The crimes against our young people are many. 1st - they shut them down and took away their youth. No prom, no fun. Mask up. 2nd - they scared them with their "covid boogeyman " tactics. Parents are supposed to ease their young ones fears. Not create them. 3rd - they coerced every chance they got to poison them with their damn shots. Acc…
The crimes against our young people are many. 1st - they shut them down and took away their youth. No prom, no fun. Mask up. 2nd - they scared them with their "covid boogeyman " tactics. Parents are supposed to ease their young ones fears. Not create them. 3rd - they coerced every chance they got to poison them with their damn shots. Accelerated aging. Thanks Mom! Thanks Dad! My husband and I were the only ones that didn't shut down thru the scamdemic and showed our children and their friends how not to live in fear. We had parties and sleepovers etc. When we moved to SC last month, the young group thanked us. I thoroughly detest the covidians and libbies I used to live with. They have a lot to answer for. 🤬
So they went to college and never learned to think for themselves? They still need mom and dad to decide? What did they learn in college? All the tuition could have helped mom and dad stay out of debt, instead they got idiotic children instead of thinking adults. No sympathy.
Same here. My Father was a wise man. He passed on in 2001. He was a Wake Island Defender in WWII. He, along with several others, spent 44 months in a Japanese Prison Camp. He would be appalled by what is happening to the Country for which he fought and nearly died.
"The Greatest Generation" doesn't quite cover it, though they were certainly that. I saw the movie about Louis Zamperini. Those men were amazing. Knowing our history is at risk with their being gone, and some are intentionally destroying it.
Someone posted on socialist Nextdoor that her grandson was terrified by predictions made about the eclipse. I responded that the covid agenda foisted on us since 2020 has left people feeling less secure. I referred to the harms done by hospital protocols and the so-called vaccines, just because I enjoy putting such things on Nextdoor. I am always stunned by people who react with the laugh emoticon. Are they really that stupid??? They don't see anything wrong with what has happened? They haven't had any friends or family affected?
Nextdoor is retarded! I got off maybe 2021, when some of them started berating a guy because he didn't like the mask mandate. I decided to activate my account end of last year thinking it would be useful to keep up with the petty crime and roaming dogs. Wrong. I deleted it hopefully for good 2 months ago. My life is better. I fully know there are idiots around me. I don't need to witness it everyday.
OMG how dare you! LOL. I bet people were freaking. My little fun was to an ole dyke who's buddy is a ugly ole dyke named Rhon. She started these Love is- Inclusion bs yard signs. They went to the capital to protest something good for society and came back to rant on ND. I came back with a smart ass reply and later found she deleted her comment. Small victory. Now when I see those yard signs I make a mental note to avoid these areas.
Yes, I've had similar experiences on the same general issue...more like "why can't we discuss personal details of the suspects/vandals/etc." After one or two censorship incidents I cancelled my account and let everyone know in no uncertain terms why I was leaving.
I never go on Nextdoor in my area as they are all quite insane. It used to be a good thing until all the crazy leftists took over and attacked everyone.
It’s a good source to know where gunshots are being heard in the city.
The Nextdoor here has changed quite a bit since I got kicked off over the BLM insanity.
People are showing early signs of connecting the dots as our old historical neighborhood, once considered a refuge of safety, is becoming crime infested.
Language still has to be guarded, but surprising things are being expressed.
Kind of related, Naomi Wolf had an excellent stack talking about how self-reliance is no longer considered desirable, and instead the push is to 'trust the experts' and an appeal to authority. And the authority does not have our best interests at heart.
"My takeaway is that we are being endlessly conditioned these days, even at our own commonsense peril, to remain vulnerable and dependent on the State during “emergencies” — a term always more expansively defined — and that we are being conditioned too to accept nonsensical reasons to declare “emergency law”, which, recall, is the endgame of any tyranny, and which suspends civil law."
It's been a long time coming. The regressive "Progressives" introduced this notion, of rule by 'expert,' over 100 years ago. James Lindsay says we are experiencing a sort of Gnostic cult, in which only the anointed (to use a term used by Thomas Sowell) claim to have secret special knowledge, unavailable to the rest of us.
Anne, I love that moniker ‘socialist Nextdoor’! 😂 I rarely look at it anymore because I’m disgusted that the platform is socialist, and it’s made me think that my neighbors are the most ignorant, grifting people in the world. One that caught my eye as I was deleting them this morning, was a gal with 6 dogs, posting an appeal for dog food. 🙄
I was listening to Dave Ramsey in my car the other day and a caller was lamenting his choices as his townhome HOA had lost a lawsuit against a shoddy builder and dues were doubling. Dave advised him to sell and get out, and then added, and stay off the neighborhood Facebook group. "Those things are the doorway to the pit of hell." I had to laugh. A couple of friends and I started a neighborhood FB group in 2010 when I was on the Board. I left my admin duties when I left the Board in 2018, as the petty grievances, drama and complaining were just a thorn in my side. Oh there are some good people, but the annoying ones are now someone else's problem, lol.
I have stayed in the group, as it is useful at times, like one neighbor was cleaning out her iris bed and I got some free plants. I just scroll on past the nonsense.
One of them is a leftist troll who spent the last 3 months attacking our conservative school board candidates. We got one of the 2 across the finish line and now have a 4-3 conservative majority on the SB, and she is losing her mind. Both equity candidates lost by large margins. Other winner was a recently retired teacher who spent 20 years in the district and is decidedly a moderate. Makes me so happy, lol. People have FINALLY started seeing through all this garbage.
It’s so interesting to see people who’ve long called themselves progressive suddenly less enamored, and quickly horrified, of what the progressives truly are.
Yeah, our small town FB site leans very left. While they say they don’t want any politics on it, they allow very left leaning posts up and censor anything that disagrees with it. (Every post has to be approved by the communists in charge.)
Somehow a gal with 6 dogs begging for dog food reminds me of what America will be in about a year, if Russia, Russia, Russia and the CCP allow us to be a nation that long. “Dear Venezuela/Mexico, etc., we for some inexplicable reason kept adopting all these dogs, I mean, people and now we can’t feed them. Please
The one thing I might say about that is perhaps she rescues abandoned dogs. I always donate my unused dog and cat food to people and places that rescue.
I thought of that Kathy, and while I admire people who try to rescue abandoned animals, I have to apply common sense to that as to anything- if you can’t afford to feed them and provide for their needs- how can you truly rescue them? Someone dumped a husky pup on our doorstep last year and as we only had one other dog and the means to care for one more, we took him in and kept him. He’s the sweetest dog ever. So I have a heart for dogs and caring for them but - as you said, you donate food to rescue organizations. That’s how rescuing should work - either have the means yourself, or work with an agency to supply what they need. Don’t go begging your neighbors for dog food.
We have a cat that landed on our doorstep, found the owners and took him back a couple of times but they quit answering our calls and so we took him in. They had young kids that we are guessing were mean to him as he was really skittish when we first got him, But he is a sweet kitty and the best mouser ever, and also scores an occasional chipmunk or squirrel, which we are over-run with. So their loss!
I’d love to have a cat, but we live in the country and the mortality rate is high for cats. They are prey for coyotes and we’ve lost too many cats to them so I gave up trying.
My MIL and SIL both live in the country and almost every animal they have ever had has been dumped there by idiots who I guess think they are going to survive 'in the wild'. Some cats are too skittish to catch so they feed them until they disappear via coyotes. But we did just adopt a long haired grey beauty a few months ago that literally just walked in to my SIL's house one day when she opened the door. Skinny and hungry, he was otherwise OK, and had been fixed, but not chipped. No one within a few miles claimed him, so he was a 'dump'. Don't get it. He uses the litterbox faithfully and full of personality although he doesn't seem that street smart so have decided he will remain an indoor cat. People suck sometimes.
Yes, that is my in-laws. At one point they had 5 dogs between my husband's parents and his sister who both live on the same property, separate houses. All dumped.
They do indeed. We’ve had so many animals dumped on us. I found a mama cat and her new litter of kittens in our shed many years ago. She was more feral than not and I could never tame her enough to bring her in. Although she was street smart and savvy to the coyotes. I fed her and tried to keep the kittens but something always got them, hawks, coyotes, skunks. I finally trapped her and got her fixed after 3 or 4 litters. She continued to live here for about 12 years, longer than any domesticated cat we ever had. The tame cats would invariably escape outside and that would be the end of them.
I think some of these "rescuers" do this to scam the system and try to "re home" the animals charging large "rehoming" fees as a way to make money... at least here on Facebook in Wisconsin.
I've volunteered at a local shelter for years. There are some jobs (like answering phones or directing walk-ins) that I finally had to say "no more" to, largely because I got tired of hearing the abuse/abandonment/hard luck/etc. stories. I still occasionally ponder why I seemd to tolerate it well enough for a few years, but eventuallly the idiocy of people took a toll on me. I'm grateful to be able to donate my time and (some) money, but I draw the line at sacrificing my peace of mind.
My Next Door has become a site for online panhandling sob stories. Most responses are of the ‘where to get help’ variety which is likely not what the panhandler wanted to hear.
I have shared several times that I was asked not to mention covid vaccines anymore in a ladies' prayer group because I was making the ladies uncomfortable. Although I no longer attend, I still get their texts. Today I received their proposal for organizing the prayer time. Among the prayer categories listed was pandemics. I'm curious as to how the prayers would go, but I won't be there to find out.
I need to take the advise of getting off Next-door app. I'm in a private 'Respectful Politcal Debate' group. OMG, my mind is blown by what these people on the far left say. I thought it would be an opportunity to find some commonality. No such thing, I live on a different planet.
I just saw a notification that my Nextdoor comment is hidden because it might contain misinformation. I said that the vaccines did no good, only harm. Of course, I'm not surprised at the notification. I'm determined to post what I want and not mind the consequences. If they kick me off again, so be it. At least some people see it before it is removed.
I got kicked off at some point one time and never truly found out what I’d done. It was weeks before I even knew I’d been kicked off. Hahahaha! I, too, need to just delete my account there.
no point in talking to them. there is no common ground. I once mentioned at a cafe breakfast that communism had murdered 1-200 million of their own people (in respective countries). This caused the resident woke d.e.i. crt marxist to get mightily offended and leave in a huff.
FB is the same. I commented on my timeline how the price of gas in So Cal is now $4.99. If people thought groceries were expensive now, just wait. Then this friend of mine (our politics are opposite, but still manage to be friends) comes on and talks about how gas prices always go up in the summer. True, but it’s April and this is the highest the gas has pretty much ever been that I can remember. So. Regardless, she posted some stupid article to prove her point as well as a link to government “data”. 🙄 She should know by know that I have little faith in government “data”.
Eh, not always. Kids have overactive imaginations, and sometimes develop irrational fears. My little sister went through a phase where she was sure there was a monster in her bedroom closet. My son woke us up in the middle of the night saying he was afraid terrorists were going to crash a plane into our house a few weeks after 9/11 - he was 6 years old. We did NOT have the TV with the footage on when the kids were around, as we thought they were too young, but he had seen footage while playing at a friend's house.
If they had friends or family affected, they would never admit it. That would mean admitting that they fell for the big lie and were wrong. Not only that, it would mean everything we warned them about is true, and that’s terrifying.
By the way, this is similar to them admitting that all vaccines are harmful—more harmful than beneficial. During the plandemic when I was posting research links on FB about the clot shot, I had a HS friend PM me to try to talk me into getting it. We had a long discussion, one of which was about the other vaccines. Her child was vaccine-damaged (ended up with autism very close to getting a round of them). She said that she’d done a deep dive into vaccine safety and had concluded they weren’t the cause. I would say they probably were. She was trying to convince me that it would be fine to encourage my teen who had seizures as a child the clot shot.
Yeah, no.
I felt sorry for her, and truly any parent whose child is vaccine-injured. The guilt must be unbearable even though they’re safe and effective, they really aren’t.
I remember being the home that the high school kids hung out at when my son was in high school. And how gratifying it was to have them all sincerely thank me for giving them a place to just “be”. How wonderful that you were able to provide that during such an awful time and that they recognized it and appreciated your kindness and respect.
One of them said to my husband that we were the only adults that didn't fall the trillion dollar covid scam. So if the young people are recognizing this, that means they are getting info from outside of the narrative controlled areas. I told them if anyone tries to take away their life like this again, don't comply and don't listen.
Surprisingly. of all my friends of a certain age (vaccinated) with 30 to 40 year old adult children, it has come out (because I kept my v status private, thus they assumed i was) that their children did not get vaccinated!
Now that the fear of my 'coming out' (lol) has subsided, I add that neither did I.
We never did hide it. In fact, tried to talk to anybody and everybody who would listen not to do it. Added I would put a bullet in anyone's head who tried to jab me, and die on my own terms, not theirs.
My youngest son said just the other day how grateful he was to have had parents that "didn't go crazy" during Covid. He then said, sadly, that among his peer group we were the only ones.
My twenty-something children (especially my extroverted son) were privy to tons of info amongst their peers about the "clot shot" in 2021. My son also was alarmed that the shot could involve a change in one's DNA. The grown kids were on it. Even so, I was quite vocal about my objections to anyone needing a vaccine, ESPECIALLY after overcoming a natural infection. I made sure to talk to them, message them, e-mail them and overall be a monitor since I get 99% of my news from alternative and government-censored sources whereas they do not.
My daughter was a sophomore in college during lockdowns. She had 2 full years of college completely effed up. She did her own research on the jab and told me that she didn't think she'd get the jab because she thought it would damage her fertility. Thank God for this child of mine. Thankfully she was going to school in central FL and they didn't mandate the shots, but they really were pushing all the woke garbage to the point where she would just lie and say she got the jab. She still had to subject herself to weekly covid tests and I worried about those chinese made swabs and what they might have introduced into her body. The equally bad thing that happened was that half the kids left school because their parents didn't want to pay exhorbitant tuition costs for online classes when the family lived in the same state. I mean, I get it, but these kids transferred to community colleges, lost half their credits and either never graduated or are still in school part time trying to complete their degree. Its absolutely criminal what they did to these poor kids. I told my daughter - you will NOT transfer, and at the time we were moving from the hellscape that is Chicago to Florida where we had been stationed years ago. She graduated in 2022 - her friends came to her graduation - the ones who transferred, and hadn't graduated. She said to me later Mom, i'm so grateful you didn't let me transfer - I told her failure was not an option. I hope this generation is angry enough to clean house and vote out all the reprobates who have made our country a 2 tier justice system. I also think the militia idea will catch on
I doubt if enough kids are angry enough. With Biden's student loan cancellation promise, any kid with this kind of debt will vote D no matter what else is going on.
you're not wrong, but I do think there are a lot of working class kids who would be resentful enough to not vote for Brandon. Brandon can't get that through the supreme court anyway.
My niece did drop out for a semester at OU after many of her classes that switched to online in the fall of 2020 were terrible. She did stay in her apartment near campus and took a few of her gen eds from the local community college in the spring of 2021 as they had been doing online courses for some time and she said they were way better than what OU had cobbled together. But she did go back and got her degree, just a semester late. Some of her sorority sisters did end up dropping out and never did finish, though. She has a good head on her shoulders and never did buy into any of the fear porn, but she is and remained a conservative, unlike my daughter who is older and already out of school in 2020 and has turned into a leftist.
I hear this story over and over again. I'm glad your niece was able to persevere. I'm sorry about your daughter - I have other kids that turned left as well, got jabbed, etc. And you're right, the schools that had online courses already in place did way better than the liberal arts schools who had no clue how to do it online. These professors used it as a vacation to be lazy - one prof moved to England and taught from there, with a ridiculous 6 hour time change and kept altering the syllabus and assignments in the wee hours of the night, stressing the kids beyond belief - nobody should be doing that! The infrastructure of the online courses kept crashing and required multiple layers of authentication, adding layers of frustration, not to mention wifi going down and overall connectivity problems. It's a miracle any kids graduated at all.
Yeah, she said OU was a cluster. She ended up dropping a couple of classes as she was failing as there was almost no opportunity to ask questions or get help - profs just mailed it in and didn't care. I think she did consider just dropping out, came home for spring break and then ended up staying home for a couple of weeks and doing her online classes at home but my sister kicked her in the tail and told her to go back.
Not sure what happened to my daughter. She was in and out of college for 7 years, 3 different schools, no idea what she wanted to do and finally earned her medical coding certificate from a local CC. Probably has enough credits for a bachelor's but she does really like what she does now and has gotten a promotion and makes good money & has a strong work ethic. But hardcore liberal and can't even broach anything political with her as she blows up.
Yesssss. When my daughter and kids would come over to play.....heaven forbid...in the front yard((( gasp)). In Oregon , the governor kept telling everyone to stay in their back yards and not get together with family or friends. 🙄🙄🙄🙄Masked walkers would jump to the other side of the road to ???? They would run up to the mailman who was so masked up, but did not avoid them.
I don't think it will be him, but I do suspect that Biden will be replaced at the Democratic National Convention, after Pride month and Pride summer, with a kabuki gender reveal party for whomever they will run against RFK jr and Trump. For the drama, like an October surprise. I keep wondering if Michelle Obama will come out as trans and as the Democratic candidate, or someone like her. After Biden's handlers have dumped every possible horror they can on us, supposedly authored by Biden, then a new fresh untainted trans black person as the candidate.
I almost wish it would be Michelle, 1) just to see how many people really like it, her or him?, and 2) just to see what kind of scrutiny 'her condition' would get? Whatever it is?
But I doubt this will happen, because of 'too much baggage' which is getting harder and harder to hide.
I saw a picture yesterday of B.O. (I've always loved calling him that, as in a foul odor) and Michelle, back when she had a mustache. :) Of course AI is making it easier all the time to create bogus pictures. But we've been seeing them for years and some truly do make you think there's something to that story.
I never knew for sure about HeSheObama. But when B.O. kept slipping and calling Michelle Michael ... and when Joan Rivers said 'Get over it! Everyone knows she's a tranny', I figured where there's smoke there is fire.
One of my favorite "dissident" authors, who shall remain unidentified, has an interesting speculation I've not seen elsewhere: Joe Biden is clearly old and deteriorated, but he has a repuation of being a mean SOB. He's been a Washington politician since 1973. Less well known is that "Doctor" Jill has been along for the ride for nearly all that time. Word on the street is that she (they?) have the goods on a lot of people in DC.
One thing is for sure: 2024 will be a year of political "entertainment" rarely seen in our lifetimes.
Apparently they don't teach much world history in university anymore. If they did, I susepct that more Lefties might pause to ponder why in the early Soviet Union very odd things happened, even with the true believers. Why, precisely, was Trotsky hacked to death in a garden in Mexico, or Kerensky ended his days in the USA (!!!) No matter; those and lesser luminaries were (literally!) airbrushed out of Soviet history. It never occurs to Lefty that while the names change, the dirty tricks never do, nor that his turn too may yet come.
the communist apparatchiks and supporters all think they are or will be in the inner party. It never occurs to them that when their usefulness is ended, they will get the gulag or the bullet in the back of the neck.
Jeff's last sentence today is very fitting----"Democrats are not noted for their ability to envision the unintended consequences of their policy decisions. So. Lots of progress."
Our local skateboard park was filled with sand! I was so angry! These ridiculous actions really flushed out that you cannot count on your sheriff or police ( and of course politicians)to protect you or your rights. A fact to accept & plan for.
Wow, we buy a lot of mulch for our flower beds every year. If our local municipality had done that I would have snuck over there and loaded up on some 'free' mulch.
Well I guess as a taxpayer I could argue that I actually did pay for that mulch. But then again I am a white Christian straight woman so not couldn't pull out a victim card as justification.
It's good you left when you did. Looks like they are losing so many people they are going to make an exit tax for those who leave. Next thing you know, they will put up walls to keep people in.
That is CRAZEEEEE. I have no other words. How did they get it off? Crowbars? Mount Nutso. Some archeologists would have a field day with that in a thousand years.
That is crazy…and cruel! My granddaughter was in California at a so-called Christian college. When covid got bad they told students to stay inside their dorms! No fresh air for those kids. Thank goodness she got out of there not long afterward.
Me too- photos. I can’t bear to look at them. I guess the whole thing traumatized me. I do see on X some crazy photos coming back out with the caption- never forget what they did to us.
Where I used to live, eastern Chester county Pa, masked kids would run from us in the park because we walked outside without a mask. Heaven forbid. I gave them a look of pity. Poor vaxxed messed up kids. Their parents did them great harm.
Took almost two years to get the swings put back on in my local park. The yellow keep off tape on all the play equipment did come off earlier because others tore it off. So stupid. Beggars belief. 🤬🙄🤡🌎
WUT?? Insane. Though, I did encourage my son to scale the high chain-link fence to access the basketball courts up at our school campus. A custodian would routinely admonish him but he said, "there was no way she was climbing the fence so I just stayed." Eventually she said, "Do whatever, kid. I don't care anymore."
2 people came into our local coffeehouse yesterday. Their N95s took up most of their faces plus the hats and sunglasses did the rest. I had no idea who they were. Younger than me anyway. They may eventually grow snouts to fill the shape of the pointy mask if this is kept up. Evolutionary leaps back. I’d prefer Darwin’s take on it. Survival of the fittest. Covidiots.
Wasn’t or should I say isn’t it crazy in Oregon. My husband and I were walking thru a forested park unmasked and a lady her face into a tree to avoid us. It was hysterical and pathetic
Read Tim Dorsey's books featuring Serge Storm. They are hilarious, but all set in FL, and all feature lots of Florida trivia , history, and interesting information.
I was just recalling the weird things that would happen when I walked in my neighborhood during the shutdown... "Masked walkers would jump to the other side of the road to..." This is exactly what they did.
The first time a masked someone literally jumped out of the way when we were passing on a walking trail, I burst out laughing. I said, "I think you'll be okay - we're out here with wind and sun which fractionates a virus in milliseconds." She did not appreciate my knowledge.
I watched a young boy one afternoon for his mom 7-8 years old. We went out to play and he put his mask on- I told him we didn’t wear masks- he yelled/cried at me “I don’t want to die”. Absolutely no cause. Such abuse.
Something similar happened in my younger son's Boy Scout troop in 2021 when we still lived in Michigan. It was a summer hike.
Everyone was required to have their temperature taken prior to the hike. (Strike One). Mask wearing was strongly advised but not mandated. Pretty much everyone with the exception of my son, me, and a few others opted in. (Strike Two).
During the hike, my unmasked son approached one of the masked scouts to talk to him. The kid literally flipped out, screaming at my son to get away from him. The kid's father just stood there, watching the spectacle. My normally stoic son was nearly in tears. (Strike Three).
I pulled my son out of the troop after that. It's tragic what was done to this generation.
Maybe so! And yet all of this may backfire on them! There are now millions of kids moving into adulthood who now know how they have been slammed by the Deep State and their terrorism. Just image what will happen once these kids with eyes now wide open begin taking over things.
I remember the nuclear scare in the 1950s and fall out shelter mania. I as a seven or eight year old told my father that I thought we should build a fall out shelter in the basement. My dad, a clear headed man, said we didn't need one. I relaxed a little after that.
At the elementary school, they had us crawling under desks. Because 'they' the Russians might nuke the prime national defense industry located in our little town, the leather mills. Or hit a strategic target like the tiny grass runway 'airport' where the Piper Cubs and Beechcraft mono-planes used to hang out.
Looking back, 'they' the nascent Deep State were already experimenting on us. But things did not pick up speed unto 1963 and the JFK coup d'etat.
Although I was too young for the 50s-60s Civil Defense theater, we had a brief reprise in the 1980s during the Reagan years. A bit of background: by then I was in my mid-20s and had just completed a tour in Army. I'd also read a few books about nuclear war &c. over the years. The Reagan administration actually pitched at one time that digging a hole in one's back yard and covering it with a door was a viable emergency shelter. It's really a sick joke; much closer to reality is that in the event of any major nuke war your life expectancy would likely be at best days or weeks, and that's if you'd even taken basic CD precautions. Some would survive probably, a very few, but life at that point would be nothing to envy.
I can't remember how long people with fallout shelters were supposed to live in them if there was a nuclear war. They were supposed to listen to the radio (!) to find when they could exit. It was years. Those back yard shelters were tiny. I couldn't imagine sitting in an underground tin can waiting to go outside to a domestic Nagasaki.
Let's see! And for me this was early elementary school, and there was Burt the Turtle and Duck and Cover. And I knew what Turtle and Duck were. But I never did figure out what kind of animal Cover was. And then there was Silent Night ... and words 'Round John Virgin, mother and child' ... and like I thought it was one big family ... Fat John, the mother and the kid. (Hum? And in case the above raises suspicions, DeWife still thinks that I am clueless. But just you wait! One of these days I'm going to fool her good!)
On one level, as an elementary school child, I thought the whole thing of Duck and Cover was pretty stupid. On another level, I was scared that the Dirty No Good Commies were coming to get me. I could not see quite how. But maybe? But when my dad told me we really didn't need a fallout shelter, I began to think that my first thoughts on Stupid, Stupid, Stupid were down the right ally.
And come to think of it, C19 was really no more than a souped up Bert the Turtle and Duck and Cover operation. The common denominator is the fear component. And 'they' run the same stuff over and over, and Lucy always pulls the football away at the last moment. And we fall for it again and again. Totally amazing.
Thanks so much for sending the link. Some good fun here!
You have made me laugh so hard the dog started barking. "C19 was really no more than a souped up Bert the Turtle and Duck and Cover operation." That belongs on a t-shirt! I thought ALL cartoons were stupid, so the government productions fared no better than the scorn I directed to Donald Duck and Mighty Mouse. We didn't have a shelter. A huge tornado came through in front of the house one night when my parents were out bowling. (That was the '50s!) My grandmother pushed me and my sister under a bed and slid in behind us. To that day, I have been claustrophobic. The parents came home unscathed, but the garage crushed my grandmother's new car. (It was separate from the house.) If you like the old tv shows and commercials, you can find some good ones at https://archive.org/ if you haven't already.
Well I know! The Dog! And I usually think that things are okay with a barking dog. But when you see the dog begin to laugh, that when you have to start worrying.
I lived in the Virginia countryside, in a location that funnelled winds and storms. Once I saw a whirling dust devil. Another time I was in my mother's house in the basement an I heard the freight train sound. Another time I was in my wreck of a farmhouse on a hill and heard that freight train sound again. I never got real scared. Just figured I was in God's hands.
We come by fear of disease pretty honestly, according to Randy Thornhill. However one conceives the history of humankind, we did make it past many microbes and possible extinctions with our behavioral immune systems. That's why they keep pulsing it, bird flu and Tedros the murdering warlord, anointed by Xi and a PR firm, oozing his alarmist sheep's clothing speak. They want us in this atavistic evolutionary mode of fear and xenophobia, when they are the problem, not disease.
My son was a senior in 2020–in deep blue WA. Our school district would not allow any kind of celebration whatsoever but tried to make picking up their diplomas a celebratory event. They encouraged the students to wear their caps & gowns & set up a stage, balloon arc & podium in the parking lot. As we pulled in, we saw every single staff member wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts. So after all they stole from these kids (prom, commencement, etc.) the message wasn’t “Congratulations!” but “our virtue signaling is more important than any of you.” It was disgusting, depressing and the catalyst for all of us leaving that liberal cesspool of a town. Fortunately, my son went to GCU in Phoenix where they did their best to make life normal, didn’t require the vax and had in person classes. But the damage had been done. I still see the effects on him 4 years later.
"So after all they stole from these kids (prom, commencement, etc.) the message wasn’t “Congratulations!” but “our virtue signaling is more important than any of you.” It was disgusting, depressing and the catalyst for all of us leaving that liberal cesspool of a town. " Well and truly said.
My son was a 2020 senior too. It has totally changed his life. Not in a good way. I just pray these young g men and women come out stronger on the other end. I personally don’t see it yet. Pray pray pray. 🙏
Similar to what NAB expressed here in this thread. He still has a reticence to take risks & is more introverted than he ever used to be. Also, he was one of the few in his peer group that saw the plandemic for what it was & so has very little tolerance for the views common to his generation.
I can speak for my youngest (of 5) who is now 17. He is FINALLY, I think, over the worst of his Covid-era despair. I think that was the worst of it. He felt like he didn't matter, the adults didn't care and there was no point. While some tough lessons to learn, he has realized that self-reliance is a very valuable trait which needs to be cultivated and victimhood is a path to hopelessness. He is now a volunteer firefighter which has given him a sense of purpose and meaning and he has friends with similar views. However, we had some rough times at the height of Covid insanity.
Much thanks. And it must be absolutely gladdening to see your 'kid' doing so well and with friends. I hope there is a wife and children in the picture someday. This rounds out life.
The Evil has been unspeakable. And the world knows about it now.
My granddaughter was on the wrestling team, the softball team and in drama (one play) her freshman year. It all went away. Nothing for the rest of her highschool years. Hard to make friends, no extra curricular anything. It boils my blood. Stole their youth is right. And now it's being stolen with accelerated aging from those forced to take the jab (not my family, thankfully.)
I don't disagree that the shots are accelerating the health problems in this country. But it would be naïve to think that's the only cause. Have you looked around? In the mirror? We have an obesity epidemic. 85% of the people reading these words are overweight or obese. This points to a dramatic hormonal dysregulation issue caused by our toxic food stream. Processed foods, sugars, grains, alcohol, and industrial seed oils are wiping us out. Stop trying to blame others and ask yourself if you would be better off imitating the Amish. Surely you would.
I sincerely pray that they rise up and fight the tyrannical government bc they need to. But I know there’s no way. Just go anywhere and they r glued and I mean glued to their phones 😢😢
I was having a discussion somewhat like this at my art class last night. Although both are pretty left, they are nice as long as we don’t talk politics. We weren’t talking politics last night. Instead, we were discussing death. Her only son died at 31 from an enlarged heart—I didn’t ask how long ago, but she’s 70, so most likely pre-pandemic, and my sister was killed in a car accident 1.5 months before her 28th birthday some 30 years ago. We both came to the conclusion from these experiences that, when it’s your time to go, there’s nothing that can be done.
So, locking down will not stop death if it’s your time. When Gruesome told everyone to stay home and away from family, I encouraged everyone to go because nothing is guaranteed in this life. Also, why should I, a healthy, fit person, have to lock down for someone who is not? I have no control over their genetics, their eating habits, their lifestyle, their health, etc. It would be better for them to stay home if they’re concerned. If I were to get sick, then I’d stay home (and be immune). I didn’t get sick, by the way. So.
Living in fear is worse on you physiologically than living your life with gusto. You may as well live it with gusto because, when you’re called, that’s it.
And so, the next step in the phase to capture young minds has kicked off - diagnosis of "toxic stress" with lots of people posing as professional mental health experts guiding the children without parental permission begins. It's beyond disgusting how children are preyed upon in our society now. Public education is now a full-blown indoctrination/reeducation prison camp.
My son and daughter-in-law continued to hold birthday parties, they had a baby shower (in 2020) and a couple of crawfish boils, as well as Thanksgiving and Christmas get-togethers. A few of their friends quit coming around, but most people were just happy to be allowed to act like everything was normal. We smiled with our mask-free faces and told people it was so nice to see them. And that grandbaby who was born at home (because, HOSPITALS) never knew that other babies had to learn to talk without seeing people’s faces and mouths.
The crimes against our young people are many. 1st - they shut them down and took away their youth. No prom, no fun. Mask up. 2nd - they scared them with their "covid boogeyman " tactics. Parents are supposed to ease their young ones fears. Not create them. 3rd - they coerced every chance they got to poison them with their damn shots. Accelerated aging. Thanks Mom! Thanks Dad! My husband and I were the only ones that didn't shut down thru the scamdemic and showed our children and their friends how not to live in fear. We had parties and sleepovers etc. When we moved to SC last month, the young group thanked us. I thoroughly detest the covidians and libbies I used to live with. They have a lot to answer for. 🤬
I am outraged at the amount of fear that was instilled into young people's souls.
Yes. The worst of all abuses:
Surrounding them in a spirit of fear by cowardly adults for 2 years!
Sickening
So they went to college and never learned to think for themselves? They still need mom and dad to decide? What did they learn in college? All the tuition could have helped mom and dad stay out of debt, instead they got idiotic children instead of thinking adults. No sympathy.
"Thinking for yourself, " on some level, should have started LONG before college.
College does not teach that course any more: “How to think for yourself.”
Most of our youth are sadly handicapped to some degree.
When women went to work in mass, it caused irreparable harm to the nation. The world really.
I went to college and my parents died decades ago. There are still times when I'd like to work through something with them.
Same here. My Father was a wise man. He passed on in 2001. He was a Wake Island Defender in WWII. He, along with several others, spent 44 months in a Japanese Prison Camp. He would be appalled by what is happening to the Country for which he fought and nearly died.
I often think of those brave men and women who fought in the wars, and I'm sad for what they endured when I look at today's societies.
"The Greatest Generation" doesn't quite cover it, though they were certainly that. I saw the movie about Louis Zamperini. Those men were amazing. Knowing our history is at risk with their being gone, and some are intentionally destroying it.
Me too. Every time I think about it I just get so angry!!! 😡🤬
Someone posted on socialist Nextdoor that her grandson was terrified by predictions made about the eclipse. I responded that the covid agenda foisted on us since 2020 has left people feeling less secure. I referred to the harms done by hospital protocols and the so-called vaccines, just because I enjoy putting such things on Nextdoor. I am always stunned by people who react with the laugh emoticon. Are they really that stupid??? They don't see anything wrong with what has happened? They haven't had any friends or family affected?
Nextdoor is retarded! I got off maybe 2021, when some of them started berating a guy because he didn't like the mask mandate. I decided to activate my account end of last year thinking it would be useful to keep up with the petty crime and roaming dogs. Wrong. I deleted it hopefully for good 2 months ago. My life is better. I fully know there are idiots around me. I don't need to witness it everyday.
My one and only foray into Nextdoor was when I raised questions about the integrity of BLM as a charity. VERY upsetting to some people :)
Yes, sharing information that goes against the curation Nazi agenda is forbidden and you will be rewarded with temporary freezing of your account.
OMG how dare you! LOL. I bet people were freaking. My little fun was to an ole dyke who's buddy is a ugly ole dyke named Rhon. She started these Love is- Inclusion bs yard signs. They went to the capital to protest something good for society and came back to rant on ND. I came back with a smart ass reply and later found she deleted her comment. Small victory. Now when I see those yard signs I make a mental note to avoid these areas.
Yes, I've had similar experiences on the same general issue...more like "why can't we discuss personal details of the suspects/vandals/etc." After one or two censorship incidents I cancelled my account and let everyone know in no uncertain terms why I was leaving.
I never go on Nextdoor in my area as they are all quite insane. It used to be a good thing until all the crazy leftists took over and attacked everyone.
It’s a good source to know where gunshots are being heard in the city.
The Nextdoor here has changed quite a bit since I got kicked off over the BLM insanity.
People are showing early signs of connecting the dots as our old historical neighborhood, once considered a refuge of safety, is becoming crime infested.
Language still has to be guarded, but surprising things are being expressed.
I like to know what’s going on around me.
Kind of related, Naomi Wolf had an excellent stack talking about how self-reliance is no longer considered desirable, and instead the push is to 'trust the experts' and an appeal to authority. And the authority does not have our best interests at heart.
"My takeaway is that we are being endlessly conditioned these days, even at our own commonsense peril, to remain vulnerable and dependent on the State during “emergencies” — a term always more expansively defined — and that we are being conditioned too to accept nonsensical reasons to declare “emergency law”, which, recall, is the endgame of any tyranny, and which suspends civil law."
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/survival-of-the-weirdest
I read that one - Naomi is a good writer. While I don't always agree with her, she is mostly right as well as thought-provoking.
Same. I actually subscribe to more stacks than I have time to read. So I don't read all of hers, but glad I caught this one, it's a good one!
It's been a long time coming. The regressive "Progressives" introduced this notion, of rule by 'expert,' over 100 years ago. James Lindsay says we are experiencing a sort of Gnostic cult, in which only the anointed (to use a term used by Thomas Sowell) claim to have secret special knowledge, unavailable to the rest of us.
The cult of the expert (I don't know the official term) is indeed an ancient problem. I'm sure there are many good books. I recommend:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom
I second your recommendation.
Anne, I love that moniker ‘socialist Nextdoor’! 😂 I rarely look at it anymore because I’m disgusted that the platform is socialist, and it’s made me think that my neighbors are the most ignorant, grifting people in the world. One that caught my eye as I was deleting them this morning, was a gal with 6 dogs, posting an appeal for dog food. 🙄
I was listening to Dave Ramsey in my car the other day and a caller was lamenting his choices as his townhome HOA had lost a lawsuit against a shoddy builder and dues were doubling. Dave advised him to sell and get out, and then added, and stay off the neighborhood Facebook group. "Those things are the doorway to the pit of hell." I had to laugh. A couple of friends and I started a neighborhood FB group in 2010 when I was on the Board. I left my admin duties when I left the Board in 2018, as the petty grievances, drama and complaining were just a thorn in my side. Oh there are some good people, but the annoying ones are now someone else's problem, lol.
Our small town has a FB site that’s just full of that kind of whinging and tattletale nonsense.
I have stayed in the group, as it is useful at times, like one neighbor was cleaning out her iris bed and I got some free plants. I just scroll on past the nonsense.
My strategy as well.
The losers are easy to spot and avoid.
One of them is a leftist troll who spent the last 3 months attacking our conservative school board candidates. We got one of the 2 across the finish line and now have a 4-3 conservative majority on the SB, and she is losing her mind. Both equity candidates lost by large margins. Other winner was a recently retired teacher who spent 20 years in the district and is decidedly a moderate. Makes me so happy, lol. People have FINALLY started seeing through all this garbage.
It’s so interesting to see people who’ve long called themselves progressive suddenly less enamored, and quickly horrified, of what the progressives truly are.
Those delicious leftist tears!
not on fb but my wife is. we call our small town fb site morons uncensored
Yeah, our small town FB site leans very left. While they say they don’t want any politics on it, they allow very left leaning posts up and censor anything that disagrees with it. (Every post has to be approved by the communists in charge.)
Somehow a gal with 6 dogs begging for dog food reminds me of what America will be in about a year, if Russia, Russia, Russia and the CCP allow us to be a nation that long. “Dear Venezuela/Mexico, etc., we for some inexplicable reason kept adopting all these dogs, I mean, people and now we can’t feed them. Please
send groceries”.
Maybe those dogs are her backup emergency food storage…🥴🥴🥴
(That was a reference to Venezuela and the unfortunate situation at the zoo…😯)
what happened at zoo ? Were people eating the animals?
in venezuela they were and still starving in the people's paradise
If times get bad enough, the tables might be turned....
Stop blaming Russia, Russia, Russia and the CCP. You would be more accurate if you looked in the USA. We are responsible for our problems.
KC……Funny, but sadly true!
The one thing I might say about that is perhaps she rescues abandoned dogs. I always donate my unused dog and cat food to people and places that rescue.
I thought of that Kathy, and while I admire people who try to rescue abandoned animals, I have to apply common sense to that as to anything- if you can’t afford to feed them and provide for their needs- how can you truly rescue them? Someone dumped a husky pup on our doorstep last year and as we only had one other dog and the means to care for one more, we took him in and kept him. He’s the sweetest dog ever. So I have a heart for dogs and caring for them but - as you said, you donate food to rescue organizations. That’s how rescuing should work - either have the means yourself, or work with an agency to supply what they need. Don’t go begging your neighbors for dog food.
We have a cat that landed on our doorstep, found the owners and took him back a couple of times but they quit answering our calls and so we took him in. They had young kids that we are guessing were mean to him as he was really skittish when we first got him, But he is a sweet kitty and the best mouser ever, and also scores an occasional chipmunk or squirrel, which we are over-run with. So their loss!
I’d love to have a cat, but we live in the country and the mortality rate is high for cats. They are prey for coyotes and we’ve lost too many cats to them so I gave up trying.
My MIL and SIL both live in the country and almost every animal they have ever had has been dumped there by idiots who I guess think they are going to survive 'in the wild'. Some cats are too skittish to catch so they feed them until they disappear via coyotes. But we did just adopt a long haired grey beauty a few months ago that literally just walked in to my SIL's house one day when she opened the door. Skinny and hungry, he was otherwise OK, and had been fixed, but not chipped. No one within a few miles claimed him, so he was a 'dump'. Don't get it. He uses the litterbox faithfully and full of personality although he doesn't seem that street smart so have decided he will remain an indoor cat. People suck sometimes.
I grew up in the country. Except for a few dogs, all of our animals were dumped. Dogs would literally just show up at our door.
Yes, that is my in-laws. At one point they had 5 dogs between my husband's parents and his sister who both live on the same property, separate houses. All dumped.
They do indeed. We’ve had so many animals dumped on us. I found a mama cat and her new litter of kittens in our shed many years ago. She was more feral than not and I could never tame her enough to bring her in. Although she was street smart and savvy to the coyotes. I fed her and tried to keep the kittens but something always got them, hawks, coyotes, skunks. I finally trapped her and got her fixed after 3 or 4 litters. She continued to live here for about 12 years, longer than any domesticated cat we ever had. The tame cats would invariably escape outside and that would be the end of them.
I think some of these "rescuers" do this to scam the system and try to "re home" the animals charging large "rehoming" fees as a way to make money... at least here on Facebook in Wisconsin.
I've volunteered at a local shelter for years. There are some jobs (like answering phones or directing walk-ins) that I finally had to say "no more" to, largely because I got tired of hearing the abuse/abandonment/hard luck/etc. stories. I still occasionally ponder why I seemd to tolerate it well enough for a few years, but eventuallly the idiocy of people took a toll on me. I'm grateful to be able to donate my time and (some) money, but I draw the line at sacrificing my peace of mind.
Its highest and best use is finding/returning lost pets. Marxist-inspired but most users are clueless.
True.
Rule of thumb - Libbie and woke = Avoid. Not worth your time or patronage.
I saw a lot more of that too and just random newly created accounts begging for stuff.
My Next Door has become a site for online panhandling sob stories. Most responses are of the ‘where to get help’ variety which is likely not what the panhandler wanted to hear.
They live in fear. They believe the narrative.
The majority of people in the USA are stupid. And I don’t care how many degrees they have, or how much money they make.
They choose to be stupid.
I have shared several times that I was asked not to mention covid vaccines anymore in a ladies' prayer group because I was making the ladies uncomfortable. Although I no longer attend, I still get their texts. Today I received their proposal for organizing the prayer time. Among the prayer categories listed was pandemics. I'm curious as to how the prayers would go, but I won't be there to find out.
People that cannot accept Truth, need prayers/help for guidance. They are being deceived, in my humble opinion.
God bless you Anne!
I need to take the advise of getting off Next-door app. I'm in a private 'Respectful Politcal Debate' group. OMG, my mind is blown by what these people on the far left say. I thought it would be an opportunity to find some commonality. No such thing, I live on a different planet.
I just saw a notification that my Nextdoor comment is hidden because it might contain misinformation. I said that the vaccines did no good, only harm. Of course, I'm not surprised at the notification. I'm determined to post what I want and not mind the consequences. If they kick me off again, so be it. At least some people see it before it is removed.
I got kicked off at some point one time and never truly found out what I’d done. It was weeks before I even knew I’d been kicked off. Hahahaha! I, too, need to just delete my account there.
no point in talking to them. there is no common ground. I once mentioned at a cafe breakfast that communism had murdered 1-200 million of their own people (in respective countries). This caused the resident woke d.e.i. crt marxist to get mightily offended and leave in a huff.
FB is the same. I commented on my timeline how the price of gas in So Cal is now $4.99. If people thought groceries were expensive now, just wait. Then this friend of mine (our politics are opposite, but still manage to be friends) comes on and talks about how gas prices always go up in the summer. True, but it’s April and this is the highest the gas has pretty much ever been that I can remember. So. Regardless, she posted some stupid article to prove her point as well as a link to government “data”. 🙄 She should know by know that I have little faith in government “data”.
Anyone with terrified children can blame the parents for terrifying them.
Eh, not always. Kids have overactive imaginations, and sometimes develop irrational fears. My little sister went through a phase where she was sure there was a monster in her bedroom closet. My son woke us up in the middle of the night saying he was afraid terrorists were going to crash a plane into our house a few weeks after 9/11 - he was 6 years old. We did NOT have the TV with the footage on when the kids were around, as we thought they were too young, but he had seen footage while playing at a friend's house.
If they had friends or family affected, they would never admit it. That would mean admitting that they fell for the big lie and were wrong. Not only that, it would mean everything we warned them about is true, and that’s terrifying.
By the way, this is similar to them admitting that all vaccines are harmful—more harmful than beneficial. During the plandemic when I was posting research links on FB about the clot shot, I had a HS friend PM me to try to talk me into getting it. We had a long discussion, one of which was about the other vaccines. Her child was vaccine-damaged (ended up with autism very close to getting a round of them). She said that she’d done a deep dive into vaccine safety and had concluded they weren’t the cause. I would say they probably were. She was trying to convince me that it would be fine to encourage my teen who had seizures as a child the clot shot.
Yeah, no.
I felt sorry for her, and truly any parent whose child is vaccine-injured. The guilt must be unbearable even though they’re safe and effective, they really aren’t.
I need to talk to a young couple from my church who will be having a baby in May, in order to let them know the childhood vaccines are not safe.
Hopefully, they will listen.
They really are that stupid.
I remember being the home that the high school kids hung out at when my son was in high school. And how gratifying it was to have them all sincerely thank me for giving them a place to just “be”. How wonderful that you were able to provide that during such an awful time and that they recognized it and appreciated your kindness and respect.
One of them said to my husband that we were the only adults that didn't fall the trillion dollar covid scam. So if the young people are recognizing this, that means they are getting info from outside of the narrative controlled areas. I told them if anyone tries to take away their life like this again, don't comply and don't listen.
Surprisingly. of all my friends of a certain age (vaccinated) with 30 to 40 year old adult children, it has come out (because I kept my v status private, thus they assumed i was) that their children did not get vaccinated!
Now that the fear of my 'coming out' (lol) has subsided, I add that neither did I.
I can sense their utter silent gasps of shock!
I’m ready to reveal it at the right moment myself.
We never did hide it. In fact, tried to talk to anybody and everybody who would listen not to do it. Added I would put a bullet in anyone's head who tried to jab me, and die on my own terms, not theirs.
Agree 💯
My youngest son said just the other day how grateful he was to have had parents that "didn't go crazy" during Covid. He then said, sadly, that among his peer group we were the only ones.
Thank the Lord you were there to set an example for all as well as protect your son. 🙏🥰
My twenty-something children (especially my extroverted son) were privy to tons of info amongst their peers about the "clot shot" in 2021. My son also was alarmed that the shot could involve a change in one's DNA. The grown kids were on it. Even so, I was quite vocal about my objections to anyone needing a vaccine, ESPECIALLY after overcoming a natural infection. I made sure to talk to them, message them, e-mail them and overall be a monitor since I get 99% of my news from alternative and government-censored sources whereas they do not.
Were they on Tik Tok? I heard a lot of young people got their info there. That is probably why they were trying so hard to ban it.
Not sure.
My daughter was a sophomore in college during lockdowns. She had 2 full years of college completely effed up. She did her own research on the jab and told me that she didn't think she'd get the jab because she thought it would damage her fertility. Thank God for this child of mine. Thankfully she was going to school in central FL and they didn't mandate the shots, but they really were pushing all the woke garbage to the point where she would just lie and say she got the jab. She still had to subject herself to weekly covid tests and I worried about those chinese made swabs and what they might have introduced into her body. The equally bad thing that happened was that half the kids left school because their parents didn't want to pay exhorbitant tuition costs for online classes when the family lived in the same state. I mean, I get it, but these kids transferred to community colleges, lost half their credits and either never graduated or are still in school part time trying to complete their degree. Its absolutely criminal what they did to these poor kids. I told my daughter - you will NOT transfer, and at the time we were moving from the hellscape that is Chicago to Florida where we had been stationed years ago. She graduated in 2022 - her friends came to her graduation - the ones who transferred, and hadn't graduated. She said to me later Mom, i'm so grateful you didn't let me transfer - I told her failure was not an option. I hope this generation is angry enough to clean house and vote out all the reprobates who have made our country a 2 tier justice system. I also think the militia idea will catch on
I doubt if enough kids are angry enough. With Biden's student loan cancellation promise, any kid with this kind of debt will vote D no matter what else is going on.
you're not wrong, but I do think there are a lot of working class kids who would be resentful enough to not vote for Brandon. Brandon can't get that through the supreme court anyway.
My niece did drop out for a semester at OU after many of her classes that switched to online in the fall of 2020 were terrible. She did stay in her apartment near campus and took a few of her gen eds from the local community college in the spring of 2021 as they had been doing online courses for some time and she said they were way better than what OU had cobbled together. But she did go back and got her degree, just a semester late. Some of her sorority sisters did end up dropping out and never did finish, though. She has a good head on her shoulders and never did buy into any of the fear porn, but she is and remained a conservative, unlike my daughter who is older and already out of school in 2020 and has turned into a leftist.
I hear this story over and over again. I'm glad your niece was able to persevere. I'm sorry about your daughter - I have other kids that turned left as well, got jabbed, etc. And you're right, the schools that had online courses already in place did way better than the liberal arts schools who had no clue how to do it online. These professors used it as a vacation to be lazy - one prof moved to England and taught from there, with a ridiculous 6 hour time change and kept altering the syllabus and assignments in the wee hours of the night, stressing the kids beyond belief - nobody should be doing that! The infrastructure of the online courses kept crashing and required multiple layers of authentication, adding layers of frustration, not to mention wifi going down and overall connectivity problems. It's a miracle any kids graduated at all.
Yeah, she said OU was a cluster. She ended up dropping a couple of classes as she was failing as there was almost no opportunity to ask questions or get help - profs just mailed it in and didn't care. I think she did consider just dropping out, came home for spring break and then ended up staying home for a couple of weeks and doing her online classes at home but my sister kicked her in the tail and told her to go back.
Not sure what happened to my daughter. She was in and out of college for 7 years, 3 different schools, no idea what she wanted to do and finally earned her medical coding certificate from a local CC. Probably has enough credits for a bachelor's but she does really like what she does now and has gotten a promotion and makes good money & has a strong work ethic. But hardcore liberal and can't even broach anything political with her as she blows up.
Yesssss. When my daughter and kids would come over to play.....heaven forbid...in the front yard((( gasp)). In Oregon , the governor kept telling everyone to stay in their back yards and not get together with family or friends. 🙄🙄🙄🙄Masked walkers would jump to the other side of the road to ???? They would run up to the mailman who was so masked up, but did not avoid them.
My old HOA spray-foamed both of the parks in our neighborhood so the kids wouldn't play.
two weeks later in Mid-May we moved to Florida.
All of this crap will be relics of shame in 5 years.
In San Clemente, they filled a skate park with 37 tons of sand so nobody could use it. 🙄
If I were a kid in San Clemente, I'd have played in the sand.
well that's real close to Del Mar where I lived before leaving.
You were a Del Martian? Awesome! I’m still in El Cajon (technically Fletcher Hills) and waiting to escape to Idaho.
Oh cool. I still play cottonwood golf course in El Cajon when im out there.
People in Del Mar are snobs.
I don't think it will be him, but I do suspect that Biden will be replaced at the Democratic National Convention, after Pride month and Pride summer, with a kabuki gender reveal party for whomever they will run against RFK jr and Trump. For the drama, like an October surprise. I keep wondering if Michelle Obama will come out as trans and as the Democratic candidate, or someone like her. After Biden's handlers have dumped every possible horror they can on us, supposedly authored by Biden, then a new fresh untainted trans black person as the candidate.
I almost wish it would be Michelle, 1) just to see how many people really like it, her or him?, and 2) just to see what kind of scrutiny 'her condition' would get? Whatever it is?
But I doubt this will happen, because of 'too much baggage' which is getting harder and harder to hide.
I saw a picture yesterday of B.O. (I've always loved calling him that, as in a foul odor) and Michelle, back when she had a mustache. :) Of course AI is making it easier all the time to create bogus pictures. But we've been seeing them for years and some truly do make you think there's something to that story.
Ha! Ha! Got it right away! And very funny!
I never knew for sure about HeSheObama. But when B.O. kept slipping and calling Michelle Michael ... and when Joan Rivers said 'Get over it! Everyone knows she's a tranny', I figured where there's smoke there is fire.
One of my favorite "dissident" authors, who shall remain unidentified, has an interesting speculation I've not seen elsewhere: Joe Biden is clearly old and deteriorated, but he has a repuation of being a mean SOB. He's been a Washington politician since 1973. Less well known is that "Doctor" Jill has been along for the ride for nearly all that time. Word on the street is that she (they?) have the goods on a lot of people in DC.
One thing is for sure: 2024 will be a year of political "entertainment" rarely seen in our lifetimes.
I too have expressed this exact theory. I sure hope we're wrong.
My additional thought is, Barry would be VP.
a black trans gender homosexual is the absolute pinnacle of humanity.
Apparently they don't teach much world history in university anymore. If they did, I susepct that more Lefties might pause to ponder why in the early Soviet Union very odd things happened, even with the true believers. Why, precisely, was Trotsky hacked to death in a garden in Mexico, or Kerensky ended his days in the USA (!!!) No matter; those and lesser luminaries were (literally!) airbrushed out of Soviet history. It never occurs to Lefty that while the names change, the dirty tricks never do, nor that his turn too may yet come.
the communist apparatchiks and supporters all think they are or will be in the inner party. It never occurs to them that when their usefulness is ended, they will get the gulag or the bullet in the back of the neck.
Jeff's last sentence today is very fitting----"Democrats are not noted for their ability to envision the unintended consequences of their policy decisions. So. Lots of progress."
Our local skateboard park was filled with sand! I was so angry! These ridiculous actions really flushed out that you cannot count on your sheriff or police ( and of course politicians)to protect you or your rights. A fact to accept & plan for.
They filled ours with mulch! And lots of it! Insanity run amuck!
Lots of yellow tape and no mulch which led to deep mud holes they didn’t fill after the swings were down for almost 2 years.
Government went cra cra!! Insanity ruled!
Oh, yes. We had the endless yellow tape which I just kept pulling down.
Wow, we buy a lot of mulch for our flower beds every year. If our local municipality had done that I would have snuck over there and loaded up on some 'free' mulch.
They thought of that...added cameras...
Well I guess as a taxpayer I could argue that I actually did pay for that mulch. But then again I am a white Christian straight woman so not couldn't pull out a victim card as justification.
We don't have that privilege...
count on order followers to follow orders. Morality, integrity and courage don't enter into the picture.
Wisdom
That is unbelievable. 🙈 What state?
Congrats for getting out!!
California. Best decision of our lives.
It's good you left when you did. Looks like they are losing so many people they are going to make an exit tax for those who leave. Next thing you know, they will put up walls to keep people in.
Faith Adams: Some wit came up with this: "even the earthquakes are leaving California " 😁
Wait what? Spray foamed? Lije urea aldehyde? I'm confused.
like the stuff you put into walls for insulation. they spray it on and then it hardens.
looked like a 60 foot wide and 12 foot high pyramid that totally enveloped the play equipment.
the cruelty is totally lost on these people
Is it still like that? How did they get the stuff off?
i'm not sure. we never returned. that place is dead to me
As it should be. Along with its corrupters. Unreal.
That is CRAZEEEEE. I have no other words. How did they get it off? Crowbars? Mount Nutso. Some archeologists would have a field day with that in a thousand years.
That is crazy…and cruel! My granddaughter was in California at a so-called Christian college. When covid got bad they told students to stay inside their dorms! No fresh air for those kids. Thank goodness she got out of there not long afterward.
Did you take a picture? It seems like that action should be memorialized in the Smithsonian.
oh yes. i took hundreds of photos during the madness of all the nonsense.
Me too- photos. I can’t bear to look at them. I guess the whole thing traumatized me. I do see on X some crazy photos coming back out with the caption- never forget what they did to us.
agree. i'll never understand the cowardness
Spray-foamed? What idiots.
totally
Oh...my..goodness
"Relics of shame".... let's hope so.
That sounds much more dangerous. Unbelievable.
Where I used to live, eastern Chester county Pa, masked kids would run from us in the park because we walked outside without a mask. Heaven forbid. I gave them a look of pity. Poor vaxxed messed up kids. Their parents did them great harm.
Took almost two years to get the swings put back on in my local park. The yellow keep off tape on all the play equipment did come off earlier because others tore it off. So stupid. Beggars belief. 🤬🙄🤡🌎
WUT?? Insane. Though, I did encourage my son to scale the high chain-link fence to access the basketball courts up at our school campus. A custodian would routinely admonish him but he said, "there was no way she was climbing the fence so I just stayed." Eventually she said, "Do whatever, kid. I don't care anymore."
A former friend of mine who lives in California, would go for a walk outside wearing a N-95 and face shield.
I got to the point where I could not deal with her insane drama anymore.
2 people came into our local coffeehouse yesterday. Their N95s took up most of their faces plus the hats and sunglasses did the rest. I had no idea who they were. Younger than me anyway. They may eventually grow snouts to fill the shape of the pointy mask if this is kept up. Evolutionary leaps back. I’d prefer Darwin’s take on it. Survival of the fittest. Covidiots.
I always laugh when I see people in those snout-like n95 masks. Reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where people had pig snouts!!!
yesterday? Really, they had N95's on yesterday? That is SO sad. Are you in Cali?
Wasn’t or should I say isn’t it crazy in Oregon. My husband and I were walking thru a forested park unmasked and a lady her face into a tree to avoid us. It was hysterical and pathetic
Did you laugh out loud at her, like a real person would?
She probably didn't make it! LOL
Yes Oregon is hysterical. If this was not my home and if I did not inherit property here I would move
It is also beautiful in the coast range
In Klamath falls right now. Thinking about exploring the east side. So desolate.
Is that different than usual? Shameful as an Oregonian that I have probably never been there.
It actually is. And I think most people don’t explore their own state. Lol. We r from Florida and there’s sooooo many places we haven’t been.
True..I can say Southern Oregon has such beauty with the rolling hills, and eastern Oregon is iconic western with the sage brush and high cliffs.
Yes. So far we love it!!! Really nice ppl down here too! We go from here to bend and than warrenton above Portland.
We used to camp near Warrenton when the kids were...kids. fort Stevens..
Read Tim Dorsey's books featuring Serge Storm. They are hilarious, but all set in FL, and all feature lots of Florida trivia , history, and interesting information.
Will do. Tysvm!!!!!
Same here, Renea. Stuck in Corvallis.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was just recalling the weird things that would happen when I walked in my neighborhood during the shutdown... "Masked walkers would jump to the other side of the road to..." This is exactly what they did.
Yup. In Walmart too. Scurried away.
Scurried is the exact word.
I had small children cower behind their parents as I walked by on the 5 ft wide sidewalk. 🙄
Such utter insanity!!!! 😡
The first time a masked someone literally jumped out of the way when we were passing on a walking trail, I burst out laughing. I said, "I think you'll be okay - we're out here with wind and sun which fractionates a virus in milliseconds." She did not appreciate my knowledge.
I saw a person sitting at a bus stop by himself on a kind of quiet street with a mask on. Unreal
We had Komrade Kate in those days, now we have Komrade Kate Kotek. 😉
Kate was in the limelight before covid if I recall, Tina goes about her socialist ways much more quietly. Do you see her much?
I try not to
I watched a young boy one afternoon for his mom 7-8 years old. We went out to play and he put his mask on- I told him we didn’t wear masks- he yelled/cried at me “I don’t want to die”. Absolutely no cause. Such abuse.
Something similar happened in my younger son's Boy Scout troop in 2021 when we still lived in Michigan. It was a summer hike.
Everyone was required to have their temperature taken prior to the hike. (Strike One). Mask wearing was strongly advised but not mandated. Pretty much everyone with the exception of my son, me, and a few others opted in. (Strike Two).
During the hike, my unmasked son approached one of the masked scouts to talk to him. The kid literally flipped out, screaming at my son to get away from him. The kid's father just stood there, watching the spectacle. My normally stoic son was nearly in tears. (Strike Three).
I pulled my son out of the troop after that. It's tragic what was done to this generation.
It will be hard to restore them to a healthy response to life in general moving forward. So sad.
Maybe so! And yet all of this may backfire on them! There are now millions of kids moving into adulthood who now know how they have been slammed by the Deep State and their terrorism. Just image what will happen once these kids with eyes now wide open begin taking over things.
I remember the nuclear scare in the 1950s and fall out shelter mania. I as a seven or eight year old told my father that I thought we should build a fall out shelter in the basement. My dad, a clear headed man, said we didn't need one. I relaxed a little after that.
At the elementary school, they had us crawling under desks. Because 'they' the Russians might nuke the prime national defense industry located in our little town, the leather mills. Or hit a strategic target like the tiny grass runway 'airport' where the Piper Cubs and Beechcraft mono-planes used to hang out.
Looking back, 'they' the nascent Deep State were already experimenting on us. But things did not pick up speed unto 1963 and the JFK coup d'etat.
Weren't you relieved, though, to know that you could fend off nuclear fallout by sitting on the floor and putting your arms over your head?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWH4tWkZpPU
Although I was too young for the 50s-60s Civil Defense theater, we had a brief reprise in the 1980s during the Reagan years. A bit of background: by then I was in my mid-20s and had just completed a tour in Army. I'd also read a few books about nuclear war &c. over the years. The Reagan administration actually pitched at one time that digging a hole in one's back yard and covering it with a door was a viable emergency shelter. It's really a sick joke; much closer to reality is that in the event of any major nuke war your life expectancy would likely be at best days or weeks, and that's if you'd even taken basic CD precautions. Some would survive probably, a very few, but life at that point would be nothing to envy.
I can't remember how long people with fallout shelters were supposed to live in them if there was a nuclear war. They were supposed to listen to the radio (!) to find when they could exit. It was years. Those back yard shelters were tiny. I couldn't imagine sitting in an underground tin can waiting to go outside to a domestic Nagasaki.
Let's see! And for me this was early elementary school, and there was Burt the Turtle and Duck and Cover. And I knew what Turtle and Duck were. But I never did figure out what kind of animal Cover was. And then there was Silent Night ... and words 'Round John Virgin, mother and child' ... and like I thought it was one big family ... Fat John, the mother and the kid. (Hum? And in case the above raises suspicions, DeWife still thinks that I am clueless. But just you wait! One of these days I'm going to fool her good!)
On one level, as an elementary school child, I thought the whole thing of Duck and Cover was pretty stupid. On another level, I was scared that the Dirty No Good Commies were coming to get me. I could not see quite how. But maybe? But when my dad told me we really didn't need a fallout shelter, I began to think that my first thoughts on Stupid, Stupid, Stupid were down the right ally.
And come to think of it, C19 was really no more than a souped up Bert the Turtle and Duck and Cover operation. The common denominator is the fear component. And 'they' run the same stuff over and over, and Lucy always pulls the football away at the last moment. And we fall for it again and again. Totally amazing.
Thanks so much for sending the link. Some good fun here!
You have made me laugh so hard the dog started barking. "C19 was really no more than a souped up Bert the Turtle and Duck and Cover operation." That belongs on a t-shirt! I thought ALL cartoons were stupid, so the government productions fared no better than the scorn I directed to Donald Duck and Mighty Mouse. We didn't have a shelter. A huge tornado came through in front of the house one night when my parents were out bowling. (That was the '50s!) My grandmother pushed me and my sister under a bed and slid in behind us. To that day, I have been claustrophobic. The parents came home unscathed, but the garage crushed my grandmother's new car. (It was separate from the house.) If you like the old tv shows and commercials, you can find some good ones at https://archive.org/ if you haven't already.
Well I know! The Dog! And I usually think that things are okay with a barking dog. But when you see the dog begin to laugh, that when you have to start worrying.
I lived in the Virginia countryside, in a location that funnelled winds and storms. Once I saw a whirling dust devil. Another time I was in my mother's house in the basement an I heard the freight train sound. Another time I was in my wreck of a farmhouse on a hill and heard that freight train sound again. I never got real scared. Just figured I was in God's hands.
Well! Then! We had some fun!
you had to get under the desks for full protection. stupid then and the stupid fear hysteria continued with the muzzles and all the rest.
We come by fear of disease pretty honestly, according to Randy Thornhill. However one conceives the history of humankind, we did make it past many microbes and possible extinctions with our behavioral immune systems. That's why they keep pulsing it, bird flu and Tedros the murdering warlord, anointed by Xi and a PR firm, oozing his alarmist sheep's clothing speak. They want us in this atavistic evolutionary mode of fear and xenophobia, when they are the problem, not disease.
That is incredibly sad, Susan.
Terribly sad. And yet the real lie is that a damn mask will even protect them !
My son was a senior in 2020–in deep blue WA. Our school district would not allow any kind of celebration whatsoever but tried to make picking up their diplomas a celebratory event. They encouraged the students to wear their caps & gowns & set up a stage, balloon arc & podium in the parking lot. As we pulled in, we saw every single staff member wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts. So after all they stole from these kids (prom, commencement, etc.) the message wasn’t “Congratulations!” but “our virtue signaling is more important than any of you.” It was disgusting, depressing and the catalyst for all of us leaving that liberal cesspool of a town. Fortunately, my son went to GCU in Phoenix where they did their best to make life normal, didn’t require the vax and had in person classes. But the damage had been done. I still see the effects on him 4 years later.
Virtue signaling pricks 🤬 Hopefully they took every shot available to them.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
Should I be ashamed that you made me LOL? 😂
No. 😄
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"So after all they stole from these kids (prom, commencement, etc.) the message wasn’t “Congratulations!” but “our virtue signaling is more important than any of you.” It was disgusting, depressing and the catalyst for all of us leaving that liberal cesspool of a town. " Well and truly said.
My son was a 2020 senior too. It has totally changed his life. Not in a good way. I just pray these young g men and women come out stronger on the other end. I personally don’t see it yet. Pray pray pray. 🙏
Curious ... what are the effect four years later?
Similar to what NAB expressed here in this thread. He still has a reticence to take risks & is more introverted than he ever used to be. Also, he was one of the few in his peer group that saw the plandemic for what it was & so has very little tolerance for the views common to his generation.
Thank you. And I imagine that with world finding out the truth, this will change things some.
I can speak for my youngest (of 5) who is now 17. He is FINALLY, I think, over the worst of his Covid-era despair. I think that was the worst of it. He felt like he didn't matter, the adults didn't care and there was no point. While some tough lessons to learn, he has realized that self-reliance is a very valuable trait which needs to be cultivated and victimhood is a path to hopelessness. He is now a volunteer firefighter which has given him a sense of purpose and meaning and he has friends with similar views. However, we had some rough times at the height of Covid insanity.
Much thanks. And it must be absolutely gladdening to see your 'kid' doing so well and with friends. I hope there is a wife and children in the picture someday. This rounds out life.
The Evil has been unspeakable. And the world knows about it now.
Fear and confusion. They don’t know what sex they are anymore either.
I'm glad you found parents that agreed with you!
My granddaughter was on the wrestling team, the softball team and in drama (one play) her freshman year. It all went away. Nothing for the rest of her highschool years. Hard to make friends, no extra curricular anything. It boils my blood. Stole their youth is right. And now it's being stolen with accelerated aging from those forced to take the jab (not my family, thankfully.)
I don't disagree that the shots are accelerating the health problems in this country. But it would be naïve to think that's the only cause. Have you looked around? In the mirror? We have an obesity epidemic. 85% of the people reading these words are overweight or obese. This points to a dramatic hormonal dysregulation issue caused by our toxic food stream. Processed foods, sugars, grains, alcohol, and industrial seed oils are wiping us out. Stop trying to blame others and ask yourself if you would be better off imitating the Amish. Surely you would.
So painfully true, and I said so from Day 1. The young were badly victimized.
But the vast majority never stood up for themselves. Too many of them went along with the PC crowd.
And the neurotic parents.
I sincerely pray that they rise up and fight the tyrannical government bc they need to. But I know there’s no way. Just go anywhere and they r glued and I mean glued to their phones 😢😢
I was having a discussion somewhat like this at my art class last night. Although both are pretty left, they are nice as long as we don’t talk politics. We weren’t talking politics last night. Instead, we were discussing death. Her only son died at 31 from an enlarged heart—I didn’t ask how long ago, but she’s 70, so most likely pre-pandemic, and my sister was killed in a car accident 1.5 months before her 28th birthday some 30 years ago. We both came to the conclusion from these experiences that, when it’s your time to go, there’s nothing that can be done.
So, locking down will not stop death if it’s your time. When Gruesome told everyone to stay home and away from family, I encouraged everyone to go because nothing is guaranteed in this life. Also, why should I, a healthy, fit person, have to lock down for someone who is not? I have no control over their genetics, their eating habits, their lifestyle, their health, etc. It would be better for them to stay home if they’re concerned. If I were to get sick, then I’d stay home (and be immune). I didn’t get sick, by the way. So.
Living in fear is worse on you physiologically than living your life with gusto. You may as well live it with gusto because, when you’re called, that’s it.
You nailed it. A whole generation, save a few, has been taught to exist in fear and to comply.
And so, the next step in the phase to capture young minds has kicked off - diagnosis of "toxic stress" with lots of people posing as professional mental health experts guiding the children without parental permission begins. It's beyond disgusting how children are preyed upon in our society now. Public education is now a full-blown indoctrination/reeducation prison camp.
Agree. Avoid public schools whenever possible.
My son and daughter-in-law continued to hold birthday parties, they had a baby shower (in 2020) and a couple of crawfish boils, as well as Thanksgiving and Christmas get-togethers. A few of their friends quit coming around, but most people were just happy to be allowed to act like everything was normal. We smiled with our mask-free faces and told people it was so nice to see them. And that grandbaby who was born at home (because, HOSPITALS) never knew that other babies had to learn to talk without seeing people’s faces and mouths.
Awesome 👍🥰