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For myself, I was still "Lefty" back then. I leaned into the whole "obamacare is here to save the world" propaganda. I thought conservatives just didn't want to help anyone.
Then, after a few years, I saw the dramatic rise in healthcare costs (as conservatives predicted). I saw the promotion of all things Rockefeller-esque and the continued deprecation of actual health (as conservatives predicted.) THEN, I saw them coming for my personal health care choices (as conservatives predicted.)
Took a few years, but I finally told the Left "I'm outta here..." 😊
I was happy to vote for Obama, and so happy when he won. Mainly because I had some black friends at work, so I was happy for them. Two months into his term, I could not stand the sound of his voice, his mellifluous voice.
I remember the first time I heard Obama on the radio. I didn't even know who he was or what he looked like. But the radio had a clip of him saying something to the effect of "We are our brother's keeper." And I was like, hell no. I don't want the government saying that. That's the job of the citizens and the Church. I'm tired of lazy Christians outsourcing their charity and morality to the government. I was against him from then on. From there Obamacare, the racist politics, the obvious lies only cemented my opinion.
Yes! I have been arguing with people for decades at this point who are Christians and think that Jesus would have endorsed the welfare state. Learned helplessness is enabling, not helping. It's OUR responsibility to care for the less fortunate, not uncle Sam.
Yes! And depriving someone of the feelings of self worth they get from gainful employment and from trying and succeeding is actually very damaging, not helpful in the least.
The signs showing Obama (Barry Sotero) to be a very deceptive and dangerous individual were crystal clear. I couldn’t understand why any one in their right mind would vote for him.
But then our own vomity Republican candidate assured us he was just fine and we could safely vote for him. Can you believe that?
I don’t think I was ever able to stomach hearing Obama pontificate for more than 10 seconds.
The government has taken over charity. There are so many rules to regulate what private charities can and cannot do. Want to feed the homeless? Your kitchen better pass inspection. The government has co-opted real charity so it can give its friends NGOs and government contracts. Of course very little of the money gets to those who need it. There was a teenage boy who was threatened with arrest because he would make baloney sandwiches and go pass them out to the homeless. Apparently he was a nuisance. Mother Theresa tried to open a facility in NYC to help the desperately poor and the city gave her so many hoops to jump through she gave up and left.
Watch the movie put out by Angel Studios ‘Cabrini’ for a wide awake look at Catholic charities and NYC. Cabrini ended up as a saint for her dedicated work for the poor globally by defying every obstacle the church and state put in her way.
Serious question, could you save enough money by not wasting time on the guidelines, to make up the difference? (I'm assuming not, or else someone would have suggested it already... but one can dream!)
What was your logic, if I can inquire? Were you not aware of Mena and her actions as Sec. of State etc.... Not calling you on the carpet but I just don't understand why. We are dealing with some Orange Man bad folks and I think there is a connection so that is the basis for my inquiry.
Voted for her in the primary when she faced off against Obama. In the general I voted for Sarah Palin.... er, what's his name? ... uh, McCain. This was 8 years before 2016.
you all are missing one of the main points Jeff has been trying to show us.
with AI THERE WILL BE VERY FEW JOBS LEFT. but no shortage of PROFITS for the owning class.
therefore LETS GET COMFORTABLE with the idea of a UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME. the only way to deal with this is to MAKE SURE THE GOVERNMENT is owned and run by US and not those same corporations who would turn us into SERFS>
With all due respect, how would you propose we do that? Fundamentally they run the place now and are ensuring that more and more of our slice of the pie is theirs. House cleaning is the only way I see it happening.
House Cleaning is the nice way of putting it. I think we all know what needs to be done, dont we? its just a matter of when that spark gets lit. Im too old for streetfighting these days, thats' why I live in Mexico, but I am cheering you guys on (for what its worth).
AND PS its so silly and shortsighted to dump on the kids protesting Palestine when they are getting the seasoned experience you all will need on your side (agents provocateurs, Cointelpro etc) when it happens, judging from the innocence I saw on Jan 6. Later, taters :)
"House Cleaning is the nice way of putting it." well I don't want this crowd to think I am some sort of blood thirsty so in so, you know? I have an image to maintain.
Later Jay
P.S. did you get the Prez you wanted or is your money going to Israel soon?
which prez do you think I wanted? why would my money ever go to Israel? best I recall, I "forgot" to vote in 2020. this year I wont make that mistake ;) the NY verdict made that abundantly clear.
Id go buy beachfront property in Gaza if I wanted to throw my money away and live in an international Pariah state. was that somehow your (convoluted) point?
Jeff has not said this actually. He has correctly pointed out that every technological development was expected to end jobs for lower and middle classes, since at least the industrial revolution. The panic was never justified. Economies shift and adjust.
you're kidding, right? we hear constantly in this column and EVERYWEHRE how shitty things are for working people - and you think the panic was not justified? LOL. SMH. I guess we can see which side your bread is buttered on!
EVERYTHING they mandated was either useless or downright harmful and deadly. Masks? They mandated them to keep a virus of .028 microns diameter from entering our lungs. The smallest holes in tose masks are 300 microns. YOU do the maths and tell me how a chain link fence will SOP the horde of mosquitos from coming into my house. MNot ony are they worse than useless stopping that tiny viral article, they make folks hypxic (oxygen depleting), harbour moulds, yeasts, bacteria, fungi, dispensing them INTO our lungs at elevated rates, they fprevent proper dispersal of carbon dioxide as we xhale, thus poisoning us by high CO2 levels.
That was one of the better mandates, too.
When I read that the new mRNA technology, I said WHAT is that tech? Never heard of it. So I looked it up. Once I read that I decided NO WAY will I EVER take that shot. Guaranteed trouble, no way out.
That will programme my own body to manufacture the poison spike protein indefinitely, no "off switch". How can that possibly benefit anyone? WHY would I think it is a benefit to reprogramme my own body to make more of the very poison I am trying to avoid? Then they began mandating THAT poison jab for certain classes of people.
Things being bad for working people right now is not because of technological advancements, though. Like every advance, AI will disrupt the status quo, many people will have a rough time, but in the very long run it will be beneficial.
When you hear someone fearmongering about how something will "destroy farming jobs!" (for example), you should translate that in your head to the statement: "We no longer need such a large number of people laboring in the fields in order to produce enough food. Some of those people can now find other work, and society in aggregate now needs to work just a little bit less in order to have a comfortable life."
This is how large numbers of working-class people ended up with a 40-hour working week, instead of spending every daylight hour working the fields just to put food on the table as in the medieval days.
I mean, it's possible. I wasn't actually suggesting that farming innovation was going to happen right now, it was more an example of how technology advances are described as "bad" when they're actually good overall. The current technology concern is with AI... maybe all the code-monkey laborers will go back to their countries? 😉 Although these days they can work remotely as contractors anyway.
It’s funny, I always hear people praising his oratory skills but I think his delivery sounds jerky and I don’t find his speeches compelling at all. Just never saw it. When he was running for president and I first listened to one of his speeches to see what all of the fuss was about, I was left perplexed. I didn’t vote for him, because I didn’t like his stances or platform. I didn’t care what color his skin was. I did initially hope that his election would quiet sone of the “America is racist” crowd but it ended up doing the opposite 🤷♀️
I could never...and to this day...tolerate his voice, having a visceral revulsion to his voice and mannerisms. Anyone who has ever bothered to parse his speeches, that he expects to be received as moral proclamations, quickly is astonished by the acute vacuity of EVERYTHING he speechifies on. Literally no substance, just a string of platitudes that appeal to those who emote rather than think. He used a great deal of neurolinguistic programming to appeal to emotion. I am a speechwriter, and I am familiar with many of the rhetorical and linguistic devices that are designed to bypass rational, critical interpretation by an audience and convince them they've just been awed by soaring rhetoric. He is a poseur, for certain, vapid, pompous to a high degree of malignancy. Short story...he, from the get-go, turned my stomach in a very physical way.
I never really understood why, but I reacted much the same. He learned “politics” in Illinois, for heaven’s sake. The corruption runs deeeep in hellinois.
Obama is a crook all the way through! He had to turn in his law license because he lied on his application. Remember the crooked organizationcalled Acorn?
It’s for this exact reason that when I heard him give the response to the State of the Union address, I thought, “Hoo boy! We are in big trouble with this one.” I knew his empty platitudes would sound like sweet whispers to many people in this country. Those who operate on emotion rather than logic have always been his audience. They literally crave his voice/words. 🤢
And his "wife" chuckle-chuckle, saying "All that for a F Flag" or even better when he was elected "For the 1rst time in my life, I am proud of my country!!!".
Totally agree. When he didn’t have his teleprompter, he was no longer smooth and hummed & hawed as if he had an empty head trying to remember his words.
A colleague had a life-sized standing cardboard cutout of BHO in her office for years beyond his 8 in office. Hero worship was rampant. It was amusing that she did not see the similarities between her cutout and the real thing.
His clipped manner of speaking is a tell that he is hiding who and what he really is. He always sounds, to this day, like he's impatient with being questioned, that whatever he says is a de facto moral diktat.
He does, as does Fauci and Biden and other demon rats who don't seem to give a damn about anything, cause big bro or daddy Soros and MSM and other party oligarchs will protect and shield.
Same RL (shocker, I know, lol). He wasn’t a black American. His father was a foreign black man, and his mother a white, loose woman. Now Herman Cain was another story. I was SO hoping he’d be POTUS. Only candidate who’s name I ever put on my car’s bumper.
Are you the Jen who asked for book titles about liberalism morphing into fascism? When I click on the email with your name on it, Jeff's Substack isn't opening to the place where you left your comment and now he's got nearly 1,000 comments!!! If you are the Jen who left me the comment, off hand I can think of 2 books. One is by Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism," and a second book written by an academic historian and right now I can't think of the author's name or the title. I read it several years ago and had to borrow the book from a university library. Toby Rodgers had mentioned it in one of his early Substacks. Spoiler alert: it's virtually unreadable, but I take the author's point. There is also the history of the Weimar Republic, a liberal state that quickly morphed into German Nazism. Most people think fascism is a wing of conservatism, but history shows us otherwise.
So few understand that Nazis were from the left! And even fewer want to see that we are literally living under a fascist regime. Everything is inside, for, and of the corporation-government partnership. Even NGOs.
yes! that's me. Thank you for the recommendations! I would like to read more on this. Because fundamentally, I see it too. Communism and Fascism are almost like kissing cousins. I can't even see how fascism is even remotely related to freedom lovers like us. We would chafe under that system. How many of us would agree to put the Party above everything including God? But liberals are only too happy to do that. They happily surrender their children to the state, we do not. They are perfectly content with censorship, we are not. If you ask me, them trying to say fascism is right wing is simply more gaslighting and changing words like they love to do. Someone would really have to show me what concepts from fascism even correlate to freedom loving conservatives. I just can't think of anything we have in common. It's time to change the narrative. Let's start calling them what they are - the true fascists.
One way that communism and fascism are different is that fascism partners with the privately owned corporate structure while in communism, the state owns the means of production. Historically we tend to see communism take hold in agrarian societies where fascism takes hold in capitalist societies.
His father was a citizen of Kenya, thus a British Subject. This right there makes Obama NOT a Ntural Born Citizen. Funny thing (no, disgusting) is that NO COURT would ever entertain a case to disqualify him to run for President on that basis. He had also been forced to renounce his citizenship when attending that mozzie school in Indonesia as a youth. No record of ever restoring that status as US Citizen. I am convinced he is not a US Citizen and has not been since the time he attended that school. A fraud on many levels from the git go. I am also nearly fully convinced that he remains the kingpin behind the entire functional US government. Far too much of the history of the past eight years smells strongly of his "style" and MO.
where he was actually born is irrelevalt to his eligibility to be President. Which is why all the fuss about the Hawaii birth certificate was a smokescreen and diversion.
The Cinstitutional requriement that a president be a "natural born citizen" is fixed. The definition of "natural born citizen" is also fixed in law: must have been born of TWO parents who were US Citizens AT THE TIME of the birth of the candidate. With his pappy a British Subject, he could have been born in the WHite House and he still would not be a Natural Born Citizen.
Kamala Harris is ot NBC either. Her Mum is citizen of I believe India, thus also a British Subject if I am not msitaken (depending on when she was born) , and her pappy is Jamaican, again, a British Subject. This NEITHER of her parents were US Citizens when she was born. Yes, I believe both have naturalised since her birth, but too late. that was AFTER her birth. . Thus SHE cannot be president either.
And they're so fussed about some checks signed to shut the mouth of a tramp.,
When I first heard him speak his voice made me sick in the pit of my stomach. It was a visceral reaction to the cadence of his voice. I knew he was bad news and whenever he came on the tv I would change the channel. I read that he studied a certain style of speaking that has a way of almost hypnotizing people.
Today on Twitter he explained Biden’s new stand for Gaza peace ...eloquently written ofcourse. It seems that they know they are not in a good place, so Obama has to talk for mumbling pathetic Joe.
Omigoodness... that's how I deemed the one (and only) B.O. speech that invaded my hearing. Jerky! Stop/Start! (like my daughter's college roommate who drove me to the airport and must've partially braked 20 times in the half hour ride!)
From that first speech, his voice actually nauseated me... much like the aforementioned car ride.
because he IS very racist himself. His upbringing was very priviledged, elite, and I am convinced this causes him (even today) to look down upin and revlie those of his own race that are not his equals.. What is even kore disgusting is that he utterly despises many brilliant men I have come to appreciate and respect who are full black.. Thomas Sowell, the SCOTUS justice, and others. His unjustified glorification and defense of that Florida punk criminal who got himself killed when trying to kill George Zimmerman was the final decisive point for me. He even disparagingly referred to George as "white hispanic" Not racist? And the sun don't ever shine in Florida either.
Everyone has their own opinion, but to be fair, he did have a deepish voice which was nice and is attractive for a man.. Neither Trump or Biden do, nor did Clinton or Bush come to think of it.
Oh yes I get what you mean better with “resonant”. More about the timbre of his voice then.
And I wasn’t implying that you were influenced, sorry if it sounded that way! Just musing about how much things like that might unconsciously affect people’s perception.
It was all his affected "folkism" which grated on me the most. I hate being referred to as "the folks." Ugh. And the accents (one of the most refreshing things about Trump is he never presents himself as anyone he isn't - you won't find him donning some costume to go to the UFC fight and you won't hear him adopt a fake accent to fit in at a NASCAR race).
Yeah. I even went to his inauguration. But when he showed no inclination to actually fight for us, I quickly became disillusioned. He was just like the rest of them. Beholden to someone or something
I actually think it is much worse than just being fooled by a resonant, nicotine-stained voice.
People need to wrap their minds around the obvious fact that Ubu was and is a Trojan Horse, inserted in the American political system by the globalists that are still running it to destroy our culture and economy. (Remember "I'm a citizen of the world," and pastor "America's chickens coming home to roost"?) Who do you think desperately needs for us to fight two wars with other super powers, neither of which we have a chance of winning?
I think we now know his secret: he's gay and it's possible his wife is/was a dude. Speaking out of both sides of one's mouth is pretty common for closeted gays. See also: Graham, Lindsey.
I think it is far deeper than just being gay or bi or asexual or whatever. I think it is what Castellato above said..he was put in by the NWO globalists.
I do know that George Soros said at the end of his terms that he was disappointed.
I will assume that was said because he did not fully and completely accomplish what they
I I think that if you want to convince people that Obama was shallow, had bad policies was only interested in money, and was a bad president you may do so legitimately and perhaps convince people with a deep analysis of where Obama went wrong. However, if all you say about him is that he's gay and his wife is a dude you lose a lot of people including me. You have no proof of either and are doing exactly what we excoriate conservatives for doing , spreading lies and gossip I don't frankly care what their sexual orientations are or what deep Secrets they have. I am interested in what their policies were and how they LED this country astray. The other is just gossipy rumor-mongering and all we would do is convince the people that our side is as nutty as theirs
Actually there is good but suppressed evidence of his homosexuality, just like there is good but suppressed evidence that he was born in Kenya (look through my posts & check out papers when he was running for Senate that identified him as Kenyan born & his fake Hawaiian birth certificate that identifies him as black when the official term was Negro, long before black was a thing.
You can be offended by the truth, but don’t wear it as a badge of honor, it only makes you look stupid and petty.
Not even suppressed, re: his homosexuality, since in his latest biography, he wrote to a friend that he ...his words, not mine...fantasizes about making love to other men every day. As far as Kenya goes, he himself got that narrative going, by his 'about me' with his literary agency, in which---for 18 years, it was stated that he was born in Kenya. His biographer also candidly admits that 0bama's autobiographies are best read as fictional novels, with 0bama being a composite character. In any case, there is virtually NOTHING about his provenance and narrative that is not hidden in fog. His birthplace, his real father, his time spent in 'Pawkeestan', why he views the Muslim call to prayer as *the prettiest sound on earth*, how an alleged Columbia graduate with not even minimal honors somehow managed to pull off an uber-competitive seat at Harvard Law ( for reference Harvard Law requires a 3.8 or 3.9 GPA for applicants...0bama hadn't even met the GPA to earn cum laude honors, the lowest level of the honors tier)
In other words, a total fraud, charlatan, grifter in every which way, kinda like the Democrat POTUSs before and after him. But the MSM had all that information available to them (and I am sure that some actually looked at it) and they lied and covered for him in spite of that, because they were determined to have a Haf-rican American POTUS come out of the Dim ranks, not some accomplished full American black such as Ben Carson, or the entrepreneur whose name escapes me, be the first Black POTUS. We are being ruled in the shadows (and not so much in the shadows) by a cabal of leftist treasonous antiAmerican leftists who do the bidding of people like Soros and others deeper in the shadows -- Likely CIA types since 1963.
POTUS DJT in 2024, RFK as special assistant for dismantling the security state and the biopharmaceutical cabal and 3 letter agencies.
Kash Patel for something and it is too late for me to fill out his administration with my wish list.
Obama was the first homosexual Kenyon/Indonesian Muslim to be elected as president of the United States solely because he was black. It amazes me that people think a paid newspaper advertisement of a birth proves he was born in Hawaii. The grandparents probably just wanted to let everyone know their daughter gave birth. It was certainly the easiest way to let people know and to have a memento.
Actually, if you go by the statistical demographic information gathered by the government (from early childhood development centers)Obama would have been categorized as white since his birth mother was white. However, I consider him black or biracial. If one didn’t know his lineage they would think he was black by looking at him. He obviously self-identifies as black.
Although the birth certificate proffered to the press when he was illegally running for POTUS listed his race as black, something other than white (Caucasian?) or Negro the official categories at the time. The stupid naive bought off MSM press were too intoxicated by this cipher to investigate, or if they investigated, they covered it up. So, just like Ukraine who is ruled by a tyrant (Z's term expired last month), we were ruled by a tyrant for 8 years when he was illegally occupying the White House. Sheriff Arapaho raised all sorts of questions about his birth certificate (likely a forgery with computer forensics at the time. I don't know if this issue was brought up at the time.
If anyone brings this up now, you are automatically labeled racist (a label that has lost its sting from overuse), but it is as clear as anything that we have been ruled by a tyrant from 2009 through 2017 who then instituted an attack on the legitimate POTUS from the day he was inaugurated until after he left office, and has resumed when he started running for POTUS again.
We are being ruled by unindicted criminals running free.
The US is no longer a constitutional republic, but a tyranny.
I know Sage Steel got into trouble asking why he always referred to himself solely as "black" and not biracial given his parentage. She took alot of flack in asking the question. She, herself, has a black father and white mother.
No, thanks for the reference, but I have better things to do, and have already decided that he was an illegitimate POTUS, a tyrant (definition of a tyrant is illegitimate ruler, regardless of the character of his reign, but clearly his reign also fit the popular conception) and a traitor (see my nearby post).
Ha! Well, first I was half-joking. Second, we do have evidence. You may not like the evidence. You may not think it's enough, but it's there. The real question is: why dismiss the evidence? Reminds me a lot of how Lewinsky was dismissed as just a "vast right wing conspiracy" or Epstein was a "right winger's wet dream."
The point is: if someone is deceitful regarding something so central to who they are, then it calls into question everything about them, everything they say they are or say they believe. If they can lie about that, they can lie about anything. So, it is 100% germane to them as a leader. To live as someone you are not would be the very definition of "shallow" and deceitful.
FWIW, I don't personally care if he's gay. I was just answering the question as to 'why' he always seemed to be hiding something. Which BTW is also an entirely legit feeling to have and question to have of leadership. Transparency, authenticity, etc. matter.
It's not gossip-mongering, when he himself admits in a written letter to a friend, that he fantasizes about making love to other men, every day. His words, not mine. This coming from a *married* man, who apparently acquired a wife as a beard, at the *Reverend* Wright's down-low we'll-find-a-beard-for-you club. So his being gay is actually material to how he allowed the gay activists to elevate LGBQ into special rights* that were used as a wedge to deconstruct the churches' and public's guarantees of freedom of religious expression.
Agree. I contacted congress weekly in those days. From the Iraq war debacle. Faxed and watched votes closely. I sent letters to the editors and contributed to who I saw might be good candidates. I don’t believe it helped a tinkers d@mn now. I’m old. I’m over it. I will vote however.
I wrote him regularly too. He got elected to the Senate for being so anti-Iraq War which I agreed with but then once there he voted to fund it every single time!
Rising Star by David Garrow has probably the most accurate account of who Obama really is. He began writing the biography out of admiration until sources began speaking out. The book has been suppressed for year since it came out in 2019.
Lol, I knew that would trigger somebody. I don't want to hate just to hate. I like to be objective. I don't find her particularly charismatic or likeable, but atleast she has some semblance of a personality which isn't a facade, like her husband.
Could be. I don’t even think about him much any more. I threw out all my inauguration memorabilia although it was a very exciting event I’m glad I got to go to. It meant more to me then. Represented what I thought about my country back then. My thoughts have changed on that subject now, sadly.
Not so much hope and change after all, just another, a. Neocon tool, b. Another democrat chicken shit who wasted his congressional majority. The backlash against him nullified anything worthwhile he may have done or tried to do. The whole party though dreads bold action and constantly snatches defeat from the jaws of victory. Both parties are captured by their owners but put on little displays to convince us otherwise
I saw through him from the time I saw his first interview. He had a very sketchy past but checked all the boxes for the DemonRATS. He was a useful puppet being used by the globalists to destroy the USA while enriching himself and his leftist masters.
Jr. Senator of Illinois. He had a meteoric rise that reminds one of the Biblical description of the Anti-Christ.
As scripture says, there have been many antichrists going back as far as the time of the apostles. Every age seems to produce a prime one, waiting in the wings for Satan to possess when the time is right for the final drama.
I didn’t vote for him, but thought, maybe it would be good for blacks since he would focus on problems particular to blacks which may improve race relations. As we all know he did the opposite. He bonded with and supported Muslims, not black Americans. He divided us just like the Marxist playbook taught him. There are the liberal educated white & blacks vs America-loving citizens.
It got to the point where I refused to watch his arrogant swagger or hear his stilted voice. He hates America even though he’s gamed the system & enriched himself while doing his level best to destroy our freedom.
I’m not guilty about anything. Big fat brush you use here. I’m a convert. I see the hate from both sides now. You guys don’t have much to be proud of either.
So, you voted for Obama because you were a Democrat, at the time? If this is correct, I will wipe off the paint from my big fat brush. But, my statement still stands; WG is another psyop-tool used to divide and conquer and it's working pretty well.
I don't understand the comment "you don't have much to be proud of"?
I am politically marooned because I have seen what my former party has done and also the republicans duplicity and crimes. I doubt there is much I can do about it. I changed suddenly after a couple of eye opening events in my life and the realization that the democrats foster a system of child sacrifice and abuse, which trapped my grandchild. I will never forgive them. EVER. I cannot forgive the evil of the Iraq war and those republicans that fostered that war crime and murder of innocents either. We are being had by a uniparty. I don’t give a crap about Obama or trump. However, Biden is a fetid worm that is festering and infecting my country so I will do what’s necessary to keep him and his bag of twisted and stinking snakes away from my family. I’ll vote for Trump and then if he wins, we will see if he can do anything DESPITE the republicans I see around. We have to help him, though. I do realize there are good and ready to fight republicans also. I’m old. Like I probably won’t hear the next crop of cicadas in 17 years, will I see a renewed country by then? . Only God knows that. Take care, Jay. I’d go totally nuts if I didn’t have a place to talk.
We camped last week in the middle of billions of them singing and crawling and flying around. Dying. I found the natural process as kind of magical and fascinating. If only politics felt that way. LOL 😂
Speaking only for myself, I too am increasingly politically homeless as my eyes are opened to the nefarious and feckless conduct of the GOP. I was a pretty staunch supporter and believed in everything the party SAID it stood for. The blinders are gone. I see it now for what it is - a platform for those lucky enough to get elected to fleece the taxpayer and obtain and wield power. Sadly, the Democrats are much better at the game and the only thing preventing the Republicans from ascending (or descending depending on your point of view) to such debauchery is their incompetence. Now, I have to stick with the man who is a disruptor - for better or for worse.
You are right. We don’t have much to be proud of. I’ve never voted for and won’t vote for a Democrat. But, I’m also a convert. I hate the Republicans almost as much as the democrats. All either party cares about is greed and power. I say, welcome. We need more converts who love America 🤗
I didn’t take that as a direct comment from Jay to you specifically Janet, but more in general, that many white people seemed to want to vote for him to assuage their feelings of guilt for their “privilege.” Which I think was true for some people. Of course I could be mistaken as to the intention of the comment, but that is how I read it.
There is truth in that, runninglogic. If I thought about it harder, I’m sure I felt some. I did remember some MLK quotes at the time that were uplifting. I felt at the time that Obama was competent. I was also super ticked off about Bush and the Iraq war. I no doubt had a form of BDS. I feel more justified in that. He initiated a lot of destruction and I consider that war totally illegal and against mankind. Our soldiers deserved better. The Iraqis didn’t deserve it, but then again, war unleashes the whirlwinds. Cheers.
I understand those feelings. I wasn’t a huge fan of Bush and didn’t vote for him the first time mostly because I really really hate the idea of political dynasty families. I voted for him reluctantly the second time though. When I first heard about Obama I thought he sounded ok and might have a new and fresh approach (not that I considered voting for him because the Democrat platform was just too far away from my values and views) but when I actually listed to his speeches and debates, I really didn’t understand what all the hype was about. I thought he sounded trite and disingenuous. Especially his slogan, which I always laughingly say he stole from Bob the Builder 😆
It sounds to me like Obama took advantage of people’s desire to move beyond racism and abused their good faith, like Bush took advantage of the other side’s patriotism and abused our good faith 😕 Now that we have our eyes open hopefully we can avoid these kinds of grifters in the future.
Again, speaking only for myself, there are latecomers to BDS :).
I heard people explicitly state they voted for Obama as a sort of fig leaf offering to finally, FINALLY, put race behind us. Little did we know Obama was very serious about "transforming the country" to the race-obsessed and divided country it is today. It really breaks my heart.
When I hear him speak I hear a condescending tone. A friend told me his rhythm and hand movements are hypnotic 🤷🏻♀️and he mass hypnotized people into buying his persona.
He does not seem like a real person. Does anyone really know him well, like a friend?
Infact, the last interview before they left the WH was with Oprah. She was speaking to Michelle, and he happened to walk by and stopped to speak for a minute..but there was a sense of hate (?)in him, definitely not friendliness or warmth (which you would think he would have for such a supporter). It was wierd.
Or was it? We were *told* that he was warm, but was he?
I remember hearing that he didn't speak to people the way Bill Clinton did with staff. He didn't want conversations.
He used neurolinguistic programming...yes, basically hypnotizing susceptible listeners ( we are not all susceptible to hypnosis...I am not...whew! ). That is one of the reasons, I think, that so many of us were/are physically repelled by his voice and linguistic mannerisms. His manipulative tics are recognizable even on a subconscious level, leading to the physical disgust.
Yes! That’s what my friend said, he learned about in a college class. That’s why all the politicians, he said it started with Kennedy, use the hand gestures. He said once he saw Obama speak he just knew. I talk to a lot of different people all day long, so I have a pretty good BS meter.
Ever notice how so many public figures, when speechifying, use the gesture of touching the tip of the index finger to the tip of the thumb when *making a point* that they want you to remember, and usually followed by applause? It's a useless, inane gesture, unlike pointing or stabbing the air, which are instinctive to most people trying to make a genuine point, not an affect like the thumb/finger gesture that is a forced cover for dishonesty.
I recall my older sister feeling uneasy and telling me don’t look at him or listen to him speak. She was convinced he was the antichrist. Definitely something creepy and insincere and even evil about him.
It's interesting you say that your black friends were a factor, so were mine! One was from Zimbabwe and and one from Dominica, and they weren't fooled by Hussein. They did their best to warn their black friends.
But then again, we all attended an Assembly of God church back then that taught the Bible, and hung out Sunday after church to discuss ''EVERYTHING.''
It was a period in my life when I studied doctrines and comparative religion (including the rudiments of Buddism, Islam...) and more firmly developed my personal worldview for the first time, including working through a Bible Study by Del Tackett which helped me build my own personal worldview compass for things I'd never been focused on, including creation science, politics and government.
I also attended a talk with the Dali Lama in San Jose, CA, and I figured it out, you cannot logically believe that all religions lead to the same place... their doctrines are mutually exclusive. For instance, Buddhism denies the existence of a Creator.
What you believe about God determines everything about how you see the world! Even the Dalai Lama said, it would nice to believe in a Creator, but Buddhism believes matter is what is eternal, and basically that macroevolution ''created'' everything in the world. (Utter materialism...) IMO (from evidence and belief), ''NOT""! Then there's the whole reincarnation bit. Don't get me started.
I read through the Bible multiple times during those years. Highly recommend it! Now, my sister and I are reading it through together, out loud, taking turns. Makes a big difference in my life.
Back to BHO, I DID know (in 2012) that centralized government was a horror just instinctively. I definitely didn't want Big Brother into peoples' (and MY) private healthcare information and it being stored in their big database cloud...
AND I was SO against forced healthcare premiums and the ''personal mandate.'' Why should I subsidize abortions, and trans surgeries on my limited income? I didn't smoke or drink at that point, and didn't much relish paying for those who do! But that's just me. I recognized that healthcare would be used as another mechanism of control if possible.
[I truly DID believe that Hussein wasn't a citizen as defined in the Constitution either... but who knows? (Even Trump backed off on that track when it became a quagmire.)]
[In retrospect, with 20:20 hindsight, I don't like ANY of the candidates I voted for, but look at the choices we are given!]
In 2012, I was busy dealing with my only child being diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age 27. So, I was too tied up with practical matters to get into political activism on ANY level. Except to read, think and analyze. AND I squeezed in a few free courses online at Hillsdale College on The Constitution, and ''Progressivism.'' Which I highly recommend if they are still offering them.
When the plandemic hit, I was heavily invested in the idea of beneficiant healthcare and hospitals, due to all the time I have spent in them with my daughter, but I also have to say I was exposed to how much human error there is there in healthcare and hospitals.
Oh, wow, I am going on and on. I feel SO GRATEFUL for so many things that influenced me over the course of my life that allowed me to see through so much propaganda in 2020 and beyond.
More than enough said. (Sorry?) Thanks for ''listening.'' I love the C&C Army!
PS: Disclosure, I AM truly grateful for Medicare and Disability taking care of my daughter's expenses. Even though I don't use mine (since I won't go to a doctor or hospital...) and pay the premiums for the minimum... I think of it as paying it forward in that regard, as others did to supply what insurance she had on disability.
Thank you for your kind words. My precious daughter is with Jesus now. She passed into eternity May 1, 2021. I am doing okay now, but the first 2-1/2 years were the toughest.
So sorry, Anita, what an incomprehensible loss. Glad that you had your faith to get you through it. Del Tackett is excellent with the Christian worldview perspective. I try never to miss anything he puts out.
I voted for him in 2007. Regretted it before the end of that year and I know what you mean about that voice. He thinks he’s so smart. His comment about Robert Peters can just as easily be applied to himself.
I always thought as Obama opened his mouth flowers would ascend into the sky. Nothing made sense, nut somehow many never saw the flowers. They were really words of hate, anger, and division. I saw flowers so I could escape! Odd, but true. His words never matched his actions.
As he was campaigning, before being elected the first time, my wife and I were dumbstruck that it looked like the American public was going to elect a president who hates our country. And an even worse first lady, if that's possible. No sympathy for anyone who voted for him, they're getting what they deserve. Very sad for the rest.
Jeez, you and Kelly remind me of people who enthusiastically took the jab and belatedly woke up. The whole scam was obvious from the start. The idea ANY criticism of ANY vaccine was verboten for decades had already awakened any thinking person something was very rotten. Same with leftist dogma, it's ALWAYS about virtue signaling, and anti-freedom and destructive of all vestiges of human dignity. Equally obviously as vaccine lies. Seriously, what were you thinking? Not thinking, obviously. If that sounds harsh and uncalled for, I'm not sorry. Easily fooled people are why societies self-destruct. Ya'll sound downright proud to have been enthusiastic fans of the destroyers..
It's not about me. I'm 73, lucky to have lived in the good times. Although I'm pissed about the effect of the inflation on my retirement, which I've had to put off. It's about the loss of a decent life for those coming after my generation. Millions are able to see through the manipulators as it happens, I'm hardly alone. It's a bit late to be waking up. The damage is done. They've taken over every institution. The younger generations are brainwashed by the destructive dogma of their educators, cheered along by libs. They have all the money. So some have come to their senses now? Sure, better than never, we can probably agree on that. Is there a workable plan to take back the media, academia, science establishment, government, and NGOs? It's like not paying attention at the wheel, crashing and killing your family, and then saying "Wow, I'll never do that again!".
I am similarly lucky and comfortably retired, but supporting my adult kids to a large degree. There are so many comments I can't find yours that seemed dismissive and prompted me to be dismissive back. I think you implied I was an idiot to vote for Obama and you knew better from the get-go. I was not so political back then, just loathed Bush and the ME war. Anyway, I'm moving onto the next part of my day. Have a good one.
I loathed Bush and the ME war too. Still, an easy call not to vote for a man who made it clear he hates America and loved talking about "fundamentally transforming" it. Good luck with the kiddos, sounds like a challenge.
Are you another who voted for the destruction we're living with now? And proud to have finally seen the light? You should be deeply ashamed. Seeing truth should be easy, it's nothing to be "whoopying" about. Millions are able, I'm not special. It's been in your face all along. Problem is, there are far more who are suckers for propaganda. We all pay the price. Waking up after you've destroyed everything? So what? It's too late, almost for sure. Even if things turn around, immense damage has been done already, because of virtue-signalling Obama/Biden voters and covidiots.
As one who *never* voted for Obama, I think this is the wrong way to react to people who have changed their thinking. What good does it do to excoriate them for past mistakes and for you to assert your superiority for not having been duped as they had? Can they go back and change how they voted or how they thought? No they can’t. They’ve recognized that they were wrong then and are doing things differently now. I guess I just don’t see what purpose it serves to continually scold and berate people. I get that you are angry with them for being fooled but isn’t there a better approach? I don’t understand what you are trying to accomplish ? Or are you just venting?
Venting. I'm not supposed to be pissed that everything has been ruined by gullible, clueless virtue-signalers? Not only that, as they voted for and cheered on the ruinous policies, they thought they were better than anyone who disagreed? I'll never forgive. Immense damage has been done, and it's NOT OK. I'm no genius, the truth about over-the-top liberalism (as opposed to sane, classical liberalism) and the medical system has been obvious to millions for decades. You don't have to be smart, just not really stupid and easily led, by the very worst people one could possibly choose to follow. There are no excuses for those past mistakes, and they've ruined Western civilization, irrevocably.
You're right, they can't go back. You also may be right that it serves no constructive purpose to call a spade a spade. Doesn't change my feelings. Those of us they vilified tried to see truth, and be constructive while they destroyed. I'm not trying to accomplish anything, except maybe prompt some self-reflection, which I don't really expect. What do you think there is to accomplish? The damage is done. We're past the point of no return. I'm not so smug as to think I couldn't be wrong about that though, and hope to God I am. Not for me, I won the lottery living in the USA when I did. The younger ones are the losers.
If you haven't seen it, I think you'd enjoy the Tucker Carlson interview with Aaron Rodgers. They feel as you do on this topic, and it's a great interview. You, and they, may be right. I see it differently, is all.
Oh you have every right to be pissed. I understand your feelings of anger and resentment, and they’re justified. No, I certainly don’t think any of it was “OK” and I daresay the people you’ve castigated here also don’t think it was OK. I certainly was on the receiving end of the vilification myself and it isn’t easy to forgive or forget that. But when someone genuinely expresses sincere contrition for their past actions, and furthermore is willing to help work to repair the problems, I don’t see the point in pushing them away. Take the olive branch. I guess I just think it doesn’t solve anything to continually rip people apart for past mistakes when they clearly have changed their ways and are even mortified at their role in what our country has become. You want self-reflection from
them—okay. It sounds to me from the comments I’ve read that they already have reflected. Do you want them to prostrate themselves and beg our forgiveness? Wear a hair shirt and perform self-flagellation? I personally think it would be more productive and useful if they help campaign, persuade others to change their minds, give money and support to conservative candidates, stand up to the leftist bullies, and things like that. Those of us who saw through the charade are perhaps not completely blameless either. Maybe we should’ve pushed back harder, maybe we should have done more. Regardless, what’s done is done now, and we can only move forward from here.
I guess I also don’t really understand the defeatist attitude that all is now lost. What is the point of that? Are you just going to throw up your hands and say it’s over, give up? I am not ready to give up. I also am not willing to waste my energy on unproductive rage when there are things to be done. And I don’t see the purpose of pushing people away who want to be on our side and help turn the ship. How is that helpful to anything? I will keep fighting to turn things around as long as I am still living and breathing and not give up because we face challenges and I know it won’t be an easy road. I don’t see any other choice, frankly.
I agree with everything you just wrote. People who think like you give the rest of us hope. A couple of things come to mind on our different take on this.
People are different. Sometimes you read about parents whose child has been murdered, who "forgive" the perp. I can't identify with that, at all. Doesn't make me right, them right, we're just different. One of us probably IS right, but I'm not qualified to know which one. I'd ALWAYS want the bastard tortured to death. Maybe I'm bad?? OTOH, I really try to be nice to people, unless they've hurt me, or mine.
Second, at 73 I'm less involved with the battles of the future. I see mostly the horror of what they've done, not so much their utility in the future. I care about the future of course, but less so than if I'd be here suffering through whatever awaits.
Also, if I were younger, I'd be hanging on to the hope we can fix the USA. What choice would I have? You gotta fight like hell. I have a less clouded view. Europe is surely toast for many reasons, a flood of immigrants who can't be assimilated is a big reason. Because our immigrants have been mostly Latino, we're luckier there. We DO still have some hope. But not much, for reasons too lengthy to get into here. So my take tends to be - "People like you have destroyed the country, even Western civilization. Now you're sorry? Are you joking? " I really don't care to hear it. It doesn't matter now.
Another thing, they can't be trusted. They were easily fooled before, remember? What's the best predictor of future performance?
I understand your rage and your sorrow. Your explanation of your feelings makes sense to me. I guess it’s just that, I feel like we need all hands on deck and if people are ready to help us fight, regardless of their position before, we should let them. Maybe it will also help them feel as if they are redeeming themselves a little if they can work on fixing things. They may even be able to give us insights into how best to help more people see through the lies of the authoritarians and have helpful ideas on what kinds of strategies might work best against them, having been on “the other side”. I mainly feel like, I am not just going to step aside and LET the destroyers win!! If nothing else, I sure as hell don’t want to make it easy for them!
True to your handle, again. I'm not changing my mind on any of it. But I'm sure your approach is better. More charitable and practical, without a doubt. Funny how that can work.
I had the pleasure of having to listen to him incessantly because I’m on the South Side of Chicago 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ sooo many friends and family thinking he was Gods gift. I met him because I was in local government and a friend had a fund raiser…shaking his hand just felt wrong 🤮. My sister knew someone that had a gay interaction with him, he truly wasn’t/isn’t what people think he is.
You know that feeling in the pit of your stomach when something isn’t quite right? I got that early in his campaign when he spoke. I couldn’t even listen to him at all.
I honestly do not get how anyone could have voted for Obama. As a former Illinoisian, why in the h*ll would anyone TRUST a politician from Illinois?!? It is one of the most corrupt states in the union. At least half of our governors (and many politicians) have gone to JAIL.
Don’t even start to think Pritzger would be a good president. He’s tax happy and has driven people from the state in droves. Like me.
Remember when liberals actually believed in free speech and speaking truth to power?
Makes you wonder if it was all talk...
“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop”
“ ‘Liberals’ are just democRATS turned sideways, so you can’t see the absence of humanity in their eyes.”
The only reason they called themselves by ‘other’ than democrat is to hide from the absolute rot of the Rat party.
The assassination of Lincoln, the conception and funding of Jim Crow Laws, then the KKK. The voting against freeing of the slaves, against allowing women and blacks to vote. The assassination of JFK, Robert Kennedy Jr and MLK, their push for abortion and any kind of deviant behavior. Their new KKK as exhibited in Antifa and blm.
Liberals are for all of that, but ashamed that it has been made public, so they hid behind a new label. Our nation is rotted from the head down…..so much so that we now actually have a rotted head as Resident.
I agree. Being slow to change is a good thing. Slow change is less disruptive and more durable than quick revolutionary style change. Plus you can change course more easily if things start to go awry.
I could be but Iraq and the bush years need to be answered for. All the repubs I knew personally were extremely bloodthirsty then. And the criminals are still walking around so that side isn’t much to brag about either. Oh, right. History begins the minute one side gets into office. I’m old. Over this crap.
That’s why I said conservative… the Republicans are part of the uni - party. You’ve seen the video of Clinton Bush Obama all pushing the vax??? Which Trump does too so don’t get me started on the ego side of him.
The only reason we are where we are is that people have ceased to live Christian ways. We are not rotting from the top down…we, the people have stopped sacrificing to live a better way. Greed, lying, theft, jealousy, and selfishness have replaced the Christian value system this country was founded upon. The people voted in leadership that is nihilistic ignoring accountability and it is time that Americans see their responsibility in what is happening. The corruption has been building up since at least the 1990s.
Can you recommend any books on this? Having read about a million books on ww2 at this point, it's very disconcerting living in the US these days. I feel like we're watching nazi Germany start all over again.
Ah! Here you are. In case I responded to the wrong Jen, there are two books that make the strong case that it is liberalism, not conservatism, that morphs into fascism. One is Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg and the other is a book I can not recall either the author or title, but it was recommended by Toby Rodgers several years ago in one of his early Substacks. And there is also just the history of how fascism arose out of the liberal Weimar Republic, not to mention how it has also happened to American liberals/Democrats.
Check out In Order to Live by Yoemni Park. She goes into how North Korea wound up with a tyrannical government and her early life and her defection. It's a hard read but eye opening. She has another book out too While Time Remains. She is our canary in the coal mine warning us as she sees in the US what happened in NK in her grandmother's generation.
I read it before all the Covid crap started and was also reading WW2 historical fiction.
After reading Yoemni's books I could see what was happening here.
It was all talk. It was always phony. Free speech for me, not for thee. It's "their democracy" after all. In their minds, our rights only apply to them. Because in their minds, our rights are government-given, not God-given. So, if you "attack" the gov't as conservatives do, then your rights are rescinded.
The way they see it is: the "right wing conservatives" want to "destroy our democracy," and so in their minds have given up their rights as citizens, much like convicted criminals do. There are too many examples to count.
The only time they ever stood up for anyone's rights was when it was politically expedient for them to do so: see example below of ACLU/KKK. It was basically the left being okay with their own dark side, standing up for their own Frankenstein monster. No different than them today standing up for antifa.
I can't think of one other instance where they stood FOR 1A instead of against it, unless it was for their own people. Abortion protestors? Nope. 2A advocates? Nope. Prayer in schools? Nope. Sometimes they just outright attacked all artistic free speech: e.g., Tipper Gore.
Really, I can't think of one instance where they were genuinely for 1A and not just for more of their own pro-gov't, pro-technocrat, anti-Christian (Islam, satanism, paganism, furryism...it's all good so long as it isn't Christian) speech.
Most liberals seem like useful idiots to the leftist narrative. And the ones that are not are too cowardly to disagree publicly. They live their lives through immature, narcissistic emotion, like “follow your heart” - never learning that the heart can deceive.
Agreed, they are useful idiots. The whole "but it will hurt someone's feelings" is no way to govern, yet they try. They get used for leftist means b/c they can't distance themselves from their own feelings.
That said, Liberalism itself seems to me to be untenable. Very unstable as a philosophical point of view. Like trying to forever sit on a fence (as in: "sure, they rape kids and sew up little girls for marriage, but that's their right, since all cultures are equal" isn't exactly compatible with the idea that all humans have rights.) I'm still waiting for someone with a philosophical bent to explain how liberalism will not always devolve into leftism. It seems to usually do so.
Either that, or it evolves into conservatism, realizing you can't govern based on feelings and identity groups, some ideas (and thus cultures) are better than others, some traditions (and thus religions) are better than others, every country needs its own boundaries (real and ideological), government needs to stay out of the way of flourishing, etc.
I would argue that the tension between old school liberalism and conservatism, that friction, creates progress. Progressives are not old school liberals. Os Guiness said "Contrast is the mother of clarity"
I think libs believing in free speech was genuine - recall the ACLU defending the KKKs right to march, for instance - but it began eroding many decades ago and they are now open advocates of censorship.
That is not true. The ACLU defended the braindead throwback neonazis who wanted to march in Skokie, a community of Holocaust survivors, no doubt to get off on the trauma and fear, but they defended them due to the First Amendment, which used to be sacred. It used to be that an American citizen subordinated their wishes and desires and prejudices and politics and religion to this principle, which was taught in schools. We old school liberals would say "You've got to let the Nazis march in Skokie" rather than trying to deplatform or cancel or extinguish speech. That education and that training in critical thinking and against getting sucked into a cult allows me to think for myself even in the presence of intense social pressure to conform.
I sit corrected and regret my erroneous use of the word 'just.' I try to be more accurate in my typing. Thank you for the correction. The ACLU may have had other reasons for defending their own.
Free speech does not support corruption!!!! Free speech is meant to support freedom…get a clue J-O! Free speech is totally tied to the philosophical principles of freedom, liberty, and the Constitution! Do you ever read the Declaration of Independence on occasion? 🤦🏼♀️
Before being a jerk for no reason, maybe you could realize I said nothing of the sort. I was simply giving a standard definition used by many people, which doesn't have anything to do with your ramblings. Good grief
Oh the healthcare was a big part too, I had forgotten that. And gay marriage, that was right before that time. Add the comment about social media/smartphones and women's compassionate nature was pushed way left. Very obvious and sad, in retrospect..
Marriage: It wasn't only marriage that took a hit after the Obergefell decision in '2015.' This decision awakened me to the means by which the enemy took over our country and how deep the control extended. This case showed me clearly that our system of government does not work the way I was taught. It shattered any illusions of 'democracy' I may have maintained.
5 people out of some 350 million determined that 'we' the people are NOT allowed to make our own rules.
What did I sense 10 years ago? A sense of the way God had disappeared from being pervasive in our culture. I remember saying this to someone..a real spiritual sense of
atheism in the air all of a sudden.
Before gay marriage was codified, I recall online, how much of the gay community was whining about religion and Christianity accepting their lifestyle. etc..in other words, religion still mattered overall in this culture, until it didn't.
Wow! Graphs like this really hit home. Interestingly, it was around 2012 or somewhat before that I started my journey away from the left, initially because of my bitter disappointment with Obama and a rising awareness of how I was being manipulated by a uniparty, and by 2016 had already lost at least one friend and created tension with family members over my political apostasy. I guess following my lifelong tendency to swim against the current, it's my husband who continues the leftist trajectory while my line probably looks more like that of Korean men.😂
Two of my sons, who worked three part time jobs during the Obama administration, and had no health insurance, because part time jobs don't offer it, lost their tax returns every year, hundreds of dollars, to Obama's IRS, because they couldn't afford to buy their own health insurance policy. I loath that son-of-a-kansas-bitch.
it really is like a biblical awakening, coming out from under a satanic trance. The more truthful we become to ourselves, the more easily we see the deceit in others and the scams of the world mind. I still get a rigor jolt when I remember how duped and deceitful that I have been. The mass formation psychosis we've been hearing about is 'the deceived' all working together to try to protect their sham...a self delusional mind is powerful. 'The Truth Shall Set You Free' is such a simple concept that it easily trips the arrogant narcissistic intellects, who are forever blocked from God and truth.
Same with me Kelli. I actually campaigned locally for Obama because i liked his charisma. He was an excellent orator that made many young people believe we would create a better world and move beyond racism. I guarantee most of us back then didn’t do a deep dive into the effects of his actual politics until it was too late. It was all hope, smoke, and mirrors.
Dennis Bernstein of KPFA, which might be considered liberal kool-aid on this substack, cried in the wilderness about the Pritzgers being behind Obama. Pritzgers on the Harvard corporation board, Pritzgers (including trans Jennifer in a dress) make buku bucks off trans surgeries, like the Sacklers with opioids. I totally fell for Obama too. The agenda in sheep's clothing was pretty persuasive, and those who haven't been red-pilled, still are in that metanarrative, which rides atop what is really going on like whipped cream on a poison parfait.
Being from Illinois I was skeptical. He double-crossed a local politician to take her seat, they put his name on Illinois bills he had nothing to do with to burnish his credentials to run for Senate. Shady real estate deal with Rezko, dead gay men from his church, opponent’s divorce records mysteriously released, etc. He claimed to be against the Iraq War and had a “famous” speech about it but then in Congress voted to fund it every time. So by the time he ran for Prez his fakeness was too much in evidence.
Could it be that women ran to Obama after years of watching STUPID George W. Bush and his ilk talking like idiots and constantly fear-mongering about terrorists around every corner for 8 years?
I was taken in by Obama's smooth speaking abilities. He sounded smart, particularly after 8 years of dumb. He lost me right after he was elected, though, when he failed to close Guantanamo as he promised to do. Then I watched in horror as he hugely expanded the war state over the next 8 years. We got more disease scares. Hilary's email scandal (followed by her accusing TRUMP of the things she herself was guilty of).
I worked in Silicone Valley at the time. I had always voted dem. I could not bring myself to vote for Hillary, even tho I would have loved to have a woman president, just not her. The thought of voting for Obama..... my inner voice told me not too. There was something that my subconscious said was not trustworthy. He was a Harvard educated lawyer working as a community activist, being paid by the government. WTH? One term senator and now running for president? He has to be in someone's pocket. Do not trust him.
I had lots of co-workers who were POC. They would ask me if I was going to vote for Obama when he was the nominee. When I said no, they would ask me if I was racist. The first few times I was asked that, I was shocked. I started to turn the question around and ask them if they though I was racist? Have I ever said or done anything that would make them think I was a racist? That got them quiet. I would then ask them if I could have valid reasons other than race for not wanting a vote for a candidate? Voting for a person for race alone is not a good enough reason to vote for a person. Would you vote for Castro just because he was brown? That usually got the point across.
Wish the choices for a Executive Office offered more than mouldy bread sticks.
No President should be above the law, but as we continue to witness on both sides of the isle, getting political egomaniacs (psychopath/sociopaths) adhering to and obeying laws is like keeping kids out of the cookie jar.
Ralph Nader just wrote:
“No One Is Above the Law” – Really Mr. Biden?
"At least five long-standing federal laws explicitly condition the shipment of weapons to foreign countries. It is legally impermissible for the U.S. government to provide weapons to countries that violate human rights or use these weapons offensively. Day after day, Joe Biden has become a co-belligerent with Netanyahu’s genocidal war crimes and mass slaughter of innocent children, women and men. He has violated all five of these federal laws. (See my February 16, 2024 column: Biden & Blinken – Rule of Illegal Power Over Rule of Law).
As the military, diplomatic and political enabler of the Israeli government’s siege, with the unconditional shipment of weapons of mass destruction, along with civilian bombardment and starvation of defenseless Palestinians in Gaza, Biden is violating the UN Charter and other treaties that past Administrations have signed and that have been ratified by the U.S. Senate. Biden and other presidents act like they are above these and other laws.
One president after another has spent monies not appropriated by Congress, has defied subpoenas issued by Congress, launched wars undeclared by Congress, sent deadly weapons to nations that obstruct the delivery of U.S. humanitarian aid, and that do not protect civilian populations under foreign military rule. All violations of federal law.
Donald Trump in 2019 brazenly stated the lawlessness in one sentence: “ I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as President.” Trump got away with defying over 125 Congressional subpoenas, and with violating the criminal statute known as the Hatch Act by using the White House and other federal property to promote his re-election campaign."
If running Trump's "Truth Social" is any way to run a business, I hope that template isn't utilized to run the Country.
To bolster its depleted cash account, Truth Media borrowed $8 million from a Russian-American businessman named Anton Postolnikov, whose uncle has been in the administration of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
According to reporting done by The Guardian, Postolnikov lent Trump the money through his ES Family Trust, which had its bank accounts at something called Paxum Bank, owned by Postolnikov and located on the Caribbean island of Dominica (which is popular among Russian oligarchs for evading sanctions).
Presumably, if Donald Trump were worth the many billions that he claims to have, he would not have needed to save his failing social media company with $8 million in loans from a Caribbean off-shore bank that largely services the porn industry, specifically payments made for what the redtube trade calls “camming,” a live, online peep show.
While Truth Social was camming its $8 million in Russian flight capital, other Trump loyalists were coming to his financial rescue by raising $300 million in a special purpose acquisition corporation (or SPAC) called Digital World Acquisition Corporation.
By law, SPACs are publicly-listed vehicles (often on Nasdaq) that first raise a pile of money and then go in search of companies or ventures to buy. The governance regulations on SPACs are lighter than an IPO, and the new company immediately has a public listing.
While the law requires SPACs to raise money without an acquisition target in mind, it is common knowledge on Wall Street that SPACs often do exactly that.
In this case, no sooner had Digital World pulled down $300 million, much of it raised from influence peddlers in the Trump orbit, than it announced in October 2021—surprise, surprise—that it would be merging with Trump’s very own Truth Social.
That later coziness cost Digital World an $18 million Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC, which oversees share markets) fine in 2023, as per the 10-K, which reads:"
Conclusion: As per usual, once again going to be difficult to pick an honest law abiding politician into the President's job.
One more time: it is not a question of whether NIH employees be ethically allowed to obtain royalties. That question merely obfuscates the real issue: the United States Constitution grants no power to the federal government over health and health issues. The entire Department of Health and Human Services and all its subagencies like the NIH are unconstitutional. They have clearly acted with ineptitude, malfeasance and corruption. They need to be defunded and abolished with the power given back to the respective states and the people.
Amen! Jeff's statement "We need uncorrupted public officials who would never dream of trading on their offices for private enrichment..." is wrong! All public officials are corruptible.
I agree with Jeff, the problem for me is, who doesn’t think politicians are disgusting, along with politics itself? Any sane person who is good of heart wouldn’t dare step into that dirty work, which is so sad because we desperately need good people in politics.
It’s really both. Initially our government was truly run by the people. Those holding office were the farmer, the shop keeper, the blacksmith etc and they were doing it for the right reasons. They had their trades/jobs and the office they held was for the hood of all; it was never supposed to become a career. Their livelihood wasn’t supposed to depend on holding office and trying to never let it go.
Govt grew too big and too corrupt at once. The bigger it gets the harder it is to keep it under control, the checks and balances fail, corruption grows, etc. We need both smaller govt AND good people in office, those who know they answer to a higher power and don’t want to go against Him so they try to do what’s right. Smaller govt is easier for the people to be involved in and to watch over.
The first thing Trump needs to do if he’s elected is shrink the federal government, drastically. We don’t need half of what we’ve got currently, but we need the ones that are essential to be efficient and productive.
would be great to watch - he also need to do away with the other DOE - Dept. of Energy - the states are certainly able to take care of whatever it is that they do and don't get me started on the EPA
The constition also grants no power to these unelected 3-letter agencies but because they are on the TV, people follow their "orders." They were all created to do what the US gov legally can't do. These agencies do have power though, more than the government. They won't even answer to congress and are not held accountable for crimes. Follow the money and start with the Federal Reserve private bank.
We elect noone. The money does. Who rescued Trump from financial ruin years ago?
I hate to be black pilled but reality bites.
Jesus is the only way and truth.
James 5
5 Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.[a] 6 You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.
7 Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. 8 You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near.
Agreed that this should be first. The impact of eliminating the DOE will take generations. It will probably be easier to accomplish though as their power to prevent it is limited.
New law needs to be that royalties are illegal. Full.stop. Who cares about a law regarding transparency? They’ll just get proton email accounts and burner phones.
The end of the matter, all that has been heard: fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the end of the matter for all mankind. For God will bring every work to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil. — Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 LSB
9 And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yes, he pondered and sought out and set in order many proverbs. 10 The Preacher sought to find acceptable words; and what was written was upright—words of truth. 11 The words of the wise are like goads, and the words of scholars are like well-driven nails, given by one Shepherd.
many many 'witches' were herbal healers who stood in the way of catholic priest dominated 'medicine'. so long as those women were actually healing people, there was no call for the utterly barbaric practices of the new 'doctors'
RC is just Pharisees rebranded. Peter was NEVER part of them!! Jesus was crucified to ABOLISH the LEGALISM that still exists in all other religious forms because men love to slavery more that sacrifice.
the congressman are errand boys for their billionaire overlords. The Billionaires run "Mystery Babylon," which is the entity that is building it's power and setting the stage for the rise of the Antichrist. The tribulation could begin if the land of Israel is divided this September on the Jewish new year in the UN's attempt to take over world governance. Stay tuned- there's another eclipse that night...
Pharmakeia... which will deceive even the elect.... It sure does.
Remember when drug stores were called pharmacies?
This day will come.
Revelation 18:23 and the light of a lamp will not shine in you any longer; and the voice of the bridegroom and bride will not be heard in you any longer; for your merchants were the great men of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery. (sorcery is pharmakeia in Greek)
We just bought our first one on Saturday too. Crazy as it sounds, I always wanted to maintain the illusion of being neutral in case things descend into absolute chaos and we needed to hide people.
I prefer and donated previously to DeSantis however anything to get rid of the nation destroying Democrats. It was my first time donating to Trump's campaign.
Commies are experts at gaslighting the public with accusations thrown at their competitors which define what they’re doing. This is a perfect example. THEY are the enemies of democracy and domestic terrorists. The brainwashed can’t see it… yet. It has to get really, really bad in this country before they will snap out of the trance. The Trump conviction woke up a few more. Next will be the ‘knowing’ that we’re in the midst of WW III. It’s started with the elites’ declaration that their weapons can be used within Russia’s borders last week. History will show that last week was the start. If not then, some time really soon. Thank you God that Putin doesn’t have an itchy finger on his red button.
Dr. Malone's sub stack today was on WHO treaty passing late Saturday night and the elites gleefully celebrating that they passed a treaty that has no standing.
Meryl Nass said the treaty failed, but meaningless amendments did pass. She further said we should be celebrating, as did Bret Weinstein on his podcast.
I cannot respond affirmatively or negatively about the situation since I have no basis on which to respond. I saw that prior treaties had been delayed due to a need for amendments, but I suppose the elites probably feel that now that amendments are in place they can move to the next step. These world organizations are simply rife with and ripe for corruption.
Meryl Nass did say that while we should be celebrating this victory that also means we're not done. Goliath will learn from how we won this time and figure out some other way to get their global one world gov't. treaty. But Goliath is dumb and big. It can't move quickly and it isn't nimble on its feet. We are more like David and know how to adapt to Goliath's moves. Nass said that yes, of course, the treaty will come back for consideration and that we'll have to keep fighting, but we're smarter. All the smart people got kicked off Goliath's team when the covid thing started 4 years ago. And they need all the rest of us to push for victory. Come to think of it, we've been fighting Goliath for centuries. Only the issues change and we won't win if we don't fight. I'm hopeful.
Putin did however, last week use his harshest tone/words of the conflict yet, eluding to the fact that many EU countries are small with dense populations and they should think twice before using weapons against Russia (he stated that everyone knows its Western troops who are actually pushing the buttons on the high tech weaponry - not Ukrainians).
YES! Although I sense caution or residual naïveté in some of his comments. Not criticizing, just saying. Combined with Russel Brand’s recent interview with David Martin, my mind is reeling. (Find on Rumble platform, maybe Locals.)
It actually started a long time ago. The kinetic portion has been somewhat restrained. The kinetic phase has been estimated to account for a million lives lost so far. I regret I don’t have a citation. Kinetic phase: Ukraine, Iran & proxies et al, Yemen, Syria, initial stages with CCP, Niger…I know I have missed something.
Being labeled a Domestic Terrorist gives the government more power under the Patriot Act. They can imprison you indefinitely. Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Diane Feinstein tried to get this changed in 2012, but failed.
If Canada, Australia, UK or New Zealand labels you a terrorist group, they can spy on you outside of the U.S. laws and send that information back to the US government. That's the 5 Eyes.
That's why the term Domestic Terrorist is thrown around so freely recently and why so many were quick to label J-6ers terrorists.
It's because groups like ISIS (only attacks US foes) and Hamas are used by the West for pysop purposes. You do know that Hamas was literally created by Isreal?
Islam is not a psyop. The 7th century ideology of Islam is what's behind the satanic barbarism of Hamas and continues to fuel its hatred of not only Israel, but America. No matter what the ill-informed "pro Palestine" protesters think, all non-Muslims are infidels in the eyes of Hamas and the other Iranian proxies. The goal of Islam is domination of all western nations. Making this all about Israel is simplistic and overlooks the basic tenets of Islam.
Iran's Ayatollah sent a love letter to the students in the encampments telling them to study the Koran and thanking them for their resistance. The Ayatollah!
Worse yet, nobody from RFK contacted Moms 4 Liberty to learn the truth about what the group does & fights for. Just like they label him anti-vaxer .. he believed the label they put on us .. totally wipes him out as any kind of leader
Wow. This is really important to know. I’ve always couched my opinion of RFKj in the fact that he listened to moms of vax injured kids when it wasn’t cool to do so (not that it is “cool” now). If he is now unwilling to engage with concerned moms, there goes his last semblance of leadership credibility. (Not an RFKj supporter anyhow but shocked at how many Christians and conservatives are, despite his liberal stances on everything but medical freedom.)
I question whether RFKjr is actually for medical freedom based on this interview from 2019. Perhaps he's changed his stance and if so, I would be delighted to hear about it. He is actually for mandating vaccines if they are shown to be more helpful than harmful: "I don’t think we should be MANDATING MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS for unwilling Americans UNLESS we know precisely that that vaccine is going to end up helping them rather than hurting them." RFK Jr. Oct. 21, 2019
We had a meeting scheduled to meet with him & his people .. a few weeks later they learned the DOJ had labeled us terrorists & he totally blew us off 🤬🤬. So much for his wanting truth to power .. he’s just like the rest of them
I hear you, but are we really a "Republic" if the people we elect don't actually do what we voted for them to do? [Crenshaw, Graham, McConnell, Johnson, etc.] There has to be a new realistic term used so people understand how much of the "representative Republic" is no longer "representative". Our constitution is treated by too many on our side as a set of suggestions, no different than big Blue cities' DA's when they decide to not enforce the law. We have to stop pretending that our "representatives" are "representing" constitutionalism.
Levin covered the constitution, our constitution…. very well in his podcast yesterday… 17 minutes… if only the propagandized msm influenced public school (un)educated….could, would hear his explanations of its importance to our republic https://youtu.be/XujKpQ_kZfI?si=jSoeFIpIgo3pOCbA
Yes! He also detailed this blatant MOCKERY of our Constitution on his show last night. I know I am preaching to the choir here, but The American people need to WAKE up.
I think our side has to get better at using analogies to defend/highlight a point when it comes to the constitution. Most people can't even name the three branches of government. Instead we should use what people know. Contracts for cell phones, contracts for cars, mortgages, etc. Then tell people what the Left is trying to do is change the contract midnight. "Imagine if you signed up for T-mobile to get a free phone and you just have to stay on the plan for 2 years and you own the phone." "Now imagine if halfway through T-Mobile says you have to pay $400 more because they need more money". You ask them , "How would that make you feel? Is that right?" If they are honest they would say no. This type of example could be used to highlight the lying done by people to get elected. The lying by where they send money ($80 billion for Ukraine), etc. The term "contract law" is boring to most, but without the law meaning what it says, then nothing is safe. Start with using consumer related analogies consistently and then over time we get use more "constitutional " terms.
His primary loyalty is to Israel. If he really was America first he would not be pushing to send our tax dollars to any foreign country, let alone corrupt genocidal ones.
We do vote democratically to elect our representatives, that is, the majority vote puts a candidate into office. But the true operation of our federal government is as a Republic of States.
The several States no longer operate as sovereign entities but rather are completely subservient to the Fed Gov't. They no longer even have representation in the Congress because the Senators are now elected by "majority vote" rather than being appointed by the State legislatures.
I'm sympathetic but the reality is that the Republic ended in 1865 when the US govt prevailed to prevent the people of the southern states from voting to elect their representative governments.
Well, there are states now who are working to get around the whole Electoral College thing, trying to get their own states' electorals to be assigned to whichever candidate wins the majority of the popular vote. That is moving things to eliminate small "r" republican voting, which in essence builds towards mob, errr, 'democratic' rule.
Heck, we can't even get people to wake up to the plain fact that fascism belongs right next to communism on the political scale. The far left side. So conservatives have bigger issues to address. Yes, if kids actually learned and remembered civics, they wouldn't use 'democracy' in the way they do now when talking about electing a president. But the 'ball' is moving towards that goal line even now.
"The totalitarian/authoritarian side" is more descriptive. "Left" and "right" really have no inherent meaning regarding government, and the terms are often more confusing or obfuscatory than helpful. The spectrum is from no government to total control by government, a scale of governmental power.
This hair splitting is beside the point, the bottom line is do the elected put the interests of the citizens of the Untied States first? The answer is they obviously don't, either out of raw power, naked greed, or fear.
Arguing about semantics we learned in grade school civics is pointless. We aren't a democracy, we aren't a republic, and we certainly aren't constitutional. The Constitution is a piece of paper that means nothing unless people believe in it. We are way past that as the people with state-sanctioned power obviously don't believe in it. When that FBI agent shows up at your door with a gun drawn because you criticized your local school board's homosexual propaganda, try holding up the Constitution as a shield. See how that works out.
I know this sounds blunt but people really need to understand what time it is. We are in the midst of a Bolshevik revolution driven by raw aggression. Those leading it care nothing about the Constitution, and we need to stop pretending like they do. If we are arguing over technical definitions in their propaganda then we are losing, and moreover it shows weakness. They don't care whether people call our system a democracy or a republic, all they care about is how they can use the words as part of their propaganda to advance their agenda.
When people engage in bad-faith lies (as the left and Never Trump does routinely) the answer is not to take them seriously and politely refer to a dictionary definition. They now control the dictionary, they simply change the definition. The answer is to call them out as liars from the pit of Hell, and to expose that they are evil. Acting as if they are reasonable people who are naively mistaken regarding some words meaning is both foolish and a waste of time.
Apologies for the rant, but acting as if there's any difference between "democracy" and "republic" in the midst of a Marxist revolution is a counterproductive distraction.
Speaking of definitions.....people throw around "Marxist" and "Communist" all of the time, but I don't think they have a clear understanding of what those words actually mean. Marxism is the people having control of the modes of production. I do not see any such "revolution" taking place here. It is the continuation/strengthening of fascism - the merger of government and corporate power/control.
I agree fascism is the more correct term to describe the political/economic system in place when governments and giant corporations conspire. I'm referring more to the tactics being used where dissenting voices are bullied, punished, beaten up, jailed, debanked, etc. by an army of hoods coordinated by those pulling the strings. IMO Bolshevism is the most accurate historical analogy.
But again, we don't want to get lost in the weeds of definitions. The important thing is not what it is but what it isn't. What's happening isn't constitutional by any stretch.
"Marxism is the people having control of the modes of production." When have you ever seen this in any Marxist country? That is just the propaganda slogan used during the revolution, not a definition. And Nazism is only another flavor of Marxism. It's all a merger of state and corporate power in one form or another. The first weapon of the Marxist is language. Right wing vs left wing is a false dichotomy. There are only ever two sides to this question: tyranny vs liberty. And now our domestic Marxists are raising the specter of a "Christian theocratic tyranny" by which they characterize themselves as representing "democracy."
The person who decided to start calling out the Marxist homosexual activists as "groomers" and linking them to pedos did infinitely more to slow their advance than anyone quoting the Constitution. And it's working too as all the pride degeneracy is far more subdued this year than previously. Sure the government is still full speed ahead but most companies have backed way off.
Yes, I agree, that was a brilliant move, particularly when they piggybacked on the condescending expression “ok Boomer” used to shut down commentary by using “ok groomer” instead 😁
Thank you Jeff! You cut right to the chase and stated it plainly and unambiguously in a manner anyone should be able to understand. The Marxists are using language to control us.
Ultimately a distraction, cf. the history of all the "democratic" parties in Russia fighting for a place at the table between 1905 and 1917, ending in victory for the Bolsheviks and the start of a very bloody civil war and removal of all other "democratic" party members from the Soviet table.
Agree until the last sentence. People have to know what the forms of government are and why some are better than others. It's been such an important area of civic life, and had already happened so many times over such a long period that Polybius was able to describe how these forms cycle one after another in about 150 BC:
His eerily familiar description begins on the second page of this text (p. 350):
We couldn't. And didn't. We currently live in a post-constitutional republic. Whatever was is no more. Now they just make it up as they go along on a case-by-case basis.* (*subject to change)
Our work ahead isn't just to keep what we have, that time is gone, we failed that test. Our work is to Create a constitutional republic, or something else altogether. Our work is to convince a supermajority that a restrained government is in the best interests of free people. And free people are the best form of social organization. No, most people today don't believe that anymore, they've been indoctrinated to support and protect their own (velvet-lined) yokes and chains, for the betterment of the collective.
This is a where we are reality check. Facing a much greater challenge in our own nation than we'd like to think.
oligarchy. and really always has been. those rich white guys were perfectly aware that they were limiting the 'representative' part to themselves only. not poor white men, not women, not the original inhabitants, not the imported labor that made it all possible.
The courts, even the highest court in the land does not adhere to the US Constitution. It constantly reinterprets it to mean whatever the power center wants it to mean. While the Originalists stay closer to the Founder's intent than the Living Constitution Textualists, they do not interpret and never have interpreted it to mean what it says in the plain language it was written. And they became even further removed from faithfully interpreting the Constitution when they moved from the Natural Law jurisprudence it was written under to the Positive Law jurisprudence that insinuated itself and prevailed in the last century.
The very first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court John Jay wrote in one of his early opinions, "The People Who Own the Country Ought to Govern It."
And this paper, albeit written by someone on the left lamenting failings they perceive, tells a harsh truth, which is that the jurists who interpret the constitution are little more than "high priests in black robes." Doing the bidding of those who really own this country:
The Supreme Court, hegemony, and Its Consequences
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December, 1987
The combination of forces at work to neuter the US Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights the elitists in the Founders never really liked or wanted, have succeeded in reinterpreting Freedom to mean Slavery, Ignorance to mean Stength, War to mean Peace. Linguistics. Clever linguistics have made us a post-constitutional republic. Without a bullet fired.
do you disagree? ck out the whiskey rebellion where poor white guys who wanted the stated liberties were soundly put back in their place. as to women, native americans, slaves . . .
You're right. When I first learned about the Whiskey Rebellion back in school, I questioned it and didn't like the weak explanation given.
The American Revolution was barely finished before the "elite" conspired to introduce a centralized government through the bloodless coup that came to be known as the Philadelphia Convention. From there, the statement of the Declaration was slowly forgotten.
We better hope that Trump (currently CIC) is really the pointman of a longstanding group of powerful miltary generals, good guys, who have a Plan to throw off the evil and establish truth and justice.
No, sir. Look in the mirror. Constitutional republics either have active *citizens* who insist on their rights or there isn't a republic. There's no cavalry.
This USSA is Currently a Demoncrazy, Comrade. The Republic you speak of is merely cracked Ink on old Parchment in a Musuem. Jefferson and the Founders always said it Took Blood to Breathe Freely, but that is too uncomfortable.
So much that is Assumed to Be Extant is Not, but the Illusions are falling quickly.
Ok fine… in reality it is a totalitarian state… but it is still not a democracy and should never be called a democracy. Especially not by a highly educated attorney whose commentary I usually very much appreciate. It plays into their narrative. As Rush Limbaugh said, “Words mean things.” Let’s get our definitions straight on our side.
👆🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻…Jeff…. love how you introduce new words to our learned daily brief! 💗 thank you! , Sisyphus or Sisyphos (/ˈsɪsɪfəs/; Ancient Greek: Σίσυφος Sísyphos) was the founder and king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). He was a devious tyrant who killed visitors to show off his power. This violation of the sacred hospitality tradition greatly angered the gods. They punished him for trickery of others, including his cheating death twice. The gods forced him to roll an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down every time it neared the top, repeating this action for eternity. Through the classical influence on modern culture, tasks that are both laborious and futile are therefore described as Sisyphean…. Spot on!
Received this information later today Note: The following observations were compiled by Glenn Ellmers from conversations with Dr. John Marini, the most insightful living scholar of the administrative state. Marini studied with Harry Jaffa—the intellectual godfather of the Claremont Institute—and applied Jaffa’s interest in the philosophical study of America to the particular problem of bureaucratic “rationality” and centralized government. Professor Marini recently retired from a long and distinguished teaching career at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Donald Trump’s criminal conviction in New York last week must be understood in terms of a political war that has been going on since Watergate. This 50-year fight—between the American people and an increasingly powerful ruling class—is the last stage of a project that began over a century ago, when progressive intellectuals imported German political science into America with the explicit aim of transforming the Constitution. In place of a representative government chosen by the sovereign American people, a new ruling class claimed superior intellectual authority, derived from “rational” empirical science and its methodology. The Constitution may continue to exist in name, but it has mostly been replaced by an administrative state of bureaucratic experts.
Trump is the greatest threat to this ruling class since Richard Nixon. He has therefore aroused more raw political passion than anyone in recent memory. Making him a convicted felon is a calculated gamble to keep him from returning to the White House. There is a risk it could backfire. But the ruling class knows that Trump is entirely alone in the political establishment. He has the support of millions of voters—almost certainly a plurality of the American people. But he is opposed by virtually all of the influential social, economic, political, and cultural interest groups that determine the outcome of elections.
When most elected Republicans and conservatives accepted the legitimacy of the globalist interpretation of the 2020 election, they abandoned the rule of law for hundreds of American citizens. These citizens were called insurrectionists and were denied basic rights by a Congress and courts that funded and conducted what was clearly an elaborately staged hoax. The first, and still the greatest, political hoax in American history was Watergate, which first confirmed to the expert class that it could rule without consent. The official interpretation of Nixon and his legacy has dominated public opinion for the last half century. To this day, the delegitimizing of Nixon has given powerful support to the “rational structures” in government which have replaced the Constitution.
Now, Trump must be delegitimized in the same way. It remains an open question—the great question of our time—whether this will succeed. The ruling class is encouraged because, as with Watergate, it has so far successfully imposed an interpretation on recent political events that all the dominant institutions in our society accept as authoritative. To challenge this interpretation risks censorship, firing, SWAT teams invading one’s home, de-banking, jail, and even one’s life. Still, despite the great risks, a steadily growing number of people rise to challenge it.
Not the conservative and Republican establishment, however. The experts in the rational state have learned that this establishment will accept anything demanded of them to avoid a fight. They will bow down to any interpretation and will tolerate the injustice imposed on their fellow citizens, because they refuse to act politically in a manner that would make it possible to perpetuate their way of life. Those in the conservative establishment accept the intellectual premises of the experts, and have made it clear they would prefer to be ruled rather than lose their economic, social, and political status.
Yet the authority of the rational bureaucracy remains insecure until the threat of Trump can be neutralized. He threatens to unite the country around an understanding of the older America—an understanding that denies the authority of the rational bureaucracy. What they have done to Trump, and his response, has now made the problem political in such a way that it cannot be resolved without a fight.
In 2016, Trump was understood wholly in terms of the personal, which means in terms of his moral virtue or his character. He is despised for resisting the “woke” morality of the ruling class, yet is judged according to the old morality. Even now, very little is said about Trump’s record as president. Instead, he is demonized over private vices made public: sex, race, gender, wealth, and private power.
No political figure in our time is similarly judged in terms of character, of moral virtues and vices. (Imagine trying to defend Joe Biden or Bill Clinton by the standard of traditional morality.) But Trump has one political virtue that even Aristotle would recognize: courage. With this criminal conviction, it seems that Trump will now be judged politically, even by those who insist on assessing him in terms of his personality. What happened to Trump last week helped in transforming Trump from an obnoxious personality into a national savior.
Things are now becoming clear even to those who haven’t been paying attention, or were in denial. The citizens of the country are realizing that their way of life is dependent upon opposing the ruling class. They are beginning to realize that Trump is protecting their rights, and he is paying a price for his actions in a way that it is not simply personal, but political. Whether the American people themselves are willing to accept the hardship and costs of opposing the ruling class remains to be seen.
Dr. John Marini is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Nevada-Reno.
Glenn Ellmers is the Claremont Institute’s Salvatori Research Fellow in the American Founding, and the author, most recently, of The Narrow Passage: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibility of Political Philosophy (Encounter Books).
Democratic Party: Trump is a threat to democracy!!!!!!
(Credit to GenEarly):
Uniparty dictionary: Democracy = Communist takeover. Therefore Trump is a threat to our communist takeover.
This is the language of "Double Speak" as described by George Orwell's "1984". "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery and Ignorance is Strength." This is the war on language that the Marxists have been employing since the 2020 coup. If you want to know why people seem to be irrational today, this is why. Double Think is the condition of simultaneously accepting two conflicting beliefs as Truth. Contradictions are no longer officially recognized.
WELL, when the question of definitions comes up.... I go to my clear and simple explanation :
"I am versed enough in mathematical models to realize that even cold, hard 'data' is based on social constructs which can not be proven, simply accepted on good faith. What is a kilogram other than an agreed upon social construct with which to look for changes in dependent variables in experiments where the other variables are hopefully, carefully controlled — in good faith. As we both can probably agree, that 'good faith' is incompatible with profit-driven institutions using the cloak of science.
In my specific field of linguistics, the myths and metaphors which you eloquently write about in one of your substacks can also be described through a strong version of Whorf-Sapir hypothesis of linguistic relativity. I believe in the strong version which claims that all language, including this chat, is ultimately metaphorical in origin, and 'common sense - to scientific' only in provisional social contexts. "Before you can talk with me, you must first define your terms" — Voltaire.
I still remember trying to parse the meaning of 'meaning' back in the day. Every word, sentence, or sentiment written here could be explored and parsed till the end of time, and we would still have further refinement ahead of us ... but we are constrained as biological organisms which need food and sleep, thus taking for granted we are sharing assumptions in good faith, otherwise we would not be able to communicate at all."
ok, ok . TBH ...... I didn't write that 😩 . but, i did save it ! lol
Lol... good one. Which is to say, everyone has unstated presuppositions that inform their language. I think this is why Marxists hate Christians so much. We operate from a presuppositional basis of the Word of God and they don't have an argument against that. The Lord simply said "I am."
Like you, I WISH we were (still) a constitutional republic. As our Fred Bennett pointed out, the republic ended with the War of Northern Aggression. The Republic officially ended with the passage of the 17th amendment in 1913 which provided for the direct election of Senators replacing the appointment of Senators by the State legislatures. This officially made the US a democracy. Not coincidentally, this was the same year the Federal Reserve Act was created and signed by Woodrow Wilson ending real money and replacing it with dollar debt instruments printed by the Federal Reserve enslaving Americans to the international banking system. The chains and shackles of this slavery was the passage of the 16th amendment, the Federal Income Tax, ALSO PASSED IN 1913. We need to understand these are all connected!
The Constitution is no longer accepted as the law of the land in our court system and has been replaced by the United State Code (USC). The Constitution is now nothing more than a fantasy used to mislead the American people by those who rule over us.
It occurs to me that a point of confusion here is the common perception that democracy means freedom. The founding fathers abhorred the idea of democracy which is nothing but a tyranny of the majority that would lead to total state tyranny. Their idea of a republic was antithetical to democracy. The privilege of the vote was strictly limited and based on qualifications. "One man, one vote" democracy was as much to be feared as any other tyranny.
Yes, while we do have regular elections, much of the electorate (around 50%) does not have confidence elections are safe or secure. And even if they were, those who get voted in answer to their donors not their voters. The only possible hope of getting things back on track are 1) term limits, 2) no corporate funding (overturn Citizens United), 3) ban all foreign funding into our elections, and 4) ban dual citizenship, starting with our elected officials.
But that ended in 1865 when the federal government took up arms against several southern states.
The Progressives (so called because they wanted to "progress" beyond the limited government of the Constitution) issued the coup de gras in a series of federal power expansions between 1905 and the New Deal legislation in the 1930's.
AP is Associated Propaganda. Women are more agreeable, which makes them more susceptible to ideological subversion. The same people crying fascism want to give the leftist government more power.
Yet there are plenty of us conservative women (Moms for Liberty and Libs of TikTok come immediately to mind, not to mention many regular commenters here) who are not like that at all. Please don’t lump all of us together with those self important harpies!
The L = liberal that being the difference between myself and AWFL’s. That and my heterosexual tendencies, my common sense, an ability to control my emotions, a solid grasp on how to *prevent* pregnancy rather than demanding an end to one and my long voting record as a registered republican, among other things. And no crazy eyes. 👀
Did anyone else find that girl’s rant actually in support of men,and against awfls? That’s how I saw it. I had to go back and watch again to see that I got it right. She’s bashing her own. It seems a lot if folks saw it exactly opposite of what I saw.
Yes, let’s take someone’s rights away because they don’t vote how we would like them to 🙄 Sounds like a great idea, Stalin loved that!
I would argue that women are actually trending more conservative as they’ve started to see the lies of the feminist movement for what they are. And if you think someone is voting in a way that doesn’t serve the best interests of the country, maybe try to convince them that they’re mistaken rather than argue they need to be kept from voting at all??
Your enthusiasm is laudable, and I hope you’re right about trends. But also be aware that studies consistently show what we all know, comparatively speaking women are less interested in politics and are therefore less/mis informed politically and more swayed by emotional appeals.
Women’s natural instinct is safety and that is deployed by evil on the other side in the form of welfare and protection.
May there be more based and knowledgeable women that reject the culture of virtue signaling that seems to be such a powerful draw.
I’m not sure it’s enthusiasm as much as observation. Also you talk about “studies”—can you point to some specific studies? Who are the people behind them? Could the studies be biased? How were they designed? What time period are we taking about? Could they have missed something? Like polls and surveys, which can always be highly manipulable to reach the desired results, I would have lots of questions about these study results. Of course they appeal to a certain image of women on both sides (women are more caring than men but also women are able to be manipulated more easily than men due to how emotional they are) so maybe no one has really pushed back on the validity of those studies as yet?
From my perspective, I see a lot of disillusionment with the promises of the left, and with the hypocrisy of the “me too” movement (believe all women except those accusing Democrats) and all of the women’s groups who supposedly espouse choices but when women make choices *they* don’t approve of, those “renegade” women are excoriated for “betraying” the women’s rights movement. I think this is a somewhat recent phenomenon but is snowballing. And I don’t have any studies or statistics to back that up, it’s just my sense from observing the narrative on a meta level versus what I hear individual women saying.
That’s exactly the problem. People have preconceived ideas and indulge in confirmation bias about too many things. Your apology is noted and appreciated though 🙂
I would also like to see the return of humor, taking everything far too seriously even when something is meant in jest has ruined a lot of the fun!
I was reading the directions on how to put a few pieces of pipe together on a DIY project . The question came up whether the piece being connected was a male or female coupling ....... but i just wasn't sure. Maybe it was transgender .🙄
Many of my girlfriends, though well educated, are politically illiterate. I talk to them about important matters of national interest and they simply have no interest.
I have a friend like that from my high school years. She will post such ridiculous things on-line. She has always worked for NGO's and must truly believe that utopia can exist in this world but in her mind Republicans are messing up the whole plan. Of course, that's what she's been told by MSM. And then she will also do the projectionism thing - accusing conservatives of being in a cult. There are truly some insanely indoctrinated people on the left. It's scary to think about how affective propaganda is. They never consider the source of the information they believe.
My friends will line up unquestioningly for boosters and all the latest vaccines. I try to educate them and ask them often just to read for themselves about natural immunity and the dangers of toxic pharma. They ignore me.
That's the problem with a cult. They have already been instructed that anything from another source is a lie and propaganda and they should not read it leat they succumb to the lies.
Shockingly (not), the woman I'm thinking about "suffers" from depression. This is what happens when you have self-inflicted, unrealistic expectations of how life should be. Oh, and for anyone interested in a good Christian read for women, there's a book called Unmet Expectations by Lisa Hughes. It was very challenging spiritually. It is very biblically based and it put me in my place and made me repent of some sin in my own life. It's very long but it's worth the read.
Right?? I mean can we talk about all the leftist MEN who push idiot narratives because they want to be liked or can’t stand to be lumped in with the great unwashed MAGA people 🙄
Nobody asserts there are no male progs. This is a discussion of averages and likelihoods. And it is backed up by studies and trends and common sense. Men are more analytical and women more agreeable. Young women are far more negatively affected by social media use. Etc, etc, ad infinitum.
It’s ok to recognize differences, even if not positive. (Men have plenty of negative ones too, like suicidality, just not this)
Same here. It’s what scares me about the future. They don’t seem to be waking up at all. The standard line is “We don’t agree about this, Becky, so let’s change the subject.” Shutting down discussion of existential issues is frightening and is exactly what our oppressors want.
When a door shuts, all we can do is pray that God will use something to open their eyes. If they can see just one lie that they've been told, most people will come around. Many outspoken conservatives today started by seeing the "one lie" and then began to question every part of the narrative.
I woke up when the forced vaccinations began. Until that point, there were questionable things here and there that arose suspicion, but I still believed the lie because I had no idea how far they would go. That almost every country on this planet followed lock step with the US was another wake up call.
I pray often that God will open the hearts and minds of those that are still closed and grant us all discernment to see the unvarnished truth and reality.
“Like” button not working but I am grateful for these replies. Another observation I have is that the unawakened will indeed accept a total lie, and then extend that acceptance to continued lies. At some point I think they decided I was an extremist and conspiracy theorist, and thus dismissed absolutely anything I might point out.
Same for me. It is mind boggling, and lonely. I wish they cared or maybe they are scared to lose friends and not be invited to the parties. IDK, but I'm so disappointed. All my friends have fancy degrees. I do not have a college degree and at this point I think that might have kept me as an independent logical thinker.
I think for all of us, the case is "But for the grace of God, there go I." I consider myself to be among those who were blind but now see (both spiritually and politically.)
I was blessed with a conservative and very rationally minded, thoughtful mother as well as a father who had strong conservative anti-government principles who both always made us aware of *why* they thought the way they did. They were also not at all “follow the crowd” kind of people and I think their example served all of us kids well.
My dad was a hard-working, self-employed, conservative man. I've never seen anyone work harder. I miss him dearly. He worked even after he had esophageal cancer. He only quit working after he could no longer climb a ladder following a stroke. He loved his work and not being able to work was the hardest thing in the world for him to no longer be outside cleaning windows.
Same. And my female friends or relatives in their 30s and 40s actually get irritated with me because they are “focused on work and family” and how dare I have enough time and bandwidth for “politics” . They have no idea the importance and there’s no way to reach them.
This is where my "pessimism" comes from . Five years into this insane exercise to control everyone (by the PTB) ......... and my eyes tell me that "our side, the side for freedom" has been losing badly .
Sure.... the "leaders" on alternate media are making lots of money from their "talk" . And the comment sections are a comfortable and dare i say enjoyable place for those who are not happy .
I just got flamed a few days ago because I pointed out that AWFLs were the problem, because there are many of them that claim to be conservative and many of them read and comment on this Stack. Now Jeff points out the obvious and its ok🙄.
Although I am glad to see that some people are recognizing the main problem we have with society is women having political power(every woke cause is promoted and enforced mainly by women, the men involved are simps) the continuing hopium expressed about laws and courts saving us is as depressing as usual.
They are women that can't hold onto a decent man so they hate men, they don't care about you(especially you married ladies) or anything else, all they want is revenge against straight white males and free access to abortion so they can murder their child because they hate the father. Remember when I pointed out how nearly every civilization that was defeated was just the men that were eliminated? the women didn't care, they just mate with the next guy that comes along and carry on. It's happened countless times, why would this time be different?
Has anyone noticed that conservative women are usually attractive but libtards are not? The nose rings and green hair are a distress sign that has been ignored and will continue that way.
—“I just got flamed a few days ago because I pointed out that AWFLs were the problem, because there are many of them that claim to be conservative and many of them read and comment on this Stack. Now Jeff points out the obvious and it’s ok🙄.”
Hi RunningLogic, I'm just getting home, sorry for the delayed response. A few days ago I commented on a post where I pointed out that most democrat voters are women and most women are democrat voters, additionally that most civilizations that have disappeared were invaded by another culture where all the men were killed and the women raised the children of the invaders without a fight and that many of the people the read and post on C&C have the same tendencies as AWFLs which is one of the things that is holding back any resistance to the tyranny we are facing. I got responses from people that were obviously not happy and encouraged me to be silent. Mostly from names that seemed like women. Men want to fight, women want to exclude(cancel).
That was perhaps a summary, to elaborate - I have posted several times to C&C over the years, I believe we may have corresponded in the past. I typically post about how frustrating it is to hear C&C(Jeff) talk about 'winning', 'tide is turning', 'They're in trouble now' kind of stories, we aren't winning and haven't won anything. I have commented before that it's similar to when Zelensky in Ukraine says 'we're winning' because Putin hasn't taken over the whole country yet. It feels like gaslighting and I am sick of being lied to by everyone, I think Jeff should be less optimistic to the point of being like Zelensky and be more realistic. Zelensky may not know he's lying but if that's the case someone should tell him. The point being although I agree with what Jeff is fighting for I am not always friendly in the comments to C&C although I read it most days because there is usually some good topics and links, especially in the comments.
Since I am somewhat adversarial at times, not like 2Benjamins(Or whatever his name is) but about being gaslighted and the continued optimism in the laws or courts, which seems silly to me at this point, and the lack of any discussion of what to do other than wait on corrupt courts and vote in rigged elections, I get responses from people basically telling me 'everything will be fine' and 'stop being negative' which again sounds silly to me. On one occasion I commented on a comment and had an exchange with a woman who I had asked to at least ignore what was going to happen to the current tyrants that need to face accountability for their crimes(it was about the vax mandates and penalizers in this case), she was so distraught by my insinuation of a physical punishment for the perps she deleted her comment and therefore mine, I was canceled(excluded) because she had the power.
In conclusion, to me it seems like for the tyranny to stop there may require some action more than hope, and if by luck sanity is returned to America there needs to be accountability for the crimes committed. I think capital punishment is appropriate for the worst offenders. I think the main reason that most men are afraid to fight, or often times even vote, because they are scared that women will think they are 'mean' or misogynist. Therefore, I think the chance of sanity returning are near 0 and it is mainly the fault of green haired, nosed ringed single ladies and the simps that want to have sex with them and think being nice will get them there. When I have posted things like this, which seems like reality to me, ugly as it is, I get flamed as misogynist by women on C&C, Jeff does it and its fine. That's what I meant about AWFLs being on this Stack. I think one part of what I usually say that gets people is 'what are you going to do about it? Yes, nothing.' An example was many months ago, in response to dismissive comments about how the trial in which Trump was just convicted would somehow go away because of laws or courts or reality. I called out their optimism and predicted Trump would go to jail and included my normal affirmation - what are you going to do about it? I got flamed. Many readers and commenters on C&C are not ready for reality in my opinion, or maybe experience, but I'll still read it.
No worries about the delay, I appreciate your detailed response.
I guess I must’ve missed that particular exchange you are referring to. I am sorry you felt attacked, excluded and gaslit. To me, from your recounting of the discussion, it seems more like a simple difference of opinion and of perspective. You are very sure that you are right that nothing is ever going to happen, and they are equally sure that incremental changes will end up adding up. No one can really say what will actually happen since we can’t predict the future.
To be honest, your assertion that “many of the people that read and post on C&C have the same tendencies as AWFLs” is perplexing to me. I enjoy the C&C comment section and frequently post here and very few other places because I have found that most people are respectful and can handle differences of opinion like mature adults (there are a few notable exceptions but overall it’s a civil exchange). I haven’t seen much of the hysterical angry liberal women kind of discourse here, in the years I’ve been reading and commenting. But like I said, I missed the discussion you referred to, so maybe I’ve missed other similar ones as well.
As for taking action, I think we all need to keep brainstorming and doing what each of us can to start moving the country in the right direction. It’s fine if you think what people are doing isn’t enough. You say no one is doing anything but hoping, but I’ve seen quite a few people here, women included, who are working in various ways to push for changes.
You have every right to your opinion and to be pessimistic (or realistic as you seem to prefer), if you want. Those of us who feel differently also have the right to disagree with you. I’m not sure who deleted her comment or why but when I read comments, the deleted one is gone but the replies remain so I’m not sure what happened that your comment was deleted also? It doesn’t feel good to be erased, for sure.
If men are really hesitating to take action because they fear women’s reactions then personally I think they need to buck up and do what they think is right regardless. It seems like something of a cop out to me for them to blame inaction on those kinds of fears.
I have to ask, what do YOU think should be done? What actions would you recommend taking? What are you yourself doing to move things in the right direction? I am seeing a lot of comments from you lamenting that no one is doing anything and it is all about waiting and hoping, but I didn’t see any alternatives proposed by you. I would love to know what your suggestions are, maybe we can get some people on board to implement them.
I agree that everyone has the right to disagree with me, and that I sound quite sure of my predictions, maybe I will try to say add in an "I think" or "IMHO" every once in a while.
I also agree that Jeff's comment section is great! Smart people with interesting ideas and great links. I haven't heard any women that are spewing libtard hate or anything like that, but that many of the women have tendencies like excluding/canceling those they don't agree with or being militantly anti-militant. which leads into your question about actions. For instance, I personally didn't experience anything during the lockdowns like keeping me separated from a loved one who was in a hospital or nursing home or whatever while dying and I was prevented form seeing them because of some stupid 'separation' rule, that we recently have heard Fauci admit was just made up, but if I had, I would think that something like the 2 amndment would seem appropriate and I would feel anyone that did was justified. Those bastards are responsible for the deaths of millions and knowing that they did something like give an elderly person midazolam and morphine "just in case" then prevent their loved ones from visiting them as they died is murder x2 and they need to held accountable. That kind of talk has gotten me flamed/excluded by several women on this Stack and I have to say I was a bit surprised. I advocate that people shouldn't be compliant with murderous lockdowns and women on C&C go crazy with criticism for trying to fight for their rights and the lives of their family.
Currently, I think the action should be to figure out how to secede or whatever needs to be done so we don't have to live under AWFL rules. Maybe they can have the cities like NY and SF and others like that while the rest of us can try to live in a sane world. It sounds like there is a movement in eastern Washington state for that sort of thing. The world will always be screwed up but things like 'mis-gendering' someone is a felony should not be aloud and people should be able to fight against that, but some people, mostly women, are fine with men pretending to be women and eager to criminalize me for recognizing they are crazy. That's crazy. People need to be less compliant, or what seems like 'feminized' to me. In my experience in life women are usually compliant with 'authority' while men are quicker to use force to prevent authority over-reach. I think I commented before that one example that I use for that opinion is all the civilizations that ended where the women just became the wives of the invaders and mothers of the invaders children after all the men and boys were killed, the women did nothing to prevent the killing and didn't resist raising the children of the murderer of her first husband or sons. I suppose its just the way nature works, but not encouraging for a man who's country is being invaded.
They hate children and true femininity, and project Marxist militant maternalism, fake morality-virtue, and Progressive perversion upon the planet; global threat to society, humanity, even the Climate--they want all comfort and security and pleasure and no restraint on selfish desire
When people find out that one of "those", and that I'm a MAGA, Trump-loving Conservative, it's like their brains catch on fire. They can't process what they perceive to be a dichotomy.
As a woman, I heartily disagree. You are welcome to abdicate your right to vote, no one is forcing you to use it, but I will not. So more women right now vote Democrat. I agree, I am dismayed by that as well, but you think the solution is taking away a citizen’s right to vote because we don’t like how they vote? What’s next, certain minorities and union members and city dwellers can’t vote because they tend to vote Democrat too? I think the solution is rather to get more women on board with conservative positions. This has already started, as is evidenced by the many red pilled women here on C&C.
Male landowners only? Like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos? Don’t you think the wealthy leftists would use that to their advantage to shut out conservatives by buying up land or using their clout to take land away from conservatives? I personally think this is very short sighted and simply not a viable solution to the problem. I will not give up my vote only to see bozos like Biden, Fauci, Schumer, Schiff, and Obama be able to vote but not me. I really don’t think this would do anything but worsen our problems.
During my entire employed life, up until my retirement, I only had 1 female boss during all those years that I can say I respected and liked. I hate to say it but it was true for me. Too many examples to list here.
Oh, no! You got me started on female bosses! As a paralegal, I dreaded getting assignments from female lawyers. However I completed the task, it always need LOTS of improvements. I thought about it and came to the conclusion that when a woman gave me an assignment, she had it in her head EXACTLY how it needed to be done. When a man gave me an assignment, he was usually pleased with the result, just glad he didn't have to do it himself.
It dawned on me years ago that I greatly preferred working with men. They didn’t seem to have a problem with me, but I respected them and interacted rationally and productively and we got our work done. No games. I like men, and appreciate them. The undeniable fact is that they can do a lot of heavy, necessary things women really can’t. We all need each other.
In general, I agree with your statement. But years ago, in Texas, I did work in a situation that I would call "the good ol' boys" network. There was a reason originally for some of the women's lib movement. But like most movements, it was usurped and taken way to far from the original purpose. You are exactly correct, we do need each other, and we need to respect our differences and work together.
Funny, my husband has mostly men in his companies and the vast majority of the drama is from men. Anecdotal like your experience but I think men also do drama, just differently. And maybe different settings or industries or company cultures come into play also.
Yes, I agree, some men like drama. In my field - most were direct and wanted to work and do a good job. I wanted less drama than my 4 sisters and their friends in my work place 😂
Once I accepted that men and women are TOTALLY DIFFERENT, it became quite easy to appreciate and accept all the things they are that I’m not. I often tell young women not to expect their husbands to be like a girlfriend. It is a sure path to disappointment and will blind them to his many strengths. Strengths, if I may say, that women deeply need.
You know, maybe this comes from women needing to be on top of kids with a vigilance, needing to micromanage toddlers, who can escape and be out eating from the dogfood bowl in under a minute, and instead of having kids, where those skills are needed, they bring that micromanaging, nagging almost obsessive-compulsive disorder tendency to jobs. Men just don't nag or micromanage. They can be dominating narcissists, totally self-involved, but they are often a lot better at delegating and rolling with the proverbial punches, and not ever hysterical and whiney, straight men at least. If the thought experiment is that one is to be ruled by women or men, I'll take men.
Haha yep... how many people would find it implausible that a dad would just LET the toddler eat from the dogfood bowl, and then tell them "bet you won't do that again!" when they get a tummyache afterwards?
I do think the first wave of women bosses tended to be like that because either they had an axe to grind or felt like they needed to be over the top to “prove themselves” 😕 Also companies were sometimes so eager to show they wanted to promote women that they didn’t wait for the good ones.
Possibly, but for me, I think it was because I'm simply not wired (or maybe programmed?) to play mind games. Tell me the mission & goals, tell me the rules, and once I've proven myself worthy, leave me alone and don't micromanage me. Don't make me read in between the lines, don't make me have to read your body language in order to determine what kind of a mood you're in today.
In academia 2 decades ago, my faculty boss' wife disagreed that the office for women's affairs needed to exist - she would have been a direct beneficiary of first gen feminism. Office for women's affairs was instrumental in helping with logistical support for women students, staff and faculty (with campus wide solutions). Anyhow, boss' wife referred to women faculty who needed extra support as "weak sisters" 😬. Of course, a decade later, the administration wiped out that office and supplanted it with the diversity dean and his multicultural crew. In the cornfields of Indiana, a hotbed of multiculturalism 🙄
I have rental property in Post Falls and we have a second home in Coeur d’Alene. Hoping to move there eventually (from San Diego) if I can get my BF to stop whining about the cold winters…whereabouts are you?
Sandpoint. An hour north (plus elevation) gives us substantially different weather than PF or CDA. Our neighbor spends Nov to April at their San Diego home, the rest of the time on their "family compound" here.
Sounds like a good plan. I wish we could find an alternative to San Diego for the winter months! One of my former Post Falls renters moved to Athol, she loves it there. I still have sons I need to get launched and 4 aging cats with medical issues, makes it hard to be gone for long periods of time.
First time in my life not being in a college town. It's refreshing. Can't complain about the scenery either... Mountains, lake, trees... But because we are attracting all sorts of people, the struggle to keep the woke out is a contentious political battle.
I had read or seen a documentary about Sandra D. O'Conner which indicated that she felt she needed to be over the top to "prove herself." I was really shocked to learn that about her but it was reflected in some of her decisions.
This is why it is tough to talk about these things. Most women and many men start throwing out "misogyny" and "sexist". When all you're trying to do is point out behaviors you've observed.
I will say this, in my professional career as a software developer, I've worked with both men and women I respect. But when it comes to politics, chances were much greater that the women (who are all as logic minded as can be) were progressively minded. Usually it was "I tend to get along with both sides." It is built in for them to be socially agreeable so if any pressure is put on them from the progressives, especially emotional pressure, they cave even if they don't believe it.
There's a difference between being nice and being kind. We, as men, have to learn that being mean while still being kind is the right balance. Nice gets us simphood.
I watched the docu Letter to the American Church this weekend. They mentioned the exact thing re Christians: We are called to be kind, but not necessarily nice. (RE our responsibility to speak up.)
Same here, only one decent female boss. Rest were b*tches. At one point in my career, I supervised 16 people and was pleasantly surprised when my employees told me I was a great (female) boss. I guess because I tried to supervise like a man would. 🤷🏼♀️
I had several immediate supervisors that were respectable, but the executives were deplorable. I honestly can't think of one woman executive that I respected.
I am one myself, but I think it's almost never a good idea to put women in high power. I can't articulate why, but it's not bias, it's more like deep knowledge.
I don't know about women in high power, so you may be right. That said, I had a handful of women as professors when I was in graduate school. It was an older generation of women: they did not speak in high pitched little girl voices or vocal fry as they all tend to do today. They were accomplished and wise. We respected them. They were also single . I can't say with certainty that they would have done well in positions of power. I'd like to think so.
The results of women in leadership speak for themselves. Men aren’t naturally drawn to follow women leaders. (Except into the bedroom as Ashley aptly points out) 😳
Exactly. Meritocracy PLEASE! There are competent moral men and women and incompetent immoral men and women. Can we just find the competent and moral persons to represent us in the government.
And objective and fair, not acting upon emotionalism. It seems all the Democrats, men and women, have gone down that unfortunate road these days! I hate it!
Feelings are a default of the flesh that people must learn to control. Democrats target this weakness (emotionalism) because they know it works in most people.
Personally, I think I was a fairly powerful woman (though I was not in any way trying to be powerful) when I taught school, then left teaching to become a mom of 3. The baby is now 23, headed to GA Tech for his Master’s. I can take very little credit for that, but I must say, whoever the guy giving the speech a couple of weeks ago, who got all that flak but then women everywhere bought his jersey, spoke to me.
And for the record, I did help a large and annoying county in my state get RID of mask mandates for schools, and I did my part to alert people to library porn. That was simply pointing out the REAL books with issues instead of the stupid ones “they” kept pointing out, which were absolutely harmless. Show them the real problem; the REAL issue rather than the crap MSM “digs up” and spoon feeds America, (they haven’t dug anything but sung in years) and people take notice.
The kind of women who end up in places of authority don't even want equality, they want domination. How do they justify this kind of thinking unless they believe that women are actually more capable than and morally superior to men?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
"People ask me sometimes, when — when do you think it will it be enough? When will there be enough women on the court? And my answer is when there are nine."
I’m sure that is BS, I don’t even believe that. Also if you take the number of women leaders throughout history, there were so few that it is hard to make any valid generalizations. And anyway, maybe certain women were just more reluctant to wage war because they understood better that the women and children often suffered the most and gained the least from it and so had another view.
Margaret Thatcher? Golda Meir, perhaps. And Greek women in Izmir drowned their children in the sea. So did Susan Smith. And then there are Victoria Nuland and Hillary Clinton. Men have no lock on murderous behavior.
I am a woman and I agree. In *this* country, far too many women in politics are emotionally off the rails.
Emotions are God's gift to women, a blessing, to be used for good and love and nurture.
However, emotionalism, is not always good in the workplace and political sphere. Emotions can hinder objectivity and fairness.
Many women in other countries have been excellent and brilliant in roles of leadership and other professions.
Infact, they were doing their thing in other countries before our 70s women's revolution here in the USA!
Something about that movement, like all movements here, was hyperbolic and extreme and created some angry women in politics.
Ofcourse there are many exceptions, especially in the Republican party.
Most of the angry hyper emotional women we see in the political sphere , imo, tend to be 'liberal democrats', but not exclusively. (Nikki Hailey, angry war monger comes to mind).
Not trying to be snide, just making an observation. Before women entered the workplace, men had a corner on the market of being petty and vindictive in the workplace. By nature, most women are more emotional; however, that doesn't mean that women can't control their emotions and act logically and rationally. All people must learn to keep their emotions informed by the facts of a situation rather than being directed by their default drives. "For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world." I John 2:16
It still boggles my mind how many physical standards are lowered so that women can be in those jobs: firefighters, military, police, etc. If you can't meet the standards, then you shouldn't be in that position. It endangers peoples lives.
Gloria Steinem once said she would rather be dragged out of a burning building by a woman rather than carried by a man because the smoke is what will kill you and there’s less smoke on the floor. This logic hurts my head. If I’m in a burning building I want the Hulk to show up and carry me out of there!
LOL "If Only Women Voted, Biden-Harris Landslide Win
The more we move away from toxic masculinity in our culture and embrace our kinder, gentler selves, the better this world will be. The more women (especially white women) are aware of the importance of women’s leadership and practice voting that aligns with their values, the better the world will be."
I've been saying this for 2 years!! FINALLY... here it is.....
CIA Agent: "We Designed mRNA to Kill"
.... And COVID mRNA vaccines were not developed during Operation Warp Speed, but were ready and waiting for deployment for at least 10 years prior to the pandemic!...
Right, which in my mind, anyone with half of a functioning brain knew not to trust big pharma and CDC/NIH with their ever-revolving door....but he did. And he is going to save us from the deep state? Me thinks not. I hope I am wrong.
I also think he assumed most people actually wanted the same things and had the same goals but just differed on how to accomplish them. He thought he just needed to show and convince them his ideas worked and they’d follow along. Nope. Naive, yes but maybe he just hadn’t been exposed to that side much in his life 🤷♀️ I don’t know.
I'm sorry, but that does not preclude Trump from any kind of responsibility. If he had not been pushing them it would be a different story - OR if he would do the right thing and just come out and speak the truth and tell people they are deadly and that nobody should take them.....but he hasn't, which speaks volumes in my opinion.
Agree. I can't read his mind but it has to be politics and/or money. If you remember, he heavily pushed the shot, especially for the elderly. Can't admit he was wrong and alienate everyone who took the shot? Similar problem with Trump.
Also, not being an independent, wealthy outsider like Trump, he is beholding to the NeoCon Rep establishment. Frankly, he also beholden to the Israeli/Zionist state and has kissed their hand on more than one occasion. Israel is in bed with BigPharma.
I was hoping he would step out and lead the way by doing the right thing. By now, the shot is a fait accompli but there is still the concern looming over us that they may try this again.
Personally, I think admission is irrelevant. It won't change anything. We need to move forward and rehashing that contributes nothing to forward momentum.
"Steve's" comment traces this all the way back to the British apex elite who are the real culprits in this genocide.....
"....Nonetheless, when you work backward from the final DARPA patents all the way to the first patents giving rise to this technology, what you find is that, once again, the Brits are at the bottom — and we do mean the very bottom — of the dogpile they have landed on our doorsteps..."
Another prayer request at church yesterday for someone's family member with turbo cancer. Diagnosed with recurrence of cancer and immediately put on hospice.
I had a friend/coworker who died of turbo-C TWO MONTHS after diagnosis which was only caught upon routine exam. He had no symptoms. And not long after being "forced" to take the shot. Invaded nearly every organ of his body.
Sounds just like my uncle. He was suddenly diagnosed with lung cancer after taking the vaccines in spring 2021. He was dead by fall. He began to have a severe cough and it was already metastasized to the brain and other vital organs when he had the cough. So very sad. I have seen colon cancers move that quickly from diagnosis to death but the doctors said he had had the condition for over 20 years but regular doctors would have never checked him for genetic colon cancer. This guy was in the military so I do wonder if he was exposed to something during his service.
2012-ish is the advent of the *widespread adoption of smartphones* and, most importantly, of SOCIAL MEDIA. That is the key. If you take female's general inclinations, that are there for good reason, and hypercharge those inclinations and behaviors and then hijack them in a distorted, externally moderated way, boom. We now have women being internally tweaked from external sources by virtue of normal, historically healthy behaviors. Add in extremely motivated and zealous actors, and bad things happen. On purpose. [Have you ever seen your female significant other listen to a friend and nod her head in apparent agreement while listening to something you *know* she disagrees with? Have you seen your female significant other enthusiastically hug a woman and air kiss and say how wonderful it is to see her again, then, after she leaves, say: "I so dislike that woman"? Those are the functions and tendencies that are being leveraged here.] There is a similar argument here for males and porn or sports and others - take our natural inclinations and hijack them to the nth degree and you can manipulate on a grand scale. That ultimately is what we're seeing: manipulation for ideological and/or political and/or spiritual reasons. Add in what is happening to emotionally destabilize them in public schools, and you have a very, very, very challenged young person trying to get through one of the most difficult periods of life, with tremendous other multipliers now applied. If you question this, check out the writing of John Haidt ("The Coddling of the American Mind" and others. The stats will knock your socks off - our children are being manipulated and psychologically taken apart. Suicide. Levels of happiness. Relationships. Maturity. If you have teens, and esp females, ingest this material). He has studied it extensively and it is unequivocal: social media is warping the minds and sanity of young people, male and female. There's lots more to be said on this, but I'm sure most of you know it already. But, please, if you have young teens, control their i-net and smartphone phone usage as best you can.
That's a very good point. You add to it Obama's reelection claptrap that was the racist narrative and social media is probably why it stuck so hard. They weaponized it in between makeup tutorials and vacation spot videos.
@Wayne Jones great comment. I would just add that Haidt’s latest book, “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness,” goes even deeper into the damage from smartphones than his first book. Literally, children are being given a tool to access info we would never allow them to access from a school or home computer. And the stats on the damage since then are horrifying.
It’s true about this year and iPhones. I had a cell phone still and I would use an iPod which only worked in wifi so it was a very different world that I want to go back to. I remember laughing at my friend because she was so “posty” meaning she was taking time during our fun to post pics on Fartbook.
What happened to this woman in 2012 was I was living in MA with 2 daughters ages 15 and 12 when my husband’s company reorganized and his job was eliminated. So we had to relocate to TX and I will tell you that it saved my girls from becoming indoctrinated into the lefty world for sure.
It wasn’t my plan but I’m glad it happened because every one of my conservative mommy’s children have gone to Uber liberal colleges and universities and they’re trapped into that narrative like fish swimming in their own shit.
I couldn’t watch the woke women clip, unfortunately but as a non-woke woman, what happened to ME in 2012 was that I experienced my first pregnancy (of five, so far) and gave birth to my first son 💕🙌🏻 👶 🙌🏻
It was an amazing year for me, solidified my mama-bear conservatism and deepened my journey in medical-system skepticism.
Clearly some other women did not have that experience in 2012 😬😅
I got married in 2012 and became way more invested in politics. I wonder if that was a bit of a tipping point for young feminists not marrying or having babies, they just continued on as they were..
Well, I have a thought. No idea if this is related but in *2008* I was a youth group leader at my church. The Democrats went hard after the kids in high schools (the teachers were leading the way) promoting the Obama as the “first black President” and if you didn’t support him you were racist. The boys didn’t seem to care as much but the young girls, around 14/15 years old were seduced and devoted to the cause, solidified by “their” win that November. Fast forward four years to 2012 and these girls could vote.
And unless there was a catalyst (sometimes marriage and kids, but sometimes that wasn’t a fix, especially if they married unwisely) they continued in their delusion that they had been and were a part of the most important shifting of our culture in history - victory over racism. Then, when the left starts race-baiting again, they’re personally indignant that their victory and historicity from 2008 and 2012 is (in their minds), is in jeopardy.
Bingo. And now that you mention it, our own little Christian high school had a shift around that time where all the old teachers retired and a new crop of young ones came in. If that was a time of generational turnover in teaching...
She herself didn’t appear to be woke she was asking why the world wide inflection point of women going woke and men going conservative started in 2012. While she was slightly annoying she didn’t appear woke.
It’s worth noting that a high-ranking Japanese official has recently issued apology to the unvaccinated and also an apology to those who have lost loved ones due to the Covid shots. It’s fairly groundbreaking I will go search for the link.
@Chevrus I can’t open X after a certain amount of read-only time (got suspended after j6 🙄) so could you please copy and paste the text, if there is any? TIA!
Try and create a new profile on X. I’m on my 4th account after being suspended 3X. If you can’t use your email address to register (because it’s tied to your suspended account), use a backup email address or a cellphone number. My current account on X is actually tied to my son’s cellphone number because I burned through my other options. I told him I was using it since I pay for the cellphone! 🤣👍🏻. Worth it to stay on X despite the bots etc. because it’s the first place I go to verify news.
The J6 persecutions and all the takedowns of "election deniers" are evidence of the shadow government's invisible fence, constructed to train us into conformity. Step too close and you too will feel the shock in your collar.
I saw.. I showed my Man, who is a former SEAL, and he was PISSED! This is not the SEALS themselves whom posted this garbage, this is done by whatever staffer posting on orders from their "fabulous" leaders. What an utter disgrace! 🤬😤
Yes, very much so. It is a sharp stinging slap to the face for him, as this is not what he fought for, this is not what he lost brothers for.. This has nothing to do with our Military or what really matters when you are out in a combat zone getting shot at. These men are brave and selfless, putting their team and country first or none survive. The Teams cannot harbor the mentality of the woke trans agenda - the "me first", the getting offended because someone misgenders one, the flamboyance, all of that pansy-ass bullsh!t does not belong on the battlefield.
The Russians and Chinese do not allow males, let alone females, to join their military that are trans. Trump had it right when he banned it.
Rest assured that Recon Marines are not bowing to the alphabet community. Still a strong group of warriors ready to defend this Constitutional Republic, I have first hand connections 😉.
20 years of colonial, police, action and military industrial fleeing has deep and long lasting consequences
Thankfully, none of our adversaries would want the responsibility of having to take and hold anything in the continental United States and why would they they have plenty going on in their own lives and 800 of our military bases outside the country to target if they needed to give uncle Sam a bloody nose
Which brings me to another point : all the hand in stereo from the mainstream media about how Russia is going to invade Europe in any way shape or form.
Invading anything is not fun or easy just look at Ukraine and once you do it, your left with the steaming pile of excrement to deal with as well as a rebellious population in the 21st century it’s a really not a viable option .
Russian victory over Ukraine either unites NATO to counter attack, or fractures it into an ineffective Organization in name only lending itself to further dissolution and neutering by Russia. But a Russian Steamroller the likes of 1944-5 is a fallacy and only an idiot or liar can project that happening even as they tout that Ukrainians in a tractors can handle one of Putin's tank brigades
I’m not quite sure what you mean about counter attack, but it is pretty clear. That NATO is neither unified prepared or even willing to do anything of the sort.
Counterattack as in ginning up and escalating the war to stop Putin from further aggression against the West (They'll claim he will next absorb Baltic States etc) and keeping the NATO Alliance together by openly entering the battle on Ukraine soil and propping up whatever is left of Ukr. opposition and preventing a new Ukrainian pro-Russian govt in place. Peace and border re-alignment to be prevented at all costs.
Dr. Linda! I'd argue that this move is all part of the agenda that controls most countries of the world. The true ruling class of society and governments. When we understand this, we realize this is simply part of their plan: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/who-are-the-bad-guys
Once we can wake up and see the enemies for who they truly are, we can direct our attention and strategy more appropriately!
Yes, what indeed happened in 2012?
For myself, I was still "Lefty" back then. I leaned into the whole "obamacare is here to save the world" propaganda. I thought conservatives just didn't want to help anyone.
Then, after a few years, I saw the dramatic rise in healthcare costs (as conservatives predicted). I saw the promotion of all things Rockefeller-esque and the continued deprecation of actual health (as conservatives predicted.) THEN, I saw them coming for my personal health care choices (as conservatives predicted.)
Took a few years, but I finally told the Left "I'm outta here..." 😊
I was happy to vote for Obama, and so happy when he won. Mainly because I had some black friends at work, so I was happy for them. Two months into his term, I could not stand the sound of his voice, his mellifluous voice.
I remember the first time I heard Obama on the radio. I didn't even know who he was or what he looked like. But the radio had a clip of him saying something to the effect of "We are our brother's keeper." And I was like, hell no. I don't want the government saying that. That's the job of the citizens and the Church. I'm tired of lazy Christians outsourcing their charity and morality to the government. I was against him from then on. From there Obamacare, the racist politics, the obvious lies only cemented my opinion.
Yes! I have been arguing with people for decades at this point who are Christians and think that Jesus would have endorsed the welfare state. Learned helplessness is enabling, not helping. It's OUR responsibility to care for the less fortunate, not uncle Sam.
Yes! And depriving someone of the feelings of self worth they get from gainful employment and from trying and succeeding is actually very damaging, not helpful in the least.
exactly!
And don’t forget Obama’s pastor who wasn’t afraid to say he hates whites. Shortly thereafter if we said anything against Obama we were dubbed racist.
And also don’t forget THREE gay men from that church were murdered in a month period right before he ran. Such a coincidence!
The signs showing Obama (Barry Sotero) to be a very deceptive and dangerous individual were crystal clear. I couldn’t understand why any one in their right mind would vote for him.
But then our own vomity Republican candidate assured us he was just fine and we could safely vote for him. Can you believe that?
I don’t think I was ever able to stomach hearing Obama pontificate for more than 10 seconds.
Ditto!
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The problem is many people don’t have a church and act like the government is theirs 😕
Exactly right! And some even have a Church and let the gov do it anyway.
The government has taken over charity. There are so many rules to regulate what private charities can and cannot do. Want to feed the homeless? Your kitchen better pass inspection. The government has co-opted real charity so it can give its friends NGOs and government contracts. Of course very little of the money gets to those who need it. There was a teenage boy who was threatened with arrest because he would make baloney sandwiches and go pass them out to the homeless. Apparently he was a nuisance. Mother Theresa tried to open a facility in NYC to help the desperately poor and the city gave her so many hoops to jump through she gave up and left.
Watch the movie put out by Angel Studios ‘Cabrini’ for a wide awake look at Catholic charities and NYC. Cabrini ended up as a saint for her dedicated work for the poor globally by defying every obstacle the church and state put in her way.
Serious question, could you save enough money by not wasting time on the guidelines, to make up the difference? (I'm assuming not, or else someone would have suggested it already... but one can dream!)
Side Note: This was back when I was still registered Democrat and in the Ohio primary I voted....*wretching noises*... for Hilary Clinton.
Retching indeed. what an un-likeable person she is. Cuddly as a gila monster...
Hillary is not just unlikable, her evil instinctively repulses us.
What was your logic, if I can inquire? Were you not aware of Mena and her actions as Sec. of State etc.... Not calling you on the carpet but I just don't understand why. We are dealing with some Orange Man bad folks and I think there is a connection so that is the basis for my inquiry.
Thanks.
Later Jay
Voted for her in the primary when she faced off against Obama. In the general I voted for Sarah Palin.... er, what's his name? ... uh, McCain. This was 8 years before 2016.
you all are missing one of the main points Jeff has been trying to show us.
with AI THERE WILL BE VERY FEW JOBS LEFT. but no shortage of PROFITS for the owning class.
therefore LETS GET COMFORTABLE with the idea of a UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME. the only way to deal with this is to MAKE SURE THE GOVERNMENT is owned and run by US and not those same corporations who would turn us into SERFS>
Let’s not get comfortable! Let’s fight like the third monkey on the ramp to Noah’s Ark 😡
Hello Liz,
With all due respect, how would you propose we do that? Fundamentally they run the place now and are ensuring that more and more of our slice of the pie is theirs. House cleaning is the only way I see it happening.
Later Jay
House Cleaning is the nice way of putting it. I think we all know what needs to be done, dont we? its just a matter of when that spark gets lit. Im too old for streetfighting these days, thats' why I live in Mexico, but I am cheering you guys on (for what its worth).
AND PS its so silly and shortsighted to dump on the kids protesting Palestine when they are getting the seasoned experience you all will need on your side (agents provocateurs, Cointelpro etc) when it happens, judging from the innocence I saw on Jan 6. Later, taters :)
"House Cleaning is the nice way of putting it." well I don't want this crowd to think I am some sort of blood thirsty so in so, you know? I have an image to maintain.
Later Jay
P.S. did you get the Prez you wanted or is your money going to Israel soon?
which prez do you think I wanted? why would my money ever go to Israel? best I recall, I "forgot" to vote in 2020. this year I wont make that mistake ;) the NY verdict made that abundantly clear.
Hey Pamela! I think I know you from my time in the PNW
Id go buy beachfront property in Gaza if I wanted to throw my money away and live in an international Pariah state. was that somehow your (convoluted) point?
Claudia Sheinbaum?<--- You said you were in Mexico.
Don't buy the beach front there (Gaza); it may be hit by an expensive wayward floating pier.....
Later Jay
Yeah, things are much better in Mexico. What was it, somewhere between 14-24 politicians murdered during the latest campaign?
Just incredible.
Later Jay
Jeff has not said this actually. He has correctly pointed out that every technological development was expected to end jobs for lower and middle classes, since at least the industrial revolution. The panic was never justified. Economies shift and adjust.
you're kidding, right? we hear constantly in this column and EVERYWEHRE how shitty things are for working people - and you think the panic was not justified? LOL. SMH. I guess we can see which side your bread is buttered on!
No, the panic was NO justified, on any level.
EVERYTHING they mandated was either useless or downright harmful and deadly. Masks? They mandated them to keep a virus of .028 microns diameter from entering our lungs. The smallest holes in tose masks are 300 microns. YOU do the maths and tell me how a chain link fence will SOP the horde of mosquitos from coming into my house. MNot ony are they worse than useless stopping that tiny viral article, they make folks hypxic (oxygen depleting), harbour moulds, yeasts, bacteria, fungi, dispensing them INTO our lungs at elevated rates, they fprevent proper dispersal of carbon dioxide as we xhale, thus poisoning us by high CO2 levels.
That was one of the better mandates, too.
When I read that the new mRNA technology, I said WHAT is that tech? Never heard of it. So I looked it up. Once I read that I decided NO WAY will I EVER take that shot. Guaranteed trouble, no way out.
That will programme my own body to manufacture the poison spike protein indefinitely, no "off switch". How can that possibly benefit anyone? WHY would I think it is a benefit to reprogramme my own body to make more of the very poison I am trying to avoid? Then they began mandating THAT poison jab for certain classes of people.
Um, i think you're confused. Nowhere did i mention mandates. This is about AI and "technological advances "
Things being bad for working people right now is not because of technological advancements, though. Like every advance, AI will disrupt the status quo, many people will have a rough time, but in the very long run it will be beneficial.
When you hear someone fearmongering about how something will "destroy farming jobs!" (for example), you should translate that in your head to the statement: "We no longer need such a large number of people laboring in the fields in order to produce enough food. Some of those people can now find other work, and society in aggregate now needs to work just a little bit less in order to have a comfortable life."
This is how large numbers of working-class people ended up with a 40-hour working week, instead of spending every daylight hour working the fields just to put food on the table as in the medieval days.
Will this pave the way for most field laborers going back to their countries of origin???
I mean, it's possible. I wasn't actually suggesting that farming innovation was going to happen right now, it was more an example of how technology advances are described as "bad" when they're actually good overall. The current technology concern is with AI... maybe all the code-monkey laborers will go back to their countries? 😉 Although these days they can work remotely as contractors anyway.
What, in God's name, leads you to believe that things would be better owned by US...We are already a democratic republic (Owners).
The church has certainly largely abdicated it role of benevolence by giving to “Caesar” what is due God. Shame on the church leadership for this.
It’s funny, I always hear people praising his oratory skills but I think his delivery sounds jerky and I don’t find his speeches compelling at all. Just never saw it. When he was running for president and I first listened to one of his speeches to see what all of the fuss was about, I was left perplexed. I didn’t vote for him, because I didn’t like his stances or platform. I didn’t care what color his skin was. I did initially hope that his election would quiet sone of the “America is racist” crowd but it ended up doing the opposite 🤷♀️
I could never...and to this day...tolerate his voice, having a visceral revulsion to his voice and mannerisms. Anyone who has ever bothered to parse his speeches, that he expects to be received as moral proclamations, quickly is astonished by the acute vacuity of EVERYTHING he speechifies on. Literally no substance, just a string of platitudes that appeal to those who emote rather than think. He used a great deal of neurolinguistic programming to appeal to emotion. I am a speechwriter, and I am familiar with many of the rhetorical and linguistic devices that are designed to bypass rational, critical interpretation by an audience and convince them they've just been awed by soaring rhetoric. He is a poseur, for certain, vapid, pompous to a high degree of malignancy. Short story...he, from the get-go, turned my stomach in a very physical way.
I never really understood why, but I reacted much the same. He learned “politics” in Illinois, for heaven’s sake. The corruption runs deeeep in hellinois.
Community Organizer in chief. “COC”? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-memo-to-the-community-o_b_164392 🤬
Obama is a crook all the way through! He had to turn in his law license because he lied on his application. Remember the crooked organizationcalled Acorn?
Anything democrat, and everything is covered up.
Same for me Tori! Yes I couldn’t remember what his language style was until you said it. Neurolinguistic programming!
It’s for this exact reason that when I heard him give the response to the State of the Union address, I thought, “Hoo boy! We are in big trouble with this one.” I knew his empty platitudes would sound like sweet whispers to many people in this country. Those who operate on emotion rather than logic have always been his audience. They literally crave his voice/words. 🤢
The talking head who said he got a thrill up his leg when listening to Obama 🙄
And his "wife" chuckle-chuckle, saying "All that for a F Flag" or even better when he was elected "For the 1rst time in my life, I am proud of my country!!!".
Nicely done! Thank you. Maybe you could write a speech for Trump...
Totally agree. When he didn’t have his teleprompter, he was no longer smooth and hummed & hawed as if he had an empty head trying to remember his words.
Like Kamala without the giggle.
A colleague had a life-sized standing cardboard cutout of BHO in her office for years beyond his 8 in office. Hero worship was rampant. It was amusing that she did not see the similarities between her cutout and the real thing.
I'm surprised it lasted so long without anybody using it for darts practice.
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Hahahaha! Shooting even better!
I could never stand him, I sensed from the very start he was vacuity and vanity!
I cannot stand to hear him speak. His voice seems very off putting... maniacal and stilted. One you should not believe or trust.
His clipped manner of speaking is a tell that he is hiding who and what he really is. He always sounds, to this day, like he's impatient with being questioned, that whatever he says is a de facto moral diktat.
Yes, the very tone of his voice carries condescension. And his manner reminds me of a little smart ass that has a big brother to protect him.
Later Jay
He does, as does Fauci and Biden and other demon rats who don't seem to give a damn about anything, cause big bro or daddy Soros and MSM and other party oligarchs will protect and shield.
Yes and always speaking with his nose UP!
Same RL (shocker, I know, lol). He wasn’t a black American. His father was a foreign black man, and his mother a white, loose woman. Now Herman Cain was another story. I was SO hoping he’d be POTUS. Only candidate who’s name I ever put on my car’s bumper.
so sad we lost him :-(
Are you the Jen who asked for book titles about liberalism morphing into fascism? When I click on the email with your name on it, Jeff's Substack isn't opening to the place where you left your comment and now he's got nearly 1,000 comments!!! If you are the Jen who left me the comment, off hand I can think of 2 books. One is by Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism," and a second book written by an academic historian and right now I can't think of the author's name or the title. I read it several years ago and had to borrow the book from a university library. Toby Rodgers had mentioned it in one of his early Substacks. Spoiler alert: it's virtually unreadable, but I take the author's point. There is also the history of the Weimar Republic, a liberal state that quickly morphed into German Nazism. Most people think fascism is a wing of conservatism, but history shows us otherwise.
So few understand that Nazis were from the left! And even fewer want to see that we are literally living under a fascist regime. Everything is inside, for, and of the corporation-government partnership. Even NGOs.
yes! that's me. Thank you for the recommendations! I would like to read more on this. Because fundamentally, I see it too. Communism and Fascism are almost like kissing cousins. I can't even see how fascism is even remotely related to freedom lovers like us. We would chafe under that system. How many of us would agree to put the Party above everything including God? But liberals are only too happy to do that. They happily surrender their children to the state, we do not. They are perfectly content with censorship, we are not. If you ask me, them trying to say fascism is right wing is simply more gaslighting and changing words like they love to do. Someone would really have to show me what concepts from fascism even correlate to freedom loving conservatives. I just can't think of anything we have in common. It's time to change the narrative. Let's start calling them what they are - the true fascists.
It’s really just different flavors of authoritarianism.
One way that communism and fascism are different is that fascism partners with the privately owned corporate structure while in communism, the state owns the means of production. Historically we tend to see communism take hold in agrarian societies where fascism takes hold in capitalist societies.
His father was a citizen of Kenya, thus a British Subject. This right there makes Obama NOT a Ntural Born Citizen. Funny thing (no, disgusting) is that NO COURT would ever entertain a case to disqualify him to run for President on that basis. He had also been forced to renounce his citizenship when attending that mozzie school in Indonesia as a youth. No record of ever restoring that status as US Citizen. I am convinced he is not a US Citizen and has not been since the time he attended that school. A fraud on many levels from the git go. I am also nearly fully convinced that he remains the kingpin behind the entire functional US government. Far too much of the history of the past eight years smells strongly of his "style" and MO.
There are a lot of things that are very murky about him and the way any questions about him were immediately shut down is suspect.
I fully believe he was born in Kenya. I recall his brother saying so, and by the way Kenyans received him and celebrated him, I do not doubt it.
where he was actually born is irrelevalt to his eligibility to be President. Which is why all the fuss about the Hawaii birth certificate was a smokescreen and diversion.
The Cinstitutional requriement that a president be a "natural born citizen" is fixed. The definition of "natural born citizen" is also fixed in law: must have been born of TWO parents who were US Citizens AT THE TIME of the birth of the candidate. With his pappy a British Subject, he could have been born in the WHite House and he still would not be a Natural Born Citizen.
Kamala Harris is ot NBC either. Her Mum is citizen of I believe India, thus also a British Subject if I am not msitaken (depending on when she was born) , and her pappy is Jamaican, again, a British Subject. This NEITHER of her parents were US Citizens when she was born. Yes, I believe both have naturalised since her birth, but too late. that was AFTER her birth. . Thus SHE cannot be president either.
And they're so fussed about some checks signed to shut the mouth of a tramp.,
When I first heard him speak his voice made me sick in the pit of my stomach. It was a visceral reaction to the cadence of his voice. I knew he was bad news and whenever he came on the tv I would change the channel. I read that he studied a certain style of speaking that has a way of almost hypnotizing people.
Let's not forget that he also had, either inherently or acquired, the Black style of oration.
Demonic?
He has been awful for this country! And sadly he continues in its destruction! Aka OBiden 😈😈
Today on Twitter he explained Biden’s new stand for Gaza peace ...eloquently written ofcourse. It seems that they know they are not in a good place, so Obama has to talk for mumbling pathetic Joe.
So yea, he's back!!!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/radical-barack-obama-comes-shadows-announces-joe-bidens/
Ugh 😝
Omigoodness... that's how I deemed the one (and only) B.O. speech that invaded my hearing. Jerky! Stop/Start! (like my daughter's college roommate who drove me to the airport and must've partially braked 20 times in the half hour ride!)
From that first speech, his voice actually nauseated me... much like the aforementioned car ride.
I love that analogy, excellent!! 😆😁
because he IS very racist himself. His upbringing was very priviledged, elite, and I am convinced this causes him (even today) to look down upin and revlie those of his own race that are not his equals.. What is even kore disgusting is that he utterly despises many brilliant men I have come to appreciate and respect who are full black.. Thomas Sowell, the SCOTUS justice, and others. His unjustified glorification and defense of that Florida punk criminal who got himself killed when trying to kill George Zimmerman was the final decisive point for me. He even disparagingly referred to George as "white hispanic" Not racist? And the sun don't ever shine in Florida either.
I agree. He’s an elitist through and through.
that is what MIK ULtra sounds like. Manchurian Candidate
You and I are sharing the same brain, RL. These are my exact thoughts about "The Lightbringer."
Exactly!
Everyone has their own opinion, but to be fair, he did have a deepish voice which was nice and is attractive for a man.. Neither Trump or Biden do, nor did Clinton or Bush come to think of it.
Huh I don’t think of his voice as deep for some reason? But it’s an interesting thought, I wonder how much those kinds of things influence people?
Lol, well it didn't influence me at all! Just listened to a clip..maybe it wasn't that deep, perhaps 'resonant' is more applicable?
Oh yes I get what you mean better with “resonant”. More about the timbre of his voice then.
And I wasn’t implying that you were influenced, sorry if it sounded that way! Just musing about how much things like that might unconsciously affect people’s perception.
I understood what you meant! 😎
It was all his affected "folkism" which grated on me the most. I hate being referred to as "the folks." Ugh. And the accents (one of the most refreshing things about Trump is he never presents himself as anyone he isn't - you won't find him donning some costume to go to the UFC fight and you won't hear him adopt a fake accent to fit in at a NASCAR race).
Yeah. I even went to his inauguration. But when he showed no inclination to actually fight for us, I quickly became disillusioned. He was just like the rest of them. Beholden to someone or something
I’m happy you found the way out of your psychological corn maze. Now, help as many out as you can.
I actually think it is much worse than just being fooled by a resonant, nicotine-stained voice.
People need to wrap their minds around the obvious fact that Ubu was and is a Trojan Horse, inserted in the American political system by the globalists that are still running it to destroy our culture and economy. (Remember "I'm a citizen of the world," and pastor "America's chickens coming home to roost"?) Who do you think desperately needs for us to fight two wars with other super powers, neither of which we have a chance of winning?
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I always found something amiss in him as if he was hiding a deep secret, had sold his soul.
He was articulate, yet nothing ofsubstance came out of his mouth..he spoke out of both sides of it, albeit eloquently.
IMO, his wife is far more normal, like her or not.
I think we now know his secret: he's gay and it's possible his wife is/was a dude. Speaking out of both sides of one's mouth is pretty common for closeted gays. See also: Graham, Lindsey.
I think it is far deeper than just being gay or bi or asexual or whatever. I think it is what Castellato above said..he was put in by the NWO globalists.
I do know that George Soros said at the end of his terms that he was disappointed.
I will assume that was said because he did not fully and completely accomplish what they
had him set out to do.
sounds about right.
I I think that if you want to convince people that Obama was shallow, had bad policies was only interested in money, and was a bad president you may do so legitimately and perhaps convince people with a deep analysis of where Obama went wrong. However, if all you say about him is that he's gay and his wife is a dude you lose a lot of people including me. You have no proof of either and are doing exactly what we excoriate conservatives for doing , spreading lies and gossip I don't frankly care what their sexual orientations are or what deep Secrets they have. I am interested in what their policies were and how they LED this country astray. The other is just gossipy rumor-mongering and all we would do is convince the people that our side is as nutty as theirs
Actually there is good but suppressed evidence of his homosexuality, just like there is good but suppressed evidence that he was born in Kenya (look through my posts & check out papers when he was running for Senate that identified him as Kenyan born & his fake Hawaiian birth certificate that identifies him as black when the official term was Negro, long before black was a thing.
You can be offended by the truth, but don’t wear it as a badge of honor, it only makes you look stupid and petty.
Not even suppressed, re: his homosexuality, since in his latest biography, he wrote to a friend that he ...his words, not mine...fantasizes about making love to other men every day. As far as Kenya goes, he himself got that narrative going, by his 'about me' with his literary agency, in which---for 18 years, it was stated that he was born in Kenya. His biographer also candidly admits that 0bama's autobiographies are best read as fictional novels, with 0bama being a composite character. In any case, there is virtually NOTHING about his provenance and narrative that is not hidden in fog. His birthplace, his real father, his time spent in 'Pawkeestan', why he views the Muslim call to prayer as *the prettiest sound on earth*, how an alleged Columbia graduate with not even minimal honors somehow managed to pull off an uber-competitive seat at Harvard Law ( for reference Harvard Law requires a 3.8 or 3.9 GPA for applicants...0bama hadn't even met the GPA to earn cum laude honors, the lowest level of the honors tier)
In other words, a total fraud, charlatan, grifter in every which way, kinda like the Democrat POTUSs before and after him. But the MSM had all that information available to them (and I am sure that some actually looked at it) and they lied and covered for him in spite of that, because they were determined to have a Haf-rican American POTUS come out of the Dim ranks, not some accomplished full American black such as Ben Carson, or the entrepreneur whose name escapes me, be the first Black POTUS. We are being ruled in the shadows (and not so much in the shadows) by a cabal of leftist treasonous antiAmerican leftists who do the bidding of people like Soros and others deeper in the shadows -- Likely CIA types since 1963.
POTUS DJT in 2024, RFK as special assistant for dismantling the security state and the biopharmaceutical cabal and 3 letter agencies.
Kash Patel for something and it is too late for me to fill out his administration with my wish list.
Obama was the first homosexual Kenyon/Indonesian Muslim to be elected as president of the United States solely because he was black. It amazes me that people think a paid newspaper advertisement of a birth proves he was born in Hawaii. The grandparents probably just wanted to let everyone know their daughter gave birth. It was certainly the easiest way to let people know and to have a memento.
Half black.
People didn’t vote for his white half 😂🤣😂
Love it!!😂
Mulatto
Actually, if you go by the statistical demographic information gathered by the government (from early childhood development centers)Obama would have been categorized as white since his birth mother was white. However, I consider him black or biracial. If one didn’t know his lineage they would think he was black by looking at him. He obviously self-identifies as black.
Although the birth certificate proffered to the press when he was illegally running for POTUS listed his race as black, something other than white (Caucasian?) or Negro the official categories at the time. The stupid naive bought off MSM press were too intoxicated by this cipher to investigate, or if they investigated, they covered it up. So, just like Ukraine who is ruled by a tyrant (Z's term expired last month), we were ruled by a tyrant for 8 years when he was illegally occupying the White House. Sheriff Arapaho raised all sorts of questions about his birth certificate (likely a forgery with computer forensics at the time. I don't know if this issue was brought up at the time.
If anyone brings this up now, you are automatically labeled racist (a label that has lost its sting from overuse), but it is as clear as anything that we have been ruled by a tyrant from 2009 through 2017 who then instituted an attack on the legitimate POTUS from the day he was inaugurated until after he left office, and has resumed when he started running for POTUS again.
We are being ruled by unindicted criminals running free.
The US is no longer a constitutional republic, but a tyranny.
I know Sage Steel got into trouble asking why he always referred to himself solely as "black" and not biracial given his parentage. She took alot of flack in asking the question. She, herself, has a black father and white mother.
Have you read Rising Star by David Garrow?
No, thanks for the reference, but I have better things to do, and have already decided that he was an illegitimate POTUS, a tyrant (definition of a tyrant is illegitimate ruler, regardless of the character of his reign, but clearly his reign also fit the popular conception) and a traitor (see my nearby post).
Ha! Well, first I was half-joking. Second, we do have evidence. You may not like the evidence. You may not think it's enough, but it's there. The real question is: why dismiss the evidence? Reminds me a lot of how Lewinsky was dismissed as just a "vast right wing conspiracy" or Epstein was a "right winger's wet dream."
The point is: if someone is deceitful regarding something so central to who they are, then it calls into question everything about them, everything they say they are or say they believe. If they can lie about that, they can lie about anything. So, it is 100% germane to them as a leader. To live as someone you are not would be the very definition of "shallow" and deceitful.
FWIW, I don't personally care if he's gay. I was just answering the question as to 'why' he always seemed to be hiding something. Which BTW is also an entirely legit feeling to have and question to have of leadership. Transparency, authenticity, etc. matter.
It's not gossip-mongering, when he himself admits in a written letter to a friend, that he fantasizes about making love to other men, every day. His words, not mine. This coming from a *married* man, who apparently acquired a wife as a beard, at the *Reverend* Wright's down-low we'll-find-a-beard-for-you club. So his being gay is actually material to how he allowed the gay activists to elevate LGBQ into special rights* that were used as a wedge to deconstruct the churches' and public's guarantees of freedom of religious expression.
Agree. I contacted congress weekly in those days. From the Iraq war debacle. Faxed and watched votes closely. I sent letters to the editors and contributed to who I saw might be good candidates. I don’t believe it helped a tinkers d@mn now. I’m old. I’m over it. I will vote however.
I wrote him regularly too. He got elected to the Senate for being so anti-Iraq War which I agreed with but then once there he voted to fund it every single time!
Rising Star by David Garrow has probably the most accurate account of who Obama really is. He began writing the biography out of admiration until sources began speaking out. The book has been suppressed for year since it came out in 2019.
Boom! There it is....... 2 war mongers in nice suits.
Later Jay
Comedian Joan Rivers was dead following a routine surgery after revealing this.
O’bummer is simply creepy and disturbing.
https://published.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/03/what_i_learned_from_obamas_pop.html
Not a "her."
Normal, MO? I think not. If you think so expose yourself and list 5 things you think are normal...
Lol, I knew that would trigger somebody. I don't want to hate just to hate. I like to be objective. I don't find her particularly charismatic or likeable, but atleast she has some semblance of a personality which isn't a facade, like her husband.
Could be. I don’t even think about him much any more. I threw out all my inauguration memorabilia although it was a very exciting event I’m glad I got to go to. It meant more to me then. Represented what I thought about my country back then. My thoughts have changed on that subject now, sadly.
I will never forget M Obama saying he/she was now proud of his/her country after BHO was elected. 😡
He was attracting flies also!
Not so much hope and change after all, just another, a. Neocon tool, b. Another democrat chicken shit who wasted his congressional majority. The backlash against him nullified anything worthwhile he may have done or tried to do. The whole party though dreads bold action and constantly snatches defeat from the jaws of victory. Both parties are captured by their owners but put on little displays to convince us otherwise
And not to mention the criminal level of racial discord he sowed.
I saw through him from the time I saw his first interview. He had a very sketchy past but checked all the boxes for the DemonRATS. He was a useful puppet being used by the globalists to destroy the USA while enriching himself and his leftist masters.
also went from senator for what a year to all of a sudden president?!
Jr. Senator of Illinois. He had a meteoric rise that reminds one of the Biblical description of the Anti-Christ.
As scripture says, there have been many antichrists going back as far as the time of the apostles. Every age seems to produce a prime one, waiting in the wings for Satan to possess when the time is right for the final drama.
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I didn’t vote for him, but thought, maybe it would be good for blacks since he would focus on problems particular to blacks which may improve race relations. As we all know he did the opposite. He bonded with and supported Muslims, not black Americans. He divided us just like the Marxist playbook taught him. There are the liberal educated white & blacks vs America-loving citizens.
It got to the point where I refused to watch his arrogant swagger or hear his stilted voice. He hates America even though he’s gamed the system & enriched himself while doing his level best to destroy our freedom.
I pray to God there is retribution
CIA candidate, groomed from birth. check out his parents.
Cleans up well and is articulate. LOL
Yes, and White Guilt works wonders, doesn't it?
Later Jay
I’m not guilty about anything. Big fat brush you use here. I’m a convert. I see the hate from both sides now. You guys don’t have much to be proud of either.
So, you voted for Obama because you were a Democrat, at the time? If this is correct, I will wipe off the paint from my big fat brush. But, my statement still stands; WG is another psyop-tool used to divide and conquer and it's working pretty well.
I don't understand the comment "you don't have much to be proud of"?
Best
Later Jay
I am politically marooned because I have seen what my former party has done and also the republicans duplicity and crimes. I doubt there is much I can do about it. I changed suddenly after a couple of eye opening events in my life and the realization that the democrats foster a system of child sacrifice and abuse, which trapped my grandchild. I will never forgive them. EVER. I cannot forgive the evil of the Iraq war and those republicans that fostered that war crime and murder of innocents either. We are being had by a uniparty. I don’t give a crap about Obama or trump. However, Biden is a fetid worm that is festering and infecting my country so I will do what’s necessary to keep him and his bag of twisted and stinking snakes away from my family. I’ll vote for Trump and then if he wins, we will see if he can do anything DESPITE the republicans I see around. We have to help him, though. I do realize there are good and ready to fight republicans also. I’m old. Like I probably won’t hear the next crop of cicadas in 17 years, will I see a renewed country by then? . Only God knows that. Take care, Jay. I’d go totally nuts if I didn’t have a place to talk.
Haha!!!! Ditto for me. Who cares about the cicadas!!!!!!
We camped last week in the middle of billions of them singing and crawling and flying around. Dying. I found the natural process as kind of magical and fascinating. If only politics felt that way. LOL 😂
Speaking only for myself, I too am increasingly politically homeless as my eyes are opened to the nefarious and feckless conduct of the GOP. I was a pretty staunch supporter and believed in everything the party SAID it stood for. The blinders are gone. I see it now for what it is - a platform for those lucky enough to get elected to fleece the taxpayer and obtain and wield power. Sadly, the Democrats are much better at the game and the only thing preventing the Republicans from ascending (or descending depending on your point of view) to such debauchery is their incompetence. Now, I have to stick with the man who is a disruptor - for better or for worse.
With you there Janet.
Best
Later Jay
You are right. We don’t have much to be proud of. I’ve never voted for and won’t vote for a Democrat. But, I’m also a convert. I hate the Republicans almost as much as the democrats. All either party cares about is greed and power. I say, welcome. We need more converts who love America 🤗
Yes. We need more "Heritage Americans" who love this country and her ideals and the promise of it.
This is true. Lack of objectivity is not a good thing on either side of the political spectrum.
I didn’t take that as a direct comment from Jay to you specifically Janet, but more in general, that many white people seemed to want to vote for him to assuage their feelings of guilt for their “privilege.” Which I think was true for some people. Of course I could be mistaken as to the intention of the comment, but that is how I read it.
There is truth in that, runninglogic. If I thought about it harder, I’m sure I felt some. I did remember some MLK quotes at the time that were uplifting. I felt at the time that Obama was competent. I was also super ticked off about Bush and the Iraq war. I no doubt had a form of BDS. I feel more justified in that. He initiated a lot of destruction and I consider that war totally illegal and against mankind. Our soldiers deserved better. The Iraqis didn’t deserve it, but then again, war unleashes the whirlwinds. Cheers.
I understand those feelings. I wasn’t a huge fan of Bush and didn’t vote for him the first time mostly because I really really hate the idea of political dynasty families. I voted for him reluctantly the second time though. When I first heard about Obama I thought he sounded ok and might have a new and fresh approach (not that I considered voting for him because the Democrat platform was just too far away from my values and views) but when I actually listed to his speeches and debates, I really didn’t understand what all the hype was about. I thought he sounded trite and disingenuous. Especially his slogan, which I always laughingly say he stole from Bob the Builder 😆
It sounds to me like Obama took advantage of people’s desire to move beyond racism and abused their good faith, like Bush took advantage of the other side’s patriotism and abused our good faith 😕 Now that we have our eyes open hopefully we can avoid these kinds of grifters in the future.
Again, speaking only for myself, there are latecomers to BDS :).
I heard people explicitly state they voted for Obama as a sort of fig leaf offering to finally, FINALLY, put race behind us. Little did we know Obama was very serious about "transforming the country" to the race-obsessed and divided country it is today. It really breaks my heart.
Yes, you are 100% correct Sir and I wasn't striking at Janet (although I can see how she may have thought that).
Later Jay
Thanks, I am glad I interpreted your post correctly and helped clarify for Janet 🙂
(And it’s Ma’am btw 😉)
Lot of retards out there.
O'Biden said that he was "Clean and articulate." Seriously? I'd think that would only be a complement to someone living under a bridge.
... what Biden said. God Almighty, the hypocrisy of the Dems.
I don't listen to one thing that despicable liar and NWO puppet says. 🤷🙄😕
When I hear him speak I hear a condescending tone. A friend told me his rhythm and hand movements are hypnotic 🤷🏻♀️and he mass hypnotized people into buying his persona.
He does not seem like a real person. Does anyone really know him well, like a friend?
Infact, the last interview before they left the WH was with Oprah. She was speaking to Michelle, and he happened to walk by and stopped to speak for a minute..but there was a sense of hate (?)in him, definitely not friendliness or warmth (which you would think he would have for such a supporter). It was wierd.
Or was it? We were *told* that he was warm, but was he?
I remember hearing that he didn't speak to people the way Bill Clinton did with staff. He didn't want conversations.
Strange man.
He seems disconnected to human emotion. A narcissistic empty vessel.
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Yes an empty vessel describes it well, sort of, but maybe just empty of goodness and instead filled with something kind of dark.
His own biographer admits to *Barack Obama* as being a 'composite character' and that his autobiographies are best read as fiction, novels.
Always with his nose stuck firmly skyward. Thought he was above everyone else.
He used neurolinguistic programming...yes, basically hypnotizing susceptible listeners ( we are not all susceptible to hypnosis...I am not...whew! ). That is one of the reasons, I think, that so many of us were/are physically repelled by his voice and linguistic mannerisms. His manipulative tics are recognizable even on a subconscious level, leading to the physical disgust.
Yes! That’s what my friend said, he learned about in a college class. That’s why all the politicians, he said it started with Kennedy, use the hand gestures. He said once he saw Obama speak he just knew. I talk to a lot of different people all day long, so I have a pretty good BS meter.
Ever notice how so many public figures, when speechifying, use the gesture of touching the tip of the index finger to the tip of the thumb when *making a point* that they want you to remember, and usually followed by applause? It's a useless, inane gesture, unlike pointing or stabbing the air, which are instinctive to most people trying to make a genuine point, not an affect like the thumb/finger gesture that is a forced cover for dishonesty.
I remember Clinton using that the most.
Trump does that gesture a lot...
I kinda get a little sea-sick when I focus on the hand-thing that the politicians are doing. Kamala and Trudeau are especially prolific.
Yes, someone told me they're "pure NLP." (neuro-linguistic programming)
I recall my older sister feeling uneasy and telling me don’t look at him or listen to him speak. She was convinced he was the antichrist. Definitely something creepy and insincere and even evil about him.
Obama is a Narcissist!!
It's interesting you say that your black friends were a factor, so were mine! One was from Zimbabwe and and one from Dominica, and they weren't fooled by Hussein. They did their best to warn their black friends.
But then again, we all attended an Assembly of God church back then that taught the Bible, and hung out Sunday after church to discuss ''EVERYTHING.''
It was a period in my life when I studied doctrines and comparative religion (including the rudiments of Buddism, Islam...) and more firmly developed my personal worldview for the first time, including working through a Bible Study by Del Tackett which helped me build my own personal worldview compass for things I'd never been focused on, including creation science, politics and government.
I also attended a talk with the Dali Lama in San Jose, CA, and I figured it out, you cannot logically believe that all religions lead to the same place... their doctrines are mutually exclusive. For instance, Buddhism denies the existence of a Creator.
What you believe about God determines everything about how you see the world! Even the Dalai Lama said, it would nice to believe in a Creator, but Buddhism believes matter is what is eternal, and basically that macroevolution ''created'' everything in the world. (Utter materialism...) IMO (from evidence and belief), ''NOT""! Then there's the whole reincarnation bit. Don't get me started.
I read through the Bible multiple times during those years. Highly recommend it! Now, my sister and I are reading it through together, out loud, taking turns. Makes a big difference in my life.
Back to BHO, I DID know (in 2012) that centralized government was a horror just instinctively. I definitely didn't want Big Brother into peoples' (and MY) private healthcare information and it being stored in their big database cloud...
AND I was SO against forced healthcare premiums and the ''personal mandate.'' Why should I subsidize abortions, and trans surgeries on my limited income? I didn't smoke or drink at that point, and didn't much relish paying for those who do! But that's just me. I recognized that healthcare would be used as another mechanism of control if possible.
[I truly DID believe that Hussein wasn't a citizen as defined in the Constitution either... but who knows? (Even Trump backed off on that track when it became a quagmire.)]
[In retrospect, with 20:20 hindsight, I don't like ANY of the candidates I voted for, but look at the choices we are given!]
In 2012, I was busy dealing with my only child being diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age 27. So, I was too tied up with practical matters to get into political activism on ANY level. Except to read, think and analyze. AND I squeezed in a few free courses online at Hillsdale College on The Constitution, and ''Progressivism.'' Which I highly recommend if they are still offering them.
When the plandemic hit, I was heavily invested in the idea of beneficiant healthcare and hospitals, due to all the time I have spent in them with my daughter, but I also have to say I was exposed to how much human error there is there in healthcare and hospitals.
Oh, wow, I am going on and on. I feel SO GRATEFUL for so many things that influenced me over the course of my life that allowed me to see through so much propaganda in 2020 and beyond.
More than enough said. (Sorry?) Thanks for ''listening.'' I love the C&C Army!
PS: Disclosure, I AM truly grateful for Medicare and Disability taking care of my daughter's expenses. Even though I don't use mine (since I won't go to a doctor or hospital...) and pay the premiums for the minimum... I think of it as paying it forward in that regard, as others did to supply what insurance she had on disability.
Thank you for sharing Anita.
Very interesting post! I didn't know that about Buddhism, though they do seem peaceful.
I pray that you and your precious daughter are doing OK or atleast better. ❤️
Thank you for your kind words. My precious daughter is with Jesus now. She passed into eternity May 1, 2021. I am doing okay now, but the first 2-1/2 years were the toughest.
So sorry, Anita, what an incomprehensible loss. Glad that you had your faith to get you through it. Del Tackett is excellent with the Christian worldview perspective. I try never to miss anything he puts out.
I appreciate you for knowing who I was talking about and sharing that, and for spelling his name correctly! I've corrected my comment! :)
TY for your comforting words.
So sorry for your loss.
I’m so sorry Anita 😢
I'm so sorry for your loss
I am so sorry. 🙏
xxxx
Bless you.
I voted for him in 2007. Regretted it before the end of that year and I know what you mean about that voice. He thinks he’s so smart. His comment about Robert Peters can just as easily be applied to himself.
I always despised him. His voice is slithering
I always thought as Obama opened his mouth flowers would ascend into the sky. Nothing made sense, nut somehow many never saw the flowers. They were really words of hate, anger, and division. I saw flowers so I could escape! Odd, but true. His words never matched his actions.
As he was campaigning, before being elected the first time, my wife and I were dumbstruck that it looked like the American public was going to elect a president who hates our country. And an even worse first lady, if that's possible. No sympathy for anyone who voted for him, they're getting what they deserve. Very sad for the rest.
And all along the alarm was ringing.
Jeez, you and Kelly remind me of people who enthusiastically took the jab and belatedly woke up. The whole scam was obvious from the start. The idea ANY criticism of ANY vaccine was verboten for decades had already awakened any thinking person something was very rotten. Same with leftist dogma, it's ALWAYS about virtue signaling, and anti-freedom and destructive of all vestiges of human dignity. Equally obviously as vaccine lies. Seriously, what were you thinking? Not thinking, obviously. If that sounds harsh and uncalled for, I'm not sorry. Easily fooled people are why societies self-destruct. Ya'll sound downright proud to have been enthusiastic fans of the destroyers..
OK. Good for you.
It's not about me. I'm 73, lucky to have lived in the good times. Although I'm pissed about the effect of the inflation on my retirement, which I've had to put off. It's about the loss of a decent life for those coming after my generation. Millions are able to see through the manipulators as it happens, I'm hardly alone. It's a bit late to be waking up. The damage is done. They've taken over every institution. The younger generations are brainwashed by the destructive dogma of their educators, cheered along by libs. They have all the money. So some have come to their senses now? Sure, better than never, we can probably agree on that. Is there a workable plan to take back the media, academia, science establishment, government, and NGOs? It's like not paying attention at the wheel, crashing and killing your family, and then saying "Wow, I'll never do that again!".
I am similarly lucky and comfortably retired, but supporting my adult kids to a large degree. There are so many comments I can't find yours that seemed dismissive and prompted me to be dismissive back. I think you implied I was an idiot to vote for Obama and you knew better from the get-go. I was not so political back then, just loathed Bush and the ME war. Anyway, I'm moving onto the next part of my day. Have a good one.
I loathed Bush and the ME war too. Still, an easy call not to vote for a man who made it clear he hates America and loved talking about "fundamentally transforming" it. Good luck with the kiddos, sounds like a challenge.
OK already!
Whoopee for you.
Are you another who voted for the destruction we're living with now? And proud to have finally seen the light? You should be deeply ashamed. Seeing truth should be easy, it's nothing to be "whoopying" about. Millions are able, I'm not special. It's been in your face all along. Problem is, there are far more who are suckers for propaganda. We all pay the price. Waking up after you've destroyed everything? So what? It's too late, almost for sure. Even if things turn around, immense damage has been done already, because of virtue-signalling Obama/Biden voters and covidiots.
As one who *never* voted for Obama, I think this is the wrong way to react to people who have changed their thinking. What good does it do to excoriate them for past mistakes and for you to assert your superiority for not having been duped as they had? Can they go back and change how they voted or how they thought? No they can’t. They’ve recognized that they were wrong then and are doing things differently now. I guess I just don’t see what purpose it serves to continually scold and berate people. I get that you are angry with them for being fooled but isn’t there a better approach? I don’t understand what you are trying to accomplish ? Or are you just venting?
Venting. I'm not supposed to be pissed that everything has been ruined by gullible, clueless virtue-signalers? Not only that, as they voted for and cheered on the ruinous policies, they thought they were better than anyone who disagreed? I'll never forgive. Immense damage has been done, and it's NOT OK. I'm no genius, the truth about over-the-top liberalism (as opposed to sane, classical liberalism) and the medical system has been obvious to millions for decades. You don't have to be smart, just not really stupid and easily led, by the very worst people one could possibly choose to follow. There are no excuses for those past mistakes, and they've ruined Western civilization, irrevocably.
You're right, they can't go back. You also may be right that it serves no constructive purpose to call a spade a spade. Doesn't change my feelings. Those of us they vilified tried to see truth, and be constructive while they destroyed. I'm not trying to accomplish anything, except maybe prompt some self-reflection, which I don't really expect. What do you think there is to accomplish? The damage is done. We're past the point of no return. I'm not so smug as to think I couldn't be wrong about that though, and hope to God I am. Not for me, I won the lottery living in the USA when I did. The younger ones are the losers.
If you haven't seen it, I think you'd enjoy the Tucker Carlson interview with Aaron Rodgers. They feel as you do on this topic, and it's a great interview. You, and they, may be right. I see it differently, is all.
Oh you have every right to be pissed. I understand your feelings of anger and resentment, and they’re justified. No, I certainly don’t think any of it was “OK” and I daresay the people you’ve castigated here also don’t think it was OK. I certainly was on the receiving end of the vilification myself and it isn’t easy to forgive or forget that. But when someone genuinely expresses sincere contrition for their past actions, and furthermore is willing to help work to repair the problems, I don’t see the point in pushing them away. Take the olive branch. I guess I just think it doesn’t solve anything to continually rip people apart for past mistakes when they clearly have changed their ways and are even mortified at their role in what our country has become. You want self-reflection from
them—okay. It sounds to me from the comments I’ve read that they already have reflected. Do you want them to prostrate themselves and beg our forgiveness? Wear a hair shirt and perform self-flagellation? I personally think it would be more productive and useful if they help campaign, persuade others to change their minds, give money and support to conservative candidates, stand up to the leftist bullies, and things like that. Those of us who saw through the charade are perhaps not completely blameless either. Maybe we should’ve pushed back harder, maybe we should have done more. Regardless, what’s done is done now, and we can only move forward from here.
I guess I also don’t really understand the defeatist attitude that all is now lost. What is the point of that? Are you just going to throw up your hands and say it’s over, give up? I am not ready to give up. I also am not willing to waste my energy on unproductive rage when there are things to be done. And I don’t see the purpose of pushing people away who want to be on our side and help turn the ship. How is that helpful to anything? I will keep fighting to turn things around as long as I am still living and breathing and not give up because we face challenges and I know it won’t be an easy road. I don’t see any other choice, frankly.
I agree with everything you just wrote. People who think like you give the rest of us hope. A couple of things come to mind on our different take on this.
People are different. Sometimes you read about parents whose child has been murdered, who "forgive" the perp. I can't identify with that, at all. Doesn't make me right, them right, we're just different. One of us probably IS right, but I'm not qualified to know which one. I'd ALWAYS want the bastard tortured to death. Maybe I'm bad?? OTOH, I really try to be nice to people, unless they've hurt me, or mine.
Second, at 73 I'm less involved with the battles of the future. I see mostly the horror of what they've done, not so much their utility in the future. I care about the future of course, but less so than if I'd be here suffering through whatever awaits.
Also, if I were younger, I'd be hanging on to the hope we can fix the USA. What choice would I have? You gotta fight like hell. I have a less clouded view. Europe is surely toast for many reasons, a flood of immigrants who can't be assimilated is a big reason. Because our immigrants have been mostly Latino, we're luckier there. We DO still have some hope. But not much, for reasons too lengthy to get into here. So my take tends to be - "People like you have destroyed the country, even Western civilization. Now you're sorry? Are you joking? " I really don't care to hear it. It doesn't matter now.
Another thing, they can't be trusted. They were easily fooled before, remember? What's the best predictor of future performance?
I understand your rage and your sorrow. Your explanation of your feelings makes sense to me. I guess it’s just that, I feel like we need all hands on deck and if people are ready to help us fight, regardless of their position before, we should let them. Maybe it will also help them feel as if they are redeeming themselves a little if they can work on fixing things. They may even be able to give us insights into how best to help more people see through the lies of the authoritarians and have helpful ideas on what kinds of strategies might work best against them, having been on “the other side”. I mainly feel like, I am not just going to step aside and LET the destroyers win!! If nothing else, I sure as hell don’t want to make it easy for them!
True to your handle, again. I'm not changing my mind on any of it. But I'm sure your approach is better. More charitable and practical, without a doubt. Funny how that can work.
Oily voice. Oleaginous Obama the Fraud.
Maybe Obama has been placed into the position so Anglos cannot criticize him?
! Speaking of Obama, look who's sharing Biden’s policy on Gaza today!
https://x.com/BarackObama/status/1796633162077855801
I had the pleasure of having to listen to him incessantly because I’m on the South Side of Chicago 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ sooo many friends and family thinking he was Gods gift. I met him because I was in local government and a friend had a fund raiser…shaking his hand just felt wrong 🤮. My sister knew someone that had a gay interaction with him, he truly wasn’t/isn’t what people think he is.
You know that feeling in the pit of your stomach when something isn’t quite right? I got that early in his campaign when he spoke. I couldn’t even listen to him at all.
Hahaha!!!! You + tons of others!
I’ve always for the policies and not the man.
Welcome to a bright new morning - we are glad you've joined Team Reality!
yesss!
I honestly do not get how anyone could have voted for Obama. As a former Illinoisian, why in the h*ll would anyone TRUST a politician from Illinois?!? It is one of the most corrupt states in the union. At least half of our governors (and many politicians) have gone to JAIL.
Don’t even start to think Pritzger would be a good president. He’s tax happy and has driven people from the state in droves. Like me.
Remember when liberals actually believed in free speech and speaking truth to power?
Makes you wonder if it was all talk...
“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop”
- Mario Savio
“ ‘Liberals’ are just democRATS turned sideways, so you can’t see the absence of humanity in their eyes.”
The only reason they called themselves by ‘other’ than democrat is to hide from the absolute rot of the Rat party.
The assassination of Lincoln, the conception and funding of Jim Crow Laws, then the KKK. The voting against freeing of the slaves, against allowing women and blacks to vote. The assassination of JFK, Robert Kennedy Jr and MLK, their push for abortion and any kind of deviant behavior. Their new KKK as exhibited in Antifa and blm.
Liberals are for all of that, but ashamed that it has been made public, so they hid behind a new label. Our nation is rotted from the head down…..so much so that we now actually have a rotted head as Resident.
It is heartbreaking.
Well now they don’t even want to be called “liberals” but “progressives.” 🙄
I like being called a Conservative... stability and learning from history are a good thing!
I agree. Being slow to change is a good thing. Slow change is less disruptive and more durable than quick revolutionary style change. Plus you can change course more easily if things start to go awry.
I could be but Iraq and the bush years need to be answered for. All the repubs I knew personally were extremely bloodthirsty then. And the criminals are still walking around so that side isn’t much to brag about either. Oh, right. History begins the minute one side gets into office. I’m old. Over this crap.
That’s why I said conservative… the Republicans are part of the uni - party. You’ve seen the video of Clinton Bush Obama all pushing the vax??? Which Trump does too so don’t get me started on the ego side of him.
Progs for short.
The only reason we are where we are is that people have ceased to live Christian ways. We are not rotting from the top down…we, the people have stopped sacrificing to live a better way. Greed, lying, theft, jealousy, and selfishness have replaced the Christian value system this country was founded upon. The people voted in leadership that is nihilistic ignoring accountability and it is time that Americans see their responsibility in what is happening. The corruption has been building up since at least the 1990s.
I think long before that. 1970’s perhaps, at least 1980’s.
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I assume you meant RFK Sr. in your list of assassinations. Since Jr is currently running for president.
Several books have been written demonstrating how liberalism morphs into fascism/authoritarianism. I now understand it.
That is why it annoys me to hear them use those words to describe Trump and what they believe he is going to do.
Their projection tactics and/or delusions have taken on new extremes lately.
On a side note, I am very upset because I think they actually may send him to Riker's.
I can tend to be a bit empathic, so I tend to feel more upset than others might when I hear that someone is going through something.
The sheer evil of what is being done to Trump is more than I can wrap my mind around.
Isn't that the toughest part?:
Knowing how it all goes and having to watch it in super slo-mo.
It always ends this way with the left. Always.
Can you recommend any books on this? Having read about a million books on ww2 at this point, it's very disconcerting living in the US these days. I feel like we're watching nazi Germany start all over again.
We are. Make no mistake
Ah! Here you are. In case I responded to the wrong Jen, there are two books that make the strong case that it is liberalism, not conservatism, that morphs into fascism. One is Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg and the other is a book I can not recall either the author or title, but it was recommended by Toby Rodgers several years ago in one of his early Substacks. And there is also just the history of how fascism arose out of the liberal Weimar Republic, not to mention how it has also happened to American liberals/Democrats.
The same Jonah Gold erg aka Never Trumper. He pretty much called Trump fascist one night in Brett Bear. He’s the last one I’d read!
Check out In Order to Live by Yoemni Park. She goes into how North Korea wound up with a tyrannical government and her early life and her defection. It's a hard read but eye opening. She has another book out too While Time Remains. She is our canary in the coal mine warning us as she sees in the US what happened in NK in her grandmother's generation.
I read it before all the Covid crap started and was also reading WW2 historical fiction.
After reading Yoemni's books I could see what was happening here.
It was all talk. It was always phony. Free speech for me, not for thee. It's "their democracy" after all. In their minds, our rights only apply to them. Because in their minds, our rights are government-given, not God-given. So, if you "attack" the gov't as conservatives do, then your rights are rescinded.
The way they see it is: the "right wing conservatives" want to "destroy our democracy," and so in their minds have given up their rights as citizens, much like convicted criminals do. There are too many examples to count.
The only time they ever stood up for anyone's rights was when it was politically expedient for them to do so: see example below of ACLU/KKK. It was basically the left being okay with their own dark side, standing up for their own Frankenstein monster. No different than them today standing up for antifa.
I can't think of one other instance where they stood FOR 1A instead of against it, unless it was for their own people. Abortion protestors? Nope. 2A advocates? Nope. Prayer in schools? Nope. Sometimes they just outright attacked all artistic free speech: e.g., Tipper Gore.
Really, I can't think of one instance where they were genuinely for 1A and not just for more of their own pro-gov't, pro-technocrat, anti-Christian (Islam, satanism, paganism, furryism...it's all good so long as it isn't Christian) speech.
Most liberals seem like useful idiots to the leftist narrative. And the ones that are not are too cowardly to disagree publicly. They live their lives through immature, narcissistic emotion, like “follow your heart” - never learning that the heart can deceive.
Agreed, they are useful idiots. The whole "but it will hurt someone's feelings" is no way to govern, yet they try. They get used for leftist means b/c they can't distance themselves from their own feelings.
That said, Liberalism itself seems to me to be untenable. Very unstable as a philosophical point of view. Like trying to forever sit on a fence (as in: "sure, they rape kids and sew up little girls for marriage, but that's their right, since all cultures are equal" isn't exactly compatible with the idea that all humans have rights.) I'm still waiting for someone with a philosophical bent to explain how liberalism will not always devolve into leftism. It seems to usually do so.
Either that, or it evolves into conservatism, realizing you can't govern based on feelings and identity groups, some ideas (and thus cultures) are better than others, some traditions (and thus religions) are better than others, every country needs its own boundaries (real and ideological), government needs to stay out of the way of flourishing, etc.
I would argue that the tension between old school liberalism and conservatism, that friction, creates progress. Progressives are not old school liberals. Os Guiness said "Contrast is the mother of clarity"
Spot on
Excellent perspective. Agree 💯 %!
I think libs believing in free speech was genuine - recall the ACLU defending the KKKs right to march, for instance - but it began eroding many decades ago and they are now open advocates of censorship.
The ACLU defending the KKK was just the Democrats defending their own.
That is not true. The ACLU defended the braindead throwback neonazis who wanted to march in Skokie, a community of Holocaust survivors, no doubt to get off on the trauma and fear, but they defended them due to the First Amendment, which used to be sacred. It used to be that an American citizen subordinated their wishes and desires and prejudices and politics and religion to this principle, which was taught in schools. We old school liberals would say "You've got to let the Nazis march in Skokie" rather than trying to deplatform or cancel or extinguish speech. That education and that training in critical thinking and against getting sucked into a cult allows me to think for myself even in the presence of intense social pressure to conform.
I sit corrected and regret my erroneous use of the word 'just.' I try to be more accurate in my typing. Thank you for the correction. The ACLU may have had other reasons for defending their own.
ACLU received $10 million from Arcus Foundation to push the Trans agenda
Free speech does not support corruption!!!! Free speech is meant to support freedom…get a clue J-O! Free speech is totally tied to the philosophical principles of freedom, liberty, and the Constitution! Do you ever read the Declaration of Independence on occasion? 🤦🏼♀️
Before being a jerk for no reason, maybe you could realize I said nothing of the sort. I was simply giving a standard definition used by many people, which doesn't have anything to do with your ramblings. Good grief
Liberals still do. The Democrat party has morphed into Marxist/Communist ideology.
Where are all the classical liberals?
I honestly don’t think there’s many left. Two prominent ones that I can think of are Glenn Greenwald and Naomi Wolf.
Yup. Taibbi, Tracy, Brand and Shellenberg are the others I can think of
Mario, Democrats never liked free speech or freedom. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.
I think a lot of it was all talk. Just a ruse until they got into power.
Best quote of the day. Thank you!!
Oh the healthcare was a big part too, I had forgotten that. And gay marriage, that was right before that time. Add the comment about social media/smartphones and women's compassionate nature was pushed way left. Very obvious and sad, in retrospect..
Marriage: It wasn't only marriage that took a hit after the Obergefell decision in '2015.' This decision awakened me to the means by which the enemy took over our country and how deep the control extended. This case showed me clearly that our system of government does not work the way I was taught. It shattered any illusions of 'democracy' I may have maintained.
5 people out of some 350 million determined that 'we' the people are NOT allowed to make our own rules.
Excellent point.
Amen
What did I sense 10 years ago? A sense of the way God had disappeared from being pervasive in our culture. I remember saying this to someone..a real spiritual sense of
atheism in the air all of a sudden.
Before gay marriage was codified, I recall online, how much of the gay community was whining about religion and Christianity accepting their lifestyle. etc..in other words, religion still mattered overall in this culture, until it didn't.
Wow! Graphs like this really hit home. Interestingly, it was around 2012 or somewhat before that I started my journey away from the left, initially because of my bitter disappointment with Obama and a rising awareness of how I was being manipulated by a uniparty, and by 2016 had already lost at least one friend and created tension with family members over my political apostasy. I guess following my lifelong tendency to swim against the current, it's my husband who continues the leftist trajectory while my line probably looks more like that of Korean men.😂
Two of my sons, who worked three part time jobs during the Obama administration, and had no health insurance, because part time jobs don't offer it, lost their tax returns every year, hundreds of dollars, to Obama's IRS, because they couldn't afford to buy their own health insurance policy. I loath that son-of-a-kansas-bitch.
Lol. sad but your words…. lol
Amen
it really is like a biblical awakening, coming out from under a satanic trance. The more truthful we become to ourselves, the more easily we see the deceit in others and the scams of the world mind. I still get a rigor jolt when I remember how duped and deceitful that I have been. The mass formation psychosis we've been hearing about is 'the deceived' all working together to try to protect their sham...a self delusional mind is powerful. 'The Truth Shall Set You Free' is such a simple concept that it easily trips the arrogant narcissistic intellects, who are forever blocked from God and truth.
Same with me Kelli. I actually campaigned locally for Obama because i liked his charisma. He was an excellent orator that made many young people believe we would create a better world and move beyond racism. I guarantee most of us back then didn’t do a deep dive into the effects of his actual politics until it was too late. It was all hope, smoke, and mirrors.
beware charisma. its an attribute that can be used for good or evil. and so often chooses the glitter path of evil
wonder if that's where 'silver tongued devil' came from?
good call
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Dennis Bernstein of KPFA, which might be considered liberal kool-aid on this substack, cried in the wilderness about the Pritzgers being behind Obama. Pritzgers on the Harvard corporation board, Pritzgers (including trans Jennifer in a dress) make buku bucks off trans surgeries, like the Sacklers with opioids. I totally fell for Obama too. The agenda in sheep's clothing was pretty persuasive, and those who haven't been red-pilled, still are in that metanarrative, which rides atop what is really going on like whipped cream on a poison parfait.
Wbipped cream on top of s poisoned parfait. Good turn of phrase.
Well said
Being from Illinois I was skeptical. He double-crossed a local politician to take her seat, they put his name on Illinois bills he had nothing to do with to burnish his credentials to run for Senate. Shady real estate deal with Rezko, dead gay men from his church, opponent’s divorce records mysteriously released, etc. He claimed to be against the Iraq War and had a “famous” speech about it but then in Congress voted to fund it every time. So by the time he ran for Prez his fakeness was too much in evidence.
You finally "left the Left!"
I discovered my mother had "left the Left" when I heard her listening to Rush Limbaugh...LOL.
Good for you!!!! xxxx
Better late than never Kelli! Welcome to the sane segment of society!
Could it be that women ran to Obama after years of watching STUPID George W. Bush and his ilk talking like idiots and constantly fear-mongering about terrorists around every corner for 8 years?
I was taken in by Obama's smooth speaking abilities. He sounded smart, particularly after 8 years of dumb. He lost me right after he was elected, though, when he failed to close Guantanamo as he promised to do. Then I watched in horror as he hugely expanded the war state over the next 8 years. We got more disease scares. Hilary's email scandal (followed by her accusing TRUMP of the things she herself was guilty of).
I worked in Silicone Valley at the time. I had always voted dem. I could not bring myself to vote for Hillary, even tho I would have loved to have a woman president, just not her. The thought of voting for Obama..... my inner voice told me not too. There was something that my subconscious said was not trustworthy. He was a Harvard educated lawyer working as a community activist, being paid by the government. WTH? One term senator and now running for president? He has to be in someone's pocket. Do not trust him.
I had lots of co-workers who were POC. They would ask me if I was going to vote for Obama when he was the nominee. When I said no, they would ask me if I was racist. The first few times I was asked that, I was shocked. I started to turn the question around and ask them if they though I was racist? Have I ever said or done anything that would make them think I was a racist? That got them quiet. I would then ask them if I could have valid reasons other than race for not wanting a vote for a candidate? Voting for a person for race alone is not a good enough reason to vote for a person. Would you vote for Castro just because he was brown? That usually got the point across.
Wish the choices for a Executive Office offered more than mouldy bread sticks.
No President should be above the law, but as we continue to witness on both sides of the isle, getting political egomaniacs (psychopath/sociopaths) adhering to and obeying laws is like keeping kids out of the cookie jar.
Ralph Nader just wrote:
“No One Is Above the Law” – Really Mr. Biden?
"At least five long-standing federal laws explicitly condition the shipment of weapons to foreign countries. It is legally impermissible for the U.S. government to provide weapons to countries that violate human rights or use these weapons offensively. Day after day, Joe Biden has become a co-belligerent with Netanyahu’s genocidal war crimes and mass slaughter of innocent children, women and men. He has violated all five of these federal laws. (See my February 16, 2024 column: Biden & Blinken – Rule of Illegal Power Over Rule of Law).
As the military, diplomatic and political enabler of the Israeli government’s siege, with the unconditional shipment of weapons of mass destruction, along with civilian bombardment and starvation of defenseless Palestinians in Gaza, Biden is violating the UN Charter and other treaties that past Administrations have signed and that have been ratified by the U.S. Senate. Biden and other presidents act like they are above these and other laws.
One president after another has spent monies not appropriated by Congress, has defied subpoenas issued by Congress, launched wars undeclared by Congress, sent deadly weapons to nations that obstruct the delivery of U.S. humanitarian aid, and that do not protect civilian populations under foreign military rule. All violations of federal law.
Donald Trump in 2019 brazenly stated the lawlessness in one sentence: “ I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as President.” Trump got away with defying over 125 Congressional subpoenas, and with violating the criminal statute known as the Hatch Act by using the White House and other federal property to promote his re-election campaign."
If running Trump's "Truth Social" is any way to run a business, I hope that template isn't utilized to run the Country.
From: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/08/trumps-wolves-on-wall-street-inside-the-truth-social-numbers/
To bolster its depleted cash account, Truth Media borrowed $8 million from a Russian-American businessman named Anton Postolnikov, whose uncle has been in the administration of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
According to reporting done by The Guardian, Postolnikov lent Trump the money through his ES Family Trust, which had its bank accounts at something called Paxum Bank, owned by Postolnikov and located on the Caribbean island of Dominica (which is popular among Russian oligarchs for evading sanctions).
Presumably, if Donald Trump were worth the many billions that he claims to have, he would not have needed to save his failing social media company with $8 million in loans from a Caribbean off-shore bank that largely services the porn industry, specifically payments made for what the redtube trade calls “camming,” a live, online peep show.
While Truth Social was camming its $8 million in Russian flight capital, other Trump loyalists were coming to his financial rescue by raising $300 million in a special purpose acquisition corporation (or SPAC) called Digital World Acquisition Corporation.
By law, SPACs are publicly-listed vehicles (often on Nasdaq) that first raise a pile of money and then go in search of companies or ventures to buy. The governance regulations on SPACs are lighter than an IPO, and the new company immediately has a public listing.
While the law requires SPACs to raise money without an acquisition target in mind, it is common knowledge on Wall Street that SPACs often do exactly that.
In this case, no sooner had Digital World pulled down $300 million, much of it raised from influence peddlers in the Trump orbit, than it announced in October 2021—surprise, surprise—that it would be merging with Trump’s very own Truth Social.
That later coziness cost Digital World an $18 million Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC, which oversees share markets) fine in 2023, as per the 10-K, which reads:"
Conclusion: As per usual, once again going to be difficult to pick an honest law abiding politician into the President's job.
One more time: it is not a question of whether NIH employees be ethically allowed to obtain royalties. That question merely obfuscates the real issue: the United States Constitution grants no power to the federal government over health and health issues. The entire Department of Health and Human Services and all its subagencies like the NIH are unconstitutional. They have clearly acted with ineptitude, malfeasance and corruption. They need to be defunded and abolished with the power given back to the respective states and the people.
Amen! Jeff's statement "We need uncorrupted public officials who would never dream of trading on their offices for private enrichment..." is wrong! All public officials are corruptible.
What we need is about 99% less public officials.
I said the same thing! It would be easier to find good uncorrupt people if they’re hired fewer government employees!
I agree with Jeff, the problem for me is, who doesn’t think politicians are disgusting, along with politics itself? Any sane person who is good of heart wouldn’t dare step into that dirty work, which is so sad because we desperately need good people in politics.
My suspicion is that it’s the money sloshing around in politics that is the bigger problem.
YES!
COME QUICKLY KING JESUS!!!
It’s really both. Initially our government was truly run by the people. Those holding office were the farmer, the shop keeper, the blacksmith etc and they were doing it for the right reasons. They had their trades/jobs and the office they held was for the hood of all; it was never supposed to become a career. Their livelihood wasn’t supposed to depend on holding office and trying to never let it go.
Govt grew too big and too corrupt at once. The bigger it gets the harder it is to keep it under control, the checks and balances fail, corruption grows, etc. We need both smaller govt AND good people in office, those who know they answer to a higher power and don’t want to go against Him so they try to do what’s right. Smaller govt is easier for the people to be involved in and to watch over.
The first thing Trump needs to do if he’s elected is shrink the federal government, drastically. We don’t need half of what we’ve got currently, but we need the ones that are essential to be efficient and productive.
All of them. But can we start with the DOE? You know the one…the one that has been brainwashing our kids for close to 45 years, now…
Another reason to vote Trump- said he will eliminate most of DOE
? Did he actually say he would?
yes - in the Fox & Friends interview this weekend
Most isn’t good enough. All is the word you were looking for. Let the states decide - Carter was misguided when he allowed that agency to be formed.
I agree but it is what he said and it will certainly be better than what we have now
Can you imagine the freakout that will create.
would be great to watch - he also need to do away with the other DOE - Dept. of Energy - the states are certainly able to take care of whatever it is that they do and don't get me started on the EPA
He's HItler! LOL
https://news.yahoo.com/news/read-project-2025-see-radically-150202422.html
The constition also grants no power to these unelected 3-letter agencies but because they are on the TV, people follow their "orders." They were all created to do what the US gov legally can't do. These agencies do have power though, more than the government. They won't even answer to congress and are not held accountable for crimes. Follow the money and start with the Federal Reserve private bank.
We elect noone. The money does. Who rescued Trump from financial ruin years ago?
I hate to be black pilled but reality bites.
Jesus is the only way and truth.
James 5
5 Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.[a] 6 You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.
7 Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. 8 You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near.
Kinda like the Department of Education.
It's the first department that should be ended fully.
Respectfully disagree (though it’s a good debate) - I’d go with FBI!
Agreed that this should be first. The impact of eliminating the DOE will take generations. It will probably be easier to accomplish though as their power to prevent it is limited.
Another TRUMP Initiative…Department of Health and Human Services and all its subagencies like the NIH are unconstitutional
and should be defunded.
This 100%^
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New law needs to be that royalties are illegal. Full.stop. Who cares about a law regarding transparency? They’ll just get proton email accounts and burner phones.
Yes.
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Also true, but the incentive compatibility problem makes the evil more glaring, government or no.
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The end of the matter, all that has been heard: fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the end of the matter for all mankind. For God will bring every work to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil. — Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 LSB
9 And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yes, he pondered and sought out and set in order many proverbs. 10 The Preacher sought to find acceptable words; and what was written was upright—words of truth. 11 The words of the wise are like goads, and the words of scholars are like well-driven nails, given by one Shepherd.
Only He can save us- come Lord Jesus
Amen and Amen!
Very good reminder, thank you!
that used to scare the hell out of me! rightfully so.
many many 'witches' were herbal healers who stood in the way of catholic priest dominated 'medicine'. so long as those women were actually healing people, there was no call for the utterly barbaric practices of the new 'doctors'
RC is just Pharisees rebranded. Peter was NEVER part of them!! Jesus was crucified to ABOLISH the LEGALISM that still exists in all other religious forms because men love to slavery more that sacrifice.
the congressman are errand boys for their billionaire overlords. The Billionaires run "Mystery Babylon," which is the entity that is building it's power and setting the stage for the rise of the Antichrist. The tribulation could begin if the land of Israel is divided this September on the Jewish new year in the UN's attempt to take over world governance. Stay tuned- there's another eclipse that night...
Revelation is making more sense every day.
"Pharmakeia" especially, which means pharma, witchcraft and sorcery at once.
Pharmakeia... which will deceive even the elect.... It sure does.
Remember when drug stores were called pharmacies?
This day will come.
Revelation 18:23 and the light of a lamp will not shine in you any longer; and the voice of the bridegroom and bride will not be heard in you any longer; for your merchants were the great men of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery. (sorcery is pharmakeia in Greek)
I’d never donated to any campaign before, but I just had to donate to Trump’s.
I’m proud of my $52 contribution to the total. I never contribute to candidates but this is different.
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It's more of a moral obligation to show our support, no matter how much or little.
First time for me too.
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Same
I just put up a flag for the first time.
It's a sad state of affairs that everyone knows what that "means" now....
We just bought our first one on Saturday too. Crazy as it sounds, I always wanted to maintain the illusion of being neutral in case things descend into absolute chaos and we needed to hide people.
Good for you!
Yeah me too. But these are no longer normal times.
Our republic is at stake.
I don't think that's an exaggeration at this point, Norma.
I’m afraid you are so right Ryan.
We have a country to save.
you put it up upside down?
Yes. The Alito thing is a contrived controversy hauled out now, instead of when it happened. We are a nation in distress.
No...lolol
I have both an American flag, and a Trump Save America flag, and I am planning to turn the American flag upside down. We ARE a nation in distress.
Took my flag down. Ashamed of my country 🥲
I haven’t flown the flag since covid.
Just put up the pole, waiting to get light installed to fly my new flag.
Nice!
I prefer and donated previously to DeSantis however anything to get rid of the nation destroying Democrats. It was my first time donating to Trump's campaign.
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Same. But I clicked to not pay the fee,or something, and the donation ended in like 13 cents or something.
Yes, they take the fee out of your donation it seems.
You donation will show the $2 end even if the fee is deducted.
I think I donated to Ron Johnson through C&C but he is the only person before now.
Same
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Ditto!
The Moms for Liberty here in Florida were started during Covid and are fierce fighters for the kids
We have been labeled Domestic Terrorists by the Biden Admin ..
Commies are experts at gaslighting the public with accusations thrown at their competitors which define what they’re doing. This is a perfect example. THEY are the enemies of democracy and domestic terrorists. The brainwashed can’t see it… yet. It has to get really, really bad in this country before they will snap out of the trance. The Trump conviction woke up a few more. Next will be the ‘knowing’ that we’re in the midst of WW III. It’s started with the elites’ declaration that their weapons can be used within Russia’s borders last week. History will show that last week was the start. If not then, some time really soon. Thank you God that Putin doesn’t have an itchy finger on his red button.
Dr. Malone's sub stack today was on WHO treaty passing late Saturday night and the elites gleefully celebrating that they passed a treaty that has no standing.
Meryl Nass said the treaty failed, but meaningless amendments did pass. She further said we should be celebrating, as did Bret Weinstein on his podcast.
I cannot respond affirmatively or negatively about the situation since I have no basis on which to respond. I saw that prior treaties had been delayed due to a need for amendments, but I suppose the elites probably feel that now that amendments are in place they can move to the next step. These world organizations are simply rife with and ripe for corruption.
Meryl Nass did say that while we should be celebrating this victory that also means we're not done. Goliath will learn from how we won this time and figure out some other way to get their global one world gov't. treaty. But Goliath is dumb and big. It can't move quickly and it isn't nimble on its feet. We are more like David and know how to adapt to Goliath's moves. Nass said that yes, of course, the treaty will come back for consideration and that we'll have to keep fighting, but we're smarter. All the smart people got kicked off Goliath's team when the covid thing started 4 years ago. And they need all the rest of us to push for victory. Come to think of it, we've been fighting Goliath for centuries. Only the issues change and we won't win if we don't fight. I'm hopeful.
Why, because they are Jewish?
".....they passed a treaty that has no standing."
Yet...
I know right... since when did they let that stop them. It's like saying the Democrats pay attention to the Constitution.
Putin did however, last week use his harshest tone/words of the conflict yet, eluding to the fact that many EU countries are small with dense populations and they should think twice before using weapons against Russia (he stated that everyone knows its Western troops who are actually pushing the buttons on the high tech weaponry - not Ukrainians).
The Tucker interview with Jeffrey Sachs( don’t confuse him with the other Sachs ) gives much insight.
YES! Although I sense caution or residual naïveté in some of his comments. Not criticizing, just saying. Combined with Russel Brand’s recent interview with David Martin, my mind is reeling. (Find on Rumble platform, maybe Locals.)
It actually started a long time ago. The kinetic portion has been somewhat restrained. The kinetic phase has been estimated to account for a million lives lost so far. I regret I don’t have a citation. Kinetic phase: Ukraine, Iran & proxies et al, Yemen, Syria, initial stages with CCP, Niger…I know I have missed something.
Being labeled a Domestic Terrorist gives the government more power under the Patriot Act. They can imprison you indefinitely. Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Diane Feinstein tried to get this changed in 2012, but failed.
If Canada, Australia, UK or New Zealand labels you a terrorist group, they can spy on you outside of the U.S. laws and send that information back to the US government. That's the 5 Eyes.
That's why the term Domestic Terrorist is thrown around so freely recently and why so many were quick to label J-6ers terrorists.
damn straight, as soon as you're labeled, full on "Patriot" Act +5 eyes.
I think everyone here are domestic terrorists to the progressives
We are equal to HAMAS according to our President
Honestly, Resident Peters seems very fond of Hamas.
It's because groups like ISIS (only attacks US foes) and Hamas are used by the West for pysop purposes. You do know that Hamas was literally created by Isreal?
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eus-borrell-says-israel-financed-creation-gaza-rulers-hamas-2024-01-19/
"Yes, Hamas was financed by the government of Israel in an attempt to weaken the Palestinian Authority led by Fatah"
and
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
Islam is not a psyop. The 7th century ideology of Islam is what's behind the satanic barbarism of Hamas and continues to fuel its hatred of not only Israel, but America. No matter what the ill-informed "pro Palestine" protesters think, all non-Muslims are infidels in the eyes of Hamas and the other Iranian proxies. The goal of Islam is domination of all western nations. Making this all about Israel is simplistic and overlooks the basic tenets of Islam.
Oh sure, nobody in the Middle East actually hates Americans, it’s all made up 🙄
Iran's Ayatollah sent a love letter to the students in the encampments telling them to study the Koran and thanking them for their resistance. The Ayatollah!
Sounds kinda like gain of function....
I agree … but being given that label by the DOJ of the USA is an entirely different story.. RFK jr refused to meet with us after that
Worse yet, nobody from RFK contacted Moms 4 Liberty to learn the truth about what the group does & fights for. Just like they label him anti-vaxer .. he believed the label they put on us .. totally wipes him out as any kind of leader
Yeah that really puts me off of him.
Thanks for pointing that out.
Wow. This is really important to know. I’ve always couched my opinion of RFKj in the fact that he listened to moms of vax injured kids when it wasn’t cool to do so (not that it is “cool” now). If he is now unwilling to engage with concerned moms, there goes his last semblance of leadership credibility. (Not an RFKj supporter anyhow but shocked at how many Christians and conservatives are, despite his liberal stances on everything but medical freedom.)
I question whether RFKjr is actually for medical freedom based on this interview from 2019. Perhaps he's changed his stance and if so, I would be delighted to hear about it. He is actually for mandating vaccines if they are shown to be more helpful than harmful: "I don’t think we should be MANDATING MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS for unwilling Americans UNLESS we know precisely that that vaccine is going to end up helping them rather than hurting them." RFK Jr. Oct. 21, 2019
https://rumble.com/v2samua-robert-f.-kennedy-jr.-summarizes-his-views-on-childhood-vaccines-in-3-minut.html
Please say more about what RFKJr did to or about Moms for Liberty
We had a meeting scheduled to meet with him & his people .. a few weeks later they learned the DOJ had labeled us terrorists & he totally blew us off 🤬🤬. So much for his wanting truth to power .. he’s just like the rest of them
Damn
Won’t we have fun in the re-education gulags?
Well, you know we'll be in great company......and not a liberal in sight!
Heck ya! God bless you!
Thank you for that!!!!!!! ❤️🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️
We are not a democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic. Please stop stating that America is a democracy.
I hear you, but are we really a "Republic" if the people we elect don't actually do what we voted for them to do? [Crenshaw, Graham, McConnell, Johnson, etc.] There has to be a new realistic term used so people understand how much of the "representative Republic" is no longer "representative". Our constitution is treated by too many on our side as a set of suggestions, no different than big Blue cities' DA's when they decide to not enforce the law. We have to stop pretending that our "representatives" are "representing" constitutionalism.
Levin covered the constitution, our constitution…. very well in his podcast yesterday… 17 minutes… if only the propagandized msm influenced public school (un)educated….could, would hear his explanations of its importance to our republic https://youtu.be/XujKpQ_kZfI?si=jSoeFIpIgo3pOCbA
Yes! He also detailed this blatant MOCKERY of our Constitution on his show last night. I know I am preaching to the choir here, but The American people need to WAKE up.
Yes… absolutely agree 💗🇺🇸💗
I think our side has to get better at using analogies to defend/highlight a point when it comes to the constitution. Most people can't even name the three branches of government. Instead we should use what people know. Contracts for cell phones, contracts for cars, mortgages, etc. Then tell people what the Left is trying to do is change the contract midnight. "Imagine if you signed up for T-mobile to get a free phone and you just have to stay on the plan for 2 years and you own the phone." "Now imagine if halfway through T-Mobile says you have to pay $400 more because they need more money". You ask them , "How would that make you feel? Is that right?" If they are honest they would say no. This type of example could be used to highlight the lying done by people to get elected. The lying by where they send money ($80 billion for Ukraine), etc. The term "contract law" is boring to most, but without the law meaning what it says, then nothing is safe. Start with using consumer related analogies consistently and then over time we get use more "constitutional " terms.
His primary loyalty is to Israel. If he really was America first he would not be pushing to send our tax dollars to any foreign country, let alone corrupt genocidal ones.
Which genocidal ones are you referring to?
Excellent. Thank you for posting.
But you admit that we are not a democracy, correct? My point is to stop calling America a democracy. IT IS NOT A DEMOCRACY.
It's confusing because we hear the phrase "democratically elected." You never hear republically elected. It's hard to say, for one thing.
We do vote democratically to elect our representatives, that is, the majority vote puts a candidate into office. But the true operation of our federal government is as a Republic of States.
The several States no longer operate as sovereign entities but rather are completely subservient to the Fed Gov't. They no longer even have representation in the Congress because the Senators are now elected by "majority vote" rather than being appointed by the State legislatures.
I'm sympathetic but the reality is that the Republic ended in 1865 when the US govt prevailed to prevent the people of the southern states from voting to elect their representative governments.
Well, there are states now who are working to get around the whole Electoral College thing, trying to get their own states' electorals to be assigned to whichever candidate wins the majority of the popular vote. That is moving things to eliminate small "r" republican voting, which in essence builds towards mob, errr, 'democratic' rule.
Heck, we can't even get people to wake up to the plain fact that fascism belongs right next to communism on the political scale. The far left side. So conservatives have bigger issues to address. Yes, if kids actually learned and remembered civics, they wouldn't use 'democracy' in the way they do now when talking about electing a president. But the 'ball' is moving towards that goal line even now.
"The totalitarian/authoritarian side" is more descriptive. "Left" and "right" really have no inherent meaning regarding government, and the terms are often more confusing or obfuscatory than helpful. The spectrum is from no government to total control by government, a scale of governmental power.
It is (now) an OLIGARCHY!
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
Everyone has it wrong!
2014, Princeton Study, USA is actually an oligarchy dominated by a rich and powerful elite.
The people have no say. Mega corporations, strong lobbies, rich and influential individuals, etc..are the Oligarchs who determine what happens.
THIS IS A GOOD READ!
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
Agreed. Even a simply dictionary definition confirms it.
This hair splitting is beside the point, the bottom line is do the elected put the interests of the citizens of the Untied States first? The answer is they obviously don't, either out of raw power, naked greed, or fear.
Arguing about semantics we learned in grade school civics is pointless. We aren't a democracy, we aren't a republic, and we certainly aren't constitutional. The Constitution is a piece of paper that means nothing unless people believe in it. We are way past that as the people with state-sanctioned power obviously don't believe in it. When that FBI agent shows up at your door with a gun drawn because you criticized your local school board's homosexual propaganda, try holding up the Constitution as a shield. See how that works out.
I know this sounds blunt but people really need to understand what time it is. We are in the midst of a Bolshevik revolution driven by raw aggression. Those leading it care nothing about the Constitution, and we need to stop pretending like they do. If we are arguing over technical definitions in their propaganda then we are losing, and moreover it shows weakness. They don't care whether people call our system a democracy or a republic, all they care about is how they can use the words as part of their propaganda to advance their agenda.
When people engage in bad-faith lies (as the left and Never Trump does routinely) the answer is not to take them seriously and politely refer to a dictionary definition. They now control the dictionary, they simply change the definition. The answer is to call them out as liars from the pit of Hell, and to expose that they are evil. Acting as if they are reasonable people who are naively mistaken regarding some words meaning is both foolish and a waste of time.
Apologies for the rant, but acting as if there's any difference between "democracy" and "republic" in the midst of a Marxist revolution is a counterproductive distraction.
Speaking of definitions.....people throw around "Marxist" and "Communist" all of the time, but I don't think they have a clear understanding of what those words actually mean. Marxism is the people having control of the modes of production. I do not see any such "revolution" taking place here. It is the continuation/strengthening of fascism - the merger of government and corporate power/control.
I agree fascism is the more correct term to describe the political/economic system in place when governments and giant corporations conspire. I'm referring more to the tactics being used where dissenting voices are bullied, punished, beaten up, jailed, debanked, etc. by an army of hoods coordinated by those pulling the strings. IMO Bolshevism is the most accurate historical analogy.
But again, we don't want to get lost in the weeds of definitions. The important thing is not what it is but what it isn't. What's happening isn't constitutional by any stretch.
They’re all just a cover to implement authoritarianism
anyway.
"Marxism is the people having control of the modes of production." When have you ever seen this in any Marxist country? That is just the propaganda slogan used during the revolution, not a definition. And Nazism is only another flavor of Marxism. It's all a merger of state and corporate power in one form or another. The first weapon of the Marxist is language. Right wing vs left wing is a false dichotomy. There are only ever two sides to this question: tyranny vs liberty. And now our domestic Marxists are raising the specter of a "Christian theocratic tyranny" by which they characterize themselves as representing "democracy."
The poster was talking about definitions. This is how it is generally defined in academia. That's all.
—“The answer is to call them out as liars from the pit of Hell, and to expose that they are evil.”
This!! ⬆️
The person who decided to start calling out the Marxist homosexual activists as "groomers" and linking them to pedos did infinitely more to slow their advance than anyone quoting the Constitution. And it's working too as all the pride degeneracy is far more subdued this year than previously. Sure the government is still full speed ahead but most companies have backed way off.
Yes, I agree, that was a brilliant move, particularly when they piggybacked on the condescending expression “ok Boomer” used to shut down commentary by using “ok groomer” instead 😁
My "like" button isn't working which is annoying. Funny cuz it works on my phone.
Thank you Jeff! You cut right to the chase and stated it plainly and unambiguously in a manner anyone should be able to understand. The Marxists are using language to control us.
Ultimately a distraction, cf. the history of all the "democratic" parties in Russia fighting for a place at the table between 1905 and 1917, ending in victory for the Bolsheviks and the start of a very bloody civil war and removal of all other "democratic" party members from the Soviet table.
Good point. And I don't mean to belittle those still in denial as most are operating in good faith, but they need to wake up as time is running out.
One has to be able to distinguish the true form from the fake and not be fooled by labels.
SPOT ON!!
Agree until the last sentence. People have to know what the forms of government are and why some are better than others. It's been such an important area of civic life, and had already happened so many times over such a long period that Polybius was able to describe how these forms cycle one after another in about 150 BC:
His eerily familiar description begins on the second page of this text (p. 350):
https://www.yorku.ca/inpar/polybius_six.pdf
If we can keep it.
We couldn't. And didn't. We currently live in a post-constitutional republic. Whatever was is no more. Now they just make it up as they go along on a case-by-case basis.* (*subject to change)
Our work ahead isn't just to keep what we have, that time is gone, we failed that test. Our work is to Create a constitutional republic, or something else altogether. Our work is to convince a supermajority that a restrained government is in the best interests of free people. And free people are the best form of social organization. No, most people today don't believe that anymore, they've been indoctrinated to support and protect their own (velvet-lined) yokes and chains, for the betterment of the collective.
This is a where we are reality check. Facing a much greater challenge in our own nation than we'd like to think.
Interesting view. I really pray we can turn this around.
oligarchy. and really always has been. those rich white guys were perfectly aware that they were limiting the 'representative' part to themselves only. not poor white men, not women, not the original inhabitants, not the imported labor that made it all possible.
The courts, even the highest court in the land does not adhere to the US Constitution. It constantly reinterprets it to mean whatever the power center wants it to mean. While the Originalists stay closer to the Founder's intent than the Living Constitution Textualists, they do not interpret and never have interpreted it to mean what it says in the plain language it was written. And they became even further removed from faithfully interpreting the Constitution when they moved from the Natural Law jurisprudence it was written under to the Positive Law jurisprudence that insinuated itself and prevailed in the last century.
The very first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court John Jay wrote in one of his early opinions, "The People Who Own the Country Ought to Govern It."
And this paper, albeit written by someone on the left lamenting failings they perceive, tells a harsh truth, which is that the jurists who interpret the constitution are little more than "high priests in black robes." Doing the bidding of those who really own this country:
The Supreme Court, hegemony, and Its Consequences
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, December, 1987
https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1371&context=lawineq
The combination of forces at work to neuter the US Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights the elitists in the Founders never really liked or wanted, have succeeded in reinterpreting Freedom to mean Slavery, Ignorance to mean Stength, War to mean Peace. Linguistics. Clever linguistics have made us a post-constitutional republic. Without a bullet fired.
Spot on!
"Rich white guys"... yeah - ok, right. <sigh>
do you disagree? ck out the whiskey rebellion where poor white guys who wanted the stated liberties were soundly put back in their place. as to women, native americans, slaves . . .
You're right. When I first learned about the Whiskey Rebellion back in school, I questioned it and didn't like the weak explanation given.
The American Revolution was barely finished before the "elite" conspired to introduce a centralized government through the bloodless coup that came to be known as the Philadelphia Convention. From there, the statement of the Declaration was slowly forgotten.
YES! In depth study made by Professors at Princeton University in 2014:
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
That pretty much describes it.
We better hope that Trump (currently CIC) is really the pointman of a longstanding group of powerful miltary generals, good guys, who have a Plan to throw off the evil and establish truth and justice.
No, sir. Look in the mirror. Constitutional republics either have active *citizens* who insist on their rights or there isn't a republic. There's no cavalry.
You're so right.
And hope we're not getting swept into an Operation Trust
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/soviets-used-operation-trust-identify-arrest-persecute-anti-communists-deep-state-planned-q-anon/
WE know this, but the fake news and the commies use it to constantly refer to THEIR corrupt system they have managed to put in place.
Wikipedia is ruled by Rothschild comrades, too. Many people, not only kids, believe what is written in commie Wikipedia.
Well it says in Wokepedia that there's over 57 genders. And more being discovered every day. I guess it's true!
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This USSA is Currently a Demoncrazy, Comrade. The Republic you speak of is merely cracked Ink on old Parchment in a Musuem. Jefferson and the Founders always said it Took Blood to Breathe Freely, but that is too uncomfortable.
So much that is Assumed to Be Extant is Not, but the Illusions are falling quickly.
Ok fine… in reality it is a totalitarian state… but it is still not a democracy and should never be called a democracy. Especially not by a highly educated attorney whose commentary I usually very much appreciate. It plays into their narrative. As Rush Limbaugh said, “Words mean things.” Let’s get our definitions straight on our side.
100% agree. The discussions mostly revolve around the media slogan "destroying democracy" (not my language).
I could probably do a better job of repeating the representative republic mantra, although it's a Sisyphean task.
👆🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻…Jeff…. love how you introduce new words to our learned daily brief! 💗 thank you! , Sisyphus or Sisyphos (/ˈsɪsɪfəs/; Ancient Greek: Σίσυφος Sísyphos) was the founder and king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). He was a devious tyrant who killed visitors to show off his power. This violation of the sacred hospitality tradition greatly angered the gods. They punished him for trickery of others, including his cheating death twice. The gods forced him to roll an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down every time it neared the top, repeating this action for eternity. Through the classical influence on modern culture, tasks that are both laborious and futile are therefore described as Sisyphean…. Spot on!
Received this information later today Note: The following observations were compiled by Glenn Ellmers from conversations with Dr. John Marini, the most insightful living scholar of the administrative state. Marini studied with Harry Jaffa—the intellectual godfather of the Claremont Institute—and applied Jaffa’s interest in the philosophical study of America to the particular problem of bureaucratic “rationality” and centralized government. Professor Marini recently retired from a long and distinguished teaching career at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Donald Trump’s criminal conviction in New York last week must be understood in terms of a political war that has been going on since Watergate. This 50-year fight—between the American people and an increasingly powerful ruling class—is the last stage of a project that began over a century ago, when progressive intellectuals imported German political science into America with the explicit aim of transforming the Constitution. In place of a representative government chosen by the sovereign American people, a new ruling class claimed superior intellectual authority, derived from “rational” empirical science and its methodology. The Constitution may continue to exist in name, but it has mostly been replaced by an administrative state of bureaucratic experts.
Trump is the greatest threat to this ruling class since Richard Nixon. He has therefore aroused more raw political passion than anyone in recent memory. Making him a convicted felon is a calculated gamble to keep him from returning to the White House. There is a risk it could backfire. But the ruling class knows that Trump is entirely alone in the political establishment. He has the support of millions of voters—almost certainly a plurality of the American people. But he is opposed by virtually all of the influential social, economic, political, and cultural interest groups that determine the outcome of elections.
When most elected Republicans and conservatives accepted the legitimacy of the globalist interpretation of the 2020 election, they abandoned the rule of law for hundreds of American citizens. These citizens were called insurrectionists and were denied basic rights by a Congress and courts that funded and conducted what was clearly an elaborately staged hoax. The first, and still the greatest, political hoax in American history was Watergate, which first confirmed to the expert class that it could rule without consent. The official interpretation of Nixon and his legacy has dominated public opinion for the last half century. To this day, the delegitimizing of Nixon has given powerful support to the “rational structures” in government which have replaced the Constitution.
Now, Trump must be delegitimized in the same way. It remains an open question—the great question of our time—whether this will succeed. The ruling class is encouraged because, as with Watergate, it has so far successfully imposed an interpretation on recent political events that all the dominant institutions in our society accept as authoritative. To challenge this interpretation risks censorship, firing, SWAT teams invading one’s home, de-banking, jail, and even one’s life. Still, despite the great risks, a steadily growing number of people rise to challenge it.
Not the conservative and Republican establishment, however. The experts in the rational state have learned that this establishment will accept anything demanded of them to avoid a fight. They will bow down to any interpretation and will tolerate the injustice imposed on their fellow citizens, because they refuse to act politically in a manner that would make it possible to perpetuate their way of life. Those in the conservative establishment accept the intellectual premises of the experts, and have made it clear they would prefer to be ruled rather than lose their economic, social, and political status.
Yet the authority of the rational bureaucracy remains insecure until the threat of Trump can be neutralized. He threatens to unite the country around an understanding of the older America—an understanding that denies the authority of the rational bureaucracy. What they have done to Trump, and his response, has now made the problem political in such a way that it cannot be resolved without a fight.
In 2016, Trump was understood wholly in terms of the personal, which means in terms of his moral virtue or his character. He is despised for resisting the “woke” morality of the ruling class, yet is judged according to the old morality. Even now, very little is said about Trump’s record as president. Instead, he is demonized over private vices made public: sex, race, gender, wealth, and private power.
No political figure in our time is similarly judged in terms of character, of moral virtues and vices. (Imagine trying to defend Joe Biden or Bill Clinton by the standard of traditional morality.) But Trump has one political virtue that even Aristotle would recognize: courage. With this criminal conviction, it seems that Trump will now be judged politically, even by those who insist on assessing him in terms of his personality. What happened to Trump last week helped in transforming Trump from an obnoxious personality into a national savior.
Things are now becoming clear even to those who haven’t been paying attention, or were in denial. The citizens of the country are realizing that their way of life is dependent upon opposing the ruling class. They are beginning to realize that Trump is protecting their rights, and he is paying a price for his actions in a way that it is not simply personal, but political. Whether the American people themselves are willing to accept the hardship and costs of opposing the ruling class remains to be seen.
Dr. John Marini is a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute and professor emeritus of political science at the University of Nevada-Reno.
Glenn Ellmers is the Claremont Institute’s Salvatori Research Fellow in the American Founding, and the author, most recently, of The Narrow Passage: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibility of Political Philosophy (Encounter Books).
Andrew Bird’s song Sisyphus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zug1B8DSkWw
Democratic Party: Trump is a threat to democracy!!!!!!
(Credit to GenEarly):
Uniparty dictionary: Democracy = Communist takeover. Therefore Trump is a threat to our communist takeover.
This is the language of "Double Speak" as described by George Orwell's "1984". "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery and Ignorance is Strength." This is the war on language that the Marxists have been employing since the 2020 coup. If you want to know why people seem to be irrational today, this is why. Double Think is the condition of simultaneously accepting two conflicting beliefs as Truth. Contradictions are no longer officially recognized.
This is induced insanity.
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Meme…. 🎯🎯🎯👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
These days, it depends what the meaning of definition is.
WELL, when the question of definitions comes up.... I go to my clear and simple explanation :
"I am versed enough in mathematical models to realize that even cold, hard 'data' is based on social constructs which can not be proven, simply accepted on good faith. What is a kilogram other than an agreed upon social construct with which to look for changes in dependent variables in experiments where the other variables are hopefully, carefully controlled — in good faith. As we both can probably agree, that 'good faith' is incompatible with profit-driven institutions using the cloak of science.
In my specific field of linguistics, the myths and metaphors which you eloquently write about in one of your substacks can also be described through a strong version of Whorf-Sapir hypothesis of linguistic relativity. I believe in the strong version which claims that all language, including this chat, is ultimately metaphorical in origin, and 'common sense - to scientific' only in provisional social contexts. "Before you can talk with me, you must first define your terms" — Voltaire.
I still remember trying to parse the meaning of 'meaning' back in the day. Every word, sentence, or sentiment written here could be explored and parsed till the end of time, and we would still have further refinement ahead of us ... but we are constrained as biological organisms which need food and sleep, thus taking for granted we are sharing assumptions in good faith, otherwise we would not be able to communicate at all."
ok, ok . TBH ...... I didn't write that 😩 . but, i did save it ! lol
Lol... good one. Which is to say, everyone has unstated presuppositions that inform their language. I think this is why Marxists hate Christians so much. We operate from a presuppositional basis of the Word of God and they don't have an argument against that. The Lord simply said "I am."
Like you, I WISH we were (still) a constitutional republic. As our Fred Bennett pointed out, the republic ended with the War of Northern Aggression. The Republic officially ended with the passage of the 17th amendment in 1913 which provided for the direct election of Senators replacing the appointment of Senators by the State legislatures. This officially made the US a democracy. Not coincidentally, this was the same year the Federal Reserve Act was created and signed by Woodrow Wilson ending real money and replacing it with dollar debt instruments printed by the Federal Reserve enslaving Americans to the international banking system. The chains and shackles of this slavery was the passage of the 16th amendment, the Federal Income Tax, ALSO PASSED IN 1913. We need to understand these are all connected!
The Constitution is no longer accepted as the law of the land in our court system and has been replaced by the United State Code (USC). The Constitution is now nothing more than a fantasy used to mislead the American people by those who rule over us.
It occurs to me that a point of confusion here is the common perception that democracy means freedom. The founding fathers abhorred the idea of democracy which is nothing but a tyranny of the majority that would lead to total state tyranny. Their idea of a republic was antithetical to democracy. The privilege of the vote was strictly limited and based on qualifications. "One man, one vote" democracy was as much to be feared as any other tyranny.
Oligarchy: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
Classic Marxism.
We are neither at this point. We are a post Constitutional corrupt totalitarian oligarchy.
Yes! See here: 2014 In depth study made by Professors at Princeton University.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
Yes, while we do have regular elections, much of the electorate (around 50%) does not have confidence elections are safe or secure. And even if they were, those who get voted in answer to their donors not their voters. The only possible hope of getting things back on track are 1) term limits, 2) no corporate funding (overturn Citizens United), 3) ban all foreign funding into our elections, and 4) ban dual citizenship, starting with our elected officials.
May be leaving something out, but that’s a start.
☝🏼x50 but are we? 😩 🇺🇸↩️
Is America a democracy?
No Constitutional Republic. And if people would remember that we might not have a republic in peril.
It WAS a constitutional Republic.
But that ended in 1865 when the federal government took up arms against several southern states.
The Progressives (so called because they wanted to "progress" beyond the limited government of the Constitution) issued the coup de gras in a series of federal power expansions between 1905 and the New Deal legislation in the 1930's.
This exactly. The nail in the coffin was 16 A
100%
That is EXACTLY right.
Please read: https://open.substack.com/pub/the3rdrail/p/ending-democracy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1r71n7
Exactly
Everyone....read the above comment twice...
100% Just read it
AP is Associated Propaganda. Women are more agreeable, which makes them more susceptible to ideological subversion. The same people crying fascism want to give the leftist government more power.
Beware of AWFLs (Affluent White Female Liberals): https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/awfl-dei-karen-affluent-white-female-liberal
Yet there are plenty of us conservative women (Moms for Liberty and Libs of TikTok come immediately to mind, not to mention many regular commenters here) who are not like that at all. Please don’t lump all of us together with those self important harpies!
The L = liberal that being the difference between myself and AWFL’s. That and my heterosexual tendencies, my common sense, an ability to control my emotions, a solid grasp on how to *prevent* pregnancy rather than demanding an end to one and my long voting record as a registered republican, among other things. And no crazy eyes. 👀
Did anyone else find that girl’s rant actually in support of men,and against awfls? That’s how I saw it. I had to go back and watch again to see that I got it right. She’s bashing her own. It seems a lot if folks saw it exactly opposite of what I saw.
Yes!!! Nailed it!
It's an accurate generality.
For example, if only women voted, lefties would crush the conservatives. So it's fair to say there's huge differences in the voting patterns.
Lots of evidence to support this besides this site:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-if-only-men-voted-only-women-only-nonwhite-voters/
Yes, let’s take someone’s rights away because they don’t vote how we would like them to 🙄 Sounds like a great idea, Stalin loved that!
I would argue that women are actually trending more conservative as they’ve started to see the lies of the feminist movement for what they are. And if you think someone is voting in a way that doesn’t serve the best interests of the country, maybe try to convince them that they’re mistaken rather than argue they need to be kept from voting at all??
Your enthusiasm is laudable, and I hope you’re right about trends. But also be aware that studies consistently show what we all know, comparatively speaking women are less interested in politics and are therefore less/mis informed politically and more swayed by emotional appeals.
Women’s natural instinct is safety and that is deployed by evil on the other side in the form of welfare and protection.
May there be more based and knowledgeable women that reject the culture of virtue signaling that seems to be such a powerful draw.
I’m not sure it’s enthusiasm as much as observation. Also you talk about “studies”—can you point to some specific studies? Who are the people behind them? Could the studies be biased? How were they designed? What time period are we taking about? Could they have missed something? Like polls and surveys, which can always be highly manipulable to reach the desired results, I would have lots of questions about these study results. Of course they appeal to a certain image of women on both sides (women are more caring than men but also women are able to be manipulated more easily than men due to how emotional they are) so maybe no one has really pushed back on the validity of those studies as yet?
From my perspective, I see a lot of disillusionment with the promises of the left, and with the hypocrisy of the “me too” movement (believe all women except those accusing Democrats) and all of the women’s groups who supposedly espouse choices but when women make choices *they* don’t approve of, those “renegade” women are excoriated for “betraying” the women’s rights movement. I think this is a somewhat recent phenomenon but is snowballing. And I don’t have any studies or statistics to back that up, it’s just my sense from observing the narrative on a meta level versus what I hear individual women saying.
ooops . Running ...... Logic ...... my goodness, forgive me, I never thought of placing those words as coming from a woman .
Don't shoot me . I believe I see all as equals . ( until they (he, she, or them) open their mouths ) lol
BBH ! (bring back humor ) That would be my first action taken if i were elected :-)
That’s exactly the problem. People have preconceived ideas and indulge in confirmation bias about too many things. Your apology is noted and appreciated though 🙂
I would also like to see the return of humor, taking everything far too seriously even when something is meant in jest has ruined a lot of the fun!
I was reading the directions on how to put a few pieces of pipe together on a DIY project . The question came up whether the piece being connected was a male or female coupling ....... but i just wasn't sure. Maybe it was transgender .🙄
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Non-binary?? 😬
Many of my girlfriends, though well educated, are politically illiterate. I talk to them about important matters of national interest and they simply have no interest.
I have a friend like that from my high school years. She will post such ridiculous things on-line. She has always worked for NGO's and must truly believe that utopia can exist in this world but in her mind Republicans are messing up the whole plan. Of course, that's what she's been told by MSM. And then she will also do the projectionism thing - accusing conservatives of being in a cult. There are truly some insanely indoctrinated people on the left. It's scary to think about how affective propaganda is. They never consider the source of the information they believe.
My friends will line up unquestioningly for boosters and all the latest vaccines. I try to educate them and ask them often just to read for themselves about natural immunity and the dangers of toxic pharma. They ignore me.
That's the problem with a cult. They have already been instructed that anything from another source is a lie and propaganda and they should not read it leat they succumb to the lies.
Shockingly (not), the woman I'm thinking about "suffers" from depression. This is what happens when you have self-inflicted, unrealistic expectations of how life should be. Oh, and for anyone interested in a good Christian read for women, there's a book called Unmet Expectations by Lisa Hughes. It was very challenging spiritually. It is very biblically based and it put me in my place and made me repent of some sin in my own life. It's very long but it's worth the read.
and neither do my male friends..... stupid has no gender
Right?? I mean can we talk about all the leftist MEN who push idiot narratives because they want to be liked or can’t stand to be lumped in with the great unwashed MAGA people 🙄
...NOR can it be fixed.
Nobody asserts there are no male progs. This is a discussion of averages and likelihoods. And it is backed up by studies and trends and common sense. Men are more analytical and women more agreeable. Young women are far more negatively affected by social media use. Etc, etc, ad infinitum.
It’s ok to recognize differences, even if not positive. (Men have plenty of negative ones too, like suicidality, just not this)
Same here. It’s what scares me about the future. They don’t seem to be waking up at all. The standard line is “We don’t agree about this, Becky, so let’s change the subject.” Shutting down discussion of existential issues is frightening and is exactly what our oppressors want.
When a door shuts, all we can do is pray that God will use something to open their eyes. If they can see just one lie that they've been told, most people will come around. Many outspoken conservatives today started by seeing the "one lie" and then began to question every part of the narrative.
I woke up when the forced vaccinations began. Until that point, there were questionable things here and there that arose suspicion, but I still believed the lie because I had no idea how far they would go. That almost every country on this planet followed lock step with the US was another wake up call.
I pray often that God will open the hearts and minds of those that are still closed and grant us all discernment to see the unvarnished truth and reality.
“Like” button not working but I am grateful for these replies. Another observation I have is that the unawakened will indeed accept a total lie, and then extend that acceptance to continued lies. At some point I think they decided I was an extremist and conspiracy theorist, and thus dismissed absolutely anything I might point out.
LIKE, mine doesn't work either
Exactly
Yes. We have plenty of examples of that even just here on C&C and I can think of several in my own circle as well.
We're probably all in that unfortunate boat.
I was thinking examples of women who had changed their perspective from liberal to conservative, sorry if I was unclear.
Same for me. It is mind boggling, and lonely. I wish they cared or maybe they are scared to lose friends and not be invited to the parties. IDK, but I'm so disappointed. All my friends have fancy degrees. I do not have a college degree and at this point I think that might have kept me as an independent logical thinker.
I have two degrees and it didn’t stop me 😉
Same! And even my sister with a Ph D is able to see the truth. Praise the Lord!
I think for all of us, the case is "But for the grace of God, there go I." I consider myself to be among those who were blind but now see (both spiritually and politically.)
I was blessed with a conservative and very rationally minded, thoughtful mother as well as a father who had strong conservative anti-government principles who both always made us aware of *why* they thought the way they did. They were also not at all “follow the crowd” kind of people and I think their example served all of us kids well.
My dad was a hard-working, self-employed, conservative man. I've never seen anyone work harder. I miss him dearly. He worked even after he had esophageal cancer. He only quit working after he could no longer climb a ladder following a stroke. He loved his work and not being able to work was the hardest thing in the world for him to no longer be outside cleaning windows.
Sounds like a wonderful role model. Those of us who had parents like these are so blessed.
Amen.
What is important to these “educated” females is “being nice” - while actually Not being good.
Superficially “nice”.
They do not understand that to endorse a lie is not being kind.
Same. And my female friends or relatives in their 30s and 40s actually get irritated with me because they are “focused on work and family” and how dare I have enough time and bandwidth for “politics” . They have no idea the importance and there’s no way to reach them.
AP is connected to the CIA.
CIAP
Yes!
100% and every Regional Newspaper/TV station takes their headlines from the AP. Best propoganda in the U.S., spread everywhere under the AP.
There are no more newspapers and TV stations that actually do any real reporting.
Local stuff is original, but nothing on a larger scale.
and maybe mr Paul as well ............. ?
controlled opposition, anyone ??
He has done more than anyone else...but, it is still not enough.
Lots of bluster...but, no one is getting deposed.
To be fair, it’s really difficult to get much of anything done in Congress if it’s only one person or even a small group 😕
Agree.
This is where my "pessimism" comes from . Five years into this insane exercise to control everyone (by the PTB) ......... and my eyes tell me that "our side, the side for freedom" has been losing badly .
Sure.... the "leaders" on alternate media are making lots of money from their "talk" . And the comment sections are a comfortable and dare i say enjoyable place for those who are not happy .
And then ? ....................
This is where we need to brainstorm and start our own actions. Keep chipping away. In many places at once.
Many of these AWFL’s live in my town 😭😭 they are also the ones screaming RACISM at every turn. 🤦🏻♀️
yep........ so many "isms" to throw at others.
I prefer adding Urban to the acronym so it becomes AWFUL.
Yes they are far more numerous in urban and suburban areas.
I just got flamed a few days ago because I pointed out that AWFLs were the problem, because there are many of them that claim to be conservative and many of them read and comment on this Stack. Now Jeff points out the obvious and its ok🙄.
Although I am glad to see that some people are recognizing the main problem we have with society is women having political power(every woke cause is promoted and enforced mainly by women, the men involved are simps) the continuing hopium expressed about laws and courts saving us is as depressing as usual.
They are women that can't hold onto a decent man so they hate men, they don't care about you(especially you married ladies) or anything else, all they want is revenge against straight white males and free access to abortion so they can murder their child because they hate the father. Remember when I pointed out how nearly every civilization that was defeated was just the men that were eliminated? the women didn't care, they just mate with the next guy that comes along and carry on. It's happened countless times, why would this time be different?
Has anyone noticed that conservative women are usually attractive but libtards are not? The nose rings and green hair are a distress sign that has been ignored and will continue that way.
Men need to stop being simps. Please
—“I just got flamed a few days ago because I pointed out that AWFLs were the problem, because there are many of them that claim to be conservative and many of them read and comment on this Stack. Now Jeff points out the obvious and it’s ok🙄.”
Elaborate on this please? 🤔
Hi RunningLogic, I'm just getting home, sorry for the delayed response. A few days ago I commented on a post where I pointed out that most democrat voters are women and most women are democrat voters, additionally that most civilizations that have disappeared were invaded by another culture where all the men were killed and the women raised the children of the invaders without a fight and that many of the people the read and post on C&C have the same tendencies as AWFLs which is one of the things that is holding back any resistance to the tyranny we are facing. I got responses from people that were obviously not happy and encouraged me to be silent. Mostly from names that seemed like women. Men want to fight, women want to exclude(cancel).
That was perhaps a summary, to elaborate - I have posted several times to C&C over the years, I believe we may have corresponded in the past. I typically post about how frustrating it is to hear C&C(Jeff) talk about 'winning', 'tide is turning', 'They're in trouble now' kind of stories, we aren't winning and haven't won anything. I have commented before that it's similar to when Zelensky in Ukraine says 'we're winning' because Putin hasn't taken over the whole country yet. It feels like gaslighting and I am sick of being lied to by everyone, I think Jeff should be less optimistic to the point of being like Zelensky and be more realistic. Zelensky may not know he's lying but if that's the case someone should tell him. The point being although I agree with what Jeff is fighting for I am not always friendly in the comments to C&C although I read it most days because there is usually some good topics and links, especially in the comments.
Since I am somewhat adversarial at times, not like 2Benjamins(Or whatever his name is) but about being gaslighted and the continued optimism in the laws or courts, which seems silly to me at this point, and the lack of any discussion of what to do other than wait on corrupt courts and vote in rigged elections, I get responses from people basically telling me 'everything will be fine' and 'stop being negative' which again sounds silly to me. On one occasion I commented on a comment and had an exchange with a woman who I had asked to at least ignore what was going to happen to the current tyrants that need to face accountability for their crimes(it was about the vax mandates and penalizers in this case), she was so distraught by my insinuation of a physical punishment for the perps she deleted her comment and therefore mine, I was canceled(excluded) because she had the power.
In conclusion, to me it seems like for the tyranny to stop there may require some action more than hope, and if by luck sanity is returned to America there needs to be accountability for the crimes committed. I think capital punishment is appropriate for the worst offenders. I think the main reason that most men are afraid to fight, or often times even vote, because they are scared that women will think they are 'mean' or misogynist. Therefore, I think the chance of sanity returning are near 0 and it is mainly the fault of green haired, nosed ringed single ladies and the simps that want to have sex with them and think being nice will get them there. When I have posted things like this, which seems like reality to me, ugly as it is, I get flamed as misogynist by women on C&C, Jeff does it and its fine. That's what I meant about AWFLs being on this Stack. I think one part of what I usually say that gets people is 'what are you going to do about it? Yes, nothing.' An example was many months ago, in response to dismissive comments about how the trial in which Trump was just convicted would somehow go away because of laws or courts or reality. I called out their optimism and predicted Trump would go to jail and included my normal affirmation - what are you going to do about it? I got flamed. Many readers and commenters on C&C are not ready for reality in my opinion, or maybe experience, but I'll still read it.
I hope that wasn't too elaborate.
No worries about the delay, I appreciate your detailed response.
I guess I must’ve missed that particular exchange you are referring to. I am sorry you felt attacked, excluded and gaslit. To me, from your recounting of the discussion, it seems more like a simple difference of opinion and of perspective. You are very sure that you are right that nothing is ever going to happen, and they are equally sure that incremental changes will end up adding up. No one can really say what will actually happen since we can’t predict the future.
To be honest, your assertion that “many of the people that read and post on C&C have the same tendencies as AWFLs” is perplexing to me. I enjoy the C&C comment section and frequently post here and very few other places because I have found that most people are respectful and can handle differences of opinion like mature adults (there are a few notable exceptions but overall it’s a civil exchange). I haven’t seen much of the hysterical angry liberal women kind of discourse here, in the years I’ve been reading and commenting. But like I said, I missed the discussion you referred to, so maybe I’ve missed other similar ones as well.
As for taking action, I think we all need to keep brainstorming and doing what each of us can to start moving the country in the right direction. It’s fine if you think what people are doing isn’t enough. You say no one is doing anything but hoping, but I’ve seen quite a few people here, women included, who are working in various ways to push for changes.
You have every right to your opinion and to be pessimistic (or realistic as you seem to prefer), if you want. Those of us who feel differently also have the right to disagree with you. I’m not sure who deleted her comment or why but when I read comments, the deleted one is gone but the replies remain so I’m not sure what happened that your comment was deleted also? It doesn’t feel good to be erased, for sure.
If men are really hesitating to take action because they fear women’s reactions then personally I think they need to buck up and do what they think is right regardless. It seems like something of a cop out to me for them to blame inaction on those kinds of fears.
I have to ask, what do YOU think should be done? What actions would you recommend taking? What are you yourself doing to move things in the right direction? I am seeing a lot of comments from you lamenting that no one is doing anything and it is all about waiting and hoping, but I didn’t see any alternatives proposed by you. I would love to know what your suggestions are, maybe we can get some people on board to implement them.
I agree that everyone has the right to disagree with me, and that I sound quite sure of my predictions, maybe I will try to say add in an "I think" or "IMHO" every once in a while.
I also agree that Jeff's comment section is great! Smart people with interesting ideas and great links. I haven't heard any women that are spewing libtard hate or anything like that, but that many of the women have tendencies like excluding/canceling those they don't agree with or being militantly anti-militant. which leads into your question about actions. For instance, I personally didn't experience anything during the lockdowns like keeping me separated from a loved one who was in a hospital or nursing home or whatever while dying and I was prevented form seeing them because of some stupid 'separation' rule, that we recently have heard Fauci admit was just made up, but if I had, I would think that something like the 2 amndment would seem appropriate and I would feel anyone that did was justified. Those bastards are responsible for the deaths of millions and knowing that they did something like give an elderly person midazolam and morphine "just in case" then prevent their loved ones from visiting them as they died is murder x2 and they need to held accountable. That kind of talk has gotten me flamed/excluded by several women on this Stack and I have to say I was a bit surprised. I advocate that people shouldn't be compliant with murderous lockdowns and women on C&C go crazy with criticism for trying to fight for their rights and the lives of their family.
Currently, I think the action should be to figure out how to secede or whatever needs to be done so we don't have to live under AWFL rules. Maybe they can have the cities like NY and SF and others like that while the rest of us can try to live in a sane world. It sounds like there is a movement in eastern Washington state for that sort of thing. The world will always be screwed up but things like 'mis-gendering' someone is a felony should not be aloud and people should be able to fight against that, but some people, mostly women, are fine with men pretending to be women and eager to criminalize me for recognizing they are crazy. That's crazy. People need to be less compliant, or what seems like 'feminized' to me. In my experience in life women are usually compliant with 'authority' while men are quicker to use force to prevent authority over-reach. I think I commented before that one example that I use for that opinion is all the civilizations that ended where the women just became the wives of the invaders and mothers of the invaders children after all the men and boys were killed, the women did nothing to prevent the killing and didn't resist raising the children of the murderer of her first husband or sons. I suppose its just the way nature works, but not encouraging for a man who's country is being invaded.
I hope that answered your question about action.
They hate children and true femininity, and project Marxist militant maternalism, fake morality-virtue, and Progressive perversion upon the planet; global threat to society, humanity, even the Climate--they want all comfort and security and pleasure and no restraint on selfish desire
White female liberals are the worst!
When people find out that one of "those", and that I'm a MAGA, Trump-loving Conservative, it's like their brains catch on fire. They can't process what they perceive to be a dichotomy.
As a woman, I am in concurrence with that lady on insta that the 19th amendment should be revoked. Male land owners only. How do we get there?
As a woman, I heartily disagree. You are welcome to abdicate your right to vote, no one is forcing you to use it, but I will not. So more women right now vote Democrat. I agree, I am dismayed by that as well, but you think the solution is taking away a citizen’s right to vote because we don’t like how they vote? What’s next, certain minorities and union members and city dwellers can’t vote because they tend to vote Democrat too? I think the solution is rather to get more women on board with conservative positions. This has already started, as is evidenced by the many red pilled women here on C&C.
Male landowners only? Like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos? Don’t you think the wealthy leftists would use that to their advantage to shut out conservatives by buying up land or using their clout to take land away from conservatives? I personally think this is very short sighted and simply not a viable solution to the problem. I will not give up my vote only to see bozos like Biden, Fauci, Schumer, Schiff, and Obama be able to vote but not me. I really don’t think this would do anything but worsen our problems.
my mother used to say we need more women in power
i never replied cos i had a brain but i look at the women in power and its horrifying
nuland, freeland, horseface, von der nazi etc
During my entire employed life, up until my retirement, I only had 1 female boss during all those years that I can say I respected and liked. I hate to say it but it was true for me. Too many examples to list here.
Oh, no! You got me started on female bosses! As a paralegal, I dreaded getting assignments from female lawyers. However I completed the task, it always need LOTS of improvements. I thought about it and came to the conclusion that when a woman gave me an assignment, she had it in her head EXACTLY how it needed to be done. When a man gave me an assignment, he was usually pleased with the result, just glad he didn't have to do it himself.
It dawned on me years ago that I greatly preferred working with men. They didn’t seem to have a problem with me, but I respected them and interacted rationally and productively and we got our work done. No games. I like men, and appreciate them. The undeniable fact is that they can do a lot of heavy, necessary things women really can’t. We all need each other.
In general, I agree with your statement. But years ago, in Texas, I did work in a situation that I would call "the good ol' boys" network. There was a reason originally for some of the women's lib movement. But like most movements, it was usurped and taken way to far from the original purpose. You are exactly correct, we do need each other, and we need to respect our differences and work together.
Agree.
I also preferred working with males- understood their mentality and no drama.
Funny, my husband has mostly men in his companies and the vast majority of the drama is from men. Anecdotal like your experience but I think men also do drama, just differently. And maybe different settings or industries or company cultures come into play also.
Yes, I agree, some men like drama. In my field - most were direct and wanted to work and do a good job. I wanted less drama than my 4 sisters and their friends in my work place 😂
I preferred working with men.
Once I accepted that men and women are TOTALLY DIFFERENT, it became quite easy to appreciate and accept all the things they are that I’m not. I often tell young women not to expect their husbands to be like a girlfriend. It is a sure path to disappointment and will blind them to his many strengths. Strengths, if I may say, that women deeply need.
I love this comment!
You know, maybe this comes from women needing to be on top of kids with a vigilance, needing to micromanage toddlers, who can escape and be out eating from the dogfood bowl in under a minute, and instead of having kids, where those skills are needed, they bring that micromanaging, nagging almost obsessive-compulsive disorder tendency to jobs. Men just don't nag or micromanage. They can be dominating narcissists, totally self-involved, but they are often a lot better at delegating and rolling with the proverbial punches, and not ever hysterical and whiney, straight men at least. If the thought experiment is that one is to be ruled by women or men, I'll take men.
Haha yep... how many people would find it implausible that a dad would just LET the toddler eat from the dogfood bowl, and then tell them "bet you won't do that again!" when they get a tummyache afterwards?
All good points!
I do think the first wave of women bosses tended to be like that because either they had an axe to grind or felt like they needed to be over the top to “prove themselves” 😕 Also companies were sometimes so eager to show they wanted to promote women that they didn’t wait for the good ones.
Possibly, but for me, I think it was because I'm simply not wired (or maybe programmed?) to play mind games. Tell me the mission & goals, tell me the rules, and once I've proven myself worthy, leave me alone and don't micromanage me. Don't make me read in between the lines, don't make me have to read your body language in order to determine what kind of a mood you're in today.
Sorry but I'm going to have to take away your Girl Card.
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I do think that these stereotypes can be somewhat self fulfilling, I think we should all just stop accepting that this is expected behavior for women.
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In academia 2 decades ago, my faculty boss' wife disagreed that the office for women's affairs needed to exist - she would have been a direct beneficiary of first gen feminism. Office for women's affairs was instrumental in helping with logistical support for women students, staff and faculty (with campus wide solutions). Anyhow, boss' wife referred to women faculty who needed extra support as "weak sisters" 😬. Of course, a decade later, the administration wiped out that office and supplanted it with the diversity dean and his multicultural crew. In the cornfields of Indiana, a hotbed of multiculturalism 🙄
Hey you’re in Indiana too Jen?
I was. North idaho now.
I have rental property in Post Falls and we have a second home in Coeur d’Alene. Hoping to move there eventually (from San Diego) if I can get my BF to stop whining about the cold winters…whereabouts are you?
Sandpoint. An hour north (plus elevation) gives us substantially different weather than PF or CDA. Our neighbor spends Nov to April at their San Diego home, the rest of the time on their "family compound" here.
Sounds like a good plan. I wish we could find an alternative to San Diego for the winter months! One of my former Post Falls renters moved to Athol, she loves it there. I still have sons I need to get launched and 4 aging cats with medical issues, makes it hard to be gone for long periods of time.
How do you like it there?
First time in my life not being in a college town. It's refreshing. Can't complain about the scenery either... Mountains, lake, trees... But because we are attracting all sorts of people, the struggle to keep the woke out is a contentious political battle.
Sounds wonderful! Keep up the good fight, praying you keep those interloper leftists from changing things for the worse there!
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I had read or seen a documentary about Sandra D. O'Conner which indicated that she felt she needed to be over the top to "prove herself." I was really shocked to learn that about her but it was reflected in some of her decisions.
I worked under 4 women academic deans across my 34 years of teaching. All 4 led the faculty in secret closed door meetings and gossip.
Ugh, I can't imagine that scenario. More like a nightmare.
Ugh 😕
phew i was worried i might have come across as a woman hater lol
This is why it is tough to talk about these things. Most women and many men start throwing out "misogyny" and "sexist". When all you're trying to do is point out behaviors you've observed.
I will say this, in my professional career as a software developer, I've worked with both men and women I respect. But when it comes to politics, chances were much greater that the women (who are all as logic minded as can be) were progressively minded. Usually it was "I tend to get along with both sides." It is built in for them to be socially agreeable so if any pressure is put on them from the progressives, especially emotional pressure, they cave even if they don't believe it.
there are exceptions to all things
thatcher had more balls than most men
Absolutely.
My point was even some who seem like exceptions end up not being exceptions without backing.
Anthony: you are safe talking to the women on this forum. We are rational and intelligent;-)
I know that. :)
Nope! You're safe. 🤣
You were afraid to point out reality for fear of being 'mean'? I'll repeat - they won we lost.... because you are a simp, or is Ray short for Raymona?
There's a difference between being nice and being kind. We, as men, have to learn that being mean while still being kind is the right balance. Nice gets us simphood.
I watched the docu Letter to the American Church this weekend. They mentioned the exact thing re Christians: We are called to be kind, but not necessarily nice. (RE our responsibility to speak up.)
i pointed it out didnt i?
im just not trying to come across as a twat like yourself
Same here, only one decent female boss. Rest were b*tches. At one point in my career, I supervised 16 people and was pleasantly surprised when my employees told me I was a great (female) boss. I guess because I tried to supervise like a man would. 🤷🏼♀️
I had several immediate supervisors that were respectable, but the executives were deplorable. I honestly can't think of one woman executive that I respected.
Hochul, Whitmer, Letitia, Fanni, etc.
Pelosi !!!! https://youtu.be/vFmjgbdNNgw?si=uVWSACKNgbOBIAen
This is fantastic! Can’t watch it enough!
Hillary. The poster child/woman.
I am one myself, but I think it's almost never a good idea to put women in high power. I can't articulate why, but it's not bias, it's more like deep knowledge.
I don't know about women in high power, so you may be right. That said, I had a handful of women as professors when I was in graduate school. It was an older generation of women: they did not speak in high pitched little girl voices or vocal fry as they all tend to do today. They were accomplished and wise. We respected them. They were also single . I can't say with certainty that they would have done well in positions of power. I'd like to think so.
The results of women in leadership speak for themselves. Men aren’t naturally drawn to follow women leaders. (Except into the bedroom as Ashley aptly points out) 😳
I always laugh about that because there are power hungry and ruthless women too! Women are not inherently more just or more compassionate than men.
I say, we just need more good and ethical leaders, no matter what their sex or appearance.
Exactly. Meritocracy PLEASE! There are competent moral men and women and incompetent immoral men and women. Can we just find the competent and moral persons to represent us in the government.
Thank you Robin! This is how I brought up my 2 daughters....judge a person after you get to know them, not by their gender or skin color.
Thank you for raising your daughters the right way!
And objective and fair, not acting upon emotionalism. It seems all the Democrats, men and women, have gone down that unfortunate road these days! I hate it!
Agree!
Feelings are a default of the flesh that people must learn to control. Democrats target this weakness (emotionalism) because they know it works in most people.
True
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Personally, I think I was a fairly powerful woman (though I was not in any way trying to be powerful) when I taught school, then left teaching to become a mom of 3. The baby is now 23, headed to GA Tech for his Master’s. I can take very little credit for that, but I must say, whoever the guy giving the speech a couple of weeks ago, who got all that flak but then women everywhere bought his jersey, spoke to me.
And for the record, I did help a large and annoying county in my state get RID of mask mandates for schools, and I did my part to alert people to library porn. That was simply pointing out the REAL books with issues instead of the stupid ones “they” kept pointing out, which were absolutely harmless. Show them the real problem; the REAL issue rather than the crap MSM “digs up” and spoon feeds America, (they haven’t dug anything but sung in years) and people take notice.
The hand that rocks the cradle…
The kind of women who end up in places of authority don't even want equality, they want domination. How do they justify this kind of thinking unless they believe that women are actually more capable than and morally superior to men?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
"People ask me sometimes, when — when do you think it will it be enough? When will there be enough women on the court? And my answer is when there are nine."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/justice-ginsburg-enough-women-supreme-court
I remember some slogan about how no female leader ever started a war or something. My answer to that is "but still..."
I’m sure that is BS, I don’t even believe that. Also if you take the number of women leaders throughout history, there were so few that it is hard to make any valid generalizations. And anyway, maybe certain women were just more reluctant to wage war because they understood better that the women and children often suffered the most and gained the least from it and so had another view.
Margaret Thatcher? Golda Meir, perhaps. And Greek women in Izmir drowned their children in the sea. So did Susan Smith. And then there are Victoria Nuland and Hillary Clinton. Men have no lock on murderous behavior.
Catherine the Great?
whilst its arguable that argentina started the war over the falklands thatcher certainly didnt back down
The exception that proves the rule, Thatcher.
I always remember the fights in school. The girl fights were the worst!
you just described my mother
I am a woman and I agree. In *this* country, far too many women in politics are emotionally off the rails.
Emotions are God's gift to women, a blessing, to be used for good and love and nurture.
However, emotionalism, is not always good in the workplace and political sphere. Emotions can hinder objectivity and fairness.
Many women in other countries have been excellent and brilliant in roles of leadership and other professions.
Infact, they were doing their thing in other countries before our 70s women's revolution here in the USA!
Something about that movement, like all movements here, was hyperbolic and extreme and created some angry women in politics.
Ofcourse there are many exceptions, especially in the Republican party.
Most of the angry hyper emotional women we see in the political sphere , imo, tend to be 'liberal democrats', but not exclusively. (Nikki Hailey, angry war monger comes to mind).
There are also good conservative women leaders but the focus is not often on them 😕
I’ve found most women that I’ve worked for to be petty and vindictive. And female police officers are the worst.
Not trying to be snide, just making an observation. Before women entered the workplace, men had a corner on the market of being petty and vindictive in the workplace. By nature, most women are more emotional; however, that doesn't mean that women can't control their emotions and act logically and rationally. All people must learn to keep their emotions informed by the facts of a situation rather than being directed by their default drives. "For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world." I John 2:16
Most countries ban women from combat because they are too vicious 😉
It still boggles my mind how many physical standards are lowered so that women can be in those jobs: firefighters, military, police, etc. If you can't meet the standards, then you shouldn't be in that position. It endangers peoples lives.
Agree.
Yes. This is wrong.
Gloria Steinem once said she would rather be dragged out of a burning building by a woman rather than carried by a man because the smoke is what will kill you and there’s less smoke on the floor. This logic hurts my head. If I’m in a burning building I want the Hulk to show up and carry me out of there!
Amen. Multiple videos out there of female cops trying to subdue a male suspect and failing miserably.
Yep, if it was all women running things, conservative positions would be crushed and leftism would rule.
https://philanthropywomen.org/political-struggle/what-if-only-women-voted-in-the-2020-election/
LOL "If Only Women Voted, Biden-Harris Landslide Win
The more we move away from toxic masculinity in our culture and embrace our kinder, gentler selves, the better this world will be. The more women (especially white women) are aware of the importance of women’s leadership and practice voting that aligns with their values, the better the world will be."
Who wrote this? Are they credible or are they biased? Why do you believe this person’s assessment?
That's why I put the LOL. It was just an interesting take.
But the point is if only women voted, conservativism would be nuked. Dozens of surveys will show this.
So it's wrong to say we all think the same. Far from the truth.
Don’t forget powers, Jarrett, mills.
Or maybe horse face is powers?
I've been saying this for 2 years!! FINALLY... here it is.....
CIA Agent: "We Designed mRNA to Kill"
.... And COVID mRNA vaccines were not developed during Operation Warp Speed, but were ready and waiting for deployment for at least 10 years prior to the pandemic!...
https://forbiddennews.substack.com/p/cia-agent-we-designed-mrna-to-kill
Correct. I keep posting that the covid bioweapon and the covid DeathVax were in the pipeline long before Trump showed up.
But he didn't know and he encouraged it. A political move? I guess i don't know what else he could have done. Railroaded.
He trusted the "experts" too much.
Fauci had served something like 7-8 Presidents.
Right, which in my mind, anyone with half of a functioning brain knew not to trust big pharma and CDC/NIH with their ever-revolving door....but he did. And he is going to save us from the deep state? Me thinks not. I hope I am wrong.
I was always suspect of Big Pharma. But, I kind of trusted the CDC and the FDA.
No more. Can't fault Trump for having trust.
Yes I do. He KNEW there was The Swamp and he arrogantly thought he could tell who was WHO.
Trump wasn't a politician. He was a real estate developer who had to deal with unions and government regulations.
He had no real idea how toxic and sick DC is...it is far worse than any person could possibly realized.
Putin could do us a real favor with this one....
I also think he assumed most people actually wanted the same things and had the same goals but just differed on how to accomplish them. He thought he just needed to show and convince them his ideas worked and they’d follow along. Nope. Naive, yes but maybe he just hadn’t been exposed to that side much in his life 🤷♀️ I don’t know.
I'm sorry, but that does not preclude Trump from any kind of responsibility. If he had not been pushing them it would be a different story - OR if he would do the right thing and just come out and speak the truth and tell people they are deadly and that nobody should take them.....but he hasn't, which speaks volumes in my opinion.
Direct your disgust and anger toward Pedo Joe who actually forced people to take the covid DeathVax.
Trump tried to tell people to take HCQ.
Yes.
What concerns me is that I read that Trump was given Remdesivir while in the hospital with covid.
Was this an assassination attempt by Fauci?
He needs to shout out loud that no child should be given the clot shot.
DeSantis needs to get some backbone and ban the covid DeathVax in Florida.
Then, the dominoes will fall.
Our Florida Surgeon General (Dr. Ladipo) actually wrote the CDC in December, demanding that the COVID vaccines be halted.
Yes, but your governor needs to drop the hammer.
Exactly right. His inaction speaks volumes.
I'm mean, what is stopping him?
This is last term as governor.
If he banned the covid DeathVax, it would be the shot heard round the world.
Agree. I can't read his mind but it has to be politics and/or money. If you remember, he heavily pushed the shot, especially for the elderly. Can't admit he was wrong and alienate everyone who took the shot? Similar problem with Trump.
Also, not being an independent, wealthy outsider like Trump, he is beholding to the NeoCon Rep establishment. Frankly, he also beholden to the Israeli/Zionist state and has kissed their hand on more than one occasion. Israel is in bed with BigPharma.
I was hoping he would step out and lead the way by doing the right thing. By now, the shot is a fait accompli but there is still the concern looming over us that they may try this again.
DeSantis needs to prove he is his own man.
Unfortunately, that is not the case.
I suspect that his wife's goal is to be First Lady some day. Starting to think she is another Lady MacBeth.
Sorry. Misspelled the good doctor’s name. Dr. Ladapo.
Personally, I think admission is irrelevant. It won't change anything. We need to move forward and rehashing that contributes nothing to forward momentum.
"Steve's" comment traces this all the way back to the British apex elite who are the real culprits in this genocide.....
"....Nonetheless, when you work backward from the final DARPA patents all the way to the first patents giving rise to this technology, what you find is that, once again, the Brits are at the bottom — and we do mean the very bottom — of the dogpile they have landed on our doorsteps..."
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/cia-agent-we-designed-mrna-to-kill/#comment-57733
Yeo. Dr. David Martin was showing the patent trail as early as mid 2020. Patents went back years and years prior to that.
Yes..and he is still ignored. We have all been posting Dr. Martin here since he first started publishing his information.
Another prayer request at church yesterday for someone's family member with turbo cancer. Diagnosed with recurrence of cancer and immediately put on hospice.
❤️🙏
Thank you for your prayers. Her name is Nicki. Her family is grounded in faith so it will be hard but easier than those who grieve and have no faith.
I had a friend/coworker who died of turbo-C TWO MONTHS after diagnosis which was only caught upon routine exam. He had no symptoms. And not long after being "forced" to take the shot. Invaded nearly every organ of his body.
So very sad. Sorry that this happened to your friend.
Sounds just like my uncle. He was suddenly diagnosed with lung cancer after taking the vaccines in spring 2021. He was dead by fall. He began to have a severe cough and it was already metastasized to the brain and other vital organs when he had the cough. So very sad. I have seen colon cancers move that quickly from diagnosis to death but the doctors said he had had the condition for over 20 years but regular doctors would have never checked him for genetic colon cancer. This guy was in the military so I do wonder if he was exposed to something during his service.
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I just tried to post that! Not sure it went through but I figured someone else might bring it up.
2012-ish is the advent of the *widespread adoption of smartphones* and, most importantly, of SOCIAL MEDIA. That is the key. If you take female's general inclinations, that are there for good reason, and hypercharge those inclinations and behaviors and then hijack them in a distorted, externally moderated way, boom. We now have women being internally tweaked from external sources by virtue of normal, historically healthy behaviors. Add in extremely motivated and zealous actors, and bad things happen. On purpose. [Have you ever seen your female significant other listen to a friend and nod her head in apparent agreement while listening to something you *know* she disagrees with? Have you seen your female significant other enthusiastically hug a woman and air kiss and say how wonderful it is to see her again, then, after she leaves, say: "I so dislike that woman"? Those are the functions and tendencies that are being leveraged here.] There is a similar argument here for males and porn or sports and others - take our natural inclinations and hijack them to the nth degree and you can manipulate on a grand scale. That ultimately is what we're seeing: manipulation for ideological and/or political and/or spiritual reasons. Add in what is happening to emotionally destabilize them in public schools, and you have a very, very, very challenged young person trying to get through one of the most difficult periods of life, with tremendous other multipliers now applied. If you question this, check out the writing of John Haidt ("The Coddling of the American Mind" and others. The stats will knock your socks off - our children are being manipulated and psychologically taken apart. Suicide. Levels of happiness. Relationships. Maturity. If you have teens, and esp females, ingest this material). He has studied it extensively and it is unequivocal: social media is warping the minds and sanity of young people, male and female. There's lots more to be said on this, but I'm sure most of you know it already. But, please, if you have young teens, control their i-net and smartphone phone usage as best you can.
That's a very good point. You add to it Obama's reelection claptrap that was the racist narrative and social media is probably why it stuck so hard. They weaponized it in between makeup tutorials and vacation spot videos.
@Wayne Jones great comment. I would just add that Haidt’s latest book, “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness,” goes even deeper into the damage from smartphones than his first book. Literally, children are being given a tool to access info we would never allow them to access from a school or home computer. And the stats on the damage since then are horrifying.
It’s true about this year and iPhones. I had a cell phone still and I would use an iPod which only worked in wifi so it was a very different world that I want to go back to. I remember laughing at my friend because she was so “posty” meaning she was taking time during our fun to post pics on Fartbook.
Here is a great interview with Haidt on the Anxious Generation - a must listen for all parents! https://www.everand.com/podcast/717234091/The-Anxious-Generation-with-Jonathan-Haidt-Social-psychologist-Jonathan-Haidt-joins-Dr-Becky-to-give-parents-hope-that-we-can-end-phone-based-chil
What happened to this woman in 2012 was I was living in MA with 2 daughters ages 15 and 12 when my husband’s company reorganized and his job was eliminated. So we had to relocate to TX and I will tell you that it saved my girls from becoming indoctrinated into the lefty world for sure.
It wasn’t my plan but I’m glad it happened because every one of my conservative mommy’s children have gone to Uber liberal colleges and universities and they’re trapped into that narrative like fish swimming in their own shit.
I couldn’t watch the woke women clip, unfortunately but as a non-woke woman, what happened to ME in 2012 was that I experienced my first pregnancy (of five, so far) and gave birth to my first son 💕🙌🏻 👶 🙌🏻
It was an amazing year for me, solidified my mama-bear conservatism and deepened my journey in medical-system skepticism.
Clearly some other women did not have that experience in 2012 😬😅
I got married in 2012 and became way more invested in politics. I wonder if that was a bit of a tipping point for young feminists not marrying or having babies, they just continued on as they were..
Well, I have a thought. No idea if this is related but in *2008* I was a youth group leader at my church. The Democrats went hard after the kids in high schools (the teachers were leading the way) promoting the Obama as the “first black President” and if you didn’t support him you were racist. The boys didn’t seem to care as much but the young girls, around 14/15 years old were seduced and devoted to the cause, solidified by “their” win that November. Fast forward four years to 2012 and these girls could vote.
And unless there was a catalyst (sometimes marriage and kids, but sometimes that wasn’t a fix, especially if they married unwisely) they continued in their delusion that they had been and were a part of the most important shifting of our culture in history - victory over racism. Then, when the left starts race-baiting again, they’re personally indignant that their victory and historicity from 2008 and 2012 is (in their minds), is in jeopardy.
Not that I’ve given it much thought 🤪😅
Bingo. And now that you mention it, our own little Christian high school had a shift around that time where all the old teachers retired and a new crop of young ones came in. If that was a time of generational turnover in teaching...
I think you are spot on!
She herself didn’t appear to be woke she was asking why the world wide inflection point of women going woke and men going conservative started in 2012. While she was slightly annoying she didn’t appear woke.
God bless you!!
It’s worth noting that a high-ranking Japanese official has recently issued apology to the unvaccinated and also an apology to those who have lost loved ones due to the Covid shots. It’s fairly groundbreaking I will go search for the link.
https://x.com/Censored4sure/status/1796762168290906188
Better late than never. But not for the dead.
@Chevrus I can’t open X after a certain amount of read-only time (got suspended after j6 🙄) so could you please copy and paste the text, if there is any? TIA!
Try and create a new profile on X. I’m on my 4th account after being suspended 3X. If you can’t use your email address to register (because it’s tied to your suspended account), use a backup email address or a cellphone number. My current account on X is actually tied to my son’s cellphone number because I burned through my other options. I told him I was using it since I pay for the cellphone! 🤣👍🏻. Worth it to stay on X despite the bots etc. because it’s the first place I go to verify news.
CeeMcG thanks, I’ll try that!
Sure thing.
Actually, if you go to Steve Kirch Substack, I think he reprinted the article
I hope this goes viral…
Hope in one hand and hit copy/paste with other …..?
“The real locus of autocratic threat is not Beijing or Moscow, but newsrooms, boardrooms, and bureaus in corporate America.”
Well said!! I wish I had you way with words this early in the day.
Or any time during the day!
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The J6 persecutions and all the takedowns of "election deniers" are evidence of the shadow government's invisible fence, constructed to train us into conformity. Step too close and you too will feel the shock in your collar.
Navy SEALS went woke with their homage to the alphabet Mafia.
OK, boys, time to put the mascara and stilettos back in the closet.
https://nypost.com/2024/06/02/us-news/navy-seals-mocked-for-going-woke-with-pride-month-post-slap-in-the-face/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
I saw.. I showed my Man, who is a former SEAL, and he was PISSED! This is not the SEALS themselves whom posted this garbage, this is done by whatever staffer posting on orders from their "fabulous" leaders. What an utter disgrace! 🤬😤
It's sad...and disheartening...and the Russians and Chinese know the US military has been weakened with WOKE.
Yes, very much so. It is a sharp stinging slap to the face for him, as this is not what he fought for, this is not what he lost brothers for.. This has nothing to do with our Military or what really matters when you are out in a combat zone getting shot at. These men are brave and selfless, putting their team and country first or none survive. The Teams cannot harbor the mentality of the woke trans agenda - the "me first", the getting offended because someone misgenders one, the flamboyance, all of that pansy-ass bullsh!t does not belong on the battlefield.
The Russians and Chinese do not allow males, let alone females, to join their military that are trans. Trump had it right when he banned it.
Excellent comment.
Miley should have been court martialed for appearing in public in uniform with that weird fetishist dog head on. He had no respect for his office.
Fat General Milley.
Rest assured that Recon Marines are not bowing to the alphabet community. Still a strong group of warriors ready to defend this Constitutional Republic, I have first hand connections 😉.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I am lucky enough to have a Marine guarding my household. 🙌🏼
May God watch over your Marine. ❤️💙🤍🦅🌎⚓️♥️🤍💙
And also yours! And He does and will! Salvation is in no other. 🙌🏼
My Dad is a Marine. Even though he’s 84, once a Marine, always a Marine. Semper Fi.
Once a warrior, always a warrior.😉
Thank goodness.
How does this even remotely jive with anything military, let alone Navy Seal. It’s a travesty
China and Russia are watching and they know the US military has been weakened.
Xi and Putin are laughing at our Military.
Yes.
20 years of colonial, police, action and military industrial fleeing has deep and long lasting consequences
Thankfully, none of our adversaries would want the responsibility of having to take and hold anything in the continental United States and why would they they have plenty going on in their own lives and 800 of our military bases outside the country to target if they needed to give uncle Sam a bloody nose
Which brings me to another point : all the hand in stereo from the mainstream media about how Russia is going to invade Europe in any way shape or form.
Invading anything is not fun or easy just look at Ukraine and once you do it, your left with the steaming pile of excrement to deal with as well as a rebellious population in the 21st century it’s a really not a viable option .
Russian victory over Ukraine either unites NATO to counter attack, or fractures it into an ineffective Organization in name only lending itself to further dissolution and neutering by Russia. But a Russian Steamroller the likes of 1944-5 is a fallacy and only an idiot or liar can project that happening even as they tout that Ukrainians in a tractors can handle one of Putin's tank brigades
I’m not quite sure what you mean about counter attack, but it is pretty clear. That NATO is neither unified prepared or even willing to do anything of the sort.
NATO is weak.
Counterattack as in ginning up and escalating the war to stop Putin from further aggression against the West (They'll claim he will next absorb Baltic States etc) and keeping the NATO Alliance together by openly entering the battle on Ukraine soil and propping up whatever is left of Ukr. opposition and preventing a new Ukrainian pro-Russian govt in place. Peace and border re-alignment to be prevented at all costs.
Good points.
So true.
Weakened? Obliterated.
They helped!
Dr. Linda! I'd argue that this move is all part of the agenda that controls most countries of the world. The true ruling class of society and governments. When we understand this, we realize this is simply part of their plan: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/who-are-the-bad-guys
Once we can wake up and see the enemies for who they truly are, we can direct our attention and strategy more appropriately!
I don’t read your comments as an argument to my posted comment. I completely agree
No longer worthy of the boys of Point du Hoc, the Marines on Iwo Jima.
Correct.
Nice to know the chuckleheads are still in charge.
Saw this the other day and thought, "some Woke recent grad is running that Twitter account." I imagine actual SEALS are not amused or approving.
SEALS know how to "neutralize" the enemy.
No, it's all US agencies, it comes from the top.