world leaders have been hesitant to respond to China’s military aggression in the region. But Beijing’s escalating rhetoric and military developments are pushing Washington and its allies to work together in ways never done before, such as the joint U.S.-Japanese military planning for a conflict with China over Taiwan. Just Monday, Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso declared that in the case of an attack on Taiwan, “Japan and the U.S. must defend Taiwan together.”
“Unifying Taiwan by force” as a Chinese policy has existed since Chairman Mao Zedong coined the term. Though the onset of the Korean War spared Taiwan such a fate at that time, China’s unfulfilled aspirations continue to haunt the Communist Party. In recent years, Xi has tied the annexation of Taiwan, which split from the Chinese mainland amid civil war in 1949, to his “China dream” for the “great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.” In the eyes of Communist Party elites, unifying Taiwan is the final piece in making China great again.
The Communist Party now controls the most powerful military in Asia, the People’s Liberation Army, and Beijing’s increasing sense of urgency to annex Taiwan is evident in major changes to its military posture. Beijing understands that the United States is the most significant obstacle to its conquest of Taiwan, and has transformed its force to specifically offset U.S. operational advantages in the Pacific theater. To this end, the Chinese military has developed anti-ship ballistic missiles, attack submarines and an array of air and naval platforms for conducting saturation attacks to overwhelm enemies, all supported by space-based systems that make it more integrated and lethal.
The Tyranny of the Short Run
Your leaders take your money, waste much of it, buy votes with it, then call it “stimulus” and you thank them for it.
Imagine you could time-travel to the past but under this one condition: For each destination you choose, you could speak for just five minutes before departing. Who would you want to speak to and what would you tell them?
The list of those with whom I would love to have five minutes is legion. This is such a fascinating thought experiment that I expect to return to it in future articles.
For my first choice, I would want to appear in the Roman Forum around 100 B.C. I would relish the opportunity to lecture there to as many ancient Romans as the old Republic could muster. Here is what I would tell them in my five minutes:
Audite! (Latin for “Listen up!”). Your Republic, now several centuries old, is in mortal danger. To know the enemy, look no further than yourselves. I come from the future so I can tell you where the present path leads. I do not know if my doing so will alter history or not. At the very least, know this: If you do succumb to this mortal danger, you will not be able to say you were not warned.
For many generations, you enjoyed a measure of liberty previously unknown in the world. You understood that the concentration of earthly power in the State was toxic to all that you hold dear, including that liberty. Your forebears created, and you inherited from them, a system built upon limitations on government, separation of powers, legislative assemblies, due process, private property, entrepreneurship, freedom of speech, and a high degree of respect for individual rights in general. As a result, your wealth and influence are unparalleled. But in the last half century, you began to ignore or reject the principles on which that wealth and influence are premised.
Shrier: ‘Aw Shucks Conservatives’ Are Handing America Over To The Woke
Both meek “aw shucks” conservatives and “chest thumpers” conservatives and are handing America over to woke activists, author Abigail Shrier claimed in a Monday Substack.
Shrier said that “aw shucks” conservatives are “polite and naïve,” afraid to offend the Left, and want to “get all the terminology right.” “Chest thumpers” are conservatives who lack “neither fight nor heart,” Shrier continued, describing this type of conservative as the “youthful, chest-beating, triumphalist sort” who “relies heavily on mantras.”
The “Irreversible Damage” author urged conservatives to abandon both mentalities and to “stop playing the Left’s game of victimhood, stop straining to adopt its lingo.”
Abigail Shrier’s book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, has sparked controversy and gained the attention of media pundits such as Joe Rogan since it was published in June 2020. The book examined spikes in transgenderism among teenaged girls who formerly displayed feminine traits and tendencies.
Countries That Still Have Slavery 2021
Slavery is a system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy, and sell other individuals as a form of property. Slaves are unable to withdraw from this arrangement and work with little to no pay.
Before 1865, the United States had 16 slave states. Slavery was abolished in 1865 following the Civil War. The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
Modern slavery, however, still exists around the world and continues to be a severe problem, mainly because modern slavery is not easy to recognize. According to the U.S. Department of State, modern slavery is used as an umbrella term for “the act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud or coercion.” Modern slavery is often known as human trafficking.
Today, 167 countries still have slavery, affecting about 46 million people. Although governments have taken steps and raised awareness about modern slavery, it is difficult to detect and recognize in many cases. It’s important to know the signs of slavery so that authorities and organizations can be alerted.
While over a hundred countries still have slavery, six countries have significantly high numbers:
