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Forrest Gump's anti-KKK message

Scott Tibbs — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:00:13 GMT

Back in 2020, some radical Black Lives Matter agitators decided that the movie “Forrest Gump” is bad because the main character is named after a grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, and the movie should have a “trigger warning” because of that:

As a bonus, “lovable” title character Nathan Bedford Forrest was named after his grandfather, the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

First of all, the so-called “journalist” does not even get basic facts right. The main character’s name is Forrest Gump, not Nathan Bedford Forrest. This is a lie so brazen that it is shocking it was ever published in a mainstream outlet. This is not some crank on social media or writing a personal blog. This is a large mainstream publication about pop culture.

Of course, the entire point of his name is that the KKK was bad, and he has that name as a reminder that the KKK is bad. The reason Gump has that name, in storyline, is because his mother wanted to remind him that the KKK is bad. Far from honoring NBF, the movie is explicitly anti-racist.

On top of that, Gump’s best friend is a Black man named Bubba. Gump repeatedly runs into the jungle in Vietnam, braving a hail of Viet Cong gunfire, to find and rescue Bubba in a crucial scene. When Gump becomes a millionaire, he gives an enormous amount of money to Bubba’s family, setting them up to be wealthy for life. The movie openly opposes racial segregation in the Deep South.

No one who watches the movie honestly could conclude that the movie supports the KKK. This lie is so obscene that literally nothing Variety ever says can ever be trusted again. They have permanently destroyed their credibility, with no hope of recovery.

“It’s just a movie, why does it matter?”

The reason it matters is this is a small example of a much wider problem. The Cult of Wokeness is an oppressive, hyper-legalist cult that damns even the tiniest, most unintentional, and most well-intentioned errors as unforgivable blasphemy and heresy. It treats the most minor indiscretions as a reason to destroy someone’s life in addition to imposing heavy-handed censorship. This is not about a movie. This is about a radical movement that wants to micromanage every single aspect of your life and everything you do and say. It is about a Fake News media that will openly lie and spread hoaxes in service of that authoritarian agenda. When President Trump says the Fake News media is the enemy of the people, this is what he means.

This is what a cult looks like, folks. Nothing is EVER good enough for the Cult of Wokeness. No matter what you do, this cult will always find a way to deem you a “sinner,” often with so-called “standards” that change on a daily basis to make sure no one can ever be “righteous.” This way, this oppressive, hyper-legalist cult can keep the tithes and offerings flowing as a permanent penitence for the sin of “racism.” But these are not love offerings to their “god.” It is blackmail money. This is why I reject their so-called “god.” I am a heretic and a blasphemer, and I am proud to be a heretic and a blasphemer.

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Republicans should think beyond the next 5 minutes

Scott Tibbs — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:02:10 GMT

The Indiana Secretary of State nomination race has been one of the nastiest races I have seen. It was nasty in 2022 as well, which has me thinking about Republican primaries and convention races. (Obviously, all of the advice below also applies to Democrats.)

My advice for Republicans is this: Think carefully about attacks on your opponent. If you lose, is this someone you can support in the general election against whoever the Democrats nominate? If yes, going "scorched earth" on a fellow Republican will put you in an uncomfortable position in the general election. The inevitable question will be "You said X is untrustworthy, unqualified, unreliable, of poor character and has bad polices. Yet you are enthusiastically supporting him now. Were you wrong then, or are you wrong now?"

The other danger is that, even if you support the nominee, going too negative can lead some of your supporters to not vote for your victorious opponent in the general election.

Of course, even if you win, there is a danger in going too negative. Your opponent may refuse to support you in the general election and take some of his supporters with him. If the general election is going to be close, lingering hard feelings over a bitter primary or convention battle could cost you a victory in the general election. Demanding "party unity" after you have waged a "scorched earth" campaign against a fellow Republican makes you look entitled.

Unless the other Republican really is so toxic that you cannot support him in the general election, it is wise to be restrained in your negative campaigning against him. Yes, I have said negative campaigning is often necessary, as the voters or delegates deserve to know all of the information to make an informed choice. However, a "scorched earth" campaign that ignores the implications for a general election is unwise if the nominee is someone you could support in a general election.

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Thoughts on closing Kirkwood to vehicles

Scott Tibbs — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:01:22 GMT

The Bloomington City Council is dominated 9-0 by Democrats, but this does not mean that there is always agreement among those Democrats. This was seen on June 10, when the council voted 5-4 to close Kirkwood to vehicular traffic every year from April to November. Previously, it had been a decision by the Mayor, and started during the COVID-19 pandemic.

On a personal level, I like the idea of closing the street. I am regularly on Kirkwood and it is really nice to not need to worry about automobiles other than at the cross streets. These can still be dangerous, so it would be interesting to see a study of vehicle/pedestrian incidents at those cross streets when Kirkwood is closed and when it was open. I was hit by a car in 2003 crossing Dunn.

But the thing about public policy is it's not always about what benefits me personally. There are people who will be very limited in their ability to go to Kirkwood. One person testified at the hearing that because her mobility is more limited as she gets older, she may not be able to go to Kirkwood any more. One city councilor dismissed the idea that older people cannot walk or bike because he is in his 60's and can do that, but that ignores the lived experience of many Bloomingtonians.

The vast majority of people in Bloomington live too far away to realistically walk or bike to Kirkwood, especially if they have a disability. Foot traffic on Kirkwood is great, but the reality is that cars bring people. Once the cars get there, they will need a place to park. Bloomington has always had problems with parking availability, and eliminating all vehicular traffic for seven months will compound that problem and make it more difficult for people who have limited mobility.

The talk of making Kirkwood a pedestrian paradise is stained with hypocrisy, after removing the stop signs on Seventh Street a few years ago. Uninhibited traffic on 7th made it much more dangerous for people who live north of 7th to make it to Kirkwood safely, because unless you walked all the way to Indiana Avenue or Walnut Street, there was no break in vehicular traffic for pedestrians to go north or south safely. Thankfully, the city finally corrected this dangerous policy and restored the stop signs.

Of course, the city has not addressed one of the biggest problems keeping people away from Kirkwood, or downtown generally: Homeless people who are drug addicts or mentally ill or both are a safety concern for many people in Bloomington. Seminary Square Park has become no-go zone with thousands of needles picked up in that park alone over the last few years. The city's weakness has forced downtown businesses to either shut down or move to Ellettsville, where the Republicans who run the town actually have some common sense.

In theory, closing Kirkwood to vehicular traffic is an idea worth exploring, but Bloomington does not yet have the necessary surrounding infrastructure to allow people to get to Kirkwood or the political will to make people safe once they are there. Putting this in city code as a mandatory annual closure is a mistake.

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"Own the libs" is no substitute for substantive policy

Scott Tibbs — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:00:55 GMT

I know this is going to offend people, and I am probably wasting my time writing about this, but I am going to say it anyway. Is it really too much to ask to have a little professionalism at the White House? Let's put aside whether having a mixed martial arts event at the White House is a good idea or not. I want to focus on this:

"Michelle Obama is a man."

Does that really need to be yelled at the white House, about a former First Lady whose husband has been out of office for 9 years now? What exactly does this accomplish, other than trolling and taunting people? Does it lower tax rates? Does it cut spending? Does it protect unborn babies from abortion? Does it cut regulations? Does it help secure the border? Does it do anything at all other than "own the libs?"

Can you imagine President Reagan or President Bush sitting there smirking had something similar been yelled at an official White House event in 1986 or 2006? Can you imagine Mitt Romney smirking after that was broadcast to the entire world in 2014, had he been elected two years earlier?

I know, I know. The responses are obvious. I am a faggot. I am a cuck. I am clutching my pearls. I have Trump Derangement Syndrome. I am a hypocrite. Did I mention I am a faggot? Blah blah blah. I have heard it all before, literally thousands of times.

But there was a time in my lifetime when this kind of crude insult would not be publicly spoken at the White House on international TV. Behind closed doors, it certainly would have been. President Richard Nixon and President Lyndon Johnson were notoriously salty. But it is not something that would have been said publicly, before social media made politicians think they need to act like 4Chan trolls to connect with their voter base.

Would it really hurt President Trump to ask people to keep a lid on this kind of thing? Would it really be that terrible to keep the most crude insults on social media, and not on the White House lawn?

"But what about..." Yes, the open depravity celebrated by Democrats is indeed terrible. Having a topless woman show off her mastectomy scars and having a topless man show off his surgically constructed "breasts" was a terrible thing, a stain on President Biden, and a stain on the country's reputation. Filming hardcore pornography in the United States Senate was repulsive. Democrats should have more respect for the institution and more respect than the voters to allow this to go on. Even President Clinton had enough shame to try to hide his sexual dalliances with a White House intern instead of doing it publicly.

That does not justify shouting crude insults at the former First Lady. Whataboutism does expose hypocrisy, and people who defended garish public displays of sexual deviancy are showing their objection to the June 14 comments are based in partisanship, not principle. But two things can be true at once: The hypocrisy of some Democrats and Leftists is bad, and it is also bad to be openly shouting about the First Lady's genitals on an internationally broadcast event on the White House grounds.

All of this needs to stop. We need to have more respect for our institutions and traditions than both parties have shown. We need to have statesmen who take policy seriously, not 4Chan trolls who think the highest political achievement is making people on the other side angry. "If you are taking fire, you are over the target" is and has always been a stupid generalization when applied to responses to needless trolling and taunting. If someone walks up to you and slaps your mother across the face right in front of you, and you give him the beating he deserves for doing that, the slapper is not "over the target." He is just a jerk. Everyone needs to grow up.

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President Biden's legacy of missed opportunity

Scott Tibbs — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:01:07 GMT

The story of President Biden's only term in office will be one of missed opportunity. After the chaos of the previous four years, the constant trolling and taunting and unprofessional behavior from the White House, President Biden could have told the crazies in his party to stand down.

President Biden could have said that men are not women and he will not go along with the far Left in his party pushing a radical transgender agenda. He could have approved the Keystone XL pipeline, which was set to create a number of good-paying jobs and further secure American energy independence with a safer method of transporting oil that labor unions supported. With COVID-19 on the decline and vaccines available, he could have pulled back on government action and not not tried to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine on every single American. He could have pardoned President Trump and ended the weaponization of government.

In short, President Biden could have been what he promised to be in 2020: An old school moderate Democrat. But after winning the 2020 election, both President Biden and his party misread the nation's political mood and saw this as a mandate. President Biden won the popular vote by 7 million votes, but 5 million of that was running up the score in California. There was never a national mandate. So he allowed the crazies in his party to run rampant, disgracing the White House with a man showing of his surgically constructed "breasts" while a topless woman showed off her double mastectomy scars.

President Biden should have been a transitional President, especially with his obviously declining health. This, combined with pulling the party back to the center the way President Clinton did in the 1990's, would have history see him in a much better light. Instead, he selfishly decided to run for re-election. Then President Trump crushed Biden in the first debate, leading to a desperate and unprecedented midstream switch to Kamala Harris. President Trump exploited the situation by running as a center-right Northeastern Republican. He won the election in large part because Democrats had been captured by crazies and people wanted to right the ship.

Just do not be crazy. Do not overshoot your mandate. It really is that simple.

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It's OK to be a Jew, Part III

Scott Tibbs — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:01:36 GMT

I am 52 years old. I was born in 1973, nearly 30 years after the Nazi death camps were liberated. I never in my life thought I would have to write against ethnic hatred of Jews, not just once but multiple times. I certainly did not expect that I would get so much enraged opposition for opposing this ancient hatred - from both Right and Left. (Of course, "faggot" and "cuck" are the most common insults from the Right, and both sides love to use many variations of the F word.) Had you told me 15 years ago it would be this bad, I would have literally laughed in your face.

It is telling that when someone speaks against ethnic hatred of Jews, many people immediately start bitching about Israel. Outside of Israel, these United States has by far the biggest Jewish population in the world, bigger than the next ten countries combined. One of the key features of anti-Semitism, alongside the conspiracy theory that Jews run the world, is that all Jews are exactly the same and are all equally guilty of the same crimes. If the Israeli military "murders" children, then all Jews are child murderers, pedophiles, rapists, thieves, and so on and so forth. "Jewish behavior" is the reason for anti-Semitism, but these same people would scream with outrage if someone said that Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer and Tim McVeigh proved all Whites (or even all White males) were murderers and pedophiles.

What about alleged Israeli "war crimes" in the Gaza war? First, if you trust anything that the pedophile rapist terrorists murderers in Hamas say, you are either a very gullible person or you hate Jews so much that you will believe anything negative about them. And that is the point: The "war crimes" memes are just another variation of the "blood libel" campaign that has justified persecuting and slaughtering Jews for hundreds of years. THE JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS kidnapped and murdered babies, caused the Black Death, and practiced human sacrifice among many other things. (QAnon has roots in Jew-hating blood libel.)

The common defense is that "anti-Zionism is not the same as anti-Semitism." If that is true, then why do people start bitching about Israel every time someone speaks about ethnic hatred of all Jews? The fact of the matter is that there is a whole lot of so-called "anti-Zionism" that is actually thinly veiled ethnic hatred of Jews. Let's not forget that after Israel was established as a Jewish state, Arab countries all over the Middle East violently expelled their Jews. Let's not forget that the charter of Hamas calls for not only the destruction of the secular state of Israel, but the murder of every single Jew. The end goal of "anti-Zionism" for Muslim terrorists is genocide, not the "freedom" of Palestinian Arabs. Western liberal "anti-Zionists" are either willfully ignorant of that or tacitly support the genocidal agenda.

We also need moral clarity, something our city government does not have. This war started because Hamas attacked Israel. This was not a military attack. The sniveling, pathetic cowards of Hamas intentionally attacked and slaughtered civilians. They raped women so violently they broke the victims' pelvic bones. They raped little girls. They murdered babies. They proudly recorded their own depravity. Even Nazi Germany had enough shame about what they did to Jews to try to cover it up, but Hamas is so evil and demonic that they were proud of it. Every single Hamas terrorist should be exterminated without mercy.

We are living in a very scary time. The level of anti-Jew hate and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories reminds me of Germany 100 years ago. Like the Nazis, today's Jew haters cloak their hatred in self-defense and even patriotism, as if Jews are some sort of malevolent outside force seeking to destroy these United States from within. They resurrect the blood libel that resulted in mass murder of Jews and served as a justification for the Holocaust. They reject the determination to protect Jews from persecution held by John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. The Jew haters reject a foundational principle of America itself. It is our patriotic duty as Americans, as well as our duty to Almighty God, to reject and oppose this deranged ethnic hatred of Jews.

Forgiveness for abortion

Scott Tibbs — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:01:11 GMT

The account of King Manasseh is arguably the most encouraging and uplifting account in all of Scripture, and gives us all hope in the infinite grace and mercy of God. No matter what we have done, the blood of Jesus Christ is sufficient payment for our sins. Manasseh was the King of Judah, and he led the nation into extreme wickedness. Manasseh burned his own children to death to sacrifice them to demons. God judged him for it, and he cried out to God for forgiveness. He was restored as king of Judah and has the honor of being in the line of Jesus Christ.

A couple weeks ago, a millionaire YouTube celebrity announced he and his wife had decided to murder their unborn baby because the baby was found to have Down Syndrome. Around 70% of babies with Down Syndrome are murdered in these United States. In other nations, it is worse. Nearly 100% of these babies are murdered in Iceland. The United Kingdom has an abortion rate of 90% for Down Syndrome babies, as does Germany.

When the millionaires announced this, they were flooded with scorn, and they were surprised at how intense the reaction was to their announcement. This is because people were rightly horrified, especially since they were acting as if this is something that happened to them. Obviously, sending death threats is morally depraved. People can disagree, or even have well-placed moral outrage, without being filled with hate and resorting to threats of violence.

But God can and does forgive those who murder their own children. No matter how wicked the sins we have committed, we can be fully reconciled to God through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Scripture tells us in 1 John 1:9 that "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

We also need to have some self-awareness. While many are called to be prophetic against the wickedness of this world, we must not forget that we also deserve eternal damnation in Hell Fire. There is none righteous, not even one. That is why this is an opportunity for evangelism, to call those who have committed the most heinous sins to repent and believe. After all, if God can forgive someone like Scott Tibbs, He can forgive anyone.

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It's OK to be a Jew, Part II

Scott Tibbs — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:01:00 GMT

A member of the praise band in my church (arguably the most theologically conservative church in Monroe County) is a Jew. Another man who had been a deacon for many years was a Jew. Neither of them (who embraced their Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ) would agree with the notion that "Pride is a Jewish value." Neither would a number of Orthodox Jews who hold to the Old Testament's prohibition of homosexuality. Yet the usual idiots on X ran to the replies to post anti-Semitic screeds and memes, and even praise of Adolf Hitler.

Anti-Semitism takes many forms, but the most common is the belief in an overarching conspiracy where anything bad is ultimately connected to THE JOOOOOOOOOOOOOS. A corollary to that is that every single Jew is exactly the same, and they all hold the same position on every issue. There are about 7 million Jews in the United States. It is utterly absurd to assume that every Jew agrees on every topic, especially when there are prominent Jews on opposing sides of a number of issues. If a Jewish organization ignores the Torah and endorses homosexuality, then all Jews are to blame.

No one says this about any other race or ethnic group. When President Obama was running in 2008, his mobilization of Black voters in California was likely one of the biggest reasons Proposition 8 passed, as an overwhelming majority of Black voters supported the constitutional amendment to prohibit the state from recognizing same-sex marriage. This was despite the Democratic Party moving ever closer to endorsing it. A number of polls show a majority of Black voters oppose "defunding the police," with liberal college-educated Whites taking up that banner.

One of the more idiotic memes was comparing Hitler signing a document with an outlandishly dressed drag queen reading to children, condemning people who say Hitler is evil while supporting "drag queen story hour." Of course, this is an absurd comparison. Hitler was evil. Nazi Germany was evil. One need not endorse Nazism in order to oppose drag queens reading to children. This simple-minded "all or nothing" sentiment is how a cult operates.

We have gotten to the point that, sadly, ethnic hatred of Jews has become normalized. This hatred is utterly wicked and a direct attack on God Himself, because He put His image in man. The fact that some of the people spewing this bile claim to be "christians" should be rebuked by every Christian. Churches who discover their members are engaged in this hatred should rebuke, censure and eventually excommunicate "christians" who are unrepentant. We can pray that Jews accept their Messiah and oppose the toxic agenda of Leftist Jews like George Soros without damning an entire ethnic group and vomiting genocidal rhetoric.

Previously:

♣ - We should not be normalizing anti-Semitism -- May 27, 2026

♣ - It's OK to be a Jew -- May 29, 2026

♣ - Is traditional conservatism dead? Is the alt-right the future? -- June 10, 2026

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The City Council should not fund Planned Parenthood

Scott Tibbs — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:01:14 GMT

This is the text of the speech I planned to deliver to the Bloomington City Council on June 10. As the meeting passed three and a half hours, I gave up and went to sleep.

I am once again standing up to oppose funding for Planned Parenthood through the city's social services fund. As is the case every year, this request is not for money Planned Parenthood "needs." There is plenty of money floating around the larger Planned Parenthood great northwest, Hawaii, Kentucky and Indiana conglomerate. Of course, the broader national Planned Parenthood with all affiliates is an obscenely wealthy corporation. The thousands of dollars Planned Parenthood wants could do much more good for a truly local charitable organization, instead of them getting yet another political endorsement from city government.

Last October, a member of this City Council claimed at a Monroe County Council meeting that the city did not fund "gender affirming hormones," despite the fact that this was clearly part of Planned Parenthood's application for funds and they got the entire $7500 they were requesting. The people of Bloomington deserve better than to be fed false information by the people we entrust with our tax dollars and legislative authority.

This year, Planned Parenthood is once again requesting money for "gender affirming hormones." When God created man, He created us male and female, and city government should not spend tax money in rebellion against His design. We should have compassion on people with gender dysphoria, but the answer is not to substantially disrupt the natural hormonal balance in order to conform to a psychological delusion that does not match the anatomical or genetic reality of the body. If this anti-compassionate medical treatment is to be funded, it should not be funded with property tax dollars.

This organization, which exterminated thousands of innocent unborn lives at their South College facility until they were finally stopped by state government, and would continue killing babies for money if it was not illegal, should never get another penny of our property tax dollars. Please vote down this request and find a more deserving organization to fund instead.

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Is traditional conservatism dead? Is the alt-right the future?

Scott Tibbs — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:00:56 GMT

Way back in the 1990's, I was hearing that traditional conservatism is dead and Generation X conservatives would be ushering in a new kind of conservatism that will wash away the conservatism of the past. Ideologically, I was with the economically libertarian and socially conservative wing of the party that had been grown by Ronald Reagan. I am still a Reaganite conservative more than three decades later. I did not care about the alleged "future" of conservatism then, and I do not care now that Zoomers are allegedly gravitating to the "new right" or even to "alt right" (Alt Reich?) voices.

This is because my principles are the same now as they were when I was in college. Yes, I have changed course on a few applications of those principles here and there, but my worldview is basically the same as it was in 1996 when I started writing for the Indiana Daily Student.

I believe in free markets. I believe in a foreign policy that puts American interests first. I believe in protecting the right to life. I believe in private property rights. I believe in free speech. I believe in gun rights. I oppose the Nanny State. I believe that the federal government should be small and limited, leaving the vast majority of policy making decisions to the states. I believe in protecting the Christian model of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. I believe in protecting the innocent from predators, which means locking up criminals who prey on the innocent. I believe in the death penalty. And unlike the chuds in the "alt right," I am opposed to racism and anti-Semitism.

It should not be a surprise that some on the Left and in the legacy news media are cheering the alleged ascendancy of the "new right" and the "alt right," because they see both as much easier to defeat than traditional conservatives. This is especially true of the Alt Reich. They are hoping to demoralize traditional conservatives and embolden the NR and AR. Therefore, anything the legacy media says about this infighting must be taken with suspicion and an understanding of their motivations.

I do not believe the "new right" is winning. There are a lot of loudmouths on social media blabbing about taking over, but once you get offline (which you really should do) the crazies are not the majority of folks in the real world. And quite frankly, I do not care if they actually are winning over conservatives, especially younger conservatives, to their cause. I will continue to advocate for traditional conservative values. If that means I am a dissident minority on my own end of the political spectrum, then I will be that minority. I am a traditional conservative because I believe those values are morally and practically right. Living in Bloomington, Indiana, I am used to being in the minority. I am fine with being in a smaller minority, because I am not going to change.

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Stop being gullible

Scott Tibbs — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:00:59 GMT

Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are His delight. -- Proverbs 12:22

The Ninth Commandment forbids lying about people, but our obligations under the Ninth Commandment go further than condemning lying. God expects us to be suspicious of false reports and to not spread a malicious false report. It does not matter if we believe it or not, because spreading a lie does damage whether or not you knew it was false. This is one of the reasons why Scripture prohibits gossip, because of the reputational damage done to innocent people.

The "Frazzledrip" conspiracy theory posits some truly wild and outrageous things about Hillary Clinton. If you want to look it up, you can, but I will not detail it here. (It is gruesome, so you have been warned.) Frazzledrip originated on notorious troll site 4Chan, which (in addition to racist, misogynistic and anti-Semitic content) is known for spreading hoaxes "for the lulz." I am sure that the people who came up with this nonsense have spent the last eight years laughing hysterically at people taking it seriously and spreading it, especially since one of the people fooled into believing it is a member of Congress from Georgia.

We live in a time when far too many people will believe anything negative said about someone they dislike. The hatred of Mrs. Clinton is so extreme that people will not even question whether "Frazzledrip" makes any sense at all, they will just believe it and spread it without looking into it. If you question the conspiracy theory, you will be accused of having something to hide. This is a gaslighting tactic to bully people into submission and silence.

None of this is difficult. If you see a negative claim, especially one about outrageously horrendous behavior, you should be skeptical. If it seems plausible, research it. (Not on 4Chan.) Do your due diligence before you spread the accusation. This is not because Hillary Clinton (or whatever other target of your hatred) deserves any kind of deference, but because we serve a God who expects us to tell the truth and forbids us from engaging is gossip. It reflects very poorly on Jesus Christ and His Church when self-professed Christians are spreading lies without any twinge of guilt. Stop it.

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When "compassion" is actually hatred

Scott Tibbs — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:00:35 GMT

Decarlos Brown Jr. had a long criminal history well before he ever brutally murdered Iryna Zarutska on a train. Had Brown been in prison where he should have been, Zarutska would still be alive. The ultimate responsibility for her murder is not with Brown, but with the so-called "judges" who allowed him to roam free when they refused to do their jobs. They should all face life in prison without the possibility of parole, both for the sake of justice and as a deterrent to other "judges" who are tempted to practice toxic empathy.

But what about the love of Christ and compassion even for the worst sinners? Let me be clear: Ted Bundy and Jeffery Dahmer were two of the worst and most depraved serial killers in history. If they legitimately accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, they are in Heaven right now. Wicked King Manasseh of Judah, who burned his own infant children to death to sacrifice them to the demon Molech, is worse than both of them. He is not only in Heaven, he is in the line of Jesus Christ.

But love and forgiveness do not erase the need for early justice. Love and compassion most certainly do not erase the responsibility of the civil magistrate to protect innocent victims from predators. Does Jesus want to see people locked up? Absolutely yes, He does. That he because He does not want to see innocent people raped and murdered by violent predators.

Justice is important, and criminals deserve to be punished. But the primary purpose of keeping criminals locked up is to protect the innocent. Iryna Zarutska should not be dead. She should be alive. She is dead because the people we put in place to protect her abandoned their duty. "Loving" the guilty does not require allowing innocent people to be raped and murdered. "Compassion" for the guilty is an act of hatred toward innocent people. This used to be universally understood, and Romans 13 explains that the government does not bear the sword for nothing.

Jesus calls on us to love our neighbors, and He gave the sword to the civil magistrate to fulfill that duty. The sword, the prison, and the electric chair are all instruments of love toward innocent people. When government officials abandon that duty, they directly betray and show contempt for Jesus Christ. These wicked "leaders" are worse than the criminals they inflict on innocent people, and should be locked up to protect society from their depravity.

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No corporate welfare for the merchants of death

Scott Tibbs — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:01:39 GMT

The following is my letter to the city council opposing more corporate welfare for Planned Parenthood. The council votes on June 10. If you want to send your own letter, you can find contact information for the city council on the city website. See Planned Parenthood’s application here.

Councilors,

I am once again writing you in opposition to giving $7,500 to Planned Parenthood. Before I get into that, I wanted to address something from last year's process:

I am deeply disappointed that a member of this City Council went to the Monroe County Council meeting on October 28 and denied that the city funded "gender affirming hormones" a few months earlier. This was clearly part of Planned Parenthood's application. Either that councilor did not know what she was voting for or she was lying about it, and neither is something any elected official should do.

Planned Parenthood is once again asking for tax dollars to pay for "gender affirming hormones," and I am opposed to that funding for the same reasons I opposed it in 2024 and 2025. I realize we have a fundamental disagreement over the concept of "transgenderism," and I do not expect that to change. However, I do not believe it is appropriate to force every taxpayer in Bloomington to pay for "gender affirming hormones" through our property taxes regardless of their personal beliefs on the matter.

According to ProPublica.org, Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky reported $78.6 million of income in its most recent fiscal report. PPGNHAIK, of course, is part of a large multinational corporation that reported 2.14 billion dollars in revenue across all affiliates in its most recent fiscal report. This organization does not need a grant from city government, especially when that money could go to truly local charities that would benefit from the money Planned Parenthood is seeking. There is more than enough money floating around Planned Parenthood to pay for this request, so the purpose of this request is a political endorsement from city government.

This has been an ongoing issue since 1999, and when Planned Parenthood asks for money they do not need you jump to provide it for them out of the taxpayer's pockets. It is time for this to stop. Please do not give yet another grant to this organization.

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Governor Braun's property tax gimmick

Scott Tibbs — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:02:42 GMT

Indiana Governor Mike Braun has floated the idea of eliminating property taxes for senior citizens who have paid off their mortgage: "The other thing I hear is, you know, once you’ve paid your mortgage off, why should you then have a fixed cost?"

Politically, this is a smart move. Senior citizens vote and young people are less likely to vote, so eliminating property taxes for seniors is a political win and will increase votes for people who support the proposal. But just because something is politically popular does not mean that it is a good policy.

The primary problem here is that this is will ultimately be a regressive tax against younger people, especially young families. This is especially true on a frozen levy, where local government has a set amount it can raise and calculates tax rates based on that. While the Indiana constitution limits the tax rate to a percentage of assessed evaluation, local governments will be incentivized to play games with assessments to get the tax collections up.

We live at a time where we are facing demographic collapse. People are not having children, and the total number of births in 2025 was less than the total number of births in 1966. This was with a population roughly half the size we have today. We should not be making it more difficult for young families who want to have children by reducing the tax burden of a class of people who are statistically wealthier than young people who are establishing their households. This looks like an older generation pulling up the ladder they climbed behind them. There are many factors that have contributed to this demographic collapse, but the least state government could do is not make it worse.

I am not sure how this proposed policy fits with the equal protection clause of Article 1, Section 23 of the Indiana Constitution, or with the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. State government pays for the operating budgets of local schools, with other things paid by property taxes, so there's no argument that seniors are paying for schools they do not use. (Though their grandchildren and great grandchildren might.) Local government relies heavily on local property taxes, and senior citizens benefit from services provided by local government (police and fire protection, the court system, trash collection and much more) as much as young families. This looks more like a political gimmick than a serious tax policy.

There is an argument to be made for eliminating the property tax and having local governments find alternative sources of revenue. But if we are going to keep the property tax (and realistically the chances of abolishing it any time in the next 30-50 years is very low) then we should not be setting aside a special class to be free riders on local government services while the people who are statistically less wealthy are required to pick up a higher share of the tax burden, even if that special class of people is much more likely to turn out and vote than the people who are getting a higher burden as a result. We should not confuse political gimmicks with substantive policy.

Planned Parenthood's 2026 application for a social services grant

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It's OK to be a Jew

Scott Tibbs — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:00:32 GMT

Back in 2022, I wrote a newsletter arguing that "It's OK to be Russian" in response to efforts to cancel all Russian culture, artists, writers and athletes in response to Russia's war of aggression and conquest against Ukraine. This was a blind rage that even targeted dissidents against the Putin regime.

Now it is 2026, and here's an even more controversial take: It's OK to be a Jew.

When the self-righteous online "cancel culture" mob wants to destroy an author because she included an unnamed Israeli character in her novel, it is nearly impossible to give the mob the benefit of the doubt and assume they simply disagree with the policies of the Israeli government. No, this is collective guilt against all Israelis, and there have been plenty of instances where Jews who are not Israelis are subjected to scorn and hatred simply because they are Jews. We saw this in the deranged pro-Hamas protests in 2024, which no doubt helped President Trump win re-election.

Do we really need to say this? Apparently, because ethnic hatred of Jews is more common and more open than it has been at any time in my lifetime. Not all Israelis agree with the policies of the Israeli government, and obviously not all Jews around the world agree with those policies. Blaming all Israelis or all Jews for the actions of a government you dislike is not standing for the oppressed. It is another version of the "blood libel" and ethnic hatred that has resulted in countless Jews being raped, tortured and slaughtered over thousands of years. There was actually a little bit of shame for a few decades after the Holocaust, and anti-Semitism was suppressed. As the Holocaust fades into memory, that old hatred is flaring up and some are even denying the Holocaust happened at all.

This brings to mind a quote from President Dwight Eisenhower when American soldiers liberated the concentration camps: "Start taking pictures. Start taking pictures - because someday some son of a bitch is going to try to say this never happened."

Including an Israeli character does not "normalize" any action by the Israeli government. According to Slate, that character does not even have any lines. Israeli people exist. Jews exist. They should be allowed to exist without deranged Leftists and neo-Nazis trying to damn all of them over the war in Gaza. Many of the reports of "atrocities," of course, are lies. It is utterly absurd that we should should automatically believe the claims of Hamas, a terrorist organization filled with rapists and pedophiles. This does not mean Israel can do no wrong, but nobody with any level of wisdom and discernment should ever trust anything Hamas says without independent verification.

We live in a dangerous, scary time. Almost every conspiracy theory you can think of usually leads back to blaming "THE JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS" in some way or another, to the point that is has become self-parody that is openly mocked. Even worse, anti-Semitism is creeping into the Church. Israel's war of self-preservation against Hamas (remember what happened on October 7?) is not the reason for the increased flare-up of ancient ethnic hatred against Jews. That war is the excuse for that hatred. Conservatives, and especially Christians, need to be very clear that this vile hatred and blood libel is utterly wicked and must be opposed. This includes having enemies on the Right.

Previously:

♣ - We need moral clarity in the Israel/Hamas conflict.

♣ - The "free speech" of terrorist sympathizers.

♣ - Have "America First" conservatives forgotten September 11?

♣ - The Bloomington City Council's shameful Gaza resolution.

We should not be normalizing anti-Semitism

Scott Tibbs — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:01:43 GMT

I am not trying to be a "doomer" or to take the Black Pill, but we need to recognize a very basic fact: Anti-Semitism is fully normalized on social media, if not in mainstream society. Racism (especially against Blacks) is almost to the point where it is normalized on social media. We are headed to a very bad place as a society unless we start taking this seriously. It is especially important for the political Right to be unified against this kind of rancid hatred.

Let's start by grounding our anti-racism in Scripture, starting with the book of Genesis: Man is made in the image of God. God created male and female in His image. Therefore, when we hate someone for their ethnicity or their race, what we are really doing is demeaning the image of God in man. Racism is not simply a sin against your fellow man and refusing to love our neighbor as ourselves, it is a sin against God. I John 4:20 tells us we cannot love God and hate our neighbor.

If someone told me 6 years ago that racism and anti-Semitism were on the way to being fully normalized, I would have thought they were a crazy paranoid "woke" Leftist. It used to be an article of faith on the Right that "a racist is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal." Now I am the one openly saying this. People who know me should realize that is how bad it has gotten. Because of the constant false accusations of "racism" from the Left, conservatives have ignored the festering racism on the Right, which is now metastasizing and in need of chemotherapy.

What prompted this was a cartoon on X that space aliens arrive and declare faith in Jesus Christ, claiming that He visits them all the time. Puzzled as to why Earthlings were waiting for His return, they ask "What did you do?" Obviously, this was an opportunity for fools to defecate all over the replies, blaming THE JOOOOOOS. But if these fools knew anything about Scripture, they would know that we are all guilty of the blood of Christ, because it was for our sin that He sacrificed His life. If these fools knew themselves, they would know they (like me) would have been screaming "crucify Him" had they been in the crowd that horrible day.

Anti-Semites, sadly including some Christian Nationalists, love to squeal that, with a few exceptions, Jews reject Christ. But they never - and I mean NEVER - direct that same scorn at Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc., who also explicitly reject the divinity of Christ. What this demonstrates is that this is not about religion. This is about ethnic hatred of Jews, holding them up for scorn that nobody else gets - despite the fact that Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc. are all a much bigger percentage of the population than Jews. This is utterly wicked. Stop it.

Racism is growing too, with increasing portrayals of Blacks as all being criminals, stupid, welfare queens, absent fathers, predators or all of the above. This is pushed by high-follower accounts on X (Twitter) without a hint of shame. The excuse is always "We're just noticing." This is less prominent than anti-Semitic hatred, because anti-Semitic hatred is sadly bipartisan. But it is a growing cancer on the Right that must be opposed.

This kind of nonsense is why I do not and have never believed in "no enemies to the Right." But I do believe it is necessary for the Right to be united - against this very racist and anti-Semitic hatred, conspiracy theories and even the "feces posting" that wears down people's defenses with "humor." I honestly do not care what Leftists do regarding racists and anti-Semites in their own ranks. The Right needs to clean up our own house, and hold the bigots on our own side accountable for the hatred they are spewing. This needs to be done not just because it will benefit the Republican Party, the conservative movement or American culture, though it will do all of those things. The is because we need to honor God and His Word.

President Trump's expanded coalition

Scott Tibbs — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:31:20 GMT

I was listening to a podcast from December 2020 where the host argued that Presidents should expand their coalition and President Trump failed to do that. But that is not accurate. President Trump's share of the popular vote expanded from 62.9 million in 2016 to 74.2 million in 2020. When he lost, he became a statistical anomaly: Presidents who get more votes usually win, while Presidents who get fewer votes (save for Barack Obama) generally lose.

The 2020 election was weird because pandemic voting procedures made it easier to vote, so turnout was very high. President Trump's policies in his first term - regulatory reform, tax cuts, protecting due process, appointing conservative justices, and defending religious freedom, among other things - were broadly popular and increased his vote totals by a lot.

The real show of strength, though, was the 2024 election. Vice President Harris got several million fewer votes than President Biden did in 2020, while President Trump increased his total votes again, to 77.3 million. In an election with significantly lower turnout than four years earlier, that is impressive. President Trump has expanded his base, and has brought in low-propensity voters to help him win. His weakness has always been his determination to "own the libs" and intentionally make people angry.

This is the biggest frustration with Trump, and was my biggest frustration when I voted for him in 2020. If he would just be more restrained and disciplined, he could have expanded his voting base while at the same time not stirring up so much hatred and intense opposition. Do not post memes designed to anger people, do not celebrate the death of political opponents, and do not attack a subordinate's marriage because of a political disagreement with her spouse, then celebrating the divorce you helped engineer. Just engage in solid policy and let others do the taunting and trolling you love so much.

There was always going to be intense opposition and hatred against President Trump from the most committed Leftists. But the story of Donald Trump is ultimately going to be one of missed opportunity. At a time when he could have been a much more uniting figure had he shown some restraint, discipline and professionalism, he could not resist "owning the libs." If Republicans lose the House (which was likely even before the gerrymandering wars of the last year) it will be because President Trump simply would not keep his mouth shut. Unfortunately for him, even if he suddenly became a statesman, the damage of eleven years of taunting and trolling is done and will hobble the last two years of his presidency. Sad!

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Monroe County needs a new jail

Scott Tibbs — Sat, 23 May 2026 08:02:00 GMT

Note: I submitted this letter to the Herald-Times. The final paragraph is not in the draft I submitted to keep the letter under 200 words.

With all of the controversy over where a new Monroe County Jail should go, some folks have missed a basic point, and a secondary but still very important point.

First, Monroe County needs a jail. That is not a pretty fact, but we do not live in a pretty world. There are violent people, and government is obligated to protect law-abiding people from those who would prey upon innocents. There are people who commit crimes that require incarceration.

The related secondary point is that the current jail has been adjudicated in a court of law to be unfit. County government is legally obligated to build a new jail to comply with the courts, and have already delayed the process far too long.

The City Council stood in the way of county government’s efforts to find a location inside city limits. Listening to them claim to want to help now is repulsive. One reform has been made obvious by this controversy: The state legislature needs to eliminate city government’s zoning authority over land owned by county government. The county has its own elected officials who have been entrusted with authority by the voters, and city government should not usurp that authority.

I am completely opposed to any effort to build a jail directly behind Summit Elementary. The neighborhood has made it clear that a jail is not welcome there. There are other, much more suitable locations than behind an elementary school and bordering a public park.

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The most important part of a pro-liberty agenda

Scott Tibbs — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:01:17 GMT

Every right we have, and every right protected by our Constitution, is dependent on one single thing: The right to life. If we can be murdered, then it does not matter how much the government at the national, state or local level protects our other rights. You cannot worship if you are dead. You cannot speak freely if you are dead. You cannot be safe from unreasonable searches if you are dead. You have no private property rights if you are dead. Your due process rights were taken away.

There is no more important issue than the right to life. There is no more pressing issue than over one million abortions that were done in 2025. This was after abortions had dipped below 800,000 in the late 2010's. This also does not count the many millions of chemical abortions that have taken place but are not counted in these numbers. If all surgical abortions ended today, that would only save a minority of the lives being snuffed out under the banner of "reproductive freedom."

What about life-saving "abortion care" in the aftermath of a miscarriage? Abortion saved the mother's life! This is one of the most dishonest "arguments" I have seen. No pro-life organization and no church opposes removing the remains of a deceased baby. The objection has always been about intentionally ending the life of a baby in the womb. People who bring this issue up are not seeking a legitimate answer. They are exploiting a tragic situation to justify abortion on demand.

Speaking of miscarriages, it is true that a large portion of pregnancies end in a natural spontaneous miscarriage. This is tragic, but does not justify surgical abortions and does not mean that "God is an abortionist." Every single human who has ever lived and will ever live is going to die. This does not mean it is acceptable to engage in random drive-by shootings.

Abortion supporters love to bring up other issues. What about this or that or the other thing? It is counterproductive to address these issues in context of discussing abortion, because they are almost never serious "questions." They are designed to be red herrings. Abortion supporters want to address anything other than the termination of innocent human life in the womb. They are designed to virtue signal about how much they "care" about this or that to cover the blood guilt of supporting abortion.

No, the core issue is and has always been the humanity of the unborn child. The issue is equal protection under the law, mandated by the Fourteenth Amendment, that has been ignored since 1973. If we truly believe in liberty, we should protect the most basic liberty of all.