Straka sues
Brandon Straka is the founder of the #WalkAway movement. A gay man and former liberal, Straka recently left the Democratic Party and made a YouTube video about his defection and the reasons for his change of mind. The video went viral and started a movement in which people who have made a similar political switch have made their own videos explaining their own paths to political change.
For obvious reasons, Straka and his group are a thorn in the side of the left and the Democratic Party, both of which count heavily on certain demographic populations and interest groups being almost 100% in the fold.
So Straka and his group have been under attack for a quite while in an attempt to discredit them. The latest skirmish in this campaign involves the cancellation of an event that was scheduled to have taken place at the LGBT Center in Greenwich Village. The cancellation happened just days before the event had been due to occur, and it was supposed to have involved Straka, two gay men, and a transgender woman talking about the reasons they left the Democratic Party.
Straka is now suing the LGBT Center:
“I’m considered a traitor. [The community] wanted to silence me, they wanted to roll over me and make me disappear,” said Straka, who is seeking $20 million in damages.
He alleges that the LGBT Center caved to pressure from liberal activists who, Straka said, “mounted a smear campaign.” Some 280 people signed an open letter to the center, demanding that the event be canceled. The letter refers to Straka and his panelists as “racist” and “transphobic.” (One of the panelists, Rob Smith, is black.)…
Per the complaint, “the LGBT Center, which ostensibly cultivates a welcome environment for all members … violated their own mission in addition to engaging in unlawful discriminatory practices by specifically targeting particular members of the LGBT Community whose … identity does not conform to the subjectively homogeneous community for which they advocate.”
The reason the LGBT Center gave for the cancellation is that the Center is able to cancel any event that “promotes discriminatory speech or bigotry; negatively impacts other groups or individuals … [and/or] would make many of our community members feel unsafe.” Straka in turn alleges that the Center’s statement about the reason for the cancellation of the #WalkAway event was “intentionally defamatory.”
It seems that the mere idea of gay people or transgendered people or black people being conservative or supporting Trump is considered so disruptive and unsettling that their reasons cannot even be heard in a public forum that is described as serving gay and transgendered people.
I cannot predict how Straka’s lawsuit will ultimately go. But although the idea that he and the other gay, transgender, and black members of his group are racist or transphobic seems preposterous, it no longer shocks. It’s the sort of story heard all too often these days; anyone who goes against the liberal line is labeled a bigot even if that person belongs to the group against which the person is supposedly prejudiced.
And the most terrifying people of all to the left are those who are members of groups the left feels it owns and yet who have dared, like Straka, to defy the party line. The left hates those who once were members but have since left the fold, and their very existence threatens the left’s reliance on the monolithic support of particular groups.
The left has entered a deeply decadent period. Some of them are unable to process contrary viewpoints, some of them have ‘views’ which are merely compendia of emotional outbursts, some of them are unable to make an utterance without laying down red herrings, others cannot do so without engaging in snide status games. Others are fixated on what they fancy are trends. (The one leftoid I know enraged by Walkaway is of this last sort). I’m sure there’s some other kind, and when I locate one who is under the age of 70, I’ll let everyone know.
NEO: The left hates those who once were members but have since left the fold, and their very existence threatens the left’s reliance on the monolithic support of particular groups.
let me know if its a bit familiar…
the gay as a group are being used, and like any outside group that is disliked, they are foolish to think they found a home, warm, and cuddly… which is Straka’s point… there is more to it given that the name is slavic, meaning Magpie.
in exchange for temporary acceptance and higher status, like the latvian riflemen and others, the opposition got to use their skills, ideas, abilities, drives, until it was no longer convenient..
then, like now, the point of yelling populism, nationalists, etc… (remember, willi munzenberg was against the nationalists, under stalin and who goebles learned from?) – which was preparatory to removing them
ie. you cant remove the heroes of the people as they were when they started, but once not needed, the power has to be taken back, so once negated in the minds of the public, who cares what happens to them?
think of all the disparagement that had to come before the ovens in germany? or the camps turned over to stalin after by FDR?
that is the power… you will be erased…
that is why people who know, are so upset with censorship – its erasing
but note… they will erase all evidence of it having existed… so, the left and gay think that the gifts they just won at the bar where the riots happened, are real… no.. the second they are not needed any more and power exists, it will be leveled, erased, they will suddenly find themselves alone, and hated by everyone.
then.. erased..
I just saw a recent interview on the FOX TV show “Life, Liberty and Levin” with Dr. John Marini, a professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, and an expert on the “Administrative State,” which gave me a very eye opening, a whole new perspective and way of looking at our government, and an explanation for why it is less and less responsive to us citizens.
What Professor Marini said was that the growth of the Administrative state, the bureaucracy—which started its real expansion during the Presidency of LBJ–has been moving us here in the U.S. closer and closer to becoming a soft tyranny.
Dr. Marini pointed out that, as power has been increasingly centralized in Washington D.C., fewer and fewer average citizens are able to participate in government, but rather major donors and/or special interests and their lobbyists have the ear of the centralized government’s Federal bureaucracy, which now wields the legislative power that our Constitution vested in Congress, and which Congress now no longer really wields.
Congress, he said, has largely relinquished its deliberative and legislative duties since, once it has passed basic legislation, it has handed the power to interpret, elaborate on, extend, and to enforce those laws–its lawmaking power–over to a Federal bureaucracy composed of unelected individuals—to technocrats and supposed rational, scientific experts, and, of course, since these supposed “experts” gained their expertise through education in our now overwhelmingly Leftist academic institutions, the Federal bureaucracy is also overwhelmingly leftist in orientation.
Thus, while formerly a citizen could interact with members of Congress–who they elected, and could replace if they proved unsatisfactory–and who could, in response to those citizens, pass laws—since Congress’ role is now much more one of oversight and investigation of the bureaucracy, citizens are reduced to dealing with unelected, often faceless bureaucrats who, realistically speaking, cannot be fired, and who, in effect, wield the power of law through their countless rules, policies, procedures, and regulations, moreover, bureaucrats whose first loyalties are not to the public good, but to their own organizations and careers.
According to Dr. Marini the theme of politics for the last several decades has been one of division, dividing people up in to groups by race, sex, economic status, ethnicity, etc. and appealing to each one of these separate groups.
Dr. Marini sees President Trump’s populist outreach efforts as trying to appeal to everyone as part of one nation, as citizens of the United States.
Says Dr. Marini, Trump is trying to do things that will benefit the nation as a whole—the public good–and is trying to disrupt the way that Washington has been doing business, this march away from the way our Founders meant our government and Republic to work.
Thus, the almost universal hatred of and “resistance” to President Trump, both by those inside the Beltway—Democrats and almost all Republicans alike–and by our leftist coastal elites—the MSM, Academia, the Entertainment Industry, etc.
a few things i forgot.
The misfits were chosen because they were fringe and misfits..
They only wanted to belong, but the left offered them superior status
The “oppressed” ‘feel’ as if the rest of society all around, 360 degrees, is “pressing”
The left, having control of their people, and their peoples thinking
[they use EGO to guard and cement this in place by telling the people
they tell “how/what to think” that accepting this ‘knowledge’
makes them smart, right, superior, etc.]
So they tell them what should be, and to be right, smart, etc, they naturally then love bomb the target.
which takes the pressure off in a small place in the circle, and society drives the herd, through
the small section that is open and without pressure, into the open arms of the people who need to use them…
The herded fail to look around the world where such have won the prize for the others, and do not see or notice that, they do not fare better than they were when “oppressed”…
people so focused on obtaining power, only do so because they never had it, and do not know that obtaining wealth or power is only a part of the game, and the only one they have any practice at…
holding onto it, is a lot harder
even harder when you really don’t know the source of your power and your full of ‘miss’-attributions as to its nature.
Everything outside your head, is belief to you…
the more aligned with reality, the healthier and more competent..
IF so, then what is knowing? a believed validated belief
(that can be first order, proxied, or just outright accepted)
the left likes it if “you know” – through outright acceptance of their (stated but not validated) beliefs
No, Woodrow Wilson, then FDR
see the books and recommendations i had made in the past about this.
your point
Congress, he said, has largely relinquished its deliberative and legislative duties since, once it has passed basic legislation, it has handed the power to interpret, elaborate on, extend, and to enforce those laws–its lawmaking power–over to a Federal bureaucracy composed of unelected individuals………….
there was a time that this power your seeing delegated could not be delegated…
progressive change…
In the book The Promise of American Life, Herbert Croly, Founder of The New Republic, wrote the following:
For the progressives Jefferson = “individual” and Hamilton = “collective”.
the one true revolution… and they been trying to put the genie back in the bottle ever since!!!!
The natural right of kings and rulers, despots and experts (REX LEX), was usurped by the people!
The people claimed natural rights, enumerated them, and bound all to it (LEX REX)
Congress, he said, has largely relinquished its deliberative and legislative duties since, once it has passed basic legislation, it has handed the power to interpret, elaborate on, extend, and to enforce those laws–its lawmaking power–over to a Federal bureaucracy composed of unelected individuals
Much of this is a result of the McCain-Finegold law, which resulted in members of Congress “dialing for dollars” to funders while the staff writes the laws. Then, staff members move to bureaucracy to write the regulations to enforce those laws or to become lobbyists who assist the staffs in writing the laws.
Obamacare was written largely by insurance lobbyists and 25 year old attorneys whop “know nothing.”
That corrected Hillary’s error in trying to exclude them from her secret “Task Force.”
Mike K:
Yeah, good old John McCain. We sure do miss him so, the snake-oil aisle-crosser.
Have you ever noticed that the leftists are always accusing people they disagree with of having imaginary mental disorders like racism, sexism, homophobia, islamophobia etc. It is just classical psychological projection.
This is similar to what most Blacks have long been doing to any of the very few conservative Blacks.
Tho all Blacks as Reps are called “Uncle Tom”, and there’s not such an iconic “gay traitor” figure as this “race traitor”.
It’s also an inevitable aspect of “democratic tribalism”, where the power of the tribe in the democracy is maximized only when all tribal voters vote for the tribal position.
For all tribes: “United we stand, divided we fall”.
Trump is trying to make a single All-American tribe. Which he won’t quite do, but might well come a lot closer than the Trump haters imagine.
America was better when more Americans in public did more praising of American good points. Including the great freedom of speech, and freedom to disagree with the President.
That the growth of the Administrative state, with its bureaucracy has been moving the U.S. closer and closer to becoming a soft tyranny is clearly true.
But that dark cloud has a silver lining. The only thing propping up the administrative State of unelected bureaucrats is the military’s allegiance to civilian rule and half the public’s allegiance to Constitutional governance.
The Left, in destroying and warping Constitutional provisions are also unavoidably creating a State in opposition to the Constitution’s recognition of liberty. Once it progresses far enough, it will create a ‘trigger point’ and then a consensus will emerge to, as Lincoln put it; “Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
A very brief Civil War followed by an Article V Constitutional convention is the future reality that leftists and their liberal, “useful idiot” enablers haven’t a clue that they are fostering.
Simply because “So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot”
The next Milo Y.
What you see as the Ego and what you see as the Divine salvation or source is reversed.
The ego presents itself as the divine salvation from what troubles you and portrays the Divine as the Ego, which should be rejected.
That’s why people who think they are avoiding the Ego is doing anything but.
Geoffrey Britain on June 18, 2019 at 8:44 pm said:
That the growth of the Administrative state, with its bureaucracy has been moving the U.S. closer and closer to becoming a soft tyranny is clearly true.
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Here’s a guy who wants to move right along to that Civil War and a hard tyranny.
Think anyone on the Left will object to his violence — all hateful words are violent, aren’t they?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/48516/biden-suggests-starting-physical-revolution-deal-ryan-saavedra
Snow on Pine on June 18, 2019 at 6:33 pm said:
I just saw a recent interview on the FOX TV show “Life, Liberty and Levin” with Dr. John Marini, a professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada, and an expert on the “Administrative State,” which gave me a very eye opening, a whole new perspective and way of looking at our government, and an explanation for why it is less and less responsive to us citizens.
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Artfldgr is probably right about the genesis being under Wilson, with Johnson as the accelerant.
Here’s a whole book on the subject.
https://www.law.columbia.edu/news/2017/07/administrative-law-philip-hamburger
Artfldgr on June 18, 2019 at 6:11 pm said:
Airbrushing history in the twenty-first century — all of the actions are part of the same operation.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2019/06/17/the-aims-of-leftist-labeling-and-censoring-of-conservative-pundits-as-extremists/#comment-2439622
https://www.thenewneo.com/2019/06/18/kyle-kashuvs-life-sentence/#comment-2439680
https://nypost.com/2019/06/15/former-democrat-turned-conservative-gay-rights-activist-slams-pride-sues-lgbt-center/
The Left is the faction that won’t take “yes” for an answer, won’t accept apologies, and won’t ever forgive. Why bother trying to placate them with anything?
https://www.thenewneo.com/2019/06/18/kyle-kashuvs-life-sentence/#comment-2439680
Relevant to Snow on Pine’s comment about administrative usurpation of government power.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/448999-want-the-truth-put-your-money-on-bill-barr-not-jerry-nadler
Maybe we can simplify things and reduce costs by knocking off the rest of the .1 branch…
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/449234-house-votes-against-curtailing-warrantless-collection-of-americans-data
But…they might need the surveillance again after Joe Biden is president…
The place to start is a Constitutional Covention. First on the docket should be repeal of the 17th amendment, giving more power back to State legislatures. We on the right control enough State legislatures to do this. Next abolish the Federal departments of education, health and human services, and the epa. Then scatter all remaining federal departments far away from DC. Northern Minnesota, the Dakotas, and rural Mississippi and Alabama are ideal locations.
The Left is very egalitarian: it attacks conservatives, Republicans, and party-changers, and even other Democrats. (Power Line headlines)
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/06/15/sex_predator_or_metoo_prey.html
Have you ever noticed a few comments are always blow hards? Yadda, yadda. Many of us are not as stupid, ignorant of history, as you imaagine as you pretend to inform us us of your intellectual superiority. Yes, we ignorant savages recognize you. YATHYWION. Pathetic.
Progressivism is a religion – at least to its many followers. And few religions hate anything quite so much as an apostate.
The article does not mention the basis for the cause of action. It appears he would have a great chance of winning a suit against the person who posted the petition for interference with contract. Under New York Law, an action for interference with a contractual relationship is be based on five elements:
A valid agreement between at least two parties;
The interferer must have had knowledge of the agreement;
The alleged interference must have caused the breach of contract;
The interference must be intentional; and
The interference caused the plaintiff to suffer damages.
Big penalty for apostasy, it seems. Like some religious sects who shun or excommunicate those who leave. But it could be worse.
The Left has learned how to deal with traitors. Perhaps it is time American “patriots” did the same.
That does not mean to learn from the Leftist alliance and Satan to become like them. FYI
parker on June 19, 2019 at 3:27 am said:
If your ego was not threatened by any of this and you were sure in the peace and certainty of your own agnosticism or lack of knowledge on the Divine, not much would bother you on this matter.
The attack philosophy, of the Leftist alliance or just against the Leftist alliance and government, is an admittance of vulnerability and weakness. There would be no need to attack or make first strike war on the ABC gov institutions if they were a zero threat to you and identity (aka ego, sense of self survival).
The body, the natural man, the ego, the human condition or nature, is the natural opponent and enemy of the Divine, God, and the Godhead (versions of Trinity).
It cannot sustain the Light of the Divine and the Wisdom of all Ages because that would threaten its sense of survival or sense of self, thus the philosophy becomes “ATTACK”. If you cannot be hurt, why attack? Because you can be hurt, because you are vulnerable, you must attack the traitors, the Deep State, and the government. Or else they will do it to you, FIRST. That’s how the natural instincts of man thinks. That’s not a conspiracy theory or an academic discussion on rhetorical theoretical idealism.
The Leftist alliance is all attack and no defense precisely because they are vulnerable and they, in some part of their hearts, know that. They are vulnerable in mind, in body, and in spirit. They are weak, weaklings. They are not as mighty as they wish to be. Which is why when people give them power and status, the Gaystapo activists go looking for christian bakers to bake in hellfire of public attention and lawsuits via Lawfare. That’s just how you humans are.
That’s not what a Son of God is, but the reason why people are hostile to that is because it threatens to them. If it was people claiming to be Napoleon and Elvis, it wouldn’t matter all that much and wouldn’t be attacked as much by humanity.
The natural instincts of man are directly opposed to the Salvation and Divine Plan of the Godhead, the Divine Counsel, and the Unified Fleet. People mistake divine salvation for their ego’s plan of salvation. And they mistake divine salvation for their ego.
The more people react like rabid Leftists, the more certain it is that they are vulnerable. And if they are vulnerable, they are not Divine nor are they Sons of God or Daughters of God. They are just a mortal human, an ego, that thinks itself capable of saving itself.
This is an interesting development.
Now we have a conservative using the machinery of the State to force a liberal private organization to provide a platform for his views.
But somehow, the comments here frame the organization exercising its first amendment rights as Statists, communists even. The individual trying to force his views on others…he’s the defender of freedom.
I think you have all gone astray.
“Bake me a goddamned cake.”
Hold these bastards to their own fucking standards. Time to turn the left’s tactics against them.
Leftism is nothing more than a giant con game perpetrated by the POWER hungry on gullible people, who, in the main, lack common sense. Like all con games leftism is based on lies told by people who lie without conscience. SOCIOPATHS
The democratic party leadership is an example.
Ymarsakar,
“The body, the natural man, the ego, the human condition or nature, is the natural opponent and enemy of the Divine, God, and the Godhead (versions of Trinity).
So… God’s creation is his enemy? Why would a loving, perfect God create something inimical to him?
“That’s just how you humans are.”
You being the exception? Or are you a covert alien watcher, sent to record our failings?
“That’s not what a Son of God is, but the reason why people are hostile to that is because it threatens to them.”
What about the Son of God’s thousands of followers before his death? Were they too threatened? One exception I could buy but thousands?
“if they are vulnerable, they are not Divine nor are they Sons of God or Daughters of God.”
Perhaps we should leave that decision up to God?
Finally, and IMHO the object is to retire our ego not reject it as an enemy. An egoless entity, by definition has no individuality and what purpose to God’s creation of individuality… if it is the enemy of its creator?
“Now we have a conservative using the machinery of the State to force a liberal private organization to provide a platform for his views.” Manju
Nice try at obfuscation. Straka is suing based on unlawful discrimination. If a Christian baker unlawfully discriminates in refusing to create a cake that celebrates a union to which he has religious objections, then so too is that the case here. This is known as being “hoisted upon his own petard”. It is the poetic justice to which you object.
Have you ever noticed that the leftists are always accusing people they disagree with of having imaginary mental disorders like racism, sexism, homophobia, islamophobia etc. It is just classical psychological projection.
No
its using our fear of desase and mental issues as a weapon.. the soviets did this and even put people falsely into mental hospitals to neuter their power. Ask anyone with high functioning aspergers or read studies where they take a person, and with one group they say normal, with another, they say otherwise… and see what happens.
The dalit had lead poured into their ears as punishment for hearing
Tom Grey on June 18, 2019 at 7:46 pm said: Tho all Blacks as Reps are called “Uncle Tom”, and there’s not such an iconic “gay traitor” figure as this “race traitor”.
Thanks for showing my point on how newspaper articles are written and what you can find out if you notice how they are coded.
When a democrat does something bad, they use the term rep
Why?
Because people WRONGLY assume Rep, which is short for REPRESENTATIVE, is the abbreviation for Republican. in this way, they get to mattribute their bad to the republicans…
now… do you mind not helping them?
this is how they openly manipulate you. you try to show somone, and they wont believe it… but sit and code articles in the paper on the way to work or back on a commute and you EASILY notice the pattern.
Examples:
Rep. Katie Porter is latest Democrat to support impeachment inquiry
Rep. Maxine Waters asks Facebook to pause work on cryptocurrency Libra
and here, they get to make Rep Anti-semitic!!!
A far-left group backed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is supporting a political newcomer to unseat a 30-year Democratic New York congressman who called out Rep. Ilhan Omar over anti-Semitism.
Rep. Katie Porter
Rep. Maxine Waters
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Rep. Ilhan Omar
now, if they win something or the republican does good, then what do they do?
Geoffrey Britain on June 18, 2019 at 8:44 pm said:
A very brief Civil War followed by an Article V Constitutional convention is the future reality that leftists and their liberal, “useful idiot” enablers haven’t a clue that they are fostering.
Sorry, but no
I said a million times now to read about other revolutions, and what and how power moved… the brief civil war is the exchange of power, and they know that…
you can do all kinds of things, like lincoln and others did, if only you can get THAT far..
that is their goal, but since they are not under their own wind
they are taking orders from another place, who has another goal
that goal, is to seize the US or destroy it, when its fighting its civil war and is not organized enough to defend itself.
with over 10,000 spies known in the DC area..
City of Secrets: Estimated 10,000 people in DC are spies
https://wtop.com/j-j-green-national/2019/06/city-of-secrets-an-estimated-10000-dc-residents-are-spies-heres-how-they-blend-in/
While there may be some quibbling about the actual numbers, the FBI agrees with the premise. [snip] “A spy is nondescript. A spy is going to be someone that’s going to be a student in school, a visiting professor, your neighbor. It could be a colleague or someone that shares the soccer field with you,” Dugan said. [snip] A key focus of many spies in D.C. is to find Americans willing to break the law to help them. Their chances are better than ever because never in the history of the U.S. have foreign spies had so many people to try to recruit.
and more all over the country.. and spetznaz, and PRC operatives
Russia Warship Enters Caribbean Sea…
you forgot i pointed out the weapons caches which were protected with lightning bombs, that are waiting for that civil war!!! you forgot i pointed out the dry runs to cable cutting deap sea
the move to compromised sattelites
i pointed out new weaponry, designed for this future.
including EMP, and the ability to SHUT DOWN american weapons platforms
anyone finally want a REALISTIC conversation about this?
We just caught shipping containers with 16 TONS of cocaine
a Tactical nuclear weapon which could have been delivered to Venzeula a few months ago, is the size of a backpack, and perfectly LEGAL under the treaties.. even showed you numbers stations as to how they know WHEN to wake up from their sleep…
oh, and the WORST of it is you guys ignored the work of Ken Alibek
with open borders… could someone with a backpack come in?
I even told you about Rakshasha!!!
and then even your Flash drives!! and hard drives!
Following findings by the Investigation Bureau that portable hard discs produced by US disk-drive manufacturer Seagate Technology that were sold in Taiwan contained Trojan horse viruses, further investigations suggested that “contamination” took place when the products were in the hands of Chinese subcontractors during the manufacturing process.
parker on June 19, 2019 at 1:30 am said: The place to start is a Constitutional Covention.
YOUR NUTS..
ie. they cant get the ball moving on their own, but once they do, they can place it in any pocket they want… they have not the power to start the motion, but they are experts at steering things…
in fact, thats the point of the movements… the feminist movement supports both sides of every issue… ie. it moves any ball they want, and they move the ball into any pocket – using women
and then you have the problem that no one who is young would listen to you… your time to affact things was back when cheryle iserbyt and others were fighting and no one helped them!!!!
they have 25 years or precidence your going to have to disprove that was the punishment for not arguing the first few years!!!
any item left alone till its a crisis, is a losing item..
the time to pull weeds is before the dandelion root is 50 feet deep
History is cyclical.
AesopFan wrote. “Artfldgr is probably right about the genesis being under Wilson, with Johnson as the accelerant.”
We move (ahem) progressively in approximately 50-75, but surely less than 100, year cycles. See Rousseau, 1750s, then Marx, 1840s, then Woodrow Wilson, 1910s, FDR 1930s though an aberration due to Depression, LBJ 1960s, Obama 2010s.
The long-term future is grim to contemplate. America cannot withstand the unremitting erosive forces of tyranny, those tyrants of smiling faces.