[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com]

Recently I posted here at VDARE.com one of my monthly blogs titled ”From Derb’s Email Bag.” In among the items there I mentioned the widespread failure in the commentariat to note the distinction between a Bill and an Act. That was in regard to what everyone was calling ”the EAGLE Act,” a piece of legislation designed to relax the rules on guest workers. Legislation only becomes an Act, I grumbled, when it’s been passed into law. While going through the legislative process it’s just a Bill.

An old friend of mine who keeps a close eye on Congress as part of his job emailed in to say

Bill? Act? Does anything Congress does matter anymore? As Gibbon wrote: ”The senate of Rome, losing all connection with the Imperial court and the actual constitution, was left a venerable but useless monument of antiquity on the Capitoline hill.”

My friend is a sensible and learned fellow with many years’ experience of Congress-watching. Coming from him, such negativity made a deep impression.

Just a few days after that I read Robert Weissberg’s December 21st essay at American Thinker: ”America’s Growing Political Impotence.” Again, this is not some random commentator in off the street. Weissberg is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science, with decades of teaching that subject in prestigious universities and a shelf-full of books to his name. So again, Professor Weissberg’s essay made a deep impression.

Professor Weissberg’s thesis is the ineptitude and incompetence of our governments, mainly of the federal government, and the consequent lawlessness. He walks us briskly through all the familiar examples:

• Foreigners from all over ”almost effortlessly wading across the Rio Grande and then, with Washington’s approval, relocating to a benefit-filled life anywhere they could travel. Not even the most minimal pretense of legality exists…”
• The massive increase in shoplifting while store security guards stand by watching. “In those rare instances where the culprit is apprehended, he almost immediately returns to ’work’…” 
• The George Floyd riots of 2020: ”those asserting that this mayhem was just racially driven looting were condemned as racists responsible for the violence.” 
• The homeless encampments that plague our once-beautiful cities: ”In San Francisco, luxury downtown hotels have removed all lobby furniture for fear of being overrun by squatters.” 
• The cultural outrages: destruction of public monuments, drag queen shows for toddlers in public libraries, the enforced pretense that there is nothing biological about sex differences, …

And so on. Observing all this folly and incompetence of course arouses indignation and embarrassment in patriotic observers.

That’s not the worst consequence, though.

 The worst consequence, says Prof. Weissberg, is that as public confidence in the Government’s ability to carry out basic executive functions drains away, the government loses its legitimacy. And when constitutional government loses its legitimacy, the door is left open for un-constitutional solutions. We enter into a zone the good professor calls ”the politics of exasperation.”

Sixty-seven years ago a British journalist named Donald McLachlan  coined the phrase: ”the smack of firm government.” In a constitutional republic

See also: Updated And Complete: A Compendium Of Twenty-THREE Years Of  VDARE.com War On Christmas Coverage

Since I wrote Yes, Virginia (Dare), There Is A War On Christmas—Here’s Twenty Years Of Proof! with 356 items in 2019, we’ve added an additional 59  items, making at total of 415. It’s appended below and I’ve put the entire list on a separate page.

What I’d like to point out today: the War on Christmas is simply part of a much larger War On White America. Not only Christmas but all symbols of white, Christian America are under attack—statues, songs, memorials, even graves:

What kind of enemy is so depraved that they would dig up the bones of your ancestors and heroes only to desecrate them?

No Russian would do this. No Iranian, or Chinese.

And yet we’re supposed to call these monsters our ‘countrymen’.https://t.co/QsapyxPHuY

— Jason Kessler (“Happenings”) (@TheMadDimension) December 14, 2022

Here’s another example—in 2005, Ann Coulter was interviewed by the New York Observer as she was spending Christmas in New York. The quote below was noted with much disapproval by Media Matters:

[Coulter] Oh, it was so much fun this year, because saying ”Merry Christmas” is like saying ”F—k you!” I’ve said it to everyone. You know, cab drivers, passing people on the street, whatever. And they come up with the ”Happy holidays.”

”Merry Christmas. I mean, it really is an aggressive act in New York.

[Coulter 2005, New York Observer, January 9, 2005]

Now comes Kate Cohen in the Washington Post saying the same thing in reverse—to her, “Happy Holidays” is an aggressive act—a “battle cry” in the War on Christmas she denies waging:

When I wish strangers “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas,” it’s a battle cry.

I’m not waging a war on Christmas. I like Christmas. But I am declaring my allegiance to one idea of America that opposes another: inclusive vs. exclusive.

In one recent skirmish, residents of exclusive America crowded a Tuscumbia, Ala., City Council meeting to protest a forthcoming Festival of Yule, which its organizer designed, she said, “for everyone to enjoy this time of year that is winter’s solstice and also an awareness of the origins of this holiday season.”

Opponents declared it, rather, “a sort of twisted anti-Christmas celebration” that threatened the city and the children. Speaker after speaker denounced the festival as a perversion of a holiday that was supposed to honor Jesus Christ, not the devilish Krampus.

Toward the end of the public comment period, a lone voice politely ventured, “I’m not sure that it’s the City Council’s job to enforce Christianity,” and offered advice for citizens offended by the Festival of Yule: “If you don’t agree with it, you don’t have to show up.

Everyone ignored this suggestion. Clearly the problem wasn’t that they would be forced to attend or even that the festival replaced the traditional Christian one; the 12th annual It’s a Dickens Christmas Y’all would occur the following week. The problem was the very idea of inclusion.

[The war on ‘Happy Holidays’ isn’t about Christmas, by Kate Cohen, December 19, 2022]

What is “inclusion” to Ms. Cohen?

Well, it’s things like turning The Little Mermaid black, fake meat at Cracker Barrel, and lots of gay and trans stuff—check out this image of the isolated Christian with his actual Christmas tree with the multiracial people skating around the “Holiday Tree under a Gay rainbow:

What do the Festival of Yule, Impossible sausage, and Disney's newest Ariel have in common? I guess you'll just have to read this to find out . . .

with many thanks to @hemantmehta for his reporting and to @lyzl for her thoughtful words. https://t.co/fPZAcYPpYX

— Kate Cohen (@KateCohen92) December 20, 2022

What’s not inclusion, to Cohen,

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Well, the January 6 committee has produced its long-awaited report. In a surprise move, the committee referred former President Donald Trump for criminal prosecution, accusing him of inciting insurrection, among other crimes.

In fairness, January 6, 2021 was the day that Trump announced he would open our southern border and allow nearly 5 million unvetted illegal immigrants into our country, whereupon they would be flown to various cities around the U.S. and given full access to all our welfare programs.

Obviously, this constitutes insurrectionary behavior. The committee had no choice but to demand criminal charges.

LATE BULLETIN: It was NOT the former president who did this, but the current president, Joe Biden. In another development, it turns out that engineering a foreign invasion of our country has been redefined as a “humanitarian mission.”

When will this “humanitarian mission” end? Apparently, never—not until all 7 billion humans living in places less luxe than America have moved here, at which point America won’t be so hot anymore, so no one will want to come.

Thus, the New York Times quoted Jennifer Quigley [Tweet her]  of Human Rights First, saying of our intervention in Afghanistan: “We can’t claim mission accomplished. There are still too many vulnerable people abroad.”

After spending billions of dollars trying to build a semblance of civil society in that stone-age culture, evidently now we’re supposed to open our doors to everyone who lives there. Even granting that absurd notion, I can’t help but notice that Quigley seamlessly shifted from ”Afghanistan” to “people abroad.”

So we have to take in every “vulnerable” person who doesn’t already live in the U.S.? Is there any other way to interpret her statement?

CNN demands that we fly Afghans here directly, not content to wait for these future Nobel Prize-winners to take the air-land route from Afghanistan through Central America into our country—which they are also doing.

For the last few weeks, CNN has aired a story almost every hour about how Afghans “risked their lives” to

PLEASE NOTE: This is the third part of a three-part series describing the three-headed Hydra threatening free speech on Twitter. Read part 1 about Twitter and FBI, CIA and DHS spooks here. Read about the Twitter enabling Antifa in part 2.

Video version:

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If Elon Musk is serious about rooting out the censorship and bias on Twitter, there is no more critical threat to global free speech than the multi-billion-dollar Censorship Lobby including groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Transparency requires Musk to release the “Twitter Files”—its internal documents—on the backchannel influence these groups have exerted on Twitter moderation decisions.

While both organizations have the same objective—the suppression of conservative and nationalist speech online—they aim to achieve it in different ways. The SPLC partners with vicious Antifa gangs to dox and harass political dissidents, while the ADL flexes its frightening influence over the federal government and Silicon Valley, in collaboration with many current and former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials.

These Left-Totalitarians brag about training law enforcement in their twisted view of the U.S. Constitution as they work to turn the online media into an iron fist for suppressing dissent under the guise of controlling “hate” and “violence.”

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey initially placed both organizations on Twitter’s (recently dissolved) Trust and Safety Council, which recommended policies on censorship.

As profiled in my earlier work for VDARE.com, SPLC lead spokesthug Michael Edison Hayden is a proudly self-proclaimed “antifascist” who regularly incorporates Antifa doxes in his reporting, uses Twitter to coordinate with fellow extremists, communicates with Twitter officials about deplatforming decisions and uses his account to promote the most notorious Antifa ideologues:

More recently I caught SPLC spokesman Hayden encouraging violent Antifa groups via Twitter to disrupt a conference hosting conservative speakers including Donald Trump Jr. and U.S. Representative