The First Session of the Fifty Second
Congress (1·LII 2022-23) adjourned for the summer recess at 10:13 PM (local
time in Patria). The Sergeant-at-Arms brought down the gavel immediately after
the traditional Annual Message to Congress was delivered by the Speaker Pro
Tem. The speech doubled down on the message that has been propagated over the
past three years of COVID and post-George Floyd racial reckoning: PATRIA IS NOT
WOKE.
Following is the text of the Annual Message
to Congress:
Om Sri Matre Namaha. With the Divine Mother’s blessings, the Fifty
Second Congress marks one year in office.
Earlier today, this House ratified Patria’s
fiscal 2024 budget – traditionally the last act of Congress on the final day of
the Session. As in previous years, this budget includes the necessary
appropriations to build and improve Patria’s transportation infrastructure,
support education from grade school to graduate school, maintain national
defense in all branches of the military and fund new law and order initiatives.
“Defund the police”? Not happening. Not at a point when crime – particularly
violent assaults committed by mentally ill psychopaths who belong in institutions,
not on the streets – is out of control. Indeed, you do not have to be a
National Unionist to agree that there must be a stronger police presence on
Patria’s streets and particularly on Castoropolis Transit buses and subways.
In the past year, Patria has continued on
its maverick path of progressive economic and social policies while rejecting
the usual leftist orthodoxies, political correctness and of course “wokeness”.
Again, say it loudly and say it proudly: PATRIA IS NOT WOKE! To paraphrase Florida
Governor Ron DeSantis, Patria is where woke goes to die.
Why is Patria not woke? Because no
objective and informed citizen of Patria can fail to at least question, if not
completely reject, premises the American-style leftists and self-proclaimed
progressives relentlessly promote:
Human civilization is unsustainable. We are
running out of fossil fuel. Burning fossil fuel will destroy the planet.
Renewable energy is clean. Renewable energy is the only acceptable option.
White people are inherently racist and enjoy unwarranted privileges. Math and
the hard sciences are racist and male-dominated. The nuclear family is
oppressive. People can choose their genders. Men not named Jean Drapeau
can have babies, or can at least turn themselves into women through drugs and
surgery. Not to mention that women can have penises.
Each of these premises is not only false,
but, had they been accepted, would have wreaked destruction on Patria.
Yet these foundational lies inform every
manner of mainstream public communications, from news, entertainment,
education, and public policy debate, to social media discourse and search
engine results. The truths that must replace these lies, in similar fashion,
constitute the foundation of a resistance:
Humanity can flourish. Fossil fuel does not
create an existential threat to the planet, and though it is wise to use it efficiently
and not needlessly waste it, there’s plenty of it. Renewable energy
is not cleaner or more sustainable than fossil fuel or nuclear power.
White people are not inherently racist. Providing equal opportunity to earn
success in a colorblind society is the only equitable way to allocate
privileges. Math and the hard sciences are not racist or sexist. The nuclear
family with a father and a mother is the optimal way to raise children to
become healthy, happy and productive adults. Sex is immutable and binary. Women
give birth to babies, and men father babies.
Is that clear enough? It is a relief and a
breath of fresh air to hear anyone in Patria explain that we’re not all about
to die in a climate cataclysm caused by human activity, that there are plenty
of energy resources of which electric vehicles, solar panels and wind turbines are
only a part, that prosperity is an eminently possible choice, that Patria
has created the most inclusive society in the history of the world, and that
it’s OK to be white, black, brown, or whatever, it’s OK to be colorblind, it’s
OK not to want trans women playing competitive sports against real biological women
and it’s OK to have a traditional family and teach traditional values and norms
to your children.
Wokeness – though usually associated with
liberals and the left – has never been progressive in the slightest. It wants
to fight discrimination with discrimination. It relies on coercion, censorship and
cancellation to defeat its opponents. Its obsession with race only pits
working-class people against one another. It does virtually nothing to improve
the lot of ordinary citizens of all races, sexual preferences and genders. And
that is why the divisive woke ideology has been rejected by the Social
Democrats and all of Patria’s progressive parties.
As the First Session rises for the summer,
this House recalls the so-called “For You” or “Flashdance” summer forty years
ago, the last mad fling of the Cold War in Reagan’s first term. Nonetheless the
42nd Congress left Patria in a better place than it found it. Why
such hedonism? Why such a lacking of spiritual or at least inward focus at this
time in 1983? Just four words: it filled
a need.
This Session also has four words for those
in both the macro- and micro-world who are unable to wean themselves from wearing
masks (even when alone outdoors!) and continue to live in fear of a respiratory
virus that did not justify the unaccountable, dictatorial, draconian measures
taken almost everywhere in the macro-world three years ago and has now become a
“learn to live with it” inconvenience like the seasonal flu or common cold: just let it go. Or we have moved on. Patria awaits the “Covid Nuremberg”, when those
who advocated and enforced lockdowns and mask mandates will be tried for crimes
against humanity or at least be called to account for children’s learning and
social skills deficits, undetected and untreated cancer and other non-COVID
diseases, spikes in domestic violence, drug abuse and alcoholism, small
businesses that permanently shuttered, the proliferation of depression, anxiety
and other mental health issues and the tragic rise in suicides directly
attributable to the lockdowns.
In previous years Congress would adjourn
with a congratulatory message to the winner of Jim Rome’s Jungle Party
Smack-Off. But this year’s 29th edition of the Smack-Off is a week
away, on Patria’s National Day no less. Good luck to all participants in Smack-Off
XXIX as Patria will be listening on PMBC-1152 or on other AM radio stations on
June 30. Speaking of which, let us note one of the key pieces of legislation
passed by the First Session: Patria has ensured the survival of AM radio in all
cars and trucks, whether gas or electric, by passing its version of the AM
for Every Vehicle Act that is making its way through the US Congress with
bipartisan support.
Until we meet again in September, the House
adjourns with a brief prayer:
Twameva
mata cha pita twameva
Twameva
bandhushcha sakha twameva
Twameva
vidya dravinam twameva
Twameva
sarvam mama deva deva.
Kayena
vacha manasendriairva
Buddhyatmana
va prakriteh swabhavat
Karomi
yadyat sakalam prasmai
Narayanayeti
samarpayami.
Under the power vested in me by the
Constitution of Patria, I declare closed the First Session of the 52nd
Congress, and call this Congress to re-assemble here on Monday, 18 September
2023, to open the Second Session of the 52nd Congress.
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE DISCLAIMER: the
preceding message was prepared, edited and delivered without the use of Chat
GPT or other artificial intelligence.
Also today, Patria Post issued a
commemorative stamp in memory of Baba Hari Dass, on his
hundredth birth anniversary.