I had this conversation a while ago and didn’t get around to posting it. It was in response to some sort of support for public school. It didn’t go well for Toast Ghost.
Me: The problem is you can’t please everyone, but you still force everyone to pay for public school whether they like it or not under threat of having their home confiscated. Every subject is political and religious, or at least has religious presuppositions and political implications, including math. The answer is to end public school.
Toast Ghost: Makes sense to me. An uneducated population is much easier to control. You are good at this authoritarian thing!
Me: Public school is what’s leading us to an uneducated population.
Could you explain how me being in favor of not making people pay for the government schooling of other people’s children makes me an authoritarian?
Toast Ghost: … long-term thinking isn’t really your thing is it? By the way… The explanation is kind of in the joke. Do you get joke? Wait… It does require a basic education to understand some jokes. You are against basic education. Answered my own question there.
Me: I don’t “get joke”.
Do you think government schooling is the same as education? Is it possible to be educated apart from public school?
Toast Ghost: … The truth is that you either educate your youth or you deal with the consequences. Obviously leaving education up to parents is a very bad idea… there are a lot of stupid people out there who have stupid and dangerous ideas like getting rid of social responsibility… Craziness.
Me: You said, “there are a lot of stupid people out there…” But, public school is so great and it’s the only option, even though it’s produced a lot of stupid people, right? We should definitely not explore other options, right? What percentage of parents would you say don’t care about their kids’ education?
A few years ago, I took a cruise on the Rhine River. For a little while, the river forms the border between France and Germany. It was puzzling to me that a couple times in the previous century, some moron in Berlin tells German men to go fight France and take their territory…and they obey him.
I’m confused by what the German leaders were thinking. They wanted to go in and defeat the French military and then tell the French people that your new government is in Berlin, and you just need to get back to work and send all your taxes to Germany now. The long term plan is just to get back to normal and pay taxes to Germany?
I’m definitely confused by the German men cooperating. Some of these Germans could look across the border and see French people and probably considered them neighbors they get along with. But then, they decide to risk life and limb so that their government can tax the French. It makes no sense to me.
The same goes for Russia and Ukraine. Russians are willing to go into Ukraine and give their lives so their government can govern portions of Ukraine? Russians are being told that Russians living in Ukraine are being abused by Nazis, but that’s surprisingly little reason to me to go and annihilate a bunch of Ukrainians.
The China and Taiwan situation is equally puzzling. The Chinese government thinks they have some right to boss around Taiwanese people and tax them. What are they smoking? Why do people want to control others so much? Would a Chinese guy be willing to give up his life so that his government can get a few percentage points richer? What kind of moron would do that?
The idiot government employee pulled over a guy for one reason that was shown to be false. Then, he still demands ID and his victim asks for a supervisor. The supervisor shows up and says he can demand ID from any driver regardless of whether they’ve committed an infraction. This is shocking stupidity. I’m going with brassy and bold ignorance from the sergeant rather than lying. I think he really is that big of a moron.
I posted this in a group of people from Midland, Texas (where this took place) and more than half of the commenters were abject boot lickers. Here’s an example:
Driving is a right. That “driving is a privilege” crap is preposterous. This lady is an enormous, embarrassing boot licker. She would have supported the Nazis when they set up checkpoints to inspect everyone’s papers. If the cops followed the law, there would be no video. Men have died for our 4th Amendment rights. Machelle is an unamerican loser.
Here’s another example of a bootlicker.
It’s no surprise to find out a government school teacher is a bootlicker. But if you go around doing everything the government tells you, you might as well have no rights, and all the men that have died for your rights died in vain.
And here’s a comment that shows why we ought to post videos like this in places that aren’t just echo chambers.
If you just want to get along with the cops and do whatever they say, you have no rights. The men who died for your rights died in vain. If you want to protect your rights, you might have to lift a finger and it may cause conflict or even a minor inconvenience.
This video wouldn’t exist if the cops knew the law and obeyed the law. The only law breakers in this video were the cops, and I have no idea why anyone would support their actions in this incident.
The IRS designation for churches is in section 501c3 and specifies that for churches to maintain a tax-free status, they can’t discuss certain topics. Having the government dictate to a church what they can talk about is outrageous and unacceptable. Here’s what Nicholas Perez has to say about it.
“By definition, it is impossible for the Church to make any such Covenant. Our Covenant is in Christ, and we as a body cannot possibly make a Covenant with Christ’s enemy that would violate that. What “local churches” do, on the other hand is irrelevant, and has been for a long time. We need to ‘come out from among them (local churches) and be ye separate,’ saith the Lord.”
I’m in a Facebook group advocating for eliminating property taxes in Texas. I’m a pig in slop in that group, and it’s a large group. So many people are decrying the evils of government stealing via taxation and threats of confiscation. It’s awesome.
I don’t really know how they hope to fund things after eliminating property taxes. I’m in favor of not funding them at all. All government programs funded by theft should be eliminated, and if there is a demand for those services, there will be people who will fill the demand in the free market.
There is one woman in the group who thinks only people who send their kids to public school should be forced to pay property tax. I agree. However, it takes about $10-15,000 to educate a child in public school for a year. You could send a kid to a very nice private school for that amount. There are very few Texans with 2 kids paying $20,000 or more per year to their school district in property tax. Parents sending their kids to public school are receiving more in benefits from public school then they are paying.
I pointed out her hypocritical mooching and she is not my fan. Here’s the conversation.
Over and over on this blog, I’ve asked myself and you, dear reader, whether a cop is stupid or lying when he breaks the law. I think the question has been largely settled by this video. This cop is just so stupid. I don’t think he’s the stupidest cop ever. I think he’s of average intelligence for a cop. Of course, average cop intelligence is far below intelligence for society as a whole.
You can see in this video, the morbidly obese cop say someone taught him the law, and he’s since reviewed the law. When quizzed on the law, he fails horribly. He abused a citizen, cost the city $125,000 and still doesn’t know the law. When cops bluster and talk big, you might think they’re lying, but they’re actually retarded. I’ve seen this over and over, and it has to be that the average cop is just amazingly stupid rather than lying.
The number one cause of the current price of oil is covid lockdowns. In April 2020, the price of oil went to negative $40, because there was a fraction of the normal economic activity. People were paying others to take the oil off their hands. Oil field workers were laid off and companies shut down their equipment. These are things that can’t be turned back on with the flip of a switch. Several of the larger companies have said they won’t increase drilling no matter how high the price of oil goes. See an article about that here.
I think oil companies are out of favor with environmentalists. This makes it tougher for them to get credit and deal with government. I’ve heard that there are even environmentalists on the boards of some of these big companies. But now, even environmentalists are calling for more drilling. Apparently even environmentalists are dreading the fuel bill for their private jet trip to the next European environmental conference.
Due to Covid, Trump and Biden, Republicans and Democrats have cranked up the printing press. About 40% of all U.S. dollars have been created since 2020. Inflation is around 8% even according to government propaganda. The report a couple days ago of 7.9% inflation didn’t take into account the recent jump in the price of oil. U.S. dollars are worth less than a couple years ago due to government manipulation of the currency carried out by both parties. Your U.S. currency just buys less than it did in 2019.
On 2/23, the day before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, WTI oil closed at $92. The price is currently at $108, and has been as high as $130. That price is probably an overreaction. Just as much Russian oil and gas is still flowing through the pipelines. It’s just that it stopped flowing to the U.S. a few days ago when Biden stopped its importation.
The lesson to take away is that both parties are to blame for policies that have been in place for 100 years, and were put into overdrive due to covid. Will we ever get an apology for the moronic lockdown policies? These evil policies were implemented by orders of governors of both parties, and carried out by local people who will betray their fellow citizens and apparently do whatever evil thing they’re told for a paycheck. They should be ashamed to show their face. The first generation of Americans would have tarred and feathered them. Rather than pointing fingers at the other party, reject any attempt by government to control us or force us to do anthing. Those individuals, who may be our friends and family and neighbors are to blame for high oil prices.
When AHA started doing “Church Repent” several years ago, I thought, “How can they go to a church they’ve never been to and pick on them?” Over the years, I’ve realized that you can go to any random church and exhort them and it is a great way to tell whether they are good or bad.
When confronting an American church with abortion apathy and IVF information, the typical, bad church will say, “Why are you picking on us? Have you listened to a sermon? We love the Bible!” A good church says, “What can we do to help? We want to repent of our apathy. We want to do something.”
If they’re a good church, you can go to them. If they’re a bad church you can go to them. The object is to raise awareness of the abortion holocaust and stand up for orphans. Not to please people. Here’s an example of a typical, worthless, wicked church and pastor. Maybe you can hold out hope that they were caught off guard or need more time to consider the situation, but I don’t think so, based on my analysis. I would hold out hope that if they were humble and studied the Bible a lot more, God could change them but their errors are just so basic and egregious.
It starts out with an off-duty cop working security for the church. That’s the first problem. Cops are contrary to Scripture in many ways, which I’ve gone over in the past many times. I don’t have a problem with someone trained with the ability to use a gun roaming around the church property to protect people who are to a certain extent sitting ducks for a random gunman, but I do have a problem with hiring a cop, but that’s just a minor point so far.
A huge problem is that the cop, as is typical, doesn’t have any idea that a sidewalk is a traditional public forum for free speech. Anyone can stand on a sidewalk in any neighborhood with a sidewalk running along a public street and hold any kind of sign, pass out literature and speak loudly any message they want, even if it’s offensive. I think this cop is stupid and ignorant rather than knowing the law and intending to deceive. This indicates that he is poorly trained, and also that Christians aren’t out spreading their message. There may be limitations to sound amplification, and that would depend on local ordinances.
The cop doubles down on the stupidity saying that if anyone is offended by the message, it is disorderly conduct. I don’t want to be too critical of Matt, but I want to point out a couple things that he could have done better (from my armchair quarterback, 20/20 hindisight position), so that we can all do better next time. Matt should have said he was offended by the cop and by the guy that walked up on him saying he doesn’t want Matt to mess with his kids and eventually the pastor. Would the cop have written himself and those other guys tickets? No, he’d be put to shame for saying that if anyone offends someone, they can be cited for disorderly conduct.
When the cop says the church has asked him to leave, so he has to leave, I kind of suspect that he’s lying. Can anyone be that stupid? Surely he’s deceiving, but maybe he actually is that stupid. You can tell he’s quite stupid, but is he that stupid? I don’t know. You decide whether he’s extremely stupid or just that evil.
Starting at 3:12, the cop says he has to provide ID, because he’s being detained. Over and over again, there are copious examples of Texas cops demanding IDs. They can ask and they can demand all they want. No one has to provide an ID unless they’re under arrest per Texas Penal Code 38.02. In a couple of videos I’ve seen Matt, while in Texas, identify himself even though he wasn’t under arrest. Every state is different, so look up the law in your state, and generally, I’d recommend obeying the law because police, lawyers and judges are psychopaths and unpredictable. You can sue them later. But, don’t identify if you’re not required by law, either.
At 3:56, the jackass in the blue plaid shirt says, “Your rights end where mine begin.” This is just absurd retardation. No one has the right to not be offended. This is just shocking stupidity. How did we get to this point in America where people can be this stupid?
As they go on making fools of themselves, the biggest fool walks up. While the lame-brain “pastor” talks, the disorderly conduct talk is put on the back burner. I would bet that if the pastor had stood up for common sense and Scripture and said that it’s the cop’s job to protect everyone’s right to free speech, the whole thing would have been over.
If you look at this church’s website, you’ll see that this is Doug, the senior pastor. If you read his bio, you might even be impressed. He has a pretty good pedigree, suggesting he may even be reformed, which would put him in the top 10% of pastors as far as I’m concerned. The website of the church looks very good and biblical. But the shocking stupidity that comes out of his mouth in this interaction is just such basic false teaching.
As soon as the “pastor” starts talking, it’s all about him and what he’s doing and there is zero humility. Matt is there about IVF. I’d bet $10,000 right now that that church has members who have taken part in IVF and those people currently have babies frozen in test tubes, and the “pastor” knows about it and can name their names. Even if they don’t, I would bet $10,000 that he’s never preached a sermon against IVF. I’d bet another $10,000 that they are doing nothing more to fight abortion than maybe an occasional sermon and maybe donating to a crisis pregnancy center. But no one will take those bets.
One million babies are murdered by abortion every year. NO ONE has a strategy to fight abortion that is 100% effective at this point. Abolition is a glimmer of hope that the vast majority of Christians know nothing about. It is at least Scripturally correct, even if it hasn’t produced a lot of results yet. Our hearts should break and we should humbly receive any ideas or correction on this issue. Orphans are being murdered among us and no American Christian at any church has any room to receive Matt’s exhortation with the conceit this guy has. The way we treat unborn babies is heartbreaking. Keep that in mind while listening to this pompous, lost (lost as in, unregenerate, unbelieving, dead in his sin and headed to hell) “pastor”.
At 6:35, this evil “pastor” says Matt should respect the dirty, ignorant cop. He would have told Jesus to stop calling Herod a fox. He takes the Hitler hermeneutic in his interpretation of Romans 13. That is the typical, but wrong, approach towards Romans 13 among most Christians.
At 7:29, he says that he’ll call out Matt’s sin of judging. This is absolutely moronic. There’s no way this guy has read the Bible in decades. The Bible teaches that judging is good. Hypocritical judging is bad, but one of the main goals in Christianity is to mature to the point that you can judge properly (John 7:24, 1 Cor. 2:15, Hebrews 5:14, etc.). And, if he thinks it’s a sin to judge, then when he tells Matt that it’s a sin to judge, he’s committing the type of hypocritical judging that is forbidden in Matthew 7. I feel like I learned this stuff so long ago and I cannot believe that someone who has read the New Testament once in the last 10 years could say anything this stupid. I’m shocked.
Furthermore, the “pastor” has obviously NEVER done any type of public evangelism. If you do any type of literature distribution or public evangelism more than a couple hours, you will have the cops called on you. You will learn very quick what the law says. You will learn to stand up for your right to preach the gospel publicly. So this idiot “pastor” turns Matt over to the state. Rather than being wronged (which he wasn’t being wronged) he turns the matter over to laws created by unbelievers.
At that point, the dirty cop asks for Matt’s ID. What I would have done at this point, were I Matt, is to tell him that I’m not required to identify. As I said earlier, I would generally recommend, if there is any doubt about the legality of the situation is to avoid arrest or citation and deal with the misunderstanding via lawyers. I’d pay a lawyer if needed or I’m sure Matt has a pro-bono Christian civil liberties lawyer. I’ve had two situations where I’ve needed a lawyer, and both times Liberty Counsel helped for free, and I later made a donation. There is no shortage of lawyers who will take a case like this. In this situation where Matt was obviously right, I’d ask for the dumb cop to call a supervisor. And if the supervisor is just as idiotic, which is a real possibility, I’d be tempted to take the ticket or even be arrested. If you’re arrested, you will sue and win a lot of money quite easily. The only gray area in this case was the use of amplification, which wasn’t in the video.
I hope Matt did something about this, but he could spend a lot of time on these types of situations at the detriment of preaching the gospel as well, so I don’t blame him if he didn’t.
What’s the lesson? As far as you could tell by looking at the website, or attending the service, this would appear to be a good church. You could attend for years and be content that the Bible is being preached. Matt comes along and exposes the idolatry and stupidity in a few minutes. I support Matt and Church Repent Project in general. I oppose ministry industrial complex businesses like this one.
There are good churches out there. They would respond humbly and with sorrow for the orphans who are being led to the slaughter in our country. But you can’t tell whether the church is good or bad by looking at their website or even attending their services for years. One way you can tell is by standing in front with a graphic abortion sign. You will find out what kind of church they are very quickly.
This is a good video with a lot of good points. I agree with his point that the drug war just needs to come to an end at this point. Coors and Budweiser don’t have shootouts.
A random dude on Facebook (probably a baby boomer) says Mexico is dangerous for Americans. I found an article on Forbes talking about just how dangerous it is. It will scare you and make you never want to go to Mexico. In 2016, 31 million Americans visited Mexico and 75 were murdered.
Now, we don’t know what those 75 were doing. Were they getting involved in the drug business? I don’t know. Let’s assume they’re all just innocent little, white people hanging out on the beach. We want to know the murder rate for American tourists per 100,000. So 31 million tourists is 310 x 100,000. And so, we divide 75 by 310 100,000s, and we get a murder rate of American tourists in Mexico of 0.24/100,000. I’m not minimizing the seriousness of that. That’s 75 too many. But, the murder rate of American tourists in all other countries, according to the article is 0.14/100,000. That’s not a huge difference.
What’s the murder rate in America? Well, let’s just say you’re much better off in Mexico than in some notoriously dangerous cities like Chicago, Baltimore and St. Louis. The murder rates in those cities is 18.26, 58.27 and 64.5/100,000 respectively. So, you’re about 268 times safer in Mexico than in St. Louis. Here’s a good list of American murder rates.
But surely those examples are of extremely dangerous American cities, right? It’s true that it’s not that dangerous everywhere. Cities like Fort Lauderdale, Florida or Oklahoma City can’t be that much worse than Mexico, right? Sorry, both of those cities are over 11 murders per 100,000 people. Much more dangerous than Mexico.
Why would the US State Department try to falsely scare Americans about Mexico? If the government can convince us that this is the freest and safest country, we’ll be much more likely to put up with their abuse before trying to get out of our dysfunctional relationship.
You probably just shuddered at the thought of ending your relationship with the USSA. But it needs to be an option on the table for more people or they really will just keep abusing us more and more. Some people leave the country to become “perpetual travelers”. Foreign countries treat them with more respect as foreigners. And you’re out of the range of the abuse of your own country where they look at you as just a tax slave.
Listening to the State Department criticize Mexico is like listening to the marketing department at Target talk about Wal-Mart. If Target can bad mouth Wal-Mart and make their own customers a little more loyal, maybe they can raise their prices a little and get away with it before their customers jump ship.
Working for the Secession of Fremont County from the Union
