'the ordinary people of America, us descendants of the founding fathers and Europeans of a century ago, are running out of patience.'
I hope that you are right. America has a president who has publically announced, on television, that it is a good thing that Whites will soon be a minority in their own country. Just how patient, just how passive, just how masochistic are the ordinary people of America? Is it possible for them to wake up or are they so befuddled that they are doomed?
I think an awakened American people could be a terrible thing to behold. Be interesting to see those whining about 'patriarchy' and 'White supremacy' in the most tolerant nation the woeld has ever seen, actually face some real pushback.
Here's Matt Taibbi today on the theme. Delicious as always:
On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision granting women a constitutional right to abortion. This exact moment was supposedly why I owed my vote to the Democratic Party, and indeed the Supreme Court was on my mind when I pulled a lever for Hillary Clinton, a politician I couldn’t stand, in 2016.
Four years later, I voted neither. The Democrats between 2016 and 2020 not only lost my vote, but reveled in the idea that they didn’t need or want it, denouncing critics in all directions as traitors, white supremacists, and terrorists, no different from the “deplorables” who voted for Donald Trump. In that time they perfected an attitude of imperious condescension and entitlement so grating that at least half of America wouldn’t piss on someone like Adam Schiff if he were on fire. Then Friday happened and it was the same song everywhere: “See! We were right all along! You do owe us! And if you ever criticized us, this was your fault! ”
No, it wasn’t. Friday was the result of decades spent building a political project so incoherent, unsellable, and untrustworthy to ordinary people that in 2016 they chose Donald Trump over the person Barack Obama called the most qualified candidate in history. The justices who cast the critical votes Friday were picked by a man denounced by all of institutional America prior to election. All those voices were ignored. That total collapse in trust, not Jill Stein’s candidacy or Putin’s Facebook ads, led to Dobbs v. Jackson. Until Democrats reckon with that problem, which incidentally spread to every category of voter except white men in 2020 and looks poised to spread even more in the midterms, there will be more moments like this.
That is delicious. Very tasty. The internal madness of the leftists does provide some hope. They really don't know where to stop or slow down. Transexuals twerking for abortion is so insane that even the sportsball dazed dullards must start to wonder if something is not quite right.
I've had three children, spread over many years. I'll give you the benefit of all I've learned about bringing them up properly and well during all that time. Right here, between the brackets:
Thanks for the pointer to Ms Shaw, interesting insights and a brave, independent woman. Somehow, perhaps it's my age and my military experience, I have no qualms about speaking my convictions. I do try to be considerate of other's feelings because nowadays it seems in any group somebody will take exception about most anything. I do hope Shaw can get a fair hearing. I was thinking that those in their late 40's-early 50's seem to be unsure about their belief systems; not sure why.
That hearing with Dr Birx (https://www.c-span.org/video/?521256-1/dr-deborah-birx-testifies-trump-administrations-covid-19-response&live) was simply another way to bash Trump. But Jordan was able to get her to admit that they hardly knew what to do. She mentioned the HIV/AIDs stuff that cemented her ties to the sociopath Dr Fauci - that explains the mishandling of our CoV response. RFK's book details the scandal and corruption of so many in the NIH. But that doesn't explain away the EU mishandling.
A strategy that might be useful for Zoriana is to mention punishment and require her to go outside and select a switch to be used for the purpose. That makes her part of the process and creates a thought model. She will select a switch that you should use minimally. You don't necessarily want any pain you want the imprint of the process. It proves you care enough about her to perform discipline; she will fully understand how that is the process of forgiveness. After the 'punishment' hugs are in order to affirm her learning progress. That assumes that hugs are routine for her doing well so she won't perversely seek punishment in order to get a hug. I suspect you already know that; certainly GrandMa knows.
The problem with the vast majority of young people today is not enough butt "whuppins'" when they were younger. Good for you and grandma. Willful disobedience must be corrected. I got my share - and knew I deserved every one of them.
This made me chuckle. My very early years were spent in a farmhouse with a large willow tree in the front yard. Let’s just say that not all my memories of it are fond ones lol, but I guess actually they are, come to think of it. I always knew I had it coming. 🙂
Graham, this is false equivalency: "The persecution of the January 6 people, contrasted with the kid gloves treatment of Black Lives Matter and now the Stephen Colbert parallel situation." There is nothing "parrallel" about the Colbert situation to the January 6 coup.
What's worse, I think you know it. If not, your baseline level of anger has overwhelmed a fine mind that once could make distinctions. Intellectual dishonesty, or loss of persepective? I don't know.
Your screeds on COVID are tiresome. Your list of "oligarchs" is straight out of the playbook of the true oligarchs who keep America stupid and poor. What about the leaders of BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, the Sacklers, Big Pharma — they profited more than "the Google Guys" from the printing of money.
I get that you don't like democracy, and are contemptuous of Americnas who don't look like you and think like you. But does using Greek and Latin, like "hoi Polloi" and "vox populii" make you feel smart? They don't make you seem any smarter. There is much to disagree with from the left, the mainstream media has truly lost its way, and political correctness is often ignorant. But you add nothing to the debate by being strident. In fact, you have become a tool of authoritarians.
Your parenthetical "(many consider fraudulent)" is just as dishonest as the rest of your political blather. Truth does not depend on the weight of skepticism. Yes, many believe Trump's Big Lie that he didn't lose. But more Americans consider him (a loser), a demagogue, possibley a traitor. You know this.
Thank you for the story of Zorianna. I sgree that a wll-earned spanking can turn a life around. I am sorry for the loss of your first family, though it seems you may own more fault there than you admit. At the same time, I don't doubt that (at least there) you have iron-clad certainty.
Your own words show the situation was far more complicated than you acknowledge. In my exprience, sometimes the more energy expended clinging to cetrainty that one is blameless, the more unsure one actually is. Accepting any level of fault in that situation may be more than you can stand.
Thank you for your ealier insights into what was happending in Kyiv, and introducing me to Bob Homas. I now get his feed dfirectly. Please remove me from your mailing list.
I had a wonderful Father. but once a year until puberty when he knew, that I knew that I deserved a spanking, he would oblige.
But only with his hand 10 times on my fanny.
He knew that this would keep me in line for a year. I was quick silver as as a child, very difficult but he knew how to deal with me.
For which to this day I was lucky to end up with a dad like him.
'the ordinary people of America, us descendants of the founding fathers and Europeans of a century ago, are running out of patience.'
I hope that you are right. America has a president who has publically announced, on television, that it is a good thing that Whites will soon be a minority in their own country. Just how patient, just how passive, just how masochistic are the ordinary people of America? Is it possible for them to wake up or are they so befuddled that they are doomed?
I think we see signs they are waking up, but I don't have time to wait and see.
I think an awakened American people could be a terrible thing to behold. Be interesting to see those whining about 'patriarchy' and 'White supremacy' in the most tolerant nation the woeld has ever seen, actually face some real pushback.
Here's Matt Taibbi today on the theme. Delicious as always:
On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision granting women a constitutional right to abortion. This exact moment was supposedly why I owed my vote to the Democratic Party, and indeed the Supreme Court was on my mind when I pulled a lever for Hillary Clinton, a politician I couldn’t stand, in 2016.
Four years later, I voted neither. The Democrats between 2016 and 2020 not only lost my vote, but reveled in the idea that they didn’t need or want it, denouncing critics in all directions as traitors, white supremacists, and terrorists, no different from the “deplorables” who voted for Donald Trump. In that time they perfected an attitude of imperious condescension and entitlement so grating that at least half of America wouldn’t piss on someone like Adam Schiff if he were on fire. Then Friday happened and it was the same song everywhere: “See! We were right all along! You do owe us! And if you ever criticized us, this was your fault! ”
No, it wasn’t. Friday was the result of decades spent building a political project so incoherent, unsellable, and untrustworthy to ordinary people that in 2016 they chose Donald Trump over the person Barack Obama called the most qualified candidate in history. The justices who cast the critical votes Friday were picked by a man denounced by all of institutional America prior to election. All those voices were ignored. That total collapse in trust, not Jill Stein’s candidacy or Putin’s Facebook ads, led to Dobbs v. Jackson. Until Democrats reckon with that problem, which incidentally spread to every category of voter except white men in 2020 and looks poised to spread even more in the midterms, there will be more moments like this.
That is delicious. Very tasty. The internal madness of the leftists does provide some hope. They really don't know where to stop or slow down. Transexuals twerking for abortion is so insane that even the sportsball dazed dullards must start to wonder if something is not quite right.
Another beauty, Graham. Thank you. Made me smile.
I've had three children, spread over many years. I'll give you the benefit of all I've learned about bringing them up properly and well during all that time. Right here, between the brackets:
[ ] Stick to that. You can't go wrong.
Thanks for the pointer to Ms Shaw, interesting insights and a brave, independent woman. Somehow, perhaps it's my age and my military experience, I have no qualms about speaking my convictions. I do try to be considerate of other's feelings because nowadays it seems in any group somebody will take exception about most anything. I do hope Shaw can get a fair hearing. I was thinking that those in their late 40's-early 50's seem to be unsure about their belief systems; not sure why.
That hearing with Dr Birx (https://www.c-span.org/video/?521256-1/dr-deborah-birx-testifies-trump-administrations-covid-19-response&live) was simply another way to bash Trump. But Jordan was able to get her to admit that they hardly knew what to do. She mentioned the HIV/AIDs stuff that cemented her ties to the sociopath Dr Fauci - that explains the mishandling of our CoV response. RFK's book details the scandal and corruption of so many in the NIH. But that doesn't explain away the EU mishandling.
A strategy that might be useful for Zoriana is to mention punishment and require her to go outside and select a switch to be used for the purpose. That makes her part of the process and creates a thought model. She will select a switch that you should use minimally. You don't necessarily want any pain you want the imprint of the process. It proves you care enough about her to perform discipline; she will fully understand how that is the process of forgiveness. After the 'punishment' hugs are in order to affirm her learning progress. That assumes that hugs are routine for her doing well so she won't perversely seek punishment in order to get a hug. I suspect you already know that; certainly GrandMa knows.
The problem with the vast majority of young people today is not enough butt "whuppins'" when they were younger. Good for you and grandma. Willful disobedience must be corrected. I got my share - and knew I deserved every one of them.
This made me chuckle. My very early years were spent in a farmhouse with a large willow tree in the front yard. Let’s just say that not all my memories of it are fond ones lol, but I guess actually they are, come to think of it. I always knew I had it coming. 🙂
Graham, this is false equivalency: "The persecution of the January 6 people, contrasted with the kid gloves treatment of Black Lives Matter and now the Stephen Colbert parallel situation." There is nothing "parrallel" about the Colbert situation to the January 6 coup.
What's worse, I think you know it. If not, your baseline level of anger has overwhelmed a fine mind that once could make distinctions. Intellectual dishonesty, or loss of persepective? I don't know.
Your screeds on COVID are tiresome. Your list of "oligarchs" is straight out of the playbook of the true oligarchs who keep America stupid and poor. What about the leaders of BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, the Sacklers, Big Pharma — they profited more than "the Google Guys" from the printing of money.
I get that you don't like democracy, and are contemptuous of Americnas who don't look like you and think like you. But does using Greek and Latin, like "hoi Polloi" and "vox populii" make you feel smart? They don't make you seem any smarter. There is much to disagree with from the left, the mainstream media has truly lost its way, and political correctness is often ignorant. But you add nothing to the debate by being strident. In fact, you have become a tool of authoritarians.
Your parenthetical "(many consider fraudulent)" is just as dishonest as the rest of your political blather. Truth does not depend on the weight of skepticism. Yes, many believe Trump's Big Lie that he didn't lose. But more Americans consider him (a loser), a demagogue, possibley a traitor. You know this.
Thank you for the story of Zorianna. I sgree that a wll-earned spanking can turn a life around. I am sorry for the loss of your first family, though it seems you may own more fault there than you admit. At the same time, I don't doubt that (at least there) you have iron-clad certainty.
Your own words show the situation was far more complicated than you acknowledge. In my exprience, sometimes the more energy expended clinging to cetrainty that one is blameless, the more unsure one actually is. Accepting any level of fault in that situation may be more than you can stand.
Thank you for your ealier insights into what was happending in Kyiv, and introducing me to Bob Homas. I now get his feed dfirectly. Please remove me from your mailing list.
Erik Dolson