See if you can make any sense of things, ethically of course.
Everywhere I’m looking today, I see insanity and chaos. Conservative activist Scott Presler is being applauded for saying,”If every Christian voted, we would never lose another Presidential election ever,” noting that many evangelicals are not even registered to vote. This same statement could be made about almost any group imaginable: it’s not news, it’s not remarkable, its not perceptive, and its not useful.
Then, in a “Great Stupid” incident that shocked even me, Fani Willis toy-boy Nathan Wade appeared on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” in its feature “Choppin’ It Up With ‘Quon,” where he was interviewed by satirist Marlon Wayans playing ‘Quon. (The character Quon has been described as a “Hip-hop Borat.”) Yeah, this will help the case that he was hired to help Willis prosecute Donald Trump on his merits as a serious, qualified lawyer! Wade apparently thought he could defend his sexual relationship with Willis in the appearance as Wayans, who is approximately 6.78 times smarter than Wade, used his improvisational talents to make Wade look like the idiot he is.
“How can you not hit that?! How can you not?!” Wayans/Quon declared, as Wade laughed. “We spending that much time together, we doing everything, we might as well!” Anthony Michael Kreis, a constitutional law professor at Georgia State University College of Law, tweeted, “This is gross. Nathan Wade should be embarrassed. And Fani Willis, whatever her mistakes, deserves better than this. As do the people of Fulton County.”
How does Willis “deserve better” if she’s the one who hired Wade, almost certainly sabotaged her own dubious prosecution of Trump by mixing her prosecution duties with nookie, and, like Wade, has continued to argue that using a high-profile case for personal benefit is no big deal? How does Fulton County “deserve better” if its voters elected someone that incompetent?
Don’t get me started. You start instead…
Ethics Alarms 
To be fair- the most criticized voting bloc – “white people” oft accused of narrow mindedness and refusing to think differently represent the *most* diverse voters in the country. And IF they voted with the kind of unity that some bought and paid for demographics voted, the candidate they rallied behind would win every single time.
But alas, the smear really isn’t about white people is it? It’s about conservatives. They’re narrow minded because they won’t vote for democrats.
You never hear a progressive called narrow minded for refusing to vote for a Republican.
Picture Joe saying, shouting, to the graduating class of the University of Arkansas, “If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t white!”
Here is an article worth commenting about.
https://archive.md/P1pQ3
“Religious institutions would either have to decide to get out of the business of offering medical care, and it could be taken over by the province,” Gilbert said, “or these institutions would have to align their care with the Constitution, even if it opposes their values.”
Talk about fascism. Sheesh.
jvb
So they have such an excess of hospitals in Canada that they can shut down a bunch of them over this?
Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.
Did they have this kind of showdown over abortions? Or do Catholic hospitals perform abortions in Canada?
How Biden DHS ‘intel experts group’ plotted to get ‘mothers and teachers’ to report dissent
At some point I’ve come to believe that these are not well-meaning people who are simply tone-deaf to the implications of what they are saying, but rather full-on fascists and authoritarians who are seeking to use government to suppress any dissent and engage in lawfare against their political opponents.
In notes from a September 2023 meeting, the Brennan-Clapper group discussed ways for DHS to increase efforts to collect intelligence on Americans across the country, and “get into local communities in a non-threatening way.”
Members noted that “Americans have an ambivalent feeling of telling on each other,” citing the failure of the post-9/11 “See Something, Say Something” campaign.
https://nypost.com/2024/06/20/us-news/how-biden-dhs-intel-experts-group-plotted-to-get-mothers-and-teachers-to-report-dissent/
Louden County Va school board is trying to pass rule that employees cannot criticize the board either public or privately. We are up in arms about Louisiana’s decision to put the 10 commandments in the classroom but not a peep about clamping down on citizens ability to protest a government agency. The predicate for the rule was to silence those who criticize the males in girls locker rooms. The religion of secular humanism is as authoritarian as traditional theocrats.
Secular humanism has all but extinguished traditional religions. The religions remaining are simply liberal Democrat to hard left organizations. They’re not concerned with eternal life, they’re concerned with social justice here on earth. They believe they can get heaven on earth, if the damned Republicans and conservatives and Christians would just go away. Not your mother’s religion.
Here is thought about churches and politics in general. How come around election season, Dems start visiting black churches and getting people riled about voter suppression, getting out the vote, etc, implying that all the people in this church will vote for them, so they need to do more for this candidate. This is considered good and proper. If some Republican candidate came to a Catholic church to talk about family values, get out the vote, etc, this will be considered politicizing religion and the ACLU will probably sue to try to revoke the church’s tax status. I get that no Republican will pull this tactic on a black church, because they will be accused of racism. But come on people, either we apply this standard wholesale, or discard it.
Isn’t it funny how it’s okay to be ridiculously religious and born again if you do it in a black church with a bunch of authentic gospel music, but it’s bad form to do any of that stuff if you’re white and in a primarily southern church. Complete double standard. Black church good, white church bad.
Also, is anybody following New England/Massachusetts news interested in the Karen Read trial? It seems like a cornucopia of ethics alarms being never plugged in. I do not know if Karen Read is guilty of the 2nd degree murder she is charged with (trial is still ongoing), but the way the investigation has been handled would make me believe that a reasonable person would have reasonable doubt. The gist of the case is that a man died of head injuries and hypothermia in a January snow storm. The state alleges that his girlfriend, Ms. Read, when dropping him off at a friend’s house, after a night of drinking, hit him with her vehicle and left him for dead. Read alleges that she dropped him off at the friend’s house, which he then entered and was beaten and subsequently thrown out of the house, being left for dead in the winter storm. Apparently, there has been a federal grand jury investigation of the state investigators prosecuting this case (due to a conflict of interest with the local PD, Mass State police was the investigator in the case). This is unusual and we don’t know what its focus or goal was, but because of this grand jury, group texts of a lead investigator have been put into the state trial. In the texts, vile and biased comments about the defendant were exchanged between him and his friends and work colleagues, while the investigation he was in charge of was ongoing. It’s a big mess, where Mass State police does not seem to be covering itself in glory.