Juxtaposed! News ™ Lightfoot and Barrett
October 31, 2020 Leave a comment
Intersectionality Wins the Day
“For years, they’ve said Chicago ain’t ready for reform. Well, get ready, because reform is here,” announced Chicago’s first openly gay and African-American female mayor Lori Lightfoot during her inaugural address. Lightfoot defeated Preckwinkle in the runoff election, becoming mayor-elect of Chicago. on May 20, 2019.
The mayoral election results confirmed that the threefer intersectionality of Lightfoot (black, female, lesbian) trumped the twofer intersectionality of Toni Preckwinkle (black, female) and that identity politics matters to Chicago Democrats. The election results confirmed that “change” was just one more label away.
“I campaigned on change. You voted for change. And I plan to deliver change to our government.”
In her latest attempt to “deliver change” and show Chicago that “reform is here”, Mayor Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor, a former president of the Chicago Police Board and former chair of the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force, is taking steps to deal with the city’s crime and the coronavirus. “Change” is just a ticket and a mask away.
Mayor Lightfoot has proposed an intersectional two-fer to handle Chicago’s violent offenders and its budget crises: a city budget that includes speed-camera ticketing of drivers going over six MPH over the speed limit. If enacted, cars that speed away from drive-by shootings will be ticketed and the city will gain revenue. Reform is here. But, what about the city and state’s Covid-19 initiative?
Defeating Covid-19 and enforcing what some are calling “a culture of safetyism” are behind Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s latest mandate outlining new rules for restaurants, bars and social gatherings in multiple counties including Chicago’s Cook County. The rules included a decision to close indoor dining. The Governor, throwing the full weight of his office behind the new mandate, said Wednesday that he would send the Illinois State Police to the regions where restaurants and bars were defying his orders.
In the shadow of Gov. Pritzker, Mayor Lightfoot, on Oct. 1, 2020, offered her own tour de force – subjecting the Coronavirus to a triple threat of her intersectional power in super hero fashion. Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Dr. Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, donned “Rona Destroyer” costumes for a pre-Halloween press conference.
On May 20, 2019, Lori Lightfoot was awarded Chicago’s four stars. Elections have consequences. So, watch out Covid-19.
Intersectionality at the Crossroad
On Tuesday Oct. 27th, 2020, following a private ceremony in the Supreme Court’s East Conference Room, Judge Amy Coney Barrett officially became Justice Barrett. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the Judicial Oath to Barrett, as husband Jesse held the family Bible. Justice Barrett – wife, mother of seven, adoptive parent, lawyer, circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and, academic – became the ninth member of the Supreme Court.
Justice Barrett’s nomination was supported by every law clerk she had worked with and by all of her 49 faculty colleagues at Notre Dame Law school. The American Bar Assoc. Standing Committee gave her a “Well Qualified” rating. Colleagues and close associates lauded her as “Whip smart” “Brilliant writer and thinker” “Intellectual giant”.
Justice Barrett revealed her legal aptitude and intellectual prowess during the senate committee’s questioning. Without notes, Judge Barrett answered each question with aplomb. And, unlike her activist predecessor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barrett made it clear during the confirmation hearings that she would abide by the Constitution and not substitute her own views in rulings.
“A judge must apply the law as written. Judges are not policymakers, and they must be resolute in setting aside any policy views they might hold.”
Yet, the recounting of Barrett’s positive recommendations and stellar qualifications and her adroit answers fell on some deaf ears. The Democratic senators wanted to be heard instead.
During Barrett’s confirmation hearing the Democratic senators decried the timing of the nomination to their GOP colleagues on the committee. They also repeatedly questioned Barrett hoping that she would reveal a bias against the policies and laws they favor. They pleaded with her to recuse herself from cases where they desired favorable rulings, including a probable election case. The Democratic senators then brought in “expert witnesses” to echo their concerns and to provoke an activist sympathy in Judge Barrett. The witnesses gave pro-emotive accounts of abortion and the Affordable Care Act. One of the witnesses spoke of the “real-world harm of ending the ACA”.
The media, along with the Democratic Senators speaking outside the hearing, presented Barrett’s intersectionality – her faith and the law – as a problem. As a Catholic, conservative and Constitution Originalist, Justice Barret is seen as a triple threat to LGBT rights, abortion rights and healthcare rights held sacred by Progressives. Social media echoed the main stream media’s negative take.
After Justice Barrett was sworn in, the Girl Scouts of America congratulated her on their Twitter and Facebook pages. But the posts were quickly deleted after social media erupted and began spewing vitriol against “the 5th woman appointed to the Supreme Court since its inception in 1789.”
Replying to the deletion, actress Amber Tamblyn tweeted “@girlscouts thank you for deleting the tweet. Be on our side – the side of girls who grow up to become women who fight for other women and girls and not the opposite.”
Ask Yourself …
November 13, 2020 Leave a comment
Ask yourself …
Did the media just elect Geritol-ad Joe Biden as president-elect of their sock puppet theater?
Does the media care whether your one vote is disenfranchised by two illegal/invalid votes?
Did illegal votes pour in just like illegal aliens poured in at the behest of Democrats?
Are you buying the narrative that by not conceding to the main stream media/Democrats and by demanding a thorough investigation into alleged election corruption you are delegitimizing Democracy?
Was the NYT headline of Nov. 11, 2020 American Democracy DEMANDS every legal vote to be counted and the rest tossed? Or, was it Election Officials Nationwide Find no Fraud?
Should we just get on with our lives and assume that what the NYT and the media tells us (“Nothing to see here.”) is “good enough for me”?
During the takeover of a country by the forces of a dictatorship, does the media ‘cooperate’ with the power they are in cahoots with?
Do you believe that the media has your best interest at heart?
Are you aware that the media and social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.,) pose the greatest threats to democracy?
Are you OK with and feel secure in Groupthink?
Are you Ok with the shadow government of Democrats/media operating to take down President Trump the last four years?
Is the Democrat/Progressive party the party of Bolshevism?
Are you OK with submitting your income, your rights, yourself and your country to Bernie Sanders, BLM and the Socialist spice girls (Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar)?
Are you OK with the intolerance of the Democrats/Progressives/media and their desire to cancel you (your thoughts, your words, your religion) out?
Are you OK with being reduced to the lowest common denominator of life because socialism/Marxism says it must be so for equality?
Are you OK with Biden rescinding, through executive order, the immigration policies put in place to protect the country?
Have you heard of any terrorist attack on U.S. soil during the last four years?
Have you heard of the U.S. starting wars the last four years?
Are you OK with Biden placing America – its resources, its tax revenue and its people – at the behest of the self-serving token Paris Accord (a Tower of Babel) while the American private sector, the last four years, has produced alternative green energy sources and has made America energy independent?
What really matters: numbers of cases and positivity OR deaths directly and solely related to COVID-19?
Are you OK with a state government that shuts down your business and your livelihood as it plays God seeking to control a virus?
Will state government shut down communities and businesses for climate change and racism and “gun control” calling each a “public health crisis?
Who is the “public” in “public health”?
Is the “greater good” proffered by the state as the reason for its coercive and overbearing control of your life really the greater good?
Do you agree with a member of Biden’s new coronavirus task force and lockdown enthusiast, Dr. Zeke Emanuel, that life is not worth living past 75?
Who should have the say about your health: the state or you?
Do you believe the state is the answer to healthcare and not yourself?
Are we to obey all laws?
Am I ready for civil disobedience?
Are you OK with increased cases of depression, drug use, suicides, and child and spousal abuse that the lockdowns have produced?
Are you ready to disobey all state orders that hinder human flourishing, that are antisocial and inhuman and, that produce the negative effects as mentioned above?
Should we obey stay-at home advisories and orders? And, why?
Should we “cancel Thanksgiving” as Chicago’s Mayor Lightfoot has strongly advised?
Who should be quarantined?
Who should not be quarantined?
Should you be quarantined?
Who should not be forced to stay at home and to cancel Thanksgiving?
When Democrats propose policies do you challenge them and ask economist Thomas Sowell’s questions: “Compared to what?” and “At what cost?” and “What hard evidence do you have?”
Are you able to challenge them or are you cut off because you are not making them look good and they don’t have the answers to your questions?
Do Progressives care more about their vision than about humans they want to impose their vision on?
Are you able to think for yourself or do you need the state/media to tell you what to think?
Do you operate out of a sense of fear that has been relentlessly generated by the media and the state?
Should casinos operate with greater freedom and flexibility than houses of worship?
Should Illinois restauranteurs defy state mandates that drive them out of business and create massive unemployment?
Should parents of school-age children in Illinois rally and protest to reopen schools?
Are the U.S. (and world) public health officials joined at the hip with China?
Are the U.S. public health policies driven by China, as are Hollywood and pro-sports?
Will compulsory vaccines, contact tracing and vaccine cards become the means to separate who’s in and who’s out of the New Globalist World Order in the coming days?
Are you OK with abuse of power and a Stalinist type enemies list and another Great Purge?
Do you rant and rave, calling America “racist” and society “systemically racist”, because you grew up in a single parent home without a father and never learned how to succeed in the world?
Are you OK with the individual being crushed, worn down, and reduced to powder in the mortar and pestle of the totalitarian Progressive Left?
Are you concerned about and afraid of firearms because the TV has relentlessly told you that you should be concerned about and afraid of firearms, as it has with Covid-19 and climate change and healthcare and a host of other socialist initiatives to get you feeding from the same trough?
Ask yourself: Am I still in America?
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