Still watching the Dark Horse podcasts by Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, which are usually good at keeping the insanity of the current rioting on the table. A couple of liberals but they honestly report on what is really going on in their city of Portland Oregon. While the mainstream media continue to claim it's "mostly peaceful" they say that it predictably becomes violent every single night after dark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXtnCitgRFE
This 43rd podcast started out with the Trump administration Memorandum against the indoctrination sessions that promote racism: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/M-20-34.pdf This is an inspiring statement against the promotion of racism and an affirmation of American values.
It has come to the President's attention that Executive Branch agencies have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to date "training" government workers to believe divisive, antiAmerican propaganda.
, The Dark Horse duo applaud this action by the Trump administration and attribute the indoctrination to Critical Race Theory. Just for context, Critical Theory is a Marxist concoction, just one of the many Marxist tools for the destruction of civilization, so it's not surprising that there is a specialized version of it called Race Theory.
So they are good at discussing the causes and dangers in this current movement, even good at giving the Trump administration credit where credit is due and rejecting the leftist accusations of fascism and white supremacy and so on. nevertheless they aren 't quite ready to give up their generally jaundiced view of the man as they continue to see his basic motivations as narcissism, self interest and cynicism. So they actually think he is only promoting the causes he's known for because he's catering to the interests of a certain segment of the population. So that if the leftist position was popular among them he'd be supporting that etc.
Trump's personality is certainly problmatic at times, but nevertheless I've always seen him as genuinely working for causes he himself values. That is, he's a genuine American patriot whose decisions are all about promoting American intrests, building up America economically and culturally, protecting America from her enemies and so on. He's not a cynic. I don't know if "narcissist" applies in any sense or not but if it means blowing where the wind blows I don't see it. Also, there were many who spoke at the Republican convention who described him as a very kind and thoughtful man who was always there when someone was suffering. That's also not a narcissist.
Also I've heard at least one person who claims to know him well, Sean Hannity, say how he's always had this same patriotic mentality, had thought of running for President at other times because of it. You may not like his style, he may talk too much and exaggerate when he should be more cautious, but no, the man is not a cynic, he's genuine, and the people who claim to know him all say so.
One other thing Bret says from time to time continues to bother me, which is that there is good reason for the protests at bottom despite their degenerating into indefensible violence. Since the protests are based on incidents that are wrongly identified as racist, I can't see any justification for them at all. Many, including black thinkers, have shown that there is no racial bias in the methods used by the police, that one could object to the methods but not on racial grounds. And there is no systemic racism in the police or the society at large. So I don't know what Weinstein has in mind when he claims there is cause for frustration thta fuels the protests. It would have to be despite all these facts which oppose the main excuse of racism. I don't say there can't be any such justifiable cause, I just don't know what it might be, since the stated cause is unjustifiable. That plus the fact that BLM and Antifa are Marxist organizations adds up to illegitimacy.
Bret thinks Trump is going to win big in the election. I think he should but I'm not all that sure myself that he will, but because it's so clear the Democrats are setting up a vote harvesting fraud.
