I’m Tired Of Our Enlightened Elites And Their Gaslighting, Spinning and Stupid “Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.” (Lysander Spooner).   I’m tired of the gaslighting, spinning and stupid coming from our unenlightened ‘enlightened elite.’ Who are these ‘enlightened elites’ I speak of? Well those government officials, academics (professors & students), journalists, celebrities, and social media “influencers” who make stuff up so they can lecture those of us they deem unenlightened on what we should believe, how we should think, what we should say, and of course, how we should vote. All of what they utter is annoying, most of it’s wrong, and much of it’s harmful. Some of the harmful stuff the ‘enlightened elite’ have spread lately: Blaming Republicans For The Horrific Attack On Paul Pelosi. The ‘enlightened elites’ lost no time in spinning the horrific attack on Paul Pelosi as a direct result of the ‘extreme rhetoric’ of those semi-fascist MAGA peeps. The attack on Pelosi occurred October 28 at 2:30 in the morning…the attack on the ‘unenlightened’ started less than 13 hours later. At 5:16 in the evening the Hillreported that Pres. Biden “suggested” the attack “was a natural progression from lies Republicans have spread about the 2020 election.” Others rushed to jump on that evidence-free train, including Former Pres. Obama, Hillary Clinton, Andrea Mitchell, Jennifer Rubin, Adam Kinzingerand many more. So what do we now know? Well not everything, but quite a bit: The attacker is a homeless illegal immigrant from Canada with drug and mental issues named DePape who once thought he was Jesus. For the past 20 years DePape lived at various places in the San Francisco/Berkeley area (surprise), including a garage and storage shed. His latest adobe was a bus parked in the yard of a house with a BLM sign in the window and a LGBT flag flying from a tree. The NY Post notes that “[a] closer look reveals the characteristics of a homeless encampment, or what Europeans call “‘an open drug scene.’” So far, I’m not seeing much MAGA here. At one time DePape was a progressive nudist activist who made hemp jewelry and the life partner of Gypsy Taub, another nudist activist. Honestly, I’m not making this up. Ms. Taub describes herself as a progressive who “absolutely” admires Pelosi. At one time she also “hosted a public-access television program called “‘Uncensored 9/11,’” in which she discussed 9/11 conspiracies theories…in the nude. Of course, that was before she was convicted and sentenced to prison on 20 charges, including stalking, attempted child abduction, and child molestation involving a 14 year old boy. Gotta love those California Girls. At some point DePape transitioned from a nude progressive illegal immigrant druggie with mental issues to a clothed anti-Semitic illegal immigrant druggie with mental issues and a blog. Neither I, nor anyone else who has spoken on this matter have any idea what DePape’s current political leanings are. However, what can be said with certainty is that he’s not a Republican, conservative, MAGA, or even a libertarian…just a mentally unstable guy with drug issues who would not have been in the U.S. except for the failure of our enlightened governmental elites to enforce immigration law. To claim DePape’s attack on Pelosi is a result of right-wing rhetoric or January 6 is an irresponsible, not to mention stupid narrative. Hell, there was more evidence to support the geocentric theory that the sun revolved around earth, than there is that “right-wing” rhetoric caused the attack on Mr. Pelosi. Defining “Election Denier” To Exclude Election Deniers.Yea, really. CBS News’ Scott MacFarlane has defined “Election Denier,” he even made a nifty chartfor the unenlightened. According to MacFarlane, an Election Denier is a person who does one or more of the following (caps in original):1 “QUESTIONED LEGITIMACY OF BIDEN’S ELECTION” “SAID 2020 ELECTION WAS STOLEN” “REPEATED DISPROVEN CLAIMS OF FRAUD” “SIGNED ON TO TEXAS LAWSUIT TO OVERTURN 2020 ELECTION” “OBJECTED TO 2020 ELECTORIAL COLLEGE COUNT ON JAN. 6” “SUPPORTED 2020 AUDIT” Call me skeptical, but I have to question why CBS’s definition of an “Election Denier” only applies to people who question the 2020 election. Could it be they want to exclude Democrats who engaged in the same activity in previous elections? In about 5 minutes of searching the internet I found the following Democrats who would be Election Deniers if CBS’s definition included more than just the last election: Presidents Biden, Obama, B. Clinton, and Carter; Vice-Presidents Harris and Gore; Senators Booker, Boxer, Brown, Durbin, Kennedy, Markey (when he was a Rep), and Reid; Twenty-six congressmen;2 Former governors Dean and Mcauliffe; Biden’s Administration staff: Klain (Biden’s former Chief-of-Staff), Fudge (HUD Sec.), Kerry (Climate Czar) and Karine Jean-Pierre (WH Press Secretary); and of course Hillary Clinton and Stacy Abrams. What’s more problematic then CBS excluding Democrats from being labeled “Election Deniers,” is its attempt to define those who legally question the integrity of an election into lepers who are a danger to our democracy.3 To the contrary, the danger to our republic is the refusal of the powers-that-be to take the concerns of citizens seriously and conduct an honest and transparent investigations into those concerns. We’re continuously assured that our elections are free, open, and fair with voter fraud a figment of our imaginations that just doesn’t occur, or at worst the amount of voter fraud is insignificant. But is that true? Just since 2000 our presidential elections have been at best chaotic. The 2000 presidential election ended up going to the Florida Supreme Court, then the U.S. Supreme Court…all over poorly designed “butterfly” ballots, hanging chads, dimples, and voter intent. What a divisive nightmare that was.   In 2004 there were questions about Ohio’s voting machinesresulting in a number of Democrats challenging the acceptance of Ohio’s electoral votes. 2008 was a banner year. In 2011 it was discovered that 19 pages of signatures to get Obama on the 2008 Indiana primary ballotwere forged. Without those signatures Obama would not have been on the primary ballot. In 2012 the NY Post reported 1,099 felons illegally voted in the 2008 Minnesota election…Al Franken was … Continue reading Enlightened Elites And Their Gaslighting