there was a time when high school kids were rebels. and this is as it should be. each generation must carve out its own identify and become distinct from those before it. seeking and striving to do so is natural. it’s healthy.
they choose their music BECAUSE you do not understand it. if their dads wanted the same haircuts they have or the moms were on the same social media platforms they use, they would change them.
that too, is healthy.
this is what has made watching them get brainwashed and browbeaten and pushed around to the point where skate punks in parking lots were wearing masks to curb grind despite nary an adult in sight.
man, i did not see that one coming.
this pandemic of panic and guilt really did a number on them.
but they are starting to wake up, and they, like so many others, have had enough.
and ginning up a new nonsense study that used a literal opt in survey devoid of controlled clinical data and thereby injected so much bias just in the self-selection to respond as to render it gibberish is not going to convince anyone.
it’s just more desperation.
and one can only stomach so much hypocrisy and so many lies.
even when freed by law, the schools are not letting go. they are drunk on authority and terrified of admitting how wrong they got this.
Interesting that the high school kids are doing this before the college kids, but the latter group might be too brainwashed at this point. Will be a fascinating generational shift within the zoomers.
Agree. Millennials are probably lost, but anyone under 18 who endured real and unnecessary hell at the hands of stupid parents and other adults may have a shot at becoming free-thinking rebels.
Plus, they have all of us Gen-Xers as grandparents, egging them on and encouraging self-reliance and self-governance instead of obedience to authority.
And Boomers too. Sorry, but there's a *lot* of us Boomers out here that grew up during very trying and oppressive times and are super self-reliant and love liberty and have been fighting this stuff from the very beginning! And, we know how to do stuff without technology as well. All of us working together is what it will take. There's wisdom in all generations and it should be shared, not shunned. (But I do get what you're saying... us "Boomers" are on the way out)
True, your generation has a large age span and there is a swathe of it that came of age in the late fifties and early sixties that does have that mindset. Sadly, there is also the last half of it that came of age in the late sixties and seventies, and those people still seem to want to live in the "summer of love" and "endless summer" because it makes them feel young and cool and counter-culture.
It’s also a lot less consequential to miss high school classes/get suspended/even expelled than in college, especially when they’re paying 5-6 figures. The debt is like a noose around their necks.
Why are people paying 5-6 figures to be told to fall in line with obvious stupidity? A lot of schools, particularly in the SouthEast, are not pushing masks or vaccines or any of it. The actually smart kids are there, not paying for anti-science nonsense.
But I know of two SoCA kids (actually twins) who go to University in NC & Mississippi, are in there 2nd year, who are totally vaxxed and boostered up and both are in a fraternity and a sorority. It all as to do with the liberal
The only school we might even consider paying for in NC is Wake Forrest. UNC has become a joke locally. That trend started pre-Covid, but realizing UNC probably had a huge hand in this pandemic has accelerated the trend.
Parents influence is part of it, but parents influence kids in a lot of ways that aren’t always great ideas.
I don’t care how many shots anybody took - but supporting institutions that demanded it strains credulity.
There are a lot that claimed to demand it then granted every exemption request they got. I put that in the realistic problem solving bucket. 😂
Wake Forest is where the boy of the fraternal twins I refer to attends. His sister goes to University of Mississippi…funny that they went east to school because the parents both went to University of California schools. They are both cut from the ‘liberal yet very straight cloth’ of the upper middle class ‘liberal political values and beliefs’ of their parents.
Wake has a very conservative student body. I personally know over a dozen students - none vaccinated. Two got medical exemptions (for being naturally immune) and the others all had “religious exemptions” approved. There is definitely wokeness there, but most of the students are outward conservatives. If your friends are liberal they were gaslighted thinking Wake had a liberal student body. 😂. Liberal administration yes, but not the kids.
There are always exceptions, but funding institutions that foster the indoctrination of young people with failed central planning ideologies that can’t withstand even the slightest bit of dissent or questioning is still funding them.
I’m also speaking of what I see from the smartest and most likely to actually succeed teenagers in my own world (like the ones graduating from my kids’ actually top tier private school and others in the region). These kids are getting into the Ivy schools just to show they can, but most are actually choosing to attend places like Auburn, Alabama, University of Miami (in Miami - which is a bit woke but actually believes in promoting the scientific process).
When I look at my own kids I’m not encouraging them to go to a place that WAS, as in past tense, a great school. I’m encouraging them to go to places that ARE, as in current tense, attracting the genuinely best and most motivated which includes, but goes well beyond, GPAs and standardized test scores.
The ones with the most options are not attending these woke, formerly great, schools currently engaged in all out tyranny towards their own students’ physical bodies. These backwards institutions won’t suddenly become appealing or positive again just because mask and vaccine mandates fade away - the damage to their reputation will only continue grow as the mandates are increasingly recognized for the ineffective political posturing they always were.
I sort of remember the Students for a Democratic Society, back in the 1970s, having no such compunctions. The downside, though, is that those fools are the same ones who today are brainwashing or college youth. So awful. But everyone thought it was just kids being liberals. . .
Lindy, in today's climate where many do not want to work and enterprising and hard working man who shows up will go FAR. Much further than in normal times. Plus the work experience might inform which way he wants to go with his degree. Unless he is taking off a year and not working. Then...
You bet he's working. And he's networking and learning more about the fields that interest him. There's a difference in a gap year and simply quitting school.
I keep asking my college age daughter why they follow all the rules! It's so disappointing... her off campus house was insane with following each and every rule to a T. She was so depressed last Spring, I had to push really hard to get her to agree to a trip to the free state of Florida because they didn't want to let her back in the house without a full 2 week quarantine. She's gotten better at pushing back on their craziness, but still more compliant than I would have been in the 80s - love the valley girl clip! He's tripendicular, you know!
I have some hope for the younger ones. A 13 year old in our town just stood up to an uber leftist substitute teacher who got in his face and harangued him for wearing a "thin blue line" flag mask in support of police (two members of his family are police). Of course, other kids in the class filmed him. I also see a lot of middle and high school kids supporting conservative over leftie positions in this area. The college kids seem pretty lost, though. Thanks goodness this teacher has now been banned from teaching in this town and county.
It's a little more complicated than that, I think. I have a nephew who is in college, pretty conservative, and sees through all the bullshit. But he seems resigned to the fact that he just can't speak his mind. And probably won't ever be able to do so.
I have a 17 year old daughter with profound autism & intellectual disability. What do they supposed all these COVID restrictions have done to her education? Her primary challenge is communication. Do they suppose the masks are helping? Now she can't see anyone's mouth or full facial expression to learn to interpret emotions or have other cues for speech.
I have a 20 year old son and I'm really, really worried about him. Thankfully, this COVID nonsense didn't start until after his senior year of high school. He (and we) would have missed so many concerts & performances. He'd have missed trips, a real graduation, prom... I am so utterly and completely pissed for the poor kids abused out of their senior year memories by terrified old people.
But the COVID restrictions have forced him to get two Janssen shots. His body, his choice. And the school he wanted required vaccination. I plan to learn how to make incendiary devices if anything happens to him as a result.
And he is missing out on SO MUCH! There are still all these dumb masking and gathering restrictions at his college. Kids should be doing all sorts of inappropriate, dumb and dangerous shit (that I don't want to hear about until he's 50) while they're in college. It's part of what parents pay for. It's affecting in-person learning, office hours, internships, study groups... Disability accommodations. (He has ADD - like me! - and dysgraphia & dyspraxia. But he's also gifted, so it's complicated. Aren't we all?) Kids and parents aren't getting what we're still paying full-price for.
I am just done with all of this. And I am scared to death that they're going to start injecting the babies. WTF!?! Stop! None of this is stopping anything. Why are more people not waking up to this?
Terrified old people? Thanks a lot. Just what we need now is a little more division and discrimination. I am an old person and chose not to play Covid. I have lost friends and family for not going along particularly with the jabs. I am okay with that as I made a choice to live a free life without fear. Something will get me eventually. I feel badly about the young and the restrictions placed on them by tyrannical institutions. But, nobody forced your child to get jabbed. He ( perhaps you) were unwilling to give up, temporarily, his school. Life can be hard sometimes and it forces tough choices on us. But, if we give up our freedom especially if that pisses us off, we are lost.
i agree. people of all ages "play covid"- and people of all ages have resisted. i know the type of "terrified old people" that comment referred to, and i also know old people, including old hippies and old no-nonsense yankee conservatives who've fiercely opposed the covid restrictions from the start. i'm sorta old, but not quite elderly :-)
the younger covidians are at least as obnoxious as the old ones, probably more so. scared old people are just personally fearful, but the younger ones are totalitarian in attitude- smug, bossy little martinets.
when the whole thing began, i expected the younger generations to rebel against it instantly. thinking of my old classmates, i doubt even the most straight laced honor students would have put up with this. only certified dorks would have gone along with it, and there weren't many of them.
for me, i'd have never covered my lovely teenage face with a mask- i didn't buy that lip gloss for nothing, you know. and nothing could have kept me from parties or hanging out with my friends.
a teenage girl wearing a mask is not pretty, and a teenage boy wearing a mask is just pathetic.
as grade school kids, we would have used the masks as catapults to shoot stuff at other kids. we'd have met up with friends and played and not social distanced at all. if anyone tried to break it up, we'd just congregate somewhere else.
as teenagers we'd have mocked the masks in various creative ways- anything but wearing them properly, and continued our usual practices of making out in the stairwells, huddling together to share gossip, playing together and fighting. we'd have packed together in cars (without seatbelts) and had fun at crowded house parties. the class president types would have written letters to the school board and local newspapers protesting the restrictions, then they'd have joined the rest of us for sports and parties.
as for college - with restrictions like that, most would probably have just gotten full time jobs instead. those determined to have credentialed careers would have gone to college, and joined the protests there.
and it is strange, isn't it, how so many of my old classmates joined the covid cult? i guess they forgot what it was like to be young and free. i'm older now, but i'm still free. i never lost that.
Hey, I'm old! Eh... 52. Close enough. I watch my friends act like they are absolutely going to die of COVID if they get it. I watch them avoid their elders to "protect them." And they're all vaccinated!
You are correct that my son chose to stick with his university. He could have transferred to somewhere more reasonable. However, I do think that his university's position on COVID, the media's relentless fear-mongering, the cupidity of the CDC/FDA, the Democrats in power, etc. should take some of the blame.
I've been the lone crazy conspiracy theorist in my crowd. I'm surrounded by Dems who went from "But that's Trump's vaccine! It was developed too fast. It's not safe." to "Biden's Presdient now. It's all okay and you must get your shot. If you don't, we'll make you." without batting an eye.
I'm just hoping everyone I love doesn't wind up with severe cardiac issues or cancer before this is all over.
This is definitely not an age thing. I'm in my early 60s and friends primarily my age and younger. Like you a stick out among my friends. I am told I watch the "wrong news". Funny thing is I don't watch any news but prefer to read online from many sources and watch original video whenever I can to form my own opinions about what I'm seeing and hearing rather than take for granted the spoon fed news feed.
I am fortunate to at least have a couple friends who over time have seen the contradictions and started to question. I have lived my life as normally as allowed, going out, travelling, refusing to mask whenever I am able. I continue to hope that a few more will say no to more shots and all the Covid craziness.
If you, or anyone else, would like to share your horror/war/Covid stories, I want to compile them here. I want us to remember this on a personal level. I want us to remember that we aren't alone. These stories need to be told. YOUR story needs to be told.
You ought to contact Regnery Publishing. I think they would be interested in a book like this if you could get it compiled, edited, and to them fairly quickly. Of course someone else may have beaten you to it; there is always that chance.
This whole thing has severely negatively impacted all kids from birth through college. It is just terrible. And yourbright, it is absolutely terrifying to think anyone will inject their baby. Insanity! I do think people are slowly waking up.
Yeah, I know. I'd have had him switch colleges. But we're a democracy here; so it was two against one. Husband and boy wanted UMass Amherst. 🤷♀️
Oh, I vote third party, whenever it's available. In 2019 for the presidential, it was Hawkins/Walker. But... The Green Party, while it has a lot of social policies I support, has jumped the shark on COVID vaccines. They can't see they are trampling bodily autonomy. So I guess it's Libertarian or Independent from here on out.
Truthfully? I'd vote for someone who ran as a Martian if they were on the ballot, just to state my firm opinion of Republicans and Democrats. Or should that be Republicans & Republican Lite? 😂
Gavin won the recall with ease…… this was the known outcome. Eventually they will drop the mask mandate, but as long as people keep voting for it and sending their kids to public school in CA, the schools there, run largely by childless political activists, will keep treating kids like inhuman political pawns.
"Known outcome." Yeah, they have us all brainwashed to accept the election 'results' which have been frauded in CA for a long time. In 2020, I can't find the link anymore (maybe removed) but there was an analysis that showed by a simple thought experiment that Trump likely actually won in CA in 2020.
It went something like this. In CA, there are XX million persons eligible to register to vote. Average registration across the USA has historically been ~70% of those eligible, have registered. And ~75% of those registered, voted. In CA registration numbers have historically been below the national average, ~60%.
Now CA population 2020 was ~39.5 million (1). 22.5% were under 18, 26.8% foreign born. Assuming that half of the foreign born are naturalized and eligible, gives us 39.5 * 0.775 * 0.866 = 26.5MM eligible to register. That would mean you'd expect 26.5MM * 0.6 * 0.75 = 11.9MM to actually vote.
17.1MM people voted in CA in 2020, 5.2MM more than would be expected (2). Biden 'won' by 5.1 MM. Since nobody has accused the GOP of faking votes, if you take all the 'excess' votes away from Biden, Trump wins.
Now that is a lot of 'ifs,' but statistics are stubborn things. It is rare no matter how 'motivated' people are, for them to change actual behaviors in significant ways. This brief thought experiment is not conclusive, though I will point out that the original one I saw came up with a discrepancy larger than 5.2MM, more like 7.5MM IIRC. Point is, there is enough question about the numbers alone without resorting to any specific 'votes cheated here' data, to be highly suspicious. Sources:
But if you remember Summer 2021, they were CONVINCING people to get the shot so they could take off the mask. These people were basically lied to in order to coerce them to get the shot.
From this morning's CalMatters: "State health officials announced Monday that they are working with “education, public health and community leaders to update masking requirements at schools to adapt to changing conditions and ensure the safety of kids, teachers and staff.”"
Thank you. Man, I would so love to be wrong on this. But if we can drop a mask mandate for adults without much fanfare, why the kid gloves when dropping mandates for students? I'm guessing that the CA department of ed, and perhaps unions, have a say. Which they shouldn't. (I'm a union member BTW and have heard nothing.)
Gato Basado! Based Zoomers are going set records for the epic backlash that is coming after what has been perpetrated on these kids. The Leftist teachers' unions thought they were moulding a whole generation of Che Trotskyites, but all they were doing in reality was holding a giant ball under water, against human nature, against every teen wave that had come before it. One day, perhaps soon, things will get too far out of balance and the ball cannot be held down any more. It is going to be like Trident II missile launches all over the place. It is going to be biblical. Glorious.
We can make it true……. No one is going to come save us or our children. If we are going to save the kids and our country the first step is recognizing we are going to have to do it ourselves. Each and everyone of us. One person, one child, on choice at a time.
Also the high school students have watched the compliant university students take the shots for a promise of “normalcy.” That didn’t happen. They know the lie. If enough defer college or attend colleges that don’t demand the shots, it will bring the mandating colleges to their knees. I pray these young students are successful.
This is so true. They saw an opportunity to advance past their own Peter Principle level -- and NEVER BE FIRED NO MATTER HOW INCOMPETENT they were. And THAT is why they went to work for the government.
If a big enough group of parents had kept their kids home from school just one week, a long time ago, to zero out attendance and get school district and state and media attention, masking could have ended long ago.
Unfortunately, too many parents depend on the state taking their kids for the day. Both parents working = schools are daycare, and masks and quarantine protocols were the price of that daycare. Parents paid.
It took kids old enough to have driver's licenses to collectively say "no I will not attend this daycare if I have to wear a mask."
And the ironic thing, if you remember back to 2020, is that schools were SUPPOSED to stay open. It was only after the lockdowns that people started thinking - hey maybe thousands of kids going to school sort of undermines the whole narrative. Now they can't walk it back, even though there's less than zero reason for kids to be masked.
Weird how the radical liberals are now the establishment and conservatives are revolutionaries. They fought "the man" in the sixties only to morph into what they fought. I'm gen X and we questioned everything
Not all of us have ended up supporting this rubbish, believe me. But enough have done so, and it's discouraging. That's why my guy and I have lost many friends. It goes the other way, too. My brother, who was always extremely right wing, happily announces to me that he's had his booster. Meanwhile, his "pinko sister" (his nickname for me) refuses any of the experimental jabs.
I've passed this along to my son, who's still in a district enforcing this nonsense. In fact, they just re-upped their stance, despite protests from many, because they found a way to get additional money by continuing the charade. It's corruption at the cost to our kids.
So...I'm about to go nuclear on this district. I've started working on a real, organized resistance to end this madness, because as Gato said, at times, NO ONE ELSE WILL, AND WE HAVE TO SAY NO. HELL NO. F*CK NO. We're calling it. It's done.
They are going to be completely irrelevant by the end of this year unless they change their tune. And if they DO change their tune, we have to be relentless about shoving the receipts they've accrued over the past two plus years directly into their noses. They need to indelibly feel the shit up in their nostrils that they've been pushing into ours for far too long.
All the politicians that stood behind the spending for all these needless things should have to cough up all the money for it. Confiscate all Bidens possessions and use them to pay the debt. You will own nothing and you will be happy huh ?
Yesterday on Twitter she posted how she's so afraid of catching Covid that handshakes should be abolished forever in favor of the elbow bump. And the comments were equally as insane.
She went to Harvard, right? Not that long ago someone with that level of, I don't know what to call it -- naivete or utter stupidity --would have been culled from their ranks within the first 90 days of classes. Harvard is not what it used to be. Just imagine the caliber of legal scholars who will soon be working night and day to hijack and destroy our Constitution? We can see some of them already on our once-revered Supreme Court. It is too dreadful to contemplate. But I know what Washington would have done. Too bad there is no stomach for that today.
But at least they are waking up. It will be much more difficult to pull the proverbial wool over their newly-opened eyes the next time -- about ANYTHING!
When there was still an outdoor mask mandate in place, I was walking maskless in a parking and crossed paths with a teeniebopper wearing a t-shirt that said, "Rebel."
Looking back at a great many supposed "rebels" from the 1960s, later I observed that it was all costume theater. They weren't rebels at all but they sure went out of their way too make themselves look like rebels. As they aged, you came to realize how mundane they were. In contrast, some of the most unique, rebellious, individual thinking innovators looked totally average and you would never guess what was bubbling under their normal, average demeanors. Don't judge a book by its cover, we used to say.
First off, love to see Jodie Foster's Army... we are clearly of the same generation. I have a soon to be 14 year old in the 8th grade. In CT where we live the gov just said he was lifting the mandate on Feb 28 and making it a local decision. But it turns out it is more complicated than that - here is from a local news source:
As of Monday night there were 369 people signed up to testify at today’s public hearing on Gov. Ned Lamont’s executive orders.
The orders are set to expire on Feb. 15 and lawmakers are debating whether to extend them. The most controversial of which is a school mask mandate.
On Monday Lamont recommended removing the school mask mandate starting on Feb. 28.
“I think very strongly that local control is key, especially when it comes to schools,” Lamont said Monday.
Asked why he didn’t want the decision left up to parents, Lamont said “I can tell you that there are a fair number of schools where teachers may not feel as comfortable coming in unless they keep that mask mandate a little bit longer.”
Kate Dias, president of the Connecticut Education Association, who is the first person expected to testify Tuesday, said they want to make sure these decisions are being made using science.
“It feels an awful lot like we’re making this decision in this moment due to social pressures,” Dias said.
She said they want to make sure the schools stay open and a significant portion of elementary aged children are still unvaccinated.
“Teachers and students in spaces that aren’t well ventilated,” Dias said, explaining her concerns.
She said most teachers think it’s a little “premature” to lift the mask mandate.
At the same time, Department of Public Health Commissioner Manisha Juthani, who makes the recommendation on masks, said there is “no” data on “in-school transmission.”
It’s unclear what boards of education will use as metrics to make the decision at the local level if the state legislature decides not to weigh in and allow Juthani to continue to make the recommendation.
“The governor has actually never instituted a mask mandate in schools and the legislature is not voting on Thursday on a local option or a non-local option,” House Speaker Matt Ritter said Monday.
Ritter said the public has a misunderstanding of the current mask mandate.
“The executive order since September is that the state Department of Education Commissioner in consultation with the Commissioner of the Department of Public Health has the ability to require masks in schools,” Ritter said.
Ritter says if the legislature extended the mask mandate executive order then they would extend the power of the Commissioner of Public Health to make that decision.
“They’re not collecting any data on the transmission of COVID in schools. They never had and they won’t,” House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora said.
Candelora says it’s time to end the mask mandate in schools.
Keep in mind the republicans have very little power in the CT legislature. Now my wife and I are wondering what we will do if they don't get rid of the mandate. I am thinking that if my son is up for it (he hates masks and knows this has all been about nothing) he should just not comply and take what punishments are given and keep going back every day. But that is a lot to put on one kid and he isn't likely to get a lot of student support because most are triple vexed and ignorant. He would be very much on his own. But he is at the age, so you never know. I'll keep you posted.
Yes there are some fed up kids standing up against masks...after over two years. That's all well and good but we don't know what the Evil Empire will throw at us next. This war between good and evil will have many more chapters.
I vividly remember my senior class questioning our need to do homework or anything after most of us saw the first Matrix movie. I mean, maybe none of this is real so, why are we doing this again? LOL! We also changed our uniforms in small ways that annoyed the teachers but not enough to result in suspensions. I can only imagine how we'd be acting now with mask mandates.
My husband and I are both really anti-authority. My husband was basically Van Wilder in undergrad (including staying a couple years too long 😂). It’s served us well, and helped us be successful (no trust funds or inheritance).
Our kids are our mini’s and the 10-year old girl definitely has our anti-authority predisposition even though she never gets in trouble, is a top student and athlete, and has read over 700 books (she reads 200-300 pages before bed each night). The upside to Covid is giving her a way to direct that anti-authority energy. 😂. We signed her out of masks from the start at school (both kids). She loves going as many places as possible with her way too adorable smile on full display. She also LOVES bragging about being a pure blood. 😂😂😂.
Standing up against the narrative has given her strength of confidence and character. We couldn’t be prouder.
I was a lot like your daughter when I was younger. Still am. I don't make a big show of going against authority. I just say "no" firmly and carry on. I *can* snap when pushed and turn into Fury.
It is only up to the students to say no and suffer the consequences.
Problem is students don't want to suffer consequences.
Case in point. Last spring I was jogging in the park far away from any school and saw a group of high school boys jogging with masks on. I caught up to them and asked them how they could run in those things. They said they were required to by the school. I said "what is there a drone in the sky tracking your every move? You are in the middle of nowhere."
Nobody responded. Nobody even acknowledged what I said. In fact there was fear in their eyes like they shouldn't be talking to a free-faced leper. I just said "good luck" and jogged away.
At that point I knew all hope was lost for future generations.
not so fast about muzzlemania disappearing from schools. As AJ Depriest revealed on the Highwire https://thehighwire.com/videos/covid-19-following-the-money/ (start at the 11:00 mark) the Feds are throwing mad loot at school districts, contingent on muzzle regulations in perpetuity, plus turning schools into lethal injection sites. Remember, the WEF and Gates Foundation really don't give a damn about us. It's the kids they're after. Many of us are realistically past our reproductive years. Theirs are in front of them...unless they take the sterility shots.
I don't think that it's realistic to get school boards to return the money so we can get back to normal. It's time we admitted that compulsory public education was a colossal mistake and get our kids the hell out. Imagine how much smarter you would be today if you didn't have to unlearn everything you were taught in public school.
Would be amusing if a school accepted fed funding to keep mask mandates, in a district where it was against the law, and the DA seized the funds under a proceeds-of-crime law.
HELL YEAH! I'm sharing with my kids who are in pretty good California schools (good, except for the mandatory mask part) Keep on pushing back, and thanks for encouraging us to fight for our rights!
As an older cat let me offer some advice to the kittens. I have learned that it is a lot easier to get away with stuff once you have established yourself. What I mean is this: if you are working, first of all work is not school. You must get a reputation for showing up on time every day, doing quality work, staying off of your phone and not talking back to the supervisors. Once you have established that, then, and ONLY then, you can participate in little acts of rebellion. Because you do not want to be the one management wants to make an example of. And they will, if there is anything that they can hold against you. But if they do not have anything to hold against you and you have proven your worth as an employee, they will be reluctant to do anything. Not saying that they won't, there is risk in anything. But this cat has been around awhile and is a survivor.
OT, sorry, not a big Nick Cage fan, but his movie "Pig" is worth seeing if only for the non-Hollywood ending, similar in that regard to "Nightmare Alley." Neither great movies, but worth seeing, and both endings unexpected by Hollywood standards.
Man, I remember in HS walking out to protest the Vietnam war. We were 15. We walked down Hertel avenue in Buffalo and blocked traffic for miles. Kids!!
My kids were in college at the start of the pandemic, living off campus, thank God. I remember my daughter calling me in March or April of 2020 and asking was it actually dangerous for her to go hang out with her friends, as they were being told. I said hell no, get over there and have a blast! That was their introduction to civil disobedience. They and their whole friend group remain unvaxxed and happy to this day (oh, yeah, they all got COVID at some point, and they all survived!)
Our high school principal never penalized any students for walking out of class for a cause. His only stipulations were that we couldn’t do it before 2:30 and only the seniors. We always followed his rules. We would rally for a few minutes and then, if we had cars, leave early. This gave the teachers easier access out of the parking lot after school. A win-win situation! He was a smart and persuasive man.
And so the pendulum swings! While the indoctorated 60's destroyed the campus starting in the 90's as the new generation arrives, they may not be so ruined by Marx notions. Noting like a dose of reality to help see clearly the overreach.
This is beautiful. Where are the kids everyday? On sites like Tik Tok. And they're seeing this. And they are no doubt organizing now at their own high schools. And so, this is going to spread like wildfire. I LOVE it!!!
Earlier this week, hundreds of California students walked out of class in protest of mask mandates. The government’s response? The next day, they locked maskless kids in the gym without heat. (Photos in thread)
Interesting that the high school kids are doing this before the college kids, but the latter group might be too brainwashed at this point. Will be a fascinating generational shift within the zoomers.
Hopefully the high school/middle school generation will be the most libertarian in decades.
Agree. Millennials are probably lost, but anyone under 18 who endured real and unnecessary hell at the hands of stupid parents and other adults may have a shot at becoming free-thinking rebels.
Plus, they have all of us Gen-Xers as grandparents, egging them on and encouraging self-reliance and self-governance instead of obedience to authority.
I'm a Boomer and if I am ever blessed with grandkids, will convince them to resist The Man and ask questions!
And Boomers too. Sorry, but there's a *lot* of us Boomers out here that grew up during very trying and oppressive times and are super self-reliant and love liberty and have been fighting this stuff from the very beginning! And, we know how to do stuff without technology as well. All of us working together is what it will take. There's wisdom in all generations and it should be shared, not shunned. (But I do get what you're saying... us "Boomers" are on the way out)
True, your generation has a large age span and there is a swathe of it that came of age in the late fifties and early sixties that does have that mindset. Sadly, there is also the last half of it that came of age in the late sixties and seventies, and those people still seem to want to live in the "summer of love" and "endless summer" because it makes them feel young and cool and counter-culture.
It’s also a lot less consequential to miss high school classes/get suspended/even expelled than in college, especially when they’re paying 5-6 figures. The debt is like a noose around their necks.
Why are people paying 5-6 figures to be told to fall in line with obvious stupidity? A lot of schools, particularly in the SouthEast, are not pushing masks or vaccines or any of it. The actually smart kids are there, not paying for anti-science nonsense.
But I know of two SoCA kids (actually twins) who go to University in NC & Mississippi, are in there 2nd year, who are totally vaxxed and boostered up and both are in a fraternity and a sorority. It all as to do with the liberal
Parents influence, behind all that!
The only school we might even consider paying for in NC is Wake Forrest. UNC has become a joke locally. That trend started pre-Covid, but realizing UNC probably had a huge hand in this pandemic has accelerated the trend.
Parents influence is part of it, but parents influence kids in a lot of ways that aren’t always great ideas.
I don’t care how many shots anybody took - but supporting institutions that demanded it strains credulity.
There are a lot that claimed to demand it then granted every exemption request they got. I put that in the realistic problem solving bucket. 😂
Wake Forest is where the boy of the fraternal twins I refer to attends. His sister goes to University of Mississippi…funny that they went east to school because the parents both went to University of California schools. They are both cut from the ‘liberal yet very straight cloth’ of the upper middle class ‘liberal political values and beliefs’ of their parents.
Wake has a very conservative student body. I personally know over a dozen students - none vaccinated. Two got medical exemptions (for being naturally immune) and the others all had “religious exemptions” approved. There is definitely wokeness there, but most of the students are outward conservatives. If your friends are liberal they were gaslighted thinking Wake had a liberal student body. 😂. Liberal administration yes, but not the kids.
Or maybe they are taking online classes and living their social lives somewhere else.
There are always exceptions, but funding institutions that foster the indoctrination of young people with failed central planning ideologies that can’t withstand even the slightest bit of dissent or questioning is still funding them.
I’m also speaking of what I see from the smartest and most likely to actually succeed teenagers in my own world (like the ones graduating from my kids’ actually top tier private school and others in the region). These kids are getting into the Ivy schools just to show they can, but most are actually choosing to attend places like Auburn, Alabama, University of Miami (in Miami - which is a bit woke but actually believes in promoting the scientific process).
When I look at my own kids I’m not encouraging them to go to a place that WAS, as in past tense, a great school. I’m encouraging them to go to places that ARE, as in current tense, attracting the genuinely best and most motivated which includes, but goes well beyond, GPAs and standardized test scores.
The ones with the most options are not attending these woke, formerly great, schools currently engaged in all out tyranny towards their own students’ physical bodies. These backwards institutions won’t suddenly become appealing or positive again just because mask and vaccine mandates fade away - the damage to their reputation will only continue grow as the mandates are increasingly recognized for the ineffective political posturing they always were.
I sort of remember the Students for a Democratic Society, back in the 1970s, having no such compunctions. The downside, though, is that those fools are the same ones who today are brainwashing or college youth. So awful. But everyone thought it was just kids being liberals. . .
OUR college youth.
Paying more makes me even louder about my rights as an individual and a consumer.
Did you watch those Evergreen College videos?
Isn’t Evergreen where Bret Weinstein & wife Heather taught?
Yes, and they left because the kids there were sooooooo brainwashed.
No. Where would I find them?
YT has a lot, but I won't link them.
https://rumble.com/v39x8v-evergreen-college-takeover.html
The college age kids like my 19yo son are taking gap years.
Lindy, in today's climate where many do not want to work and enterprising and hard working man who shows up will go FAR. Much further than in normal times. Plus the work experience might inform which way he wants to go with his degree. Unless he is taking off a year and not working. Then...
You bet he's working. And he's networking and learning more about the fields that interest him. There's a difference in a gap year and simply quitting school.
He'd learn more out in the real world working at a job, than sitting behind a keyboard.
Some spend the gap traveling or laying about. Not your kid!Good news for his future (and yours!). Good luck to him.
I keep asking my college age daughter why they follow all the rules! It's so disappointing... her off campus house was insane with following each and every rule to a T. She was so depressed last Spring, I had to push really hard to get her to agree to a trip to the free state of Florida because they didn't want to let her back in the house without a full 2 week quarantine. She's gotten better at pushing back on their craziness, but still more compliant than I would have been in the 80s - love the valley girl clip! He's tripendicular, you know!
I have some hope for the younger ones. A 13 year old in our town just stood up to an uber leftist substitute teacher who got in his face and harangued him for wearing a "thin blue line" flag mask in support of police (two members of his family are police). Of course, other kids in the class filmed him. I also see a lot of middle and high school kids supporting conservative over leftie positions in this area. The college kids seem pretty lost, though. Thanks goodness this teacher has now been banned from teaching in this town and county.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6295684006001#sp=show-clips
It's a little more complicated than that, I think. I have a nephew who is in college, pretty conservative, and sees through all the bullshit. But he seems resigned to the fact that he just can't speak his mind. And probably won't ever be able to do so.
The students have been way too passive.
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/adult-kids-rosa-parks-the-clash-and
This has been horrifying for me to watch, too.
I have a 17 year old daughter with profound autism & intellectual disability. What do they supposed all these COVID restrictions have done to her education? Her primary challenge is communication. Do they suppose the masks are helping? Now she can't see anyone's mouth or full facial expression to learn to interpret emotions or have other cues for speech.
I have a 20 year old son and I'm really, really worried about him. Thankfully, this COVID nonsense didn't start until after his senior year of high school. He (and we) would have missed so many concerts & performances. He'd have missed trips, a real graduation, prom... I am so utterly and completely pissed for the poor kids abused out of their senior year memories by terrified old people.
But the COVID restrictions have forced him to get two Janssen shots. His body, his choice. And the school he wanted required vaccination. I plan to learn how to make incendiary devices if anything happens to him as a result.
And he is missing out on SO MUCH! There are still all these dumb masking and gathering restrictions at his college. Kids should be doing all sorts of inappropriate, dumb and dangerous shit (that I don't want to hear about until he's 50) while they're in college. It's part of what parents pay for. It's affecting in-person learning, office hours, internships, study groups... Disability accommodations. (He has ADD - like me! - and dysgraphia & dyspraxia. But he's also gifted, so it's complicated. Aren't we all?) Kids and parents aren't getting what we're still paying full-price for.
I am just done with all of this. And I am scared to death that they're going to start injecting the babies. WTF!?! Stop! None of this is stopping anything. Why are more people not waking up to this?
Terrified old people? Thanks a lot. Just what we need now is a little more division and discrimination. I am an old person and chose not to play Covid. I have lost friends and family for not going along particularly with the jabs. I am okay with that as I made a choice to live a free life without fear. Something will get me eventually. I feel badly about the young and the restrictions placed on them by tyrannical institutions. But, nobody forced your child to get jabbed. He ( perhaps you) were unwilling to give up, temporarily, his school. Life can be hard sometimes and it forces tough choices on us. But, if we give up our freedom especially if that pisses us off, we are lost.
i agree. people of all ages "play covid"- and people of all ages have resisted. i know the type of "terrified old people" that comment referred to, and i also know old people, including old hippies and old no-nonsense yankee conservatives who've fiercely opposed the covid restrictions from the start. i'm sorta old, but not quite elderly :-)
the younger covidians are at least as obnoxious as the old ones, probably more so. scared old people are just personally fearful, but the younger ones are totalitarian in attitude- smug, bossy little martinets.
when the whole thing began, i expected the younger generations to rebel against it instantly. thinking of my old classmates, i doubt even the most straight laced honor students would have put up with this. only certified dorks would have gone along with it, and there weren't many of them.
for me, i'd have never covered my lovely teenage face with a mask- i didn't buy that lip gloss for nothing, you know. and nothing could have kept me from parties or hanging out with my friends.
a teenage girl wearing a mask is not pretty, and a teenage boy wearing a mask is just pathetic.
as grade school kids, we would have used the masks as catapults to shoot stuff at other kids. we'd have met up with friends and played and not social distanced at all. if anyone tried to break it up, we'd just congregate somewhere else.
as teenagers we'd have mocked the masks in various creative ways- anything but wearing them properly, and continued our usual practices of making out in the stairwells, huddling together to share gossip, playing together and fighting. we'd have packed together in cars (without seatbelts) and had fun at crowded house parties. the class president types would have written letters to the school board and local newspapers protesting the restrictions, then they'd have joined the rest of us for sports and parties.
as for college - with restrictions like that, most would probably have just gotten full time jobs instead. those determined to have credentialed careers would have gone to college, and joined the protests there.
and it is strange, isn't it, how so many of my old classmates joined the covid cult? i guess they forgot what it was like to be young and free. i'm older now, but i'm still free. i never lost that.
Hey, I'm old! Eh... 52. Close enough. I watch my friends act like they are absolutely going to die of COVID if they get it. I watch them avoid their elders to "protect them." And they're all vaccinated!
You are correct that my son chose to stick with his university. He could have transferred to somewhere more reasonable. However, I do think that his university's position on COVID, the media's relentless fear-mongering, the cupidity of the CDC/FDA, the Democrats in power, etc. should take some of the blame.
I've been the lone crazy conspiracy theorist in my crowd. I'm surrounded by Dems who went from "But that's Trump's vaccine! It was developed too fast. It's not safe." to "Biden's Presdient now. It's all okay and you must get your shot. If you don't, we'll make you." without batting an eye.
I'm just hoping everyone I love doesn't wind up with severe cardiac issues or cancer before this is all over.
A few comments:
You are not old. You could be my daughter.
Sounds like you need new friends, or, at least, to pay less attention to the ones you have.
I did describe your son’s school as tyrannical. I still assert that the responsibility is his.
I don’t see from your comments why you are a conspiracy theorist.
I certainly hope everyone you love stays well.
This is definitely not an age thing. I'm in my early 60s and friends primarily my age and younger. Like you a stick out among my friends. I am told I watch the "wrong news". Funny thing is I don't watch any news but prefer to read online from many sources and watch original video whenever I can to form my own opinions about what I'm seeing and hearing rather than take for granted the spoon fed news feed.
I am fortunate to at least have a couple friends who over time have seen the contradictions and started to question. I have lived my life as normally as allowed, going out, travelling, refusing to mask whenever I am able. I continue to hope that a few more will say no to more shots and all the Covid craziness.
If you, or anyone else, would like to share your horror/war/Covid stories, I want to compile them here. I want us to remember this on a personal level. I want us to remember that we aren't alone. These stories need to be told. YOUR story needs to be told.
Thank you for sharing here. This breaks my heart.
https://bherr.substack.com/p/what-is-your-war-story
You ought to contact Regnery Publishing. I think they would be interested in a book like this if you could get it compiled, edited, and to them fairly quickly. Of course someone else may have beaten you to it; there is always that chance.
This whole thing has severely negatively impacted all kids from birth through college. It is just terrible. And yourbright, it is absolutely terrifying to think anyone will inject their baby. Insanity! I do think people are slowly waking up.
Two things
1 - You are still paying for it, so why would they stop?
2 - Who did you vote for?
Yeah, I know. I'd have had him switch colleges. But we're a democracy here; so it was two against one. Husband and boy wanted UMass Amherst. 🤷♀️
Oh, I vote third party, whenever it's available. In 2019 for the presidential, it was Hawkins/Walker. But... The Green Party, while it has a lot of social policies I support, has jumped the shark on COVID vaccines. They can't see they are trampling bodily autonomy. So I guess it's Libertarian or Independent from here on out.
Truthfully? I'd vote for someone who ran as a Martian if they were on the ballot, just to state my firm opinion of Republicans and Democrats. Or should that be Republicans & Republican Lite? 😂
About the babies - submit a comment.
https://darbyshaw.substack.com/p/submit-comment-to-the-federal-register?r=ratd2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&fbclid=IwAR1vFBF5D9YlFjj8ucTxipOjtM8VOMIwCfn2OmI3b4a2sr0ePyv3IAVw3nM
I'm in CA. Just told that we are dropping the make mandate soon. But NOT FOR SCHOOLS.
So granny can shop Costco unmasked but kids who are unlikely to suffer any serious effects of COVID still have to face diaper.
I see.
Gavin won the recall with ease…… this was the known outcome. Eventually they will drop the mask mandate, but as long as people keep voting for it and sending their kids to public school in CA, the schools there, run largely by childless political activists, will keep treating kids like inhuman political pawns.
"Known outcome." Yeah, they have us all brainwashed to accept the election 'results' which have been frauded in CA for a long time. In 2020, I can't find the link anymore (maybe removed) but there was an analysis that showed by a simple thought experiment that Trump likely actually won in CA in 2020.
It went something like this. In CA, there are XX million persons eligible to register to vote. Average registration across the USA has historically been ~70% of those eligible, have registered. And ~75% of those registered, voted. In CA registration numbers have historically been below the national average, ~60%.
Now CA population 2020 was ~39.5 million (1). 22.5% were under 18, 26.8% foreign born. Assuming that half of the foreign born are naturalized and eligible, gives us 39.5 * 0.775 * 0.866 = 26.5MM eligible to register. That would mean you'd expect 26.5MM * 0.6 * 0.75 = 11.9MM to actually vote.
17.1MM people voted in CA in 2020, 5.2MM more than would be expected (2). Biden 'won' by 5.1 MM. Since nobody has accused the GOP of faking votes, if you take all the 'excess' votes away from Biden, Trump wins.
Now that is a lot of 'ifs,' but statistics are stubborn things. It is rare no matter how 'motivated' people are, for them to change actual behaviors in significant ways. This brief thought experiment is not conclusive, though I will point out that the original one I saw came up with a discrepancy larger than 5.2MM, more like 7.5MM IIRC. Point is, there is enough question about the numbers alone without resorting to any specific 'votes cheated here' data, to be highly suspicious. Sources:
(1) https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/CA/PST045221
(2) https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/07/did_biden_really_win_california.html
Don't believe everything you are told. Question everything, especially these days. It may not change things, but it will help your sanity.
They are going to try the same thing they did with adults - "Get vaxxed and you can take off your mask."
We'll see how many people get fooled again.
The vaxxed are happy to wear masks in my experience
But if you remember Summer 2021, they were CONVINCING people to get the shot so they could take off the mask. These people were basically lied to in order to coerce them to get the shot.
A few months back, I saw a video of MSNBC's Rachael Mad-cow fretting over how terrible it feels to go without a mask in the Berkshires.
From this morning's CalMatters: "State health officials announced Monday that they are working with “education, public health and community leaders to update masking requirements at schools to adapt to changing conditions and ensure the safety of kids, teachers and staff.”"
Thank you. Man, I would so love to be wrong on this. But if we can drop a mask mandate for adults without much fanfare, why the kid gloves when dropping mandates for students? I'm guessing that the CA department of ed, and perhaps unions, have a say. Which they shouldn't. (I'm a union member BTW and have heard nothing.)
Fauci Diaper!
Gato Basado! Based Zoomers are going set records for the epic backlash that is coming after what has been perpetrated on these kids. The Leftist teachers' unions thought they were moulding a whole generation of Che Trotskyites, but all they were doing in reality was holding a giant ball under water, against human nature, against every teen wave that had come before it. One day, perhaps soon, things will get too far out of balance and the ball cannot be held down any more. It is going to be like Trident II missile launches all over the place. It is going to be biblical. Glorious.
THIS!
We can hope and pray that this is true.
We can make it true……. No one is going to come save us or our children. If we are going to save the kids and our country the first step is recognizing we are going to have to do it ourselves. Each and everyone of us. One person, one child, on choice at a time.
Also the high school students have watched the compliant university students take the shots for a promise of “normalcy.” That didn’t happen. They know the lie. If enough defer college or attend colleges that don’t demand the shots, it will bring the mandating colleges to their knees. I pray these young students are successful.
Encouraging all kids to never vote for overweight geriatrics of any party. Ever. Your interests are clearly not aligned
Encourage your kids not to vote for tyranny and side with individual choice and personal responsibility always. Make the choice to be your own master.
This could be the biggest red pill for our youth that has ever been seen in history. We need a Liberty Party!
"those in power are often stupid, venal, and oppressive"
Do you know anyone from high school who went to work for the government? I do. They're not the people you want telling you what to do.
This is so true. They saw an opportunity to advance past their own Peter Principle level -- and NEVER BE FIRED NO MATTER HOW INCOMPETENT they were. And THAT is why they went to work for the government.
I worry so much that this madness will completely and irrevocably break the young generation. I hope instead it galvanizes them to fight for freedom.
I hope they all follow in Washington's and Jefferson's footsteps. NEVER GIVE IN TO TYRANNY!
Have you guys seen what the Washougal High School students are doing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Jtz5XYWtI
If a big enough group of parents had kept their kids home from school just one week, a long time ago, to zero out attendance and get school district and state and media attention, masking could have ended long ago.
Unfortunately, too many parents depend on the state taking their kids for the day. Both parents working = schools are daycare, and masks and quarantine protocols were the price of that daycare. Parents paid.
It took kids old enough to have driver's licenses to collectively say "no I will not attend this daycare if I have to wear a mask."
And the ironic thing, if you remember back to 2020, is that schools were SUPPOSED to stay open. It was only after the lockdowns that people started thinking - hey maybe thousands of kids going to school sort of undermines the whole narrative. Now they can't walk it back, even though there's less than zero reason for kids to be masked.
Couldn't be more proud of that young man if he was my own son! "we're just trying to get our rights back as citizens". Jeez...goosebumps!
Wow I never thought I would see Washougal High on the 'stack! GO PANTHERS!!!!
a new young leader right there.
Weird how the radical liberals are now the establishment and conservatives are revolutionaries. They fought "the man" in the sixties only to morph into what they fought. I'm gen X and we questioned everything
Boomer here, I too recognize the shift, and the irony. "We've met the enemy, and they are us."
Not all of us have ended up supporting this rubbish, believe me. But enough have done so, and it's discouraging. That's why my guy and I have lost many friends. It goes the other way, too. My brother, who was always extremely right wing, happily announces to me that he's had his booster. Meanwhile, his "pinko sister" (his nickname for me) refuses any of the experimental jabs.
Love the dog, by the way! What a soulful face!
times are a changing ?
I've passed this along to my son, who's still in a district enforcing this nonsense. In fact, they just re-upped their stance, despite protests from many, because they found a way to get additional money by continuing the charade. It's corruption at the cost to our kids.
So...I'm about to go nuclear on this district. I've started working on a real, organized resistance to end this madness, because as Gato said, at times, NO ONE ELSE WILL, AND WE HAVE TO SAY NO. HELL NO. F*CK NO. We're calling it. It's done.
https://bherr.substack.com/p/nto-the-hell-no
MSNBC's top idiot and spreader of panic porn, Joy Reid, is upset that parents & doctors are beginning to speak out against masking kids: https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1491074437650788356
They are going to be completely irrelevant by the end of this year unless they change their tune. And if they DO change their tune, we have to be relentless about shoving the receipts they've accrued over the past two plus years directly into their noses. They need to indelibly feel the shit up in their nostrils that they've been pushing into ours for far too long.
All the politicians that stood behind the spending for all these needless things should have to cough up all the money for it. Confiscate all Bidens possessions and use them to pay the debt. You will own nothing and you will be happy huh ?
All of them should be held accountable. Pelosi is worth 200 million, as one example.
Wow. It must be impossible to be happy with that kind of money. She and others like her should be forcibly retired so young people can earn a living
Just replied to her tweet. There is only 2 of us so far, so please everyone else chime in.
I don’t participate in Twitter or Facebook but I applaud you
Well, I'M upset that Joy Reid has ANY PLATFORM from which to spread her idiocy.
Yesterday on Twitter she posted how she's so afraid of catching Covid that handshakes should be abolished forever in favor of the elbow bump. And the comments were equally as insane.
She went to Harvard, right? Not that long ago someone with that level of, I don't know what to call it -- naivete or utter stupidity --would have been culled from their ranks within the first 90 days of classes. Harvard is not what it used to be. Just imagine the caliber of legal scholars who will soon be working night and day to hijack and destroy our Constitution? We can see some of them already on our once-revered Supreme Court. It is too dreadful to contemplate. But I know what Washington would have done. Too bad there is no stomach for that today.
What does Harvard have to do with anything? Reid is paid well to spout this stupidity.
Isn't she a Harvard graduate?
Seems like the Ivy League universities are churning out morons lately. But evil morons.
OMG quarantine that poor person in a prison far off the coast somewhere. What about Alcatraz?
I shudder to think of the people who listen to and watch her. But I don't know that she has a lot of viewers.
Yes ! It used to be farmers and students that led protests. Now it are truckers. The students, thankfully are waking up too, way too late.
But at least they are waking up. It will be much more difficult to pull the proverbial wool over their newly-opened eyes the next time -- about ANYTHING!
I think you are right. This is probably the first big scam in their lives and they will remember, hopefully for life !
Let us pray, right??
When there was still an outdoor mask mandate in place, I was walking maskless in a parking and crossed paths with a teeniebopper wearing a t-shirt that said, "Rebel."
She was wearing a mask.
Sigh.
Looking back at a great many supposed "rebels" from the 1960s, later I observed that it was all costume theater. They weren't rebels at all but they sure went out of their way too make themselves look like rebels. As they aged, you came to realize how mundane they were. In contrast, some of the most unique, rebellious, individual thinking innovators looked totally average and you would never guess what was bubbling under their normal, average demeanors. Don't judge a book by its cover, we used to say.
Valley Girl is an under appreciated movie.
Tommy: Bitchin'! Is this in 3D?
Randy: No, but your face is.
SAVE THE RADIO
Hahaha, that flyer of Newsom is from my hometown!! I'm glad they are waking up!!
By the way, gato, I had no idea you lived in Los Gatos, California, but, surely, this must be you apartment building: https://postimg.cc/Dmgs8WyC
This put a smile on my face
Mine, too. I’m sitting here in Chick-fil-A grinning from ear to ear! 😁❤️
"hey son remember that scene in Finding Nemo where all the fish got caught in the net?"
"yea"
"swim down son, swim down, tell ur frens"
First off, love to see Jodie Foster's Army... we are clearly of the same generation. I have a soon to be 14 year old in the 8th grade. In CT where we live the gov just said he was lifting the mandate on Feb 28 and making it a local decision. But it turns out it is more complicated than that - here is from a local news source:
As of Monday night there were 369 people signed up to testify at today’s public hearing on Gov. Ned Lamont’s executive orders.
The orders are set to expire on Feb. 15 and lawmakers are debating whether to extend them. The most controversial of which is a school mask mandate.
On Monday Lamont recommended removing the school mask mandate starting on Feb. 28.
“I think very strongly that local control is key, especially when it comes to schools,” Lamont said Monday.
Asked why he didn’t want the decision left up to parents, Lamont said “I can tell you that there are a fair number of schools where teachers may not feel as comfortable coming in unless they keep that mask mandate a little bit longer.”
Kate Dias, president of the Connecticut Education Association, who is the first person expected to testify Tuesday, said they want to make sure these decisions are being made using science.
“It feels an awful lot like we’re making this decision in this moment due to social pressures,” Dias said.
She said they want to make sure the schools stay open and a significant portion of elementary aged children are still unvaccinated.
“Teachers and students in spaces that aren’t well ventilated,” Dias said, explaining her concerns.
She said most teachers think it’s a little “premature” to lift the mask mandate.
At the same time, Department of Public Health Commissioner Manisha Juthani, who makes the recommendation on masks, said there is “no” data on “in-school transmission.”
It’s unclear what boards of education will use as metrics to make the decision at the local level if the state legislature decides not to weigh in and allow Juthani to continue to make the recommendation.
“The governor has actually never instituted a mask mandate in schools and the legislature is not voting on Thursday on a local option or a non-local option,” House Speaker Matt Ritter said Monday.
Ritter said the public has a misunderstanding of the current mask mandate.
“The executive order since September is that the state Department of Education Commissioner in consultation with the Commissioner of the Department of Public Health has the ability to require masks in schools,” Ritter said.
Ritter says if the legislature extended the mask mandate executive order then they would extend the power of the Commissioner of Public Health to make that decision.
“They’re not collecting any data on the transmission of COVID in schools. They never had and they won’t,” House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora said.
Candelora says it’s time to end the mask mandate in schools.
Keep in mind the republicans have very little power in the CT legislature. Now my wife and I are wondering what we will do if they don't get rid of the mandate. I am thinking that if my son is up for it (he hates masks and knows this has all been about nothing) he should just not comply and take what punishments are given and keep going back every day. But that is a lot to put on one kid and he isn't likely to get a lot of student support because most are triple vexed and ignorant. He would be very much on his own. But he is at the age, so you never know. I'll keep you posted.
Yes there are some fed up kids standing up against masks...after over two years. That's all well and good but we don't know what the Evil Empire will throw at us next. This war between good and evil will have many more chapters.
The final chapter is the Revelation of John the Apostle. We're getting closer...
Pic #1, look, you found Epstein from Welcome Back Kotter! (am i too old for this group?)
If someone says so, I have a note from Epstein's mother that says it's OK.
I vividly remember my senior class questioning our need to do homework or anything after most of us saw the first Matrix movie. I mean, maybe none of this is real so, why are we doing this again? LOL! We also changed our uniforms in small ways that annoyed the teachers but not enough to result in suspensions. I can only imagine how we'd be acting now with mask mandates.
My husband and I are both really anti-authority. My husband was basically Van Wilder in undergrad (including staying a couple years too long 😂). It’s served us well, and helped us be successful (no trust funds or inheritance).
Our kids are our mini’s and the 10-year old girl definitely has our anti-authority predisposition even though she never gets in trouble, is a top student and athlete, and has read over 700 books (she reads 200-300 pages before bed each night). The upside to Covid is giving her a way to direct that anti-authority energy. 😂. We signed her out of masks from the start at school (both kids). She loves going as many places as possible with her way too adorable smile on full display. She also LOVES bragging about being a pure blood. 😂😂😂.
Standing up against the narrative has given her strength of confidence and character. We couldn’t be prouder.
And yes, we absolutely lead by example.
I was a lot like your daughter when I was younger. Still am. I don't make a big show of going against authority. I just say "no" firmly and carry on. I *can* snap when pushed and turn into Fury.
Go students!
yes i hadnt even thought much about the kids behaving, would never have happened when i was a lad!
in myyyy day...
Finally, they are sticking up for themselves!
On a related note:
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/mandatory-vaccination-via-the-back
It is only up to the students to say no and suffer the consequences.
Problem is students don't want to suffer consequences.
Case in point. Last spring I was jogging in the park far away from any school and saw a group of high school boys jogging with masks on. I caught up to them and asked them how they could run in those things. They said they were required to by the school. I said "what is there a drone in the sky tracking your every move? You are in the middle of nowhere."
Nobody responded. Nobody even acknowledged what I said. In fact there was fear in their eyes like they shouldn't be talking to a free-faced leper. I just said "good luck" and jogged away.
At that point I knew all hope was lost for future generations.
not so fast about muzzlemania disappearing from schools. As AJ Depriest revealed on the Highwire https://thehighwire.com/videos/covid-19-following-the-money/ (start at the 11:00 mark) the Feds are throwing mad loot at school districts, contingent on muzzle regulations in perpetuity, plus turning schools into lethal injection sites. Remember, the WEF and Gates Foundation really don't give a damn about us. It's the kids they're after. Many of us are realistically past our reproductive years. Theirs are in front of them...unless they take the sterility shots.
I don't think that it's realistic to get school boards to return the money so we can get back to normal. It's time we admitted that compulsory public education was a colossal mistake and get our kids the hell out. Imagine how much smarter you would be today if you didn't have to unlearn everything you were taught in public school.
Would be amusing if a school accepted fed funding to keep mask mandates, in a district where it was against the law, and the DA seized the funds under a proceeds-of-crime law.
Not likely to happen, but VERY amusing if it did.
HELL YEAH! I'm sharing with my kids who are in pretty good California schools (good, except for the mandatory mask part) Keep on pushing back, and thanks for encouraging us to fight for our rights!
As an older cat let me offer some advice to the kittens. I have learned that it is a lot easier to get away with stuff once you have established yourself. What I mean is this: if you are working, first of all work is not school. You must get a reputation for showing up on time every day, doing quality work, staying off of your phone and not talking back to the supervisors. Once you have established that, then, and ONLY then, you can participate in little acts of rebellion. Because you do not want to be the one management wants to make an example of. And they will, if there is anything that they can hold against you. But if they do not have anything to hold against you and you have proven your worth as an employee, they will be reluctant to do anything. Not saying that they won't, there is risk in anything. But this cat has been around awhile and is a survivor.
OT, sorry, not a big Nick Cage fan, but his movie "Pig" is worth seeing if only for the non-Hollywood ending, similar in that regard to "Nightmare Alley." Neither great movies, but worth seeing, and both endings unexpected by Hollywood standards.
Somehow, this article brought tears to my eyes...
And with a little luck, the spirit of rebellion will be good for recruitment to the cause of youth rights in general.
https://www.youthrights.org/about/what-are-youth-rights/
Amen to that!
Man, I remember in HS walking out to protest the Vietnam war. We were 15. We walked down Hertel avenue in Buffalo and blocked traffic for miles. Kids!!
The students have been way too passive.
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/adult-kids-rosa-parks-the-clash-and
My kids were in college at the start of the pandemic, living off campus, thank God. I remember my daughter calling me in March or April of 2020 and asking was it actually dangerous for her to go hang out with her friends, as they were being told. I said hell no, get over there and have a blast! That was their introduction to civil disobedience. They and their whole friend group remain unvaxxed and happy to this day (oh, yeah, they all got COVID at some point, and they all survived!)
Our high school principal never penalized any students for walking out of class for a cause. His only stipulations were that we couldn’t do it before 2:30 and only the seniors. We always followed his rules. We would rally for a few minutes and then, if we had cars, leave early. This gave the teachers easier access out of the parking lot after school. A win-win situation! He was a smart and persuasive man.
Maybe there is hope man cub!
"If the kids
are united
they will never
be divided"
As true as when I heard it the first time.
And so the pendulum swings! While the indoctorated 60's destroyed the campus starting in the 90's as the new generation arrives, they may not be so ruined by Marx notions. Noting like a dose of reality to help see clearly the overreach.
Problem is our schools are getting MILLIONS of dollars for the masking. I do hope the kids start rebelling. Good for the soul, especially when young.
Kids these days are marshmallows - it's almost unbelievable what wimps they have become.
This is beautiful. Where are the kids everyday? On sites like Tik Tok. And they're seeing this. And they are no doubt organizing now at their own high schools. And so, this is going to spread like wildfire. I LOVE it!!!
Great article. Fired up!
I love your posts like this that I immediately share with my teenage daughters who are in HS
Those high schoolers are inspiring! Did not know!
Don't forget the follow-up to the Oakdale walkout:
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/the-beatings-will-continue-until
Earlier this week, hundreds of California students walked out of class in protest of mask mandates. The government’s response? The next day, they locked maskless kids in the gym without heat. (Photos in thread)
The Kids are Not Alright
Los Gatos.
Right on.
This! Yes!!