When the Left sue Oil Companies over their distribution and use of fossil fuels, remember that virtually everything has cost and benefit. This is seen most starkly in medicines. Virtually all medicines have cons or side effects. Are we to outlaw or restrict medicines where their pros far outweigh their cons - due to the fact they have cons? The same thing can be said about fossil fuels. The world’s current: population level; science and technology; wealth of knowledge; standard of living; high level of health and healthcare, are made possible by fossil fuels. Getting rid of fossil fuels would wipe out the advantages of human living above, eliminating the lives of billions, while sending us back to the dark ages. Restricting fossil fuels would also have a detrimental effect on the lives of billions of people around the globe, by significantly increasing inflation, which would result in the impoverishing of the world, and the death of many millions.

The above underscores the malevolence of those who want to eliminate fossil fuels - based on the unproven, politicized, science of Climate Change, whose models and predictions have been consistently wrong. Further, these proponents of the elimination of fossil fuels, individually produce orders of magnitude more CO2 than the average person, and only increase their CO2 output over time - in clear contradiction of their claim, that humanity only has a limited amount of time to change its behavior. In addition, these people refuse to entertain the idea of dealing with unfolding issues, by using technological innovation (which we do every day, in just about every industry).

Patmore Douglas 3/17/2024 2:31:00 AM

In the video of this article, Dr. Naomi Wolf proposes a new election system which can be adopted by all states. She essentially pushes for paper ballots, along with a set of rules for how they should be processed. The issue I have with paper ballots, is that they are inherently insecure, and are at the mercy of the scruples of those conducting an election. This means if you have unscrupulous people running an election, and opportunities exist for cheating, paper ballots will become compromised. (Examples of this include trucks dumping ballots of unknown origin at polling stations in the middle of the night, as well as thousands of mail-in ballots being gathered up by unscrupulous people, and filled out for a particular political candidate.) Generally, if you try to do a thorough audit of ballots, these people (invariably Democrats), will use lawfare and other tactics, to block you and undercut the audit. Democrats do massive amounts of cheating up front, then use every trick in the book, to prevent people from carefully examining critical parts of the ballot counting process.

What you need is a process that is inherently secure, that ensures up front, that cheating cannot take place (at least at scale). The process should also be able to accept ballots of any form in the future. Casting a current day ballot, is like using a debit card that doesn’t require a PIN. Many honest people will not abuse the debit card, but many others will. If you require ballots be cast with a state issued PIN, you will make ballots as inherently secure as debit cards. You will keep out the vast majority of fraud that takes place during elections, and you will undercut the Democrat party's tactic of front-loading elections with fraud, then preventing the counting process from being genuinely examined by auditors.

Naomi cited a number of issues with using electronic voting machines and systems. This guy cited even more. An electronic voting system can be placed on a private network, with the disparate parts of the system connected via a VPN. This makes the system inaccessible to bad actors on the Internet. Laws would require all software used to be Open Source, and all hardware used make their design and specifications available. Tallying the votes would be easy and transparent. Entering votes would be easy, and would have checks and balances – requiring designated poll observers, review and okay ballot inputs, for them to be able to be tallied.

Electronic voting systems can be secure: you just have to think them through.

Patmore Douglas 2/10/2024 2:53:00 AM

People need to convince Donald Trump that he should push for the adoption of voting systems with integrated security throughout all states - the swing states in particular. It is relatively easy to do, and will repel virtually all types of voter fraud that are thrown at them. Remember, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, is the definition of insanity. Conservatives cannot seriously go to another round of elections, and expect Democrats not to rely on extensive voter fraud, when they have done so successfully and extensively, in 2020 and 2022.

Trump needs to push for the use of PINs when casting ballots in voting systems. This is how banking systems ensure debit card use is secure. A similar system needs to be employed when casting ballots. Casting a ballot with a PIN issued by the state to a voter, ensures that only the voter can cast his ballot. It also ensures that ballots cannot be cast by unauthorized voters (voters without state issued PINs) – not at scale anyway.

Patmore Douglas 1/22/2024 1:04:00 PM

Lawyers suing transgenders, should ask the court, that judgements made in the case, be based on objective facts, not on transgenders' states of mind. Also, the courts should treat transgenders the same way they treat all other individuals who are delusional, or suffer from severe mental illness. The court should rule according to the reality of the situation being dealt with, and should implore transgenders get psychiatric help, to see past their delusions or mental illness. The court should not rule that society be reorganized around a person's delusions, or insanity. (Among other things, this would force people to live their lives according to a lie [a 1^st Amendment violation], vs. what is obviously true.)

If the court rules that people must accommodate a transgender's delusions, it would be going against a precedence of court rulings, where rulings are made according to the objective facts of cases, and that people’s delusions are irrelevant. Also ruling that transgenders’ delusions be accommodated, but other patients’ delusions not be (e.g. someone who thinks he is Napoleon or the President of the United States), would be a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, and would hence be discriminatory against other mentally ill individuals.

Patmore Douglas 12/17/2023 10:23:00 PM

Conservatives need to push the idea, that gender identity is a form of delusion (thinking unaligned with reality), that is sanctioned by the Left. Gender identity, is people believing they can be any gender they want to be. It is a form of mental illness or insanity, the Left would like to codify into regulations and the law. In other words, the Left are pushing to have society and the courts, accept and protect, acts of insanity displayed by individuals. Needless to say, this would set a catastrophic precedent in our country, that insanity is acceptable behavior, and that it should be held in higher regard, than rational thought, and objective truth.

Patmore Douglas 12/8/2023 12:00:00 PM

When the Left say gender identity is different from biological sex, what they mean is that it is perfectly legitimate for your mind to exist in a state of delusion. (In other words, it is not important that your thinking is aligned with reality.) This means that transgenderism, which promotes the idea that gender identity is different from biological sex, promulgates severe mental illness and its acceptance, through social contagion and other means. Ergo, given that the purpose of transgenderism is to bring about mass psychological harm to society, you begin to see that transgenderism is actually a weapon of mass harm, rather than a movement aiming to achieve good, as the Left claim that it is.

Patmore Douglas 11/17/2023 8:39:00 AM

This woman is overall very interesting and perceptive.  There are however a number of things she gets wrong. While all of creation or the all, ultimately comes from God, the material universe does not come from God directly, or it would be perfect and good – just like God. We know this to be true, by recognizing a law identified by Christ: a good tree can only bear good fruit, and a bad tree can only bear bad fruit. Hence given the imperfect nature of our world, God could not have directly created this world – he must have influenced its creation by imperfect beings. The above is underscored by the following scripture:

Ephesians 6

12 For our struggle is not against human opponents, but against rulers, authorities, cosmic powers in the darkness around us, and evil spiritual forces in the heavenly realm.

Also, often when we pray, our prayers are accomplished through the influence of people.

Now the most important thing a Christian is required to do, is practice having faith in God. Among other things, this is what keeps him/her directly connected to God, and hence perfection. A Christian draws his spiritual power from God, and only God.

A Christian therefore exists, by first and foremost ensuring he has and practices faith in God. From this, all godly manifestations, and experiences ensue. E.g. this is where he gets his righteousness, love, wisdom, perceptiveness, spiritual powers, etc. Now a Christian’s ego becomes one with God’s, and as a result, continues to exist, but becomes reined in, as it pursues its interests and God’s – where the two become united. (This is why a Christian is not haughty.) A Christian will show love to the people and creatures of this world, through the natural prompting of the Spirit of God within him, which is natural and organic. But it is not because he becomes one with the world, or embraces the world. God (and by extension His children) cannot embrace and become one with this world, because this world is imperfect and evil, and good cannot live in harmony with evil. (This is also why the Jewish Messiah cannot establish a kingdom on earth either: a Jewish Messiah (a member of God) would be perfectly good, and a perfectly good being could never establish a kingdom on an imperfect world such as ours. Our world would have to be changed first to become perfect, before a Jewish Messiah could reign on it. This is promised to occur, in the Book of Revelations.)

Whoever you are (a Christian, Jew, new ager, spiritualist, etc.) know this: truth is a form of perfection, and given that only God is perfect, truth can only be obtained from God. Human minds can only see and reveal shades of the truth. Have the mind of Christ, to reliably see the truth! This is only possible, by having real faith in God.

Patmore Douglas 11/1/2023 8:29:00 PM

An important tactic the Left use to erode our rights, is to weaken and make subjective, the meaning of words and events. The Left then use cultural pressures, to push people to make decisions in directions they want. For example, rape and sexual assault, were objective acts, reasonable people could agree took place. Now rape and abuse have been morphed into events, which are determined to have taken place, per the subjective view of women. Objectivity has been subsumed in the legal system, and the views of men have become irrelevant.

The Left do the same thing with transgenderism. Instead of courts objectively examining various situations and determining that a man in a dress, is ultimately a man, and should therefore not be allowed in women's sports, the Left push the courts to examine the man's subjective view, and make decisions based on his view. This is discriminatory, because only the view of the party the Left want examined, gets examined: the views of others do not get examined as well, which is a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

Legislatures should pass laws (better still, constitutional amendments) requiring courts to examine cases based only on objective facts. The sentencing portions of cases can be influenced by victims’ and others’ views.

Patmore Douglas 10/15/2023 11:09:00 AM

Many people don't realize that Genesis 1 is many things. One of the things it is, is an allegory describing what we all should be - (children of) God who create things. Genesis 1 also indicates how we should go about creating things: we should call them into being. The above is consistent with Christ’s instructions on how we should have faith:

Mark 11

22 Have faith in God," Jesus answered.
23 "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.
24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

So we can create things by calling them into being (while believing what we command will come to pass), or we can ask God for things (while also believing what we ask for will come into being).

The above singular act (having faith in God), is what transforms a man/woman into (a child of) God. It is what: saves him; gives him righteousness and makes him righteous; subjects him to trials and sacrifice; empowers him; makes him wise; etc. The life of a child of God, is all about practicing having faith, and accomplishing greater and greater things with it. All the transformations, sacrifices, etc. that happen to a  child of God, unfold naturally, as a result of his pursuit of faith – as Christ instructed how it should be done, above.

Patmore Douglas 10/10/2023 7:02:00 PM

So called ‘gender affirming' care, is very similar to handing out needles to drug addicts. Democrats try to sell these things as acts of love, when they are in fact the complete opposite: snares to lure and entrap the afflicted, in their affliction. 'Gender affirming' care, makes no effort to cure the delusional of their delusions; rather it reinforces the mentally ill’s delusions, and ensures those afflicted with gender confusion, become ever more mired in it, and never escape it. Similarly, handing out clean needles to drug addicts does nothing to help addicts overcome their addiction, rather, it removes obstacles for addicts to become ever more mired in their addiction, trapping them hopelessly in their vices.

The above illustrates the Modus Operandi of the Left: the Left point to marginal, near term benefits of their efforts, as they obscure the long term, devastating effects of their actions. The Left do the above in virtually everything they do. E.g., when the Left opine about how they care about the poor, by providing them government assistance, they fail to mention how their actions create a permanent underclass, which continually votes for them, and which gives them continuous political power. The Left also fail to mention how their government programs rupture the nuclear family, resulting in a host of pathologies affecting the poor, such as high incarceration rates of children from poor, broken families, high mental illness rates, low achievement rates, etc. In fact, the Left further exploit those they claim to care about, by insisting they are victims of racism, even though they know full well, that the poor who depend on them, can never improve their situation, because they are entangled in a system that destroys their families – which in turn undermines their ability to achieve, and not be overcome by life’s problems.

The above underscores the Machiavellian nature of the Left. In virtually everything they do, the Left attempt to destroy society, but frame their actions as acts of kindness and nobility. The Left then use their propaganda apparatus of legacy media, educational institutions, Hollywood, the music industry, the advertising industry, and top multinational corporations, etc., to project their false image of being kind, non-stop.

People typically believe the Left are noble and kind: but this happens because they are subject to endless streams of brainwashing, that insist that the Left are in fact noble and kind.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15

Christian Standard Bible

13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder! For Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 So it is no great surprise if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will be according to their works.

The above scripture aptly describes the Left. The Left’s monopoly control over major areas of persuasion (legacy media, education, etc.) is how they maintain the continuous illusion that they are virtuous. People need to ignore the continuous drone of messaging from the Left (by mainstream media, etc.) and examine the actions of the Left, to see for themselves, that what I say above is true.

Patmore Douglas 7/27/2023 10:11:00 PM