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Yep. They fell in line on election fraud, machines when Parler was deplatformed, they censored mentions. When a platform or media outlet has 3rd rails you know they still bow to the king. The fewer the 3rd rails the longer the leash. But a leash, nonetheless.
Thanks. FYI the SS audio isn’t working (at least for me) on today’s post. Not sure how all that works but it always has... until today (and others’ SS audio is working fine.
I only copied the link, but did not enter either Rebecca. I am going to wait and see what happens, but at least I will have a link to get started. We might need each other to help us get this started. Not a computer expert here LOL
Trans-Phobe Pride!; i want my own dam flag so wherever I go people I encounter must respect my own weaknesses, personal problems, cranky and nasty moods, willful sin and my intolerant impolite views and how I want to fundamentally resist transexualization all of society! Archie Bunker is my leader. Humanity is despised by this militant "community" of anti-community freaks who aren't content with tolerance and permissiveness and acceptance.
They will never be content with anything you do, because until you worship them, join them and support their perverted morals and views you are not conquered. They want you to BE them. Affirm THEM. Praise THEM. When we know... this is a battle both spiritual and of the physical world.
They're just "following the science," you know. Same narrative science as masks, lockdowns, climate, all of the new enlightenment age we are in. Have you ever heard of "biopsychology?" I hadn't before, either. But here is a description of it:
Biopsychology "science" offers this rationale for changing public policy to conform to gender identity...it is "science" you know, "the best science" we must follow, The Science (TM):
Biopsychologists, like all pseudoscientists use a tiny bit of actual medical, natural science to build on and expand an entire narrative to fit a desired public policy. When you cut through the pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo it says you can be whatever sex/gender you wish to be because, zygote! Zygotes have no visible genitalia, ergo is a personal choice. Nevermind that pesky genetic coding inside of a zygote that has predetermined sex, gender. And since the science of genetics - as presented - in this study is plausibly non-determinative it is up to any individual to identify as a sex/gender of their own choosing that they feel most comfortable as:
Ok, a bunch of wacky egghead scientists in academia doing their wacky thing. How does that impact me, my life? For lawyers like Jeff, look no further than parental custody battles, or battles between parents and school officials, mental health counselors, medical professionals, all deemed "experts" and recognized as such in courts of law that decide disputes over gender of a child, surgeries on genitalia, hormones and drug treatments. In a court case an "expert" recognized under Rule 72 evidentiary criteria, will be allowed to testify using this "zygote" pseudoscience as authoritative. And if you're not an expert "biopyschologist" capable of and willing to debunk your own field then you won't be allowed to counter the testimony. A pure biology scientist isn't able to make a complete rebuttal - out of their area of expertise. Not even a member of the clergy citing God's law can challenge that pseudoscience. It's how pseudosciences gain standing.
Biopsychology. One of many pseudosciences. Assaults on reason, assaults that turn the practice of real, natural science on its head. Narrative Science. Admissible in a court of law to make decisions that involve the butchery of children's genitalia, eugenics, a hall of horrible's unleashed on society. But relax, don't be paranoid and conspiracy-minded. It's The Best Science (TM) we're following.
the Scopes Monkey Trial was justifying segregation and racism via pseudoscience and ATTACKING the idea of Divine authority and creation of and universal equality of Humankind; as was most "science" of the colonialist, enlightenment and industrial ages; it enables all kinds of human resource mis-dis-mal management; These are nothing but NAZIs masquerading as experts and authorities while they meddle in everyone's business and exporting debauched neo-humanist ideas and policies. They make Vladdy Putin look sane in comparison!
Taken to its logical extreme, Transgender advocates essentially are saying that sex (male or female) is not bioligcally fixed, instead it is susceptible to modification. Of course, us "haters" will point out that a bioligcal male is still a male, even if he dons a dress. He's showing admirable devotion to The Cause if he goes further, having someone cut off his penis, implant silicone breasts and being shot full of hormones. But, short of having an entire new body grown and his mind transferred into it, the fact remains that he's still a biological male. Or the same for a female pretending to be a male (and I've met both kinds!) Some governments even legally recognize such preferences and issue official documents or enforce the tranny's choice upon others. Now here's where it get's interesting...
In the domain of women's rights alone, as Jeff has aluded, to allow mutability of sex identy opens many cans of worms. For example, of what value are laws regulating sex discrimination, if sex ceases to be a fixed biological quality? If anyone can play for any team merely by stating an arbitrary sexual preference, the logical endpoint of such a chain of events will probably be a large single team dominated by biological males.
Will the same logic be applied to other issues of discrimination? Let's look at race. For a long time, some social liberals have claimed it's just a "social construct." Indeed, while I haven't researched in depth, many prominent academics claim that race does not exist. Have Progessives thought through the implications of that? We lack only one Surpreme Court decision claiming that race is not based upon biology. At that point, seems to me, any Civil Rights laws relating to race crumble, going all the way back to the 19th century! Imagine the absurdity of a Black being denied a job or an apartment because he was Black. And when he sought legal remedy, the defendant need only cite prior law that race was a "social construct," thus completely arbitrary, thus no grounds for any claim at law.
Are my conjectures ludicrous? Of course they are. But only a few decades ago, so were the ideas that gay men could legally marry, or than people could obtain a legally enforceable claim to be of a different sex.
Jeff already mentioned age. The same arguments could apply to any metric of past claimed bias. Inescapable problem: when you throw away the standard, it becomes problematic to make a judgment.
Sooo many cans of worms! Like abortion - if zygote is determinative of both biologicalcal beginning of life and unique identity - the right to choose sex, gender flowing from that arguably ambiguous stage of human development - then abortion is murder. They make a pro-life case. And I don't think many in the field of biopsychology are pro-life.
It doesn't make sense. It's contradictory of too many issues. Which I believe is the case with every pseudoscience. They are sciences that serve a narrative. And narratives change at the whim of the narrator's. Who use narratives to manipulate the minds of subjects for the agendas of rulers. Like protests for BLM in middle of lockdowns, the narrative suddenly changed for another agenda, before changing back. Science! Mutable science. The Best Science (TM).
It all serves to produce more confusion, chaos and division. Ultimately, these are just more distractions from the bigger picture that's taking place. World depopulation and the destruction of our entire system as we know it. This must be done in order to --> 6uild 6ack 6etter.
I'll wear my MAMA hat; Blue with white letters; Make America Mediocre Again!, it would be an improvement from the Make America Languish Again (MALA) movement that relishes Global Authoritarian control pulling their puppet-strings.
Wasn't it so much cooler and better when beatnik hippies had their niche in our uptight American society (1950s-90s) INSTEAD of now when they run the dam place??? Make your unpasteurized goat yoghurt, smoke some weed, and make a macrame hanger out of your unbathed woman's armpit hair dude--now that's groovy!
My how times change. At least in California, now the pot is legal. I'm speculating, but it might even be a crime to raise goats or make yougurt without permits. Certainly they'd be needed to sell any. And the pubic hair macrame jobs were shipped to cheap labor countries decdades ago. I know that over long periods, norms and other values change. That's just part of the "progress" of civilization. But speaking metaphorically, you can only go down the rabbit hole so far. What happens when the rabbit turns into the hole?
The live and let live philosophy (Libertarian-Conservatism in our country) sees and respects the humanity of individuals as the primary concern for harmony and order; oddities, eccentricities, preferences and differences are appreciated but societal and behavioral chaos and assault with force of law to placate militant extremists of any stripe should be discarded or we'll only reap more of it from all groups clamoring for it. Yes resisting hate is critical, redefining hate to target decency, modesty, defense of minors from salacious adult-sponsored perversion should be viewed as hateful and destructive. The "Handmaiden's Tale, Stepford Wives, Star Chamber, Right-Wing Taliban, etc" picture repeatedly presented as the static oppressive society we'd get if those Maniacal Christians or Capitalist Zealot Conservatives run the place are better illustrative of HOW Leftists would Autocratically run the place if for some reason the Inverted Parallel Universe collided with ours and suddenly THEY were shifted into the political Right and wanted to suddenly save souls from slavery and Death. They are fans of Tyrannical Overlordship no matter the foundational basis they stand upon.
You’re 100% correct. Not one darn bit. Granted, a beer company is all about selling alcoholic beverages, but you would think someone in there had some compassion for those that died. When I sit back and think about that, it makes my head explode. How can you not care if someone was murdered in cold blood? I can’t get that out of my head.
It is time for like minded people of all political persuasions (to coin and old phrase from Nancy Reagan) to fearlessly “JUST SAY NO” Stop patronizing these companies NOW and for Gods sake do not stand down when speaking the common sense TRUTH about trans mania. A man can never biologically become a real woman and vice versa. PERIOD! 💪
Oh Lord have mercy, what am I looking at?! Yep. Makes sense. But it still makes my head explode that not one of these companies gives a darn kids were murdered. How about making an "In Memory Of" can?
Actually, I think it’s pretty damn clever for a barely-a-beer to have a barely-a-man as it’s mascot. So many people are missing the subtle humor. Like, once I went to Trader Joe’s and (no lie) bottles of Chianti were staged right next to frozen Fava beans. I mean, that’s super rich!!!
This goes much deeper. It's an ESG directive from Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, and changing from shareholder capitalism to STAKEHOLDER capitalism. Get with the program or your money will be cut off, because your new credit score is based how ESG compliant your company is. That's why all these big businesses are going "WOKE".
All these companies that are following the WEF HUGE LIE are doing it to maintain their stock exchange ranking. They are being "monitored" by the WEF very, very closely and if they "buck the system"--their ranking is dropped and they lose the "elite money" and "woke investors"...it's that pure and simple. If we validate this sacrilege by continuing to use the products these WEF compliant corporations produce--NOTHING WILL CHANGE. We MUST PUSH BACK by REFUSING TO BUY THEIR PRODUCTS AND/OR SERVICES...if millions of people do this--they will RETHINK their position. If we do NOTHING...the sacrilege and perversion will just get WORSE and WORSE!
Yep, yep...however, I was heartened to see that quite a few of the pension funds that were vested with Blackrock are pulling away from that entity because of the deep state WEF affilitiation. Probably not enough to make a dent in the HUGE wealth of Blackrock though.
SIGH!! Back to the POWER and GREED factors that are ripping our nation apart.
No kidding! I'm a reformed drunk now these many years. But in my imbibing days, beer was my favorite. Perhaps the need for the alcohol explains it in part, but I would only drink lite as a last choice. It's truly a remarkable achievement of Amercian capitalsim that such an insipid product could be marketed and become popular. Although I'm sure in a different context, was it Mencken who observed that nobody ever went broke under-estimating the taste of the American public? Unless their laws have changed, such "beers" could not even be sold in Germany as they didn't meet the legal definition. Yes, like most goods, beer comes in all levels of quality to suit all (literally) tastes. Now for me, I did like the occasional flavorful beer ($$$) but the serious alcoholic shuns the mass marketed brew, which frankly marks one as an amateur. No, instead he'll rely on Natural Ice or (shudder) Steel Reserve if the goal is to put yourself on your ass. 🥴
I play a court sport. Whenever casa Raptor sees someone with new Nike shoes on and they are squeaking (and they always do), we belt out "Your shoes are crying!". If they say what we say"Uigur tears". Usually they just laugh because they think I am being funny. Now we might say they squeaks of laughter for those stupid enough to buy them. Probably won't play as well.
I will add that when we say Uigur tears, they still look dumbly.
Well, until today Sam, Jack and Miller were some of my best friends. Not anymore! Buh-bye-bye to them. No longer! Go woke - go Broke and good riddance!
Regarding the story yesterday, more information on Act Blue. There is more to this story and it’s bigger than what is being disclosed.
First, a little background: Decades ago, a law was passed called Gramm Leach Bliley. Among other things, it required identity and address verification for all online credit and debit card transactions in an effort to reduce card fraud. It’s the reason online shopping sites make you enter the billing name and address in addition to the shipping address.
This is not the three digit verification code on the back of the card. That is an additional optional check implemented by the card companies and online processors can voluntarily use it to reduce their card fraud losses.
The law *requires* the online payment processor to instantly cross check with the card issuer that the name and address of the cardholder match the card number. 100% of all card processing software has the compliance with this law imbedded in the software.
In order to not comply with this law, one would have to write special, non-compliant, proprietary software. Every transaction completed on that software is a violation of the law.
Years ago, I discovered that ActBlue had done this, testing it using my own card, a fake name, and a fake address, so the transaction could not have been processed legally. It processed.
I wrote a physical letter to Bob Barr as attorney general explaining what I found. He apparently threw the letter in the trash and did nothing about it. (I know he wouldn’t actually investigate, but he would have known who to pass it to and at the time, I didn’t know he was just as corrupt as all the others.)
So federal law enforcement has known about this for years.
Where did they get this idea, you might wonder? The Obama campaigns did the same thing. Both of them. I tested that as well. I used my card, the name Osama bin Laden, and the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth as the address and donated $2 to Obama. It processed the transaction like nothing was wrong.
Do you remember reading the media hype about how he got more small donors than any other candidate in history? That’s because FEC rules don’t make them disclose the names of small donors. He was also the first candidate who didn’t disclose the names of his small donors.
Other candidates are proud of that list because it shows grass roots support. His list of small donors was private.
So someone like Soros, with a big debit card balance, could have an employee use his personal debit card, make up any name (literally X Y Z worked) and address, and donate $225 per minute to the Obama campaign and it would have never been detected or reported to the FEC as a donation, other than aggregated with other small donors.
It’s the real reason Obama turned down the federal matching funds. He knew what was going on.
We don’t know, and never will, the scale of the election fraud, but we’re at least 15 years into it. Law enforcement has known about it and chosen to do nothing. We don’t actually have any law enforcement in this country.
This is amazing. THANK YOU for thinking of it, for doing it, for trying to report it, and for telling us about it. I hope Jeff knows some people who might want to look into it. I'm passing it along to someone whom I think knows some people, too.
Is there a crime also committed at state or local level when one does that? If so, it might be possible to report it to a state Attorney General or to a constitutional Sheriff for investigation and action.
[Updated to add: I just composed that email, copying Queen H's comments above, with a brief explanation as an introduction, but when I hit 'send,' it closed the email program. Again: closed. Tried to save as a draft: closed. Tried to save again: it was gone.]
That is so weird. I also tried to send to our local election integrity contact and my email kept shutting down when I hit send. I was using my iCloud account. I had to close it out and restart the app. I was finally able to send.
I was working on my iPad when my incident happened. I tried again this morning and it went through, but I think I rebooted some time yesterday as well.
Wow! Thanks for that easy to understand explanation. It explains why so much money was raised so quickly in so many campaigns. The drip, drip will eventually wear through….
What a genius investigative entity you are - I knew about this law because--back in the early 2000's when I first started my online business venture--there was "zero" protection for the merchant. I helped to get some of this legislation passed--I didn't even stop to think that politicos would stoop this low to get their campaigns financed by corruptors like Soros by circumventing the law which was meant to make "online shopping" more legitimate and protect the online merchants!
How DISGUSTING are these "people" who called themselves "fighters for democracy"--they truly HATE America and all we stand for. COMMIES/MARXISTS/INSURRECTIONISTS....whatever label you wish to call them--how can we EVER have a FAIR AND IMPARTIAL ELECTION again? I don't believe we ever will--those DAMNABLE DOMINION "hackable" voting "machines" will NEVER leave our country--or our world. Citizens just LOVE "techy" stuff--I am truly SICK OF TECH!! Bring back ORGANIC, REAL LIFE--not VIRTUAL LIFE! (I know...Jesus will usher in the REAL LIFE--but in the meantime...we who love Him..will be persecuted and suffer immeasurably....and so it is prophesied in the Book of Life). EVEN SO...COME, LORD JESUS!
Ahh channeling your inner Ted K, are you? He had some pungent things to say about technology and liberals and control. Oh, its true he saw things very clearly. He just didn't know what to do about it and thought blowing people up would stop or solve the problem. Which it didn't. Never does. The way to stop it is to flip the problem around and aim it back at the ones creating it or supporting it.
While it may be that ActBlue (and WinRed too) are not the ones actually processing these card transactions, it appears that whoever is violated federal law. I am involved with a grass roots group looking into this. As O'Keefe videos and our own pulls from FEC.gov are showing, many elderly people appear to be victims of a money laundering scheme. Please check with any elderly people you know who donate to political campaigns - you can look them up at fec.gov and double check the amounts and recipients are correct. If not, you probably want to contact your local sheriff (and probably O'Keefe).
And with this fraud, it wasn’t elderly people being fleeced, it was hiding the sources of funds and evading the reporting requirements and limits on donations.
The company accepting the payments is legally responsible. If they hired incompetent software designers, they are still the ones violating the law. But since all card processing software includes the compliance procedures, this has to be something they did on their own.
WOW!! Do you still have the records of this?? Maybe it’s something OMG or maybe one of the great attorneys who attended the conference last month could work with??
Everyone has to have known.It is right there in plain view.It is just bizarre to go in and see former classmates mothers' names or someone that you have pictures in your photo album..My guess is there must be some Repub also doing it but it has to be much,much less because there just are not many Republican donations showing up.I am also not sure if everyone they "used" necessarily made an original donation.Possibly they filled in with people off a party list.I would def. show it to everyone you know-before they feel the need to do maintenance on the site.
Wow! Thanks for this information Queen! This explains a lot, and I hope and pray this can be brought to the attention of the “right” person/people who will act on it.
It is weird Amazon can figure out how to cross-reference credit card holder names and physical addresses, but political campaigns just can't seem to understand that they are "unwilling" participants in fraud. I'm sure this could all be fixed if Congress could spend a billion $ on a study, done by ActBlue, of course.
She vowed to press charges against those who assaulted her. She also stated that this incident has made her even more determined to not back down. God bless her. More women need to stand up against this nonsense.
I've watched these phoney feminists since the early 1970s when I was in college. Their agenda has NEVER been about women. That was clear to me from the very beginning. Even in my 20's in college, I wanted NOTHING to do with any of them.
This organization- Independent Women's Voice- has been fighting the Title IX madness as one of their issues and Riley works with them.If Jeff is interested in multiplying Riley he might want to talk with them.
There was a guy I used to follow on Twitter who did that, organizing and deploying small security teams for conservatives. Can't remember his name anymore, though; I've been unjustly suspended for two years.
That's what the Proud Boys do/are, provide protection when paid police will not. In Oregon's major cities (Portland, Eugene, Salem) no police agency will protect conservative rally goers and organizers. In one incident a church group holding a peace gathering in Portland Waterfront Park was attacked by BLM ANTIFA and their audio gear thrown into the river. Portland PD stood by and watched.
In my experience the PB's are decent patriotic citizens, which is not what today's government wants to see, thus they are vilified and lied about by the media.
I remember that incident with the PA gear and impotent LEO’s watching it happen. Didn’t the Pantifa thugs pepper spray some of the church folks as well?
I don’t know anything about the Proud Boys really, but I saw the Feds tried to paint them as criminals so I can safely assume the exact opposite.
Why does anyone think a college “education “ is worth having anymore? Parents please listen - stop wasting your money. Your children will come out the other side demoralized, soul sick, and mentally castrated. They will seek to destroy you and every good thing that “triggers” them.
I watched the video and was both disgusted and amused. LEO’s are hampered by their training and department policies. Private security has no such concern. All it takes is a security detail operator who doesn’t mind being arrested and going to jail in order to stop this abusive behavior in its tracks. With proper funding, the operator can “take the fall” and be bailed-out afterwards. It’s always easier to get forgiveness than permission. Playing by the “rules” is for amateurs.
“You might disbelieve in the Resurrection, and doubt whether the rise of Christianity was good thing for humanity or not, but that’s not the point. The point is, in this crazy world of ours, under the right conditions, the defeated underdog can beat all the odds and become the victorious top dog in 24 hours.”
Reminds me of a funny story. On Tuesdays our local grocer gives a 5% discount to 'seniors' over 65. I am mid-50's, not saying I am not old but I don't think I look THAT old. Anyway, young teenage boy ringing me up gives me the senior discount. Looking at my receipt I say oh thanks but I'm not 65. He said, I know better than to ask a woman her age!! And of course, when I was a teenager anyone over 40 was considered 'old', LOL.
Elsewhere, I've speculated on this possibility: If it can be legally established that "race" is a social construct and/or doesn't exist, would it mean that a lot of so-called "civil rights" laws become uneforceable? Imagine a landlord refusing to rent, or a firm to hire a dark-skinned person. Under present law, of course, he'd have an actionable legal claim. Or would he? If ever a precedent gets established saying that race doesn't exist, to me at least, that means it is no longer recognized in the law, and thus no legal claim could be made upon the basis of racial bias. Ironically, it'd be the polar opposite of the Jim Crow days when the "one drop" rule applied in some cases; racial discrimiantion was (mostly) legal then. Now imagine a world where racial discrimiantion remains illegal in theory but the law has shot itself in the foot by negating any means to identify race. Jeff, dare you opinine on this?😎
I should have gone out and dominated the 5 and under Easter Egg hunt down at the park around the corner from my house today. Since I live in an area that votes 75% blue, I'm sure they'll be fine with Trans-age.
Your comment made me realize that all this trans craziness seems to go ONE way: Men dressing like transvestites in the most trashy way possible and parading around pretending to be women. BUT.....I haven't seen any women doing something similar and pretending to be men.
I think female -> male (persona) is much rarer, but I casually knew at least one such. I only knew her ? him ? at a distance. Partially because I was an elder volunteer and "the entity" was an employee. "He" was serious enough in his delusion, gossip has it, he'd gotten surgury done. I couldn't tell a difference, but frankly, I didn't want to look too closely either. I have no animus against such people (unless they're politically active trying to trample the rights of others) but in my opinion at least, they are mentally ill to some degree.
I'll add that I do know of one transgender man. Long-time friends of ours who are devout Mormons had one daughter who struggled with all this beginning maybe 10 years ago. At first she thought she was gay, but tried that for awhile. Then at some point she decided she should have been a man, and she started living that way. I don't know if she did anything physically or took testosterone, but it did cause enormous upheaval in her family, especially since her father was very active in the church. I remember reading something he wrote about reconciling all this with his religion and whether or not he had to no longer accept his daughter. I get the impression the family has contact, but my distant observation is that there is considerable strain and nothing will be the same again with them all. This girl-to-man found a woman who accepted her this way, and they got married (although not in the LDS church, I'm sure). They appear to live a quiet life that doesn't attract attention to all this.
I think Biden’s latest war on women and sports will backfire. If government is threatening to pull its funding from those universities that won’t allow men to play women’s sports, then it follows that those universities who will not comply will no longer be under government regulations once free. They will be completely independent. That means no one can tell the universities what they can or can’t do, including ridiculous mandates or other tranny nonsense. I’m telling you, if you cut somebody off from the government organizations and mandates and nonsense and insanity, there’s so much better off.
On another note, I’m not Christian so I don’t believe in the resurrection. However, I really appreciate Jeff’s ideas on that today. He’s right, things looked pretty bleak and completely unobtainable, but somehow it all worked out. I have to confess I’m losing faith in anything getting better, ever. My depression is at an all-time high. I don’t know how much more of this insanity I can take in the world. I’m guessing I’m not alone. But, at least I have C&C and its comments to give me some hope. One day at a time.
This is the Hillsdale College model; no federal funds, including no ROTC scholarships, or anything (they have a scholarship for those with prior service that is more generous than the GI Bill, and they have something private to replace ROTC with, too). I hope other colleges look to do the same; it would be a vast improvement in higher education.
"He who pays the piper calls the tune." This is but one example of Federal money coming with strings attached. In principle, there's not really anything wrong with that: Perhaps with some exceptions, a private institution or local government is free to refuse the aid, nearly always requires some type of compliance. For example, some States refuse(d) to alter traffic laws to Federal norms, so they missed out on millions of highway funding. Here in FL, we just passed the first (?) unviersal school voucher system. I don't know the details, but it sounds promising (unless you're a public school official, I guess.) Doubtless there will be legal challenges: "Government money supporting religious institutions!" How so, if the parents freely choose where to have their child schooled? If I could run the program, I would give a flat grant each year to any legally eligible child, with very few strings, maybe allow the State to send poorly-performing students to a school of the State's choice.
Florida's school choice law is not the first, by far, and we already had some other 'scholarships' that allowed taxpayer funds to pay for private schooling, so this is more of an expansion of what already existed. The new law includes homeschoolers, which the previous one(s) didn't. The 'scholarship' method may be a way of ensuring that the funds are used for the education of the child and not the vacation or drugs or alcohol, or whatever, of those parents who would forsake their duty.
You are right about the Universities. If the government keeps it up, it will ultimately backfire. People hate being told what to do and eventually will say, enough is enough.
To help your unbelief, wherever you live, get out in nature. Go to a Mountain View, by the lake, take a hike somewhere. The beauty of nature will help your depression and bring you closer to God. Even if just a little bit. Then, when you feel up to it, visit a church open for you to just sit for a while. The peace it can give you is beyond understanding.
I tend to think you’re wrong about people don’t like being told what to do. There are a lot of people still walking around in masks and people that want the government to just take care of them.
I am with you on the second paragraph - whole-heartedly in fact. On the first paragraph, I WISH more people hated being told what to do. It looks like more and more people feel more comfortable being told what to do, what is good or bad for them, how to act and live... a curious and skeptical mind is in short supply. I know someone will read that last bit here and say "DUH Raptor!" But Hope springs eternal (a thing to consider this Saturday!). And I hope in this case Jacquie is right and eventually people will say "enough!" So I click that little hopeful heart at the bottom of her post!
I no longer suffer from depression, anxiety and panic attacks and rage ever since I eliminated sugars, processed foods and seed oils from my diet. I’m eat mostly keto-carnivore foods. Originally i started eating this was to lose weight but the “side-effects” have been a blessing physically, mentally and emotionally. My family, friends and coworkers really like the “new” me LOL.
I also take long breaks from social media and corporate-controlled media. I make it a point to get sunshine, especially in the mornings, walk barefoot on grass when the weather is nice and enjoy nature.
I’m Christian and I believe we are living in biblical times. It gives me hope to know that many people (whether they are religious or not) are against these agendas, that I personally think are satanic. Remember FourWinds, you are not alone. God bless.
Everything you say is correct. All there cancer books show a definite connection between diet and depression. The reason northern countries have such a high depression and suicide rate is the lack of sunshine in the winter. And faith and God sure doesn't hurt when it comes to uplifting your spirits. Great post. Thanks
On Fox Nation Tucker Carlson did an hour interview with Dr. Mark Hyman, who claims that something like 90% of the illnesses like cancer and other chronic illness are completely caused by a poor diet. Top of list is sugar.
"I have to confess I’m losing faith in anything getting better, ever. My depression is at an all-time high. I don’t know how much more of this insanity I can take in the world. I’m guessing I’m not alone."
No, you're definitely not alone. Even believers can feel the same. Whenever I catch myself feeling despair over all the world insanity going on, I feel the Holy Spirit gently remind me that I don't need to worry. I only need to focus & rely on Him and live my life according to His Word. I can't even find the correct human words to express to you the sense of great relief I feel.
What is truth to you? Or does it even exist? Honest question.
If it doesn't, then no need to worry because neither you or anyone else can control anything. Everything is just random collisions of chance with no discernable outcome.
Freedom too, would just be an imaginary concept then.. A fairy tale.
If there is truth...what might it be?
You must have some notion...if only vague?
I am truly curious as your post seems quite sincere. Your concern underlies the notion that good and evil seem to exist.
If so...under what pretext?
It cannot be materialism...because that is merely random, meaningless collisions of atomic particles...according to those who posit the theory.
What makes something good...or evil to you?. Maybe all you need to do is switch sides whenever you sense a winner...then you can always win...and then no more hopeless turmoil and anxiety.
I have chosen a side. I too experience turmoil, failure, misrepresentation, attacks and all else...but I know they come within a context and a purpose...and an end.
You do not need to be without hope.
I do not want to be too blunt...and not judging either...but your anxiety is an intentional choice you are making. It truly is.
You can live the rest of your days with no hope. It is your choice.
You have been offered an out...but no one is forcing you to take up the offer.
I am not religious and don't want to be, it's not for me. Not judging anyone who is, of course. To be completely transparent, I just can't make sense out of religion and do not personally see how it lifts a person up as opposed to making a person feel guilty for so many things. And, I don't see how a loving god destroys people it determines to be enemies. Again, just my opinion and not trying to start any arguments whatsoever.
Anxiety is not a choice, in some cases, it is reality. I don't make enough to keep my home long term, that makes me anxious to be on the street. Anyone would be. I worry about my fading father's mental state and how long he will live, will he die early from the jabs? Every day I fear will be my last with him. I don't know how I'll keep up with inflation. I don't know how much longer I'll be able to physically work. Having anxiety that is founded on things a person cannot change is not a weakness and is not unfounded. Worrying about insignificants, I agree with you.
No, I absolutely do not choose the side that is winning. Otherwise you'd see a Ukraine flag, a gay flag, me supporting drag for kids and a picture of me wearing a face diaper. That and I'd likely be vax injured or dead. At great personal cost, like a lot of us here, my choices to stand up for what I believe it right has cost me family and friends. I have no regrets, but that does not mean my choices have not caused suffering. I still will not back down.
I mean to respond to more but my carrot cake is done in the oven (literally). More later. Thank you for your response.
Well stated. I, too, do not belong to a specific religion but I have learned a great deal from reading the lives of saints and studying Anthroposophy. I was baptized Catholic as a baby, baptized again as a Protestant, and again as Eastern Orthodox Christian. I'm covered in that department (joking, of course). God is not found in a physical building. He is found inside of each one of us. We are the temple. You sound wise and are walking the narrow path even though it seems you are not aware of it. I have all the same worries that you convey here - currently taking care of my mother full time. Had to change my whole life to keep her at home. Even though I have faith in God, my Creator, I still go through fits of uncertainty. At the end, all will be well with my soul - I know this - and it comforts me. I am not my body as the world so desperately tries to convince us all. The world is an illusion, it is maya, and it lives and thrives in the shadows it creates in order to block out the Sun/Son from our lives. This is what it seeks to destroy in order to keep us slaves to this world and harden our souls to it. Oh, we are such much more and it is our job to discover who we are, why we are here, and where we are going. It's a quest. Stay open and keep moving forward.
You are right on in your religious philosophy FourWinds. I learned long ago that religion does nothing but attempts to control a person, many religions reach cult status in that regard. I learned that a relationship with the living God through Jesus is what salvation is all about.
There is a great difference between "religion" (which I'm not a fan of) and a personal relationship with our Creator. I pray you have better days ahead.
Well stated. I may borrow your train of thought as it enables witnessing to highly resistant folks without generating instant hostility. Good job there, Guy!
So sorry to hear about your depression. I encourage you to give Jesus a try. Read or listen to the gospel of John and check out Lee Strobel, Greg Koukl, & Jeff Meyers (summit ministries). There’s plenty of evidence that the resurrection happened and if it did, then Jesus really is who he said he was!!
I wish it was that simple. Most people cannot afford to go to college without loans. Without federal funding this translates to kids not getting federal loans. The colleges will shrink, or bow, or dissolve.
True, but what are they learning in college? Some of these universities now have degrees in things like "gender studies". What exactly does one do with that degree? On that note, two of my much younger work mates wound up in trade school. One in now in a working-training program to become a mechanic and is already making more than I ever have. The other went to become an electrician. He is doing quite well financially. There are options to college.
Also, I suspect - and I could be wrong - for every college that bows to Biden the vegetable, there will be those that will not. I think perhaps a whole new breed of college may come out of this.
College is mostly a waste of time today. Party for 2 years, hurry up and get the courses needed to get piece of paper - get said paper - get job offer. That's how its seen. Instead, take a trade school course, learn something practical. Nursing etc. THEN go back and get that degree in Anthropology. As Gov' Scott I believe it was (?), told his daughter "how's that degree in Anthropology working out for you?" (She had to go back to school get a Master's in Nursing..).
A relative who used to work in a community college financial aid dept was sickened by the amount of easy Fed loan money these kids can get to earn a useless two year degree in General Studies. That degree is not marketable but the $30K loans don’t go away, ever! Gotta flip a lot of burgers/deliver a lot of pizzas to pay off that kind of student loan debt.
That’s why they need to multiply the numbers of DEI related positions in academia and corporate America—so these people with useless degrees can find jobs 😑
Yes, but there is a cost to compliance with all of these federal mandates and the colleges who stop complying may well end up gaining far more than they lose, even financially.
I wish I could agree about the universities but they LIKE what is happening and promote it. Liberty in any form is the last thing they want.
Regarding the resurrection: many have died for what they believed was true but ultimately was not true. To not believe the resurrection is to say that the apostles and many other first Christians willingly were martyrs for something they knew was false. That’s not a reasonable position.
I dunno. I don't see university bureaucrats as independent thinkers. More likely, they will meekly cave. It's all about the money for them....and for politicians.
No but with fewer people choosing college, and population numbers down, there’s going to be a lot more competition and a lot fewer colleges in existence. At some point it’s all going to backfire on the woke ones.
And if girls can no longer get athletic scholarships, their numbers at colleges might decrease and that implies a whole host of other effects.
I believe I know what you allude to. I take a perverse fascination reading about past or current events, where the legal system uses pretzel logic to effectively allow racial (sex, etc.) preferences in the name of equial protection under the law. There are numerous examples, take your pick. On the topic of university admissions alone, there are several Supreme Court decisions and probably more in the pipeline. Fundamentally, the problem can be traced back to (at least) The Enlightenment, the idea that all men were equal before God, the Law, etc. As the centuries progress, the egalitarian zeal gets applied to new domains usually without consideration of success or failure of prior attempts. The unhappy reality is that men are not equal, nor will they ever be so. As a result, attempt at a one-size-fits-all legal, justice, moral, etc. system is doomed from the outset.
Now that trans gender ,trans age and more trans sciences being discovered daily I may make a new trans discovery myself. If you touch my great grand daughter I will identify as the Angel of Death & escort you to Heaven to meet God.
“I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord."
What really happened? Closely examined and contemplate Psalms 22, 23, and 26-30. Do the same with Psalms 88 and 89. Isaiah 53 also confirms, as well as numerous other clues throughout God’s Testimony. The truth has been hiding in plain sight for 3,000 years and it changes everything. The Sacrifice was even more brilliant and loving than anyone imagined. When you figure it out, it will put all the pieces together. It will bring tears to the eyes of those who find it, flowing like a beautiful spring rain. Fewer than one in a million will find it, and even then, their religious biases will make it hard to accept.
U2 made a song "40" with the lyrics of those verses and put them on their album "war" in 1983. For many years they would end their concerts with that song and people would leave the arenas singing it. Many people hate U2 now, even people that were once fans, but the Christian core is still there, not buried too far under some of the political activism of Bono. I hope.
The only way to defeat this crazy trans sports insanity is through it. Normal male athletes need to state they identify as female en masse until the entire women’s team is all men. Expose the absurdity through willful compliance!
One guy did that. He coached women’s weightlifting and a tranny was trying to compete against them. The coach change genders for the day and slaughtered the tranny.
It was especially funny because the coach didn’t even shave his beard. The tranny said Coach was a big old meanie, but he didn’t say it to his face. 😛
I saw that....absolutely perfect, IMO. More of this pushback needs to happen where these activists are hoisted on their own petard, as they say. By their own definitions about not questioning what someone says they are, they couldn't do anything about this bearded guy. The weightlifter was a better feminist supporting women than any of the phony feminists out there!
Except, in the end, another competition that cheated a woman out of winning. I get that a point was made but now, for example, a real woman will never be able to hold the record even if they are ever even allowed to win again….
They are not just stealing the glory from our girls, they are stealing the money, scholarships, educations, endorsements and many more things I may not even know about. This whole equity push for make believe category’s has completely destroyed 100 years of feminist common sense. The 19th amendment came 4 amendments after the 15th. They should stick that in their pile and smoke it!!
Appalling, yes. And indicative of what happens when honest people fail to speak up IMMEDIATELY and nip destructive liars in the bud, before they get organized and funded.
I heard a comment on a talk radio show yesterday that young women are afraid to boycott, as they fear they will never get into a college of their choice, get a job, etc., because of cancel culture.
Yes, it's sad that they think they could not adapt and overcome. Those characteristics are so American, but people are being sleepwalked into losing them.
The same people who fear cancel culture probably wonder when they are reading about Nazi Germany or the Salem Witch trials, why people didn’t speak up and just let it happen 😑
If they're afraid (understandable), they just don't say anything that can be attributed to them. They just get "sick" and don't show up to compete. Repeatedly.
Alternately, they could all deliberately do things like swim slow as a snail, all of them, so that the trans person wins by such a ridiculous margin that it's laughable. These women need to channel their anger and FIGHT.
It seems like it has come to exactly this. If a trans woman is in any competition, every single female needs to quietly not show up so that the imposter has no one to compete with. The women don't even need to make any statements, just don't show up at all. One person in a competition is not a competition! After this happens enough times, things may begin to change.
I object to the term TRANS WOMAN. Please say a man, pretending to be a woman. Don't be like FOX and refer to these men as "she" and don't refer to women pretending to be men as "he". When people give in, even in small ways, the enemy gains ground. My PCP (who happens to be LDS) chastises me when I go against the wokeness taking over at the medical BUSINESS where she is one of their employees. She does their bidding and defends the craziness now rearing its ugly head. If I find an alternative I will bail but by now there are no doctors who work for themselves. Just another way the evil ones have tightened the noose on all the rest of us.
I think we need to legislate sport league choice where thr money from feds tied to title 9 is given to the athlete to play in any league, even a private one sex only one containing elite athletes drafted or offered just lime college scholarships now.
that's the best way to counter so much of the Commie-Global-Occult agenda; give them MORE than what they're childishly demanding; "NO little Timmy, you only get to eat chocolate ice cream now and nothing else!" The pedo thing was the goal all along since the "Progressives" got the ball rolling 100 years ago to counter Cultural Liberal Christian sensibilities and safeguards.
I agree. And they certainly don't want to compete with men. And we don't see girls trying to truly compete on men's teams either. I think a few tried it, but it hasn't worked out very well.
Everyone needs to look up their state house and senate representatives and encourage them to sponsor a Bill similar to Missouri HB 1169 in your state. If we multiply anyone it should be the sponsors of this bill which would require anyone who gave mRNA vaccines to their animals to disclose it in food labeling. Let’s multiply this call to action to our legislators as I already have this morning
It’s hopeless for me to contact them - all are Dem lemmings. And, I live in Florida. I will write to Gov. DeSantis - he’s always up for slaying another dragon.
THAT and I'm also writing DeSantis about the chemtrails in our skys. Our beautiful blue skies have been obscured here in the panhandle and I'm sick of it. I'm tired of watching those high altitude jets laying down layer after layer of their poison. I'm only guessing the UN is paying for it but it needs to be aggressively confronted and stopped.
Chemtrails/Geoengineering single most important issue affecting the future of the planet. https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/ explains more than you'd ever want to know.
Isn't there a way to find out WHERE those planes are taking off from and WHO is flying them. No whistle blower pilots anywhere? Any way to get some air samples from the chemtrails and analyze them?
We've tracked chemtrail jets locally on flightaware.com. Many seem to be owned by banks such as Wells Fargo and UBS. But many more are not even showing their call signs publically. 😕
Yes, I get my frequent dose of that stuff via the UK's Daily Mail. I rarely read the stories, just the headlines. A six-grader could think up more credible war propaganda.
I'm glad you think it's funny. What's really funny is you postulate that Biden has something to do with it. Your neocon narrative is wearing very thin.
You might be surprised! I’m in Oregon! Portland fought adding fluoride to their water and won! D’s May actually be really motivated by this. I can copy my email if you want to see. I went for the angle of ‘as Oregonians we have the right to organic, non GMO, healthy food if we want it.’ Embrace the strengths you share.
Jeff - Thank you for your inspiring Black Saturday thoughts! Attending Holy Thursday Mass and Good Friday service, I found myself thinking just how messed up this world is and how much we need God’s help. Jesus came at a time when life was very difficult for the Jews and he will come again. Watching the first three seasons of The Chosen has helped me relate so much better to what life must have been like for them at that time. In the end, no matter what, God wins! ✝️
It’s phenomenal! Can’t say enough about it. People raved about it for quite some time and we finally watched the first episode and then binged the first, second and third seasons! I’m so looking forward to the coming fourth season!
They have their own app now “The Chosen” or “Angel Studios”. You can always use Amazon Prime. It has the first two season. The apps have all three seasons.
Every morning, Jeff, I wake up with excitement to see how you have herded the cats from the previous day. As an orphaned political party affiliate [I'll let you guess which one], it does me good to see that you make enough sense that I can feel at home with your common sense. I do disagree with some things, but that makes for a spicy Coffee!!
I look forward to Substack Notes, as Twitter *still* has not un-suspended my account for stating mild, uncontroversial (to true scientists) facts, as they were known until 2020 about medical/public health things in my area of what I used to call 'expertise.' I asked the person to whose tweet I was replying whether he wouldn't be surprised if masks were required for the following (2021) flu season. Terrible, I know, thank Goodness Twitter stopped my dangerous rhetoric from spreading. They still give me the option of deleting my tweet, in order to have the privilege of viewing and using Twitter, upon which offer I spit with contempt.
I truly believe that if all the girls walked away from their team when a biological boy was allowed to join and they boys walked away from their teams in support of the girls, things would change quickly. It’s amazing how attitudes change when people come together for what’s right instead of looking the other way for fear of being judged intolerant.
Telegram users: Try t.me/coffeecovid — looks like I had some settings to fix
Telegram is *not* your friend. They are not as bad as Google/FB/etc., but that's only because they are more clandestine. (Cursory search yields https://www.androidpolice.com/telegram-germany-user-data-surrendered/ --both Germany and Russia are mentioned).
Use Signal.
You also give Telegram permission to use your phone and phone number without your knowledge.
Hellllll no!!!
Yep. They fell in line on election fraud, machines when Parler was deplatformed, they censored mentions. When a platform or media outlet has 3rd rails you know they still bow to the king. The fewer the 3rd rails the longer the leash. But a leash, nonetheless.
CEO is referred to as a Russian born French Emirati and operational HQ are in Dubai. So yes, it would be a good idea to be aware.
Search "WEF Pavel Valeryevich Durov."
Boom! Thank you! I’m also a signal user.
Ah, that's better, thanks!
Yeah, the difference between a user and a group.
You may want to make a "channel" also, it's for you to broadcast posts to many users. Users can comment on each post.
A group is kind of a free for all.
Enjoy your SubStack, thank you
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Thanks. Looks like 155 coviders on there already.
Will that still work once they fire up the RESTRICT act?
Found you
2000+ on your Telegram now!
Thanks it worked this time.
Thanks. FYI the SS audio isn’t working (at least for me) on today’s post. Not sure how all that works but it always has... until today (and others’ SS audio is working fine.
Worked for me.
copied the link and added the page, but hope I don't need it ! got a chromebook and android so will be able to use it on at least one
Thanks for letting me know I could just copy and paste the link to join. Going through the app appears to be impenetrable
I only copied the link, but did not enter either Rebecca. I am going to wait and see what happens, but at least I will have a link to get started. We might need each other to help us get this started. Not a computer expert here LOL
from "Brian Gibson @leadpastor"
Tran kills 9 yr old kids:
Whitehouse promotes a Tran day
Bud Light puts a Tran on a can
Coors changes it's color
Sam Adams dons the rainbow flag
Jack Daniels celebrates drag
Miller Lite goes Rainbow
Nike has a man in women's gear
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These people don't care about murdered kids.
Trans-Phobe Pride!; i want my own dam flag so wherever I go people I encounter must respect my own weaknesses, personal problems, cranky and nasty moods, willful sin and my intolerant impolite views and how I want to fundamentally resist transexualization all of society! Archie Bunker is my leader. Humanity is despised by this militant "community" of anti-community freaks who aren't content with tolerance and permissiveness and acceptance.
They will never be content with anything you do, because until you worship them, join them and support their perverted morals and views you are not conquered. They want you to BE them. Affirm THEM. Praise THEM. When we know... this is a battle both spiritual and of the physical world.
They're just "following the science," you know. Same narrative science as masks, lockdowns, climate, all of the new enlightenment age we are in. Have you ever heard of "biopsychology?" I hadn't before, either. But here is a description of it:
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-biopsychology-2794883
Biopsychology "science" offers this rationale for changing public policy to conform to gender identity...it is "science" you know, "the best science" we must follow, The Science (TM):
https://mindofreality.wordpress.com/psychology-corner/gender-role-stereotypes/gender-identity/
Biopsychologists, like all pseudoscientists use a tiny bit of actual medical, natural science to build on and expand an entire narrative to fit a desired public policy. When you cut through the pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo it says you can be whatever sex/gender you wish to be because, zygote! Zygotes have no visible genitalia, ergo is a personal choice. Nevermind that pesky genetic coding inside of a zygote that has predetermined sex, gender. And since the science of genetics - as presented - in this study is plausibly non-determinative it is up to any individual to identify as a sex/gender of their own choosing that they feel most comfortable as:
https://www.scq.ubc.ca/genetics-of-sex-and-gender-identity/
Ok, a bunch of wacky egghead scientists in academia doing their wacky thing. How does that impact me, my life? For lawyers like Jeff, look no further than parental custody battles, or battles between parents and school officials, mental health counselors, medical professionals, all deemed "experts" and recognized as such in courts of law that decide disputes over gender of a child, surgeries on genitalia, hormones and drug treatments. In a court case an "expert" recognized under Rule 72 evidentiary criteria, will be allowed to testify using this "zygote" pseudoscience as authoritative. And if you're not an expert "biopyschologist" capable of and willing to debunk your own field then you won't be allowed to counter the testimony. A pure biology scientist isn't able to make a complete rebuttal - out of their area of expertise. Not even a member of the clergy citing God's law can challenge that pseudoscience. It's how pseudosciences gain standing.
Biopsychology. One of many pseudosciences. Assaults on reason, assaults that turn the practice of real, natural science on its head. Narrative Science. Admissible in a court of law to make decisions that involve the butchery of children's genitalia, eugenics, a hall of horrible's unleashed on society. But relax, don't be paranoid and conspiracy-minded. It's The Best Science (TM) we're following.
Great post!
the Scopes Monkey Trial was justifying segregation and racism via pseudoscience and ATTACKING the idea of Divine authority and creation of and universal equality of Humankind; as was most "science" of the colonialist, enlightenment and industrial ages; it enables all kinds of human resource mis-dis-mal management; These are nothing but NAZIs masquerading as experts and authorities while they meddle in everyone's business and exporting debauched neo-humanist ideas and policies. They make Vladdy Putin look sane in comparison!
Yep. I've cited Scopes for other ideas I've shared. It was a consequential departure from God's law into Man's law. And here we are.
Taken to its logical extreme, Transgender advocates essentially are saying that sex (male or female) is not bioligcally fixed, instead it is susceptible to modification. Of course, us "haters" will point out that a bioligcal male is still a male, even if he dons a dress. He's showing admirable devotion to The Cause if he goes further, having someone cut off his penis, implant silicone breasts and being shot full of hormones. But, short of having an entire new body grown and his mind transferred into it, the fact remains that he's still a biological male. Or the same for a female pretending to be a male (and I've met both kinds!) Some governments even legally recognize such preferences and issue official documents or enforce the tranny's choice upon others. Now here's where it get's interesting...
In the domain of women's rights alone, as Jeff has aluded, to allow mutability of sex identy opens many cans of worms. For example, of what value are laws regulating sex discrimination, if sex ceases to be a fixed biological quality? If anyone can play for any team merely by stating an arbitrary sexual preference, the logical endpoint of such a chain of events will probably be a large single team dominated by biological males.
Will the same logic be applied to other issues of discrimination? Let's look at race. For a long time, some social liberals have claimed it's just a "social construct." Indeed, while I haven't researched in depth, many prominent academics claim that race does not exist. Have Progessives thought through the implications of that? We lack only one Surpreme Court decision claiming that race is not based upon biology. At that point, seems to me, any Civil Rights laws relating to race crumble, going all the way back to the 19th century! Imagine the absurdity of a Black being denied a job or an apartment because he was Black. And when he sought legal remedy, the defendant need only cite prior law that race was a "social construct," thus completely arbitrary, thus no grounds for any claim at law.
Are my conjectures ludicrous? Of course they are. But only a few decades ago, so were the ideas that gay men could legally marry, or than people could obtain a legally enforceable claim to be of a different sex.
Jeff already mentioned age. The same arguments could apply to any metric of past claimed bias. Inescapable problem: when you throw away the standard, it becomes problematic to make a judgment.
Sooo many cans of worms! Like abortion - if zygote is determinative of both biologicalcal beginning of life and unique identity - the right to choose sex, gender flowing from that arguably ambiguous stage of human development - then abortion is murder. They make a pro-life case. And I don't think many in the field of biopsychology are pro-life.
It doesn't make sense. It's contradictory of too many issues. Which I believe is the case with every pseudoscience. They are sciences that serve a narrative. And narratives change at the whim of the narrator's. Who use narratives to manipulate the minds of subjects for the agendas of rulers. Like protests for BLM in middle of lockdowns, the narrative suddenly changed for another agenda, before changing back. Science! Mutable science. The Best Science (TM).
It all serves to produce more confusion, chaos and division. Ultimately, these are just more distractions from the bigger picture that's taking place. World depopulation and the destruction of our entire system as we know it. This must be done in order to --> 6uild 6ack 6etter.
“Archie Bunker is my leader” 🤣😆
His son in law is still a meathead!
In fiction and in real life 😆
😂
The flag would be pink and blue. Unfortunately our cars would be keyed or worse and houses torched, in the city or blueburbs.
I'll wear my MAMA hat; Blue with white letters; Make America Mediocre Again!, it would be an improvement from the Make America Languish Again (MALA) movement that relishes Global Authoritarian control pulling their puppet-strings.
Wasn't it so much cooler and better when beatnik hippies had their niche in our uptight American society (1950s-90s) INSTEAD of now when they run the dam place??? Make your unpasteurized goat yoghurt, smoke some weed, and make a macrame hanger out of your unbathed woman's armpit hair dude--now that's groovy!
My how times change. At least in California, now the pot is legal. I'm speculating, but it might even be a crime to raise goats or make yougurt without permits. Certainly they'd be needed to sell any. And the pubic hair macrame jobs were shipped to cheap labor countries decdades ago. I know that over long periods, norms and other values change. That's just part of the "progress" of civilization. But speaking metaphorically, you can only go down the rabbit hole so far. What happens when the rabbit turns into the hole?
How about the "Trans-Rational?" Where do they stand in all this?
The live and let live philosophy (Libertarian-Conservatism in our country) sees and respects the humanity of individuals as the primary concern for harmony and order; oddities, eccentricities, preferences and differences are appreciated but societal and behavioral chaos and assault with force of law to placate militant extremists of any stripe should be discarded or we'll only reap more of it from all groups clamoring for it. Yes resisting hate is critical, redefining hate to target decency, modesty, defense of minors from salacious adult-sponsored perversion should be viewed as hateful and destructive. The "Handmaiden's Tale, Stepford Wives, Star Chamber, Right-Wing Taliban, etc" picture repeatedly presented as the static oppressive society we'd get if those Maniacal Christians or Capitalist Zealot Conservatives run the place are better illustrative of HOW Leftists would Autocratically run the place if for some reason the Inverted Parallel Universe collided with ours and suddenly THEY were shifted into the political Right and wanted to suddenly save souls from slavery and Death. They are fans of Tyrannical Overlordship no matter the foundational basis they stand upon.
That's exactly what I was saying above--only I used a different focus and words--well written though, WP!
You’re 100% correct. Not one darn bit. Granted, a beer company is all about selling alcoholic beverages, but you would think someone in there had some compassion for those that died. When I sit back and think about that, it makes my head explode. How can you not care if someone was murdered in cold blood? I can’t get that out of my head.
It is time for like minded people of all political persuasions (to coin and old phrase from Nancy Reagan) to fearlessly “JUST SAY NO” Stop patronizing these companies NOW and for Gods sake do not stand down when speaking the common sense TRUTH about trans mania. A man can never biologically become a real woman and vice versa. PERIOD! 💪
Or as I have said, “don’t involve me in your neuroses.”
Yep, my other favorite: “you’re crazy is showing, you might want to tuck that back in there.”
The point I made above in this thread. It's called CONSUMER DISAVOWAL/DISOBEDIENCE. And it WORKS!
This is the VP of Bud Light pushing the Trans. It's all making sense now.
https://twitter.com/VivaLaAmes11/status/1644123068896276483
Say it together "Every Single Time"
Oh Lord have mercy, what am I looking at?! Yep. Makes sense. But it still makes my head explode that not one of these companies gives a darn kids were murdered. How about making an "In Memory Of" can?
You are looking at a horse.
Nein! sry. Neigh.
I ‘noticed’ it’s another member of the Synagogue of Satan.
Actually, I think it’s pretty damn clever for a barely-a-beer to have a barely-a-man as it’s mascot. So many people are missing the subtle humor. Like, once I went to Trader Joe’s and (no lie) bottles of Chianti were staged right next to frozen Fava beans. I mean, that’s super rich!!!
Silence of the Lambs?
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Exactly! Most people look right past the connection.
This goes much deeper. It's an ESG directive from Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock, and changing from shareholder capitalism to STAKEHOLDER capitalism. Get with the program or your money will be cut off, because your new credit score is based how ESG compliant your company is. That's why all these big businesses are going "WOKE".
White Claw. Should've been the White Claw promo homo. Swing and a miss.
OMIGOSH. The pic was bad enough but the comments had me LMBO.
to find a complete Wokeism list for corporations go to 1792exchange.com. Don't give them anymore money. Coca Cola, Kroger, Starbucks etc
This is great thanks.
Blows me away too. I hate our regime
maybe the meme should be "cold blood" in Bud Light or Bud Blood
All these companies that are following the WEF HUGE LIE are doing it to maintain their stock exchange ranking. They are being "monitored" by the WEF very, very closely and if they "buck the system"--their ranking is dropped and they lose the "elite money" and "woke investors"...it's that pure and simple. If we validate this sacrilege by continuing to use the products these WEF compliant corporations produce--NOTHING WILL CHANGE. We MUST PUSH BACK by REFUSING TO BUY THEIR PRODUCTS AND/OR SERVICES...if millions of people do this--they will RETHINK their position. If we do NOTHING...the sacrilege and perversion will just get WORSE and WORSE!
That's right. Blackrock's Larry Finke is behind this push for ESG. Comply or forget getting any investments.
I spell his name like WHAT he is---a "fink"!!
Yep, yep...however, I was heartened to see that quite a few of the pension funds that were vested with Blackrock are pulling away from that entity because of the deep state WEF affilitiation. Probably not enough to make a dent in the HUGE wealth of Blackrock though.
SIGH!! Back to the POWER and GREED factors that are ripping our nation apart.
I thought that beer was called Butt Light?
Is that why it always tasted like crap?
No kidding! I'm a reformed drunk now these many years. But in my imbibing days, beer was my favorite. Perhaps the need for the alcohol explains it in part, but I would only drink lite as a last choice. It's truly a remarkable achievement of Amercian capitalsim that such an insipid product could be marketed and become popular. Although I'm sure in a different context, was it Mencken who observed that nobody ever went broke under-estimating the taste of the American public? Unless their laws have changed, such "beers" could not even be sold in Germany as they didn't meet the legal definition. Yes, like most goods, beer comes in all levels of quality to suit all (literally) tastes. Now for me, I did like the occasional flavorful beer ($$$) but the serious alcoholic shuns the mass marketed brew, which frankly marks one as an amateur. No, instead he'll rely on Natural Ice or (shudder) Steel Reserve if the goal is to put yourself on your ass. 🥴
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Butt heavy! WAIT! 🤔 Gutt...
Now Tranny Fluid
Trans-hueser Busch.🤣🤣
AND they don’t care about the bottom line. They will all go the way of Bed, Bath & Beyond.
I'm glad they are self identifying. Nike was already out. They were all loud and proud with their Uigur tear shedding hate sneakers.
“Uigur tear shedding hate sneakers.”
Best and most accurate description I’ve read about them so far!! 👏
I play a court sport. Whenever casa Raptor sees someone with new Nike shoes on and they are squeaking (and they always do), we belt out "Your shoes are crying!". If they say what we say"Uigur tears". Usually they just laugh because they think I am being funny. Now we might say they squeaks of laughter for those stupid enough to buy them. Probably won't play as well.
I will add that when we say Uigur tears, they still look dumbly.
Well, until today Sam, Jack and Miller were some of my best friends. Not anymore! Buh-bye-bye to them. No longer! Go woke - go Broke and good riddance!
Time for a new Prohibition Movement.
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Go to 1792exchange.com for a complete corporate wokeism list. Don't give them any money
Great link! I went to the company report and looked up substack. They pass.
https://1792exchange.com/spotlightreports/
And I will boycott them all
This just reinforces my increasingly strong feeling that marketing is a big factor in many of our problems.
Oh no! Polly Girl AND SAM!!
Sam must be rolling in his grave 😞
Regarding the story yesterday, more information on Act Blue. There is more to this story and it’s bigger than what is being disclosed.
First, a little background: Decades ago, a law was passed called Gramm Leach Bliley. Among other things, it required identity and address verification for all online credit and debit card transactions in an effort to reduce card fraud. It’s the reason online shopping sites make you enter the billing name and address in addition to the shipping address.
This is not the three digit verification code on the back of the card. That is an additional optional check implemented by the card companies and online processors can voluntarily use it to reduce their card fraud losses.
The law *requires* the online payment processor to instantly cross check with the card issuer that the name and address of the cardholder match the card number. 100% of all card processing software has the compliance with this law imbedded in the software.
In order to not comply with this law, one would have to write special, non-compliant, proprietary software. Every transaction completed on that software is a violation of the law.
Years ago, I discovered that ActBlue had done this, testing it using my own card, a fake name, and a fake address, so the transaction could not have been processed legally. It processed.
I wrote a physical letter to Bob Barr as attorney general explaining what I found. He apparently threw the letter in the trash and did nothing about it. (I know he wouldn’t actually investigate, but he would have known who to pass it to and at the time, I didn’t know he was just as corrupt as all the others.)
So federal law enforcement has known about this for years.
Where did they get this idea, you might wonder? The Obama campaigns did the same thing. Both of them. I tested that as well. I used my card, the name Osama bin Laden, and the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth as the address and donated $2 to Obama. It processed the transaction like nothing was wrong.
Do you remember reading the media hype about how he got more small donors than any other candidate in history? That’s because FEC rules don’t make them disclose the names of small donors. He was also the first candidate who didn’t disclose the names of his small donors.
Other candidates are proud of that list because it shows grass roots support. His list of small donors was private.
So someone like Soros, with a big debit card balance, could have an employee use his personal debit card, make up any name (literally X Y Z worked) and address, and donate $225 per minute to the Obama campaign and it would have never been detected or reported to the FEC as a donation, other than aggregated with other small donors.
It’s the real reason Obama turned down the federal matching funds. He knew what was going on.
We don’t know, and never will, the scale of the election fraud, but we’re at least 15 years into it. Law enforcement has known about it and chosen to do nothing. We don’t actually have any law enforcement in this country.
And this my C&C peeps is why I read the comments section!! Wealth of information right here!!!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge 🙌
Who is feeling the love for Queen Hotchibobo right now?
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This is amazing. THANK YOU for thinking of it, for doing it, for trying to report it, and for telling us about it. I hope Jeff knows some people who might want to look into it. I'm passing it along to someone whom I think knows some people, too.
Is there a crime also committed at state or local level when one does that? If so, it might be possible to report it to a state Attorney General or to a constitutional Sheriff for investigation and action.
[Updated to add: I just composed that email, copying Queen H's comments above, with a brief explanation as an introduction, but when I hit 'send,' it closed the email program. Again: closed. Tried to save as a draft: closed. Tried to save again: it was gone.]
Send it via snail mail, certified, Return Receipt Requested…
That is so weird. I also tried to send to our local election integrity contact and my email kept shutting down when I hit send. I was using my iCloud account. I had to close it out and restart the app. I was finally able to send.
I was working on my iPad when my incident happened. I tried again this morning and it went through, but I think I rebooted some time yesterday as well.
What email system are you using?
Whatever is on my iPad.
google pays apple billions every year to be the search engine, then they spy on you and sell your info
Wow! Thanks for that easy to understand explanation. It explains why so much money was raised so quickly in so many campaigns. The drip, drip will eventually wear through….
What a genius investigative entity you are - I knew about this law because--back in the early 2000's when I first started my online business venture--there was "zero" protection for the merchant. I helped to get some of this legislation passed--I didn't even stop to think that politicos would stoop this low to get their campaigns financed by corruptors like Soros by circumventing the law which was meant to make "online shopping" more legitimate and protect the online merchants!
How DISGUSTING are these "people" who called themselves "fighters for democracy"--they truly HATE America and all we stand for. COMMIES/MARXISTS/INSURRECTIONISTS....whatever label you wish to call them--how can we EVER have a FAIR AND IMPARTIAL ELECTION again? I don't believe we ever will--those DAMNABLE DOMINION "hackable" voting "machines" will NEVER leave our country--or our world. Citizens just LOVE "techy" stuff--I am truly SICK OF TECH!! Bring back ORGANIC, REAL LIFE--not VIRTUAL LIFE! (I know...Jesus will usher in the REAL LIFE--but in the meantime...we who love Him..will be persecuted and suffer immeasurably....and so it is prophesied in the Book of Life). EVEN SO...COME, LORD JESUS!
Ahh channeling your inner Ted K, are you? He had some pungent things to say about technology and liberals and control. Oh, its true he saw things very clearly. He just didn't know what to do about it and thought blowing people up would stop or solve the problem. Which it didn't. Never does. The way to stop it is to flip the problem around and aim it back at the ones creating it or supporting it.
EXACTLY!!
Wow. Just wow. The corruption is so bad.
While it may be that ActBlue (and WinRed too) are not the ones actually processing these card transactions, it appears that whoever is violated federal law. I am involved with a grass roots group looking into this. As O'Keefe videos and our own pulls from FEC.gov are showing, many elderly people appear to be victims of a money laundering scheme. Please check with any elderly people you know who donate to political campaigns - you can look them up at fec.gov and double check the amounts and recipients are correct. If not, you probably want to contact your local sheriff (and probably O'Keefe).
And with this fraud, it wasn’t elderly people being fleeced, it was hiding the sources of funds and evading the reporting requirements and limits on donations.
The company accepting the payments is legally responsible. If they hired incompetent software designers, they are still the ones violating the law. But since all card processing software includes the compliance procedures, this has to be something they did on their own.
WOW!! Do you still have the records of this?? Maybe it’s something OMG or maybe one of the great attorneys who attended the conference last month could work with??
The records are all in their end. All that shows in my records are donations on my card.
But if the FBI wanted to research it, they could try. I’m sure the bleach bit and hammers would come back out, but were used to that.
Yeah I am unfortunately not optimistic that the FBI would do anything at all to investigate this 😕
Please send your message to James O’Keefe. I have to hope that he can make good use of it
Get a lawyer or investigative journalist on it. Paul Thacker comes to mind, as does Matt Taibbi, who might have some time on his hands now…
When I first read about the ActBlue scam, I had wondered how they did it. Now I know.
Everyone has to have known.It is right there in plain view.It is just bizarre to go in and see former classmates mothers' names or someone that you have pictures in your photo album..My guess is there must be some Repub also doing it but it has to be much,much less because there just are not many Republican donations showing up.I am also not sure if everyone they "used" necessarily made an original donation.Possibly they filled in with people off a party list.I would def. show it to everyone you know-before they feel the need to do maintenance on the site.
Fascinating, thanks for sharing about your research!
Wow! Thanks for this information Queen! This explains a lot, and I hope and pray this can be brought to the attention of the “right” person/people who will act on it.
Wow
There was evidently some recall prevention fraud performed in some states also.
In CO we had two different recall petitions we could sign. All that was necessary was to not turn the fake one of them in.
That's interesting and have no doubt it's 100% true. Im just curious, what made you think to test this out to begin with?
It is weird Amazon can figure out how to cross-reference credit card holder names and physical addresses, but political campaigns just can't seem to understand that they are "unwilling" participants in fraud. I'm sure this could all be fixed if Congress could spend a billion $ on a study, done by ActBlue, of course.
I think we should multiply Riley Gaines, help her fight for women “only” in women’s sports
She vowed to press charges against those who assaulted her. She also stated that this incident has made her even more determined to not back down. God bless her. More women need to stand up against this nonsense.
Yep. Where are all the loud-n-proud feminists of yore, now that women are facing social extinction?
Oh, wait - I forgot. Their primary allegiance is to the progressive agenda and the Democrat party, not to their sisters. Silly me.
I've watched these phoney feminists since the early 1970s when I was in college. Their agenda has NEVER been about women. That was clear to me from the very beginning. Even in my 20's in college, I wanted NOTHING to do with any of them.
It’s all about power and influence and image.
If they don’t mind murdering the little girls in the womb, then it stands to reason they wouldn’t care about any other female.
Their BLIND allegiance to the “progressive “ party is literally cheering on “oppression “ for ALL women.
Good for her!!!!
This organization- Independent Women's Voice- has been fighting the Title IX madness as one of their issues and Riley works with them.If Jeff is interested in multiplying Riley he might want to talk with them.
https://www.iwv.org/issue/title-ix-womens-sports/
Agree!
Did you see she got beat up by a trans-dude right after her speech? Was a bit brutal.
Note: I had read it was a dude that did this; but in the vids I can only see a mob going after her.
If you google this story, the MSM is totally silent about it, except for Fox where Tucker Carlson covered it.
There was a guy I used to follow on Twitter who did that, organizing and deploying small security teams for conservatives. Can't remember his name anymore, though; I've been unjustly suspended for two years.
I wish there was a way to volunteer as security detail for folks that need it. A well-trained detail can provide instant karma for an aggressor.
That's what the Proud Boys do/are, provide protection when paid police will not. In Oregon's major cities (Portland, Eugene, Salem) no police agency will protect conservative rally goers and organizers. In one incident a church group holding a peace gathering in Portland Waterfront Park was attacked by BLM ANTIFA and their audio gear thrown into the river. Portland PD stood by and watched.
In my experience the PB's are decent patriotic citizens, which is not what today's government wants to see, thus they are vilified and lied about by the media.
I remember that incident with the PA gear and impotent LEO’s watching it happen. Didn’t the Pantifa thugs pepper spray some of the church folks as well?
I don’t know anything about the Proud Boys really, but I saw the Feds tried to paint them as criminals so I can safely assume the exact opposite.
You are correct. Unfortunately you are also correct in believing 180º from what the government says.
The real women should gang up and give the imposters a brutal military style blanket party!
Wow!
The video picks up once the cops get involved and escort her out of the mob.
https://twitter.com/MrStevenSteele/status/1644353155071655938
These people are insane, are they even human?
I think many are demon possessed. They’re filled with rage and their eyes are black holes.
I’m so sick of disgusting mobs. I have fantasies.
Why does anyone think a college “education “ is worth having anymore? Parents please listen - stop wasting your money. Your children will come out the other side demoralized, soul sick, and mentally castrated. They will seek to destroy you and every good thing that “triggers” them.
Did they? Was it hard for them? Sadly so many are great and too many are evil too. 😭
These people are stark, raving mad. Jeffrey Tucker calls this "anarcho-tyranny." https://www.theepochtimes.com/anarcho-tyranny-unleashed-in-the-united-states_5163908.html?fbclid=IwAR0-5AVCmfoZILosaxo5mpNYJX0QPDeXsbDvzB_ozGIoBoDYffpd6Avhtv8
Dregs of society
I watched the video and was both disgusted and amused. LEO’s are hampered by their training and department policies. Private security has no such concern. All it takes is a security detail operator who doesn’t mind being arrested and going to jail in order to stop this abusive behavior in its tracks. With proper funding, the operator can “take the fall” and be bailed-out afterwards. It’s always easier to get forgiveness than permission. Playing by the “rules” is for amateurs.
I could get behind that! She needs money for law suits.
I agree. Multiply her. She is so brave where almost all her peers hide in the shadows
YES! Lets multiply her! I feel young people especially are emboldended by support like ours! Support in numbers!
Agree!!
Good idea.
“You might disbelieve in the Resurrection, and doubt whether the rise of Christianity was good thing for humanity or not, but that’s not the point. The point is, in this crazy world of ours, under the right conditions, the defeated underdog can beat all the odds and become the victorious top dog in 24 hours.”
Amen, thank you for this reminder
If I identify as a 5 yrs old can I get into the movies, the fair, other events at the " 5& under" rate?
But on other days can I identify as a 70 year old and get my social security for working to that age.
If they decide in California to give $5 million to every black man, woman and child, can I identify as a black Californian?
Every black person in the other 49 states will be identifying as a Californian ...
why limit it to black persons?
You're correct. We can mimic Rachel Dolezal and just identify as POCs ....
lets not forget Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren
Reminds me of a funny story. On Tuesdays our local grocer gives a 5% discount to 'seniors' over 65. I am mid-50's, not saying I am not old but I don't think I look THAT old. Anyway, young teenage boy ringing me up gives me the senior discount. Looking at my receipt I say oh thanks but I'm not 65. He said, I know better than to ask a woman her age!! And of course, when I was a teenager anyone over 40 was considered 'old', LOL.
That was a very cute and tactful response from him lol 😁😆
Sure would like to see something like that happen. I don’t see any difference with the nonsense being pushed on us now.
My son’s friend “identified” as a girl for women’s day at the ski hill so he could get $15 lift ticket. They don’t have a men’s day special pricing.
🤣😛👊☹️ What am I saying?!
We can all identify as black/female and get reparations and all the other gibs.
Racial and gender (and age? and species?) fluidity. How handy!
Sheesh, just ask Rachel Dolezal how well the black identity worked for her 😝
🤣🤣🤣 That’s terrible but funny.
Elsewhere, I've speculated on this possibility: If it can be legally established that "race" is a social construct and/or doesn't exist, would it mean that a lot of so-called "civil rights" laws become uneforceable? Imagine a landlord refusing to rent, or a firm to hire a dark-skinned person. Under present law, of course, he'd have an actionable legal claim. Or would he? If ever a precedent gets established saying that race doesn't exist, to me at least, that means it is no longer recognized in the law, and thus no legal claim could be made upon the basis of racial bias. Ironically, it'd be the polar opposite of the Jim Crow days when the "one drop" rule applied in some cases; racial discrimiantion was (mostly) legal then. Now imagine a world where racial discrimiantion remains illegal in theory but the law has shot itself in the foot by negating any means to identify race. Jeff, dare you opinine on this?😎
And ‘kids eat free on Tuesdays’!!!!!!!!
Let’s DO IT!
Only from the kids’ menu though 😩
I should have gone out and dominated the 5 and under Easter Egg hunt down at the park around the corner from my house today. Since I live in an area that votes 75% blue, I'm sure they'll be fine with Trans-age.
But you can’t go on the big kid rides at the amusement parks. Nor drink alcohol. 😱
Fluidity, dude! 5 when I enter, 21 later (and I am 56, but hey, my " truth" , ya know?)
Your comment made me realize that all this trans craziness seems to go ONE way: Men dressing like transvestites in the most trashy way possible and parading around pretending to be women. BUT.....I haven't seen any women doing something similar and pretending to be men.
I think female -> male (persona) is much rarer, but I casually knew at least one such. I only knew her ? him ? at a distance. Partially because I was an elder volunteer and "the entity" was an employee. "He" was serious enough in his delusion, gossip has it, he'd gotten surgury done. I couldn't tell a difference, but frankly, I didn't want to look too closely either. I have no animus against such people (unless they're politically active trying to trample the rights of others) but in my opinion at least, they are mentally ill to some degree.
I'll add that I do know of one transgender man. Long-time friends of ours who are devout Mormons had one daughter who struggled with all this beginning maybe 10 years ago. At first she thought she was gay, but tried that for awhile. Then at some point she decided she should have been a man, and she started living that way. I don't know if she did anything physically or took testosterone, but it did cause enormous upheaval in her family, especially since her father was very active in the church. I remember reading something he wrote about reconciling all this with his religion and whether or not he had to no longer accept his daughter. I get the impression the family has contact, but my distant observation is that there is considerable strain and nothing will be the same again with them all. This girl-to-man found a woman who accepted her this way, and they got married (although not in the LDS church, I'm sure). They appear to live a quiet life that doesn't attract attention to all this.
Like a Budweiser Clydesdale!
I can't be alone in savouring the sweet irony of msm & ilk looking increasingly compelled to take the twitter side 😂
exactly
It’s head spinning
Who is ILK?
ilk = a type of person or thing similar to one already referred to; usually a type you don't care for 🤷
Etymology: Old English ilca ‘same’, of Germanic origin 🤸
I'm SO OLD! It my mother was! I love that word!
I think Biden’s latest war on women and sports will backfire. If government is threatening to pull its funding from those universities that won’t allow men to play women’s sports, then it follows that those universities who will not comply will no longer be under government regulations once free. They will be completely independent. That means no one can tell the universities what they can or can’t do, including ridiculous mandates or other tranny nonsense. I’m telling you, if you cut somebody off from the government organizations and mandates and nonsense and insanity, there’s so much better off.
On another note, I’m not Christian so I don’t believe in the resurrection. However, I really appreciate Jeff’s ideas on that today. He’s right, things looked pretty bleak and completely unobtainable, but somehow it all worked out. I have to confess I’m losing faith in anything getting better, ever. My depression is at an all-time high. I don’t know how much more of this insanity I can take in the world. I’m guessing I’m not alone. But, at least I have C&C and its comments to give me some hope. One day at a time.
Happy Easter to anyone who celebrates it.
This is the Hillsdale College model; no federal funds, including no ROTC scholarships, or anything (they have a scholarship for those with prior service that is more generous than the GI Bill, and they have something private to replace ROTC with, too). I hope other colleges look to do the same; it would be a vast improvement in higher education.
I think Hillsdale College deserves to be multiplied! They’re one of the few institutions still offering a quality education and standing for truth.
"He who pays the piper calls the tune." This is but one example of Federal money coming with strings attached. In principle, there's not really anything wrong with that: Perhaps with some exceptions, a private institution or local government is free to refuse the aid, nearly always requires some type of compliance. For example, some States refuse(d) to alter traffic laws to Federal norms, so they missed out on millions of highway funding. Here in FL, we just passed the first (?) unviersal school voucher system. I don't know the details, but it sounds promising (unless you're a public school official, I guess.) Doubtless there will be legal challenges: "Government money supporting religious institutions!" How so, if the parents freely choose where to have their child schooled? If I could run the program, I would give a flat grant each year to any legally eligible child, with very few strings, maybe allow the State to send poorly-performing students to a school of the State's choice.
Florida's school choice law is not the first, by far, and we already had some other 'scholarships' that allowed taxpayer funds to pay for private schooling, so this is more of an expansion of what already existed. The new law includes homeschoolers, which the previous one(s) didn't. The 'scholarship' method may be a way of ensuring that the funds are used for the education of the child and not the vacation or drugs or alcohol, or whatever, of those parents who would forsake their duty.
You are right about the Universities. If the government keeps it up, it will ultimately backfire. People hate being told what to do and eventually will say, enough is enough.
To help your unbelief, wherever you live, get out in nature. Go to a Mountain View, by the lake, take a hike somewhere. The beauty of nature will help your depression and bring you closer to God. Even if just a little bit. Then, when you feel up to it, visit a church open for you to just sit for a while. The peace it can give you is beyond understanding.
I tend to think you’re wrong about people don’t like being told what to do. There are a lot of people still walking around in masks and people that want the government to just take care of them.
I was going to say the same thing. Maybe it should have been *some* people—like the commenters here!
I am with you on the second paragraph - whole-heartedly in fact. On the first paragraph, I WISH more people hated being told what to do. It looks like more and more people feel more comfortable being told what to do, what is good or bad for them, how to act and live... a curious and skeptical mind is in short supply. I know someone will read that last bit here and say "DUH Raptor!" But Hope springs eternal (a thing to consider this Saturday!). And I hope in this case Jacquie is right and eventually people will say "enough!" So I click that little hopeful heart at the bottom of her post!
I no longer suffer from depression, anxiety and panic attacks and rage ever since I eliminated sugars, processed foods and seed oils from my diet. I’m eat mostly keto-carnivore foods. Originally i started eating this was to lose weight but the “side-effects” have been a blessing physically, mentally and emotionally. My family, friends and coworkers really like the “new” me LOL.
I also take long breaks from social media and corporate-controlled media. I make it a point to get sunshine, especially in the mornings, walk barefoot on grass when the weather is nice and enjoy nature.
I’m Christian and I believe we are living in biblical times. It gives me hope to know that many people (whether they are religious or not) are against these agendas, that I personally think are satanic. Remember FourWinds, you are not alone. God bless.
Everything you say is correct. All there cancer books show a definite connection between diet and depression. The reason northern countries have such a high depression and suicide rate is the lack of sunshine in the winter. And faith and God sure doesn't hurt when it comes to uplifting your spirits. Great post. Thanks
On Fox Nation Tucker Carlson did an hour interview with Dr. Mark Hyman, who claims that something like 90% of the illnesses like cancer and other chronic illness are completely caused by a poor diet. Top of list is sugar.
Keto is amazing!
"I have to confess I’m losing faith in anything getting better, ever. My depression is at an all-time high. I don’t know how much more of this insanity I can take in the world. I’m guessing I’m not alone."
No, you're definitely not alone. Even believers can feel the same. Whenever I catch myself feeling despair over all the world insanity going on, I feel the Holy Spirit gently remind me that I don't need to worry. I only need to focus & rely on Him and live my life according to His Word. I can't even find the correct human words to express to you the sense of great relief I feel.
This is why we don't want federal strings on anything. Then they can have control through funding threats.
Golden Rule of Financing: “He who has the gold makes the rules.”
What is truth to you? Or does it even exist? Honest question.
If it doesn't, then no need to worry because neither you or anyone else can control anything. Everything is just random collisions of chance with no discernable outcome.
Freedom too, would just be an imaginary concept then.. A fairy tale.
If there is truth...what might it be?
You must have some notion...if only vague?
I am truly curious as your post seems quite sincere. Your concern underlies the notion that good and evil seem to exist.
If so...under what pretext?
It cannot be materialism...because that is merely random, meaningless collisions of atomic particles...according to those who posit the theory.
What makes something good...or evil to you?. Maybe all you need to do is switch sides whenever you sense a winner...then you can always win...and then no more hopeless turmoil and anxiety.
I have chosen a side. I too experience turmoil, failure, misrepresentation, attacks and all else...but I know they come within a context and a purpose...and an end.
You do not need to be without hope.
I do not want to be too blunt...and not judging either...but your anxiety is an intentional choice you are making. It truly is.
You can live the rest of your days with no hope. It is your choice.
You have been offered an out...but no one is forcing you to take up the offer.
It is your choice.
Hope your day improves.
I am not religious and don't want to be, it's not for me. Not judging anyone who is, of course. To be completely transparent, I just can't make sense out of religion and do not personally see how it lifts a person up as opposed to making a person feel guilty for so many things. And, I don't see how a loving god destroys people it determines to be enemies. Again, just my opinion and not trying to start any arguments whatsoever.
Anxiety is not a choice, in some cases, it is reality. I don't make enough to keep my home long term, that makes me anxious to be on the street. Anyone would be. I worry about my fading father's mental state and how long he will live, will he die early from the jabs? Every day I fear will be my last with him. I don't know how I'll keep up with inflation. I don't know how much longer I'll be able to physically work. Having anxiety that is founded on things a person cannot change is not a weakness and is not unfounded. Worrying about insignificants, I agree with you.
No, I absolutely do not choose the side that is winning. Otherwise you'd see a Ukraine flag, a gay flag, me supporting drag for kids and a picture of me wearing a face diaper. That and I'd likely be vax injured or dead. At great personal cost, like a lot of us here, my choices to stand up for what I believe it right has cost me family and friends. I have no regrets, but that does not mean my choices have not caused suffering. I still will not back down.
I mean to respond to more but my carrot cake is done in the oven (literally). More later. Thank you for your response.
Well stated. I, too, do not belong to a specific religion but I have learned a great deal from reading the lives of saints and studying Anthroposophy. I was baptized Catholic as a baby, baptized again as a Protestant, and again as Eastern Orthodox Christian. I'm covered in that department (joking, of course). God is not found in a physical building. He is found inside of each one of us. We are the temple. You sound wise and are walking the narrow path even though it seems you are not aware of it. I have all the same worries that you convey here - currently taking care of my mother full time. Had to change my whole life to keep her at home. Even though I have faith in God, my Creator, I still go through fits of uncertainty. At the end, all will be well with my soul - I know this - and it comforts me. I am not my body as the world so desperately tries to convince us all. The world is an illusion, it is maya, and it lives and thrives in the shadows it creates in order to block out the Sun/Son from our lives. This is what it seeks to destroy in order to keep us slaves to this world and harden our souls to it. Oh, we are such much more and it is our job to discover who we are, why we are here, and where we are going. It's a quest. Stay open and keep moving forward.
You are right on in your religious philosophy FourWinds. I learned long ago that religion does nothing but attempts to control a person, many religions reach cult status in that regard. I learned that a relationship with the living God through Jesus is what salvation is all about.
P.S. I love carrot cake :-)
There is a great difference between "religion" (which I'm not a fan of) and a personal relationship with our Creator. I pray you have better days ahead.
Well stated. I may borrow your train of thought as it enables witnessing to highly resistant folks without generating instant hostility. Good job there, Guy!
So sorry to hear about your depression. I encourage you to give Jesus a try. Read or listen to the gospel of John and check out Lee Strobel, Greg Koukl, & Jeff Meyers (summit ministries). There’s plenty of evidence that the resurrection happened and if it did, then Jesus really is who he said he was!!
I wish it was that simple. Most people cannot afford to go to college without loans. Without federal funding this translates to kids not getting federal loans. The colleges will shrink, or bow, or dissolve.
True, but what are they learning in college? Some of these universities now have degrees in things like "gender studies". What exactly does one do with that degree? On that note, two of my much younger work mates wound up in trade school. One in now in a working-training program to become a mechanic and is already making more than I ever have. The other went to become an electrician. He is doing quite well financially. There are options to college.
Also, I suspect - and I could be wrong - for every college that bows to Biden the vegetable, there will be those that will not. I think perhaps a whole new breed of college may come out of this.
College is mostly a waste of time today. Party for 2 years, hurry up and get the courses needed to get piece of paper - get said paper - get job offer. That's how its seen. Instead, take a trade school course, learn something practical. Nursing etc. THEN go back and get that degree in Anthropology. As Gov' Scott I believe it was (?), told his daughter "how's that degree in Anthropology working out for you?" (She had to go back to school get a Master's in Nursing..).
A relative who used to work in a community college financial aid dept was sickened by the amount of easy Fed loan money these kids can get to earn a useless two year degree in General Studies. That degree is not marketable but the $30K loans don’t go away, ever! Gotta flip a lot of burgers/deliver a lot of pizzas to pay off that kind of student loan debt.
That’s why they need to multiply the numbers of DEI related positions in academia and corporate America—so these people with useless degrees can find jobs 😑
Yeup! I worked in CC system!
Yes, but there is a cost to compliance with all of these federal mandates and the colleges who stop complying may well end up gaining far more than they lose, even financially.
I wish I could agree about the universities but they LIKE what is happening and promote it. Liberty in any form is the last thing they want.
Regarding the resurrection: many have died for what they believed was true but ultimately was not true. To not believe the resurrection is to say that the apostles and many other first Christians willingly were martyrs for something they knew was false. That’s not a reasonable position.
And in many more areas than just women’s sports. But it can certainly be a crack in the structure that leads to its collapse!
I dunno. I don't see university bureaucrats as independent thinkers. More likely, they will meekly cave. It's all about the money for them....and for politicians.
No but with fewer people choosing college, and population numbers down, there’s going to be a lot more competition and a lot fewer colleges in existence. At some point it’s all going to backfire on the woke ones.
And if girls can no longer get athletic scholarships, their numbers at colleges might decrease and that implies a whole host of other effects.
I believe I know what you allude to. I take a perverse fascination reading about past or current events, where the legal system uses pretzel logic to effectively allow racial (sex, etc.) preferences in the name of equial protection under the law. There are numerous examples, take your pick. On the topic of university admissions alone, there are several Supreme Court decisions and probably more in the pipeline. Fundamentally, the problem can be traced back to (at least) The Enlightenment, the idea that all men were equal before God, the Law, etc. As the centuries progress, the egalitarian zeal gets applied to new domains usually without consideration of success or failure of prior attempts. The unhappy reality is that men are not equal, nor will they ever be so. As a result, attempt at a one-size-fits-all legal, justice, moral, etc. system is doomed from the outset.
Now that trans gender ,trans age and more trans sciences being discovered daily I may make a new trans discovery myself. If you touch my great grand daughter I will identify as the Angel of Death & escort you to Heaven to meet God.
Yeah, I know I’m not their judge, but if they jack with my kids or grands, I’ll sure introduce them to The Judge.
Amen. Touch my child and you will meet your maker and be held accountable.
🙌
I could identify as a king cobra...
They don’t always want to touch physical, they may want to touch her mind and make her think she is a boy.
True, there is no shortage of those who take pleasure in manipulating others.
Amen
On Holy Saturday —-
“I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord."
–Psalm 40:1-3
What really happened? Closely examined and contemplate Psalms 22, 23, and 26-30. Do the same with Psalms 88 and 89. Isaiah 53 also confirms, as well as numerous other clues throughout God’s Testimony. The truth has been hiding in plain sight for 3,000 years and it changes everything. The Sacrifice was even more brilliant and loving than anyone imagined. When you figure it out, it will put all the pieces together. It will bring tears to the eyes of those who find it, flowing like a beautiful spring rain. Fewer than one in a million will find it, and even then, their religious biases will make it hard to accept.
U2 made a song "40" with the lyrics of those verses and put them on their album "war" in 1983. For many years they would end their concerts with that song and people would leave the arenas singing it. Many people hate U2 now, even people that were once fans, but the Christian core is still there, not buried too far under some of the political activism of Bono. I hope.
The only way to defeat this crazy trans sports insanity is through it. Normal male athletes need to state they identify as female en masse until the entire women’s team is all men. Expose the absurdity through willful compliance!
One guy did that. He coached women’s weightlifting and a tranny was trying to compete against them. The coach change genders for the day and slaughtered the tranny.
It was especially funny because the coach didn’t even shave his beard. The tranny said Coach was a big old meanie, but he didn’t say it to his face. 😛
Queen, I saw that story and it was great. We need more MEN like that coach!
Would love to see that
🙌🙌🙌🙌this is what it will take!!!!
That was a great day!
I saw that....absolutely perfect, IMO. More of this pushback needs to happen where these activists are hoisted on their own petard, as they say. By their own definitions about not questioning what someone says they are, they couldn't do anything about this bearded guy. The weightlifter was a better feminist supporting women than any of the phony feminists out there!
Except, in the end, another competition that cheated a woman out of winning. I get that a point was made but now, for example, a real woman will never be able to hold the record even if they are ever even allowed to win again….
Yes it is only helpful if it exposes the absurdity enough to make this nonsense stop. I’m hoping it will.
Or all women athletes boycott/strike and there will be no competition other than a few men pretending to be girls.
They are not just stealing the glory from our girls, they are stealing the money, scholarships, educations, endorsements and many more things I may not even know about. This whole equity push for make believe category’s has completely destroyed 100 years of feminist common sense. The 19th amendment came 4 amendments after the 15th. They should stick that in their pile and smoke it!!
Exactly as many of us older feminists (who still understand biology) predicted a few years ago.
And where, may I ask, are the rest of the loud-n-proud feminists of yore? Did supporting the progressive agenda trump women's rights and needs?
They have been canceled or they caved to the language police to maintain an income (and not get beaten up).
It's ugly out there... Riley Gaines, Posey Parker have received death threats.
The midwifery schools all use "pregnant people" language. It's appalling that just a few radicals can have such a profound change.
Appalling, yes. And indicative of what happens when honest people fail to speak up IMMEDIATELY and nip destructive liars in the bud, before they get organized and funded.
That’s terrible 😞
I heard a comment on a talk radio show yesterday that young women are afraid to boycott, as they fear they will never get into a college of their choice, get a job, etc., because of cancel culture.
This fear…people need faith to overcome it. Unimaginable things occur, when we step out and do what is right.
Yes, it's sad that they think they could not adapt and overcome. Those characteristics are so American, but people are being sleepwalked into losing them.
I guess they need hit rock bottom then. Time to put on their big girl pants.
College is very over rated, a money laundering mind control operation. Free thought and debate is long gone.
The same people who fear cancel culture probably wonder when they are reading about Nazi Germany or the Salem Witch trials, why people didn’t speak up and just let it happen 😑
If they're afraid (understandable), they just don't say anything that can be attributed to them. They just get "sick" and don't show up to compete. Repeatedly.
Alternately, they could all deliberately do things like swim slow as a snail, all of them, so that the trans person wins by such a ridiculous margin that it's laughable. These women need to channel their anger and FIGHT.
So again, the love of money is the root of all evil.
I like this option better. However, apathy seems to be our national condition.
It seems like it has come to exactly this. If a trans woman is in any competition, every single female needs to quietly not show up so that the imposter has no one to compete with. The women don't even need to make any statements, just don't show up at all. One person in a competition is not a competition! After this happens enough times, things may begin to change.
I object to the term TRANS WOMAN. Please say a man, pretending to be a woman. Don't be like FOX and refer to these men as "she" and don't refer to women pretending to be men as "he". When people give in, even in small ways, the enemy gains ground. My PCP (who happens to be LDS) chastises me when I go against the wokeness taking over at the medical BUSINESS where she is one of their employees. She does their bidding and defends the craziness now rearing its ugly head. If I find an alternative I will bail but by now there are no doctors who work for themselves. Just another way the evil ones have tightened the noose on all the rest of us.
I think we need to legislate sport league choice where thr money from feds tied to title 9 is given to the athlete to play in any league, even a private one sex only one containing elite athletes drafted or offered just lime college scholarships now.
that's the best way to counter so much of the Commie-Global-Occult agenda; give them MORE than what they're childishly demanding; "NO little Timmy, you only get to eat chocolate ice cream now and nothing else!" The pedo thing was the goal all along since the "Progressives" got the ball rolling 100 years ago to counter Cultural Liberal Christian sensibilities and safeguards.
Brewster’s Millions, Part 2
This may be the winning strategy for all sorts of insanity. Resist! Throw sand in the machinery.
If women had refused to compete it would have been over. Trannies don’t want to compete against each other.
I agree. And they certainly don't want to compete with men. And we don't see girls trying to truly compete on men's teams either. I think a few tried it, but it hasn't worked out very well.
just boycott the business that pay for it
Everyone needs to look up their state house and senate representatives and encourage them to sponsor a Bill similar to Missouri HB 1169 in your state. If we multiply anyone it should be the sponsors of this bill which would require anyone who gave mRNA vaccines to their animals to disclose it in food labeling. Let’s multiply this call to action to our legislators as I already have this morning
It’s hopeless for me to contact them - all are Dem lemmings. And, I live in Florida. I will write to Gov. DeSantis - he’s always up for slaying another dragon.
THAT and I'm also writing DeSantis about the chemtrails in our skys. Our beautiful blue skies have been obscured here in the panhandle and I'm sick of it. I'm tired of watching those high altitude jets laying down layer after layer of their poison. I'm only guessing the UN is paying for it but it needs to be aggressively confronted and stopped.
Chemtrails/Geoengineering single most important issue affecting the future of the planet. https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/ explains more than you'd ever want to know.
https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/government-implements-illegal-gag-order-on-national-weather-service-and-noaa/
Isn't there a way to find out WHERE those planes are taking off from and WHO is flying them. No whistle blower pilots anywhere? Any way to get some air samples from the chemtrails and analyze them?
This was done by Dane Wigington and answers your question: https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-our-first-ever-high-altitude-atmospheric-testing/
Analysis of air and soil samples has been done.
https://mailchi.mp/geoengineeringwatch/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-april-1-2023-399?e=c13b4bd87b
We've tracked chemtrail jets locally on flightaware.com. Many seem to be owned by banks such as Wells Fargo and UBS. But many more are not even showing their call signs publically. 😕
Every airport around you has planes that take off 😂
BTW, where have you been. I thought you'd be all over the Ukraine comments today.
I’ve been busy. I run a side business too.
But remember, Russia has just lost its 10,005th vehicle in Ukraine in the 410th day of its 3 day war.
Almost 2000 tanks, too.
Yes, I get my frequent dose of that stuff via the UK's Daily Mail. I rarely read the stories, just the headlines. A six-grader could think up more credible war propaganda.
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html
Feel free to look. Every loss has been documented. Today it's up to 10,009. Ukrainian losses are documented aswell.
Are you saying this clearly Russian marked t72B OBR 1989 tank is not captured when a Ukrainian rifleman is standing next to it?
https://i.postimg.cc/sgGtMBw2/1003-t72b1989-capt-20-01-23.jpg
Yeah right. I doubt I'll forget.
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html
It's all propaganda. Compare that to Ukrainian losses.
Your boys couldn't even get laid in a whorehouse with 20$ taped to their foreheads.
Go sit at an airport and watch the planes and tell me how many you see leaving a contrail. I'd be curious to know.
And I’ve seen lots of them
I’ve been to plenty of airports all across the world.
A ton.
Me too yet I can't remember the last time I saw an actual contrail.
Near ft Myers a lot too
Oh FFS. Chem trails. 😂😂😂😂.
I wonder how they did Chem trails back in the 40s 😂
Go ahead and laugh buddy. The more the better.
Not sure why you asked....you weren't even born yet.
I am laughing.
Millions of pilots and no vast conspiracy uncovered yet.
I hear how Biden is so senile, incompetent, and mentally not there but can manage this vast Chem trail conspiracy. It’s hilarious.
I'm glad you think it's funny. What's really funny is you postulate that Biden has something to do with it. Your neocon narrative is wearing very thin.
Biden is responsible for everything, so why not this?
Oh no nEo-CoN
Gasp
You remind me of this guy. I don't think he'll ever learn.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1919776e-52d9-49e6-9a22-23891c43d3f7_912x908.png
Some conspiracies are right.
Some are not.
Still waiting for the lizard people to crawl out of 1600 Pennsylvania avenue :(
You might be surprised! I’m in Oregon! Portland fought adding fluoride to their water and won! D’s May actually be really motivated by this. I can copy my email if you want to see. I went for the angle of ‘as Oregonians we have the right to organic, non GMO, healthy food if we want it.’ Embrace the strengths you share.
Like this!
Jeff - Thank you for your inspiring Black Saturday thoughts! Attending Holy Thursday Mass and Good Friday service, I found myself thinking just how messed up this world is and how much we need God’s help. Jesus came at a time when life was very difficult for the Jews and he will come again. Watching the first three seasons of The Chosen has helped me relate so much better to what life must have been like for them at that time. In the end, no matter what, God wins! ✝️
Angel Studios new movie, His Only Son, was excellent. The story of Abraham.
Yes, need to watch this!
Even Netflix offers The Chosen now! Powerful stuff!!!
It’s phenomenal! Can’t say enough about it. People raved about it for quite some time and we finally watched the first episode and then binged the first, second and third seasons! I’m so looking forward to the coming fourth season!
Thanks! I saw part of it on Amazon and then couldn’t find it. It’s really a powerful message. Happy Easter
I canceled Netflix after the Cuties issue, where else is it available?
They have their own app now “The Chosen” or “Angel Studios”. You can always use Amazon Prime. It has the first two season. The apps have all three seasons.
Thank you!!
You can watch The Chosen for free on YouTube or the "The Chosen" or "Angel Studios" app.
Every morning, Jeff, I wake up with excitement to see how you have herded the cats from the previous day. As an orphaned political party affiliate [I'll let you guess which one], it does me good to see that you make enough sense that I can feel at home with your common sense. I do disagree with some things, but that makes for a spicy Coffee!!
I’m a resident of the same orphanage as you.
Love your comment but especially this part:
“Every morning, Jeff, I wake up with excitement to see how you have herded the cats from the previous day.”
Such an apt description!! 😆😁
I look forward to Substack Notes, as Twitter *still* has not un-suspended my account for stating mild, uncontroversial (to true scientists) facts, as they were known until 2020 about medical/public health things in my area of what I used to call 'expertise.' I asked the person to whose tweet I was replying whether he wouldn't be surprised if masks were required for the following (2021) flu season. Terrible, I know, thank Goodness Twitter stopped my dangerous rhetoric from spreading. They still give me the option of deleting my tweet, in order to have the privilege of viewing and using Twitter, upon which offer I spit with contempt.
Yup, I was never unlocked either. Bye twitter. Musk is dangerous and not to be trusted...
I truly believe that if all the girls walked away from their team when a biological boy was allowed to join and they boys walked away from their teams in support of the girls, things would change quickly. It’s amazing how attitudes change when people come together for what’s right instead of looking the other way for fear of being judged intolerant.
Yes, I've wondered why girls don't just refuse to participate when a boy is added to the mix. Let him play alone, see how stupid he looks.
When my son was on the boys high school wrestling team he said if he had to wrestle a girl he’d forfeit.
Please do let THIS spread!!