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LUXURY BELIEFS

When Bill Whittle first heard the term “luxury beliefs” he instantly knew what it meant…but it’s deeper than he initially knew.

LUXURY BELIEFS

They’re the new Secret Handshake.

Things are jumping in the our new forum. 

Here’s the New York Post article mentioned in this episode .

https://youtu.be/RofJ27sE6Rg

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47 replies on “LUXURY BELIEFS”

Aside from paying virtually no price for demanding an extension to lockdowns, these same people are also using the lockdown as damning evidence that capitalism does not work. Never mind that it was GOVERNMENT that shut down the free market & displaced countless thousands of people.

“No skin in the game” is the phrase that comes to mind when talking about those who impose lock-downs and closures. The absence of consequence on those dictating lock-down is an issue I’ve been wrestling with since last summer. Rhetorically, how do we (the voting population) impose consequences on the dictators (i.e., governors, public health bureaucrats) to prevent this from happening again?

Great phrase , Luxury Beliefs. That along with First World Problems needs to be loudly broadcast. Another great message, Bill. Counting down to Zo’s first vid.

This is a wonderful video which explains a lot! This is why Gretchen Whitmer always had that big smile on her face as she shut down businesses and sections of businesses in Michigan. Her forcing of merchants to deny access to seeds for planting, and child seats was arbitrary. She knew her commands were arbitrary and she knew the citizens of her state knew they were arbitrary, and that why the big ecstatic smile! The total lack of scientific or valid ground for her diktats revealed her total, unchecked, power over her constituents, and signaled her separation from the common herd to other elites. Consequently she’s being rewarded by the Biden administration for that demonstration of her power to push the little people down, a group she is definitely not a member of.

I remember the first time I heard the phrase “virtue signaling” – I yelled, “Aha, that’s it!” I actually remember where I was standing, it was like a lightning bolt. Thanks for a new term to use which is just as apropos, “Luxury Beliefs.” I agree with everything in this video.
I also support Brandon Straka.

This is one of the best videos you’ve done. When even the poorest among us have access to TV, cell phones, refrigeration, health care, food stamps, free income from welfare, mere survival is not an issue. Society has taken care of that. Only in a society so wealthy do we have the “luxury” of fretting over things like pronouns, cultural appropriation, transgenderism, and the like.

This is the short form version of the excellent book by Charles Murray, “Coming Apart”. Elites in general, and Coastal Elites in particular “don’t preach what they practice”. This book, plus Tucker Carlson’s “Ship of Fools” should be mandatory reading for any member of the Bill Whittle Network.

I’ve read both and you are correct. Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance and The Stakes, Michael Anton are also excellent reads many members would appreciate.

This “Luxury Beliefs” concept is ringing very true. It strikes me the same way as when I first heard the term “Virtue Signaling”. The difficulty is getting the presumed beneficiaries of the false value, the poor and black in particular, to recognize that the promises of these charlatans are devoid of meaning. Middle-aged working adult, primarily black females with which I interact are adopting the role of victim as some sort of means to hold themselves above others around them. It is self-destructive and alienating.

I’m atheist born into a practicing Catholic family, raised white trash and by no means a person of means even now. I’m atheist because I can think, and have thought, and have assessed experiences, and came to a reasoned conclusion. Nothing I see or have experienced in the meantime dissuades me from the conclusion I have come to. I do not occupy an empty space. I am not empty, and I am not immoral, I am not in spiritual poverty. Try being a conservative atheist. We have no groups to belong to, to fit in with other than our own, very small minority. The left rejects us because we are conservative and patriotic, the right rejects us because we don’t have a faith.
Spare me the bullshit about atheism being a religion. When you resort to that it shows me you don’t really know what the word atheism even means.

Thank you for your forthright and candid remarks in support of non-religious conservatives. There is a lot more I could add to this comment in support of that view, but I will just leave it at that.

The worship of The Diversity Deity, is precisely the same impulse. White Patricians salving THEIR white guilt, by throwing white plebeians under the bus!

The elites acquire their status to fill the empty space that was meant for something deeper. I guess that is one reason they can do some very bad things and do not expect to pay a price. Some of our churches have sold out and adopted the social justice wacko memes. Smells like virtue signaling. It’s as crazy as a conductor standing on the train tracks waving to signal danger with an unlit lantern.

So we have some choices:

  1. Accept the put downs and punishment, or
  2. Reject the idiocy and ridicule them for their attitudes…

They are effete snobs who revel in their privilege and try to rub our faces in their “specialness”. Let’s laugh at them yet take very seriously their spoken desire to harm law-abiding (constitutional law-abiding) citizens. Ridicule shortens the distance and makes all who hear it remember that these people are just people – arrogant, flawed and dangerous people.
The malice is real. I do not believe it will pass; instead it will go underground and become a matter of policy. The historical parallels are too strong to ignore.
[Paraphrasing a source I cannot recall]: The family hiding Anne Frank was breaking the law. The Gestapo that sent her to be gassed was enforcing the law…..
I believe their stated intent.

Every person in power should be MADE to adhere to all of the rules, laws, and mandates that they invoke. Along with that, if Congress (in their infinite wisdom) choose to shut down the government, they should not be paid. They should be made to use the same medical insurance, we should limit their terms in office, and stop them from being paid when they have left their positions in the government. I wonder what the world would be like if we did all of these things.

Well, all it takes is for we, the sheeple, to get up off of our complacent butts and be willing to risk something to save something worthwhile, the American Idea. We have term limits, it’s called the vote, and people should be fined, lose something for not doing their civic duties required to be a citizen of the United States of America. Freedom isn’t free sheeple! It’s up to us to make people adhere to the rules, and there should be no such thing as “people in power or elitist;” the power lies with we, the sheeple, and not politicians and Hollywood.

We HAD the vote. I’m sorry to be so blunt, but anyone who thinks Joe Biden actually won that election is an idiot or a Democrat… but I repeat myself. It wasn’t an election – it was a coup d’état. There were at least FIVE different methods of cheating, some of them changing massive numbers of votes. Hence, anyone who thinks the Elected Elite (both Dems and RINOs) won’t use the same cheating techniques again is delusional. Same with anyone who thinks the very people who created this corrupt system (and benefit greatly from it) are going to institute meaningful election reform. New laws, you say? There were already laws in place to protect election integrity, yet they were broken and ignored, including state officials ignoring their own state Constitutions (not to mention the US Constitution). AND no one was held accountable. No… we are in bad trouble here, and elections aren’t going to fix it. Don’t ask me what the answer is – people will have to noodle that one out for themselves.

Very good topic. Your points and the article illustrate it well. Your previous show topic about shunning is one mechanism by which to start putting the elites in their place. When our schools discontinued teaching morals and virtue, and God and the flag were removed from the classroom we were bound for this outcome. Many churches have taken up the mantle of pandering to the elites, selling out to the progressive message. Entertainment has been an avid purveyor of a s…t-show of propaganda and elitism. Too many parents have abandoned their children to daycare, t.v. and electronic devices as surrogates for raising them.

My business works directly with the Amish communities in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Missouri as well as the Old English Mennonites and many Hutterian Colonies in the Dakotas. I envy them in so many respects, and have often thought that their culture is a protection against the “wokeness” of those who deign to be our betters.

Shunning and scorning the elite and everything they promote needs to be the order of the day, starting today.

#WalkAway

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…..”
No gods have been removed from schools. Every student can still pray and avoid meat on Friday, and wear a crucifix, carry and read a religious text, and opt out of secular observances. Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t pledge to the flag or the nation.
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Public monies being used to fund public institutions can not establish religious practices or dogma among those they serve. That is what private institutions (schools) get to do. I refer to the Exercise clause of the First Amendment. “In god we trust” was not placed on the dollar by the Founders, it “was adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1956, supplanting E pluribus unum, which had been in use since the initial 1776 design of the Great Seal of the United States.

It isn’t my responsibility to search for examples. If you claim there are some then it is your responsibility to provide credible evidence. Lots of things do happen, that doesn’t make them a norm or pervasive. When such things do happen the parents have a duty to confront it on behalf of their children. We have to defend our rights. If you look to the top to do that for you you are going to be disappointed a lot.

Maybe you should have made the column on the left red and the one on the right blue. Or is this a parody?

The anti-Americans should be commie red. I think some historical attempt to hide it caused the Dems to be blue.

No, I think he’s making a point, by challenging your accustomed associations of the parties.
We’ve been ‘programmed’ to associate blue with the Dems and red with Repubs, so your initial impression is skewed and you need work to make the perceptive shift.
Or I could be full of sh!t…

As Steve Green would say “Embrace the healing power of AND!” 😉
Sorry, Phil you left the door open and I am enough of a jerk to burst through!

One does not have to believe in God or practice a religion to be a good person.
I, like many others I know, was “raised” in Christian churches and discovered the “interpretations” of the “good book” (Bible) varied wildly from church to church.
When I asked too many questions (or the wrong kind of questions), I was either shunned, made to feel not welcome, or simply left because of the hypocrisy.
I was expected to abide by whatever was being “preached” and not ask a lot of questions even though a lot of the rules and interpretations I could not find in the very Bible we read.
I witnessed hypocrisy galore. Congregants would go to church on Sunday and act all “Christian”, then would spew racism from their mouths, make fun of handicapped people, and be against any of “those people” coming into the church (basically anyone who wasn’t white) the rest of the week.
Now, I’m not saying all churches are like that, but after many years of trying various churches with the same results, I walked away.

Oh My God! Someone who has walked the same path I have taken! I lost interest in churches ever since they fired a minister who disagreed with the deacons. A man who was my mentor and spiritual leader. I tried several other churches and didn’t like what I saw so chose to worship God my own way. I feel closer to the Lord walking in the wildness.

Brother, there are many who share our story! 🙂
Yes, God or the Creator is in nature (everywhere really), but we can sense it better when we’re outside, off the computer, and our minds are quiet.
You are not alone.
Welcome to the “religion lost me” club. Ha ha.

Don’t conflate God and His Objective Moral Standards with Man-made Religion, De Fletcher. And do not misunderstand the point…

The Left deify Government as a replacement for God in the lives of the individual. They (whether they believe in God or not) generally believe that SOME are more highly evolved than the rest of us, and are thus better qualified to establish “moral” standards for the rest of us. THEY may issue edicts arbitrarily.

To the Leftist Collectivist, the value of the Individual is contingent upon their own elitist assessment of one’s worth. And this typically boils down to the value of one’s contributions to the Collective (and

Moreover, by divorcing the worth of the Individual from their God-given worth as Created Beings and reassigning their worth as is relates to their evolutionary progress up the ladder from primordial pond scum and their contribution to the Collective, the Leftist Collectivist Elitists grant themselves the authority to grant — or revoke — civil rights as they deem fit.

If you understood the World View upon which our National Charter is founded, you would take my meaning — and understand the dangers. A survey was conducted of the writings and readings of our Founding Fathers by historians at the University of Texas. They discovered four chief influences went into how they sought to establish a new and EXCEPTIONAL government. These were — in order of importance and prominence:
1) The Bible (34%)
2) Montesquieu (8.3%) – Roman Catholic Political Philosopher established:
— God is the Author of ALL Law
— Because of Sinful Nature, Man departs form God’s Laws
— Civil Government is Necessary to keep men within the confines of God’s law
— But the Sinfulness of Human Nature also causes government to become despotic
— To keep government moderate, it is best to separate government power into three separate branches
— Christianity makes government more humane (more on this in my next reply).
3) Blackstone (7.9%) – Church of England Legal Commentator – Established:
— Three Categories of Law:
– Revealed Law – Doctrines from the Devine (i.e. the Bible)
– Law of Nature – God’s Laws of the Universe discovered through Scientific Observation
– Municipal Law – Man-made Laws that govern the affairs of men
— Judicial Restraint — Judges cannot make law from the bench
4) Locke (2.9%) – Unorthodox Puritan Political Philosopher – Established:
— Municipal Laws — are subordinate to and MUST comport with the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God to have moral force — otherwise void and unenforceable.

Certainly, a non-believer may live a basically “moral” existence, but NO ONE — believer or unbeliever — can live a “moral” existence without and objective standard that transcends human existence.

Ask yourself this question: what moral standards does a Western Atheist have that has not first been appropriated from the Judeo-Christian Tradition? If they proclaim “there is no God” then who is the law-giver apart from the Evolutionary Standard: “Survival of the fittest”?

I see the world with eyes wide open my friend.
I have a great relationship with God.
I have learned where the far left are on the spiritual spectrum.
I don’t need an instrument from which to read “guidance” (though I’ve read it cover to cover).
I pray, I ask, I receive. No intermediary comes close to providing such.

With regard to the importance of Christianity providing for a more humane government (as espoused by Montesquieu), De Fletcher, let’s look at the murder rates of the various faith systems over the past two millennia:

Atheism – devoid of any moral standards (save “survival of the fittest”) – has the highest rate of mass murder in the history of human existence since the beginning of the “Common Era.” Darwin’s racism, supported by “The Science” has led to the worst genocides in human history.

Faith System: ATHEISM (Including Marxism & Fascism)

Key Article of Faith: There is no “god.” We are all just a freak accident of nature. Only the fittest, most evolved among us should be allowed to survive and thrive in a world of scarce resources…and those of us who are most highly evolved should make life choices for those less evolved – they are the final arbiters of what is or is not “moral.” 

Total Victims: 192,000,000 (only includes the 20th century death toll figures by Atheistic regimes) – which does not include the 60 million defenseless children murdered by the eugenicists in the USA since Roe v Wade.

Years of Slaughter: 1900 to Present – 120 Years

Murder Rate (Victims per Annum): 1,600,000 

The second most dangerous Religion is Fundamentalist Islam

Faith System: ISLAM

Key Article of Faith: Wage war on all humankind until all confess allah as the one true god, and Mohammed as his greatest messenger (Global Conquest). Put to the sword all who refuse or who turn from the faith. The only guarantee one may have of being received into paradise is to die as a martyr in this glorious Jihad…i.e. a “Good” Muslim is a violent Jihadi within the exact and proper context of the Quran, Hadith and Sunnah – following the “Prophet” Mohammed’s PERSONAL example. 

Total Victims: 670,000,000 (Non-Muslims ONLY; doesn’t include Muslim victims of intra-faith rivalries)

Years of Slaughter: 622AD to Present – 1,398 years (since the “Prophet” crawled into the Jewish town of Medina as a “refugee” and soon after ethnically cleansed it).

Murder Rate (Victims per Annum): 479,256 

Faith System: CHRISTIANITY (largely by those CLAIMING to be Christian, but who do not follow the example or words of Christ)

Key Article of Faith: For God so loved and equally valued every human that he gave his unique son to die for the sins of each and every human so that, by His grace, all would have the opportunity to accept His gift of eternal life and a personal relationship with him if they so choose.

Total Victims: 33,500,000 (this very liberal number includes the slaughter of indigenous American natives, slavery, et al., to which one can only vaguely attach blame to Christians; includes both non-Christians AND Christian victims of intra-faith rivalries, Crusades, et al.) – Typically murders are perpetrated by so-called “Christians” who twist select Bible verses entirely out of context to attached Jehovah’s name to their evil desires.

Years of Slaughter: 33 AD (or “Common Era”) to Present – 1,984 Years

Murder Rate (Victims per Annum): 16,860

Based on the numbers alone, one cannot possibly equivocate Christianity (or Judism) with Islam or Atheism. Indeed, statistically, one stands a greater chance of survival in a nation where Judeo-Christian moral values form the basis for Law. All things considered, I’ll take my chances with the Jews or Christians any day.

Have you ever been an atheist?
Murders by faith are still Free Will, are they not?
People choose what to believe (or forced). They are products of their upbringing, but have Free Will to change anything after they’re grown.
Most choose not to because it’s easier.
The world’s ills can all be traced to the “7 Deadly Sins”. But it was not the sins that killed, stole, etc. It was the Free Will. Our actions.
God breathed life into us, gifted each of us a spark of God within, gifted us with Free Will, and told us “The works I do, you can do also.”
God wants us to do good works and believe in him, but gave us free will to choose. We choose. Maybe we choose not to believe. Maybe we choose to believe in the devil to worship. Who knows?
Those who are “good Christians” are told to do good works. To show others by example. But people still choose.
Murder rates by faith, although factual, don’t take into consideration choice.
Sorry if I rambled.

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