The left and its corporate media have been having another panic about Donald Trump. This time‚ they’re calling Trump a would-be dictator. Whenever the left accuses the right of something‚ it’s almost guaranteed the left is doing that very thing. So who is really acting like a dictator right now? Joe Biden has been governing like a dictator since day one. Believe it or not‚ even the New York Times said so after Biden’s first week in office when he signed a boatload of executive orders. You know it must be bad when the New York Times editorial board suggests “legislating through Congress is a better path.” To keep their power‚ dictatorships must try to control the spread of ideas they find threatening. This is not a South American-style dictatorship where political enemies are rounded up and executed. It’s a nice progressive-style dictatorship where opponents are monitored‚ or censored online‚ or get a knock on the door from an IRS agent. You might wonder how Biden can be a dictator if he is practically senile. He can be both thanks to the administrative state. It’s a well-oiled machine. Biden is just the tip of the spear‚ the public face reading the teleprompter lines that he’s fed. And that’s on a good day. It’s the left-wing activists in charge. It’s the Woodrow Wilson progressive dictatorship model. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a major fan of Wilson. He and his band of merry progressives took Wilson’s model to the next level with New Deal controls. Wilson and FDR both pulled off their dictatorships during wartime. Later‚ Lyndon Johnson tried to do it by declaring his own “war on poverty.” In an ideal progressive dictatorship‚ you have control of Congress to rubber-stamp your ideas. In Biden’s case‚ he doesn’t need to pass legislation any more since he has the vast executive wing of federal government built by Wilson‚ FDR‚ LBJ‚ Bill Clinton‚ and Barack Obama. Here is a rundown of 10 ways Biden has acted as a dictator. The eviction moratorium Biden’s eviction moratorium in 2021 simply ignored property rights and placed undue financial hardship on small businesses. Ultimately‚ the Supreme Court correctly struck it down. Unconstitutional vaccine mandates Biden’s September 2021 executive order required vaccines for all federal workers and federal contractors‚ health care workers‚ the military‚ and all employers with more than 100 employees. Again‚ the Supreme Court struck most of it down. In his announcement‚ he said: “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. … We’ve been patient‚ but our patience is wearing thin.” Student loan cancellation I bet you didn’t know that a president can just wave his magic wand and make loan debt disappear. Well‚ technically he can’t‚ but that hasn’t stopped Biden. Last summer‚ yet again‚ the Supreme Court shut down this plan as completely unconstitutional. But in true dictator style‚ Biden treats Supreme Court decisions as roadblocks to drive around. Just a few weeks ago‚ he canceled another $5 billion in student loan debt. This brings his grand cancellation total to $136 billion. The Disinformation Governance Board In 2022‚ Biden named Nina Jankowicz as the first censorship czar of the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board‚ and she sounded perfect for the role. After all‚ she had called the Hunter Biden laptop story nothing more than “a Trump campaign product.” When the disinformation board was later shelved‚ the Washington Post blamed it on “right-wing attacks.” To keep their power‚ dictatorships must try to control the spread of ideas they find threatening. Destroying American energy During his first week in office‚ Biden canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline. He stopped new oil and natural gas leasing on public lands and offshore‚ even though a court ordered him to resume the lease sales as required by law. Then he drained our Strategic Petroleum Reserve to its lowest level since 1984. Then‚ since socialist dictators stick together‚ Biden reduced sanctions on Venezuela‚ allowing the country to resume pumping oil there and exporting 19% of it back to us. An enormous land-grab Biden claims he is “protecting” 1.5 million acres of public land so far as part of his “30 by 30” plan. He wants to protect “at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030.” Biden didn’t come up with this idea on his own‚ of course. The Center for American Progress came up with the “30 by 30” program in a 2019 report titled “How Much Nature Should America Keep?” John Podesta‚ the guy who started the Center for American Progress‚ is now replacing John Kerry as Biden’s climate czar. Podesta will officially just be a “coordinator” in the position. That way he won’t face confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Moreover‚ he won’t have to answer questions about Kerry‚ who refused to hand over simple information like who was on his staff‚ his expenses as climate czar‚ and what he actually worked on. It’s a great way to keep your radical climate agenda hidden from oversight. This is how you run a modern progressive dictatorship: erasing the lines between left-wing dark money think tanks and the executive branch‚ sidestepping the Constitution‚ and avoiding Congress by working through government agencies to accomplish whatever the activists want. The National School Boards Association letter In 2021‚ the NSBA asked Biden for help and urged that parental threats be classified as “domestic terrorism.” It turns out that the NSBA coordinated with the White House and the Justice Department on the letter. Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before Congress that the Justice Department was not using counterterrorism tools to target parents. Whistleblowers later said‚ however‚ that the Justice Department and FBI were investigating parents across the country with a “threat tag” created by the FBI’s counterterrorism division. Targeting pro-life demonstrators In 2022 alone‚ the Justice Department charged 34 people for blocking access to abortion clinics. Meanwhile‚ in the same period‚ there were 81 reported attacks on pregnancy centers and 130 attacks on Catholic churches since a draft of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision was leaked. Yet only two individuals have been charged related to those crimes. When Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) questioned Garland about the disparity‚ the attorney general said it was because the pro-lifers committed their “crimes” during the daytime when their faces could be seen‚ while those who vandalized pregnancy centers and churches did so in the nighttime. Do you really buy that? As Senator Lee asked Garland‚ “How do you explain the disparity by reference to anything other than politicization?”Trashing the First Amendment Biden has been cracking down on the First Amendment by working with Big Tech platforms to censor speech on topics including COVID origins‚ masks‚ vaccines‚ lockdowns‚ the Hunter Biden laptop‚ climate change‚ mail-in voting‚ and election integrity. The censorship happened even when the social media companies knew the suppressed information was true. Last year‚ Federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty called this case “the most massive attack against free speech in United States history." Even after an injunction‚ the Biden White House is pressing on with its legal challenge‚ claiming the government’s free speech is being violated. The Supreme Court will hear the case this year. In the meantime‚ we continue learning more about Biden’s censorship efforts‚ including the revelation earlier this month by U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that the White House pressured Amazon to censor books related to COVID-19. Amazon caved and triggered a “do not promote” policy for books that were critical of vaccines. Forcing transgenderism on schools During Biden’s very first week in office‚ he signed an order declaring support for boys participating as girls in girls’ sports. In 2022‚ he signed an executive order expanding access to sex-change treatments for kids. In addition‚ recent rule changes to Title IX will force school employees to report any improper use of a transgender person’s preferred pronouns to the Title IX coordinator for that campus. More policing of speech sounds totally constitutional. Biden has been in the White House for three years and issued 131 executive orders so far — a little less than an average of one per week. During his first year in office alone‚ he issued 77 orders‚ almost double Obama’s first year‚ and 40% more than Trump’s first year. These are dictator moves. Abusing executive power. Skipping past Congress. Ignoring the Constitution. Trampling on individual liberties. Targeting political opponents. This is how Biden delivers on his inaugural address promise to “restore the soul and to secure the future of America.”

Tema Okun‚ a white Oberlin College graduate from North Carolina‚ has spent the last three decades suggesting that Western civilization and its distinguishing features are racist. According to the greying leftist‚ objectivity‚ binary thinking‚ and individuality are "characteristics of white supremacy culture." The Gaza ceasefire advocate's feverish accusations‚ first published in 1999‚ have been reprinted countless times and promoted by once-serious institutions and universities across the country. Conservative radio host Jason Rantz of KTTH has obtained possible evidence that Seattle Public Schools is now subjecting English students to Okun's racist ravings. Okun racializes quality and competence Okun‚ plagued by apparent feelings of inadequacy and "exasperation‚" attempted in the late 1990s to draft a list of "characteristics of white supremacy culture" she perceived to be "prevalent in our culture and institutions." The leftist determined that various effective beliefs‚ behaviors‚ and modes of thinking — including objectivity‚ a sense of right and wrong‚ and individuality — were "damaging because they are used as norms and standards without being pro-actively named or chosen by the group. They are damaging because they promote white supremacy thinking." A sense of urgency is supposedly racist‚ for example‚ because it "makes it difficult to take time to be inclusive‚ encourage democratic and / or thoughtful decision-making‚ to think long-term‚ to consider consequences." Even worse‚ a sense of urgency "frequently results in sacrificing potential allies for quick or highly visible results." Paternalism‚ by which Okun apparently meant decisive leadership‚ is a characteristic of white supremacy because "those with power think they are capable of making decisions for and in the interests of those without power." "Either/or thinking" is racist because it is "closely linked to perfectionism‚" "results in trying to simplify complex things‚" and "creates conflict and increases sense of urgency." Okun also figures individualism to be a characteristic of white supremacy because it promotes a "desire for individual recognition and credit" and "creates a lack of accountability‚ as the organization values those who can get things done on their own without needing supervision or guidance." Objectivity is another such white supremacist characteristic because it requires people to think in a logical fashion and allegedly corresponds with "the belief that emotions are inherently destructive‚ irrational‚ and should not play a role in decision-making or group process." Okun notes on her blog that "white supremacy culture is inextricably linked to all the other oppressions - capitalism‚ sexism‚ class and gender oppression‚ ableism‚ ageism‚ Christian hegemony - these and more are all interconnected and intersected and stirred together in a toxic brew[.] ... This brew is a cancer‚ a disease‚ an addiction‚ an infliction and it infects everything with and without our awareness." The madness continues to spreadSeattle Public Schools has made no secret of its identitarian leanings‚ noting in its 2019-2024 strategic plan that it is focused on "ensuring racial equity in our educational system‚ unapologetically address[ing] the needs of students of color who are further from educational justice‚ and work[ing] to undo the legacies of racism in our educational system." To this end‚ SPS appears to be singularly focused on helping one group of students. "By focusing on students of color who are furthest from educational justice‚ especially African American males‚ we will make the greatest progress toward our collective vision‚" says the strategic plan. "We believe that an intentional focus on African American males will ultimately benefit every student." Accommodation of black male students apparently entails divorcing them from desirable traits and convincing them that such traits are racist. A concerned father told Rantz that students in a class on world literature and composition were given a handout with definitions of the "9 characteristics of white supremacy" as part of "Black Lives Matter at School Week‚" which previously ran from late January to early February. The English students were apparently told that "Worship of the Written Word" — one of Okun's proposed characteristics of white supremacy — entails "honoring only what is written and even then only what is written to a narrow standard‚ full of misinformation and lies. An erasure of the wide range of ways we communicate with each other." An updated and textual definition of Okun's white supremacy characteristic‚ circulated by the University of Michigan‚ indicates that the worship of the written word is especially problematic because it corresponds with an "inability or refusal to acknowledge information that is shared through stories‚ embodied knowing‚ intuition and the wide range of ways that we individually and collectively learn and know." The other eight characteristics named on the handout‚ all lifted from Okun's decades-old article‚ are as follows: objectivity; individualism; right to comfort; perfectionism; denial and defensiveness; paternalism; either/or and the binary; and fear. The list is "incoherent and cannot stand any sort of reasoned analysis‚" added the father. "How is a 15-year-old kid supposed to object in class when 'denial and defensiveness' is itself a characteristic of white supremacy? This is truly educational malpractice." KTTH indicated that SPS declined to provide comment. "I feel bad for any students who actually internalize stuff like this‚ as it is setting them up for failure‚" the father‚ who chose to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals‚ told Rantz. "My problem with this curriculum is that this is supposed to be a writing and literature class‚ and lessons like these do nothing to help my kid become a better writer." "I'm sure Lincoln administration will point to the high ELA proficiency scores‚ but the high proportion of HCC [highly capable] kids (40% of the student body) is a big factor‚" added the concerned dad. "With so many smart‚ hardworking kids (white supremacists) it's easy to support these luxury beliefs‚ but system-wide‚ only 63% of kids are proficient in English. Is this really the best use of class time?" Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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