This is a powerful article from a Minister in Nigeria.
"He wrote: “This gratutious insult on Christianity at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics is unacceptable. Nothing depicts the moral, religious and social degeneration of the West more than this show of shame. If they had insulted Islam in this way Paris would have rightly been on fire by now"..
Martina Navratilova is angry about the whole thing. Unfortunately, Billie Jean King has made statements approving of it. More famous female athletes need to make statement against it.
Most college women are too afraid to say anything. I don't blame them. Look how Riley Gaines was treated.
At some point one has to say NO to outrageous prices.
By propagandizing people into the idea that a degree from the "correct" institution is as existentially important as paying whatever it takes to cure your terminal cancer the stage is set for what we see. Exponentially increasing cost of "education" at academic extortion mills.
The elite institutions, particularly the Ivy Leagues actually think they are so elite they have the right to shove literally anything down your throat, including a full hung naked male in your locker room. as the price to be associated with their "sacred tradition". When they prove themselves to be a bunch of sodomite pervs .. Time to say NO to them and put them in their place
There just comes a time when you have to set YOUR boundary.
NO I will transfer to another school if your prices is I enter the clot shot death lottery
NO I will not take on so much debt that I can never afford a family in an appropriate time window or worse yet be indentured and indebted for life
NO I will NOT agree to share a locker room and shower with a member of the opposite sex so you can profit from my athletic talent. and snicker that "we showed those elite suburban girls who's in charge"
Endless reasons to say no and endless opportunities to exercise the only power you have. The power to tell the SOBs NO.
Perhaps being somewhat lucrative enables her to do it, not having to rely on a job that she could get fired from for going against the narrative. Realize that the various sports commissions can block athletes, find ways to disqualify them. She is free of those puppet strings.
There's a cost for speaking up, especially in Kentucky where it's kind of a faux southern state ("We're not Rednecks. We're Hillbillies!"), perhaps in pockets, but it's pretty left-leaning, and I'd bet even moreso on the biggest state university campus.
I prefer to think that she spoke out when, as they say on legal circles, "had standing." I'm a dude so I'll never have standing and people won't listen to me - except you and those of us who are like-minded.
But for an idea this awful - evil, even - it shouldn't have ever even gotten to the point, where anyone even had standing.
Especially everywhere. Yes, principles are very costly. And the guys--imaginary women or otherwise--are just incidental to all of these stories. In every case it's the girl's female teammates or sorority sister who are the real betrayers.
Dr. Renée Richards, please pick up white courtesy phone.
[That's a name I recall from the news when I was a teenager. I looked at her Wiki and didn't realize her "victory", even nearly fifty years ago. Our society has been sick for a very long time!]
They need to get tough & fight back. Walk off the fields. Stand together and demand their rights. It is INSANE what the Globalist, Satanic Cabal is forcing the 5 Eyes Nations & Europe, to do.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate her speaking out on this issue. It's just strange that she can see the problem so clearly, except for its source. She's brave-ish. It hasn't really cost her anything. She posts all day about how Trump will be literal Hitler, which keeps her status at the cool kids' table. She is ready to vote for the exact same people who just trashed Title IX. SMH does not equal "Trashing everyone."
It isn't true that women in sports are letting it happen. The UK women's sea fishing refused to compete when a TW was put in their team, as they knew it was unfair to the other teams. Women in pool (Lynne Pinches), darts (Deta Hedman) and shot put (five Lincoln Middle School students) have also refused to compete against TW. There are no doubt others I haven't heard of.
Also, the women who do compete aren't being weak, they've been coerced into silence and threatened with losing everything they've worked so hard for if they speak up. Many of them are very young and it isn't fair to accuse them of weakness while they're being threatened and hounded. More men speaking up in support of the women would be good to hear, but sadly that doesn't happen much.
They may be young, but who exactly had to stand up in the past, over every human rights abuse, every war ever fought, every family that ever suffered illness, scarcity or turmoil? Only the old & wise? Only the seasoned adults?
No. It's often the young that shoulder the heaviest burdens, rightly or wrongly. These young women must learn to stop complying with abuse. It's that simple. If their male relatives stood up too, as well as their mothers, sisters, aunts & grandparents, that would be awesome, but right now, this nonsense & abuse is on them.
It's their sports, their teams, their schools.
If they don't stand, they lose, it's simple, not easy, but very, very, simple.
There was also a women's cycling race in the UK where the women refused to show up when they heard that transgender men were competing with them. The race got cancelled.
Trannies are an excellent example of the problems caused by what some might call a denial of reality. In an optimal (“ideal” doesn’t exist) world, all persons would have equal rights, but what does “equal” mean? It’s possible for a man to believe that he was born the “wrong” sex. It’s even possible for him to dress like a different sex or, if he can convince the medical system, to be shot up with hormones or even have disfiguring surgery. Yet an older time would have labeled such a man mentally ill. A Libertarian would say he has the right to pursue his dream (delusion) but if, and only if, he alone pays for the transition and is willing to accept the consequences of his decision. Problems arise in the real world, alas, because under present legal systems the Tranny is demanding, and at times is legally entitled access to domains where previously he was prevented due to his physical identity (e.g. his sex). In one sense, the law is requiring the unwilling to accommodate him in his delusion, or to say that yes, he really is of a sex he isn’t. This could also be stated as the law declaring an inversion of reality, and punishing anyone would declare it otherwise. It’s one thing to stand aside and let others pursue their fantasies, however self-destructive they may be. It’s quite another when we are encouraged, nay, legally required, to aid and abet them in their decadence.
The ground was prepared for this decades ago when every memoir by a mentally-ill woman was celebrated; the film rights went for big money and the sick girl hit all the talk shows and was praised to the maximum. Then they went back to being sick and quelle surprise when the sad obituary hit. When severe life-destroying illness is praisd you get a lot more sick people who see no value in fighting to get well.
Women ought to have had a little common sense back in the days when they were suing to be allowed into single-sex clubs for men. Slippery slopes break everything, don't they?
Great words of sanity and decency, Minister in Nigeria. But "unacceptable" is way too polite. The English language almost needs a new word to encompass the ghastly mix of narcissism, arrogance and cowardice that is the psychology of these people....prancing about at this 'ceremony' last night, mocking the Christian religion, exulting in the execution of Marie Antoinette and shoving their 'queerness' etc down our tv screens. If only they could somehow disappear up their own.....
Last sentence is absolutely what would happen. Islamic people must see that these people do not think any better of Islam, it is just that they are afraid of the personal consequences because Islam does not turn the other cheek.
Yes. And all this must really underscore for them the righteousness of their path and make them fight to holy hell to keep it intact. I am not Muslim but understand the point of intersection of both Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism. (I practice the latter.) If I were a Muslim I’d see this as the collective death rattle of an antiquated faith: “The ‘last Prophet’ was right.”
In my way of viewing this, Abrahamic religions have their roots in the Proto-Indo-European ones. Buddhism is an offshoot. I always admired how Buddha's teachings were similar to Jesus. It all goes back to people through the ages spiritual inquiry of: Is there something beyond our deaths?, What else is there? Why is there even a universe, and by what means did it come to be? Then there is also the question of evil and fallen angels, devils and demons.
Religions are not about buildings and fallible humans and the job security infrastructures the priests, popes, caliphs, grand poobahs, and viziers.
Quite true! But in that sense, aren’t they in control? Aren’t Muslims the ones in power if everyone kowtows to them and neither explicitly nor publicly insults them?
Blue skying here: Maybe. But it also may be that the value system they adhere to refuses to be grossly disrespected without reaction and consequence. The Europeans used to be that way. Having been on top of the heap from imperial days they developed different interests but retained the superior attitude. Which makes them think they can put on such performances without people taking umbrage.
I remember an "outlaw biker" guy who once explained their code. You defended the pack. It did not matter so much if you could win a fight as that you would fight. Proper respect for that. On a personal level a father would take a bullet or fight impossible odds to defend his wife and children. A mother would do the same to defend her children.
On a side note: The mass invasion coming into Europe (and America) may well be orchestrated to conquer and replace, but most of the invaders are parasites there to grab what they can and get free stuff. Most are NPCs with a smattering of bad actors, crimminals, and some war fighter types. those 3 categories are the ones to be wary of and are dangerous. They are working to be in control.
Love how on top of things people on Substack are - the writers & the commenters. I only saw a couple of snippets late last night about the opening of the Paris Olympics which looked absolutely insane. And you & EL GATO MALO already have well reasoned thoughts or essays about it. Substack is becoming as expeditious as Twitter/X.
I think what's so good about substack is that we have a LOT of intelligent people with a lot of points of view to add to our collective knowledge. And to undermine the BS that's being thrown out there as a narrative.
Me, too, wendy. Very few of my family or friends want to hear much less discuss any of these issues. On Substack I know that there are others out that feel the same ways that I do. It's like an Earth-ly SETI - only within our planet. 😉
Same here. My nearest and dearest have no interest in discussing today's issues, and they think less of me for my research. C'est la vie.I find much comfort knowing I'm not alone, however.
Eh, sometimes. Reading about the growing insanity in the world can put me into such a state of despair that I want to hurl myself out a window. Fortunately I live on the ground floor.
Good one. That's like an old gag from (probably) MAD magazine: Joe Glurch leapt out a 10th floor window and survived! (Fortunately there was a fire escape outside the window.)
I can relate. That's when I walk away from my computer and go get me so 'brain candy' - like a 'Seinfeld' or 'Big Bang Theory' episode. Those programs recalibrate my brain chemistry.
Substack is one of the very few media I actually pay for. I do occasionally read the "legacy media," but I wouldn't urinate on their buildings or reporter even if they were on fire. Not for free anyway; I'd probably pay for the chance to stand in a line and piss on them.
Can't say that I'd go that far re: the fire, but I agree that I'd rather pay to read something substantial and worthwhile - at least to me - than give one minute of time to ANY of the Corporate Media/Elite.
Totally agree. Those of us who comment reach people individually with no knowledge of their political, religious, economic/SES affiliation, ethnic or geographic connections - unless self reported. There's no character limit or outside constraints imposed on those who comment. We should be kind - this is a personal value for me - but haven't run across too many Commenters who have been cruel to others.
IMO - this platform & others will be the key to help dismantle the oligarchs of our nations & our world. Kinda like Paul Revere's ride to Lexington in 1775 warning "To arms! To arms! The British are coming". Well, that's according to Longfellow's portrayal in his poem, "Paul Revere's Ride". https://www.paulreverehouse.org/longfellows-poem/
True - at that point in time they were. That is very likely a question people in the colonies had to ask themselves and perhaps answer to others - 'are you with the Crown or with the Rebels?' For some, I imagine that was probably a difficult choice to make.
So far I've seen very little rude or cruel language from others. I like to think that the majority of people - on Substack or in the general populace - are basically good. There will always be that percentage who aren't but each of us is responsible for our own behavior. Controlling others is not in my philosophy of life.
I like learning hearing different points of view as well. It's a way to stretch my critical thinking skills. There are times when I am CERTAIN that I saw/read a particular story that said, '(fill in the blank)'. Yet when I look up the source again to repost it or to make sure I have my facts straight, I find that I was the one who was wrong. Keeps me humble.
More so, IMO. X is a way to keep enemies closer, whereas Substack knows full well you can't please everyone all the time. The latter is way more honest.
European and western countries will not respond in any significant way because the elites have accustomed us to accepting this kind of thing. To do otherwise would be bigotry. We are tolerant to the point we will encourage our children to be physically castrated. The Islamists will not engage in the same apathy that we will, and it would be advisable to avoid trains and planes in France for the near future. Not saying that’s a good thing by any means, it’s tragic, but it is a predictable thing for sure.
When Python did that in the 1960s-early 80s, such as men dressing up as women, it was understood to be comedy and entertainment. Contrast and compare with the modern day, where the White House is bathed in rainbows, our embassies were ordered to fly the rainbow flag, and (perhaps) open government display, at public expense, of what was considered perversion not that long ago.
I disagree, it is imperative it is allowed. People should freely express their feelings about such matters. Just as I am allowed to call whatever that tranny freak show was out as being satanic, in poor taste, and ugly. I want these mentally ill deviants to show their hand every time they can. That is the only way to let us regular folk how perverse these people really are.
Will have to disagree. The issue is not normalization. At least here in the USA, the same Amendment that protects freedom of religion also allows freedom of speech (with very narrow limitations.) Trashing other (or any) religion may be distasteful, but it must be allowed (except against a certain sacrosanct Tribe of which we shall not speak further.)
Yep. We must tolerate this because we *will* tolerate it. Same thing over and over. Subject office workers to ethnic harassment because they *will* tolerate it. Replace whites because we *will* tolerate it... But just ask Obama, Charlie Hebdo had it coming.
I can't think of a better way to incentivize violence than making it the only recourse for the left's egregious behavior.
No joke: some Islamic terror has been committed by second or third generation children of immigrants, not some Exploding Muhammed who just applied for "asylum."
I agree it seems hypocritical and probably is, but I personally knew two men many years ago who were in their early 20's who were intact but sought out the procedure, and it wasn't because they became a Christian. For them, it had something to do with hygiene.
re: “. . . Paris would have rightly been on fire by now"
I don’t think cities should burn because elitist creeps insult religion. We should be grateful they are being so clear about who they are. Now we can turn off the TV, find our people, and build the world we want to see with them. From the ground up.
Well put! Let your reality be what you see before your eyes in real life, in part brought into being by your own hands. Instead of watching it on video, which is (at best) mostly make-believe you want, and at worst, a false reality sold you by dishonorable entities.
So why has there been a moral, religious and social degeneration of the West? People have wanted to be immoral and degenerate pretending there are no consequences. People have rejected God and replaced Him with self. Pride has taken hold of the mind, heart and soul. The Father of Lies has convinced the masses that they are their own god and that there is no absolute truth nor such a thing as sin.
We’ve reached peak Derelicte (another Zoolander reference), where garbage is trotted out as being fashionable. The opening ceremony of the Olympics reminded me of last year’s Christmas from the Biden White House. 🤮. Trashy LGBTQ-infinity crap. Surprised they weren’t just parading around naked. Sick of all of it.
"There was a moment last night, when she was sandwiched between the two Finnish dwarves and the Maori tribesmen, where I thought, "Wow, I could really spend the rest of my life with this woman".
Garbage has been trotted out as acceptable for quite a while in Europe. Most of that is due to major state funding of the arts. I think that funding the arts isn't a bad idea in concept but it has resulted in some major trash that is so bad that even the Europeans aren't going.
We've got the same problem with "reimagining" Broadway musicals. I wanted to see the revival of Oklahoma until I heard what they had done to it.
I saw a Euro-trash version of Carmen several years ago. It was simply god-awful.
We went to see a stylized "Romeo and Juliet" years ago here in San Diego at the Old Globe theater, featuring the music of Jeff Buckley. Music was great but I could only handle so much of dudes dancing with other dudes in the musical numbers. That was the last time we went to the Old Globe.
This whole business of trans "women" and satirizing the Last Supper is another attempt to epater les bourgeois. The French have been mocking Christianity for decades (actually a couple of centuries) so they figured it was safe (instead of mocking Islam which can get you killed). The organizers seem to think they are Luis Bunuel but they are just a bunch of tasteless fools. Eventually it goes away because nobody even pays attention anymore.
Their Revolution had the Cult of Reason, a replacement for the Catholic Church. Then they went to Cult of the Supreme Being headed by Robespierre, then he got his head cut off. Not a great example of success, but those geniuses keep trying!!!
Well, back in the Pleistocene—what was that, 2023?—I thought the Bud Light thing was the crest of whatever the heck this tsunami of whatever-this-is... But nah. Dear wise and far-seeing kitty, I'd like to think your call is correct, that here's where it starts to die down. But I'll believe it when I see it.
it's already flipped in the US and has been gaining momentum all year.
this is what will drag the EU and RoW into line. they just blasted themselves out of the the global stream.
and man, no wonder they wanted to pull the french elections forward. imagine what would happen if they were next week.
DEI is getting yanked wholesale out of US companies and institutions. the rear guard fight will be flagrant and fierce, but it will shrink to ever smaller bastions until it's ultimately overrun.
I think the Sam Smith "unholy" performance at the '23 Grammys was the u.s. version of this. While a lot of this crap is performative there is significant damage to young people caught up in this because they didn't know differently having been soaked in queer theory, CRT, social emotional learning and other gem post modern b.s. GenX will be picking up the pieces of these poor sad kids for a while...
The problem is that they get a lot of this in school, especially from unhinged individuals who shouldn't even be teaching. But fewer and fewer sane people want a low-paying job in education.
Truly. Thank God for alternative schools. Arizona let you divert some of your income tax obligation to private schools, even if you don't have kids. It's making our dem governor nervous how much money is being diverted from public schools into unwoke alternatives. If you don't have program like it in your state I'd work on getting one.
I'm an ex Californian, San Francisco, yes you're a long way from it. You're going to suffer the hollowing out of the cities, replaced by the degraded souls that result from this psych experiment, until there are sufficient mental hospitals to cart them off to. Sorry. Hopefully you live in a rural town somewhere.
I hope you're right but I see it as losing a few battles, but still winning the war. Education is still captured, which means the next generation will be worse....hope I'm wrong.
I think things might be turning. The young men who were in high school
for covid are turning conservative. So maybe a decade for the new counter culture conservatism to flourish, and then young elites will join it. My call is 20 years for a complete pendulum swing back to sanity.
Please remember this wasn’t spontaneous, it was conceived, planned, and executed and many, many people saw this and said nothing. There were schematics and story boards, cast calls, costumes, rehearsals w/o costumes and full rehearsals. No one along the way stopped this… was that because of agreement, acquiescence, stupidity, or lack of courage? The latter three are the problem in our world today not the first.
Kinda explains a lot of the exhibitions (not all of them though) in our modern art museums. People laugh behind their hands about a lot of it. And they say things like, "I don't understand all this." And then they laugh some more. But quietly. And the black-clad curators, who have very large and esoteric vocabularies, discuss these things among themselves as if flying huge kites high above cliffs, and they keep doing their thing, laying out and nailing up bug-ugly crap. And people actually pay to go in and gaze upon it all. And some of them laugh behind their hands about a lot of it. And they say things like, "I don't understand all this." And then they laugh some more. But quietly.
I am French and I feel such a shame! I am outraged by this crap and I am not the only one.
There are many other shocking scenes that most people outside France can’t understand. The Republican Guard had to play and dance with the “singer” Aya Nakamura. An elite corps of the French Army that serves the Presidency? Really?
I could go on and on with the examples of this nightmare.
The two exceptions to this freak woke blasphemous show were the moment the Olympic cauldron was lit and floated in the air (the shape evokes a Montgolfière and the first one, created by the Montgolfier brothers, took off from that exact point at the Tuileries gardens) and Céline Dion singing the wonderful song l’Hymne à l’Amour, written by Edith Piaf to the love of her life, a great boxer in his time, Marcel Cerdan. Edith Piaf is an icon and a much loved singer and songwriter here in France.
These games deserve to be boycotted.
PS: The director of this ghastly “ceremony” is very close to the extreme left party LFI and the whole thing is the portrait of Manu and his “wife” Brigitte. I wasn’t very optimistic, but I didn’t expect this level of disgrace.
Maybe this travesty does mark "the top" of Woke. Everyone knows this culture is perverted beyond imagination. However, this Olympic performance may be the incident that proves that *everyone knows that everyone else knows* that the culture is perverted. It's like what happened with Joe Biden. Everyone knew he was demented, but June 27 proved that everyone knows that everyone else knows. At that point, the child yells, "The Emperor has no clothes," and the myth explodes, only to be replaced by a new delusion. But what will replace Woke?
Kanadian here ...I think our governments allowed this to take place in order to make us desperate for a new government that would call out this nonsense, then as we are happy they did so, they may bring on new controls and measures...don't know if I'm just paranoid but I've lost faith in any of the powers that be, whether local, provincial, federal or the people who rule over them ! Oh dear....we better watch out is all I'm saying.
Ol Pierre’s solution appears to be to build a zillion shoeboxes for ppl to live in and not do anything about insane immigration or open up any of the absurd amount of land Canada has. So, it seems very 15 minute city. But at least youll get to rent a shoebox instead of nothing
If the Canadian people want something different theyll probably get it. You dont have a fully operational CBDC yet, so, if you want it, you have a democracy, and the people running your govt are largely cowards as far as I can tell. They’ll fold. Look what happened with the truckers. They got basically all of their main grievances addressed. Yeah a bunch of them got debanked but you all could help each other and most of the people didnt get axed. The lesson to learn I think is the one that grass-roots counterrevolutionaries are most susceptible to missing, and that is to not stop until the ability for reprisal to get them is effectively neutralized. Most of people involved typically arent really interested in actually being involved, rather they just feel like they have to, and they will take the first conceivable out that they can find, which is usually a trap of some kind.
A sober analysis of Poilievre’s plan and the entire scope of the debates on the issues that he brings up is that the overton window is still very very narrow. There are a *lot* of different potential solutions to Canada’s woes, and they arent even discussed as far as I know.
My interest in the Olympics began to wane when NBC started padding their coverage with sympathy soliciting personal vignettes about an athlete’s blind grandmother, etc. That combined with the glaring bias of many judges and the unabashed corruption of the IOC. And now, NBC is streaming certain competitions only on NBC Peacock, to whom I will not knowingly pay one cent because they have been nothing but gaslighting DNC propagandists since 2015. I could go on for hours about my disgust with NBC … they’ve lost me . So combine that with this “shock show” Opening Ceremony last? Non, merci. C”est merde.
It used to be cool, all "Thrill of Victory, Agony of Defeat" way back in the 1900s but somewhere - maybe it was as early as Nadia Comaneci in '76 - that the whole show became about how an athlete has struggled - you know, being hand-picked by their authoritarian governments to demonstrate how great they are ("99% Literacy Rate, bitches!") to avoid the very poverty they would've have endured if they weren't, basically, freaks of nature.
Then they show about 1 min 37 secs of actual Sport, followed by 5 mins of commercials before "Now we're going to switch to the Aquatic Center where..." for another Suffer Story.
If ever given the chance, I have my tirade ready for Savannah Guthrie for scolding/shaming Nick Sandmann (?) on national TV knowing full well that he had said and done nothing……and she has kids!
This thread is exactly why we got rid of cable 10 years ago. I watch a lot of old westerns and the only commercials are As Seen on TV gadgets, arthritis cream, and First Alert.
Oh lord, I've always loved the Olympics since I was a kid. The last one really wore me out with the endless "reality tv-ification" of every athlete on every event. We can't just watch the events, we need a 30 second promo about some random athlete in the field where they have to set up their victimization story before they finish 12th and are never heard from again. Everyone's gotta have an underdog story.
I don't usually watch the Olympics because I find the ceremonies to be naff and the sport to be uninteresting. It's a shame the competitors are all professionals rather than the amateurs of the past.
However, I dipped in and out last night to see how the river pageant went. It was unbelievably bad but it was also totally obscene - I saw children in amongst those revolting men in drag. It did not represent anything other than moral depravity. Shame on France, President Macron and the IOC for allowing it.
I have never understood why it is acceptable for men to dress up as distorted women and get admired for it - it is never anything but insulting to women. Now they get to put a frock on and get other people to pretend they are distorted women. All this obsession with perversion needs to be put back in its box because it is destroying everything.
A woman has no power against a male pretending to be a woman should it escalate. They know this. They know they can physically overpower a woman if it ever came to that and so they have far more courage to force this on us. They are part of the movement that swept through our nation to emasculate men. Now that that has been accomplished only women stand in their way. And that’s no biggie. They can use both bullying tactics from the woman’s mind and the physicality of a man. So for men to have left all us women alone to fight against this is heartbreaking. Stop letting the women’s right movement emasculate you. Our differences should be encouraged and celebrated. If men stood up and protected us as they should, there would be a hell of a lot more hesitation on the part of the trans.
I’m in no way condoning to take proactive violence against them. I’m simply pointing out that a lot of their courage to force this down our throats is knowing that only women will stand up to them and they aren’t afraid of that in any way. Standing up for people by placing yourself between the bullies and them and then firmly standing your ground and principles and protecting them, willing to fight if necessary, is the right thing to do. Not starting the fight, but not hiding from it either if the other side engages.
Great point. As these “men in dresses” (of which most are straight males) already know that men usually never step up nor speak out when a woman is harassed, assaulted, etc.
They were counting on Massage need to keep women in our place as they railroaded over us and they are correct.
Women have been saying for many years that men need to stand up for our rights too, however, they would just sit silently. Mostly because many men benefit when women aren’t on equal footing, they know it, and a lot of men want to keep it that way.
And these transgendered “women”, ie straight men in dresses, knew it, bet on it, and they were right.
"any who fail to adapt by becoming ever madder and more marginal and more vicious towards any save themselves will be winnowed out and shoved down the slippery slope of privilege rankings by those who would supplant them simply playing the “more disenfranchised than thou” card."
I quit watching except peripherally and the opening showing the people all dressed in pseudomedical garb with hospital beds coming from the sky pretty much sealed the deal. Olympics are now dead to me.
All traits that play into the marginalisation-quota aren't equal though, and some traits are even detrimental to your "final score":
Obvious mental and some physical handicaps always sink you to be the bottom tier, f.e.
Other traits automatically elevates you above all others, but only relative the traits of the competition in context: a displaced palestinian is f.e. worth more than a jew right now, but a jew is still worth more relative a white (wo)man, unless that (wo)man can be labelled "anti-semitic" of course.
Context matters, in these cases, which just serves to increase the churn.
But! By studying history, we can all play along! Well, not all but most of us. Europeans often have Neanderthal-DNA (vestigial but so what?) so why not play that card?
Negroes and arabs were the worst and greatest in scope slave-traders the world has ever seen - and they were equal-opportunity ones too! They merrily enslaved any people they could get paid for. A certain presidential candidate (that no-one in her party voted for, apparently?) is said to come from a slave-owner family.
Mongols, oh dear - the Golden Horde killed and caused the death of 1/6 of the entire planetary population, it is claimed. C'mon, Mongolia! Make with the repearations already!
Turks besieging Vienna, moslems burning what remained of the Library of Alexandria, internecine wars in China costing tens of millions of lives in historical times, the catholic church exterminating the cathars, huthis vs tutsis, various North and South American natives merrily murdering each other long before Leif Eriksson set foot in America, vikings establishing the Danelaw, other vikings then adopting the name of Normas and ousting their cousins - am I to pay reparations to myself for that one? - and on and on and on.
Overload them. Study history. Find good examples, both for ridicule but also for real: weaponise Poe's Law. Make them spin their spiral ever-tighter, until they string themselves up under their own force.
As long as they are eating their own, why give them another target? Just add fuel to their own fire. Point out to black radicals that they are not as marginalized as gays. Point out to gay Leftist how gays are not as maginalized as Trans people. Point out to Trans people that they are not as marginalized as Palistinians. Then sit back, have a beer, and watch the results.
Nowegian was not mono-cultural. Vaersagod =Here you go. I always heard Velcommenn for you're welcome. I never heard bare "hyggelig" It sounds like someone gargling, which if it was Aquavit would be alright. My father never wanted to teach us Norwegian. he wanted to be a American when he immigrated here. So, my brother and I picked up phrases. Dad always said "Skal, first ta dag" when he took a drink. When scuba diving in Bonaire, I went to dinner with some Norwegians and said that. They said: "Oh Nay, oh nay!" "That means we must drink for 3 days now."
Hyggelig is derived from hygge, which is derived from Old Norse. The oldest root for it is hug (norwegian, danish/håg, swedish) which means soul, mind, spirit, thought.
Wikipedia actually has (to my surprise) a decent article on hygge:
In swedish, hygge refers to an area deforested land - i.e. a clear-cut area (also called kal-hygge). The subtext is, it has been clear-cut thoughtlessly, as clear-cutting is a very bad thing indeed.
I am a Christian who did not watch the horror show last night and am thoroughly grateful based on what I have seen. There is no such thing as an absence of religion. There is a void in all of humanity that causes us to worship something. The God of the Bible offers life to all, the religion of the world offers death figuratively and literally. Death through the end of reproduction, through despair, through war, through famine, through squalor, through MAiD…. The depravity that was manifested is the product of the culture of death.
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”
Taken from a comment under another EXCELLENT writeup of this within a group of topics:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/director-squirrel-finds-a-nut-saturday
This is a powerful article from a Minister in Nigeria.
"He wrote: “This gratutious insult on Christianity at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics is unacceptable. Nothing depicts the moral, religious and social degeneration of the West more than this show of shame. If they had insulted Islam in this way Paris would have rightly been on fire by now"..
I'm not christian (or of any Abrahamic sect) but I would whole-heartedly applause any nation and team who simply packed up and went home in protest.
They haven't the guts. Women in sports are just making sad faces after losing to guys routinely.
Martina Navratilova is angry about the whole thing. Unfortunately, Billie Jean King has made statements approving of it. More famous female athletes need to make statement against it.
Most college women are too afraid to say anything. I don't blame them. Look how Riley Gaines was treated.
I blame them mostly. College educations tied to sports scholarships are real courage-eaters.
Why blame them? Have you looked at how much tuition costs these days?
There's always an excuse for prostitution, isn't there?
At some point one has to say NO to outrageous prices.
By propagandizing people into the idea that a degree from the "correct" institution is as existentially important as paying whatever it takes to cure your terminal cancer the stage is set for what we see. Exponentially increasing cost of "education" at academic extortion mills.
The elite institutions, particularly the Ivy Leagues actually think they are so elite they have the right to shove literally anything down your throat, including a full hung naked male in your locker room. as the price to be associated with their "sacred tradition". When they prove themselves to be a bunch of sodomite pervs .. Time to say NO to them and put them in their place
There just comes a time when you have to set YOUR boundary.
NO I will transfer to another school if your prices is I enter the clot shot death lottery
NO I will not take on so much debt that I can never afford a family in an appropriate time window or worse yet be indentured and indebted for life
NO I will NOT agree to share a locker room and shower with a member of the opposite sex so you can profit from my athletic talent. and snicker that "we showed those elite suburban girls who's in charge"
Endless reasons to say no and endless opportunities to exercise the only power you have. The power to tell the SOBs NO.
After BJ King beat the aging Bobby Riggs circa 1973, she thought she was the world’s best. Delusions of grandeur persisted for some time.
BJK is entitled to her opinions but in this case she's just wrong. Good for Martina to say so.
The FBI wiretaps revealed that Riggs threw the match to get his gambling debts erased....
https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2013/09/03/bobby-riggs-billie-jean-king-tom-lecompte
I wouldn’t even be surprised if it had been rigged and not Just WWE wrestling.
We’ll never know for sure. Evidence suggests not. Riggs was going to get out of debt either way.
PS: Riley Gaines developed her courage when it was lucrative to do so. She is entirely unadmirable in my view.
Perhaps being somewhat lucrative enables her to do it, not having to rely on a job that she could get fired from for going against the narrative. Realize that the various sports commissions can block athletes, find ways to disqualify them. She is free of those puppet strings.
Playing Conservative Brave Girl is working out well for her. Courageous though it's not.
Bingo X 10,000
she deserves respect in finishing in a tie with race against a grown 6 foot plus man
There's a cost for speaking up, especially in Kentucky where it's kind of a faux southern state ("We're not Rednecks. We're Hillbillies!"), perhaps in pockets, but it's pretty left-leaning, and I'd bet even moreso on the biggest state university campus.
I prefer to think that she spoke out when, as they say on legal circles, "had standing." I'm a dude so I'll never have standing and people won't listen to me - except you and those of us who are like-minded.
But for an idea this awful - evil, even - it shouldn't have ever even gotten to the point, where anyone even had standing.
Especially in Kentucky?
Especially everywhere. Yes, principles are very costly. And the guys--imaginary women or otherwise--are just incidental to all of these stories. In every case it's the girl's female teammates or sorority sister who are the real betrayers.
Dr. Renée Richards, please pick up white courtesy phone.
[That's a name I recall from the news when I was a teenager. I looked at her Wiki and didn't realize her "victory", even nearly fifty years ago. Our society has been sick for a very long time!]
They need to get tough & fight back. Walk off the fields. Stand together and demand their rights. It is INSANE what the Globalist, Satanic Cabal is forcing the 5 Eyes Nations & Europe, to do.
But Martina still has TDS. She believes the left can still snap out of it. She is not mad enough to vote differently. SMH.
I didn't say Martina was perfect. She took the Covid vax too, it may have given her cancer.
If we trash everyone for not being perfect, we will have no allies at all. Sick of this.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate her speaking out on this issue. It's just strange that she can see the problem so clearly, except for its source. She's brave-ish. It hasn't really cost her anything. She posts all day about how Trump will be literal Hitler, which keeps her status at the cool kids' table. She is ready to vote for the exact same people who just trashed Title IX. SMH does not equal "Trashing everyone."
It isn't true that women in sports are letting it happen. The UK women's sea fishing refused to compete when a TW was put in their team, as they knew it was unfair to the other teams. Women in pool (Lynne Pinches), darts (Deta Hedman) and shot put (five Lincoln Middle School students) have also refused to compete against TW. There are no doubt others I haven't heard of.
Also, the women who do compete aren't being weak, they've been coerced into silence and threatened with losing everything they've worked so hard for if they speak up. Many of them are very young and it isn't fair to accuse them of weakness while they're being threatened and hounded. More men speaking up in support of the women would be good to hear, but sadly that doesn't happen much.
They may be young, but who exactly had to stand up in the past, over every human rights abuse, every war ever fought, every family that ever suffered illness, scarcity or turmoil? Only the old & wise? Only the seasoned adults?
No. It's often the young that shoulder the heaviest burdens, rightly or wrongly. These young women must learn to stop complying with abuse. It's that simple. If their male relatives stood up too, as well as their mothers, sisters, aunts & grandparents, that would be awesome, but right now, this nonsense & abuse is on them.
It's their sports, their teams, their schools.
If they don't stand, they lose, it's simple, not easy, but very, very, simple.
When you try to do what is right, they start destroying you.
Your last sentence is a bit Freudian.
Agreed.
There was also a women's cycling race in the UK where the women refused to show up when they heard that transgender men were competing with them. The race got cancelled.
Yes, they are weak and complicit. Fortunately they're not needed to help us win WWII.
such a ray of sunshine
Actually a fair few have declined to participate, but an Olympian walking out would be a great exclamation point.
Trannies are an excellent example of the problems caused by what some might call a denial of reality. In an optimal (“ideal” doesn’t exist) world, all persons would have equal rights, but what does “equal” mean? It’s possible for a man to believe that he was born the “wrong” sex. It’s even possible for him to dress like a different sex or, if he can convince the medical system, to be shot up with hormones or even have disfiguring surgery. Yet an older time would have labeled such a man mentally ill. A Libertarian would say he has the right to pursue his dream (delusion) but if, and only if, he alone pays for the transition and is willing to accept the consequences of his decision. Problems arise in the real world, alas, because under present legal systems the Tranny is demanding, and at times is legally entitled access to domains where previously he was prevented due to his physical identity (e.g. his sex). In one sense, the law is requiring the unwilling to accommodate him in his delusion, or to say that yes, he really is of a sex he isn’t. This could also be stated as the law declaring an inversion of reality, and punishing anyone would declare it otherwise. It’s one thing to stand aside and let others pursue their fantasies, however self-destructive they may be. It’s quite another when we are encouraged, nay, legally required, to aid and abet them in their decadence.
The ground was prepared for this decades ago when every memoir by a mentally-ill woman was celebrated; the film rights went for big money and the sick girl hit all the talk shows and was praised to the maximum. Then they went back to being sick and quelle surprise when the sad obituary hit. When severe life-destroying illness is praisd you get a lot more sick people who see no value in fighting to get well.
Women need to grow a backbone and stop participating in womens events that have men in them. The nonsense won’t stop until then.
Women ought to have had a little common sense back in the days when they were suing to be allowed into single-sex clubs for men. Slippery slopes break everything, don't they?
Oh yes - and us men should have had the guts to say "Eff you!" to the courts and the media back then.
Normal, real, women would soon have squashed the feminists of the 1970s had the men of the day not wilted.
Entirely. It's not about men vs women but wise people against idiots. This era the idiots are winning.
Agreed.
Women need to grow spines. This display of perversity & the accepted abuse of the women and girls in sports today is unacceptable .
Stand Up!
Great words of sanity and decency, Minister in Nigeria. But "unacceptable" is way too polite. The English language almost needs a new word to encompass the ghastly mix of narcissism, arrogance and cowardice that is the psychology of these people....prancing about at this 'ceremony' last night, mocking the Christian religion, exulting in the execution of Marie Antoinette and shoving their 'queerness' etc down our tv screens. If only they could somehow disappear up their own.....
I believe that the technical name is narcissistic grandiosity.
I call them Skeevy
Thanks....didn't know that word. Too old I guess.
I knew that word in the 70s
used it a lot
time to bring it back to use
I'm in my 60s and my grandkids use it so I looked it up.
It’s Italian American speak. We grew up with it.
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They’re French. This is about the best you can expect.
France has been the cradle of many awful ideas.
hahaha
drop the mic ending
Last sentence is absolutely what would happen. Islamic people must see that these people do not think any better of Islam, it is just that they are afraid of the personal consequences because Islam does not turn the other cheek.
More likely, don't interrupt your enemy when they're destroying themselves.
Atheism has turned into its own religion of hate that look to their media and their politicians to fill the gap in their lives.
You ain't kidding!
Yes. And all this must really underscore for them the righteousness of their path and make them fight to holy hell to keep it intact. I am not Muslim but understand the point of intersection of both Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism. (I practice the latter.) If I were a Muslim I’d see this as the collective death rattle of an antiquated faith: “The ‘last Prophet’ was right.”
In my way of viewing this, Abrahamic religions have their roots in the Proto-Indo-European ones. Buddhism is an offshoot. I always admired how Buddha's teachings were similar to Jesus. It all goes back to people through the ages spiritual inquiry of: Is there something beyond our deaths?, What else is there? Why is there even a universe, and by what means did it come to be? Then there is also the question of evil and fallen angels, devils and demons.
Religions are not about buildings and fallible humans and the job security infrastructures the priests, popes, caliphs, grand poobahs, and viziers.
Quite true! But in that sense, aren’t they in control? Aren’t Muslims the ones in power if everyone kowtows to them and neither explicitly nor publicly insults them?
Blue skying here: Maybe. But it also may be that the value system they adhere to refuses to be grossly disrespected without reaction and consequence. The Europeans used to be that way. Having been on top of the heap from imperial days they developed different interests but retained the superior attitude. Which makes them think they can put on such performances without people taking umbrage.
I remember an "outlaw biker" guy who once explained their code. You defended the pack. It did not matter so much if you could win a fight as that you would fight. Proper respect for that. On a personal level a father would take a bullet or fight impossible odds to defend his wife and children. A mother would do the same to defend her children.
On a side note: The mass invasion coming into Europe (and America) may well be orchestrated to conquer and replace, but most of the invaders are parasites there to grab what they can and get free stuff. Most are NPCs with a smattering of bad actors, crimminals, and some war fighter types. those 3 categories are the ones to be wary of and are dangerous. They are working to be in control.
Love how on top of things people on Substack are - the writers & the commenters. I only saw a couple of snippets late last night about the opening of the Paris Olympics which looked absolutely insane. And you & EL GATO MALO already have well reasoned thoughts or essays about it. Substack is becoming as expeditious as Twitter/X.
I think what's so good about substack is that we have a LOT of intelligent people with a lot of points of view to add to our collective knowledge. And to undermine the BS that's being thrown out there as a narrative.
Substack is literally saving my sanity !
Me, too, wendy. Very few of my family or friends want to hear much less discuss any of these issues. On Substack I know that there are others out that feel the same ways that I do. It's like an Earth-ly SETI - only within our planet. 😉
Same here. My nearest and dearest have no interest in discussing today's issues, and they think less of me for my research. C'est la vie.I find much comfort knowing I'm not alone, however.
zactly
Eh, sometimes. Reading about the growing insanity in the world can put me into such a state of despair that I want to hurl myself out a window. Fortunately I live on the ground floor.
Good one. That's like an old gag from (probably) MAD magazine: Joe Glurch leapt out a 10th floor window and survived! (Fortunately there was a fire escape outside the window.)
I can relate. That's when I walk away from my computer and go get me so 'brain candy' - like a 'Seinfeld' or 'Big Bang Theory' episode. Those programs recalibrate my brain chemistry.
Me too Wendy
Substack is one of the very few media I actually pay for. I do occasionally read the "legacy media," but I wouldn't urinate on their buildings or reporter even if they were on fire. Not for free anyway; I'd probably pay for the chance to stand in a line and piss on them.
Can't say that I'd go that far re: the fire, but I agree that I'd rather pay to read something substantial and worthwhile - at least to me - than give one minute of time to ANY of the Corporate Media/Elite.
Totally agree. Those of us who comment reach people individually with no knowledge of their political, religious, economic/SES affiliation, ethnic or geographic connections - unless self reported. There's no character limit or outside constraints imposed on those who comment. We should be kind - this is a personal value for me - but haven't run across too many Commenters who have been cruel to others.
IMO - this platform & others will be the key to help dismantle the oligarchs of our nations & our world. Kinda like Paul Revere's ride to Lexington in 1775 warning "To arms! To arms! The British are coming". Well, that's according to Longfellow's portrayal in his poem, "Paul Revere's Ride". https://www.paulreverehouse.org/longfellows-poem/
Agree,
In our case, at this time in history, the maniacal lunatics are coming !
🤣🤣🤣
The colonists were British, too.
True - at that point in time they were. That is very likely a question people in the colonies had to ask themselves and perhaps answer to others - 'are you with the Crown or with the Rebels?' For some, I imagine that was probably a difficult choice to make.
And there's more ... the language Substackers use is civilised. Oh, the joy.
So far I've seen very little rude or cruel language from others. I like to think that the majority of people - on Substack or in the general populace - are basically good. There will always be that percentage who aren't but each of us is responsible for our own behavior. Controlling others is not in my philosophy of life.
It is often a refuge
I like learning hearing different points of view as well. It's a way to stretch my critical thinking skills. There are times when I am CERTAIN that I saw/read a particular story that said, '(fill in the blank)'. Yet when I look up the source again to repost it or to make sure I have my facts straight, I find that I was the one who was wrong. Keeps me humble.
same
Just make sure the "asylum" you seek is not the type with no door knobs on the inside of your room.
More so, IMO. X is a way to keep enemies closer, whereas Substack knows full well you can't please everyone all the time. The latter is way more honest.
Interesting. I hadn't thought of it like that.
I'm warming up to Islam, myself. Any religious sect that would throw that fat bitch off a building can't be all that bad.
perzactly
European and western countries will not respond in any significant way because the elites have accustomed us to accepting this kind of thing. To do otherwise would be bigotry. We are tolerant to the point we will encourage our children to be physically castrated. The Islamists will not engage in the same apathy that we will, and it would be advisable to avoid trains and planes in France for the near future. Not saying that’s a good thing by any means, it’s tragic, but it is a predictable thing for sure.
What kind of response should there be? Should heads of state call up Macron and tell him that the French Olympics was in poor taste?
This garbage is going to collapse under its own weight and is so bad it doesn't even deserve a response.
I was just thinking of that Monty Python scene outside the french castle... And you're Olympics smell of elderberries...
When Python did that in the 1960s-early 80s, such as men dressing up as women, it was understood to be comedy and entertainment. Contrast and compare with the modern day, where the White House is bathed in rainbows, our embassies were ordered to fly the rainbow flag, and (perhaps) open government display, at public expense, of what was considered perversion not that long ago.
allowing the normalization of ridiculing other religions is wrong. We have to complain.
I disagree, it is imperative it is allowed. People should freely express their feelings about such matters. Just as I am allowed to call whatever that tranny freak show was out as being satanic, in poor taste, and ugly. I want these mentally ill deviants to show their hand every time they can. That is the only way to let us regular folk how perverse these people really are.
Free expression led us here, its poison fruit plain and simple.
Will have to disagree. The issue is not normalization. At least here in the USA, the same Amendment that protects freedom of religion also allows freedom of speech (with very narrow limitations.) Trashing other (or any) religion may be distasteful, but it must be allowed (except against a certain sacrosanct Tribe of which we shall not speak further.)
Yep. We must tolerate this because we *will* tolerate it. Same thing over and over. Subject office workers to ethnic harassment because they *will* tolerate it. Replace whites because we *will* tolerate it... But just ask Obama, Charlie Hebdo had it coming.
I can't think of a better way to incentivize violence than making it the only recourse for the left's egregious behavior.
Art, who is blowing up the trains
Hamassholes
OK, I gotcha. Western anti-Zionist activists: European people.
No joke: some Islamic terror has been committed by second or third generation children of immigrants, not some Exploding Muhammed who just applied for "asylum."
"The Islamists will not engage in the same apathy that we will..."
No, but they engage in female genital mutilation.
"Those that can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire
Good thing the West forbids any such barbaric acts, such as allowing the cutting off part of a male baby's penis at the age of eight days.
I agree it seems hypocritical and probably is, but I personally knew two men many years ago who were in their early 20's who were intact but sought out the procedure, and it wasn't because they became a Christian. For them, it had something to do with hygiene.
avoid public squares in Germany for the same reason. London has some scary spaces too.
re: “. . . Paris would have rightly been on fire by now"
I don’t think cities should burn because elitist creeps insult religion. We should be grateful they are being so clear about who they are. Now we can turn off the TV, find our people, and build the world we want to see with them. From the ground up.
Well put! Let your reality be what you see before your eyes in real life, in part brought into being by your own hands. Instead of watching it on video, which is (at best) mostly make-believe you want, and at worst, a false reality sold you by dishonorable entities.
maybe more of a reaction like the ridiculous Christmas shit at the White House. It's our taxes paying these con artists.
Believers should have NOTHING to do with this abomination.
Hell, I'm an atheist and I'm not exactly chomping at the bit to get involved.
So why has there been a moral, religious and social degeneration of the West? People have wanted to be immoral and degenerate pretending there are no consequences. People have rejected God and replaced Him with self. Pride has taken hold of the mind, heart and soul. The Father of Lies has convinced the masses that they are their own god and that there is no absolute truth nor such a thing as sin.
Or...if they had insulted Judaism in this way, the "anti S" police would have been out in droves making arrests.
Do you have a link the minister’s article?
The closest I have found in a cursory search is here in the Nigerian press https://newsnownigeria.ng/boycott-olympics-christians-urged-by-fani-kayode-in-response-to-parody-of-last-supper-by-drag-queens/
Is their Olympics delegation going home now?
We’ve reached peak Derelicte (another Zoolander reference), where garbage is trotted out as being fashionable. The opening ceremony of the Olympics reminded me of last year’s Christmas from the Biden White House. 🤮. Trashy LGBTQ-infinity crap. Surprised they weren’t just parading around naked. Sick of all of it.
"There was a moment last night, when she was sandwiched between the two Finnish dwarves and the Maori tribesmen, where I thought, "Wow, I could really spend the rest of my life with this woman".
-derek zoolander
I have to watch that film. my husband loves it.
Garbage has been trotted out as acceptable for quite a while in Europe. Most of that is due to major state funding of the arts. I think that funding the arts isn't a bad idea in concept but it has resulted in some major trash that is so bad that even the Europeans aren't going.
We've got the same problem with "reimagining" Broadway musicals. I wanted to see the revival of Oklahoma until I heard what they had done to it.
I saw a Euro-trash version of Carmen several years ago. It was simply god-awful.
Here in Santa Fe at a Porgy and Bess revival, they were twerking on Catfish Row. I left at the intermission.
politely making a statement.
We went to see a stylized "Romeo and Juliet" years ago here in San Diego at the Old Globe theater, featuring the music of Jeff Buckley. Music was great but I could only handle so much of dudes dancing with other dudes in the musical numbers. That was the last time we went to the Old Globe.
The Trannies must be exhausted! They are "trotted out" at everything nowadays. I hope they have a good Union! ;-)
This whole business of trans "women" and satirizing the Last Supper is another attempt to epater les bourgeois. The French have been mocking Christianity for decades (actually a couple of centuries) so they figured it was safe (instead of mocking Islam which can get you killed). The organizers seem to think they are Luis Bunuel but they are just a bunch of tasteless fools. Eventually it goes away because nobody even pays attention anymore.
Their Revolution had the Cult of Reason, a replacement for the Catholic Church. Then they went to Cult of the Supreme Being headed by Robespierre, then he got his head cut off. Not a great example of success, but those geniuses keep trying!!!
The current bunch probably think they are completely unique because they really don't know much about their history.
Idealists of any stripe are sure that if they just try harder next time, Reality can be bent to the will of the Intellect.
Well, back in the Pleistocene—what was that, 2023?—I thought the Bud Light thing was the crest of whatever the heck this tsunami of whatever-this-is... But nah. Dear wise and far-seeing kitty, I'd like to think your call is correct, that here's where it starts to die down. But I'll believe it when I see it.
it's already flipped in the US and has been gaining momentum all year.
this is what will drag the EU and RoW into line. they just blasted themselves out of the the global stream.
and man, no wonder they wanted to pull the french elections forward. imagine what would happen if they were next week.
DEI is getting yanked wholesale out of US companies and institutions. the rear guard fight will be flagrant and fierce, but it will shrink to ever smaller bastions until it's ultimately overrun.
I sincerely hope you're correct.
I think the Sam Smith "unholy" performance at the '23 Grammys was the u.s. version of this. While a lot of this crap is performative there is significant damage to young people caught up in this because they didn't know differently having been soaked in queer theory, CRT, social emotional learning and other gem post modern b.s. GenX will be picking up the pieces of these poor sad kids for a while...
The problem is that they get a lot of this in school, especially from unhinged individuals who shouldn't even be teaching. But fewer and fewer sane people want a low-paying job in education.
Truly. Thank God for alternative schools. Arizona let you divert some of your income tax obligation to private schools, even if you don't have kids. It's making our dem governor nervous how much money is being diverted from public schools into unwoke alternatives. If you don't have program like it in your state I'd work on getting one.
I live in California. We're a long way from even coming close to that!
I'm an ex Californian, San Francisco, yes you're a long way from it. You're going to suffer the hollowing out of the cities, replaced by the degraded souls that result from this psych experiment, until there are sufficient mental hospitals to cart them off to. Sorry. Hopefully you live in a rural town somewhere.
I hope you're right but I see it as losing a few battles, but still winning the war. Education is still captured, which means the next generation will be worse....hope I'm wrong.
I think things might be turning. The young men who were in high school
for covid are turning conservative. So maybe a decade for the new counter culture conservatism to flourish, and then young elites will join it. My call is 20 years for a complete pendulum swing back to sanity.
Oddly, though, the young women seem to be drifting further left. And they seem to have more cultural power. I hope you are right, though.
From your lips (pen?) to God’s ears!! 🙏
The DEI brigade are fleeing to the sanctuary of government, where we'll half to yank the roots over the next couple of decades.
DEI will live on in two places: federal/education jobs, and NGOs.
Please remember this wasn’t spontaneous, it was conceived, planned, and executed and many, many people saw this and said nothing. There were schematics and story boards, cast calls, costumes, rehearsals w/o costumes and full rehearsals. No one along the way stopped this… was that because of agreement, acquiescence, stupidity, or lack of courage? The latter three are the problem in our world today not the first.
Kinda explains a lot of the exhibitions (not all of them though) in our modern art museums. People laugh behind their hands about a lot of it. And they say things like, "I don't understand all this." And then they laugh some more. But quietly. And the black-clad curators, who have very large and esoteric vocabularies, discuss these things among themselves as if flying huge kites high above cliffs, and they keep doing their thing, laying out and nailing up bug-ugly crap. And people actually pay to go in and gaze upon it all. And some of them laugh behind their hands about a lot of it. And they say things like, "I don't understand all this." And then they laugh some more. But quietly.
The Olympic slogan forgot to add “perverted”. Together and Perverted.
Liberte, Fraternite, Perverte!
To further sanction Russia, France will remove the colors red and blue from the French flag.
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I think there was a scene (or more than one) when a tunnel in Italy opened. I don't remember the detail, but I do remember the awful pictures
Switzerland's Gotthard Tunnel, remember it well.
Goat demons, simulated worker deaths.
Apparently this is how the world celebrates achievement in the 21st century.
https://youtu.be/V3Fifm6Z4_Y?si=XGoyQT6gmj_R8r7C
thanks Sez. that is it
Holy crap. I missed this completely and am Swiss! Disgraceful.
Not the world. It seems to be a western European fetish.
I am French and I feel such a shame! I am outraged by this crap and I am not the only one.
There are many other shocking scenes that most people outside France can’t understand. The Republican Guard had to play and dance with the “singer” Aya Nakamura. An elite corps of the French Army that serves the Presidency? Really?
I could go on and on with the examples of this nightmare.
The two exceptions to this freak woke blasphemous show were the moment the Olympic cauldron was lit and floated in the air (the shape evokes a Montgolfière and the first one, created by the Montgolfier brothers, took off from that exact point at the Tuileries gardens) and Céline Dion singing the wonderful song l’Hymne à l’Amour, written by Edith Piaf to the love of her life, a great boxer in his time, Marcel Cerdan. Edith Piaf is an icon and a much loved singer and songwriter here in France.
These games deserve to be boycotted.
PS: The director of this ghastly “ceremony” is very close to the extreme left party LFI and the whole thing is the portrait of Manu and his “wife” Brigitte. I wasn’t very optimistic, but I didn’t expect this level of disgrace.
Maybe this travesty does mark "the top" of Woke. Everyone knows this culture is perverted beyond imagination. However, this Olympic performance may be the incident that proves that *everyone knows that everyone else knows* that the culture is perverted. It's like what happened with Joe Biden. Everyone knew he was demented, but June 27 proved that everyone knows that everyone else knows. At that point, the child yells, "The Emperor has no clothes," and the myth explodes, only to be replaced by a new delusion. But what will replace Woke?
Kanadian here ...I think our governments allowed this to take place in order to make us desperate for a new government that would call out this nonsense, then as we are happy they did so, they may bring on new controls and measures...don't know if I'm just paranoid but I've lost faith in any of the powers that be, whether local, provincial, federal or the people who rule over them ! Oh dear....we better watch out is all I'm saying.
Well, it worked for Hitler! I get what you’re saying.
See: U. S. Patriot (sic) Act
Ol Pierre’s solution appears to be to build a zillion shoeboxes for ppl to live in and not do anything about insane immigration or open up any of the absurd amount of land Canada has. So, it seems very 15 minute city. But at least youll get to rent a shoebox instead of nothing
We will be left to think a shoebox is better than a tent !
Yikes...in essence there is no one coming to the rescue.
If the Canadian people want something different theyll probably get it. You dont have a fully operational CBDC yet, so, if you want it, you have a democracy, and the people running your govt are largely cowards as far as I can tell. They’ll fold. Look what happened with the truckers. They got basically all of their main grievances addressed. Yeah a bunch of them got debanked but you all could help each other and most of the people didnt get axed. The lesson to learn I think is the one that grass-roots counterrevolutionaries are most susceptible to missing, and that is to not stop until the ability for reprisal to get them is effectively neutralized. Most of people involved typically arent really interested in actually being involved, rather they just feel like they have to, and they will take the first conceivable out that they can find, which is usually a trap of some kind.
A sober analysis of Poilievre’s plan and the entire scope of the debates on the issues that he brings up is that the overton window is still very very narrow. There are a *lot* of different potential solutions to Canada’s woes, and they arent even discussed as far as I know.
My interest in the Olympics began to wane when NBC started padding their coverage with sympathy soliciting personal vignettes about an athlete’s blind grandmother, etc. That combined with the glaring bias of many judges and the unabashed corruption of the IOC. And now, NBC is streaming certain competitions only on NBC Peacock, to whom I will not knowingly pay one cent because they have been nothing but gaslighting DNC propagandists since 2015. I could go on for hours about my disgust with NBC … they’ve lost me . So combine that with this “shock show” Opening Ceremony last? Non, merci. C”est merde.
It used to be cool, all "Thrill of Victory, Agony of Defeat" way back in the 1900s but somewhere - maybe it was as early as Nadia Comaneci in '76 - that the whole show became about how an athlete has struggled - you know, being hand-picked by their authoritarian governments to demonstrate how great they are ("99% Literacy Rate, bitches!") to avoid the very poverty they would've have endured if they weren't, basically, freaks of nature.
Then they show about 1 min 37 secs of actual Sport, followed by 5 mins of commercials before "Now we're going to switch to the Aquatic Center where..." for another Suffer Story.
I’m going to take the liberty of editing your comment… “pharmaceutical commercials” ..that industry and NBC also being joined at the hip..
So true. NBC news is Pharma’s bitch.
If ever given the chance, I have my tirade ready for Savannah Guthrie for scolding/shaming Nick Sandmann (?) on national TV knowing full well that he had said and done nothing……and she has kids!
This thread is exactly why we got rid of cable 10 years ago. I watch a lot of old westerns and the only commercials are As Seen on TV gadgets, arthritis cream, and First Alert.
That is a fine and factual suggestion.
Thank you kindly, Mrs. McF!
Oh lord, I've always loved the Olympics since I was a kid. The last one really wore me out with the endless "reality tv-ification" of every athlete on every event. We can't just watch the events, we need a 30 second promo about some random athlete in the field where they have to set up their victimization story before they finish 12th and are never heard from again. Everyone's gotta have an underdog story.
Did you hear that Novo Nordisk is sponsoring an event to see which fat slob can lose the most weight? They're calling it the Summer Ozempics.
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I don't usually watch the Olympics because I find the ceremonies to be naff and the sport to be uninteresting. It's a shame the competitors are all professionals rather than the amateurs of the past.
However, I dipped in and out last night to see how the river pageant went. It was unbelievably bad but it was also totally obscene - I saw children in amongst those revolting men in drag. It did not represent anything other than moral depravity. Shame on France, President Macron and the IOC for allowing it.
I have never understood why it is acceptable for men to dress up as distorted women and get admired for it - it is never anything but insulting to women. Now they get to put a frock on and get other people to pretend they are distorted women. All this obsession with perversion needs to be put back in its box because it is destroying everything.
Yeah, I see drag that way too. A grotesque caricature of womanhood that should be seen as distasteful as blackface.
Truly! “Gender Blackface”. I’m stealing that.
Men need to start stepping up, period.
A woman has no power against a male pretending to be a woman should it escalate. They know this. They know they can physically overpower a woman if it ever came to that and so they have far more courage to force this on us. They are part of the movement that swept through our nation to emasculate men. Now that that has been accomplished only women stand in their way. And that’s no biggie. They can use both bullying tactics from the woman’s mind and the physicality of a man. So for men to have left all us women alone to fight against this is heartbreaking. Stop letting the women’s right movement emasculate you. Our differences should be encouraged and celebrated. If men stood up and protected us as they should, there would be a hell of a lot more hesitation on the part of the trans.
I’m in no way condoning to take proactive violence against them. I’m simply pointing out that a lot of their courage to force this down our throats is knowing that only women will stand up to them and they aren’t afraid of that in any way. Standing up for people by placing yourself between the bullies and them and then firmly standing your ground and principles and protecting them, willing to fight if necessary, is the right thing to do. Not starting the fight, but not hiding from it either if the other side engages.
Great point. As these “men in dresses” (of which most are straight males) already know that men usually never step up nor speak out when a woman is harassed, assaulted, etc.
They were counting on Massage need to keep women in our place as they railroaded over us and they are correct.
Women have been saying for many years that men need to stand up for our rights too, however, they would just sit silently. Mostly because many men benefit when women aren’t on equal footing, they know it, and a lot of men want to keep it that way.
And these transgendered “women”, ie straight men in dresses, knew it, bet on it, and they were right.
That first sentence...
"any who fail to adapt by becoming ever madder and more marginal and more vicious towards any save themselves will be winnowed out and shoved down the slippery slope of privilege rankings by those who would supplant them simply playing the “more disenfranchised than thou” card."
*Starnesville has entered the chat*
"hey, how come nothing works anymore?" said the befuddled rulers over the ruins of a civilization.
Enshitification of everything that they themselves are responsible for all the while adopting the Alfred E. Newman "What, Me Worry?" attitude.
I cannot wait to slip _enshitification_ into conversation.
Enshittification is a word coined by Cory Doctorow
Was it? Macron used the French version with respect to people who refused to take the vax.
So much for "Liberté"!
I'll be sure to attribute it to him via The Swabster
“The Machine Stops” comes to mind.
I was thinking the same thing - just re-read Atlas shrugged
I read it about every five years just to check our progress. Wish that was a joke.
I have a tshirt - Atlas Shrugged, now Non-Fiction - and ain't that the sad truth!
I have the same but on a ball cap, cost me 135.00 to get it across the border. Payed a fortune and when I wear it no one gets it.
My favorite book.
"Being Your Brother's Keeper doesn't come cheap, pal!"
“Idiocracy” the movie.
„Starnesville“ - My first thought also.
Looking at my Atlas, I shrugged. I actually live just a few miles from Ayn Rand's Starnsville which was Rome Wisconsin.
Ayn Rand is probably laughing her head off
https://imgflip.com/i/8yfzmq
She did indeed - in 1957
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I'm grateful I've never had the urge to watch the Olympics.
As for the opening ceremony, I'm not outraged. I just think it's pathetic.
I quit watching except peripherally and the opening showing the people all dressed in pseudomedical garb with hospital beds coming from the sky pretty much sealed the deal. Olympics are now dead to me.
Now I want to watch it!! Like a car crash, you can't look away.
10% —> 1% —> 0.1% ….
Little fleas have smaller fleas
Upon their backs to bite ‘em.
The smaller fleas have smaller yet
And so ad infinitum.
Or, for the nerdier among us…
The larger whorls have smaller whorls
That feed on their velocity.
The smaller whorls have smaller still
And so on to viscosity.
Nerd
Well, yeah.
Excellent!
Fantastic
All traits that play into the marginalisation-quota aren't equal though, and some traits are even detrimental to your "final score":
Obvious mental and some physical handicaps always sink you to be the bottom tier, f.e.
Other traits automatically elevates you above all others, but only relative the traits of the competition in context: a displaced palestinian is f.e. worth more than a jew right now, but a jew is still worth more relative a white (wo)man, unless that (wo)man can be labelled "anti-semitic" of course.
Context matters, in these cases, which just serves to increase the churn.
But! By studying history, we can all play along! Well, not all but most of us. Europeans often have Neanderthal-DNA (vestigial but so what?) so why not play that card?
Negroes and arabs were the worst and greatest in scope slave-traders the world has ever seen - and they were equal-opportunity ones too! They merrily enslaved any people they could get paid for. A certain presidential candidate (that no-one in her party voted for, apparently?) is said to come from a slave-owner family.
Mongols, oh dear - the Golden Horde killed and caused the death of 1/6 of the entire planetary population, it is claimed. C'mon, Mongolia! Make with the repearations already!
Turks besieging Vienna, moslems burning what remained of the Library of Alexandria, internecine wars in China costing tens of millions of lives in historical times, the catholic church exterminating the cathars, huthis vs tutsis, various North and South American natives merrily murdering each other long before Leif Eriksson set foot in America, vikings establishing the Danelaw, other vikings then adopting the name of Normas and ousting their cousins - am I to pay reparations to myself for that one? - and on and on and on.
Overload them. Study history. Find good examples, both for ridicule but also for real: weaponise Poe's Law. Make them spin their spiral ever-tighter, until they string themselves up under their own force.
As long as they are eating their own, why give them another target? Just add fuel to their own fire. Point out to black radicals that they are not as marginalized as gays. Point out to gay Leftist how gays are not as maginalized as Trans people. Point out to Trans people that they are not as marginalized as Palistinians. Then sit back, have a beer, and watch the results.
lol, like
As a Norwegian, I am playing the Neanderthal card and am demanding reparations from myself for the 98% non-Neanderthal genes. Take that, me!
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takk skal du ha
So why is it “bare hyggelig” AND “Værsågod” ?
I thought English was supposed to be the craziest language to learn. 😂
Nowegian was not mono-cultural. Vaersagod =Here you go. I always heard Velcommenn for you're welcome. I never heard bare "hyggelig" It sounds like someone gargling, which if it was Aquavit would be alright. My father never wanted to teach us Norwegian. he wanted to be a American when he immigrated here. So, my brother and I picked up phrases. Dad always said "Skal, first ta dag" when he took a drink. When scuba diving in Bonaire, I went to dinner with some Norwegians and said that. They said: "Oh Nay, oh nay!" "That means we must drink for 3 days now."
Hyggelig is derived from hygge, which is derived from Old Norse. The oldest root for it is hug (norwegian, danish/håg, swedish) which means soul, mind, spirit, thought.
Wikipedia actually has (to my surprise) a decent article on hygge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygge
In swedish, hygge refers to an area deforested land - i.e. a clear-cut area (also called kal-hygge). The subtext is, it has been clear-cut thoughtlessly, as clear-cutting is a very bad thing indeed.
Ever tried rakfish?
the end goal is simple: they want to mutilate and dehumanize our children, thereby forcing the future of our civilization into the Transhumanist Era... https://eccentrik.substack.com/p/gender-affirming-surgery-is-an-attack?r=8ypo0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I'll encourage you to think about the real 'us' and 'them' at play, even if you choose to not write about it.
I am a Christian who did not watch the horror show last night and am thoroughly grateful based on what I have seen. There is no such thing as an absence of religion. There is a void in all of humanity that causes us to worship something. The God of the Bible offers life to all, the religion of the world offers death figuratively and literally. Death through the end of reproduction, through despair, through war, through famine, through squalor, through MAiD…. The depravity that was manifested is the product of the culture of death.
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”
John 10:10 NASB1995
https://bible.com/bible/100/jhn.10.10.NASB1995
AMEN!!!!