Don's Tuesday Column

           THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Red Bluff Daily News   2/15/2022

   Offensiveness subjectively applied

Skip ahead 5 paragraphs, to “It’s safe now” if it’s uncomfortable to even think offensive words; or the controversial use of the “n-word” by almost anyone, I guess. We’re told that, for White people, it’s forbidden to even quote the word as used by someone else, having cultural or racial privileges in their “artistic” presentations.

What about President-ish Joe Biden, whose recorded “n-word” usage was promptly proclaimed as “taken out of context” by “fact checkers” because he was quoting someone? Should everything with the late Democratic Senator Robert C. Byrd’s name in West Virginia be demolished or renamed because he was a devoted Ku Klux Klan Kleagle in his 20s and 30s? That’s no brief flirtation.

Byrd waxed thoughtful when interviewed—illuminating Americans who perhaps had not heard of such a thing—about “white n---ers” this and “white n---ers” that. The presence of certified White supremacists and segregationists in the Democrat Party have been “air-brushed” from history to cultivate the illusion of Democrats as contemporary champions of Black people.

We should have this controversy over language—but, apparently, not because of the prolific use of that word in “hip hop” lyrics. The parents of my Black friends in Canastota, N.Y. would have washed their mouths with soap to hear their children singing rap songs like “Good kid, m.A.A.d city” by Kendrick Lamar. The word “n---a” or “n----as” appears 21 times; White fans are admonished that they aren’t allowed to sing (or say, or shout, or whatever you do to hip-hop “music”) those words. Is it curious, hypocritical, or just a double standard?

You thought this was all about podcaster (to millions) Joe Rogan; he quoted others using the n-word, just like Joe Biden. He should’ve had a “hot button” with Lamar’s voice saying “n---a” instead of his own voice—or would that still have run afoul of the “woke” speech police? Oh, the quandary.

“It’s safe now.” To catch readers up: Democrats are realizing that their White House Occupant, Joe Biden, is a lead anchor on candidates in November. Their desperate gazes land on their last loser, (who never conceded, still questioning the 2016 election legitimacy) Hillary Clinton; but here come some long-awaited charges by Special Counsel John Durham (remember him?).

“Lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a technology company to ‘infiltrate’ servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish an ‘inference’ and ‘narrative’…linking Donald Trump to Russia, a filing from [Durham] says.” (Fox News)

“The most shocking part of these allegations…is that the Democratic Party used a tech contractor working for the White House to gather (or fabricate) data intended to put then-President Trump in a bad light. If this understanding is correct–apart from the claim that the same thing occurred during the presidential campaign—it is a truly shocking scandal that implies serious criminal charges.” (J. Hinderaker)

“The latest pleading from Special Counsel Robert Durham provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia. This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate, and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution.” (Donald J. Trump)

This proves that Trump was targeted by the worst political “dirty tricks” and hoax in America’s history—it should disqualify Hillary from not only any office but also any legitimacy—while Dems try, desperately and fallaciously, to disqualify Trump and others from office. All who spread lies about Trump are despicable.

The headline, “Biden’s climate policies added $1,000 to Americans’ energy bills in 2021, study finds,” follows a court injunction against Biden’s order that uses the “social costs of greenhouse gases” to support regulations.

Now, the Wall Street Journal informs us that “Climate scientists encounter limits of computer models, bedeviling policy.” Basically, there have never been, are not now, nor will there ever be, computers and models that are capable of the reliability of prediction that should guide nation- or world-wide climate policies. 95 percent of simple temperature models have, over decades, wildly overestimated warming. “The science” errs.

 The Washingtontimes.com piece: “Mr. Biden’s climate change policies coupled with rising inflation contributed to the highest single-year increase in energy costs in decades,” (Heartland Institute analysis)… “Rapidly rising energy prices are no accident, but instead the predictable result of Joe Biden’s war on energy.” (James Taylor, president)

“Inflation costs American households $276 more per month,” (apropos stickers of Joe Biden, pointing to gas prices, saying “I did that”). Chris Queen, pjmedia.com, points to 40-year high, 7.5% inflation, which still underestimates actual hikes of gas, eggs, cars (new/used), hotel/motel, tobacco and housekeeping. See also: “Bidenflation, Year One,” Scott Johnson.

Simple math: 7.5% inflation=prices doubling in about 10 years; 4% raises=doubling of wages in 18 yrs. CNN poll: Of Biden’s 60% disapproval, fully 56% said he’d done “nothing they like since taking office.”

The Jan. 6 legal jihad: Aside from those assaulters of police and damagers of property, charges of trespassing, “parading” and such must now be dropped (meaning most of the hundreds charged). Neither V.P. Pence, nor V.P.-elect Harris were in the Capitol when the breech and “invasion/not insurrection” occurred (Capitol Police). That cancels the assumed violation of the building (absent violence) by protesters simply walking through unobstructed spaces.

Correction to local writer: No, zero police were killed by Trump’s protesters. Fact: the only fatalities were two Trump-supporting women, Ashli Babbitt, fatally shot in the neck by Lt. Michael Byrd; and Rosanne Boyland, beaten with a steel baton—while on the ground, unconscious—by Metro Officer Lila Morris. Boyland died 90 minutes later.