RUTHFULLY YOURS

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/07/critical_race_theory_transgenderism_and_diversity_equity_and_inclusion_are_destroying_our_military_.html

Military recruitment in the United States is way down at the same time as the Biden Administration is driving out so-called “White supremacists” (anybody who voted for Trump or believes in the Constitution), those opposed to taking the COVID vaccine due to religious or health concerns or natural immunity, and people who refuse to use the preferred pronouns of gender activists.  The result of all this is a neutered and divided military increasingly unable to fight and win wars.

Recent polling by the University of Chicago found that two-thirds of Republican and Independent voters and 51 percent of self-described “very liberal” voters agree that the U.S. government is “corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me.”  Trust in all our institutions is falling and the military is no exception.

A December 2021 survey by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute determined that Americans’ strong confidence and trust in our military had declined from 70 percent to 45 percent over the previous three years with 11 percent of that collapse happening just since February 2021, a month after President Biden took office.  The disastrous pullout of American troops from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, leaving Americans, allies and more than $7 billion dollars in weapons and equipment behind, also played a part in the steep decline.  Our increasingly “woke” military is losing the hearts and minds of the American people.

Young Americans join the military for a variety of reasons, but patriotism is a common element.  Critical Race Theory (CRT) indoctrination is now required throughout our Armed Forces, including at our military academies.  CRT teaches that our nation is systemically racist and that all White people are essentially evil.  It decries our Founding Fathers, our Constitution, our institutions, our capitalist economy and our entire way of life as irredeemably bigoted. 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/can-electoral-count-act-reform-happen-in-this-congress/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=next-article&utm_term=first

In an election year, Congress basically shuts down by the beginning of the fall. Given summer recess schedules in both houses, that means the next few weeks offer pretty much the final stretch of real legislative days. Looking at the plausible to-do list for that period, there are three significant items that stand some chance of passage: a much-trimmed reconciliation bill advancing some Democratic priorities, a bicameral compromise version of the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (different forms of which have passed both houses), and reforms of the Electoral Count Act.

The first two are on a collision course with one another at this point. Chuck Schumer and Joe Machin have been working toward a reconciliation bill to salvage something of the Build Back Better package that went nowhere this year. It would let Medicare “negotiate” drug prices, and then would include some modest energy and climate provisions and some kind of tax increase. There is broad support among Democrats for the Medicare provisions, but the rest is still up in the air. Many Republicans seem dismissive of the prospects for this measure, and it certainly makes sense to be skeptical about Schumer’s ability to pull it off. He has done an awful job managing intra-Democratic legislative negotiations in this Congress. But my sense, alas, is that this one has real legs, and the Democrats may well come together on a measure they can pass.

Meanwhile, the two parties continue to try to work out differences over the USICA — a bill that began as a series of major investments in federal support for strategically significant scientific R&D but is gradually devolving into a set of subsidies for the American semiconductor industry. The House and Senate have passed different versions of the bill (with the Senate version getting a fair bit of bipartisan support), and have been negotiating toward a stripped-down version that might pass in both houses.

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-weekend-jolt/as-the-left-turns/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=second

Democrats haven’t abandoned someone this quickly since Donald Trump decided to run for president as a Republican.

Persistently paltry poll numbers combining with a string of defeats at the Supreme Court, economic pressures that refuse to bend to the will of tweets, and the associated gloomy prospects for Democrats in the midterms are cracking the coalition that helped get President Biden elected.

Politico warned back in November 2020 that this coalition was “broad but unstable,” comprising minorities, young people, women, independents, and some Republicans. He’s now underwater with all of them (save for minorities, who are evenly split on the job-approval question) in the latest Monmouth University poll. As progressives and others bolt the Wilmington zeppelin, the tableau conjures the spectacular evacuation scene from Spaceballs in which, as troopers scramble for safety, Mel Brooks’s President Skroob grabs his subordinate’s shirt and barks, “You gotta help me, I don’t know what to do, I can’t make decisions — I’m a president!”

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/07/08/justice-kavanaugh-went-out-for-dinner-and-progressives-were-outraged-now-offering-200-for-the-location-of-any-conservative-justice-n481537

On the morning we all learned that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had been assassinated during a public speech, it’s getting harder to avoid the conclusion that the left would very much like to see something similar happen to Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Wednesday night Kavanaugh went out to dinner at Morton’s steakhouse. One of the people who has been attending Ruth Sent Us’ weekly protests at Kavanaugh’s house apparently works at the Morton’s in Washington, DC and sent the group a tip.

Within minutes a group called ShutDownDC was calling for people to protest outside the restaurant.

According to Politico, some protesters did show up but didn’t really make much of an impact except maybe to disrupt other people trying to have dinner.

…the court had no official comment on Kavanaugh’s behalf and a person familiar with the situation said he did not hear or see the protesters and ate a full meal but left before dessert, Morton’s was outraged about the incident. A rep for the chain steakhouse sent Lippman this statement:

“Honorable Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh and all of our other patrons at the restaurant were unduly harassed by unruly protestors while eating dinner at our Morton’s restaurant. Politics, regardless of your side or views, should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner. There is a time and place for everything. Disturbing the dinner of all of our customers was an act of selfishness and void of decency.”

As for Kavanaugh, he reportedly left through the back door to avoid the protesters.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-democrats-throw-a-roe-tantrum-nancy-pelosi-security-supreme-court-justices-dobbs-11656422586?mod=opinion_lead_pos4

Washington is crazytown these days, as protesters harass Supreme Court Justices at home, and this week they pursued Justice Brett Kavanaugh while he was having dinner at a Morton’s steakhouse (see Notable & Quotable nearby). Will this finally be enough to get Congress to act to better protect the Justices and their families?

The Senate returns Monday after a two-week recess, and the first order of business should be passing legislation that funds security to protect the Justices’ families. House Democrats waylaid the bill before the break in what seemed to be an act of spite for the decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

House Democrats begrudgingly passed a Senate bill in June to extend police protection to the Justices’ immediate families, though only after a man with a gun, knife and burglary tools was arrested outside Justice Kavanaugh’s Maryland home. Twenty-seven Democrats voted against the bill.

But Congress also must provide the resources to fund the expanded protection. The Senate by unanimous consent passed a bill that provides the U.S. Marshals Service and Supreme Court an additional $19.4 million to cover increased security costs. Democratic Sen. Mark Warner (Va.) and Republican Sen. Bill Hagerty (Tenn.) beseeched House leaders to pass the bill before adjourning last month. “The need for and urgency of this security funding is plain,” they wrote. Speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently disagreed.