John: Jackson-Lee has been in Congress since 1994. None of these gaffes, any one of which should have resulted in a decent challenge and replacement in the next election, has done anything to hurt her career. The voters return her to office, over and over again (14 times). She remains in power, telling us all what to do.

Our society has not had any decent standards now for decades. We are now paying for it, big.

Jackson Lee graduated from Yale University in 1972 and the University of Virginia School of Law in 1975.

That’s amazing.

Gaffes from wikipedia:

According to The Daily Beast, Jackson Lee has a “history of wild statements” and political gaffes.[70] These include incorrectly stating that the U.S. Constitution was 400 years old;[71] displaying a false version of the Confederate battle flag during a Congressional debate;[72] mistakenly criticizing Wikipedia instead of WikiLeaks;[73] incorrectly calling the Moon a “planet” that is made “mostly of gases”;[74][75] and saying that North Vietnam and South Vietnam were still separate countries.[76][77]

The Hill reported that during a 1997 visit to the Mars Pathfinder operations center, Jackson Lee asked whether the Pathfinder rover had taken a picture of the U.S. flag planted by Neil Armstrong; the flag had been planted on the Moon, not Mars. Jackson Lee was at the time a member of the Aeronautics and Space Subcommittee of the House Science Committee. [you got to be kidding me][78][79] In response, Jackson Lee’s deputy chief of staff accused the newspaper of racial bias without disputing the story’s accuracy. The Hill denied the allegations and stood by its reporting.[79][80]

In July 2014, Jackson Lee said that “we did not seek an impeachment” of President George W. Bush. Jackson Lee was one of 11 co-sponsors of the 2008 U.S. House bill H. Res. 1258, which sought to impeach Bush for “deceiving Congress with fabricated threats of Iraq WMDs”. Jackson Lee’s spokesperson later said that she “misspoke”.[81][82]

A campaign advertisement for Jackson Lee in the 2023 Houston mayoral election instructed viewers to vote on the wrong date. Jackson Lee’s spokesperson attributed the error to an external advertising agency.[83]

Democrats created the current black culture to keep blacks dumbed down, unsuccessful and enslaved to the government teat and Democrat policy. Liberals believe blacks are inferior and must be “helped”. DEI is an insult to blacks who have succeeded through hard work and ability like Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson (possible Trump VP).

Sadly, there exists a consequential number of people who haven’t the slightest idea of basic science, so SJL’s comments sound perfectly fine, and what’s more, if you bring it up, you’re the racist, anti-science, denier.

These politicians sound just AS STUPID, when they talk about stuff in which I have my own expertise, and I’m sure everyone else experiences that feeling along with me.

“The Encabulator”
https://youtu.be/MXW0bx_Ooq4

Our civilization is being destroyed by the deviants who have the motivation to obtain power. Not individuals with natural capabilities, persons with profound mental damage of many sorts. The pole is very slippery and climbing it takes obsessive determination and motivation, characteristics sexual deviants exhibit in abundance. Psychopaths and some sociopaths exhibit such characteristics as well, expressed rather differently.

Our goose is well and truly cooked, has been for some time.

For the moment, however, and as Robert points out — https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/04/10/after-being-completely-exposed-by-its-own-editor-npr-tells-npr-that-npr-is-just-fine-n2172562 — Mr. Berliner’s critique does not appear to be something that The Powers That Be at NPR are ready to acknowledge or act upon. God, no.

The question is, if NPR is not ready to acknowledge this reality, then what can “ordinary people” like ourselves do to help them with this? First and foremost, *find ways to stop funding them.* Contact you representative in the House of Representatives and suggest to his or her staff that you are tired of paying for a partisan propaganda outlet that works tirelessly to destroy the institutions of this country, subvert its culture, and denigrate everything that you personally believe in. Likewise, you can contact the corporate sponsors of your local NPR affiliate and suggest the same to them, emphasizing that you will not be using their product or service so long as such support continues. Finally, for what it might be worth, you can contact the management at your local NPR station and attempt to convey your dissatisfaction with what they are doing. At least they will be exposed to ideas from outside their accustomed reality bubble, and they might even acknowledge that you have a point. That would be a start.

To be clear, I am not advocating the “destruction” of public broadcasting (as frustrating and angering as it can be to listen to it), but rather — along with Mr. Berliner — returning it to some semblance of its former self. Like everything else, this will take some work, but we get the kind of journalism that we support / tolerate / are willing to pay for.

“People and countries for that matter with too much time and money and the luxury of being safe and secure to spend it on their hands makes you stupid (and dangerous). That is my theory anyway. Which does not mean that you should be denied any of it or you cannot do some good for yourself or others with it. ”

https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/too-much-time-and-money-make-you-stupid

Gas stations in the few small towns along the way ran out of gas. People ran out of gas on the freeway and simply abandoned their cars on the side of the freeway and bummed rides, walked, or laid down on the side of the road to sleep. It was a post-apocalyptic scene, like the opening of The Walking Dead. I recall that a few people died from medical emergencies because ambulances could not get to them.

It took me eight hours to drive 40 miles from Glendo to Wheatland. Thankfully, I had a Suburban and had the foresight to fill my tank before I left, and to pack food, water, and a sleeping bag and pillow before I went. I parked in Wheatland and slept in the back of my truck until about 4AM when the traffic finally cleared, then finished the drive to Cheyenne in about 40 minutes.

“We are fighting for the power to choose what you read,”

I have even lived through the cricket invasions in Texas.

Swarms so large and thick they changed the exhaust color of the jet engines they go sucked into. They were so thick on the tarmac that we could slide our trucks sideways on them.

Patrick Henry: The response to Berliner’s op-ed by NPR management today says all funding should cease immediately. See this article:

After Being Completely Exposed by Its Own Editor, NPR Responds in the Worst Possible Fashion