If the situation was hopeless, their propaganda would be pointless. The forces of demoralization will keep pushing towards dystopia. Sunlight is the best disinfectant to prevent destabilization, crisis, and normalization. It’s morning indeed. Time to build and laugh at the subversive demoralization agents.
We are being tested again: bird flu. Somehow it stops at the northern and southern borders because neither the Canadians or Mexicans are murdering significant chunks of their poultry food source.
That's the next step of course. We will then emulate Mao's PRC and eliminate every flying thing. Guess what happened in China when that happened? Swarms of insects caused far more agricultural losses than the few grains of rice that each starling used to eat.
David, I'm just beginning to read about Mao - fascinating and so horrific. Let's hope we are alert enough in the U.S.A. that it doesn't EVER get that bad.
A box of 60 eggs in Walmart today $27.34. This is Pennsylvania, the fourth leading egg producing state. A dozen were almost $6. The cage frees were only 80 cents more.
i've been buying eggs directly from regenerative farmers for over a decade. they started out at $6.00 a dozen and 10 years later have crept up to $7.00. they are not as dependent on market forces
Ain't it odd how demand follows supply? And on that thought--it would be a pity indeed if, the egg farmers having managed to re-build their supply, the American people had learned to live without eggs.
Or worse yet, learned that growing their own isn't too difficult. I am currently getting eggs $5 a dozen from a friend who took my flock in when I had to move. Those girls are supporting at least 3 households in our circle. I love chickens and hope to have more soon.
I saw a news report on FOX business last week which stated folks in Eastern PA and southern NY were traveling to NJ to purchase eggs due to the prices offered in NJ. I live in Western PA so cannot verify.
I don't know, Ryan. I think in the U.S. so many of us are over that whole scam. Yes, there will still be those who do whatever they think is going to 'save the planet' -- only Dems/Left & RINOs have that much hubris to think that they can control the climate. 🙄 The EU are still within their grasp but they're waking up. Just hope they don't hit the snooze button.
Trump and his Zionist cronies in the Occupied Lands of Palestine are doing their utmost to get Gazans out of the area ASAP. Not because their planned Riviera in the ME, but for the huuuuge profits from oil- and gas-fields that "await" them in the territorial waters pertaining to the Palestinian people.
THIS is the best and most recent, solid evidence that end-of-oil, Global Climate Change and their paraphernalia are a humungous grift into the freedoms and coffers of the populace as well as biggest global (after C-19) hoax ever.
Funny too that isn't seeming to affect meat birds. My chicken thighs cost about the same as they did a few years ago and there seems to be no shortage of american broilers.
Yep. One of Musk's Gang of Autists needs to take a look at that entire process, from top to bottom, to see what role federal bureaucrats are playing in that monstrous scam.
This has to stop. However, I did read of an ostrich farm in BC that was ordered to murder 400 perfectly healthy ostriches because one was exposed to bird flu and was not even sick. The authorities refused to allow the farmer to test the other birds. There was a petition online that I signed but I doubt it will do any good.
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS, they say this bird flu (sounds A LOT like Cov19) asymptomatic, won't hurt humans if they eat the meat. Eggs from birds with flu , likewise, SO WHY KILL THE BIRDS ? FFS EAT THEM!! ITS STUPID. Are they using the PCR test ?! Probably
well i can tell you this; i never want to experience that feeling again. for me it was an actual sensation, like synesthesia of all my senses, of feeling helpless with the oppressive hand of totalitarianism pressing down on me.
surreal but tangible. exactly what I would expect to feel in my imagination if I had lived behind the Iron Curtain - or playing "Red Dawn" in preparation for a soviet invasion when I was 13!
but hey, maybe I'm sensitive to these things because I'm a freebird, and never thought I'd live to see the day that could happen to me as an American.
"never thought I'd live to see the day that could happen to me as an American."
Dido, I didn't think what they got away with was possible in America. The "Patriot act" was the most treasonous legislation in American history. Unreasonable searches are standard practice now. I hope they get to that eventually.
The war on terror is far worse than just a typical war, because it led to the government being able to wage war against its citizenry through The Patriot Act.
That makes it a triple whammy, because after 20+ years people will look at you crazy if you ask them if trading freedom for safety was worth it. And don't forget the reason we have Homeland Security is because the FBI failed to do their job and should've seen it coming (in many ways they did). Most of our institutions are unnecessary and were arranged because the initial institution failed to do its duty.
And just like Social Security, etc. the scam has become an expectation; not an idea that should be debated for solutions. Precisely because people have forgotten (and therefore can't see) it was a stupid idea from the beginning
"The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability that we forget they are ideas at all." - Jacob M. Appel
I’m 75 years old. Every bit of it was all by design. I’m very sad now. My youngestdaughter lost her fiancé two months ago to a multitude of cancers and now, my daughter is probably facing the same.
The faster you can tank the whole system, by bankrupting the country through massive social program, give-aways (and by wars), the sooner full-on socialism has to be implemented.
Essentially the entire cold war apparatus never went away, it was just repurposed. It turned against the west itself over the past 30 years due to leftist and globalist ideologies that took over the elites and the bureaucracy
Socialism was only a step. The real aim is the world of "The Handmaid's Tale", with Jeffrey Epstein's fantasy island as a foretaste and a honey trap for participants.
Agree wholeheartedly. I'm going to be roundly vilified for saying this, but will anyway. Adding emancipation, universal suffrage and rabid feminism has created a zeitgeist that's toxic beyond belief.
During the Cold War, it was impossible to forget the threat that communism represented to America and the west, and not just in terms of nuclear annihilation. The spectre of being conquered and forced into communism was even worse. Better dead than red.
We had defectors from the USSR or one of the satellite countries who told us how bad it was. Yakov Smirnoff made a name for himself with his "In Soviet Russia..." jokes, but you could always tell that there was a hint of "If I don't laugh at it, I may cry" just beneath the surface.
When the USSR fell, there was, of course, jubilation. The threat of nuclear annihilation was over, and along with it, the threat of communism!
But no one told the subversive elements throughout the west.
We know that the Soviets sent spies to the US to learn our secrets and sabotage us from within. This is not surprising... it would be surprising if they had not. We did the same with them, of course. Khrushchev all but told us he was doing this, about how he would feed us little bits of communism until one day we woke up communist without ever knowing how we got there.
Spies know how to look for vulnerable people in the target country who can be turned. If they have access to useful information, the spy will use that person to gain as much of that information as possible. If they do not have useful info, they can still be useful. Once radicalized against their own country, they can be trained to go look for vulnerable people and turn them as well. These are the people who would subvert the institutions from within, the schools, the news media, the entertainment industry.
Once these groups of homegrown radicals achieved a certain size, a critical mass if you will, they became self-sustaining.
When the Soviet Union fell, everyone thought that communism, the ideology, had disappeared with it. Overnight, the threat of communism became a joke. Seinfeld had an episode where Elaine dated a guy she learned was a communist, and it was played up as a joke. Look how pathetic this guy is! He doesn't even know his side lost. Elaine tried to console him, saying, "Hey, you had a good run, scaring the hell out of us for 50 years," and he kinda nodded back. They were no longer threatening... now they were a punch line that no one took seriously anymore.
What a gift that was to them!
Now they could operate in plain sight. If people saw them as pathetic people who didn't realize they'd lost and that it was all over, that was the best thing possible for them. They had long had plans to take over at least one of the two major parties, the media, the schools, and so on, but the constant fear and awareness of communism's threats meant they had to be very careful and proceed slowly.
Now that we all took our eyes off the ball, they put the pedal to the metal, and before we knew it, they completely captured the Democratic Party, the schools, and the media, the administrative deep state (no one likes a bureaucrat like a communist!), and were already churning out the first crop of fully indoctrinated kids, having been in the post-Soviet indoctrination schools from kindergarten on.
Now those kids have grown up, and they're the ones doing the indoctrinating. They're red-diaper babies, unlike most of their parents, and they are much more efficient at indoctrination than their own teachers were.
Once these subversive elements got into the food chain within the deep state apparatus (the whole Cold War framework you mentioned), absent any vigilance about communist sympathizers now that that was no longer a perceived threat, they completely took it over.
Our government has always been full of sociopaths who would kill anyone, including their own countrymen, in the pursuit of their agenda, but I think that even they used to be motivated by the desire to defeat the Soviet Union and the misguided notion that what they were doing was serving the interests of the United States.
They obviously went way too far, and often became the bad guys themselves, doing damage to the very country they thought they were serving. I'm talking about presidential assassinations, getting us into wars we don't need to be in (that's a popular one), killing tens of thousands of our young people, having our allies bomb our own ship in yet another attempt to get us into another unnecessary war, stuff like that. None of that served America's interests.
Those Cold Warrior psychos were replaced by the younger generation, steeped in communist indoctrination and lore, believing in all the same things as the communists that were thought to have been defeated. Chief among these was that the western way of life, and all of its anchors, like the nuclear family, had to be destroyed.
Today, we're told that when we look at all of this and see a communist plot, that we're just out of touch and don't know what communism or socialism are. "Why didn't Obama nationalize all the corporations?" they ask, with a tone suggesting they actually thought they'd made a good point.
The reason why, of course, is that we are not at that step yet. It's on the list, but it's further down than where we are presently. All of the arguments being made by these people who deny being communists or socialists sound frighteningly familiar to people who have actually lived under actual socialism (keep in mind that every country run by a Communist Party has been in the socialist stage, so don't let anyone tell you that wasn't socialism. It most certainly was). They recognize it, having heard it before. They know what it leads to. They know what the promises were, and how they differ from what they actually got.
The young who emerge from the indoctrination factories have never heard any of that bad stuff. They've been fed the fantasy version, the one that never existed in real life, even though there have been many attempts that always resulted in soul-crushing totalitarianism.
Because the fantasy view differs so greatly from the reality, the young self assuredly tell us that real communism (or socialism, take your pick) has never been tried (which kind of makes you wonder... if that is the case, what makes you so certain it would work?). What did Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, etc., know about communism anyway?
And that's where I would put in the bit about Becky from Vassar being completely certain that if she was the one in charge of imposing communism|socialism, it would work. To do so here with a straight face would suggest I was using the example from el gato malo's previous post... but it's not. Not sure where it's from, but clearly I picked it up somewhere.
I know what you mean. What really got me is, when I sounded the alarm trying to alert the sheeple around me..... I got empty stares, compliance and outrage that I should question the authority. Very quickly I was aware of who really was a friend and who was an acquaintance. Even though I had known them since grammar school...... not many old friends left, lot's of acquaintances though......
Ryan, it's that knowledge of the Constitution's content and its Bill of Rights that led you (us) to believe that " they cannot take these basic freedoms away from me". However, the First Amendment was on the block when Musk purchased Twitter. The jackasses steering the USS Leviathan laughed at Musk , thinking that he paid twice what it was worth and that it would bankrupt him. Elon seems to always be a few steps ahead of these geniuses.
X is now profitable despite the loss of advertising. It went from 67% Leftists to about 50/50 Left and Right. Elon has made mistakes, but has mostly, gradually corrected them. It's a good place.
I felt the same way, Ryan. I felt physically ill when I saw people being forced to wear masks to go into stores. I just couldn't believe it was happening--not here in America! Hubby couldn't understand the intensity of my reaction against it. My 18yo son (he's 6'4") stated that nobody was going to force him to put on a mask, and that I should follow his lead. From then on, I took him with me every time I went out shopping. We never put masks on, and he glared at anybody who as much as glanced at us. His "I don't care" attitude trumped my "people pleaser" nature, thank goodness.
Easiest call all time. Here's a word for word quote from my 9 year old boy a week after the lockdowns: "Dad, even if they do work, wouldn't everyone have to wear them perfectly everywhere and at all times in order for them to work at all?
Yet the obvious was apostasy to adults. He was kicked out of school for not wearing his mask "right" after 3 days when the masks mandates began. 2 weeks later we moved to Florida.
It was warfare against the oldest generation that really remembers what freedom is. They're dropping like flies, cancer, heart disease, it's horrific what they did to them.
yes, yet many oldsters that I know--suffering from one malady after another--continue to go to the doctors who gave them the 6 or 7 shots in the first place, and are henceforth prescribing the drugs that treat the heart disease, the diabetes, the cancers, et al. so sad. Talk about a captive audience!!!
Yeah, they turned the heat up a little too much and all the frogs noticed it was getting hot pretty quick and some decided to jump out of the pot and attempt an escape. I was one that did not get in the pot and watched as others faltered and fell back into the water. Enough of the frogs survived to raise a stink and here we are, on the cusp of something grand if only we can overcome the shrieking from the folks whose grand plan is being foiled.
The libs I know seemed to like the authoritarian takeover and indeed they seemed to think they were part of it. They appeared to like virtue signaling and the subtle idea that they were superior to those who did not comply. They've "moved on" now to the GCC, and showing disdain for whatever Trump/Musk are doing.
those who failed, and continue to fail, to see what’s going on have hurt not only themselves but the rest of society as well. they have failed about as hard as one can. i see that and shake my head at how they can go about their lives in such obvious denial.
i have felt angry at them and truly taken aback by their ignorance and weakness. at the same time, i feel compassion for them. i do not wish harm upon them, and i think i can see how easily they were fooled.
the tactics of the manipulators work. that’s why they’ve been used time and time again, throughout history, by those who wish to take power from others.
This is going to sound really cynical... but I am starting to think of all the shit we've been put through as a kind of voluntary eugenics program.
No matter how distasteful eugenics is, we've been practising dysgenics for too long.
What I mean by that is that we've been putting too much of society's resources into propping up the most feeble, while simultaneously telling the most promising members of our society that they are "privileged supremacists."
With abortion and the transgender nonsense, with their more general aversion to having children: there is a powerful social and maybe even genetic evolutionary pressure going on, right now. The future belongs to those who show up. Do you have children? Do you have grandchildren? You win. They lose.
I believe this, Ryan. We HAD to have the 4 years in the wilderness to not only clearly see but hope that others would too & join. The massive repudiation of DemoncRAT “leadership” & the overwhelming mandate & approval of same means many democrats & independents have joined. It couldn’t have happened otherwise IMO.
Had to take my wife to cancer treatment in Boston. The city was shut down, couldn't go in the hospital. Walked the streets full of maskies. Lunatics all.
Every once in a great while I'd meet someone else walking without a mask.
"Greetings fellow human!" I'd say and we would laugh.
Dumped a lot of people. Walked of of doctor's office forever. Dropped my eye doctor. Surprisingly, my dentist never went along with the nonsense. It felt like sanctuary getting a cleaning in a place full of maskless humans.
I'm old and pretty much alone now. If they try that again I'll be shooting people.
I have been acutely sensitive to the whole thing as a humiliation ritual. That’s why I cried when I ran out of lightbulbs-because they were able to force me to comply. The stores would throw you out if you refused to wear a mask-what could you do?
Even to fight was a form of humiliation; the public shame ritual of having all the lemmings stand round and share in some Karen-haired manager’s abuse of you in the check out line.
My name is Karon and I want you to know, I am on YOUR side!
A lady at GOODWILL of all places, followed me all over the store, insisting that I wear a mask. I told her 4x that I had an exception (meaning I had an exception-al BRAIN and could see masks don’t help. At all. SO, the 4th time she insisted, I said, “Lady, you DO realize all this junk has been gathering dust and worse in some attic/garage/gym locker for years, then packed, thrown in a trunk, rummaged through in back, priced, packed and shelved and has likely
been fondled by at least 15 people a DAY? WITH or without masks or gloves, this entire PLACE is one giant petri dish! If you’re that worried about germs, you are in the wrong line of work!
me too...the looks on people faces. One poor old guy would not push his shopping cart by me because "I might be sick"- so many older people were broken/isolated/brainwashed. I will never forgive what they did.
when they canceled masks, I walked by a woman wearing two masks & her little kid was wearing one & pulling on it & she was fussing at him to stop. He saw me maskless & just stared like I was a chocolate fudge sundae. I winked at him & smiled, poor kid.
I was always wondering what their faces were really looking like. It was sometimes hard to tell when only seeing their eyes. I had one dude turn around and scold me for following him to closely. 😆
I see seniors in the stores all the time with masks, plastic gloves, disinfectant wipes distancing, the works. A certain demographic of young people too. So broken. I wonder if the spell will ever wear off.
I saw some videos of flash mobs where a dozen unmasked would all go into a store at once and overwhelm the place. I thought "Looks like fun. Why do I need 11 others? ". So I would be a stick in the mud. Mask hanging off ear with a mug of liquid to sip endlessly. Cuss them out once in a while. Enjoy the reactions LOL.
But I pities the poor kids forced by their parents to wear those de-humanizing face coverings, when they only wanted to play with their friends and go to school...
Good they had a choice. In the area I live in, kids weren't allowed to be at school if you didn't wear one. Even the religious private pre schools complied with that rather than risk getting shut down by the state.
In PA they were allowed to get a Drs note. You just needed to find a doctor that would give them. We were fortunate do be able to find one. They eventually came down on that doctor and made him stop.
YES, what a great game! Wear the mask, enter the midst of the crowd and cough my guts out inside my mask. I felt like I was Moses at the shore of the Red Sea.
Me too - while wearing a t-shirt that said "Unmask our kids". The cashier and baggers occasionally thanked me, or made it clear that they were appreciative of my pushback.
GW is about as unpopular now among the Trump crowd as he was with Democrats during his second term. He's Uniparty through and through. While I did vote for him twice, I now have as much contempt for him now as I do for Obama.
You can make them last probably 10 times longer by replacing the wall switch with a dimmer that slowly ramps them from off to on over the course of a couple of seconds or so. It's the initial inrush of current on a cold filament that kills them.
I am a pretty strong person but the insanity of 2020-2021 was almost toomuch for me. I remember crying in the parking lot of my parish church because we were being forced to wear masks outside, on a 5 acre parcel, in order to participate in Mass. And I knew it was asinine and I absolutely refused to wear a mask anywhere else, but my beloved priest was being threatened with punishment and the shutting down Mass entirely if we didn't obey.
I will never forgive the Archbishop and his buddy Governor Inslee for that. And even worse for canceling Easter. And for attempting to force proof of vax from us just to come into the building when they finally allowed it open again (my priest absolutely refused to do that despite being cajoled by staff and other older priests).
I haven't forgotten any of it. And I will not submit to another round ever again.
The worse thing was the hypocrisy. They allowed people in church for saint George Floyd's funeral. The arrested people for protesting COVID lockdowns, but BLM riots were permitted and admired.
I lost my church to covid; it broke my heart, and I spent a lot of time crying in the parking lot too. My church was my center of gravity. All those priests talking about the courage of the saints and martyrs, who then just folded like lawn chairs.
I also found a new church, and a priest who said that the authority of the state ended at the door of the church, and I thank God for him.
We refer to him as Jaydolf. I won't write what I think of those who were elected and never challenged his nearly 1,000 day reign of error as my mother taught me better etiquette than that. ; )
That humiliation has made me far less sympathetic to the other side. Now, when I see tens of thousands of government employees losing their jobs and going out into the private sector, I think to myself, "Hehe, welcome to our world". When I see liberals with terminal TDS having breakdowns, I think, "You f'n Snowflakes, this is not even close to what you did to us. You don't know what suffering is, but if you keep this up, you're going to find out".
I feel everything you just said. I didn’t quite fully understand what was coming in early 2020 but I felt it pretty hard. 2020-2023 were some very hard years for me.
It is as Cat describes, for first time I have some hope. It’s a glorious feeling.
I wore a scarf instead of a mask when I had to, because you could still breathe. it came in handy when someone with two masks, a faceshield, & gloves gave me a dirty look while I went the wrong way down the aisle, on purpose, so I could laugh at them without them knowing... had to retrain my face when we didn't have to wear a mask at all.
I did the same. The first year and a half it was a bandanna I had cut in half so it was even thinner. I looked like an old west bandit, so funny to waltz into the bank in that gear. I later traded that in for a canvas mask that didn't fit so air came in around edges. I refused to wear one outside ever.
I remember the first time I walked into a store where everybody had a mask on except me. I had finally had it. Everyone looked at me and no one said a word. It felt so good ! that was it. I never wore one again and no one ever said a word. Hallelujah! hope is a theological virtue along with faith and love. I’m feeling all of it.
What could you do? You could go somewhere else, where they didn't throw you out. I refused, and if they chased after me, I said I can't breathe under the mask, and they left me alone. For a long time, it was just me and maybe one other person... that was demoralizing. The Karens didn't want to quit.
I am with you! I was actually thinking of going to a thrift store and seeing if any of the lamps for sale had incandescent bulbs in them. But Trump is out front, undoing the ridiculous, the stupid, the inane and the tyrannical small things-but in the back room? A thousand true patriots, all in place are tearing out the roots of the swamp while what used to be the MSM are leading the group-cry over dishwashers killing the planet. I voted for what Trump is doing and the louder those athols cry, the more they were on the take and benefited from the theft of the American taxpayer. Change My Mind.
"Apart from the massacres, deaths and famines for which communism was responsible, the worst thing about the system was the official lying: that is to say the lying in which everyone was forced to take part, by repetition, assent or failure to contradict.
I came to the conclusion that the purpose of propaganda in communist countries was not to persuade, much less to inform, but to humiliate and emasculate. In this sense, the less true it was, the less it corresponded in any way to reality, the better; the more it contradicted the experience of the persons to whom it was directed, the more docile, self-despising for their failure to protest, and impotent they became."
- Theodore Dalrymple
And just like the masking it became more intricate and absurd as time went on. Because that's the point.
We were in Wegman's (kind of a Whole Foods-ish grocery store; a little better able to spend) on Saturday and the number of people wearing masks was unbelievable. I work around the corner from there so I don't notice it at Wednesday Lunchtime but with the bigger crowd right before some wet and snow, I'd say it was close to 1 in 10.
Masks are security blankets for those whom are still WANTING to believe that they are smart enough to NOT believe the lies that they believe. True neurotic OCD.
It’s a self-harming virtue signal for others to self-harm and be in the perceived safety of the virtuous in-group. The tribal nature of it was researched and used to full effect. The actual harms it caused, physically, mentally and socially, is immeasurable. It is utterly insidious.
I live in a conservative lake community just south of Charlotte and I don’t see many masks around here, but I run errands into blue Charlotte at times and I see them quite frequently still. The interesting thing is the demographics. It’s primarily boomers and young woman. Skews heavily black. If you look at the election the only groups now that are sticking with the Democrats are young, single, white liberals, black women, and Boomers. These are4 the maskers. (Boomers seem to think that the Democrat party is the party of Kennedy or whatever still and there’s just no amount of convincing them otherwise it seems. They still see themsleves as resisting the establishment. I blame it partly on dementia.)
At this point, I do hold it against people. I mean, I don’t make fun of anyone or act rudely but in my mind I just see them as idiots. It’s basically mental illness on display. I’ll be polite to them in public, but I will avoid at all costs.
Masks have a long and distinguished history - just look at executioners! And, they come in handy when robbing a bank, carjacking, or ratting out the Mob.
I think it's a form of virtue signalling. They think all the young girls will see what sensitive, intelligent guys they are. And maybe they'll get laid.
Maybe, but only by the crazy ones. And they're too young to appreciate the advice of their elders, "Don't put your.... in crazy!"
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one" - Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
In airports, I do the same thing. Just gawk at them like they are wearing a hat made of dog turds.
In Miami - a place with very high anti-mask (or should we say pro-face?) sentiment - I would do something a little different. When I saw a young person wearing a mask, I would fully extend my arm, point my finger at them, and say very loudly "ha ha!" Thereby making it clear that everyone around thought they were clowns. Wouldn't do that in a "blue" city, might get assaulted.
I see the most masks in Trader Joes, Health food/co op places and the fancy ass grocery store all the rich folk shop at. It all seems to point at a certain demographic...
Had to take both my kids to the pediatrician with the flu last week. Forced masking of them, but not me. I saw a toddler in there fighting his mom tooth and nail as she tried to strap it on him. To the dr's credit they didn't ask if my kids had gotten flu shots (they didn't). My older one suffered for 6 days with fever over 101. When the younger one got sick I bullied the nurse into prescribing a newish antiviral called Xofluza that knocked it out in 36 hours, honest to God. If I hadn't seen the dichotomy between the two of them I never would have believed it.
Just re read this article. Shit literally gives me a knot in my stomach and my teeth grind. The humiliation we were put through used to upset me something fierce. It’s good to be reminded of it from time to time.
Keep that in mind should Trump declare these judges Insurrectionists and arrest their sorry asses. Maybe just remind people to read this piece. This is going to be his first big test I think.
Trump has already crossed the Rubicon. The die has been cast as they say. All the Left and do is go kicking and screaming. A HUGE reason Trump played Coy immediately after winning the election.
Well now there’s no doubt NOW where he plans on talking the country. His future does not include today’s Democrat party. The same level of humiliation awaits them.
I think we are either headed for a Golden Age to quote DT. Or we are headed for some degree of civil strife. The latter is the preferred method of many on the left. It Should be interesting wherever we end up!
I think they're going to have to go a little further than that, because they'll do it all over again.
Do you think Jesus has forgiven Satan?
If they want forgiveness they should seek it. The burden is on them to seek forgiveness, but that can only be granted if they can prove their remorsefulness and, by the integrity of their future behavior, their sincerity.
Personally I'm just indifferent to them. They no longer exist for me. It's healthier that way.
I agree 100%, I was is a Catholic Mom group and said the same thing and was told that this is not a Christian view. I believe Jesus would forgive Satan if he were truly remorseful. I believe you are required to forgive if you believe a person is remorseful. Why would you forgive someone who continues to offend? How can that be Christian-like? It just seems, either stupid or self-agrandizing, "look how much bigger of a person I am". I honestly don't understand it.
Im with you. If you were fine with the fascism of the last 4 years you are dead to me. All the people losing their minds now that Trump has been elected are insane and I’m gonna be honest I hate them
LOL! You're funny, Doc! NO! And, YES, they still have to go to prison... let their time served be their ticket to forgiveness... I have no forgiveness to offer... Only a warning.
Yes, Gato, you nailed it again! It is a glorious morning in America.
I want to see the Trump Administration not only return us to the "freedoms baseline" of, say, 15-20 years ago--I want the ball to go all the way to the damned end zone. We've watched every Republican Pres, and Legislature till now, play weak defense against the statists from both sides, for DECADES. Our Constitutional and natural rights have been trampled all to hell, and the Republicans and decent Democrats have allowed it to happen. This country needs to return to a Constitutional Republic, where every law, federal and state, must be Constitutional, or it is nullified.
Overall life was good, race relations were self healing, there was a sense optimism and the vast majority of the population at least shared patriotism in common.
Also the mid 80's years represent the beginning of the transition from an analog world to a digital world.
We're the last generation that will have lived as adults on both sides of the digital divide and it happened at the "perfect" age for us. Really we're the only generation that truly understands it's significance. And we might be the only generation to have been able to handle it because of our age and GenX's overall attitude.
We also experienced, in full, both sides of The Globalist divide that started in the Bush years. Lastly we experienced the fall of communism starting in the late 80's
Those are quite possibiliy the three most significant generational transitions in the history of mankind, all happening at the same time.
I would put 1987 as the peak year and the beginning of each transition.
100% agreed. And there was a lot of really good music and movies during those years that has stood up well 40 years later. Most of the people making it were wailing at the time that they were being oppressed by Reagan and Thatcher but if that's what they needed to believe to crank out work of that quality, fine.
For all the good happening at that time, there was also one pretty important omen that nobody paid much attention to. The newly promoted Anthony Fauci was completely mismanaging the AIDS epidemic, overhyping how easy it was to spread, and blocking working treatments in favor of ones he could personally profit from. And most of the media blamed it all on the Republican president instead of Fauci, and continues to do so.
What an uplifting description of life in America, & we are barely three weeks past bidementedjoe. The Cat meme at the end deserves an award, for it is the best Cat meme ever! Yes We Cat 🐺
It is my opinion we are at this point, again: "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"
I have been feeling hopeful.....but I am a bit anxious about the activist judges and corrupt senators. I will feel better when Tulsi, RFK Jr, and Kash are confirmed and someone stops the activist /Soros judges! Any updates? Thanks for a great post, El Gato Malo!
Now that we know the Soros judges were actually funded more by our tax dollars (via USAID) than by Soros himself, there's an easy path forward to preventing any more from happening.
Is it really better? I´m just so surrounded by shrieking liberals screaming about the end of days that it´s hard to see it. I read that Trump is building concentration camps in Gitmo, that he´s on the verge of ignoring rulings by federal judges, that he´s destroying America. I don´t want to believe it´s true but where I am people aren´t smiling yet. I hope the sun comes out soon.
you're never going change the progressives. there's no internal philosophical mechanism for them to course correct - that's what defines their ideology. but, i have had decent success reaching people that are left leaning moderates.
it takes nuance, timing and humor. work the "billionaire/elite" hypocrisy angle. you can always find humor in hypocrisy.
humor, after all, is the shortest distance between two people. we have to bring others to the dance floor. I know of no other way than to speak freely. Look for small "wins"...there are no knockout punches...just millions of jabs (sorry for unintended pun) that will get us the big WIN.
you know who are the good candidates for this (and it doesn't have much to do with the plandemic directly)?
the two-shot-and-done crowd. most of them have doubts now about the narrative of all things they've heard in the last decade.
what you have to accept is nobody is going to say they're wrong; however tacit acknowledgement is just fine. it's good enough....even if it's silence. i use memes judicially as way to soften them up.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
"I´m just so surrounded by shrieking liberals screaming about the end of days that it´s hard to see it."
Their shrieking's are the death throws of clueless idiocy. The brainwashed are clinging to false narratives as if their lives depend on it. They are increasingly being marginalized in their echo chamber dystopia's of last resort. WAPO comment sections are demoralizing but I keep trying to educate. They appear to be a lost cause.
yikes where do you live...I have acquaintances/family that post the stuff about 1933 Germany, gas chambers and "Elon has my SS #"- it's good morning entertainment as I scroll through FB and the like..
I laugh at those who spew the Slo Joe/Kackling dogma. They were proven wrong by a reawakened electorate and have no recourse but to blather devisive nonsense.
I wish Trump was the monster that the Left pretends him to be, but unfortunately he isn't. Things are coming to a head. If Trump breaks... I don't want to think about it.
Well, "becoming the rainbow", you can hang out here and on X- as you communicate with more and more rational people, you can feel the leftist hold on America weaken and fall away!
For the sake of us who live in "mixed" marriages, I'm hoping that things start visibly, palpably improving soon. My MSNBC/NPR-fan wife is driving me nuts with apocalyptic predictions. "We're turning into Venezuela!" "They're imposing Christianity on the rest of us!!" "Thanks to Trump's tariffs, the price of my next car is going up 25%!!!"
The amount of misinformation and hysteria is just too much to refute one at a time, it's a full-time job to stay on top of all the B.S. in order to correct it. Some kind of systematic, large and undeniable improvement is necessary -- and SOON.
Ideally we could see these improvements without breaking laws. Trump said today that he will "always abide by the courts.” He does not appear to have a great record doing so for the first weeks of his administration, but perhaps that will change soon and we can go forward improving our country while maintaining compliance with our constitution.
Alas, the badjudges of our kangaroo courts don't seem too interested in upholding the law, much less the Constitution.
Who still respects the moral authority of judiciary, after their disgraceful performance during the Covid Atrocities? Having vaporized their own moral authority, all they have left is fear & violent coercion.
I'm pretty sure the toilet paper crisis at the very beginning of the plandemic was part of the whole thing. We had a tenant who was dealing with severe lung issues and wasn't able to leave the apartment. For several months my life became all about standing in line at Costco when there was toilet paper so I could take that concern off of her plate. The crazy thing is, we never ran out. It was like the miracle of the loaves and fishes, only with toilet paper. As a side note, I hope all of the treasonous traitors that put us through this only get one-ply in their prison cells for the rest of their miserable existences. To all the good folks who weathered this craziness-- just let that toilet paper spin like the wheel of fortune-- there's plenty for everyone. It will help you shift to an abundance mindset:)
The minor players - mayors, "public health" officials, school boards, hospital administrators, etc - should be barred for life from all positions of authority, public and private alike. But otherwise allowed to continue a normal life. They are mostly fools not villains.
A handful of the top leaders of the Covid Atrocities should be given fair and public trials. Upon their inevitable convictions - they did their crimes right out in public - they should be sent to the gallows. Nothing less can do justice to the enormity of their evil.
my dear leftist progressive loved ones -- family, friends, neighbors, coworkers -- are extremely upset and horrified at what is unfolding. I would have hoped they would have woken up by now. Unfortunately, they are now feeling demoralized. Some, however, are engaging in activism and are wholly taken in by the Democrat congress people who are perhaps trying to foment some kind of civil unrest. this is quite a spectacle. one I might enjoy more, if it weren't for most everyone I know seeing things through opposite lenses. I hope they do wake up.
Don't worry about others too much. It is similar to sitting in the KC Chiefs' fan zone wearing an Philly Eagles jersey in this last SB. Live your life and enjoy the show. Haters gonna hate.
When you’ve resisted from the beginning and refused to go along, you’ve preserve your sanity and your soul. Recently we had to replace our 34-year-old whirlpool top loader washing machine and bought a Speed Queen top loader. It works even better than our old Whirlpool. Where options exist, they have to be used. Resistance goes all the way down and touches everything. It’s the only way.
For the first time in my life I just bought an American flag. I'm 64. That's how good I feel about the direction of our country. Now if we could just stop effing around in the Middle East.
If the situation was hopeless, their propaganda would be pointless. The forces of demoralization will keep pushing towards dystopia. Sunlight is the best disinfectant to prevent destabilization, crisis, and normalization. It’s morning indeed. Time to build and laugh at the subversive demoralization agents.
You nailed it.
They wanted us to feel hopeless...otherwise there wouldn't have been a need for the propaganda, censorship and the moral trickboxes.
I think we have to assume, at some point, we WILL be tested again...scamdemic, or otherwise.
We'll be prepared to head that off if there is a "next time".
I absolutely can't stand what was foisted upon us during the plandemic...but in hindsight it actually may have saved America.
We are being tested again: bird flu. Somehow it stops at the northern and southern borders because neither the Canadians or Mexicans are murdering significant chunks of their poultry food source.
Cardinals, juncos, mourning doves, sparrow, starlings---how are they immune to this deadly disease?
That's the next step of course. We will then emulate Mao's PRC and eliminate every flying thing. Guess what happened in China when that happened? Swarms of insects caused far more agricultural losses than the few grains of rice that each starling used to eat.
David, I'm just beginning to read about Mao - fascinating and so horrific. Let's hope we are alert enough in the U.S.A. that it doesn't EVER get that bad.
Sparrow
Thanks for the correction.
Check out the planned Ostrich slaughter in B.C.
The CFIA is hot to find "bird flu" but has not disclosed their diagnostic/analytic criteria to the farmers.
They want the ostriches confined to tents and masked! Does this sound familiar?
I assume you are mocking the health authorities when you write that they want the ostriches to be masked.
Right?! I'd like to know for sure. Because when they have some ridiculous things, you know they are LARPS
AND Can F*** OFF.
The biggest threat imo is the GCC nonsense.
It could make the plandemic look like child's play.
But I'm much more optimistic that we'll avoid that than I was even 1 year ago.
Question from a dummy. What is GCC?
A box of 60 eggs in Walmart today $27.34. This is Pennsylvania, the fourth leading egg producing state. A dozen were almost $6. The cage frees were only 80 cents more.
global climate change*
sorry should've clarified, Susan
Nope, I should keep up on acronyms. Old age creeping in.
GCC is the grift of the millennium.
Yeah it won’t go away but GCC is taking some really big hits in the last year. Globalization in general has taken a few steps back.
i've been buying eggs directly from regenerative farmers for over a decade. they started out at $6.00 a dozen and 10 years later have crept up to $7.00. they are not as dependent on market forces
Ain't it odd how demand follows supply? And on that thought--it would be a pity indeed if, the egg farmers having managed to re-build their supply, the American people had learned to live without eggs.
Or worse yet, learned that growing their own isn't too difficult. I am currently getting eggs $5 a dozen from a friend who took my flock in when I had to move. Those girls are supporting at least 3 households in our circle. I love chickens and hope to have more soon.
WHAT??????????? For Heaven's sake, Susan, that is unconscionable!
I saw a news report on FOX business last week which stated folks in Eastern PA and southern NY were traveling to NJ to purchase eggs due to the prices offered in NJ. I live in Western PA so cannot verify.
true, kids think the earth will end because of something they did, so they have no hope or ambition for the future.
I don't know, Ryan. I think in the U.S. so many of us are over that whole scam. Yes, there will still be those who do whatever they think is going to 'save the planet' -- only Dems/Left & RINOs have that much hubris to think that they can control the climate. 🙄 The EU are still within their grasp but they're waking up. Just hope they don't hit the snooze button.
If the people of the EUSSR don't re-enact the liberation of the Warsaw Pact nations circa 1989 they will go extinct.
🤔 Hmm, I'm gonna have to look into the Warsaw Pact to respond responsibly.
The RINOs know it's a grift. How could they not? Their very nature is to grift, and like calls to like.
Trump and his Zionist cronies in the Occupied Lands of Palestine are doing their utmost to get Gazans out of the area ASAP. Not because their planned Riviera in the ME, but for the huuuuge profits from oil- and gas-fields that "await" them in the territorial waters pertaining to the Palestinian people.
THIS is the best and most recent, solid evidence that end-of-oil, Global Climate Change and their paraphernalia are a humungous grift into the freedoms and coffers of the populace as well as biggest global (after C-19) hoax ever.
On Target🎯
don't take any tests
Funny too that isn't seeming to affect meat birds. My chicken thighs cost about the same as they did a few years ago and there seems to be no shortage of american broilers.
Yep. One of Musk's Gang of Autists needs to take a look at that entire process, from top to bottom, to see what role federal bureaucrats are playing in that monstrous scam.
This has to stop. However, I did read of an ostrich farm in BC that was ordered to murder 400 perfectly healthy ostriches because one was exposed to bird flu and was not even sick. The authorities refused to allow the farmer to test the other birds. There was a petition online that I signed but I doubt it will do any good.
I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS, they say this bird flu (sounds A LOT like Cov19) asymptomatic, won't hurt humans if they eat the meat. Eggs from birds with flu , likewise, SO WHY KILL THE BIRDS ? FFS EAT THEM!! ITS STUPID. Are they using the PCR test ?! Probably
Yes Canada is ramping up. They are going after Ostriches in BC. We just follow what happens in US.
I thought Canada was dispatching birds....
It's the sputtering breath of a dying regime.....
"I absolutely can't stand what was foisted upon us during the plandemic...but in hindsight it actually may have saved America."
The authoritarian takeover was so obvious that only the brain dead didn't notice. They went too far and are getting the backlash now!
well i can tell you this; i never want to experience that feeling again. for me it was an actual sensation, like synesthesia of all my senses, of feeling helpless with the oppressive hand of totalitarianism pressing down on me.
surreal but tangible. exactly what I would expect to feel in my imagination if I had lived behind the Iron Curtain - or playing "Red Dawn" in preparation for a soviet invasion when I was 13!
but hey, maybe I'm sensitive to these things because I'm a freebird, and never thought I'd live to see the day that could happen to me as an American.
"never thought I'd live to see the day that could happen to me as an American."
Dido, I didn't think what they got away with was possible in America. The "Patriot act" was the most treasonous legislation in American history. Unreasonable searches are standard practice now. I hope they get to that eventually.
Exactly.
The war on terror is far worse than just a typical war, because it led to the government being able to wage war against its citizenry through The Patriot Act.
That makes it a triple whammy, because after 20+ years people will look at you crazy if you ask them if trading freedom for safety was worth it. And don't forget the reason we have Homeland Security is because the FBI failed to do their job and should've seen it coming (in many ways they did). Most of our institutions are unnecessary and were arranged because the initial institution failed to do its duty.
And just like Social Security, etc. the scam has become an expectation; not an idea that should be debated for solutions. Precisely because people have forgotten (and therefore can't see) it was a stupid idea from the beginning
"The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability that we forget they are ideas at all." - Jacob M. Appel
I’m 75 years old. Every bit of it was all by design. I’m very sad now. My youngestdaughter lost her fiancé two months ago to a multitude of cancers and now, my daughter is probably facing the same.
Has the Patriot Act actually done anything to make us, uhh, safer? Can't it be rescinded?
Konstantin Kisin calls it "managed decline" and that's exactly what we had under the previous administration. I never want to feel that again either.
Yes.
All of it planned.
It's the Cloward-Piven theory basically:
The faster you can tank the whole system, by bankrupting the country through massive social program, give-aways (and by wars), the sooner full-on socialism has to be implemented.
Essentially the entire cold war apparatus never went away, it was just repurposed. It turned against the west itself over the past 30 years due to leftist and globalist ideologies that took over the elites and the bureaucracy
This is Starmer's exact playbook and each day Britain slips further into the mire.
Socialism was only a step. The real aim is the world of "The Handmaid's Tale", with Jeffrey Epstein's fantasy island as a foretaste and a honey trap for participants.
Agree wholeheartedly. I'm going to be roundly vilified for saying this, but will anyway. Adding emancipation, universal suffrage and rabid feminism has created a zeitgeist that's toxic beyond belief.
During the Cold War, it was impossible to forget the threat that communism represented to America and the west, and not just in terms of nuclear annihilation. The spectre of being conquered and forced into communism was even worse. Better dead than red.
We had defectors from the USSR or one of the satellite countries who told us how bad it was. Yakov Smirnoff made a name for himself with his "In Soviet Russia..." jokes, but you could always tell that there was a hint of "If I don't laugh at it, I may cry" just beneath the surface.
When the USSR fell, there was, of course, jubilation. The threat of nuclear annihilation was over, and along with it, the threat of communism!
But no one told the subversive elements throughout the west.
We know that the Soviets sent spies to the US to learn our secrets and sabotage us from within. This is not surprising... it would be surprising if they had not. We did the same with them, of course. Khrushchev all but told us he was doing this, about how he would feed us little bits of communism until one day we woke up communist without ever knowing how we got there.
Spies know how to look for vulnerable people in the target country who can be turned. If they have access to useful information, the spy will use that person to gain as much of that information as possible. If they do not have useful info, they can still be useful. Once radicalized against their own country, they can be trained to go look for vulnerable people and turn them as well. These are the people who would subvert the institutions from within, the schools, the news media, the entertainment industry.
Once these groups of homegrown radicals achieved a certain size, a critical mass if you will, they became self-sustaining.
When the Soviet Union fell, everyone thought that communism, the ideology, had disappeared with it. Overnight, the threat of communism became a joke. Seinfeld had an episode where Elaine dated a guy she learned was a communist, and it was played up as a joke. Look how pathetic this guy is! He doesn't even know his side lost. Elaine tried to console him, saying, "Hey, you had a good run, scaring the hell out of us for 50 years," and he kinda nodded back. They were no longer threatening... now they were a punch line that no one took seriously anymore.
What a gift that was to them!
Now they could operate in plain sight. If people saw them as pathetic people who didn't realize they'd lost and that it was all over, that was the best thing possible for them. They had long had plans to take over at least one of the two major parties, the media, the schools, and so on, but the constant fear and awareness of communism's threats meant they had to be very careful and proceed slowly.
Now that we all took our eyes off the ball, they put the pedal to the metal, and before we knew it, they completely captured the Democratic Party, the schools, and the media, the administrative deep state (no one likes a bureaucrat like a communist!), and were already churning out the first crop of fully indoctrinated kids, having been in the post-Soviet indoctrination schools from kindergarten on.
Now those kids have grown up, and they're the ones doing the indoctrinating. They're red-diaper babies, unlike most of their parents, and they are much more efficient at indoctrination than their own teachers were.
Once these subversive elements got into the food chain within the deep state apparatus (the whole Cold War framework you mentioned), absent any vigilance about communist sympathizers now that that was no longer a perceived threat, they completely took it over.
Our government has always been full of sociopaths who would kill anyone, including their own countrymen, in the pursuit of their agenda, but I think that even they used to be motivated by the desire to defeat the Soviet Union and the misguided notion that what they were doing was serving the interests of the United States.
They obviously went way too far, and often became the bad guys themselves, doing damage to the very country they thought they were serving. I'm talking about presidential assassinations, getting us into wars we don't need to be in (that's a popular one), killing tens of thousands of our young people, having our allies bomb our own ship in yet another attempt to get us into another unnecessary war, stuff like that. None of that served America's interests.
Those Cold Warrior psychos were replaced by the younger generation, steeped in communist indoctrination and lore, believing in all the same things as the communists that were thought to have been defeated. Chief among these was that the western way of life, and all of its anchors, like the nuclear family, had to be destroyed.
Today, we're told that when we look at all of this and see a communist plot, that we're just out of touch and don't know what communism or socialism are. "Why didn't Obama nationalize all the corporations?" they ask, with a tone suggesting they actually thought they'd made a good point.
The reason why, of course, is that we are not at that step yet. It's on the list, but it's further down than where we are presently. All of the arguments being made by these people who deny being communists or socialists sound frighteningly familiar to people who have actually lived under actual socialism (keep in mind that every country run by a Communist Party has been in the socialist stage, so don't let anyone tell you that wasn't socialism. It most certainly was). They recognize it, having heard it before. They know what it leads to. They know what the promises were, and how they differ from what they actually got.
The young who emerge from the indoctrination factories have never heard any of that bad stuff. They've been fed the fantasy version, the one that never existed in real life, even though there have been many attempts that always resulted in soul-crushing totalitarianism.
Because the fantasy view differs so greatly from the reality, the young self assuredly tell us that real communism (or socialism, take your pick) has never been tried (which kind of makes you wonder... if that is the case, what makes you so certain it would work?). What did Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, etc., know about communism anyway?
And that's where I would put in the bit about Becky from Vassar being completely certain that if she was the one in charge of imposing communism|socialism, it would work. To do so here with a straight face would suggest I was using the example from el gato malo's previous post... but it's not. Not sure where it's from, but clearly I picked it up somewhere.
I know what you mean. What really got me is, when I sounded the alarm trying to alert the sheeple around me..... I got empty stares, compliance and outrage that I should question the authority. Very quickly I was aware of who really was a friend and who was an acquaintance. Even though I had known them since grammar school...... not many old friends left, lot's of acquaintances though......
Exactly this. Same. Same. Same.
Ryan, it's that knowledge of the Constitution's content and its Bill of Rights that led you (us) to believe that " they cannot take these basic freedoms away from me". However, the First Amendment was on the block when Musk purchased Twitter. The jackasses steering the USS Leviathan laughed at Musk , thinking that he paid twice what it was worth and that it would bankrupt him. Elon seems to always be a few steps ahead of these geniuses.
X is now profitable despite the loss of advertising. It went from 67% Leftists to about 50/50 Left and Right. Elon has made mistakes, but has mostly, gradually corrected them. It's a good place.
In the immortal words of Lynyrd Skynyrd: "And this bird you'll never cayayayayayayge!"
I felt the same way, Ryan. I felt physically ill when I saw people being forced to wear masks to go into stores. I just couldn't believe it was happening--not here in America! Hubby couldn't understand the intensity of my reaction against it. My 18yo son (he's 6'4") stated that nobody was going to force him to put on a mask, and that I should follow his lead. From then on, I took him with me every time I went out shopping. We never put masks on, and he glared at anybody who as much as glanced at us. His "I don't care" attitude trumped my "people pleaser" nature, thank goodness.
Easiest call all time. Here's a word for word quote from my 9 year old boy a week after the lockdowns: "Dad, even if they do work, wouldn't everyone have to wear them perfectly everywhere and at all times in order for them to work at all?
Yet the obvious was apostasy to adults. He was kicked out of school for not wearing his mask "right" after 3 days when the masks mandates began. 2 weeks later we moved to Florida.
i have tremendous respect for your understanding of what’s going on and your decisive action to move, ryan. your son is lucky to have you
Isn't that crazy? I felt the exact same way....and we weren't the crazy ones!
It was warfare against the oldest generation that really remembers what freedom is. They're dropping like flies, cancer, heart disease, it's horrific what they did to them.
And so are the millennials. Young moms suddenly widowed when their husbands drop dead, people of all ages dying in their sleep.
Not to mention dementia coming on faster than ever. What a way to treat our Elders.
yes, yet many oldsters that I know--suffering from one malady after another--continue to go to the doctors who gave them the 6 or 7 shots in the first place, and are henceforth prescribing the drugs that treat the heart disease, the diabetes, the cancers, et al. so sad. Talk about a captive audience!!!
Yeah, they turned the heat up a little too much and all the frogs noticed it was getting hot pretty quick and some decided to jump out of the pot and attempt an escape. I was one that did not get in the pot and watched as others faltered and fell back into the water. Enough of the frogs survived to raise a stink and here we are, on the cusp of something grand if only we can overcome the shrieking from the folks whose grand plan is being foiled.
The libs I know seemed to like the authoritarian takeover and indeed they seemed to think they were part of it. They appeared to like virtue signaling and the subtle idea that they were superior to those who did not comply. They've "moved on" now to the GCC, and showing disdain for whatever Trump/Musk are doing.
it's been an eye opener on how many brain dead are out there.
i think many of them simply lack awareness and courage
fair, and maybe a little understated.
yes, mitch, it is understated.
those who failed, and continue to fail, to see what’s going on have hurt not only themselves but the rest of society as well. they have failed about as hard as one can. i see that and shake my head at how they can go about their lives in such obvious denial.
i have felt angry at them and truly taken aback by their ignorance and weakness. at the same time, i feel compassion for them. i do not wish harm upon them, and i think i can see how easily they were fooled.
the tactics of the manipulators work. that’s why they’ve been used time and time again, throughout history, by those who wish to take power from others.
This is going to sound really cynical... but I am starting to think of all the shit we've been put through as a kind of voluntary eugenics program.
No matter how distasteful eugenics is, we've been practising dysgenics for too long.
What I mean by that is that we've been putting too much of society's resources into propping up the most feeble, while simultaneously telling the most promising members of our society that they are "privileged supremacists."
At some point, something's gotta give.
With abortion and the transgender nonsense, with their more general aversion to having children: there is a powerful social and maybe even genetic evolutionary pressure going on, right now. The future belongs to those who show up. Do you have children? Do you have grandchildren? You win. They lose.
I believe this, Ryan. We HAD to have the 4 years in the wilderness to not only clearly see but hope that others would too & join. The massive repudiation of DemoncRAT “leadership” & the overwhelming mandate & approval of same means many democrats & independents have joined. It couldn’t have happened otherwise IMO.
Don’t forget the Repubs. They are part of this too. It’s the Entire system. We a truly F**ked
What helped Trump enormously was 4 years of Joe Biden.
They overplayed their hand.
They always do!
I never complied.
Had to take my wife to cancer treatment in Boston. The city was shut down, couldn't go in the hospital. Walked the streets full of maskies. Lunatics all.
Every once in a great while I'd meet someone else walking without a mask.
"Greetings fellow human!" I'd say and we would laugh.
Dumped a lot of people. Walked of of doctor's office forever. Dropped my eye doctor. Surprisingly, my dentist never went along with the nonsense. It felt like sanctuary getting a cleaning in a place full of maskless humans.
I'm old and pretty much alone now. If they try that again I'll be shooting people.
You won't be alone. Lock and load!
Feel the same way as you. Completely the same.
Well said.
The key will be to never forget, as difficult as that may be due to human nature.
Well said! We must always remember that Despair is a sin, and that the worm always turns if we are patient....
I have been acutely sensitive to the whole thing as a humiliation ritual. That’s why I cried when I ran out of lightbulbs-because they were able to force me to comply. The stores would throw you out if you refused to wear a mask-what could you do?
Even to fight was a form of humiliation; the public shame ritual of having all the lemmings stand round and share in some Karen-haired manager’s abuse of you in the check out line.
My name is Karon and I want you to know, I am on YOUR side!
A lady at GOODWILL of all places, followed me all over the store, insisting that I wear a mask. I told her 4x that I had an exception (meaning I had an exception-al BRAIN and could see masks don’t help. At all. SO, the 4th time she insisted, I said, “Lady, you DO realize all this junk has been gathering dust and worse in some attic/garage/gym locker for years, then packed, thrown in a trunk, rummaged through in back, priced, packed and shelved and has likely
been fondled by at least 15 people a DAY? WITH or without masks or gloves, this entire PLACE is one giant petri dish! If you’re that worried about germs, you are in the wrong line of work!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I would pay to see what the look on her face was after you said that!
excellent!
Good on you! I got reprimanded by a goodwill harpy too in 2021. I left giving her the finger.
Love it!
I loved being one of the only ones to walk around the grocery store without a mask.
me too...the looks on people faces. One poor old guy would not push his shopping cart by me because "I might be sick"- so many older people were broken/isolated/brainwashed. I will never forgive what they did.
when they canceled masks, I walked by a woman wearing two masks & her little kid was wearing one & pulling on it & she was fussing at him to stop. He saw me maskless & just stared like I was a chocolate fudge sundae. I winked at him & smiled, poor kid.
Hopefully you've planted the seed of antiauthoritarianism.
I still see people wearing a mask in the store. Only one or two, but that's already enough.
I was always wondering what their faces were really looking like. It was sometimes hard to tell when only seeing their eyes. I had one dude turn around and scold me for following him to closely. 😆
I just totally ignore anyone wearing face diapers these days.
I see seniors in the stores all the time with masks, plastic gloves, disinfectant wipes distancing, the works. A certain demographic of young people too. So broken. I wonder if the spell will ever wear off.
Check their grocery baskets. They may be buying the real source of their demise.
I think it won't, now they're so far gone.
I saw some videos of flash mobs where a dozen unmasked would all go into a store at once and overwhelm the place. I thought "Looks like fun. Why do I need 11 others? ". So I would be a stick in the mud. Mask hanging off ear with a mug of liquid to sip endlessly. Cuss them out once in a while. Enjoy the reactions LOL.
Some inmates in the asylum are very mischievous.
They were breathing their own fear. I could smell it like a dense malodorous fog.
Me too!
But I pities the poor kids forced by their parents to wear those de-humanizing face coverings, when they only wanted to play with their friends and go to school...
My Grandkids wouldn’t wear them. I was proud of them. They were ostracized and set apart by the teachers but they stood strong.
Good they had a choice. In the area I live in, kids weren't allowed to be at school if you didn't wear one. Even the religious private pre schools complied with that rather than risk getting shut down by the state.
In PA they were allowed to get a Drs note. You just needed to find a doctor that would give them. We were fortunate do be able to find one. They eventually came down on that doctor and made him stop.
I did this as well and if I got too much hate staring I would cough loudly without covering my mouth. It was great fun!
YES, what a great game! Wear the mask, enter the midst of the crowd and cough my guts out inside my mask. I felt like I was Moses at the shore of the Red Sea.
Me too - while wearing a t-shirt that said "Unmask our kids". The cashier and baggers occasionally thanked me, or made it clear that they were appreciative of my pushback.
Me too and I didn’t follow any damn arrows on the floor.
I did as well. One day, I smiled at a lady in the grocery aisle and she looked at me and said “it is so nice to see a smile.”
Looks like we’ll be stockpiling incandescent light bulbs for the next time Democrats retake the White House
there won't be a next time... :-)
Well isn't that what we thought last time; that it couldn't happen in the US?
I'm not so sure. After all I haven't heard one person come out and tell children what was done to them was wrong and didn't work.
Do you think children will know? How could they possibly know...they haven't been taught. In fact, It's been normalized.
I think its prudent to keep our guards up...because if something of this nature happens again...it will bleed.
And if I can still walk at that time, I'll be first in line.
Take a long look at Trump's picks for deputy HHS (to RFK) Jim O'Neill and his Pandemic Preparedness Chief, Dr Gerald Parker
Whitney Webb- 'These people are about to UNDERMINE RFK, Jr. and the MAHA movement' Does Trump know❓
Of course they will try. Duh. Doesn’t mean they will be successful. Step foot on the zeitgeist ride for at least awhile. It feels good.
I stocked up a lifetime supply of incandescent bulbs from the Obama ban on them.
I wanted to do that. I wish I would have!
The incandescent bulb ban was signed by GW, not Barry. Very disappointing!
GW is about as unpopular now among the Trump crowd as he was with Democrats during his second term. He's Uniparty through and through. While I did vote for him twice, I now have as much contempt for him now as I do for Obama.
me, too, but I just ran out.... had to buy a few of the much more expensive LED's. I did survive through the CFL phase & never bought one of them.
You can make them last probably 10 times longer by replacing the wall switch with a dimmer that slowly ramps them from off to on over the course of a couple of seconds or so. It's the initial inrush of current on a cold filament that kills them.
That is a VERY useful post. I wish I knew.
That's good to know! I finally used up the last of my bulbs and was very sad.
I am a pretty strong person but the insanity of 2020-2021 was almost toomuch for me. I remember crying in the parking lot of my parish church because we were being forced to wear masks outside, on a 5 acre parcel, in order to participate in Mass. And I knew it was asinine and I absolutely refused to wear a mask anywhere else, but my beloved priest was being threatened with punishment and the shutting down Mass entirely if we didn't obey.
I will never forgive the Archbishop and his buddy Governor Inslee for that. And even worse for canceling Easter. And for attempting to force proof of vax from us just to come into the building when they finally allowed it open again (my priest absolutely refused to do that despite being cajoled by staff and other older priests).
I haven't forgotten any of it. And I will not submit to another round ever again.
The worse thing was the hypocrisy. They allowed people in church for saint George Floyd's funeral. The arrested people for protesting COVID lockdowns, but BLM riots were permitted and admired.
I lost my church to covid; it broke my heart, and I spent a lot of time crying in the parking lot too. My church was my center of gravity. All those priests talking about the courage of the saints and martyrs, who then just folded like lawn chairs.
I also found a new church, and a priest who said that the authority of the state ended at the door of the church, and I thank God for him.
Aha! Another victim (yes, victim) of that absolute wretch of a governor, Jay Inslee.
Few better examples exist of the power of incumbency in a single-party state.
We refer to him as Jaydolf. I won't write what I think of those who were elected and never challenged his nearly 1,000 day reign of error as my mother taught me better etiquette than that. ; )
Well fellow washingtonians,
What do you think of mail.in only? Given the history of the politics of this state do you think it is open & honest?
That humiliation has made me far less sympathetic to the other side. Now, when I see tens of thousands of government employees losing their jobs and going out into the private sector, I think to myself, "Hehe, welcome to our world". When I see liberals with terminal TDS having breakdowns, I think, "You f'n Snowflakes, this is not even close to what you did to us. You don't know what suffering is, but if you keep this up, you're going to find out".
🤧💨💨 What you should do while being berated by the manager Karen. Blow, cough, cough.
😉😋
definitely did this and still sometimes do when walking past someone with a mask on! It's petty, but it makes me smile!.
Just did it today......somehow, seeing someone in a mask, makes me cough....LOL
I feel everything you just said. I didn’t quite fully understand what was coming in early 2020 but I felt it pretty hard. 2020-2023 were some very hard years for me.
It is as Cat describes, for first time I have some hope. It’s a glorious feeling.
I wore a scarf instead of a mask when I had to, because you could still breathe. it came in handy when someone with two masks, a faceshield, & gloves gave me a dirty look while I went the wrong way down the aisle, on purpose, so I could laugh at them without them knowing... had to retrain my face when we didn't have to wear a mask at all.
I did the same. The first year and a half it was a bandanna I had cut in half so it was even thinner. I looked like an old west bandit, so funny to waltz into the bank in that gear. I later traded that in for a canvas mask that didn't fit so air came in around edges. I refused to wear one outside ever.
I remember the first time I walked into a store where everybody had a mask on except me. I had finally had it. Everyone looked at me and no one said a word. It felt so good ! that was it. I never wore one again and no one ever said a word. Hallelujah! hope is a theological virtue along with faith and love. I’m feeling all of it.
What could you do? You could go somewhere else, where they didn't throw you out. I refused, and if they chased after me, I said I can't breathe under the mask, and they left me alone. For a long time, it was just me and maybe one other person... that was demoralizing. The Karens didn't want to quit.
Develop a clutching and gasping schtick. I might think of that if there is a next time.
Hopefully the erins don't quit either! ; )
I got thrown out of a lot of stores. I won't step foot into any of them again. I hate to foster a bitter attitude about it, but it was so humiliating.
I am with you! I was actually thinking of going to a thrift store and seeing if any of the lamps for sale had incandescent bulbs in them. But Trump is out front, undoing the ridiculous, the stupid, the inane and the tyrannical small things-but in the back room? A thousand true patriots, all in place are tearing out the roots of the swamp while what used to be the MSM are leading the group-cry over dishwashers killing the planet. I voted for what Trump is doing and the louder those athols cry, the more they were on the take and benefited from the theft of the American taxpayer. Change My Mind.
Where live (pnw) we still see lots of plant life IQ level drones walking around in public.
I can only hope their next shot is pink.
"Apart from the massacres, deaths and famines for which communism was responsible, the worst thing about the system was the official lying: that is to say the lying in which everyone was forced to take part, by repetition, assent or failure to contradict.
I came to the conclusion that the purpose of propaganda in communist countries was not to persuade, much less to inform, but to humiliate and emasculate. In this sense, the less true it was, the less it corresponded in any way to reality, the better; the more it contradicted the experience of the persons to whom it was directed, the more docile, self-despising for their failure to protest, and impotent they became."
- Theodore Dalrymple
And just like the masking it became more intricate and absurd as time went on. Because that's the point.
Well, you appear to be in agreement with H. L.: "The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey."
H. L. Mencken
Yup. The State wants you to give up your agency so it can be the unmoved-mover, free of external agency
We were in Wegman's (kind of a Whole Foods-ish grocery store; a little better able to spend) on Saturday and the number of people wearing masks was unbelievable. I work around the corner from there so I don't notice it at Wednesday Lunchtime but with the bigger crowd right before some wet and snow, I'd say it was close to 1 in 10.
I fly 4 round trips per month on average. Around 10% are still masking.
They're broken people. Our government did that to them
I think many of them were already predisposed to neurosis by virtue of genetics.
Perpetual masking might as well be a noninvasive way of gene splicing to manifest the same disorder.
Masks are security blankets for those whom are still WANTING to believe that they are smart enough to NOT believe the lies that they believe. True neurotic OCD.
It’s a self-harming virtue signal for others to self-harm and be in the perceived safety of the virtuous in-group. The tribal nature of it was researched and used to full effect. The actual harms it caused, physically, mentally and socially, is immeasurable. It is utterly insidious.
I live in a conservative lake community just south of Charlotte and I don’t see many masks around here, but I run errands into blue Charlotte at times and I see them quite frequently still. The interesting thing is the demographics. It’s primarily boomers and young woman. Skews heavily black. If you look at the election the only groups now that are sticking with the Democrats are young, single, white liberals, black women, and Boomers. These are4 the maskers. (Boomers seem to think that the Democrat party is the party of Kennedy or whatever still and there’s just no amount of convincing them otherwise it seems. They still see themsleves as resisting the establishment. I blame it partly on dementia.)
At this point, I do hold it against people. I mean, I don’t make fun of anyone or act rudely but in my mind I just see them as idiots. It’s basically mental illness on display. I’ll be polite to them in public, but I will avoid at all costs.
Avoid at all cost*
Same approach. Want nothing to do with masking. Never have. It's repulsive to me
Masks have a long and distinguished history - just look at executioners! And, they come in handy when robbing a bank, carjacking, or ratting out the Mob.
Lots of college age people in the airports wearing them.
it's always the young GUYS.....wth
I KNOW. Total pussy's.
They're the ones I call out. The A side of my personality can not abide.
I think it's a form of virtue signalling. They think all the young girls will see what sensitive, intelligent guys they are. And maybe they'll get laid.
Maybe, but only by the crazy ones. And they're too young to appreciate the advice of their elders, "Don't put your.... in crazy!"
Well there is also the converse, "Don't let crazy put it's ...in you..."
Ryan, I suspect that the ten percent you mention are simply masking to look better. The perfectly hideous 10%.
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one" - Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
I still see some around here. VERY few, so when I do, I stare with my jaw dropped.
They glare.
I laugh at them as they walk away.
In airports, I do the same thing. Just gawk at them like they are wearing a hat made of dog turds.
In Miami - a place with very high anti-mask (or should we say pro-face?) sentiment - I would do something a little different. When I saw a young person wearing a mask, I would fully extend my arm, point my finger at them, and say very loudly "ha ha!" Thereby making it clear that everyone around thought they were clowns. Wouldn't do that in a "blue" city, might get assaulted.
I feel sorry for them. They are broken. There but for the Grace Of God.
I see the most masks in Trader Joes, Health food/co op places and the fancy ass grocery store all the rich folk shop at. It all seems to point at a certain demographic...
Yup. Wegman's is that same demo
Had to take both my kids to the pediatrician with the flu last week. Forced masking of them, but not me. I saw a toddler in there fighting his mom tooth and nail as she tried to strap it on him. To the dr's credit they didn't ask if my kids had gotten flu shots (they didn't). My older one suffered for 6 days with fever over 101. When the younger one got sick I bullied the nurse into prescribing a newish antiviral called Xofluza that knocked it out in 36 hours, honest to God. If I hadn't seen the dichotomy between the two of them I never would have believed it.
Just re read this article. Shit literally gives me a knot in my stomach and my teeth grind. The humiliation we were put through used to upset me something fierce. It’s good to be reminded of it from time to time.
Keep that in mind should Trump declare these judges Insurrectionists and arrest their sorry asses. Maybe just remind people to read this piece. This is going to be his first big test I think.
Trump has already crossed the Rubicon. The die has been cast as they say. All the Left and do is go kicking and screaming. A HUGE reason Trump played Coy immediately after winning the election.
Well now there’s no doubt NOW where he plans on talking the country. His future does not include today’s Democrat party. The same level of humiliation awaits them.
I think we are either headed for a Golden Age to quote DT. Or we are headed for some degree of civil strife. The latter is the preferred method of many on the left. It Should be interesting wherever we end up!
It's starting to feel that way for sure.
If these bad actors who damned near destroyed this country repent, we should offer forgiveness. But they still have to go to prison.
I think they're going to have to go a little further than that, because they'll do it all over again.
Do you think Jesus has forgiven Satan?
If they want forgiveness they should seek it. The burden is on them to seek forgiveness, but that can only be granted if they can prove their remorsefulness and, by the integrity of their future behavior, their sincerity.
Personally I'm just indifferent to them. They no longer exist for me. It's healthier that way.
Oh, they need to be punished for their corruption and malfeasance. That is independent of offering forgiveness to the repentant.
I agree 100%, I was is a Catholic Mom group and said the same thing and was told that this is not a Christian view. I believe Jesus would forgive Satan if he were truly remorseful. I believe you are required to forgive if you believe a person is remorseful. Why would you forgive someone who continues to offend? How can that be Christian-like? It just seems, either stupid or self-agrandizing, "look how much bigger of a person I am". I honestly don't understand it.
Im with you. If you were fine with the fascism of the last 4 years you are dead to me. All the people losing their minds now that Trump has been elected are insane and I’m gonna be honest I hate them
BOOM!!! I concur! Completely!~
💯 agree ! I want nothing to do with any of them
The Cardinal knew: "Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime."
Cardinal Richelieu
Boats... If there was a quote contest... You've just won it! Hands Down!~
THANKS! Do you know who's got the Liberty Cards?
LOL! I know it's not me!!!~ Check with the Division Chief!~ ;)
Those were the days!
Yes, they were!~ It's been 50 years since those days, and I still remember.
LOL! You're funny, Doc! NO! And, YES, they still have to go to prison... let their time served be their ticket to forgiveness... I have no forgiveness to offer... Only a warning.
"Kill them all. God will know his own" - Pope's rep in France during the Cathar genocide.
Yes, Gato, you nailed it again! It is a glorious morning in America.
I want to see the Trump Administration not only return us to the "freedoms baseline" of, say, 15-20 years ago--I want the ball to go all the way to the damned end zone. We've watched every Republican Pres, and Legislature till now, play weak defense against the statists from both sides, for DECADES. Our Constitutional and natural rights have been trampled all to hell, and the Republicans and decent Democrats have allowed it to happen. This country needs to return to a Constitutional Republic, where every law, federal and state, must be Constitutional, or it is nullified.
Pre patriot act. 1987 would be ideal.
The older I get (I'm 51) the more I think the mid 80s was the peak of Western civilization.
I'm almost 54. I think you're right.
Overall life was good, race relations were self healing, there was a sense optimism and the vast majority of the population at least shared patriotism in common.
Also the mid 80's years represent the beginning of the transition from an analog world to a digital world.
We're the last generation that will have lived as adults on both sides of the digital divide and it happened at the "perfect" age for us. Really we're the only generation that truly understands it's significance. And we might be the only generation to have been able to handle it because of our age and GenX's overall attitude.
We also experienced, in full, both sides of The Globalist divide that started in the Bush years. Lastly we experienced the fall of communism starting in the late 80's
Those are quite possibiliy the three most significant generational transitions in the history of mankind, all happening at the same time.
I would put 1987 as the peak year and the beginning of each transition.
100% agreed. And there was a lot of really good music and movies during those years that has stood up well 40 years later. Most of the people making it were wailing at the time that they were being oppressed by Reagan and Thatcher but if that's what they needed to believe to crank out work of that quality, fine.
For all the good happening at that time, there was also one pretty important omen that nobody paid much attention to. The newly promoted Anthony Fauci was completely mismanaging the AIDS epidemic, overhyping how easy it was to spread, and blocking working treatments in favor of ones he could personally profit from. And most of the media blamed it all on the Republican president instead of Fauci, and continues to do so.
You nailed it. Especially with that human cockroache, Fauci
What an uplifting description of life in America, & we are barely three weeks past bidementedjoe. The Cat meme at the end deserves an award, for it is the best Cat meme ever! Yes We Cat 🐺
It is my opinion we are at this point, again: "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"
Samuel Adams
I have been feeling hopeful.....but I am a bit anxious about the activist judges and corrupt senators. I will feel better when Tulsi, RFK Jr, and Kash are confirmed and someone stops the activist /Soros judges! Any updates? Thanks for a great post, El Gato Malo!
Now that we know the Soros judges were actually funded more by our tax dollars (via USAID) than by Soros himself, there's an easy path forward to preventing any more from happening.
Tulsi has been confirmed!🥰🎉🥂👏❤️
The weak response to the judges, and the Republicans allowing the Democrats to delay votes has me very worried.
Is it really better? I´m just so surrounded by shrieking liberals screaming about the end of days that it´s hard to see it. I read that Trump is building concentration camps in Gitmo, that he´s on the verge of ignoring rulings by federal judges, that he´s destroying America. I don´t want to believe it´s true but where I am people aren´t smiling yet. I hope the sun comes out soon.
Find attorney Jeff Childers on X, @JChilders98 or on substack at COFFEE & COVID. He maps it allll out like no one else.
Absolutely! Awesome stack.
I'll second that. Jeff is a real sanity saver. A realist but never black pilled.
you're never going change the progressives. there's no internal philosophical mechanism for them to course correct - that's what defines their ideology. but, i have had decent success reaching people that are left leaning moderates.
it takes nuance, timing and humor. work the "billionaire/elite" hypocrisy angle. you can always find humor in hypocrisy.
humor, after all, is the shortest distance between two people. we have to bring others to the dance floor. I know of no other way than to speak freely. Look for small "wins"...there are no knockout punches...just millions of jabs (sorry for unintended pun) that will get us the big WIN.
you know who are the good candidates for this (and it doesn't have much to do with the plandemic directly)?
the two-shot-and-done crowd. most of them have doubts now about the narrative of all things they've heard in the last decade.
what you have to accept is nobody is going to say they're wrong; however tacit acknowledgement is just fine. it's good enough....even if it's silence. i use memes judicially as way to soften them up.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Thomas Paine
Sounds like you were so far down that you haven’t recognized up yet.
"I´m just so surrounded by shrieking liberals screaming about the end of days that it´s hard to see it."
Their shrieking's are the death throws of clueless idiocy. The brainwashed are clinging to false narratives as if their lives depend on it. They are increasingly being marginalized in their echo chamber dystopia's of last resort. WAPO comment sections are demoralizing but I keep trying to educate. They appear to be a lost cause.
Spot on
If you're around a slew of dumbocraps having hissy fits, you're not going to see the light for quite awhile.
yikes where do you live...I have acquaintances/family that post the stuff about 1933 Germany, gas chambers and "Elon has my SS #"- it's good morning entertainment as I scroll through FB and the like..
You are not alone.
I laugh at those who spew the Slo Joe/Kackling dogma. They were proven wrong by a reawakened electorate and have no recourse but to blather devisive nonsense.
I wish Trump was the monster that the Left pretends him to be, but unfortunately he isn't. Things are coming to a head. If Trump breaks... I don't want to think about it.
Well, "becoming the rainbow", you can hang out here and on X- as you communicate with more and more rational people, you can feel the leftist hold on America weaken and fall away!
where are you hearing that? you'll feel better if you limit access to msm....
Yes we are now witnessing the undoing. It feels good.
Yes. And it's hilarious to watch "the resistance".
Look how effing stupid CNN is:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1889381345538855337?s=19
Elon ran his own humiliation ritual on the media, and CNN bit. It's glorious.
They should keep changing their handle and make them say increasingly stupid things, it is hilarious!!
😂 Yep! As we approach it's 50th anniversary, Elon is bringing us back that early Saturday Night Live vibe via CNN.
🙏🙏🙏🤞🤞🤞
For the sake of us who live in "mixed" marriages, I'm hoping that things start visibly, palpably improving soon. My MSNBC/NPR-fan wife is driving me nuts with apocalyptic predictions. "We're turning into Venezuela!" "They're imposing Christianity on the rest of us!!" "Thanks to Trump's tariffs, the price of my next car is going up 25%!!!"
The amount of misinformation and hysteria is just too much to refute one at a time, it's a full-time job to stay on top of all the B.S. in order to correct it. Some kind of systematic, large and undeniable improvement is necessary -- and SOON.
Ideally we could see these improvements without breaking laws. Trump said today that he will "always abide by the courts.” He does not appear to have a great record doing so for the first weeks of his administration, but perhaps that will change soon and we can go forward improving our country while maintaining compliance with our constitution.
Alas, the badjudges of our kangaroo courts don't seem too interested in upholding the law, much less the Constitution.
Who still respects the moral authority of judiciary, after their disgraceful performance during the Covid Atrocities? Having vaporized their own moral authority, all they have left is fear & violent coercion.
😂😂😂
I'm pretty sure the toilet paper crisis at the very beginning of the plandemic was part of the whole thing. We had a tenant who was dealing with severe lung issues and wasn't able to leave the apartment. For several months my life became all about standing in line at Costco when there was toilet paper so I could take that concern off of her plate. The crazy thing is, we never ran out. It was like the miracle of the loaves and fishes, only with toilet paper. As a side note, I hope all of the treasonous traitors that put us through this only get one-ply in their prison cells for the rest of their miserable existences. To all the good folks who weathered this craziness-- just let that toilet paper spin like the wheel of fortune-- there's plenty for everyone. It will help you shift to an abundance mindset:)
Too expensive and wasteful to jail them all.
The minor players - mayors, "public health" officials, school boards, hospital administrators, etc - should be barred for life from all positions of authority, public and private alike. But otherwise allowed to continue a normal life. They are mostly fools not villains.
A handful of the top leaders of the Covid Atrocities should be given fair and public trials. Upon their inevitable convictions - they did their crimes right out in public - they should be sent to the gallows. Nothing less can do justice to the enormity of their evil.
my dear leftist progressive loved ones -- family, friends, neighbors, coworkers -- are extremely upset and horrified at what is unfolding. I would have hoped they would have woken up by now. Unfortunately, they are now feeling demoralized. Some, however, are engaging in activism and are wholly taken in by the Democrat congress people who are perhaps trying to foment some kind of civil unrest. this is quite a spectacle. one I might enjoy more, if it weren't for most everyone I know seeing things through opposite lenses. I hope they do wake up.
Don't worry about others too much. It is similar to sitting in the KC Chiefs' fan zone wearing an Philly Eagles jersey in this last SB. Live your life and enjoy the show. Haters gonna hate.
Dani Richards - I have the same experience with family and friends.
I boiled up inside when I saw the flutists with the cut out masks 🤬
My daughter had to put the "mask" on the end of her trumpet. (At school)
Yep mine had a stretchy thing across the end of her clarinet. As if air wasn't coming out of all the keys :)
YES! I'll never get over the masks. Never!
"so what? what are you going to do?"
Yer gonna do like me. Whore out your integrity for the sake of the nation and sleep like a fresh-bathed baby afterwards.
And here we is. Laughing like we wuz newborn again--without no pesky dogma.
"How do you sleep at night?"
"Face down, boxers around my ankles. Like I always do."
Face down, sure. But kid--wear 'em or take 'em off.
I pictured 3 or 4 boxer dogs for some reason.
That's _exaclty_ what I meant.
WTH were you thinking, SCA?!
When you’ve resisted from the beginning and refused to go along, you’ve preserve your sanity and your soul. Recently we had to replace our 34-year-old whirlpool top loader washing machine and bought a Speed Queen top loader. It works even better than our old Whirlpool. Where options exist, they have to be used. Resistance goes all the way down and touches everything. It’s the only way.
For the first time in my life I just bought an American flag. I'm 64. That's how good I feel about the direction of our country. Now if we could just stop effing around in the Middle East.
One thing at a time. They started in the wisest place possible.