Of Bees and Fish
A bee is a bee and a fish is fish, they are not the same no matter how much you may wish and wish.
A very good friend of mine texted me last night saying:
“It occurred to me today that the United States, once the beacon of freedom, family values, and even a bit of legitimate righteousness, is no longer that. I heard Putin, speaking earlier, saying that Russia and his part of the world want nothing to do with American freedom and values.”
I responded that I’m not sure there are such things as American values any longer. It seems we have become that which we once sought to defeat.
Thinking about this exchange this morning gave birth to some recognitions on my part. When you consider the Obama years, the open and ongoing assault on President Trump and the entire the Trump presidency and now the destruction wrought by alleged President Biden and his army of demons, American values have been under direct assault for two decades. So much has been destroyed during these years, I am left to question the desire or ability of the only real vehicle we currently have, the GOP, to fight back.
In my opinion, these are things the Congressional GOP is not doing enough about:
Hunter Biden’s laptop
Biden’s EO’s – chief among them the cancellation of the Keystone pipeline
Biden’s unconstitutional vaccine mandate
Billions in “aid” to Ukraine with zero accountability
A feckless foreign policy
The catastrophic Afghanistan retreat
Weakening of the US military
A disastrous trip to Saudi Arabia
A historic low in oil drilling leases and permits
Restarting the Iran Deal
Putting the US back in the Paris Accords
Destruction of the US economy through shadow implementation of the Green New Deal
Biden’s unconstitutional student loan “forgiveness”
The theft and disclosure of Alito’s Dobbs draft and the threats to the traditionalist justices
The draining of the Strategic Oil Reserve
The violation of the rights and malicious prosecution of the J6 protesters
The corruption of the FBI and the raid at Mar-a-Lago
The weaponization of the DOJ
The debacle at the border
I’m sure there are more, but there seems little interest in doing little more than posturing about these when they happen and then three months later, total radio silence.
Each of these is more than just an event, they are each an assault on traditional American values and they reach all the way to those set forth in the Declaration of Independence. I meant it when I said that I’m not sure that there are any American values left, because the American left has been so successful in their attacks on the basic principles of our founding and have completely twisted our constitution to the point it is unrecognizable.
Back in June, a California Court of Appeals put such postmodernist idiocy on full display when they declared a bee is a fish for the purpose of applying California’s Endangered Species Act in a way the plaintiff wanted.
The New York Post reported that “Matthew Sanders of Stanford Law School’s Environmental Law Clinic hailed the decision as ‘a win for the bumblebees, all imperiled invertebrates in California, and the California Endangered Species Act.’”
Perhaps a win for bumblebees, but a loss for law and people.
If California meant to include insects, bees or other creatures with exoskeletons, the proper and legal way to fix that is to amend the Endangered Species Act – it is not to have a judge declare that a bee is the same as a fish.
I’ve always noted that this is like speeding on a lonely highway. When the sign says 70 and you want to do 90, what stops you?
Nothing other than a respect for the law.
But respect for the law is not a thing in America now.
The left wants all bees to be fish when they need them to be.
In the aftermath of the leaking of Alito’s draft in the Dobbs case and when it finally became the official majority opinion, we saw how such thinking damages the mind of the populace. The Democrats are still to this day, claiming that the conservative justices on the Supreme Court banned abortion when no such thing happened, the question of abortion has been returned to the people and legislatures of each state to decide for themselves – and the interesting thing is that most states are proposing restrictions that are more liberal than what exists in Europe but the left can’t deal because they believe Roe was a “right” the SCOTUS gave 50 years ago.
SCOTUS never opined as to whether abortion should or should not exist, they only said the Court stepped in where it never should have – that it should not have decided Roe in the first place.
Abortion had fallen into the bee/fish status.
Saturday, the Women’s March descended on conservative justices’ homes again Mary Margaret Olohan of The Daily Signal was there to document the proceedings. She interviewed one marcher who said:
“Having abortion banned means that…now I have to be more careful when I have sex.”
Pretty clear from that statement that abortion has become just another method of contraception. My body, my choice (which became inoperable after people were forced to take a “vaccine”) now means “My murder, my choice.”
The point is that what Thomas Jefferson wrote to Samuel Kercheval was at the time of its writing, and remains so today, completely true and valid:
“A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, and to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering.”
A bee is a bee and a fish is fish, they are not the same no matter how much you may wish and wish (with all due apologies to Dr. Seuss).
A bee is not a fish and abortion is not healthcare or contraception.
And the things what we are allowing to happen in America are not American.
Assuming the GOP does take over Congress, these things cannot be ignored if there is any hope to salvage the soul of America.
A girl is a girl, a boy is a boy, no matter the logic you choose to employ.
America, once the "shining beacon on a hill", is leading the Western world into a degraded Sodom and Gomorrah lifestyle.
The meaning of words like gender, male, female, mother, and father have been changed (and the two last ones are now condemned).
It is nothing new to say that our society has become poisoned by Mass Formation Psychosis. Logic and independent thought are derided. We must obey. We must believe. We must become robotic.
A frightening number of Americans cheer on terrorist acts like the assassination of Darya Dugina, the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines, and the newest attack on Russia's sovereignty (the bombing of the bridge connecting the motherland to Crimea). We have become the PLO.
The Republicans, by-and-large, are part of the same swamp that Eric Swalwell, Adam Schiff, and Rashida Tlaib crawled out of. Read comments by Dan Crenshaw and Lindsey Graham. War fever is more contagious than Ebola and nearly as deadly.
We are no longer the good guys.