John Hayward talks about double standards, January 6th, and Congressional elitism
Bookworm provides the details of Hayward’s Twitter thread on the Congressional hearings about the events of January 6th. Here’s some of what Hayward wrote, but I suggest reading the whole thing (at Bookworm’s, where it’s easier to follow):
The 1/6 rioters should be treated with the same severity as Black Lives Matter rioters. Since that is not remotely possible, all else is political theater and raw exercises of power, and I am weary of pretenses to the contrary.
I’m weary of our ruling class sending the message that your home, business, and personal safety are at the mercy of violent Demcorat-approved grievance groups, but don’t you DARE do anything that makes the aristocracy in D.C. uncomfortable.
I’m tired of hearing the Abolish the Police Party demand limitless scrutiny and aggressive defunding of the police who protect the rest of us, but unquestioning support and increased funding for the police who protect THEM. Why not protect the Capitol with social workers, huh?
There are Democrat-controlled parts of the country where theft has literally been decriminalized, and not just during Democrat-approved riots. You have to stand and watch helplessly while your business is looted every day. But the rules are different for THEIR place of business.
Much more at the link.
Speaking of double standards, it’s all explainable if you understand that these people have fully embraced the old “ends justify the means” mentality. And the more intellectually-inclined among them have cloaked it in neo-Marxist power-struggle reasoning combined with postmodern philosophy that says there is no truth and no objectivity, so the only standard for behavior is to argue for whatever benefits your group’s attaining power.
Sometimes the argument will be A, sometimes it will be not-A. But any contradiction is an illusion, because it’s all good if it helps you attain the power that is the only coin of the realm.
It is truly distressing to consider how very few Republicans in Congress have the fortitude to speak out against the tyranny of Pelosi and her minions, some even shamefully accepting the barbaric murder of Ashli as legitimate. Every single Republican of integrity and intelligence should be forcefully opposed to the current Soviet-style “show trial” (with hysterical over-acting and endless histrionic fabrications), as well as to the inhumane conditions being suffered by the political prisoners in DC’s “American Guantanamo”, as well as demanding answers from the corrupt FBI about the extent of its involvement in (perhaps) orchestrating the events of that day. Finally there remains the all-important question of who exactly benefited from 1/6 and the implications thereof.
Watching a Capitol police officer weeping and whining that “I thought I was going to die” when confronted by a bunch of unarmed yahoos wandering around and taking selfies for a couple of hours, with some pushing and shoving thrown in, made me wonder what a Minneapolis or Portland police officer who had to face bricks and Molotov Cocktails every night all summer would think of that guy.
Why is it that postmodernists, who claim there to be no objective truth do not prove it? Something easily done by simply jumping off the tallest nearby building? Gravity being a social construct invented by white racist agents of the patriarchy.
“When people who spent four years role-playing as “the Resistance” against a “stolen election” suddenly start telling us dissent and resistance are treason that will be punished without mercy, we know exactly what’s going on. It’s a grim story repeated throughout human history.” John Hayward
When did being “tired and weary” of hypocritical double standards ever dissuade their use by the unprincipled? Their use by the megalomaniacal? By the ideological fanatic?
Such as they are only derailed in their pursuit of power by force.
Because that is the only objective truth they recognize.
Ultimately, it’s going to come down to the John Haywards of the world facing a binary choice; fight with whatever degree of force is necessary to regain liberty or submit to Marxism’s enslavement of the mind and soul because there’s nowhere left to flee to…
We all need to face up to the dialectic of the left; “when I am the weaker and you the stronger, I ask you for mercy because that is YOUR principle. But when I am the stronger and you the weaker, I show no mercy because that is MY principle”
In their worldview they’re not hypocrites because they reject the very concept of hypocrisy. All is morally just that advances their subjective ‘truth’. All is immoral that opposes their subjective ‘truth’.
As has been posted – frequently – on other blogs:
“If it weren’t for double standards The Left™ would have
no standards at all.”
j e: “It is truly distressing to consider how very few Republicans in Congress have the fortitude to speak out”
Yes. It’s simple to understand the Dems. Power mad. Materialistic, without skills to accumulate riches except through parasitism.
But Repubs? The mind boggles.
I guess it’s fair to give some blame to ourselves. Instead of paying attention, we gave politicians a blank check while we sat on the couch watching junk.
Now our schools are indoctrination factories.
Our economy is on its way into the junk yard.
We are victims of the hatred of our “leaders”.
“that says there is no truth and no objectivity”. I once asked a bloger if it was absolutely true that the truth was relative? I forgot his reply, but this is a fatal defect of “the truth is relative” crowd.
It’s almost impossible not to adopt an “ends justify the means” mindset when the only thing you care about is maintaining your professional and social status.
Mike
JimNorCal,
There have been a lot of people (relatively) paying attention to the Left’s activites in every major area for decades. They were “voices crying in the wilderness”. The reason they were ignored by the majority was identified in the mid 50s by Whittiker Chambers, who presciently identified the primary factors that has led to the West now teetering upon the brink of self-destruction. He rightly noted that en masse, Western intellectuals had embraced post modernism’s nihilism with its implicit rejection of objective truth and the concept/belief in a beneficent creator. The minority of intellectuals who objected were seen and branded as reactionaries.
Secularism can only provide a transitory consensual moral compass, as it reduces morality to the subjective will of the individual.
That eviscerates the concept of inalienable rights, for if there is no creator of humanity whose understanding supersedes mankind’s limited understanding and from which inalienable rights have been granted to its creation, then ‘rights’ become priviledges agreed to either by the current consensus of the majority or granted by an oligarchic elite. Yet what one consensus may agree to, a later consensus may rescind. That moral ambiguity opened the door to Marxism’s March Through the Institutions.
For all its faults, the great binding glue of religion is its forming of a societal moral consensus, which rests upon moral standards that supersede the personal opinions of mankind. Absent which a society can only gradually descend into an oligarchic totalitarianism. Witness the E.U.’s descent into unelected bureaucractic dictates, supported by an ‘approved media’ that shapes public consensus.
If politics is downstream from culture, philosophy is upstream from culture.
“The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” Abraham Lincoln
Cowboys and Indians is doubtless un-PC… and we can’t have that. So, in that spirit…
The only important political question in present day USA is who gets to play Israeli and who gets to play Palestinian *permanently* when the day is done. Everything else is distraction.
OK, now some of you are (trigger warning) Triggered.
If so, kindly bang your head against wall a few times and see if this short circuits the operant conditioning. After all, you have been Carefully Taught… Success? OK then you have a pretty good idea of what needs to be done and what it will entail. And you’ll have a good answer for the dumb ass natural born losercucks who like to say “We won’t know ourselves if we fight back and do X or Y”.. or “For What shall it profit a man…?”
You’re welcome. 🙂
“Every single Republican of integrity and intelligence should be forcefully opposed to the current Soviet-style “show trial” (with hysterical over-acting and endless histrionic fabrications), as well as to the inhumane conditions being suffered by the political prisoners in DC’s “American Guantanamo”, ”
I might point out that a group of Republican Congress members attempted to visit the “American Guantanamo” the other day and were turned away. Have you seen any account of that event in the media ? We are living in a Kurt Schlicter novel.
Zaphod,
The Israel/Palestinian conflict is only resolvable through complete removal of the Palestinians from greater Israel (Gaza & the West Bank) and adopting Gen. LeMay’s view, “kill enough of them and they stop fighting”. This is so because the source of the Palestinian’s hostility toward Israel is Islam, whose tenets do not allow for a permanently peaceful resolution to the conflict.
Our conflict with Americans on the left is not comparable because at base, it is a conflict between individualism and collectivism. Between liberty and democracy. “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb, contesting the vote.” Benjamin Franklin
Individualism without responsibility toward others results in chaos and might makes right with its law of the jungle.
Collectivism without individualism is a mortal threat to the soul.
Those on the left who oppose the ideals that motivate those on the right are profoundly mistaken in both their understanding of human nature and key operative principles that govern the external reality within which we all exist. As history has repeatedly demonstrated, what they advocate won’t work and it is their flawed view of human nature and external reality why it doesn’t work.
Most who voted for Biden are gravely mistaken but not evil. A minority on the left are ideological fanatics. An even smaller subset are Stalinists only concerned with gaining ever more power. One way or another, the fanatics and Stalinists will have to be stopped.
Rather than Israelis and Palestinians, call them Solzhenitsyn’s and Stalinists.
“for I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” Thomas Jefferson
Mike+K,
Wasn’t it only just three Congressional Republicans who tried to visit? It should have been every damn one of them.
@GB:
*puts on white coat and grabs clipboard*
*rings electric bell*
😛
@GB:
“Wasn’t it only just three Congressional Republicans who tried to visit? It should have been every damn one of them.”
Letting three in and then not letting them back out would have been a good start. Putting all Republican Congresscritters in Guantanamo for two decades is a bit like the old joke about what to call a bus load of lawyers going over a cliff.
Should I know John Hayward? Apparently, he writes for Breitbart, but this is the first time I’ve noticed his name.
https://www.breitbart.com/author/john-hayward/
Good to see someone pushing back hard on the 1/6 narrative vs Antifa/BLM riots.
To Chris B’s point,
I’ve forgotten the details, but I think it was Chicago where the rioters were throwing frozen water bottles, bricks and un-opened food cans at the police. I believe that 30 or 40 police were actually admitted to the hospitals that night. Now that’s scary.
huxley – I frequently link to John Hayward’s threads (and really could do so more often), but usually refer to him by his nom de blog of “Doc Zero.”
His site is on my Must Read Daily list.
https://threadreaderapp.com/user/Doc_0
The particular thread that Bookworm quoted is at this link:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1420358703795122177.html
Breitbart publishes his “just the news” reports, but his Doc 0 opinion essays are more interesting.
@ Huxley: in regard to John Hayward, my records show he started generating commentary as “Dr. Zero” for the Hot Air/ Greenroom in 2009. Then around 12/22/09 he started his own blog as http://www.doczero.org. His (unpaid) essays addressing conservative issues and liberty were so powerful and compelling that he was picked up by Breitbart as a paid contributor (either right then in 2010 or after some other interim gig??). I kind of lost track of him at that point or went on to other sources/writers [probably Neo 🙂 ], but it appears he has managed to maintain strong messaging and a loyal following for the last many years.
More power to him. He deserves whatever accolades he has received.
@ Chris B “Watching a Capitol police officer weeping and whining that “I thought I was going to die” when confronted by a bunch of unarmed yahoos wandering around and taking selfies for a couple of hours, with some pushing and shoving thrown in, made me wonder what a Minneapolis or Portland police officer who had to face bricks and Molotov Cocktails every night all summer would think of that guy.”
& TommyJay “I’ve forgotten the details, but I think it was Chicago where the rioters were throwing frozen water bottles, bricks and un-opened food cans at the police. I believe that 30 or 40 police were actually admitted to the hospitals that night. Now that’s scary.”
https://redstate.com/slee/2021/07/29/bidens-losses-police-association-slams-jan-6-committee-and-unions-push-back-against-vaccine-mandates-n418561?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=onsite&utm_campaign=719
Re: John Hayward
AesopFan, R2L:
Thanks for the info. I tend to avoid anything related to Twitter as toxic, so I can see how I missed him. He does have some interesting threads @Doc_0.
This story at RedState could just as well go on the CDC thread, but since that’s a sub-unit of the Democrat Power Play through Double Standards, I’ll post it here:
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/07/30/the-panic-is-the-point-for-democrats-and-the-reason-is-insidious-n418953?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=onsite&utm_campaign=719
There’s no point excerpting, since the headline makes the argument clear, but Bonchie does a good job of putting all the pieces into perspective, not that anything he says will be new to the Salon here, but he organizes the dot-drawing well.
Conclusion: “Once you recognize the game being played, it’s much easier to anticipate the next move, and Democrats are not hiding the ball at this point. The panic is the point, and Republicans need to stop assuming all of these machinations are happening out of ignorance and not malice. Understand what you are up against and respond accordingly. Do that, and they [GOP] may yet get their red wave in 2022.”
@ TommyJay: I remember in 2020 a video appeared where a group of protestors, part of he George Floyd/BLM protests, surrounded a group of CPD cops – with one being a woman – dragged the female cop down and proceeded to stomp on her and the other cops. Another cop, to get the protestors off of them, grabbed a protestor who he thought was pushing them down was immediately followed by people yelling at him to let her go. If anti-vaxxers are seen as dumb, well, lefties really got them beat in more ways than one.
Good article Neo, would have missed it otherwise