The Inequity of the Pursuit of Equity in the military over preparedness is at best dereliction of duty - its treasonous.

The Inequity of the Pursuit of Equity in the military over preparedness is at best dereliction of duty - its treasonous: military brass thinks Trump is more of a threat to the nation, than its pursuit of DEI policies. Such behavior is idiotic and treasonous.  Why the top military brass, if they have a modicum of self-awareness and integrity, should present their letter of resignation no later than January 1, 2025

The Proposed promotion of Lt. General Chris Donahue raises questions and perhaps abuses in the military promotion process:  

does the process reward warmongers?  How about losers?  Perhaps, as in the case of Donahue, brown-nosing  Donahue's proposed promotion smells less as meritorious and more like trying to Trump-erize the military, like the RINOs are doing in Congress: all the current military brass, if they have a modicum of integrity should submit their resignation.

An 80-page report released by the Arizona State University's Center for American Institution condemns treatment of the prestigious schools as a “laboratory for social experimentation.” Exposure to critical race theory during schooling is leading future military leaders to contribute to a growing culture surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion.

The National Commission on Civic Education in the Military finds that cadets and midshipmen at our military service academies are receiving extensive training in so-called civic education about racism, sexism, unconscious bias, and intersectionality that subverts our ideals,” the report reads. “These trainings rely heavily on the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and are provided with the express goals of fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace, and of rooting out alleged white supremacy in the military. Training is implemented by a vast DEI bureaucracy that extends from senior leaders at the Pentagon to the lowest ranks.”

Jim Fein Research Assistant, National Security and European Affairs for Heritage Foundation, claims that "DEI Is Distracting Our Military From Its Primary Task: Under the Biden administration, he writes, the military spending is increasingly focused on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, which waste money and divide troops. Top officials have set diversity quotas for general and leadership positions in the military—and they’re willing to sacrifice standards to achieve these quotas. The military has one job, and one job only: protecting the United States from its enemies. DEI does nothing to further that mission."

But it's not merely a distraction.  It's dereliction of duty. It's treasonous.

The Jim Bakker Show News, reports that the Pentagon is in “absolute disarray” with “generals scrambling” due to the incoming Trump administration’s plans to fire woke senior military leaders who prioritized diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) over combat readiness, according to sources.

What's even more scandalous is that generals vehemently opposed to president Donald Trump, remain silent about the military's wrong-headed priorities;

John Kelly - "Certainly the former president is in the far-right area, he’s certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators — he has said that. So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure,” Kelly told the New York Times.

Mark A. Milley - Trump is a "fascist to the core," Milley told the Washington Post's Bob Woodward.James Mattis"Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us," Mattis wrote in a June 2020 statement to the Atlantic.

H.R. McMaster - In the January 6 siege on the Capitol, Trump "abandoned his oath to ‘support and defend the Constitution,’ a president’s highest obligation," McMaster wrote in his 2024 book.

Mark Esper- After stolen documents were found at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Esper said that stashing them there was an “irresponsible action that places our service members at risk, places our nation’s security at risk.”

Stanley McChrystal- McChrystal said Trump was "immoral" in a 2018 interview with ABC News.

Mike Mullen - During Trump's infamous St. John's Church photo op, Mullen wrote in 2020, "he laid bare his disdain for the rights of peaceful protest in this country, gave succor to the leaders of other countries who take comfort in our domestic strife, and risked further politicizing the men and women of our armed forces."

Do you notice the common denominator? All these military anti-Trumpers are hailed as heros by the Legacy Media! Right out of the Progressive Logic handbook: The latest term added: Truth.  Truth is hazardous to progressive goals & getting to yes: 'Lie to me make feel good' - NPR's CEO Katherine Maher. These are the same folks who fight disinformation with disinformation in the artificial intelligence age: It's Information deemed to go against progressive interests as determined by Jeff Hancock, Stanford expert on 'lying and technology' accused of lying  about technology, Stanford University President Marc Tessier Lavigne, forced to step down and NYT/MSM.

Pete Hegseth, former Army National Guard officer who has been announced as the forthcoming nominee for United States secretary of defense in Donald Trump's second cabinet, thinks that the process used to promote Collin Powell is woke.Not so according to Michele Norris, senior contributing editor for thevfusgracefull MSNBC

Daniel WadiHacin, an apparently strong Donahue supporter absolves him of any wrongdoing: "Hierarchy is what makes a military work. If General Donahue did not follow orders the whole fiasco would have been infinitely worse. Blame Biden and Milley for extending the withdrawal date from Trumps May 2021 deadline to some stupid symbolic 9/11/2021 tentative one." But the hierarchy argument breaks down quick, particularly when treason may be inbolved: Biden and Milley are indeed to blame. But if you are looking to distribute the blame, that should includeprogressive DEI policies enacted during the Obama and Biden administration. You are right that hierarchy makes the military work. Ask the Third Reich: The devil made me do it is no longer an ethical or legal defense, as a result of the haulocast. Reminds me that yesterday was the memorial of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, a teenage scholar who at the age of 18, after having a vision converted to Christianity debated 50 pagan philosophers and converted them. She paid the ultimate price. She had more backbone than Donahue

But WadiHacin doesn't stop fighting for Donahue: "General Donahue was not responsible for DEI policies. He was commissioned in 1992 so he belongs to a generations of officers who matriculated under a strict meritocracy. It is stupid, crass and illegal to make General Donahue a scapegoat for things he was NOT responsible for." Donahue, just like the generals who are vehemently opposed to president Donald Trump, remain silent about the military prioritizing the pursuit of DEI over military preparedness. So why are the aforemtioned folks vehemently opposed to president Donald Trump don't even raise a hand about DEI in the military? Supports Pete Hegseth argument.

One of the few, the proud and not a marine is Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Weimer. "The Army's top enlisted leader has removed key guidance that required diversity to be considered when selecting individuals to serve in upper-level noncommissioned officer positions"

Whether Jim Fein's claim that the military is distracted by its pursuit of DEI policies, or indoctrination subverting America's ideals, as Arizona State University's Center for American Institution reports, Donahue's proposed promotion and the same military personnel vehemently opposed to president Donald Trump, silent about military preparedness speaks more about them than about president Trump. It's time to review the military's promotion process.

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Stanley Warner

The brutal truth is that the only purpose of our military is to defeat and kill our enemies; not engage in the ridiculous “social experiments” that Biden has put us through for the last four years. Now they fly “rainbow banners”, promote transgender enlistment and paint “rainbow bullets” on Marine helmets in recruiting ads and put recruits through CRT training. The Russians and the Chinese are rolling on the ground laughing at us. Our all volunteer armed forces have historically been majority patriotic white Americans and they are, understandably, no longer signing up just to be told that they are inherently “racist oppressors”. As a result our armed forces have lost some of their best and brightest and can’t even meet 75% or their recruiting goals and morale and standards have plummeted.

Anybody that doubts Hegseth’s nomination should go and read his book “The War on Warriors”. Hegseth is a Christian, Princeton & Harvard graduate who served multiple combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. A decorated real warrior and not a lifelong Pentagon armchair commando, he’s imminently more qualified than the likes of Austin, who was responsible for the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, or the treasonous former Chief of Staff Mark Milley who defied his Commander in Chief and colluded with the CCP. We need to re-shape our Military, get rid of most of the Obama and Biden era General and Flag officers, stop allowing transgenders and anyone who thinks that their sexual orientation and/or proclivity is more important than their ability to fulfill their mission. Promotions based solely on merit and there is no place for DEI in any of the armed services if we want to restore our once proud Military.

Memorial of Saint Catherine, teen scholar and martyr, Nov 25.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria, a teenage scholar who at the age of 18, after having a vision converted to Christianity debated 50 pagan philosophers and converted them.  She paid the ultimate price.

Saint Catherine is sorely  needed in the 21st century to combat the Extended-Release Culture Pill addiction and the  Pareto Rule of Philosophy: 20% of Instructors enable

80% of atheists

12,000 philosophy degrees were awarded in the US in 2020. While a small number relative to total number of degrees, they have a significant impact on the culture.

Catherine had it all: she was beautiful, brilliant, and extremely wealthy at the age of eighteen when she debated the Emperor Maximin (311-313) and harshly criticized him for his persecution of Christians who refused to worship pagan gods. Astounded by her wisdom, Maxentius ordered her to be kept confined, and summoned fifty of his most learned philosophers, promising them great rewards if they could get Catherine to abandon her Christian faith.


However, her arguments were so convincing that all fifty of the philosophers were converted to Christianity.


Then the Emperor attempted to win Catherine by flattery and by promises, but his efforts proved equally fruitless. Next, he had her thrown into a dungeon, without food and water. He ordered her whipped with rods, scourged with leaden nodules, and then left to languish eleven days without food in prison.

In the Emperor's absence, his wife and Porphyrius, general of the army, visited Catherine in prison and both were converted to Christianity. Porphyrius then converted 200 soldiers. When the Emperor returned, he had them all executed, including his wife, and offered to make Catherine his new wife.When she refused, Catherine's was placed upon a wheel with sharp and pointed knives, which was designed to tear her body into pieces, but when she was bound to it, a heavenly fire destroyed it. Finally, on November 25, Catherine was beheaded. By the hands of angels her body was carried to Mt. Sinai, where it was interred in the convent which bears her name.


Devotion to her spread as a result of the Crusades. She was invoked as the patroness of students, teachers, librarians and lawyers. Catherine is
revered as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers - with St. Margaret and St. Barbara as one of the fourteen Holy Helpful saints in heaven, (that group of saints notable for answering prayers especially for cures from disease and at the hour of death) she was unceasingly praised by preachers and sung by poets.


and she is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on 25 November.

More than 1,100 years after Catherine's martyrdom, Joan of Arc identified her as one of the saints who appeared to and counseled.


A Prayer to Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Glorious Saint Catherine, virgin and martyr, help me to imitate your love of purity. Give me strength and courage in fighting off the temptations of the world and evil desires.

Help me to love God with my whole heart and serve Him faithfully.

O Saint Catherine, through your glorious martyrdom for the love of Christ, help me to be loyal to my faith and my God as long as I live.

Kreeftisms

 

I ordered Peter Kreeft's books Food for the Soul on recommendation from Bishop Robert Barron's Word on Fire.
I was underwhelmed when I opened the first book. Somehow, the content did not match my preconceived notion so I put it down;  I realized the book is a compilation of homilies and commentaries.  Now I love it
Often when I serve during Mass. I'm not as attentive as I should be.  Other times I can't focus and more often than not, I find it difficult to understand homilies by foreign-born pastors. This is not only the perfect complement, but is full of insights. Full of Kreeftisms

Forget the Greek Tragedies. Forget the Shakespearean Tragedies It's the Christian Tragedy Life has only one tragedy, in the end: not to have been a saint. - Lèon Bloy

Third Sunday of Advent: Rejoice 

C. S. Lewis "The Weight of Glory"

Heeding the message

#ParetoRuleOfPhilosophy 20% of Instructors enable 80% of atheists If you trust science, why not trust the Doctors of the Church?

Feast Day of Blessed Father Pro, Martyred by AntiCatholic Mexican Government - Not unlike current AntiCatholic US Government

José Ramón Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez, was a Mexican Jesuit priest, arrested with his brother Roberto on trumped-up charges attempting to assassinate former Mexico’s president Álvaro Obregón. Miguel was executed under the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles. Roberto was spared, but Miguel was sentenced to face a firing squad on November 23, 1927. His funeral became a public demonstration of faith. Miguel Pro was beatified in 1988.

Born into a prosperous, devout family in Guadalupe de Zacatecas, Mexico, Miguel entered the Jesuits in 1911.

Pro studied in Mexico until 1914 when a massive wave of governmental anti-Catholicism forced the novitiate to dissolve and the Jesuits to flee to Los Gatos, California, in the United States. He then went to study in Granada, Spain (1915–19), and from 1919 to 1922 taught in Nicaragua.

 

Back in Mexico, a new constitution for the country had been signed (1917). Five articles of the 1917 Constitution of Mexico were particularly aimed at suppression of the Catholic Church. Article 3 mandated secular education in schools, prohibiting the Church from participating in primary and secondary education. Article 5 outlawed monastic religious orders. Article 24 forbade public worship outside of church buildings, while Article 27 restricted religious organizations' rights to own property. Finally, Article 130 revoked basic civil rights of clergy members: priests and religious workers were prevented from wearing their habits, were denied the right to vote, and were forbidden from commenting on public affairs to the press.




For his theological studies Pro was sent to Enghien, Belgium, where the French Jesuits (also in exile) had their faculty of Theology. His health continued to deteriorate. There he was ordained a priest on August 31, 1925. He wrote on that occasion: "How can I explain to you the sweet grace of the Holy Spirit, which invades my poor miner's soul with such heavenly joys? I could not hold back the tears on the day of my ordination, above all at the moment when I pronounced, together with the bishop, the words of the consecration. After the ceremony the new priests gave their first blessing to their parents. I went to my room, laid out all the photographs of my family on the table, and then blessed them from the bottom of my heart."

His first assignment as a priest was to work with the miners of Charleroi, Belgium. Despite the socialist, communist, and anarchist tendencies of the workers, he was able to win them over and preach the Gospel to them.

One of his companions, Pulido, said that he "had never seen such an exquisite wit, never coarse, always sparkling." He was noted for his charity and ability to speak about spiritual subjects without boring his audience. Pulido remarked that there were two Pros: the playful Pro and the prayerful Pro. He was known for the long periods he spent in the chapel




Pro arrived at Veracruz on July 8, 1926. Plutarco Elías Calles was now president of Mexico. Unlike his predecessors, Calles vigorously enforced the anti-Catholic provisions of the 1917 constitution, implementing the so-called Calles Law, which provided specific penalties for priests who criticized the government (five years' imprisonment) or wore clerical garb in certain situations outside their churches (500 pesos). This law went into effect on July 31, 1926.

By this time, some states, such as Tabasco under the notorious anti-Catholic Tomás Garrido Canabal, had closed all the churches and cleared the entire state of openly serving priests, killing many of them, forcing a few to marry, the remaining few serving covertly at risk of their lives. On his return Pro served a Church which was forced to go "underground". He celebrated the Eucharist clandestinely and ministered the other sacraments to small groups of Catholics.[11]

Details of Pro's ministry in the underground church come from his many letters, signed with the nickname Cocol. In October 1926, a warrant for his arrest was issued. He was arrested and released from prison the next day, but kept under surveillance.

A failed attempt to assassinate Álvaro Obregón, which only wounded him, in November 1927, provided the state with a pretext for arresting Pro again, this time with his brothers Humberto and Roberto. A young engineer who confessed his part in the attempted assassination testified that the Pro brothers were not involved.[12] Miguel and his brothers were taken to the Detective Inspector's Office in Mexico City.

On November 23, 1927, Pro was executed without trial. President Calles gave orders to have Pro executed for the assassination attempt. Calles had the execution meticulously photographed, and the newspapers throughout the country carried photos on the front page the following day. Presumably, Calles thought that the sight of the pictures would frighten the Cristero rebels who were fighting against his troops, particularly in the state of Jalisco. However, they had the opposite effect.

Pro and his brothers were visited by Generals Roberto Cruz and Palomera Lopez around 11 p.m. on November 22, 1927. The next day, as Pro walked from his cell to the courtyard and the firing squad, he blessed the soldiers, knelt, and briefly prayed quietly. Declining a blindfold, he faced his executioners with a crucifix in one hand and a rosary in the other and held his arms out in imitation of the crucified Christ and shouted out, "May God have mercy on you! May God bless you! Lord, Thou knowest that I am innocent! With all my heart I forgive my enemies!" Before the firing squad was ordered to shoot, Pro raised his arms in imitation of Christ and shouted the defiant cry of the Cristeros, "¡Viva Cristo Rey!" – "Long live Christ the King!".[14] When the initial shots of the firing squad failed to kill him, a soldier shot him at point-blank range.




Calles is reported to have looked down upon a throng of 40,000 which lined Pro's funeral procession. Another 20,000 waited at the cemetery where he was buried without a priest present, his father saying the final words. The Cristeros became more animated and fought with renewed enthusiasm, many of them carrying the newspaper photo of Pro before the firing squad.

Catholicism arrived in Mexico with the Spanish conquistadors in the early 1500s and rapidly grew, especially following the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1531. By 1810, anti-Catholic sentiments had set in after Mexico’s independence from Spain when the Church became intimately intertwined with civil governance. The new Mexican Constitution in 1857 was the initial attempt by the newly independent state to limit the Church’s influence. Anti-Catholicism and anti-clericalism reached their peak in the 1920s under President Plutarco Elías Calles, leading to the Cristero Wars that took the lives of an estimated 50,000–250,000 Mexicans and brought the martyrdom of at least 40 priests. Of those priests, Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro, whom the Church honors today, was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988

Saint Cecilia, Martyr, Celibate Spouse

November 22 is feast day of Saint Cecilia, Martyr, Celibate Spouse, patron saint of music and musicians. She is one of several virgin martyrs commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass in the Latin Church. She died a virgin, just like she had vowed to God, and was martyred for it.

Historical records suggest that she was born around the 2nd or 3rd century AD. According to legend, Cecilia was a noble lady of Rome who, with her husband Valerian, his brother Tiburtius, and a Roman soldier named Maximus, suffered martyrdom under the Emperor Alexander Severus.

During this period, anti-Christian activities were accusatory and not inquisitive. Christians were accused and prosecuted through a process termed cognitio extra ordinem. Trials and punishments varied greatly, and sentences ranged from acquittal to death. Many early Christians were jailed or exiled and some, refusing to renounce their faith, were tortured and killed in public stadiums for all to see.

The names of some of these saints, and specifically seven women are mentioned as part of the First Eucharistic Prayer of the
Mass known as the Roman Canon. The Canon of the Mass is the first of four general eucharistic prayers in the Roman Missal from which the priest may select. More commonly called Eucharistic Prayer 1, it is also known by its former title, “the Roman Canon,” and it served as the only eucharistic prayer in the Roman rite for more than a thousand years. Regarding mentioning the saints, the final seven names listed in the Roman Canon, each Eucharistic Prayer has its own characteristics. Before Pope John XXIII added St. Joseph, the Roman Canon traditionally listed 24 saints (12 apostles and 12 martyrs) in two separate groups.

The full list is:

First: Peter and Paul, Andrew, (James, John, Thomas, James, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon and Jude [apostles], Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, Cornelius, [5 Popes] Cyprian [bishop of Carthage], Lawrence [deacon], Chrysogonus, John and Paul, Cosmas and Damian [5 laymen]).

Second: John the Baptist, Stephen [deacon protomartyr], Matthias, Barnabas [apostles], (Ignatius [bishop of Antioch], Alexander [Pope], Marcellinus [priest, Peter [exorcist], Felicity, Perpetua [2 married laywomen of Carthage], Agatha, Lucy, Agnes, Cecilia [4 virgins], Anastasia [laywoman of Sirmium]).


The final seven names listed in the Roman Canon (the “First Eucharistic Prayer” or “Eucharistic Prayer I”) are women saints of the Church. Sts. Felicity, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy, Agnes, Cecilia, and Anastasia are all saints of the Roman Empire in the early Church. Of course, the Blessed Virgin Mary is also mentioned by name in the Roman Canon;

Cecilia prayed often and had promised God she would remain a virgin till death. Despite her vow of virginity, her parents forced her to marry a pagan nobleman named Valerian. During the wedding, Cecilia sat apart singing to God in her heart, and for that, she was later declared the saint of musicians. When the time came for her marriage to be consummated, Cecilia told Valerian that watching over her was an angel of the Lord, who would punish him if he sexually violated her but would love him if he respected her virginity. When Valerian asked to see the angel, Cecilia replied that he could see the angel if he would go to the third milestone on the Via Appia and be baptized by Pope Urban I. After following Cecilia's advice, he saw the angel standing beside her, crowning her with a chaplet of roses and lilies

Valerian was baptized by Pope Urbanus, who was then Bishop of Rome. He found an angel standing beside Cecilia on his return, crowning her with a bouquet of roses and lilies.

Having witnessed Cecilia’s words to be accurate, he joined her commitment to a celibate marriage. When Valerian’s brother Tibertius heard of the angel and his baptism, he also got baptized.

Together, both brothers dedicated their lives to burying the martyrs killed every day by the Turcius Almachius, city prefect. It was a dangerous time to be a Christian in Rome.

Eventually, both brothers were arrested and presented before the prefect. Maximus, the city’s prefect executioner, was ordered to kill the brothers.

However, Maximus, stunned by their faith, got converted too. The brothers were executed after refusing to offer sacrifice to the gods of Rome with Maximus.

Following her husband and brother-in-law’s murder, she continued to preach the gospel of Christ. She was able to convert over 400 people, who were baptized mainly by Pope Urbanus.

Cecilia was soon arrested and sentenced to death by suffocation in her own bath. She was shut in, and the tub heated to a terrifying temperature, but Cecilia was miraculously saved unharmed.

Alarmed by her survival, Almachius, the city prefect, ordered her execution. Legend has it that Cecilia was struck three times with a sword to the neck and was not beheaded. The executioner fled, leaving her in a pool of her own blood. Cecilia lived for three days. She preached and prayed for the people who came to her. She donated her wealth to the poor and left a legacy that her house should be converted into a church.

Prayer to St. Cecilia

O glorious St. Cecilia, virgin and martyr, you won the martyr’s crown without renouncing your love for Jesus, the delight of your soul. We ask that you help us to be faithful in love for Jesus so that in communion with the saints, we may praise him twice our song for rejoicing for the blood that he shed, which gave us the grace to accomplish His will in our hearts. Amen

Feast of Saint Albert the Great, Doctor of the Church. patron saint of scientists & 13th Century Google

November 15th is the Feast of Saint Albert the Great, a Doctor of the Church, patron saint of scientists, native German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist, and bishop, considered one of the greatest medieval philosophers and thinkers. Albert became known as Great because of his towering intellectual abilities; he was a respected philosopher, scientist, theologian and teacher, and was well-versed in Arabic culture, including Islam.

 One of his students, who later became a great friend and built upon his Scholastic method, was Saint Thomas Aquinas: Students of philosophy know him as the master of Thomas Aquinas. Albert’s attempt to understand Aristotle’s writings established the climate in which Thomas Aquinas developed his synthesis of Greek wisdom and Christian theology. 


He was known for Teaching of theology, Pioneering scholar of Aristotle, Systematic study of minerals and Discovery of the element arsenic. Fields of study included, Natural science, Alchem, Jurisprudence, Diplomacy, Theolog and  Natural philosophy

Saint Albert was canonized  December 16, 1931, Vatican City by Pope Pius XI. He is patron saint of Those who cultivate the natural sciences, medical technicians, philosophers, and scientists

He was the eldest son of a powerful and wealthy German lord of military rank. He was educated in the liberal arts. Despite fierce family opposition, he entered the Dominican novitiate.

His boundless interests prompted him to write a compendium of all knowledge: natural science, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, astronomy, ethics, economics, politics, and metaphysics. His explanation of learning took 20 years to complete. “Our intention,” he said, “is to make all the aforesaid parts of knowledge intelligible to the Latins.”

Prayers to Saint Albert the Great

Dear Lord, we thank You and praise You for giving us St. Albert the Great as an example of holiness. We ask You to hear the prayers he brings before Your throne on our behalf.

St. Albert the Great, you are honored as the patron saint of scientists. You devoted a lot of your life to studying science. You even studied the works of Muslim scientists in order to gain more knowledge.

Please bring all of our petitions to God, and we particularly ask today that you pray that God will bless and assist all scientists in their work.

Pray for us, that we may do all we can to glorify God in our work each day. Pray that we may always offer to God all that we do.

And we especially ask  your intercession for our necessities, tribulations and sufferings.

St. Albert the Great, pray for us!

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

The 2024 Election Wasn't About The Education Vote or Gender Vote- But the Entitlement Vote & Youth Vote

 

The results of the 2024 presidential election shows the  political divide, with the exception of abortion is not about ideology or gender.  After all, the gender gap is the education gap.  The education gap is about choice. For Men is a my brain, my wallet, my choice. It's about the free lunch and the youth vote.

The 2024 Kamala Harris campaign, with the exception of abortion, was based on platitudes, like not going back, celebrity endorsements, name-calling: racists, misogynist, dictator, ignorant, uneducated and so on.  Despite warnings of a colossal gender gap, Women were more evenly split than in 2020, with an 8 percent lead for Harris compared to a 15 percent lead for Biden among women voters. 

The 2024 presidential election results show that the 'uneducated' and 'ignorant' like the other ad hominem attacks were just that. What it all boils to is free stuff.

If you paid attention to media coverage leading up to November 5th

the results of the 2024 presidential were unexpected, if not downright shocking.  The DNC admited as much, after all, the New York Times/mainstream media were projecting Kamala Harris was going to win: Yet the Kamala Harris campaign is $20 million in debt. Lindy Li, a member of the DNC Finance Committee, said she and others were misled. Pollster Luntz told CNN’s MJ Lee that the president holds “a lot of blame” for her defeat and a number of Democrats have slammed Biden for his decision to seek reelection last year, declaring that he “hung on too long” before abandoning his presidential bid in July. A Harris aide has also pointed to a moment during the vice president’s interview on “The View” last month, when she told hosts that she couldn’t think of something she could’ve done differently from Biden over the past four years, Reuters reported. But Occam’s Razor suggests the NYT/MSM ‘experts’ played a big part on the failed campaign by misleading its subscribers and advertisers – a sort of red journalism.

The results showed every race, color, creed, and gender repudiated Kamala Harris’ failed platitudes-based campaign strategy which the NYT/MSM not only endorsed but promoted. 

The Indian Country sided with Trump: As well it should:  Progressive policies, Tribal Leaders & corrupt politicians have failed Native Americas & Alaska Natives.

Meanwhile, the New York Times led the mainstream media cheering squad promoting the sizzle campaign, while surrogates used social media as a boom box to expand on the strategy like announcing a daily celebrity endorsement and post misinformation. 

The so- called education vote in the 2024 presidential election also helps  illustrate the inverse relationship between 'education’ and common sense/wisdom - it's not education, but Indoctrination.

Perhaps more important, the results also show the lowest youth support for Democrats in a century and the often mentioned gap is not ideological but transactional.

Kamala Harris wins the No VoterID required vote.

Disraeli and President John F. Kennedy would argue America's future looms bright.0

In his message to Congress on February, 1963, President John F. Kennedy said: " To the Congress of the United States:

"The youth of a nation", said Disraeli -  Britain's first, and so far only, Jewish Prime Minister -

"are the trustees of posterity". The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth. This Nation facing increasingly complex economic, social and international challenges--is increasingly dependent on the opportunities, capabilities and vitality of those who are soon to bear its chief responsibilities. Such attributes as energy, a readiness to question, imagination and creativity are all attributes of youth that are also essential to our total national character. To the extent that the Nation is called upon to promote and protect the interests of our younger citizens, it is an investment certain to bring a high return, not only in basic human values but in social and economic terms. A few basic statistics will indicate the nature and proportion of our need to make this investment" - American youth decided to take matters in their own hands.

The Black vote remained impervious to the most expensive presidential campaign, apparently ignoring history and the impact progressive policies have on Black families - focused on Entitlement 

There was significant speculation over the Democrats losing the Black vote. But overall, the number of Black voters choosing Trump remained similar to NBC’s 2020 exit poll: increasing by 1 point to 13 percent. What is most apparent is the increased gap of 14 percent between Black men and women. Out of all demographic groups, Black women were Harris’s strongest supporters (91 percent), second only to Black voters aged 65+.

The overall so-called  gender divide was smaller than in 2020, and below predicted levels. Among Black and Latino groups in particular, however, the gap was substantial, possibly due to the 'education gap:' 2024 Demographics. Gender gap all: 11. White - 8. Black 14. Latino 18

The So-Called Education Vote

Gender gap in college completion by race and ethnicit

Axios reports that acoording to 'experts' a growing partisan split between Latino men and women is being driven partly by gaps in education. Latinos overall have made broad gains in obtaining college degrees during the past two decades, but women have significantly surpassed men, according to the UCLA Latino Data Hub.According to Pew Research Center. 27% of Latinas ages 25-29 are now likely to have a college degree, compared with 20% of Latino men, and college-educated voters tend to lean Democratic, as do Latino men and Latinas.

According to Pew Research, White, Black, Hispanic and Asian women between the ages of 25 and 34 are all more likely than their male counterparts to have a bachelor’s degree. 

The gap has increased to 10 points today (52% of White women vs. 42% of White men).

Similarly, in 1995, young Black women and men were about equally likely to have a bachelor’s degree (14% vs. 16%). Today, Black women are 12 points more likely than Black men to have one (38% of Black women vs. 26% of Black men).

Asian women and men are making comparable gains over the last few decades. In 1995, 42% of young Asian women and men had a bachelor’s degree. Today, 77% of young Asian women have one, as do 71% of young Asian 

For Men it's My brain, my choice 

A 2021 Pew Research Center survey asked Americans without a bachelor’s degree why they chose not to seek one. Men said they just didn’t chose to get one. Women said they wanted more degrees but needed financial help.

Given that across the board, women are more 'educated' than man, why is the ACLU objects to the gender gap: 

"Today, gender bias continues to create huge barriers for many women. Ongoing struggles include ensuring equal economic opportunities, educational equity, and an end to gender-based violence."

Stanford University, a vocal proponent of gender equality, it's surgical team is practically all female 

But it's not about gender equity in STEM, but about enculturation. Different studies show that south east Asian women are more likely to go for STEM:  Some attribute it to education system: All students, regardless of gender, are required to study science. In the West, mostly due to the emphasis on choice, women choose not to study science

The college majors that pay the most right after college  are STEM-based. Except for a BS In Race Hustling -  Race Hustling is the highest paid degree: The University of Michigan has 163 DEI officers. Ohio State & U of Virginia have 94. Georgia Tech has 41, but only 13 history teachers. The Highest-paid diversity and inclusion employees rake in substantially more than the average full-time professor! While the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers Racially Exclusive-Programs and Scholarships.

Woke Massachusetts school district  pulls advanced math for being too White and Asian, and people are enraged

Kansas State University (KSU) was hit with a civil rights complaint for a scholarship program that discriminates based on race, designed for African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Latinx American heritage.

Florida State University professor abruptly left his $190K job after faking data to make racism seem more common & having six research papers retracted. Florida university fires professor Eric Steward  over dubious racial bias studies, damage to school may be ‘catastrophic’

Even as the University Of Minnesota  PhD's were forced to retract an article they wrote about "structural racism in the Journal Of Health Services Research - The authors,  UM employees are focused on racial equity: Stuart Grande,  senior Lecturer, Janette Dill,  an associate professor, and Tongtan Chantarat,  a research scientist. The retraction is because its claims were "inaccurate, misleading, or false," according to a note on the withdrawn article. 

Not to be undone,  Target's diversity Chief Kiera Fernandez said that it’s the role of white women to call out transgressions, and continued to single out a white employee and said that because of her race her voice carries more weight and she has a responsibility. She runs Targets Racial Equity Action and Change. Her task force focuses on engaging with black customers and hiring more black employees. Target is also shifting to more black owned suppliers and ending contracts with white owned companies. She was hired internally from the Human Resources department.

Sherri Ann Charleston Harvard chief DEI officer accused of 40 counts of plagiarism, including lifting from her own husband: report - It's the law: "Where you find one, you are bound to find many more" - Juran on Quality Assurance

Yet,  A study has shown how Black DEI professionals get the short end of the stick. According to a report from Zippia, 76.1% of chief diversity officer roles are held by white employees while 3.8% are held by Black employees

A degree that's worth less than a Zimbabwe Dollar 

In 2021–22, 2.0 million associate’s degrees were conferred by postsecondary institutions within the United States.

Of the 2.0 million bachelor’s degrees conferred in 2021–22, some 58 percent were concentrated in six fields of study: business (375,400 degrees); health professions and related programs (263,800 degrees); social sciences and history (151,100 degrees); biological and biomedical sciences (131,500 degrees); psychology (129,600 degrees); and engineering (123,000 degrees

In 2021-2022, area, ethnic, culture, & gender studies was the 30th most popular major nationwide with 15,615 degrees awarded.

All These degrees and no jobs.  All these jobs and no takers

Yet Bernie Sanders and Democrats continue to do the same thing over and over again: Sanders' Triple Idiocy: Minimum Wage, Hairbrained College Push, Cancel Student Debt.

It's not the Gender Gap, it's not Racism, it's Divergent Thinking

In the age of artificial intelligence we are surrounded by The Great Gatsby Curve: Rachel Kushner’s piece in the New York Times titled I Kept Failing to Learn French attributes the Great Gatsby Curve of polyglots to luck. Not hard work. As in ‘the harder I work, the luckier I get.” “Every true polyglot I’ve known either had foreign languages at home or went to fancy schools or otherwise had access to learn them from a young age, They weren’t morally superior, just luckier,” she writes.

Then, speaker after speaker at the Democratic National Convention blamed the Great Gatsby Curve on racism, as exemplified by the Washington Post‘s reporting: “With six words, Michelle Obama rewires America’s conversation on race. Most of us, Michelle Obama said, “will never benefit from the affirmative action of affirmative of generational wealth.”


Pew Research blames the Great Gatsby Curve on a number of factors, including “technological change, globalization, the decline of unions and the eroding value of the minimum wage.”

But the root cause of the Great Gatsby Curve or The “Academic Great Gatsby Curve” in Philosophy is Insanity, not racism, technological change or minimum wage. We call this Insanity or The Great Whacky Curve, Divergent Thinking Defficiency.

The poor state of the education system

The  AntiSemite,  AntiCatholic NYT objects to the use of the Bible in school as it is Anti-ERCT
After all, teaching children twerking is more important than teaching them  about wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety,  fear of the Lord., charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control

According to EdSource many middle school students struggle to read well, study shows. New research reveals that many middle school students hit a “decoding threshold,” the 74 reported. More than 20% of students in fifth through seventh-grade trip over words they don't recognize and can't sound out.

Most High School Students are not academically prepared for college.  Students’ college readiness has reached historic lows, according to several metrics—including the lowest scores in 30 years on the ACT and declining scores on the SAT, the two primary standardized tests used for college admissions

Students at elite colleges can't read books.

The Inverse Relationship between ‘education’ and common sense/wisdom

Paraphrasing Nikita Khrushchev: We will convert America’s infidels, without firing a single firing single shot into Socialists or Communists.

A cursory scan of reports covering the education industrial complex, one would think that getting the “Most Educated State” title, is as valuable as getting the Pulitzer Prize for Fake News. But it’s more like a race to the buttom

According to WalletHub financial writer Adam McCann in a July 2 article titled “Most & Least Educated Cities in America” (2024,) Ann Arbor, Michigan, was No. 1 on WalletHub’s list of most educated metropolitan areas with an overall score of 93.7 out 100.

Meanwhile, Newsweek’s Joe Edwards reports that Washington state has not only seen the biggest influx of college-educated Americans, but Seattle is the least-religious large metro area. In addition. Washington not only has several student loan forgiveness programs that are specific to just the State of Washington, but residents can also qualify for various Federal student loan forgiveness programs. Consistent with the Law of Bilk; Residents who want to bilk the system go where they are welcomed and stay where they are protected and well treated. Soon, passing the bar exam will no longer be a requirement for becoming a lawyer in Washington.

OnFocus‘ David Keech reports that A new study has found that Massachusetts is the most educated state in America, based on the percentage of the population that holds a bachelor’s degree or higher. “Massachusetts is the most educated state in America, with 46.6% of its population aged 25 years and above having at least a bachelor’s degree, “

Educated, Indoctrinated or Degree Holder?

Recently an influential committee of the UC Academic Senate couldn’t agree on how much math to take to qualify to attend a four-year California State University.


But the good news is that Sixteen and 17-year-olds in California will be able to vote for the school board by mail and in person in November. While most California high school seniors don’t meet requirements to apply to UCs or CSUs. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers think students are too stupid to figure out which college courses to take to transfer to the University of California, so they make it easier with AB1291.

So why not let the blinder lead the blind? Is it any wonder California ranks around 40 in academic performance?

The same people say the California University System is not good enough for Black Students. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that grants community college students who transfer to historically Black colleges and universities a one-time grant of up to $5,000

As if that was not enough of the Extended-Release Cultural Tablets

Even teachers are functionally illiterate

So, why is it that trade school is not normalized? Sir Ken Robinson, for example, argues that our current educational systems are still based on a industrial paradigm of education – education is increasingly standardised and about conformity, and kids, who are living in the most stimulating age in history, fail to see the point of going to school, which is about ‘finding the right answers to pass the tests’ rather than about stimulating divergent thinking

Ironically, the most in-demand jobs in the next decade do not require a college degree.

The cost of being 'educated

The costs of operating a higher education institution keep growing exponentially - but not to educate but to inculcate - time to divest athletics 

Debt between majors varies greatly, at the Bachelor’s degree level. The major with the largest median debt for a Bachelor’s degree is Behavioral Sciences at $42,822. The major with the smallest median debt for a Bachelor’s degree is Science Technologies/Technicians, General, at $9,529.

Then there’s is the $1.8 trillion student loan debt,
after the trade school option was stigmatized, and trillions more on useless degrees. That the US Education system  is broken is a well-accepted premise. Even so, Bernie Sanders and Democrats continue to push Sanders' Triple Idiocy: Minimum Wage, Hairbrained College Push, Cancel Student Debt.

Transitive Property of Entitlement
If C > B and B> A then C > A
C= Entitlement Gap
B= Education
A= Gender gap 

Conclusion

The 2024 political divide, with the exception of abortion is not about ideology or gender.  After all, the gender gap is the education gap.  The education gap is about choice. For Men is a my brain, my wallet, my choice.