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From a mailing list I'm on:

I just listened to a very interesting video. Each local, city, state and federal position has to have a surety bond. We can sue the position for malfeasance, buy filing a pro se attack/ claim on the bond. Many claims filed at once can shut down the system as the insurance companies back down. The bond is a set amount, and when that goes, the person can no longer act in the capacity of the position, and then they are removed. This can work on School boards and even the governor. We can’t attack the laws, but we can attack their relationship with the few insurance companies issuing these bonds. This was done already in some states.

What Functional America wants
An end to disorder and CRT-loving hustlers who fan the flames of hate ...

America’s welfare class possesses cars, cable televisions and air conditioning. But basic needs like safety, love and trust that governments cannot conjure go missing. So the charity and benevolence are not working. They are instead producing monsters like Darrell Brooks, the Waukesha parade killer, and the shock troops of the radical left.

That’s where Kimberlé Crenshaw and other racial firebrands come in. Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher professor of law at Columbia University and distinguished professor of law at UCLA, Crenshaw exclaimed on Twitter the day of the Rittenhouse verdict: “Acquitted. All fucking charges. Understand what this means.” Crenshaw’s take on the Waukesha Christmas Parade massacre is yet unknown, and her agent at the Creative Arts Agency (CAA) is unlikely to clarify. ...

Stirring racial animus has been Crenshaw’s lifelong modus operandi, and she’s good at it. ...

But Crenshaw is a mere device. The real woke power lies with kingmakers like CAA that steer the nation’s meta-narrative almost invisibly. Crenshaw gets the mike and drum to bang. Billionaires watch the world burn in their mansions and townhouses ringed with security guards, using injustice and racial discord in the US to distract from their global predation.

That is what wokeness drives otherwise intelligent people to do: twist facts to match “the Narrative” (“we have a winner, folks, nobody suffered more than black people, with thanks to our Holocaust refugees as the runner-up”) rather than allow facts to create a narrative (America treated its nineteenth-century white immigrants poorly, visiting upon them many of the same discriminations as it did slaves, because class and capital, not race, is controlling).

No less than the Ancient Order of Hibernians said it is also concerned about the Tenement Museum’s replacing its Irish single family tour with a hybrid story of Irish and black families. The Museum was quick to respond they aren’t doing away with the Irish, just pushing them toward the back of the bus a bit to make room for some 2021 liberal tears. ...

Wokeness, and flippant accusations that anyone who disagrees with it is a racist, shields society from asking questions, and creates a stage where any intellectual bull is accepted as long as it sells the narrative, whether at the Tenement Museum or the Daily Beast. At its heart, wokeness is anti-intellectual, almost medieval, with today’s canceled comedians or the Irish of the Tenement Museum, as the modern Galileo.

Tech giant Microsoft trying to make world more woke by rolling out ‘inclusiveness’ checker in Word

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/17306137/microsoft-inclusiveness-checker-office365-word/?source=patrick.net

Tech giant Microsoft trying to make world more woke by rolling out ‘inclusiveness’ checker in Word

The answer is to no longer use Word.

The deep state is no conspiracy theory
Progressive monoculture has enveloped many of our private and public institutions. Aldous Huxley saw it coming ...

The changes, according to the author of Brave New World, would be almost imperceptible. “All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial,” he continued. “Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.” ...

In lofty circles, it is said that the Deep State is a far-right conspiracy theory, nothing more. The very words elicit an eye-roll and a smirk. But what else synchronizes uncountable public agencies and their private-sector partners — wink-wink — in the absence of executive statesmanship? What has made the wheels of government go round and round this last year, and if we are honest, for a very long time?

Surface government, elected and appointed, is only its polished clock-face. Television and newspapers report the ticks and tocks daily. Right now, this clock-face looks like something melting, or covered with ants, a surreal dreamscape straight out of Salvador Dali. ...

Woke has been trying for years to drum limited-government nationalists out of public life, calling them white supremacists and deplorables. Highly contestable outlooks on equity, race, acceptable speech, and biology stand inside public life as revealed virtue or expedient virtue. Woke can be a liturgy or a useful hustle. A malleable, celebrity-struck electorate wants its politics fast, simple, and preferably juicy. Junk news gets the eyes and clicks. Social media is trying to get inside your head, and knows how to do it better each year.

Promoted and funded by the Deep State, multicultural and therapeutic wrecking engines invade private institutions and endowments, forcing “diversity” makeovers. National courts and nonprofit lawyer-activists codify matters once left to private judgment, families, and churches. Litigation functions to delay justice and to sidestep public will and oversight.

The moral arrogations of our times are said to be about justice and equality, but they are actually about the redistribution of power, wealth and status at the expense of property holders and taxpayers, targeting white America as devils. Claiming moral advantage, the unscrupulous and the predatory have used race, sex, and inequality to damn and destroy their foes. ...

“We will not wake up after the lockdown in a new world,” the irrepressible French writer Michel Houellebecq predicted at the onset of Covid. “It will be the same, just a bit worse.”

Christie could be direct in censuring not only modern architecture, but modern art and literature, which she found vapid and uninspiring. A character in Murder Is Easy considers disguising himself as an artist but admits he can’t draw or paint; someone responds: “You could be a modern artist…. Then that wouldn’t matter.” In another story, Poirot examines a piece of modern art and finds that the contrasting images contained are incoherent and meaningless.

No idea should be off-limits at a university. But when an ideology becomes so prevalent that it is nearly impossible to challenge, it becomes a serious problem—and a threat to academic freedom.

Over the last few years, Stanford has been taken over by a collection of theories that view society as consisting only of the oppressors and the oppressed, see words as violent and disagreement as danger, and deny the existence of objective truth. Whether these theories are called anti-racism; social justice; Critical Theory; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; or simply being “on the right side of history;” their effect is the same. They chill free speech, encourage conformity, and demonize disagreement.

We at the Review are deeply concerned about the stranglehold these ideas place on rational discourse. In this spirit, we are launching “Woke Watch,” a new series that gives readers an inside look into how wokeness is rotting the intellectual foundations of one of America’s leading universities.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll read about CS professors crusading against “very masculine movie posters,” therapists promoting anti-Semitism in the name of “equity,” Green Library’s glorification of the Black Panther Party, and much more.

We hope that by shining a light on the bizarre, performative, and insidious world of “social justice” at Stanford, Woke Watch will draw attention to the havoc these ideologies have wreaked—and bring us closer to solutions.

Stay tuned for the first Woke Watch article coming out tomorrow. And don’t worry: you’ll also be able to follow along on our Twitter page, given the social media platform's recent liberation.

The Review Staff

https://notthebee.com/article/i-have-no-idea-how-this-ad-relates-to-luxury-watches-but-its-the-most-anti-woke-commercial-ive-ever-seen